Penance Crusade

Man I don't know what rich and middle class people snort so much that they have some disconnected worldview, do they even know how much dope cost to us normal people?

If someone were to share his dope to me for free, I'd call that guy a cool friend. Except he's probably doing with the expectations of being repaid back.

Giving drugs to strangers in the street for free? Merchant must be rich af

Honestly, a large difference between a rich drug addict and a poor one is quality control. A rich junkie much of the time is doing a drug and is usually getting whatever they paid for. Usually. A poor junkie might end up taking something cut with baking soda if their luckyish. Or cut with another drug, or maybe sugar. Or chalk dust. Or worse, cut with crushed and ground-up florescent tube bulbs or something else just as bad.

Doesn't happen very often and tends to be sensationalized in the news, but it does happen.
 
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Man I don't know what rich and middle class people snort so much that they have some disconnected worldview, do they even know how much dope cost to us normal people?

If someone were to share his dope to me for free, I'd call that guy a cool friend. Except he's probably doing with the expectations of being repaid back.

Giving drugs to strangers in the street for free? Merchant must be rich af

Its not for free, its getting homeless people hooked on drugs and then forcing them into a gang when they can't pay up.

Its not a good thing lol.
 
Its not for free, its getting homeless people hooked on drugs and then forcing them into a gang when they can't pay up.

Its not a good thing lol.
Also, it's probably something that, while it happens on occasion, is played up massively by local media outlets in the Empire's pocket. Because you know that Maxiboy's got the local media and PD in his pocket. Probably a good chunk of the local PRT guys too.
 
Angron, I think, was meant to the empath among all his brothers. The one who understood. Truly, understood. In the brightest timeline following the Age of Strife, Angron might have been the one sent to the most isolationist of worlds. Those who had become conquerors or madmen, those who simply been traumatized by the horrors of the Long Night and simply wished to be left alone. And then he, perhaps with his Legion, would have, to quote another setting: It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly broken thing...and take away its pain."

That,
is what Angron was meant to be. He takes away the pain. A world that survived, liberated of its trauma, and joining the Imperium. What might such worlds return in kind??

An Angron, fulfilling his purpose, of saving others from their pain. Is an Angron saving the world, one soul at a time.

"A million voices cried out, in tears, in joy, in sadness, in relief, in exhaustion, they all cried. But not a one cried out in pain. In anguish. In anger. A million voices crying as the pain that had ensnared their souls, was gently taken away; with a quiet voice and a massive hand that invoked old memories. The same feeling of a child, finding comfort in the hands of a caring parent.

A care found in the hands, of the Red Angel."
 
Man I don't know what rich and middle class people snort so much that they have some disconnected worldview, do they even know how much dope cost to us normal people?

If someone were to share his dope to me for free, I'd call that guy a cool friend. Except he's probably doing with the expectations of being repaid back.

Giving drugs to strangers in the street for free? Merchant must be rich af
Well, some drugs are less expensive, especially if you cut them with shitty alternatives. But yeah that's most likely just scaremongering.
 
It never even occurred to me how perfect Angron is perfect for Earth Bet. Sending an immortal demigod empath that eats trauma to a world where the greatest powers are made by trauma? If he wanted he would have a loyal army by the end of the the month.
 
It never even occurred to me how perfect Angron is perfect for Earth Bet. Sending an immortal demigod empath that eats trauma to a world where the greatest powers are made by trauma? If he wanted he would have a loyal army by the end of the the month.

Fortunately for Earth-Bet, this isn't a conquering Primarch but instead someone who's trying to do some serious healing of His own. The Primarch that Angron had almost been, the guy he was right before the Butcher's Nails went in? Drop that guy in the CUI and He would've taken over the Yàngbǎn inside of a month, followed by the country, then the continent.
 
Fortunately for Earth-Bet, this isn't a conquering Primarch but instead someone who's trying to do some serious healing of His own. The Primarch that Angron had almost been, the guy he was right before the Butcher's Nails went in? Drop that guy in the CUI and He would've taken over the Yàngbǎn inside of a month, followed by the country, then the continent.
...Dammit now I want to read an omake of that!

I can picture it now. Earth Bet is literally a lost human colony that forgot its origins. Angron arrives in his pod and it plays out like canon only instead of highriders its the Yangban. He subverts their slaves (maybe becomes bros with Lung) and basically Shonens the crap out out Bets parahumans (beats them up, eats their trauma, then becomes best friends with them) then rallys an army against the Xenos Enbringers and Scion. It probably goes as poorly as Gold Morning until the Emperor shows up to provide backup( maybe an Emperor, Khepri combo). Scion is defeated, the Emperor subverts the Shard network for all its goodies( Sting will be helpful if given a warp upgrade, not to mention all the tinker tech), and the War Hounds become the ParaWardens(working title) champions of the Imperium. (Parahuman Space Marines y'all)
 

Are.... Are you a wizard? Because you're always finding the magic. 🙂👍

I heard an appropriately haunting version of this a while back.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqm4s-xkWaU


Not gonna lie, I obsessed for a while on just what to have Squealer singing to herself while sitting there waiting for the PRT to come arrest her. There were a few songs that I was considering, given my mental image of Squealer (my Muse constantly insists she has just the faintest hint of that Southern Twang, like what you'd hear from Texas or Tennessee, and that meant I had to make her an Appalachian Girl): Simple Man (original Lynyrd Skynyrd natch but Shinedown fucking killed it like champions) , Where Is My Mind by The Pixies, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), Creep by Radio Head, and even stepped back in time and considered Why Don't You Do Right by the legendary Peggy Lee. Ended up going with the Hanging Tree, because it's got that morbid as hell Appalachian folk vibe that just seemed to Sherrel to me.
 
Got a question, why Angronius? Why not just Angron?

When he was Angronius, he still had a chance at becoming a decent person, despite his horrific upbringing and background. Even after he was dubbed 'Angron' and forced to become a slave gladiator, he held onto that hope. Even when the Butcher's Nails were put in his skull, and even up to the very day when he was prepared to make a last stand and die alongside his chosen family, he still had a chance. The Emperor kidnapping him right before the battle was when all hope of being that decent person was absolutely shattered beyond repair.

By choosing to call himself Angronius, this is an Angron that is attempting to do what was always denied to him by others - being something other than a living weapon.
 
Hopefully, Angronius can resist the urges of the various factions at play to try to force him into the fight. I look forward to seeing who the next fool is to poke the bear. He's already whupped the Merchants, and from what I remember, the Docks are considered ABB territory, so the most likely next opponent is going to be Lung.
 
Kaiser. Lung wouldn't give a shit about him unless and until he does something to the Angry Gecko's turf, and Coil won't have seen enough to be interested yet.
It's entirely possible that the PRT/Protectorate are the next fools to poke the bear. It's kind of in their job description to try to get him folded into their organization. I can't help but imagine Armsmaster is going to be his most polite self when dealing with Angronius.
 
Fascinating story, many people just chuck characters into Brockton bay and straight up go for the violence route. This is one of the rare few that feels heartwarming.
Only error I could find was
"I hurt too, for a very, very long time. I understand."
~~I was hurt too.

Keep up the good work really looking forward to next update
 
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