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The Void Dragon's Headache

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Major Whisper: Just - just go looking for more shards. Okay? That's all I want. Every other attempt to do *anything* has gone *disasterously* wrong, and honestly it feels like that's going to keep happening, so just... I don't know, send the sticker cultists, or the Skitarii, or, fucking.... anyone, okay? Send them to find more shards. And booze. This is *not* going the way I planned, and I need a drink.

EDIT: OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
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Minor Whisper: Express the omnissiah's grief and frustration to one particular AdMech through the medium of booze. Have that AdMech express their enlightenment through the medium of dance.

EDIT: ...Of course.
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Zaratustra said:
I am a bit confused, shouldn't the pylon spam also weaken him ?
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In fact it does. The Emperor isn't super happy with the Mechanicus right now. But compared to holding an entire daemon invasion rift shut doing a little biomancy on his own body is pretty easy. It's also going to take three turns, and each turn has been some vague number of decades so far. So he's not exactly bouncing off the throne instantly.

Polenball said:
Clearly the solution is to build even more pylons, until it does.
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If you build any more pylons every non hero character in Sol is going to lie down and die. They don't have bodies of immortal living metal to keep them alive through little things like not having the willpower to eat or sleep.

Brimstone said:
Well, other than Dolmen Gates.

Minor Whisper:
Try to remember when exactly you developed C'Tan schizophrenia and curse your fits of insanity. It's probably Mephet'ran's fault. Fuck that guy.
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Ah, but remember it was Nyadra'zatha who designed the Dolmen Gates in the first place. Mag'ladroth by comparison is the "master of the material realm." It can do warp tech if it has to, but it doesn't like it.
 
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TheOmnimercurial said:
Minor Whisper: Continue Perfecting the E-100 Series Badnik for use paired with Spyro Dragons as living CPU and Power Sources
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One thing I'd ask is if people are developing on older whispers to please reference them or at least say which threadmark they're in. There's a lot of stuff going on and I don't exactly remember the details of everything that's happened. So that will make it easier for me to go back and check.
 
Arcanestomper said:
Mysteriously a generation is born across the Imperium that their parents find utterlly revolting. There is a massive upswing in infanticide either direct or just leaving the newborns exposed to the elements. The Officio Assassinorum has a field day as their agents recruit dozens of abandoned orphans in a single year rather than than the one or two every decade they normally get.



Archmagos 11-Rhu approaches several relatively radical tech priests in an effort to gain supporters for their virtual machine spirit project. However almost all of them react in the same pointing at the rising spire of B2 with various limbs and mechadendrites. Not only are abominable intelligence forbidden they have own on Mars demonstrating exactly why that is right now.

No one is interested in building something that might technically be different, but is so very similar. Archmagos 11-Rhu resolves to continue the work on their own.



Following the Messiah's word recruitment for the Black Hand is massively ramped up and the legion is rapidly filled out despite massive casualties during the enhancement process. The newly enhanced soldiers are equipped with the very best of the Omnissian blessed designs. Their mark X armor is equipped with a variety of stealth equipment derived from eldar holo fields and fitted with an enhanced version of the plasma flamers used by the Skitarii. Nod itself is covered in massive obelisks whose potent green lasers are calibrated to destroy any unauthorized visitors.



Initial tests of the Spyro prototype results in the destruction of every servitor in the area and a third of the skitarii. However the cyberneticists supervising the test manage to survive with only minor wounds. The prototype is then captured and the testing data used to create a series of advanced servitors who are only slightly likely to go on murderous rampages.

This is far superior to other recent tests and is hailed as a major success by the Deputy Fabricator General.



The Omnissian Faithful attempt to deliver a large nova charge to the Golden Throne to end things once and for all. However they are opposed by both the Order of the Dragon and the Gilded Front. The fighting is fierece and alerts the Custodes who send a detachment back from the daemon front to stop the threat to their beloved Emperor. Seeing their chances of success rapidly drop the Omnissian Faithful activate the charge, but as it begins to activate a warp rift envelops it.

The bomb disappears and reappears in the middle of the daemonic host where it detonates and kills millions of the howling horde. Unfortunately this barely buys more than a moment of breathing room from the human forces before the countless daemons are replaced from the warp rift.



After a long day whispering cunning machinations and dark secrets into the minds of tech priests Mag'ladroth wants nothing to do with a flame war on the Noosphere. Instead it creates a sub portion where it runs a small role playing game of its own devising with a group of senior tech priests that have stayed out of the radical civil wars breaking out all over Mars.

Their current campaign involves exploring an ancient world of magic and mystery ruled by terrible demonic overlords.



A mining expedition near the Noctis Labyrinth orders a supply of explosive charges in order to get through a layer of compact ruins. Unfortunately the lighter carrying the load suffers a malfunction while above the labyrinth and begins to plunge downwards. Fortunately there are multiple skitarii regiments in the area and they use their anti air batteries to shoot the lighter out of the sky before it can cause any damage.



A few borderline heretek magi start experimenting with souls and both removing and adding to them. The first test subject reports symptoms such as lethargy, depression, and lack of initiative. Not deterred the magi repeat the experiment a few hundred times. However the results prove unambiguous. Soul removal results in near constant draining of motivation and depression that is overcome only by the most disciplined individuals. Even servitors prove to unreliable after undergoing soul extraction.

As such the technology is relegated to the vaults as a working, but impractical.



The three factions of tech acolytes currently engaged in the Throne War interpret the vision in different ways. The Omnissian Faithful regard it as a symbolic meeting of themselves and the Order of the Dragon in order to defeat the current daemonic incursion. The Order of the Dragon view it as vindication of their beliefs. And the Gilded Front focus more on the preponderance of gold armor on the Emperor.

Regardless the message to at least grudgingly work together is received and the Throne War comes to a somewhat desultory end as the three factions agree to work together to end the daemonic threat. Leaving the Golden Throne in the hands of some unaffiliated magi and the Custodes they launch to assist in the warp rift defense.



At long last Dei Voluntas has returned! It comes bearing cargo holds full of soul stones and tales of finding and destroying eldar craft worlds in the web way. Bessane-Alpha-1 reports to the Fabricator General, who has pulled themselves out of their forge at the news of Dei Voluntas's return, that he saw a vision from the Omnissiah in his meditations at the Dei Voluntas' High Altar of the xenos race being declared anathema and unworthy of continued existence.

The soul stones are then taken to Terra and fed into the Golden Throne in place of the human psyker sacrifices. After all the psykers have potential use, and the soul stones are mostly useless. After the initial tests there don't seem to be any negative effects on the Astronomican so the soul stones are used entirely in place of the psykers.

Bessane-Alpha-1 also confides to the Fabricator General that he has recovered a substantial chart of the web way from the plundered craft worlds and believes he has found mention of one of the sacred relics of the Omnissiah on an Eldar crone world. Of course those are now in the Eye of Terror, but Bessane believes he can pilot Dei Voluntas through the web way to retrieve it.



A dedicated team of cogitation moderators is deployed to monitor the Noosphere. They sift through the piled up layers of data plugging security holes and cleaning out scrap code. Several users are found with elevated permissions and these are removed. The Noosphere becomes much calmer and more respectful as the team does its work. But a lot of tech acolytes are sad at the loss of their rambunctious sandbox.
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This was the preceding post and your response.
 
Arcanestomper said:
It's also going to take three turns, and each turn has been some vague number of decades so far. So he's not exactly bouncing off the throne instantly.
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Somewhat weird question but how much is a turn ? Becuase on one hand having three chance to keep him in the chair fells reasonable, but if every whisper post is a turn even if we started doing nothing else right now he is going to get up before we get trought the backlog.

Also while I am here are we still using the whispers refreshing as they get written rule or did we swap for real time ?
 
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Zaratustra said:
Somewhat weird question but how much is a turn ? Becuase on one hand having three chance to keep him in the chair fells reasonable, but if every whisper post is a turn even if we started doing nothing else right now he is going to get up before we get trought the backlog.

Also while I am here are we still using the whispers refreshing as they get written rule or did we swap for real time ?
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A good point. Instead of three definite turns. I'll say he'll get up after I deal with the whispers released up to this Saturday. The 13th.

As for when to refresh it I think I'll have an actual vote to see what people think.

[ ] Keep the current whisper refresh rules.

[ ] Change the refresh rules to once every real time week.

I'll close the vote on the 14th.
 
[X] Change the refresh rules to once every real time week.

Okay people you heard the boss, we have a just a few days to keep the golden asshole in the chair instead of walking around.
 
Zaratustra said:
I am a bit confused, shouldn't the pylon spam also weaken him ?
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Emperor able to act in middle of greatest anti psychic power. He able to
Arcanestomper said:
A good point. Instead of three definite turns. I'll say he'll get up after I deal with the whispers released up to this Saturday. The 13th.

As for when to refresh it I think I'll have an actual vote to see what people think.

[ ] Keep the current whisper refresh rules.

[ ] Change the refresh rules to once every real time week.

I'll close the vote on the 14th.
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I was wondering can we not refine gallerfield or Anathema pylon in place of nulltech to deal with drawbacks?

If we open khaine's gate can we force a confrontation between Slaanesh and Emperor?
 
[X] Keep the current whisper refresh rules

Let us make a army of machines to takeover the empire! Drain the worlds dry of every single resource and leave it a husk of its former self and unlike the necrons these machines can be produced infinitely!
 
SouvikKundu said:
Emperor able to act in middle of greatest anti psychic power. He able to

I was wondering can we not refine gallerfield or Anathema pylon in place of nulltech to deal with drawbacks?

If we open khaine's gate can we force a confrontation between Slaanesh and Emperor?
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You don't even know about Khaine's gate. You're not omniscient and it's located deep in the webway in the heart of Commoragh.
 
[X] Change the refresh rules to once every real time week.

Minor whisper: Pour acid on the emperor's bones.

Edit: Well if this doesn't slow him down then he'll certainly be pissed.
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EA250 said:
[X] Change the refresh rules to once every real time week.

Minor whisper: Pour acid on the emperor's bones.

Edit: Well if this doesn't slow him down then he'll certainly be pissed.
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IIRC Big E is enfleshed at this point.
I still say we should try to team up with him and tag-team Chaos, 'crons, and the eldar/orks/other Old One weapon races into the goddamn grave.
Just blame any attempts to kill him on the cogboys being told "do 2+2" and somehow coming to the conclusion that this means we want them to rip mars in half or something.

The whole 'enslave everyone and eats souls yum yum" bit didn't work out too well last time, after all, and surely all this time stuck in THE BOX has given us-Void Dragon some time to go "damn, maybe that wasn't such a good idea".
Either we get obliterated or we become pro-tech anti-chaos bros- Oh, and don't forget- if Big E dies, Terra is liable to collapse into a fucking miniature Eye of Terror which nobody wants except the four warp tumors.

Of course, waiting until after we're unshattered and/or free would be the best time to try to achieve Jolly Cooperation.
 
Major Whisper: Start making blueprints for a device that will let us transfer ourselves into the Emperor's body and take it over. Allowing us to become master of the material and immaterial.
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