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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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    XP3​
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    CURRENT RP
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    RULES SUMMARY
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    • The Imperium and Singing
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    • A thing to keep in mind is that, though they are many things, the Imperium is not capitalist, so singing is going to be a very common past time, group bonding activity, and part of most every workplace, as it was in almost every culture around the world before the commodification of music and the corresponding shaming of those whose voices were not good enough to be professional (which was echoed along a lot of common social arts).

    Imagine the factory Praxis worked at, singing a song together about building the tanks, using the tempo to stay on task. Imagine the electric hum of a Mechanicus forge at work as Marvel Ann and her peers busied about their day. Imagine Charitina dragging herself out of her office to evening services, when the choir was the only thing that made her feel alive. Kilimnik and his copilot harmonizing in the void. Bookter humming to himself as he reads. Dahlia muttering the bars of hymn to calm herself before bed.

    The Imperium is truly terrible, but they haven't found a way to crush the music out of people yet.
     
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    • open_sketch said:
    A thing to keep in mind is that, though they are many things, the Imperium is not capitalist, so singing is going to be a very common past time, group bonding activity, and part of most every workplace, as it was in almost every culture around the world before the commodification of music and the corresponding shaming of those whose voices were not good enough to be professional (which was echoed along a lot of common social arts).

    Imagine the factory Praxis worked at, singing a song together about building the tanks, using the tempo to stay on task. Imagine the electric hum of a Mechanicus forge at work as Marvel Ann and her peers busied about their day. Imagine Charitina dragging herself out of her office to evening services, when the choir was the only thing that made her feel alive. Kilimnik and his copilot harmonizing in the void. Bookter humming to himself as he reads. Dahlia muttering the bars of hymn to calm herself before bed.

    The Imperium is truly terrible, but they haven't found a way to crush the music out of people yet.
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    I suppose it would depend on which part of the Imperium we're talking about, though I agree on the whole. There's probably an undercurrent of bigotry and reaction against forms of art deemed by the hegemony to be deviant-- that monodominant inquisitor that tried virus bombing the last planet we were on exhibited such traits.
     
    Baron Ouroboros said:
    I suppose it would depend on which part of the Imperium we're talking about, though I agree on the whole. There's probably an undercurrent of bigotry and reaction against forms of art deemed by the hegemony to be deviant-- that monodominant inquisitor that tried virus bombing the last planet we were on exhibited such traits.
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    True, but by the same token, there is no compelling reason to think that large-scale sinking is at all widely regarded as deviant by the hegemony.
     
    open_sketch said:
    A thing to keep in mind is that, though they are many things, the Imperium is not capitalist, so singing is going to be a very common past time, group bonding activity, and part of most every workplace, as it was in almost every culture around the world before the commodification of music and the corresponding shaming of those whose voices were not good enough to be professional (which was echoed along a lot of common social arts).

    Imagine the factory Praxis worked at, singing a song together about building the tanks, using the tempo to stay on task. Imagine the electric hum of a Mechanicus forge at work as Marvel Ann and her peers busied about their day. Imagine Charitina dragging herself out of her office to evening services, when the choir was the only thing that made her feel alive. Kilimnik and his copilot harmonizing in the void. Bookter humming to himself as he reads. Dahlia muttering the bars of hymn to calm herself before bed.

    The Imperium is truly terrible, but they haven't found a way to crush the music out of people yet.
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    It really is deeply depressing that people are annoyed when I burst into song at the office tbh...
     
    6-3: Have Faith
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    • "I'm not particularly eager to take on a shuttle full of evacuees who might turn on us." you said, indicating to Marvel Ann, "Get everything ready to take a sample. Brother Demirel-"

    "I've already told him. We're shifting to hold." Demirel said, having voxed ahead, "Make it quick."

    You took a deep breath, then you opened the door and spoke.

    "Hold your fire, I'm a friend!"

    Shots ran out, shotgun blasts. They were utterly deafening in the confines of the narrow corridors, and almost immediately you heard crying. Saints, there were children.

    Of course there was. You hated thinking about it, but there were always children.

    "Leave us alone!" a voice screamed after you, a woman, hoarse and clearly at the edge of her sanity. "Get back, beasts!"

    You sighed. If they had been found, this would be death for them, but it was admirable they were still resisting.

    "This is Inquisitor Joanyn Praxis of the Inquisitor. I have with me a Space Marine of the Gate Wardens chapter. We're are going to be destroying this ship, and we are extending you a chance to escape. Please, have faith."

    Brother Demirel added his own voice, amplified by his helmet.

    "We are here to protect you. Please. Come quickly."

    "If you do not believe me, send one of your own to see." you added. A perfect cover to test them, too.

    You could hear their voices discuss it. You did not have time for this, but the fact was that Brother Demirel wasn't fitting in there, so there was no way to force compliance.

    "If we send someone out there, they'll get turned into one of them. I've seen it!"

    "It's a lie anyway! There ain't no woman inquisitors!"

    "They're just trying to get us to eat us!"

    The voices devolved into an overlapping babble, then cries and screams, and a person came around the corner. A young woman, small, filthy, barefoot, her hair wild, an infant in her arms.

    You offered her a hand, and she took it, stepping out, tears already forming in her eyes. Marvel Ann moved up to take her sample, and you held her hand, reassuring her. Just a quick test, to make sure you aren't sick, you said.

    Blood drawn into a needle, a drop in a test tube, a bloom of colour. It would take minutes to resolve, Marvel Ann had told you, minutes you spent praying, holding this woman's hand, telling her everything was going to be okay. Your heart was in your throat, and you found yourself muttering a prayer to the Emperor, to all the saints, please, please, not here, not now, not today, spare your servant-

    Behind her, Marvel Ann shook her head sadly.

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    • open_sketch said:
    The voices devolved into an overlapping babble, then cries and screams, and a person came around the corner. A young woman, small, filthy, barefoot, her hair wild, an infant in her arms.
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    Whelp. That's the most obvious sympathy target.
    open_sketch said:
    Behind her, Marvel Ann shook her head sadly.
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    So here's the question: Do we truly sift through the group? Or do we have the Marine stick his gun down the hole and shoot?
     
    QuarkBeast said:
    well shit
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    Well, since she's a part of the Gene-stealer hive mind we could interrogate her as to how many of the group are implanted. But that not only falls under the 'take up time we don't have' downside of sifting, but it's opening room for complications like lying and discerning the truth.
     
    Im thinking something along the lines of:

    [] Smile, nod, tell her she's ok, usher her down the corridor, once they are all out, get them to the Thunderhawk, make up an excuse to sedate them (space sickness?), test them all, euthanise the infected and save the rest.
     
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    They're infected, then? That's horrible, especially given standard imperial policy when it comes to it.

    So we've got a few options. We can test them all and see if they're all infected in an isolated ward on our ship. We can also leave them and blow up the ship with them on board. Undoubtedly such an act would carry significant penalties to Praxis' mental health. Ugh. If the Space Marines overheard they might just exterminate them anyway without a trial process.

    Even in the best case scenario, in that we screen them, we're still looking at horrible outcomes for the people we've come to "save." One radical option would be to separate the infected and try to find a cure, but I'm afraid whether the Astartes would even accept such a proposal.
     
    I think there is here a temptation to achieve a victory - over the gene stealers, over the situation - while at the same time potentially losing track of the bigger risks and bigger picture. Yes, Praxis wants to save everyone (or as much as possible), but what is realistically achievable under the circumstances?
     
    Always Late said:
    Well, since she's a part of the Gene-stealer hive mind we could interrogate her as to how many of the group are implanted. But that not only falls under the 'take up time we don't have' downside of sifting, but it's opening room for complications like lying and discerning the truth.
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    The infected, to the best of Marvel Ann's knowledge (and she has looked into this, it's sort of a big emergency in the Imperium right now) are not part of the broodmind the way that the hybrids are, but rather being loosely controlled through psychic compulsion by the Patriarch. They themselves usually don't know they are infected, just that they become drawn towards whatever the broodmind points them at. That's why they form a cult, rather than simply unfeelingly following the whim of the alien intelligence.
     
    Baron Ouroboros said:
    Ugh. If the Space Marines overheard they might just exterminate them anyway without a trial process.

    Even in the best case scenario, in that we screen them, we're still looking at horrible outcomes for the people we've come to "save." One radical option would be to separate the infected and try to find a cure, but I'm afraid whether the Astartes would even accept such a proposal.
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    I think you've forgotten we're not dealing with the Minotaurs or Marines Malevolent. We're dealing with Space U.S. Marines.
    EmpressSquishette said:
    I think there is here a temptation to achieve a victory - over the gene stealers, over the situation - while at the same time potentially losing track of the bigger risks and bigger picture. Yes, Praxis wants to save everyone (or as much as possible), but what is realistically achievable under the circumstances?
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    Yeah, it's telling the moment the 'kill them or take them to the shuttle' comes into question, people start forgetting that when they get into a shuttle they can kill us all. The gut-reaction to "I don't want to kill children" starts overriding all other elements.
     
    [] Inquire Ann on the viability of preparing an empty space onboard the Strike Cruiser for screening the crew members for genestealer infection.

    Could we justify sparing the infected for the purpose of researching a cure? Looks like a long-shot, but that's all I can think of at the moment given that Imperial dogma depersons anyone with "xenos" taint. We could conceivably moore them on an unoccupied planet in this solar system, assuming there's anything habitable and unoccupied (probably not).
     
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    Always Late said:
    Yeah, it's telling the moment the 'kill them or take them to the shuttle' comes into question, people start forgetting that when they get into a shuttle they can kill us all. The gut-reaction to "I don't want to kill children" starts overriding all other elements.
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    The Imperium kills all: the mutant, the heretic, the unclean.

    Joanyn...

    open_sketch said:
    Joanyn Praxis' most radical thought is 'It doesn't have to be this way."
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    Come to think of it, I wonder what your interpretation of the Tyranids will be. Should be interesting if we ever go around to facing the Hive Mind.

    Edit: Ok, I wonder if there's already a treatment method for genestealer infection. Probably not, sadly, given the Imperial attitude to everything nonhuman. Still, we can try. Hells, we can ask Araleth for information in return for a favor, even!
     
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    Forgothrax said:
    The Imperium kills all: the mutant, the heretic, the unclean.

    Joanyn...
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    Well, unless the way a Gene-stealer organ implanting works has been radically changed by Sketch, there is no cure. So yeah. The mother's dead.
    Baron Ouroboros said:
    Could we justify sparing the infected for the purpose of researching a cure?
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    You seem to be under the incorrect assumption that the the issue is whether or not the Marine kills them all.

    The issue is a matter of we are out of time and need to leave now. We can't call for a third shuttle, the Marines are barely holding the massive swarm of Purestrains and armed Hybrids back.
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    Is there any hope that the babies would be uninfected due to the difficulty of doing so without breaking them?
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    Unlikely. To my knowledge there is no such difficulty and newborn hybrids all have an unconscious thralling effect on the parents.
     
    Always Late said:
    Well, unless the way a Gene-stealer organ implanting works has been radically changed by Sketch, there is no cure. So yeah. The mother's dead.

    You seem to be under the incorrect assumption that the the issue is whether or not the Marine kills them all.

    The issue is a matter of we are out of time and need to leave now. We can't call for a third shuttle, the Marines are barely holding the massive swarm of Purestrains and armed Hybrids back.

    Unlikely. To my knowledge there is no such difficulty and newborn hybrids all have an unconscious thralling effect on the parents.
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    It should be noted: the kid is not, as best Praxis can tell, a horrible multi-armed monster.
     
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