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Dark Pressure [Dark Heresy 2e] (Closed)

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HadesHerald said:
Sorry, been dealing with a bug for the last couple days. Ugh.

Anyway. As to update schedule. I was planning once or twice a week, I would do a big, story/game moving post. Between then, I am on quite a bit, and can make smaller, NPC interaction updates.

As to my "pedigree", I haven't ever run a PbP campaign (or even any quest/rpg) before. So I have no idea as to how this will play out. However, most of my last semester has been spent planning the campaign story and encounters. So I believe I have enough plans to run a campaign.

The campaign will mostly be full crunch for everything except for combat, where I want to try an "action stack" esque idea. It should help combat (seeing as how most of the combat [by nature of the enemies you'll be fighting] should be rather straight forward).
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Hmm.

I like your gumption, FFG 40K is a notoriously clunky system in combat, but you seem to have recognized this and are trying to compensate. That's good. I'll accept your sincerity for what it is and make a formal application!

Kensai said:
That's a nice concept. Tell you what, you roll with it and I'll just go Sororitas on this one and indulge my current Vrataski obsession.
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Rita is pretty high tier, yeah, more Vratsaki in the universe can't be a mistake.
 
My guy is supposed to be a cross between Arnold from Predator and Hicks from Aliens.

Prepare for the one liners. . .
 
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Alectai's Charlotte Halley
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    • Name: Charlotte Halley


    Age: 29
    Gender: Female
    Homeworld: Frontier World
    Background: Heretek (Technically)
    Role: Sage (Blank Elite Advance)
    Bio:

    The galaxy is not a kind place to begin with, to not even have the good fortune of being born under the dubious protection of the Imperium of Man and its Adeptus makes it far worse. To be a child in this period who absolutely nobody wanted?

    It was good fortune alone that access to food on the only settlement of planet Kalaminos was a largely automated process, rations distributed by servitor-drones to the workers who toiled and labored in that terrible industrial wasteland--a process that had continued from time immemorial. Fortunately, Charlotte was an intelligent child, and without the option to simply talk her way out of problems, the strength to take what she pleased--or to be perfectly blunt, the guile to just skim off the top--she had to find other opportunities, and lasted just long enough under the grace of being a child in the crowd to learn of the ancient systems that sustained the populace of that wasteland--and how to subvert them to her own causes.

    People were angry, superstitious, and didn't like her. Machines didn't care, the System didn't care--as long as you knew how to operate them, they'll do what you want--and as her mastery of the System grew--she simply allowed herself to draw further away from a society that hated her. She could learn what she needed by mining the databases of the System--food and uniforms could be easily diverted to her hidden pocket. She didn't need people and they didn't need her, she'd be perfectly happy and comfortable exactly the way she was.

    It wasn't--perhaps--what most people would find an ideal life--but Charlotte was making it work--the System didn't care after all, and her network slowly grew as she studied the fragmentary knowledges within it, entertained herself by tapping the cameras and watching the day to day antics of the society that rejected her--as an outsider who couldn't be touched.

    She could see the big picture that nobody else had--not the overseers selected by the System to govern the toil of one sector or another, not the workers who produced one piece of equipment or another to maintain the entire edifice. She could see the shift in priorities that were slowly trickling through--from sectors devoted to hydroponic gardens being retasked to the chemical vats. From repair part fabrication to weapons manufacturing.

    She also saw the outsiders who did a generally above average job of sneaking in--which was funny, because even the System barely recognized that there was something outside the City, let alone knowing how to get out. It hadn't happened before--and the System didn't have the slightest idea of how to cope with this, its ancient programming simply resorting to ignoring the problem.

    Charlotte was clever though--and had a keen mind that could fit the patterns together in a way no ancient cogitator could. Their presence didn't make sense unless something drew them here--and the changes to the work schedules well predated their influence. When these changes were gradually risking the delicate System falling completely apart, she was willing to take the risk and reach out to the intruders.

    Truthfully, she had been expecting spies--what she hadn't been expecting was these guys to be the members of some kind of galactic investigation arm who were following some criminals--they called them Heretics apparently, though she didn't understand why at the time--who had found this ancient 'Archaeotech' city, and needed to stop them from raising an army and sending them on a rampant conquest. It all sounded a bit silly, but it fit the data, and the data doesn't lie--and they hadn't been expecting to get access to a local guide in such an uncharted domain either.

    The partnership went about as well as could be expected, with the first invaders--apparently some weird metal men screeching about the 'Corpse God' and how their own science was superior--ended up being cornered by the 'Inquisition's' guys--but they hadn't been expecting a significant attack from the System to coincide with the final confrontation--and Charlotte was successful at subverting many of their defenses and turning it against them. Even when the big, crazy metal monster exploded out from a hole in the air and went on a rampage.

    That's what the plasma turrets were there to sort out.

    In the end, the monster was banished--a compliant world that was a treasure trove of Archaeotech discovered, and life would continue once again--even if there'd be creepy other metal men crawling and poking over everything for a while, at least they'd have more work for the people left home.

    Charlotte didn't get to benefit from that--somehow, a man in a very fancy hat managed to find his way into her hideaway. She didn't appreciate that, but he was of relatively good humor about it--claiming that she had a 'Singularly Rare talent' that he wasn't going to let be 'Wasted being picked apart by the Tech-Priests'. He offered her a job, working for him--doing mostly the same sort of things she was already doing. She'd also get a chance to move off the old wrecked City in the process, and wouldn't need to worry about some kind of science wizards who were going to move in and take everything apart anyway.

    Thus was the beginning of Charlotte's life working with the Inquisition. It involved a moderate amount of screaming, boot camp attendance, and study. On the plus side, at least the quality of the snacks has improved dramatically. How she got by on nutrient paste for so long only to be introduced to the wonders of modern sweets is a mystery.
     
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    • And there we have it. Took a while, but job's a good 'un.
     
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    Thanks! I rather liked it myself. And since I'm going for Untouchable and Heretek, I kind of needed to justify what kind of person would get recruited instead of just blammed.

    A "Heretek merely by circumstance" works--especially since they have that other trait that makes them literally priceless--and given the Mechanicus' response to seeing someone outside their order know how to into science is to start screaming and break out the long knives, yeah, can't waste that resource! Especially with the usual internecine rivalry going on that lets them get a tech specialist who isn't a mad scientist or devoted to a rival god.

    So, does this mean I can have the Untouchable EV baked in, like Mystic gets for Psyker?
     
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    Bio: TBA
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    So, I would like an entry paragraph minimum before this will be a valid character sheet. I'll be closing the registration in 26 hours, so please get it in before then.

    Kensai said:
    That's a nice concept. Tell you what, you roll with it and I'll just go Sororitas on this one and indulge my current Vrataski obsession.
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    Are you going to write this? If so, I'm going to make my selection in ~26 hours, so getting that in before then please!
     
    loneangel's Tessera Eos
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    • Name: Tessera Eos
    Age: 22
    Gender: Female
    Homeworld: Death World
    Background: Mutant (Dark-Sight)
    Role: Desperado
    Bio: Tessera comes from a world where the light from the sun never reaches the planet surface. That combined with the naturally occuring dangerous substances that appear on the planet's surface has lead to that some of those who survive have been mutated in some way. Tessera's family line has been keeping one trait that make them sought after as guides or guardians and that is their ability to see the planet's surface even if it's constantly pitch-black.
    She's often paid to escort groups out of the fortified bunkers to collect various useful chemicals that are shipped off with the Imperial Tithe.

    Even then, she is part of a family of mutants so the groups of people that haven't left the bunker and are still pure only tolerate them as a necessary evil. They are forced to wear goggles when inside the bunker to not show their unnatural eyes.

    Tessera is the oldest surviving sibling after the two older than her died during a mission on the surface, leaving only her and her little brother left in the family except for her retired parents. She was trained by her father in shooting to take care of any dangers trying to attack those she escorts on the surface. She, as well as everyone else alive on a death world has also learnt to always be alert and ready to react at a moment's notice.
     
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    • HadesHerald said:
    Would you be giving up Quest for Knowledge? Because if so, I would totally allow it. If not, I feel like giving you a free 300 xp advance to start with would be somewhat unfair to the other players.
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    Hmm, probably not--the real core to Charlotte is being a shut-in who entertained herself by learning things, rather than the untouchableness, I'll just buy it conventionally and eat the reduction in other-effectiveness.

    Also, @Kensai ! Please tell me you'll be in on time!
     
    Kensai's Sister Naomi
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    • WIP. Will hopefully squeak in by the deadline. That's around midnight GMT right?

    Name: Sister Naomi

    Age: 25
    Gender: Female
    Homeworld: Feudal World
    Background: Adepta Sororitas
    Role: Fanatic
    Bio: Sister Naomi hails from the Feudal World of Ioudaia, a planet of long, harsh winters and short but brilliant summers. The Ioudaians have long been under the mantle of Imperial protection, and have a tradition of service. They tithe Imperial Guard regiments, and the Schola Progenium accepts children from their families.

    Naomi's birth was eagerly awaited, as her parents were scions of two of the noblest families on Ioudaia. Their child was to be the seal upon that union, but the sight of the newborn child struck the families with horror: she was born with hair and teeth, a bad enough omen amongst the superstitious Ioudaians; even worse, that hair was fiery red, her eyes pale blue, although her parents were both dark-complected.

    There could be only one explanation: her mother was a witch, and the child an abomination. It was not, perhaps, a coincidence that this allowed her father's family to repudiate the union and indeed declare war on her mother's kingdom, nor that this represented a serious setback to the plans of the Order of the Weeping Heart, one of the Orders Famulous of the Adepta Sororitas.

    Nevertheless, amidst the chaos the girl-child was spirited away. No-one knew what became of her, and perhaps no-one particularly wanted to know. She was brought up by a chapter of the Schola Progenium that operated on Ioudaia, where she grew up in the light of the Emperor's grace. She began to demonstrate both fervent piety and a somewhat disturbing talent for mayhem. She quickly began to run out of playmates as even bigger children learned to give her a wide berth. Whatever they learned of sin and heresy during their lessons, she began to seek out amongst her fellows, to punish and deter. At the same time, the harshest punishments meted out by her teachers failed to curb her burning determination to purify herself and those around her.

    It was to their immense relief and satisfaction that, at her majority, the Battle-Sisters of the Order of the Flaming Lily claimed her as a recruit. She excelled at her training, taking to it with fervour impressive even to the battle-scarred sisters. Her spirit carried her along even when her petite frame seemed about to break from the demands she placed upon it. More than once, she had to be ordered to break self-imposed fasts and penances before they put her in the infirmary. It even began to be whispered that had she been born male she would have made a potential Imperial Fist.

    It was because of this spirit, and despite her inexperience, that she was offered a post of secondment when a certain stranger came calling to the convent one day....
     
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    • ...and done.

    For the record, I'm angling to equip her with a Power Axe. That's a weapon canonically available to the Adepta Sororitas and it would be lulzy.


     
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