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

Investigate the Sea?

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Ridcully felt around, probing the air and ground with an exceptionally weak form of Telekinesis. Though most applications of Telekinesis upon the battlefield were fairly brute-force in nature, there were subtle uses of the discipline, of which he was a reasonable user. Not to the extent of a specialist, but it was useful all the same.

One of the more common uses of Telekinesis by a Sanctionite was the manipulation of delicate materials and objects, where extremely precise amounts of warp energy was applied continuously to the item in question to achieve a desired result (without the hassle or danger of poking it manually, it had to be said); The principle here was the same - A negligible amount of power applied to produce a negligible telekinetic effect in a broad radius - Interpreted, he knew where things were, at the least analysis.

Pyromancy, too, had it's uses as an additional sense.

While commonly seen as straightforward walking inferno generators, Pyromancers did find their discipline having subtle uses, particularly for those who interpreted Pyromancy in the form of Entropy, as opposed to the obvious 'Heat' - Scholarly discussion among Sanctionites suggested it war more a discipline of destruction (Typically through fires, for fire's role in uncontrolled destruction), with improved control allowed controlled destruction.

Here, applying the knowledge of pyromancy and it's principles within the Materium, one could observe the extant heat output, and hence a thermovision of sorts.
I asked Durin if Pyromancers can utilise classic pyromancy and he said that that's just another form of Divination. These Telekinesis and Pyromancy tricks wouldn't be Telekinesis and Pyromancy at all, but instead just more Divination.
 
Counterpoint, these plagues are from Avernus, they're likely designed specifically to oppose chaos.
I would think it unlikely to backfire if they were used on our surface(because of the planetmind), and a much smaller chaos risk than normal when used elsewhere as part of an infiltrate and poison their water supplies type campaign.
The assumption that anything currently on Avernus was designed to specifically oppose Chaos is dangerous at best, and outright lethal at worst.

There's also the point of challenging the planet mind by knowingly and wilfully engaging biological warfare with the local wildlife probably counting as unnecessary testing of its patience.
 
There's also the point of challenging the planet mind by knowingly and wilfully engaging biological warfare with the local wildlife probably counting as unnecessary testing of its patience.
We are humans. Avernus is not the boss of us, we are the boss of it. If we want to use its animals for biological warfare, we will use its biological warfare and it will let us or else.
 
We are humans. Avernus is not the boss of us, we are the boss of it. If we want to use its animals for biological warfare, we will use its biological warfare and it will let us or else.
Avernus can fuck the humans off basically effortlessly if it wanted to.

Saying we are the boss of Avernus and 'let us or else' is.. honestly, just flat dumb.
 
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Avernus can fuck the humans off basically effortlessly if it wanted to.

Saying we are the boss of Avernus and 'let us or else' is.. honestly, just flat dumb.
Have you forgotten where we are?

You know, where a full-scale Daemonic invasion got eaten by penguins?
"It is our destiny to rule the universe, just as it is the destiny of the Xeno to pave our way." - Ecclesiarch Lucretius VII

(Seriously guys, I'm joking.)
 
We are humans. Avernus is not the boss of us, we are the boss of it. If we want to use its animals for biological warfare, we will use its biological warfare and it will let us or else.
*Ridcully's by now trademarked eybrow twitching intensifies*

A species successfullness on Avernus is determined by how well it submitscooperates with the planet mind and its plan. To so viciously and naively try and break the wheel would result in humanity being casually backhanded into extinction on the surface of the planet.

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"It is our destiny to rule the universe, just as it is the destiny of the Xeno to pave our way." - Ecclesiarch Lucretius VII

(Seriously guys, I'm joking.)
Then stop role playing in the thread without making it obvious that you're role playing. At this point, treating anything you say as a serious suggestion is giving these frivolous adventures of yours more attention than they deserve.
 
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Yes, just not seriously. Unless we're assaulting a daemon world or something they'd be gross overkill. Plus they creep everyone out.
I would dearly like to take them along for any fights against the Dark Eldar though. Can't have Ynnead suffer stomachaches after all.

It's strange to think that any effective planetary invasion of that kind of place has to begin with challenging a greater Daemon to a duel, stabbing the owner of the Daemon world with the black Crystal sword, then bombardment and dropping unrestricted wildlife to purify things enough that our invasion troops can survive.
(Also Blank Bears are probably going to need to be the centerpiece of every formation, the troops need some degree of downtime away from corruption attempts if they're going to survive the environment.)
 
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