Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I don't think delaying our PAs are advisable at all. We really need those stuff done.
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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
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Ashes of Pride: The Continuing Saga of the Empire of Ashes Neg
- Location
- Berkeley
@Durin
Another Empire of Ashes quest omake. Because I was sitting here, thinking to myself "you know what I wanna do right now? Formatting. A lot of formatting."
I'd appreciate any bonuses being at least partially directed at Lin and/or the eventual Isha rescue attempt.
Ashes of Pride: The Continuing Saga of the Empire of Ashes Negaverse Quest
Another Empire of Ashes quest omake. Because I was sitting here, thinking to myself "you know what I wanna do right now? Formatting. A lot of formatting."
I'd appreciate any bonuses being at least partially directed at Lin and/or the eventual Isha rescue attempt.
Ashes of Pride: The Continuing Saga of the Empire of Ashes Negaverse Quest
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A Path Obscured
- Location
- madison
A Path Obscured
A mighty fortress stood amidst utter desolation, warriors crowding its battlements. A warlord donned his armor and rested his hands upon his draconic steed, his form taut with dread. An abomination of hunger and shadow reached out to its oldest companion for comfort, devouring its fear and polishing its words. A gunsmith, brash and defiant, calmly assembled her greatest and most terrible work yet. A living fortress poured its might into the walls, newfound power straining, even as his oldest comrade gave deeply of his own might. A desolate warrior, a single charge away, looked up from a lonely campfire and felt doom call to him. Qaramar, fifth among the rotting host, fifth-most favored son of Nurgle had come. He of the lost second and last watcher of the last moment, strode towards the final fortress of the vermin gods. He came alone, clad in might and contempt. Before him, the gods took up arms in defiance.
The pact was old, the pact was new, the pact was false, the pact was true. Round and round and round again, the Changer twisted and schemed and reached. Before it the Dark Prince smiled and seduced and whispered and tittered. A bargain between minds, an interaction between clashing powers, an alignment of fates, a secrete beyond mortal ken. When next the Dark Prince struck at stagnation, ambition would see rage distracted allowing excess to strike deep. Sworn with a whisper beneath hearing, at a volume to shatter mountains in a place where none could see. Yet, beneath the whirling gods, a single figure slipped away, its mind burning and shattered, its flesh soiled and twisting. Yet it carried away unseen a secret to make puppets of the gods themselves, however briefly.
The greatest flaws of the heretics in war was initiative. The foolish belief that a man on the ground could possibly know better than his superior. The warden of stagnation was not nearly so foolish. It possessed no will, no thought, only infinite obedience and an endless list of perfect plans, crafted by the hand of its god. The strange figure behind it was not in any of the plans, therefore it should be ignored. For to do otherwise was to suggest that he, a lowly marshal, knew better than his god. If he was supposed to act when it read his plan book, he would have been instructed to do so. He stood vigilant at the border, ever vigilant to attack or defend as the plans demanded. The shreds of torn paper at the figure's feet were of no consequence, for no plan before him mentioned them.
A vast empire of rot, a hundred hundred worlds, the putrid jewel in a foul collection, writhed in bloody battle. A sea of vital living chitin warred with a sea of twisted and putrid flesh. Pitted and corrupted vessels picked clean of corrupt gristle, vast behemoths of meat and bone writhed and rotted under unclean guns. The Great Devourer had come to the domain of Nurgle. The exalted Meslaria, the king beneath the manor, forsook the vile comfort his lord's hearth. Entire worlds offered up their putrid flesh and souls so their lord may once more sally forth in this time of greatest need.
It was to be the party of the millennium, the grand unveiling of Slaanesh's new exalted champion, the grand parade of Vect's ascension. A grandiose march across six hundred and sixty six sectors, a people truly unchained and blessed taking the galaxy for all it was worth for the first time. RUINED! WRECKED! WASTED! Brutish, boorish beasts! Slaanesh raged as its grand crusade was frantically wheeled around to deal with mere orks! Its attendees fled and hid, the newest among them whispering that they had seen the height of their prince's fury. When the well hidden stench of rot was found wafting from the strands of fate that had brought forth the Waaaagh, they learned the depth of their naivety.
The visions ceased, and Eldrad collapsed shaking to the floor. There was a path. It was slim and treacherous and full of risk, but it was there. A way to set the 5 to warring, to see Nurgle pressed and distracted. The window was short, there was much to do and little time to do it, but he would see Isha free, no matter the cost.
Far beyond the games of the gods, and the scheming of desperate mortals, The Warp was broken. It had been shaped into a mountain range as hard as diamonds, and as vast as stars. It stood a shattered remnant broken by the passage of vast blows and melted by poorly aimed shots. Amidst the scene of utter devastation, two vast green giants sat battered bruised and bleeding as they laughed uproariously at the burning galaxy before them. One whose eyes shone with cunning brutality, and one who smiled with brutal cunning. As their wounds healed, the landscape reset itself, and the rare pause began to come to an end, one looked into the distance and spoke.
"Oy, dem spiky gits seem to be havin a rite proppa fight."
His twin reared back in afront. "An dey didn't invite us? Dats downright offensive dat is."
The giants looked at each other, then at the spinning chaos and ephemeral plots and plans of the desperate, and smiled.
@Durin a thing. I might try and do more about the bits.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
it would cause it to go somewhere else with more biomass
on average equal
- Location
- UK
@Durin , prompted by @Reynal 's negaverse omake, I had a few questions:
- Do we know approximately when the Eldar are planning to rescue Isha?
- Is it the case that Isha would be able to heal to Lin if she was rescued?
- Would it be possible to place Lin in stasis to keep him alive until such time as he could be healed by Isha?
- Do the Eldar have any knowledge on the Primordial Sea they'd be able to offer us to make Lin's research easier/safer?
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Pretty sure we already know the answers to all of these. In fact some are just in the FAQ.
- Location
- Berkeley
I don't have citations, but I'm fairly certain the answers are as follows based on statements by Durin.
1) Between a bit short of the end of Lin's projected maximum lifespan and a hundred or two years after that. Given that it is an extremely high-risk endeavor they are going to be timing it to stack as many bonuses to their success chance as possible rather than based on external factors unrelated to its success chance.
2) Yes, but it wasn't specified if said healing would be effectively 'perfect' (leaving him with a normal or even extended human lifespan with all of his current powers) or if it might not be quite up to the ability to turn back the clock on the damage he's sustained.
3) No.
4) We could use a minor favor to ask for information relevant to the research from them. As things stand, we might do so but we might end up needing that favor for dealing with the Nids or the Orks. As we aren't doing the action immediately we haven't needed to prioritize between that.
- Location
- western US
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
- Location
- Liberl Zemuria.
[X] Plan Shard T127
- Location
- western US
this is actually getting close to competing with the waifu-warz
--edit--....or at least, its possably the closest normal-vote to said waifu-wars
--edit--....or at least, its possably the closest normal-vote to said waifu-wars
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- Location
- England
[X] Plan Shard T127
Like the gravity array, and I think we should ask calamus if they're working on the thunder warriors before we do it. They can probably do a better job.
Also, @Durin and thread, do you guys think the eldar might be interested in buying psychic materials from Averneus? Might be really valuable for a faction so heavily based on psytech and it gives us something other than troops and divinations we can sell to them.
Also, they could reasonably want to buy live wildlife too. Phase tigers are useful military assets after all.
Like the gravity array, and I think we should ask calamus if they're working on the thunder warriors before we do it. They can probably do a better job.
Also, @Durin and thread, do you guys think the eldar might be interested in buying psychic materials from Averneus? Might be really valuable for a faction so heavily based on psytech and it gives us something other than troops and divinations we can sell to them.
Also, they could reasonably want to buy live wildlife too. Phase tigers are useful military assets after all.
Enerael
We Shall Wake to Sanity
I am really not sure that the PM would be alright with us exporting its self replicating psybioweapon experiments into the galaxy...
Maybe ask Vlad or Arathea about it, but I am pretty sure that this is a no go.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Hmmm... now imagine if Thunder Warriors' flaws could be fixed by limiting recruitment to females only, and splicing their DNA with Phase Tigers.
Catgirls. Phase-shifting catgirl elites. That would win the vote handily.
You can just hear Emperor's sobbing in the distance.
- Location
- western US
so a 34% after the +20 from double down? and then rid gives a reroll with a +15, so....
1-(1-0.34)*(1-0.49)=0.6634%?
its been a while since I took stats, maybe somebody can check my math there.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I have shifted the years around to allow a DD on both the Vault and the Gravitic Array.
Unfortunately this means the Shrine Fairies aren't to be investigated this turn.
- Location
- Australia
@Shard, do you think you could swap out Aria's Y5 action for the shrine fairies? Ridcully's Y3 action is tutoring the Alpha, so even without Aria they should have a decent chance of passing the trials. Rituals a turn early could make a difference.
@Shard @Enjou this is a good point. We do have those Dark Age theorems. It'd be a good time to put them to work.
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- Location
- western US
thats a valid point, I don't think the gravity array is in that much of a time crunch.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
+ If we find the valley, well grav is one of our things.
On the one hand it cannot hurt to ask. On the other I doubt they would go for it. The local Web Way is horribly damaged making bulk shipments dangerous.
It hasn't raised any objection to us spreading its experiments across the galaxy so far. Pretty sure the Nog was part of the grand tech exchange. Plus, Avernite humans are now classified as 'one of Avernus's self replicating psybioweapon experiments' and we haven't gotten any backlash from sending troops on the eldar galactic tour.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Thing is Nogs and Beer grass are not exactly the most dangerous things in the galaxy.
And while we are people, I'd hardily call us self replicating psycic bioweapons yet.
Give it some time or when we figure out what's happening to our psyker numbers.
- Location
- Australia
When the High Council comes up I think we should lobby for evacuating the surrounding human polities. It will be difficult and won't be strategically optimal, but really I just want to do something properly heroic. The last and perhaps only time we've gone out and acted in someone else's favour out of altruism was during the Grand Conclave. 355 years and only once have we done a great charitable thing. I want to do more. We should do more.