Character Sheet
][ 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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CURRENT RP
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RULES SUMMARY
ROLZ ROOM
 
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EDIT: Medical implants today, (like pacemakers), even wirelessly-controlled ones, generally don't have a password at all so that they can be adjusted at a different hospital in an emergency. This at least requires physical access!

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As a IT specialist? That scares me @brmj - that would be violating laws over here.

Are you in the EU? GDPR sounds nice.

But yeah, I'm a student worker at a university, and every computer under this IT department (there's a couple for historical reasons) has a local admin account with the same password that everybody in IT gets to know. It's not a terrible password, it's got a good 40ish bits of entropy, but this doesn't seem to be that unusual. The department workers do, in fact, have access to personal/financial information; I could pretty easily grab some random PII if I wanted to.
 
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Yeah surprise the Imperium doesn't have the best information security.

Anyway I'm off to celebrate my 15th anniversary with my partner (!) but while I do that, please make the votes not be a tie thanks.
 
Anyway I'm off to celebrate my 15th anniversary with my partner (!) but while I do that, please make the votes not be a tie thanks.
But how's the vote supposed to go to the party if doesn't have any formal wear?

Edit: Do people wear ties to parties? Now, that I'm thinking about it, I'm starting to doubt it, so the joke might not work.
 
As a IT specialist? That scares me @brmj - that would be violating laws over here.
It gets worse. One of the relevant systems included components that handled user payment info, and two of them could have cost companies multiple millions of dollars for even a short outage. One of them even could have cost a whole range of other companies millions in losses, not just the one I was working for.
 
[X] Plan: No pain, no gain
You gotta admit it'd go against the themes a little if "and now Daemons own everyone's souls forever and Praxis' efforts were in large part in vain" suddenly becomes true.
And then Praxis was the deamons. I suspect some social justice warriors have gone khornate on social media, so I don't doubt that Praxis can find a way to work the system as a daemon prince for the betterment of wherever she shows up.
Why would a random Mechanicus Magos have the password to one specific inquisitor?
"random"? Why would this random mechanicus magos not have Praxis' safe word?
 
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It is also not shy about the fact that the self-serving justifications of the Imperium, that is must be like this, is fascist trash
-Except the Imperium can't be fascist. Fascism require the state to control pretty much everything. The Imperium has several distinct and separate factions, The Administratum, the Ecclesiarchy, the Mechanicus... The Imperium is definately an Authoritarian hellhole, but it's not fascist.
Arch Warhammer did a piece on it, quite educational if you can approach it without bias.-
 
-Except the Imperium can't be fascist. Fascism require the state to control pretty much everything. The Imperium has several distinct and separate factions, The Administratum, the Ecclesiarchy, the Mechanicus... The Imperium is definately an Authoritarian hellhole, but it's not fascist.
Arch Warhammer did a piece on it, quite educational if you can approach it without bias.-

Fascism doesn't get a pass just because it's cracking at the seams.

In fact most fascist states tend to be highly dysfunctional and result in competing political fiefdoms fighting for control over the totalitarian state apparatus as much as they fight with the outside.
 
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... you are not operating under a very good definition of fascism if your image of it doesn't incorporate the realities that fascist states are often a bunch of feuding factions under a nominal leader. That's actually sort of a hallmark of fascism.

In any case, fascism is not a government structure, it's a political ideology centered around casting the nation as protagonist in an endless, zero-sum racial war for which all measures are justified in the destruction of the foe and the pursuit of a final victory, where the nation is viewed as an organism competing with others for resources and infected internally by poisonous elements that must be burnt out for the health of the whole, where the only way to achieve success is to eschew all comforts and liberties and place yourself under the control of a powerful figure who can keep you safe from the endless danger.

The Imperium contains within its many, many divisions a great number of systems of political organization, but all of them are fascist in implementation, the same way one could easily have a fascist dictatorship or a fascist monarchy or a fascist oligarchy or even a fascist democracy, because fascism is a political worldview and not a set system of organization.

Fascism doesn't mean Authoritarian But More.
 
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-Except the Imperium can't be fascist. Fascism require the state to control pretty much everything. The Imperium has several distinct and separate factions, The Administratum, the Ecclesiarchy, the Mechanicus... The Imperium is definately an Authoritarian hellhole, but it's not fascist.
Arch Warhammer did a piece on it, quite educational if you can approach it without bias.-

I mean... historically the Nazis (one of the prime examples of the fascist state in action) constantly had multiple governmental factions squabbling with each other for resources, attention, and policy.

You had the SS, which was a state unto itself at times, the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War production run by Speer, the SA/brownshirts, the military high command(s) which alternately squabbled with each other.... Yeah.
 
Arch Warhammer did a piece on it, quite educational if you can approach it without bias.-

You're just dumping all the poison into that well, aren't you? :V

The idea that Fascism means that the state cannot have competing internal interests betrays a total lack of historical literacy and/or an amazing susceptibility to fascist propaganda. All three of the major Axis powers were notorious for their internal mismanagement brought about by competing interests.
 
-Except the Imperium can't be fascist. Fascism require the state to control pretty much everything. The Imperium has several distinct and separate factions, The Administratum, the Ecclesiarchy, the Mechanicus... The Imperium is definately an Authoritarian hellhole, but it's not fascist.

The Nazi regime had several distinct and seperate factions, which often worked at cross purposes. Hitler explicitedly set up his subordinates to fight against each other.
The different factions that end up sabotaging each other is feature of facism, not an anomaly.

Arch Warhammer did a piece on it, quite educational if you can approach it without bias.-
If you remove bias, you'd have to start with removing Arch Warhammer.
 
I mean... historically the Nazis (one of the prime examples of the fascist state in action) constantly had multiple governmental factions squabbling with each other for resources, attention, and policy.

You had the SS, which was a state unto itself at times, the Reich Ministry of Armaments and War production run by Speer, the SA/brownshirts, the military high command(s) which alternately squabbled with each other.... Yeah.

Hell, you're co-writing a quest about an alt-Imperial Japan, where the Army and Navy were often literally shooting each other.
 
Hey you know I've just decided that Tisaku isn't welcome in this thread anymore. Drive by spelling corrections with a side of fascist apologetics isn't really what I'm here for thanks.
 
or even a fascist democracy
I mean, theoretically maybe, but one of Fascism's defining characteristics in most definitions is its hostility to democracy? Both Ur-Fascism and The Anatomy of Fascism define fascism in such a way that it is fundamentally opposed to democracy:
Umberto Eco said:
Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against "rotten" parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was "I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples" – "maniples" being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.
Robert Paxton said:
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

This is ultimately a minor quibble though.
 
Not to make this The Politics Thread, but this is one of those things that gets talked out and the consensus I've seen is while fascism is hostile to democracy, that doesn't prevent a democracy from doing fascism.
 
I mean, theoretically maybe, but one of Fascism's defining characteristics in most definitions is its hostility to democracy? Both Ur-Fascism and The Anatomy of Fascism define fascism in such a way that it is fundamentally opposed to democracy:

I think the full quote might be more illustrative? Fascism hates the idea that people might choose, but it likes the idea that it is the choice of the People. It concieves of this imaginary, monolithical entity who's voice is channeled through the party. Now, free and fair elections clearly clash with the idea of such an honest vote, but not every democracy has free and fair elections.
Depending on how free you want to use the definition of fascism, such sham fascist democracies might very well exist. They would be mostly permative, existing only to show how much the people love the regime.

Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view – one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against "rotten" parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was "I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples" – "maniples" being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

To go back to the Imperium you could have fascist democracies in all sorts of forms

1) Pick your own fascist candidate, where the people get to choose, but they only get to choose from the party
2) A genuine democracy with strong fascist representation
3) A fascist overlording system making all the important decisions with local delegation to democratic systems

And so on...
 
I mean, Iran manages to remain a theocracy despite holding elections that are by all appearances not significantly rigged, and that choose powerful political figures with genuine influence in national policy as far as I can tell.

I don't see why you couldn't have a fascist state running along similar lines in principle. You'd just need policies like:
1) Extreme restrictions of the franchise.
2) Legalized harassment of any political faction that was too hostile to the fascist power structure.
3) Probably a separate hierarchy of leadership figures not up for election.
 
"Comrade" Ghazghkull is a traitor to the grotchenproleteriat, all power to the Red Gobbo, all power to Da Kommittee!
Bah! As any right-thinking Ork knows, Waaagh-Orkunism is only a necessary stopgap on the way to true War where all are equal in dakka, due to the constant anti-Ork sentiment of the galaxy! If you had faith in the party council you'd believe!

(But this is now a tangent and we should probably, you know, stop.)
 
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