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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up

Investigate the Sea?

  • Yes

    Votes: 593 80.4%

  • No

    Votes: 145 19.6%
  • Total voters
    738
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Binge-Reader said:
Giant badass robots need character development too

A Sleeping God

In the halls of Dorthonion a broken god sleep, broken and battered, burnt to black; its honors were ashes across a hellish battlefield. Yet its battered cogitator thought, slow, but with the weight of granite slabs, enough to crush the mind of any techpriest who tried to intrude into them.

It thought of the Golden God, the dead god. It thought of the defenders of this world who lacked his vision, his hand molding them into perfection, yet still they fought with skill and courage equal to any of those who fought in ancient days

It thought of Glorious Mars, of fallen Mars, of the Techpriest who was forging it anew upon this world, who sacrificed himself and his vision to save it.

It Decided, It Made as the machine god made manifest It Forged

Its Rage, wild for so long broken, beaten, purged of weakness, shaped into a blade that would never dull or break to guarantee no strike against it and those it follows went unanswered

Its Shame, its Sorrow embraced, understood, reshaped, an Armor of Contempt for itself and those it fought with to never let its weakness cost another

This it thought of and more
So Sanctus Furorem awaited
To Awaken
To Rise
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Augh no my grammar-nazi sense is triggering hard.

'It's' is a contraction of 'It is.'

'Its,' no apostrophe, is the possessive form.

Really good job otherwise! Just... Apostrophes.
 
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Enjou said:
I'd prefer to have any relationship that develops between them be the result of player choices rather than omakes. Omakes after that are fine, but I don't think it would be good to force it with omakes since other players may have different ideas.
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You don't trully understand Enjou. The possibilities! The power! The EXTREME VELOCITY!!

That is the power of omakes!

*Ahem*

Besides, it's so hard to vote for something that's not their. An then theirs my pet peave about asking the GM for stuff that makes me feel demanding :(

Omakes are more free form and we can have a competition (With GM as judge) to decide HOW they get together. Wouldn't that be fun?
 
3man75 said:
You don't trully understand Enjou. The possibilities! The power! The EXTREME VELOCITY!!

That is the power of omakes!

*Ahem*

Besides, it's so hard to vote for something that's not their. An then theirs my pet peave about asking the GM for stuff that makes me feel demanding :(

Omakes are more free form and we can have a competition (With GM as judge) to decide HOW they get together. Wouldn't that be fun?
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We have an option in the Personal actions to have Frederick spend time with people - voting for time with Jane is an option.

Of course, you are also assuming that Jane is interested. For all we know Jane could be gay.
 
@durin you have my support in how you decided to deal with this random event. Though it isn't typical of quests to have this level of detachment when shit goes wrong, grand-strategy video games pull it off often enough on their players. Plague can hit your country/cities at any time, and there may be jack squat you can do about it. Foreign wars may drive up prices to the point that your domestic economy collapses, a random comet appearing in the sky may destroy the last semblance of order in your nation, triggering dozens of rebellions (Looks at Europa Universalis).

Basically, lots of strategy games employ the "shit has happened beyond your control, deal with it" approach to random events. Don't see why a quest needs to be any different to remain interesting.
 
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Blink Spiders
  • Apocrypha
    • Hey guys. You know how the wildlife is attacking the demons rather than our own populace? How are the blink spiders doing?

    It would be funny if the casualties for the daemon invasion casualties thus far had been minus blink spiders because avernus was instead gathering blink spiders for a really big push.
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    Here we see a slannshi lesser daemon of somewhat middling rank among the lowest ranks in the daemonic horde that had invaded the warp touched death world of Avernus. While most warp touched death worlds that had been of the Imperium had mostly fallen to the influence of the Abomination or had otherwise been eaten by the locals when reinforcements and supplies had been cut off by the death of the Astronomicon.

    This one was different however. On Avernus, there was almost an abundance of humans and while usually Slannesh wouldn't bother with the death world seeing as taking it would expend far more resources than it would be worth and as of the moment, everything was needed to fight against the Abomination. Such priorities changed when it was noted that the Avernite forces that had been assigned to the doomed imperial world of Cadia had actually fared better in combat than the Cadians, killing hundreds of cultists each rather than the mere dozens per Cadian soldier.

    So here was the daemonic invasion, and while everything was going horribly horribly wrong, what with the paragon of studly manliness that was the planetary governor Rotbart true-killing a Keeper of Secrets with a single heroic swing of his sword, some Avernite cultists had been acquired. Slanneshi lesser daemon, let's call her LD599849, had managed to get a grand total of three cultists past the planet's defenders and wildlife. No doubt, LD599849 realized, that even a single one of those cultists would be worth much more than herself training regular cultists to fight the Abomination.

    Even so, LD599849 found that this planet was very much a different experience from what she had been expecting. For one, she had not been expecting the cultists, their faith compromised as it were, to suddenly bend over and begin praying ecstatically when they had caught a glimpse of a poster depicting the planetary governor giving a thumbs up and a winning smile. "Stay calm and carry on." it said. LD599849 also felt the urge and eager to try something new, had indulged herself feeling better for doing so. The second thing she had not been expecting was for the cultists to start screaming and running for the portal when they realized that the hadn't seen a single one of what they called "blink spiders" for the invasion.

    They had been quite relieved to be through the portal.

    LD599849 had simply shrugged and gone off to find more cultists.

    Idly she wondered what a blink spider would possibly look like. No doubt they would look quite fascinating. She blinked.

    Suddenly, spiders.

    Things happened very quickly afterwards. LD599849 had just enough time to get one last thought in.

    "Oh fuck me."

    And then she was bitten 83 times.
     
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    • Ramble said:
    Hey guys. You know how the wildlife is attacking the demons rather than our own populace? How are the blink spiders doing?

    It would be funny if the casualties for the daemon invasion casualties thus far had been minus blink spiders because avernus was instead gathering blink spiders for a really big push.
    -----------------------------
    Here we see a slannshi lesser daemon of somewhat middling rank among the lowest ranks in the daemonic horde that had invaded the warp touched death world of Avernus. While most warp touched death worlds that had been of the Imperium had mostly fallen to the influence of the Abomination or had otherwise been eaten by the locals when reinforcements and supplies had been cut off by the death of the Astronomicon.

    This one was different however. On Avernus, there was almost an abundance of humans and while usually Slannesh wouldn't bother with the death world seeing as taking it would expend far more resources than it would be worth and as of the moment, everything was needed to fight against the Abomination. Such priorities changed when it was noted that the Avernite forces that had been assigned to the doomed imperial world of Cadia had actually fared better in combat than the Cadians, killing hundreds of cultists each rather than the mere dozens per Cadian soldier.

    So here was the daemonic invasion, and while everything was going horribly horribly wrong, what with the paragon of studly manliness that was the planetary governor Rotbart true-killing a Keeper of Secrets with a single heroic swing of his sword, some Avernite cultists had been acquired. Slanneshi lesser daemon, let's call her LD599849, had managed to get a grand total of three cultists past the planet's defenders and wildlife. No doubt, LD599849 realized, that even a single one of those cultists would be worth much more than herself training regular cultists to fight the Abomination.

    Even so, LD599849 found that this planet was very much a different experience from what she had been expecting. For one, she had not been expecting the cultists, their faith compromised as it were, to suddenly bend over and begin praying ecstatically when they had caught a glimpse of a poster depicting the planetary governor giving a thumbs up and a winning smile. "Stay calm and carry on." it said. LD599849 also felt the urge and eager to try something new, had indulged herself feeling better for doing so. The second thing she had not been expecting was for the cultists to start screaming and running for the portal when they realized that the hadn't seen a single one of what they called "blink spiders" for the invasion.

    They had been quite relieved to be through the portal.

    LD599849 had simply shrugged and gone off to find more cultists.

    Idly she wondered what a blink spider would possibly look like. No doubt they would look quite fascinating. She blinked.

    Suddenly, spiders.

    Things happened very quickly afterwards. LD599849 had just enough time to get one last thought in.

    "Oh fuck me."

    And then she was bitten 83 times.
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    interesting, -1 to all enemy rolls
     
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    durin said:
    yes, you will also have the opportunity to rebuild it with more advanced technology
    taking apart a Titan to upgrade it would lead to issues with the Mechanicus but replacing destroyed components with more advanced ones is fine
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    after all we likely don't know how to make many of the parts the warlords was made of but we do have superior DAoT parts and stuff to replace them with, OmegaS last i heard is working on some ideas last I talked to him
     
    Binge-Reader said:
    after all we likely don't know how to make many of the parts the warlords was made of but we do have superior DAoT parts and stuff to replace them with, OmegaS last i heard is working on some ideas last I talked to him
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    yes, it will take a Forge action to rebuild the Titan but it should be worth it (hero level Titans are scary)
     
    also rebuilding the titan that Britton gave his life to save using the new and improved technology would be something of a political statement. All sorts of powerful symbolism there, and hits the admech in one of the few bits of sentimentality the have.
     
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