Remove ads

Last Light of a Dark Age (Warhammer 29K/Disco Elysium)

Voting is open
Reader mode
My immediate reaction is that I think the Chandlers have the right of it, and being born of Kora doesn't mean we ought to be defined by it.
Cetashwayo said:
SERENADE OF THE CHANDLERS - We beg of you. We have sacrificed so much for you. You can extend yourself against the nanocancer, if you trust your fellow print. Be kind to one another. Care for the sick and dying. Do not hoard the richest wax, and replacements for malignant parts. Do not throw yourselves away in conflict, and do not believe yourselves disposable. Please. There is no thing called death in dignity.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Do right by the little guys. The memory of the bees living in our bones speak wisely.
Cetashwayo said:
LIVING WEAPON: A panting, hunched and armoured biomech forty-meters tall with two overlapping faces, one Hers and one of a snarling beast, stomps into view. A similarly-sized bipedal machine in the shape of a man with a six-horned crown and broad-armored chest attacks it. The Sophian unleashes a primeval scream and gallops forward on four legs. It knocks down the stranger-machine and tears apart its chest - retrieving the squirming pilot from its heart. The sophian crushes the pilot in its hand, and lets their guts and body-parts pour into its beast-mouth. Then it swallows, howls, and from its back sprout four enormous beetle-wings, with which it flies away.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Because this...
Well, quite frankly, it's not much different than the path the Emperor set out upon, and he had a much bigger stick; and it all ended in tears anyway.
 
Last edited:
HeWhoAdds said:
Overall I'm loving how a lot of this sort of rhymes with the canon of 40k? Kora's various weapon-clones feel like they could easily be something that GW published after a bunch of writers watched way to much Evangelion. The decaying post-transhumanist world very much feels like something that could have produced the Emperor and the Space Marines, as a kind of intersection between Kora's indoctrinated clone-legions and the Bronze King's archaic techno-despot vibe.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Each of the factions tend to be constructed in a similar way to how GW seems to write factions. I pick a historical inspiration, a sci-fi/fantasy genre inspiration, and then a thematic and aesthetic core which fundamentally distinguishes them. Then I put them through the pear wriggler and see what la creatura comes out the other side.
 
[X] With thrashing violence and brute strength, wielding the abyssal nail like the hammer of a biomechanical headbutt (BIOMECHANICS Check: Easy - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).
Cetashwayo said:
SERENADE OF THE CHANDLERS - The womb is gone, and the world without the chime of children's laughter. You will never be an embryo, never an unfolding bud, dividing and dividing, for by this method you would not long survive your emergence. Your gestation is the nesting of a doll, layer upon layer, a sedimentary creation. In this emergency, life returns to the beginning, and calls forth the stromatolite.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
First off, using stromatolite in that context is insane, and you are a wonderful madman. Second, so we're officially a branch of humanity that whether by necessity, choice, or design has totally eschewed mammalian reproduction. For the purposes of quest canon I think that raises a lot of interesting questions; is posthuman life on this world extremely divergent from human civilization at large (or at least what it used to be)? Was this normal, and by the end of the age of strife, only mostly biological humans had survived in meaningful numbers?
Cetashwayo said:
NOOSPHERE: About one-third of all amniotic slates initiate printing with the nail emerging within days, before even the skeleton. But only approximately one-fifth of the souls of Illuminata are hylics.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Cetashwayo said:
NOOSPHERE: The physical nail of living metal grows emerges at the start of the process, so the recycling can be performed without a complete waste of wax. As the months of gestation go on, more and more wax is absorbed into the body. It is thus best done early to save as much wax as can be done. As amniotic wax is expensive, this is treated as an economic choice, without emotion.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Interesting. That's a tremendously higher percentage than in 40k. The bold is my emphasis here, and it might not mean anything as living metal doesn't seem any more beyond human civilization than living stone, but it's also a phrase that makes one 'hmmmmm'.
Cetashwayo said:
HER - Through this little fruit of flesh, this 'Lapsarian Lung', all of the planet's dead souls pass, never to fall into the darkness of the warp. Imagine the power in its breath. Imagine the danger, if it was to be abused. And yet its vaunted aerosol custodians, the cube-cities of Koinon, draw on it as if it was a mundane battery. They pervert it with their fell designs, and suffocate it with their ambition.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
The breath of the father, as mentioned last update...
Cetashwayo said:
RELIQUARY: In the beginning, you were inert, and without form. Upon an empty slate, it is said that the Father released a long-caged breath, and in his image your soul was carved.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
One begins to wonder what becomes of the souls that pass through it? Or perhaps rather, return to it? The father breathes life as the very first act of printing a sentience; are they recycled? Reincarnated? Held safely, prevented from moving on to the predations of the things in the warp? Perhaps even destroyed or expended - such would be a mercy compared to many fates.
 
[X] A Unique Vow (Be Kind To One Another and Remember The Chandlers) (+3 Interlace, +2 Reliquary, +2 Noosphere, +1 Incandescence, +1 Cogitation)
[X] With inhuman precision and methodical force, using your fists to deliver a series of shattering one-mm punches (LIVING WEAPON Check: Easy, - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).
 
Last edited:
[X] The Sage's Vow. Wishing to discover her own self, she also discover the selves of others, and wishing to be virtuous herself, she also helps others to be virtuous (+3 to Sacred Geometry, +2 to Interlace, +1 to all other attributes).

[X] With thrashing violence and brute strength, wielding the abyssal nail like the hammer of a biomechanical headbutt (BIOMECHANICS Check: Easy - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).
 
Cetashwayo said:
HER - Through this little fruit of flesh, this 'Lapsarian Lung', all of the planet's dead souls pass, never to fall into the darkness of the warp. Imagine the power in its breath. Imagine the danger, if it was to be abused. And yet its vaunted aerosol custodians, the cube-cities of Koinon, draw on it as if it was a mundane battery. They pervert it with their fell designs, and suffocate it with their ambition.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

The Koincels are literally Shinra.

God i can't believe we lost to those morons.
 
[X] A Unique Vow (A Cartographer's Vow) (+3 Reliquary, +2 Sacred Geometry, +1 Everything else)
[X] With inhuman precision and methodical force, using your fists to deliver a series of shattering one-mm punches (LIVING WEAPON Check: Easy, - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).

it's time to remember stuff about our life and kiss girls...and we've just suffered a severe amnesiac episode.
 
[X] The Sage's Vow. Wishing to discover her own self, she also discover the selves of others, and wishing to be virtuous herself, she also helps others to be virtuous (+3 to Sacred Geometry, +2 to Interlace, +1 to all other attributes).
[X] With inhuman precision and methodical force, using your fists to deliver a series of shattering one-mm punches (LIVING WEAPON Check: Easy, - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).
 
I do wonder what the other groups are like, we are in the all-female group. Is there a all-male group? Or how the others view things due to their own developments.
 
Kora's rant about the other factions that can't stand against them does provide an important hint as to two of them.
 
[X] A Unique Vow (Be Kind To One Another and Remember The Chandlers) (+3 Interlace, +2 Reliquary, +2 Noosphere, +1 Incandescence, +1 Cogitation)
[X] A Unique Vow (Magnanimous Moral Monolith) (+3 Incandescence +2 Interlace +2 Cogitation +1 Noosphere +1 Reliquary)

To sell you on it, Incandescence because a Stacy chooses and a slave-print obeys.
Interlace because you will convince no one if you cannot read the room.
Cogitation to cut through the bullshit and dogma, and ferret out the truth. Might synergize with our Infowar points too.
Noosphere because do you really want to be a bumpkin?
Reliquary because this world is fascinating and understanding the stage we share with the other actors is critical context.

No sacred geometry by process of elimination. I have nothing against it, I just think the others are more critical right now.
 
Last edited:
HungryHamadryad said:
Interesting. That's a tremendously higher percentage than in 40k. The bold is my emphasis here, and it might not mean anything as living metal doesn't seem any more beyond human civilization than living stone, but it's also a phrase that makes one 'hmmmmm'.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

RELIQUARY [AUTOFAIL]: "The Abyssal Nail is a purely human-derived construct that almost certainly does not derive any portion of it's design from the study of alien artifacts.

Any coincidental similarities to the similarly named Butcher's Nail should also be dismissed as such, coincidences."

<But what is a Butcher's Nail?>

RELIQUARY: "An implement for staking live protein to render it immobile and sedate. I think."
 
Last edited:
[X] A Unique Vow (Be Kind To One Another and Remember The Chandlers) (+3 Interlace, +2 Reliquary, +2 Noosphere, +1 Incandescence, +1 Cogitation)

This is a build optimized for caring for (and manipulating) people, and for remembering and puzzling out the deepest history of the world. This build is dedicated to the Chandlers and their requests. I will burn kingdoms to the ground for the Chandlers, and I want to remember things, and I want to crank Interlace for the finesse and the reading people.

edit: shh I didn't forget the second vote

[X] With inhuman precision and methodical force, using your fists to deliver a series of shattering one-mm punches (LIVING WEAPON Check: Easy, - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).
 
Last edited:
Also, man, there is too much to unpack and I am a tired potato but there is something extremely funny to me in Kora's speech about how we're going to build wonders for her and save the world and rebuild God and like, we're super low caste, we're gonna be the second shift third assistant mechanic (adjunct) to the mechanic who assists the assistant director of thaumaturgy. The wonder we're going to build is cleaning the workshop every night while yearning.
 
Last edited:
gale said:
A male faction kind like our PC's faction I think, local Mechanicus? Or Mechanicus like, and a capitalist from what I can tell.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

HER - And then, no one would be left to stand against us. Only titan-rutting muscle men, a rogue tycoon simulator impersonating a gnostic icon, and a coterie of barbarians who kneel before their idiosyncratic altar of chrome or silicon.

I have edited it to clarify this :)
 
[X] A Unique Vow (Be Kind To One Another and Remember The Chandlers) (+3 Interlace, +2 Reliquary, +2 Noosphere, +1 Incandescence, +1 Cogitation)

I FUCKING LOVE REGRET AND LONGING, I WANT TO YEARN FOR A WORLD THAT HAS PASSED AND SHALL NOT COME AGAIN.

Also the gene-kilns having the same speed-indoctrination astral projection running for the past few hundred years like a dusty VHS instructional tape is quite funny. It's like they're running a cult in a budget.
 
[X] A Unique Vow (A Gosling's Vow) (INTERLACE +3 RELIQUARY +3 SACRED GEOMETRY +3)
[X] With inhuman precision and methodical force, using your fists to deliver a series of shattering one-mm punches (LIVING WEAPON Check: Easy, - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).
 
Potato Anarchy said:
This is a build optimized for caring for (and manipulating) people, and for remembering and puzzling out the deepest history of the world. This build is dedicated to the Chandlers and their requests. I will burn kingdoms to the ground for the Chandlers, and I want to remember things, and I want to crank Interlace for the finesse and the reading people.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Similar to mine, happily throwing an approval vote your way.

Waith said:
Also the gene-kilns having the same speed-indoctrination astral projection running for the past few hundred years like a dusty VHS instructional tape is quite funny. It's like they're running a cult in a budget.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I noticed that. I wonder whether it's because it would be too much trouble to fix? Or if the original message was handcrafted by Kora, and changing it would be going against dogma?
 
[X] A Unique Vow (A Dreamer's Vow) (+3 Incandescence, +2 Sacred Geometry, +1 Everything else)

Grab hold of that foolish, fantastic dream, beyond the boundaries of that which they say has always been or will always be. Grab hold and never let go.

[X] With thrashing violence and brute strength, wielding the abyssal nail like the hammer of a biomechanical headbutt (BIOMECHANICS Check: Easy - 9 or higher on 2d6+3 to succeed).

A vow about never letting them put us back into the box where we "belong".
 
Last edited:
[X] The Witch's Vow. Heaven and Earth are ruthless. They treat the myriad selves as straw dogs. The self is ruthless - she treats the strangers as straw dogs. (+2 to all Reason Attributes, +1 to all Spirit Attributes).
 
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Voting is open
Remove ads
Back
Top