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    • ≡][≡ Inquisitor Joanyn Praxis ≡][≡
    Imperial Inquisitor, Ordo Hereticus
    Attributes
    Physical Attributes
    Strength - 1
    Agility - 2
    Melee - 1
    Endurance: 4

    Mental Attributes
    Intelligence - 3
    Tactics - 2
    Nerve - 1
    Fortitude: 6

    Social Attributes
    Charm - 4
    Presence - 3
    Contacts - 3
    Resolve: 10

    Faith Attributes
    Belief - 2
    Scripture - 0
    Fire - 1
    Conviction: 3
    (3) - The Imperium should be an alliance of solidarity for the weak, not an alliance of strength for the strong.
    (2) - People are more than problems, weaknesses, corruption vectors to eradicate. Their feelings and dreams matter.
    (1) - A Shot Fired is a Shot Wasted

    <1> - Victory makes me feel alive.
    Strength is raw physical conditioning. Lifting stuff, swimming, running a long time, punching hard. It's added to many melee attack damage as well.

    Agility is swiftness, reaction speed, and immediate awareness. It's used for dodging things, jumping, ducking, outrunning folks, and other twitchy reactions.

    Melee is the general skill of up close combat with knives, swords, fists (power or otherwise), chainsaws, whatever else.

    Intelligence is raw intellectual power, knowledge, and drive to learn and study stuff. It is also used for military logistics.

    Tactics is your knowledge of battle tactics, from the strategy of leading armies to simply knowing when it is safe to rush across a hallway in a gunfight.

    Nerve is the stat both for shooting firearms and for keeping your cool. Nerve checks are common in combat to prevent from panicking or fight through pain.

    Charm is the social stat used for flattery, smoothtalking, lying, seduction, verbal sparring, deflection, and navigating high culture.

    Presence is the social stat used for reasoning, explaining, teaching, intimidating, impressing, or public address.

    Contacts is rolled to know people you need to know, and to have a good reputation with them.

    Belief is your actual faith in... whatever you have faith in. The Emperor, hopefully. It is used to resist temptation and corruption.

    Scripture is your knowledge of the intellectual side of your religious faith. If you can quote from the holy books and theologians. It's intelligence for matters of faith.

    Fire is your ability to project your faith out and convince others of it. Want to convert somebody or whip a crowd into a fanatical fury? This stat.
    Weapon: Laspistol
    Weapon: Hellpistol
    Trade: Manager
    Trade: Spy
    Trade: Political Operator
    Talent: Verbal Sparring
    Talent: Seduction
    Talent: Dishonesty
    Talent: Intimidation
    Talent: Exfiltration
    Talent: Logistics
    Talent: Propaganda
    Talent: Indirect Persuasion
    People: Dahlia
    People: The Corrupted
    People: High Imperial Politicians
    Knowledge: Imperial Political Theory
    Social Loadout
    1 Compact Laspistol, 1 Laspistol Reload, Flash-Safe Glasses, 6 Concealed monoknives, 1 Show Knife, 1 Belt Buckle Gun, 1 Plastex Bodyglove/Flakweave Suit, Displacer Field

    Combat Options
    +1 Hellpistol, +1 Transonic Machete

    Compact Laspistol
    Small Handgun
    Attack Dice: 1/d10 -or- 2/d10-1
    Aim Bonus: +1
    Damage Bonus: +2
    Armour Reduction: 0
    Magazine Size: 4
    Special
    Laser: Does not cause bleeding.
    Blinding: If operated without flash protection, witnessing the impact of a las-weapon will blind for 3 rounds.

    Concealed Monoknife
    Small Knife
    Attack Dice : 1/d10
    Damage Bonus : Agility + 1
    Armour Penetration : 2
    Parry Bonus : -1
    Disarm Bonus : +0

    Show Knife
    Medium Knife
    Attack Dice : 1/d10+1
    Damage Bonus : Agility + 1
    Armour Penetration : 0
    Parry Bonus : +0
    Disarm Bonus : +0

    Buckle Gun
    Tiny Handgun
    Attack Dice: 2/d10-2
    Aim Bonus: +0
    Damage Bonus: -2
    Armour Reduction: 0
    Magazine Size: 1
    Special
    Hidden: Will always escape searches.

    Plastex Bodyglove/Flakweave Suit
    Clothing
    Armour Value : 3
    Coverage : All but Head and Eyes
    Resistances : Impact, Blunt

    Displacer Field
    Energy Screen
    When hit with an attack, roll 1d10.
    1: Displaced into worse danger.
    2: Displacer field fails. Take the hit.
    3-6: Displaced hard. Take 1 Sore from bumping into something.
    7-9: Displaced. Attack avoided.
    10: Nothing personal, kid.

    Hellpistol (Voss Pattern)
    Medium Handgun/Carbine
    Attack Dice: 1/d10 -or- 2/d10-1 (One-Handed)
    Aim Bonus: +1
    Damage Bonus: +3
    Armour Reduction: 2
    Magazine Size: 12
    Special
    Laser: Does not cause bleeding.
    Blinding: If operated without flash protection, witnessing the impact of a las-weapon will blind for 3 rounds.
    Convertible: When converted to Carbine mode, gain +1 to Attack and Aim Bonus.

    Transonic Machete
    Medium Knife
    Attack Dice : 1/d10+2
    Damage Bonus : Strength + 3
    Armour Penetration : 1 + Half of enemy Armour (Round Down)
    Parry Bonus : +0
    Disarm Bonus : +3
    Special
    Sickening Vibrations: Enemies with 3 meters of an active blade count as being at -1 to all stats.
    Sister Charitina
    A member of the Order Famulous who found her faith again thanks to the Inquisitor. Praxis' closest confidant, dearest friend, and irritating ex-girlfriend.
    Attributes of Note: Nerve 3, Contacts 4, Charm 3, Scripture 2, Fire 2
    Skills of Note: Career - Order Famulous, Weapon - Bolt Carbine, People - Inquisitor Praxis
    Equipment: Half-Plate Power Armour, Bolt Carbine, Burning Blade
    Known Values: (3) The nobility is a blight on the Imperium, (2) I trust the Inquisitor's vision for the future, (1) Galaxy grim and dark, tiddy soft and warm.

    Dahlia Hussian
    A 17 year old unsanctioned psyker, rescued by Praxis from the witch's pyre she volunteered for at age 12. Loves the Emperor, and hates herself for being unworthy and twisted.
    Attributes of Note: Power 1, Control 2, Sight 2, Faith 5, Strength -1, Nerve 0
    Skills of Note: Talent - Self Discipline, Talent - Self-Hatred
    Equipment: Web Derringer
    Known Values: [3] I am here because I was given a chance. I should extend the same chance to others, [2] The Emperor is all things, [1] I can atone for my existence by aiding the Inquisitor

    Marvel Ann Alemanga-Zero
    A Magos of the biology wing of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Marvel Ann is an exuberant, odd, and enthusiastic cyborg lady who is an expert in medicine and bionics. She's Joanyn's current sweetheart, and she autotunes her voice.
    Attributes of Note: Intelligence 4, Charm 3, Strength 4
    Skills of Note: Career - Cyberdoc, Talent - Surgery, Talent - Singing
    Known Values: [2] Adventure is to be seized with both hands (and as many mechandrites as possible)

    Fraser Bookter
    A positively ancient scribe who served Praxis' teacher, Bookter has seen all manner of things. Despite that, he keeps good humour.
    Attributes of Note: Intelligence 4, Scripture 2, Contacts 2, Strength -2
    Skills of Note: Career - Archivist, Knowledge - Imperial History
    Known Values: ???

    Korey Kilimnik
    Once a Lightning fighter pilot for the Navy, until he was caught fucking an admiral's son. Kilimnik professionally doesn't care unless it has jet engines.
    Attributes of Note: Nerve 5, Agility 3
    Skills of Note: Career - Fighter Pilot, Talent - Piloting, Talent - Causing Trouble
    Known Values: [2] By death or rejuvenation, age will never slow my reflexes
    Penalties​

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    3 XP​
    XP3​
    33 XP​
    9 XP​
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    CURRENT RP
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    RULES SUMMARY
    ROLZ ROOM​
     
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    • [X] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] This demonette cut my hellgun in half, then followed up on my arm!

    In the grim darkness of the future, the wonders of prosthetics mean that you can lose an arm more than once, or in multiple installments. :V
     
    [X] It's the truth.

    Praxis seems comfortable enough, both with Marvel in general and her arm in particular, that the idea of her lying honestly strikes me as a little weird? Like, she might not want to talk about it, but it doesn't feel like she would lie to Marvel's face. A little self-consciousness isn't enough to make up a weird story.

    Then again, there's a tonal difference between 'lie' and 'random shit you say to flirt', too. But Praxis's feelings about her arm seem too serious to do any random flirting over, if that makes sense.
     
    [X] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.
    I want her to believe it's a joke at first.
    Then have her told that no, it really was a fucking door.
     
    [x] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.
    Simon_Jester said:
    [X] This demonette cut my hellgun in half, then followed up on my arm!

    Because that was, IMO, foreshadowed.

    Well yeah, except that with enough traumatization a significant fraction of people eventually start curling up and going catatonic, even under threat. Or the combination of their trauma and being keyed up on adrenaline causes them to do something that is, essentially, suicidal recklessness.
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    Not a psychologist, but to my knowledge that can be mitigated with training, as the nice Space Marine just told us, they train to make it so that if they DO pass their limits they go full aggression assault rather than shut down, which while poor for individual survival does wonders for squad survival.

    Which sounds a lot like just ramping up the adrenaline past the safe limits because the terror is past the safe limits.
    It'd be an immensely bad idea for a civilian to be sure, but Space marines are never truly off duty(the state of the Imperium being such that when they aren't fighting they're either training or resting off fighting/training), so the downside of potentially beating someone to death because they got triggered when someone cut them off in traffic is suppressed.

    So...its not ideal but its managed and functional.
     
    Twei said:
    [X] It's the truth.

    Praxis seems comfortable enough, both with Marvel in general and her arm in particular, that the idea of her lying honestly strikes me as a little weird? Like, she might not want to talk about it, but it doesn't feel like she would lie to Marvel's face. A little self-consciousness isn't enough to make up a weird story.

    Then again, there's a tonal difference between 'lie' and 'random shit you say to flirt', too. But Praxis's feelings about her arm seem too serious to do any random flirting over, if that makes sense.
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    true... but then again, this might be one of the reasons her relationships keep failing. it would be very in character for our expertly social inquisitor, who lies with ease for her job, to be self conscious and instinctively reach for a falsehood...
     
    Since the vote is well in hand, and what I like is winning, I'm going to raise a mechanical concern. What are some people's wish lists for future mechanical progress? Obviously there's some degree to which anything is going to be a matter of spending for skills you need for an individual situation...

    But there is some planning can be done. Like, People: Marvel Ann, good idea or not? We could be saving to increase Contacts or Presence to 4, or Charm to 5... which is the highest Praxis can go in terms of a stat, five, which means that it'd be really impressive... but would mean that her other two social stats are 'merely' pretty good.

    And other such questions.
     
    open_sketch said:
    true... but then again, this might be one of the reasons her relationships keep failing. it would be very in character for our expertly social inquisitor, who lies with ease for her job, to be self conscious and instinctively reach for a falsehood...
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    ooh, no, that makes a lot of sense too.

    I honestly like the door crushing, or at least the idea of the door crushing I've got in my head, from a thematic perspective? see previous discussion, but like. it's the kind of thing I could see her lying to cover up. The Imperium is the kind of place where you would boast about how you lost your arm fighting the daemonette, or had it cut off so you could infiltrate. Both in and out of universe, you would normally revel in the Glorious Violence and/or Being A Hard Woman Making Hard Decisions. Especially now, when she just committed an act that very much runs counter to the aforementioned Hard Men Making Hard Decisions propaganda, I could see her being ashamed that she lost her arm in such a mundane manner.

    so if it's winning, I want it to be the truth. and her arm being lost in a simple industrial accident, a drunken escapade at inquisitor school, a failure of basic OSHA compliance, it all fits so well with the themes here. the Imperium's biggest enemy is itself. the biggest losses are not Glorious Combat or Hard Decisions Made While Hard but simple, everyday tragedies.

    Plus you could say something about the metaphorical machinery of the Imperium destroying your humanity piece by piece, but Marvel Ann might object to that and this isn't my day job, okay?
     
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    Happy page 100 everyone.
    [x] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.

    Marvel-Ann content is all I need, I would soak it into my pores if I could. Maybe we should commission a new arm from her at some point, we already lean very hard into the "elegant" side of the view of inquisitors, a shiny chrome arm with whatever gadgets our girlfriend can stuff inside would be a great addition to that image.
     
    Alobomb said:
    Happy page 100 everyone.
    [x] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.

    Marvel-Ann content is all I need, I would soak it into my pores if I could. Maybe we should commission a new arm from her at some point, we already lean very hard into the "elegant" side of the view of inquisitors, a shiny chrome arm with whatever gadgets our girlfriend can stuff inside would be a great addition to that image.
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    ...you don't know how many NSFW ideas that just gave me. :V
     
    We're a bit drunk, we're on a bit of a high, we're probably feeling a little concerned at getting a magos sloshed to the point she hasn't noticed she just half-stripped in front of us and probably couldn't walk coherently without gyroscopes. I could see the truth happening in a moment of weakness, and don't want this conversation to become a tragedy.
    [X] It's the truth.

    Oh, hey, just checking, has anyone mentioned Hope and Silence in the Hive? It seems like a relevant recommendation for a story with vaguely similar themes percolating.

    Another thing. The genestealers have this amazing gene-modifying technology. They just shank someone and then their whole genetic make-up goes all tyranid without making any overt changes. Could a Magos use the same thing, hammer it a bit, then inject it again to randomise the changes. So, like, instead of turning people into genestealers it'd turn them into benstillers or some other completely random gene-salad that would, presumably, not be contageous, or at least not have an open channel to Tyranis Radio? Could they try refining this to give people genetic compatibility with The T-Virus The Space Marine Process?
     
    [X] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.

    The O n l y Vote I'd be willing to back
     
    [X] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.

    Make an excuse of it actually being a fairly substantial door.
     
    [X] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.

    Was leaning towards the infiltration but this does strike me as more on theme.
     
    open_sketch said:
    You really should. When you were younger you had a carbine hell-gun for close in work, but a cultist of Slaanesh had scythed it clean in half with a power claw and you'd never gotten around to replace it. Admittedly, losing your arm not long after had somewhat soured you on front-line work, but it was really time to get over yourself.
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    Okay, so this is what I remembered, and Open_Sketch pulled a clever thing. I read it as 'I lost my main weapon, and then my arm that was holding it, and the arm I was more concerned about replacing', but it could be read as 'I lost my weapon, and then later that week I lost my arm in a tragic extreme skiing accident' as well.

    And since I want to roleplay praxis being bad at romantic relationships like our backstory says, I'll go against the grain and...

    [X] This demonette cut my hellgun in half, then followed up on my arm!
    [X] It's a lie.

    I do agree the 'Caught it in a door' is a great actual-truth story, but telling the truth to someone we're actively manipulating and trying to bread-pill just seems off-brand

    You're more likely going to lie when tired or drunk, especially if it's a lie that you always say to that question to everyone. Your mouth and habits run on autopilot, and you don't want people of different levels of trusted/flirtiness to mention it off hand and realize someone was told a lie and someone was the truth. Better to just keep it simple in that case.

    And it's just a lie about an arm. You're making sure Marval Ann doesn't accidentally trip over all your professional lies with personal truths that she may not parse the difference of. It's not like it's a professional habit intruding into personal life, Praxis would never do that often enough to become frustrating to someone she's dating.
     
    Aunty Shi Ping said:
    We're a bit drunk, we're on a bit of a high, we're probably feeling a little concerned at getting a magos sloshed to the point she hasn't noticed she just half-stripped in front of us and probably couldn't walk coherently without gyroscopes. I could see the truth happening in a moment of weakness, and don't want this conversation to become a tragedy.
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    I'm somewhere on the ace spectrum, so I might not be qualified to say this, but they're in Praxis's room with a bottle of wine. I'm pretty sure the stripping was on purpose.

    [X] I got it caught in a door. Don't tell anyone.
    [X] It's the truth.
    There are two ways this could go. An incredibly, hilariously dumb accident, or losing it in an emergency where the bulkhead doors slammed down and Praxis didn't entirely make it. I want to see which way it goes.
     
    [X] A fellow Inquisitor took it off with a chainsword. I'll get her back one day.
    [X] It's the truth.

    As funny as the door option is, I like the idea of sitting up an "Oh that bitch," sort of dynamic with a rival Inquisitor.

    And technically all the options could've happened, as Praxis could've lost the same arm multiple times and just kept replacing it. Frankly I find that to be an even funnier bit.
     
    Bones said:
    And technically all the options could've happened, as Praxis could've lost the same arm multiple times and just kept replacing it. Frankly I find that to be an even funnier bit.
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    *at some prosthetics facility somewhere*

    "Hey, Steve, we have another order from Ordo Hereticus. It's for a lady named, uh, Joanyn Praxis? It's a size-"

    "Oh, Praxis? Another arm replacement, size 12?"

    "Y-yeah, how did you know?"

    "She comes by every six months with some ridiculous story about how she lost her arm this time. 'oh it was a daemonette', 'oh it was a rogue inquistor', 'oh my sleeve got stuck in a trash compactor'. We have her order saved as a template. It's just so much faster."
     
    [X] A fellow Inquisitor took it off with a chainsword. I'll get her back one day.
    [X] It's the truth.

    "Caught in a door" is unquestionably the funniest option, but this one suggests that she's been butting heads with her colleagues for a significant portion of her career, and I think that fits with her character. Plus, it enables the plot hook of running into the culprit somewhere down the road.
     
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