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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
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    • [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
    -[X] I'm not sure how reliable it is, but I can't dismiss the possibility
    Tiroth said:
    Did...did nobody else want to comment on how he only introduced ONE Space Marine, with overtomes of 'this is the same guy, he's just here twice'?
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    Well, I missed that, but it seems disturbingly possible.
     
    from 7-17:
    "The forces of darkness will overwhelm the defenders there, reserve forces will be mobilized too slowly to respond, and the Warp will boil forth into the Materium. If things remain the way they are, this is inevitable ". So:
    somewhatLazy said:
    [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
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    The above is innacurate: the success is prophesied as something which might be averted by the message. We should probably be clear about this.
     
    [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
     
    We DEFINITELY should not mention the Eldar to this guy, and EVEN MORE DEFINITELY should not self-identify as being caught up in Eldar shenanigans, i.e. as a thread that could be snipped to cut things off if he decides the only thing that he knows for sure is that the timeline is going screwy and apparently the Eldar (AKA, the Enemies of Mankind to 99% of Inquisitors) are causing it. That's a dreadful risk to take for basically no real reason. This guy isn't our superior, we don't know him from Jack, and we don't owe him anything.

    If we want to go with a "technically the truth" approach then this
    [] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
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    is much better. Personally though, I'd prefer to carefully obfuscate even more information. Something like:

    [X] "My recent activities are restricted information. I'm going to need a quid pro quo of information first if you want me to share anything. Tell me what "breaking the timestream" means in non-technical language, and how dangerous you think it is."
    -[X] If he shares, tell him: "While on a mission in the underhive for reasons that are still restricted information, I unexpectedly encountered a prophecy foretelling an imminent Black Crusade of immense strength that is destined to overwhelm the Imperial defenses. I wasn't sure how much credence to put in it but was going to pass a message about it to higher levels just to be safe."
    -[X] If he holds back then say nothing.

    There's technically no lies in there even if there is a bit of deception (the information is restricted, we're restricting it right now; the fact that isn't what that terminology usually means is irrelevant, right?), we establish upfront that we're a peer who isn't obliged to report to him, and if he isn't willing to respect that and make a show of good faith by sharing first then we don't give him anything. Also, I want to avoid the "I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning" type thing from the vote I quoted above because I don't want to even hint at the existence or identity of the guy we're relying on to be able to send our message. Because if Inquisitor de Villarreal twigs to that, then it gives him a much less risky non-Inquisitor target to go after if he decides this message-sending business needs to be shut down for timey-wimey reasons whether we like it or not. He wouldn't even have to kill or harm the kid, just sequestering him away from us and away from any astropaths would do it, and if he gets there first the authority of an Inquisitor and Space Marine backup would probably be enough to do that. I really, really want to avoid that as even a possibility, to the greatest extent we can manage here.
     
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    [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
    open_sketch said:
    "Joanyn, then, lovely to meet you." he said, "Uh, Lysander, is me, and those two are Captain Lexon Valance of the Void Stalkers-"

    "Lady Inquisitor." they both said, at the same time.
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    open_sketch said:
    "See, these are not normal readings. Captain, these aren't normal, are they?" he said, glancing back to his identical space marines.

    "They are not, Lord Inquisitor." one of the marines intoned gravely. You swear you saw the other smirk.
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    open_sketch said:
    He jumped in surprise, and then leaned out around the transparent barrier, his face lighting up.
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    I'm vaguely suspicious on how much of his presentation could be just him being a showman.
    Like the space marines are just twins, the device is just running a random scan and the Inquisitor totally knew where we were all along.

    The Ordo Chronos has worked hard for their reputation and preconceptions and by the Emperor he is going to use it!
     
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    Let's not mention the Eldar, please.

    [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.

    I don't like the "and its success". I think that maybe what this wanted to say was something like:

    [X] I received a prophecy about a new Black Crusade. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
     
    [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
     
    "There's a prophecy"
    "Who's prophecy?"

    I think we have to mention the Eldar, both to not lie to him and to emphasise that this information might not be entirely reliable.
     
    [X] I received a prophecy, foretelling a new Black Crusade and it's success. I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning where it needed to go to hopefully avert the coming storm.
     
    Fayhem said:
    Why is not lying to him a priority, again? I'm honestly not really understanding the emphasis people are putting on that as a priority.
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    It's cause inquisitors are paranoid and we don't know him. We don't know if he's a "reasonable, works hard at his job to try and make the Imperium safe/better" like Praxis or Amberly Vail, or if he's one of the more "i will explode this ENTIRE PLANET to kill ONE HERETIC" fellas.
     
    DragonCobolt said:
    It's cause inquisitors are paranoid and we don't know him. We don't know if he's a "reasonable, works hard at his job to try and make the Imperium safe/better" like Praxis or Amberly Vail, or if he's one of the more "i will explode this ENTIRE PLANET to kill ONE HERETIC" fellas.
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    Let's hope we don't meet Inquisitor Headsmash, come to think of it.
     
    Fayhem said:
    We DEFINITELY should not mention the Eldar to this guy, and EVEN MORE DEFINITELY should not self-identify as being caught up in Eldar shenanigans, i.e. as a thread that could be snipped to cut things off if he decides the only thing that he knows for sure is that the timeline is going screwy and apparently the Eldar (AKA, the Enemies of Mankind to 99% of Inquisitors) are causing it. That's a dreadful risk to take for basically no real reason. This guy isn't our superior, we don't know him from Jack, and we don't owe him anything.

    If we want to go with a "technically the truth" approach then this

    is much better. Personally though, I'd prefer to carefully obfuscate even more information. Something like:

    [X] "My recent activities are restricted information. I'm going to need a quid pro quo of information first if you want me to share anything. Tell me what "breaking the timestream" means in non-technical language, and how dangerous you think it is."
    -[X] If he shares, tell him: "While on a mission in the underhive for reasons that are still restricted information, I unexpectedly encountered a prophecy foretelling an imminent Black Crusade of immense strength that is destined to overwhelm the Imperial defenses. I wasn't sure how much credence to put in it but was going to pass a message about it to higher levels just to be safe."
    -[X] If he holds back then say nothing.

    There's technically no lies in there even if there is a bit of deception (the information is restricted, we're restricting it right now; the fact that isn't what that terminology usually means is irrelevant, right?), we establish upfront that we're a peer who isn't obliged to report to him, and if he isn't willing to respect that and make a show of good faith by sharing first then we don't give him anything. Also, I want to avoid the "I went into the underhive to retrieve someone who could pass the warning" type thing from the vote I quoted above because I don't want to even hint at the existence or identity of the guy we're relying on to be able to send our message. Because if Inquisitor de Villarreal twigs to that, then it gives him a much less risky non-Inquisitor target to go after if he decides this message-sending business needs to be shut down for timey-wimey reasons whether we like it or not. He wouldn't even have to kill or harm the kid, just sequestering him away from us and away from any astropaths would do it, and if he gets there first the authority of an Inquisitor and Space Marine backup would probably be enough to do that. I really, really want to avoid that as even a possibility, to the greatest extent we can manage here.
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    This seems like the best vote, though I edited it a bit for accuracy.

    [X] "My recent activities are restricted information. I'm going to need a quid pro quo of information first if you want me to share anything. Tell me what "breaking the timestream" means in non-technical language, and how dangerous you think it is."
    -[X] If he shares, tell him: "While on a mission in the underhive for reasons that are still restricted information, I unexpectedly encountered a prophecy foretelling an imminent Black Crusade of immense strength. I wasn't sure how much credence to put in it but was going to pass a message about it to higher levels just to be safe."
    -[X] If he holds back then say nothing.
     
    DragonCobolt said:
    It's cause inquisitors are paranoid and we don't know him.
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    That's a good reason to lie to him. You really think a full disclosure policy would give us brownie points if he turned out to be one of the "innocence proves nothing" inquisitors? Especially since that kind of paranoid inquisitor "double-checks" with extreme prejudice?
     
    Fayhem said:
    That's a good reason to lie to him. You really think a full disclosure policy would give us brownie points if he turned out to be one of the "innocence proves nothing" inquisitors? Especially since that kind of paranoid inquisitor "double-checks" with extreme prejudice?
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    The flip side is that literally nothing we can really do helps us in that case, because he's already got the temporal anomaly detection equivalent of a Geiger counter pointing at us and oh boy is it chattering.

    Lying to him in a way he'll find credible enough to leave us alone is exponentially harder if he's an overzealous lunatic... but the entire argument for lying to him boils down to "what if he's an overzealous lunatic?"
     
    The thing is, somebody can be "reasonable", for a given value of the term, and still have a very different set of beliefs and priorities. And we have literally no idea what his are. I'm not arguing in favor of lying to him, to be clear. My preferred path is sharing enough info he can understand why his instruments are going crazy if he acts reasonably, and just stonewalling him if he won't do that. But the idea that trusting him with a large amount of the full truth is automatically the best and safest route is kinda weird?? Like, you can "reasonably" conclude as an Imperial that the Eldar are notoriously treacherous and tricky, and we shouldn't do anything they're suggesting we should without at minimum very thorough (and time-consuming) investigation first. And "reasonably" conclude that you can't in good conscience allow another Inquisitor to go off half-cocked and send the message the Eldar want right now (which is what Praxis/the thread want to do, last I checked).
     
    [X] "My recent activities are restricted information. I'm going to need a quid pro quo of information first if you want me to share anything. Tell me what "breaking the timestream" means in non-technical language, and how dangerous you think it is."
    -[X] If he shares, tell him: "While on a mission in the underhive for reasons that are still restricted information, I unexpectedly encountered a prophecy foretelling an imminent Black Crusade of immense strength that is destined to overwhelm the Imperial defenses. I wasn't sure how much credence to put in it but was going to pass a message about it to higher levels just to be safe."
    -[X] If he holds back then say nothing.

    I support this as well!
     
    [X] "My recent activities are restricted information. I'm going to need a quid pro quo of information first if you want me to share anything. Tell me what "breaking the timestream" means in non-technical language, and how dangerous you think it is."
    -[X] If he shares, tell him: "While on a mission in the underhive for reasons that are still restricted information, I unexpectedly encountered a prophecy foretelling an imminent Black Crusade of immense strength. I wasn't sure how much credence to put in it but was going to pass a message about it to higher levels just to be safe."
    -[X] If he holds back then say nothing.
     
    Fayhem said:
    The thing is, somebody can be "reasonable", for a given value of the term, and still have a very different set of beliefs and priorities. And we have literally no idea what his are. I'm not arguing in favor of lying to him, to be clear. My preferred path is sharing enough info he can understand why his instruments are going crazy if he acts reasonably, and just stonewalling him if he won't do that. But the idea that trusting him with a large amount of the full truth is automatically the best and safest route is kinda weird?? Like, you can "reasonably" conclude as an Imperial that the Eldar are notoriously treacherous and tricky, and we shouldn't do anything they're suggesting we should without at minimum very thorough (and time-consuming) investigation first. And "reasonably" conclude that you can't in good conscience allow another Inquisitor to go off half-cocked and send the message the Eldar want right now (which is what Praxis/the thread want to do, last I checked).
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    As an inquisitor or the Ordo Chronos, and someone who's entire job is to manage time, he's probably run into the Eldar more than once, or at least seen them more than once. They undeniably know enough to accurately predict the future, and they don't have enough manpower to launch a meaningful offensive on Imperial-occupied worlds. There aren't enough of them to cause that much of a chronological fuck-up unless they're preventing something terrible. Also, there's an entire branch of Inquisitors that work with xenos all the time, so we probably have the authorization to do this anyways.
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    If preventing a catastrophy causes a huge disruption, then causing a catastrophy should create a disruption as well.
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    Yup. For a theoretical example, they could be causing a catastrophe by tricking the Imperials into moving a major part of their fleet just in time for a new tyranid hive fleet to hit the region they were previously guarding instead of being diverted towards an eldar craftworld (or something). Honestly, if this thread was characterizing the Eldar with the grimderp all-awful-all-the-time "canon" characterization I'd be pretty worried about something like that. As it is, I don't think Sketch will punish us for hoping for something better between Imperials and Eldar since that would kinda be counter to the entire ethos of the thread, at least as I understand it. But Inquisitor McNPC doesn't know that.
    zang269 said:
    Also, there's an entire branch of Inquisitors that work with xenos all the time, so we probably have the authorization to do this anyways.
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    The Ordo Xenos generally "works with" xenos in much the same way that the Ordo Malleus "works with" daemons. And we're not even part of the Ordo Xenos, we're Ordo Hereticus.
     
    I think prying into this guy's secrets is very much the wrong move here. He's an Inquisitor, hell just clam up, and then we're at an impasse no better than the default option.

    And frankly, I like the thematics of reaching out to a possible ally far more than being cagy about the incoming apocalypse.
     
    spiritualatheist said:
    I think prying into this guy's secrets is very much the wrong move here. He's an Inquisitor, hell just clam up
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    ...We're an Inquisitor, and he literally summoned us here so that he could "pry into our secrets". And our secrets are a lot more secret than "please define the term you just freely and without prompting used in front of us". If he's not willing to even make a token gesture to meet the ante he set himself, then that just shows a lack of respect. Which means that in the scenario under my plan where we don't tell him about the apocalypse, he just disrespected us after calling us here like he had a right to (he doesn't; we showed up as a professional courtesy, not bc we were obliged to). I don't know what about "total stranger in a profession famous for paranoia and internecine conflict who just disrespected us to our face" is saying "possible ally" to you. It just sounds like wishful thinking that you're potentially staking our ability to actually do something about the apocalypse on (or at least, our ability to do so without interference; I don't think he could just shut us down, but he could definitely put hurdles in our way that we really shouldn't be wasting time and energy on clearing right now).

    tl;dr, if he can show us the same respect he's asking for, we should tell him about enough of the prophecy to know why everything went haywire on his instruments. If he can't even do that, then the default option of stonewalling him and just not even engaging is the best one.
     
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