Again Primarch tier incompetence in the one thing we're supposed to be good at (cause boy are we not good at anything else) really drains me of any desire to try and constantly maguyver our way out of these situations. I mean omakes shouldn't be the lifeblood of this quest, they are simultaneously where the majority of the interesting story takes place and the only thing keeping us limping along. At this point I just read those instead of story updates, too depressing otherwise.
I think the main issue is, when starting off the Quest - Daemon was a little unfamiliar and trying to get a feel of things should work and run, so we were limited in actions and probably should have spent maybe 10 turns or so simply on Valhalla prior to Emps showing up, just getting stuff done and getting better. Now we are kinda fixing it, the issue is... well, we've now gotten hit by rolls that have rather shoehorned us into a corner of a box and we're trying to get ourselves out. The rolls kinda got the Emperor to go, well... you're meh, but you're good at dealing with these things. Not to mention, it should be noted that our main enemy here is Chaos, one of the most powerful factions at any given time in WH40k. Now, admittedly we're Anti-Daemon Faction - but we're more anti-Daemonic Combat and Resistance Faction vs spotting them, I feel like we should have our Anti-Daemon bonuses counted towards both fighting Daemons as well as the act of stealthing in on them and revealing them doing the same from us.
The story updates in my own opinion are decent and tend to inspire the Omakes, the issue is we had a really incentivized desire for Omakes early on which created such an atmosphere of "Omakes run this Quest". I will admit, I allowed myself to be drawn in by that somewhat. I will not lie. However, I would like to say thus: I've been more writing these omakes now, for the express purposes of putting ideas to word based off things that happened in the Updates. For example, the idea of Bader came when Eternal Wardens on Valhalla fell then someone wrote the Doom Slayer out of it. I then had an idea where I had one of the Marines wandering through the frigid wasteland thinking about that incident, he was a survivor of the incident. Anyways, ultimately he would die was the plan. It changed from there, obviously. I didn't write that one or as I stated quite a bit of my recent ones for rewards, but rather because I was rereading both updates and omakes and that idea came to me.
Anyways, moving back to the main point here. It should be noted everyone missed the fluctuation, and in all honesty, we're currently dealing with having upset quite a bit of Chaos, which doesn't make it surprising they're "narratively" doing their utmost best to take care of us. The battle of Gehena Station and the most recent Daemon World bit proves that "narratively" we're one of their biggest foes and doing the best to take us out.
The averageness/below it, denotes from the Questers decisions to imperatively and singlemindedly focus in on Warp Tech alongside a Champion Style Leadership/Fighting style as evident by our choice when confronting the Daemon on Valhalla. Now, obviously we're above average by Human standards at many things, but the issue is translation how below average for Primarch/average for them, translates to above average for humans and have to deal with having such supernatural and superhumanish alien foes.
I for one enjoy the quest still and shall be reading the updates. I'm sorry you feel that way, and perhaps further discussion in the thread with the various community members of it and the GM can aid in ensuring your feeling is noted and we are capable of fixing the current problem or issue. Alternatively, may I suggest PMing the GM and maybe select users that you believe that'll help with this issue?
Also to note: Likely won't be on here much longer for a good few hours, I've got to go record a Video for school, got to attend an Orchestra/Symphony event. So yay! (This is a sarcastic yay, btw.)
But for real, I'm sorry you feel that way
@Noobody77 and I'm willing to bet some talking with Daemon would likely rectify this all and likely see some changes of sorts?
Edit: I'm sorry to note I did not read the post where you said all the stuff you kinda said was some of the issues. Later on tonight I'll read it since I just noticed and, hopefully respond to it/make an overall proposal to better the quest further if Daemon is particularly okay with that, alongnside you and the others here?
