The Witch Lives (40k)

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    • Dahlia Hussain
    Inquisitorial Interrogator​

    Physical​
    Mental​
    Social​
    Faith​
    Psychic​
    Strength: 0
    Agility: 0
    Dexterity: 1    		Awareness: 0
    World Knowledge: 2
    Analytics: 1    		Charisma:2
    Contacts: 1
    Empathy: 1    		Devotion: 2
    Doctrine: 2
    Community: 1    		Sensing: 3
    Suggestion: 2
    Manipulation: 0
    Harm: 0/1
    XP:0    		Harm: 0/3
    XP:0    		Harm: 2/4
    XP:0    		Harm: 2/5
    XP:0    		Harm: 0/5
    XP: 0

    Skills:
    - Imperial Psyker +2
    - Object Reader
    - Mind Reader​
    - Spy +1
    - Historian +1
    - Old Terra​

    Weapons:
    - Knife
    - Web Pistol
    - Eldar Slinger Pistol
     
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    • open_sketch said:
    They're from a minor craftworld known for the skill of their artisans and their farseer's particular talents for exploring not just the future, but possible futures.
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    Hmm. In that case...
    [X] Shuriken Pistol

    Or

    [X] Eldar Fusion Pistol

    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.
     
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    I'm going to let the thread argue about best gun for a while before I vote on that, but I'm not seeing a lot of votes on our new digs. The cafe seems like the best compromise for now if we are going to use it as a base for whatever we do next.

    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.

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    [X] Shuriken Pistol
     
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    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.
     
    Gavinfoxx said:
    @open_sketch is this take valid? To what extent are the TT stats informing effectiveness here?
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    I'm using a custom system, so other RPGs and the tabletop rules won't be a 1-1 conversion. I would say the Inferno Pistol is more flexible, but also has a lot more inherent collateral damage in that it turns whatever it hits into a big molten heat explosion type deal.
     
    open_sketch said:
    It does, but also, what happens is that I get to write a very funny and or tragic scene!
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    Honestly I'm less concerned by "what if the players decide to accidentallyonpurpose an apocalypse" and quite a bit more concerned by "what happens when Dahlia misses", and for all that the inferno pistol has a pretty serious collateral-damage problem even in its best-case, its worst case is a very, very, very long way from "accidentally pancake a third of the hive".

    And Dahlia is not exactly a crack shot.
    open_sketch said:
    turns whatever it hits into a big molten heat explosion type deal
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    It's not a bug, it's a feature!
     
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    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.
    [X] inferno pistol
    [X] Negotiator Pistol
    [X] A phosphor serpenta
     
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    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.
    [x] eldar Fusion Pistol
    [x] inferno pistol
    [x] force knife

    Honestly the first two I was kind of thinking in terms of "our lady here can feel emotions and the like from objects and connections, if she's got to go lethal because the webber doesn't work, she'd probably appreciate having the body and its connections just kind of...go away instead of sticking around to haunt her" (and I do like the eldar uncle bit) The last one is because we've already got a ranged weapon, having something small we can use when things get too close might be useful.
     
    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.

    I don't like the complication a third party will bring and I don't think an exposed location where an enemy can bring their full force is a good idea when there's just Dhalia and Cass. Somewhere crowded will limit an enemy while not restricting a two-person team much.

    Also I've been on a huge spy fiction kick lately and running pistol battles starting at cafés is on point.
     
    So, going over the current winning votes :

    1) Hell Pistol : Don't these require a backpack mounted power supply? Doesn't seem like a convenient self-defense weapon.
    2) Grav Pistol : The problem here is that it's quite a messy way to die when fired, and it'll be a heirloom design by necessity. Ordinarily not a problem, but it might be hard for Dahlia to focus on combat if touching her gun gets her hit by past visions of space marines imploding
    3) Inferno Pistol : Same problem as above. Incendiary weaponry and artefact status mean troublesome memory
    4) I can't find what the Negotiator pistol is supposed to be

    open_sketch said:
    [ ] Write In a Warhammer 40k sidearm, ranged or melee. Vetos may be in effect for particularly egregious options.
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    Can we get something that doesn't need Dahlia to personally wield it. A servo-skull with a gun, for example?
     
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    [X] Voss Pattern Hellpistol
    [X] Force knife
    [X] A construction site at the edge of the city which was originally supposed to be worker's housing, which was abandoned mid-construction to redirect resources toward temples behind schedule. Excellent cover and out of the way, but also nothing preventing a foe from bringing real force.
     
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    10ebbor10 said:
    Ordinarily not a problem, but it might be hard for Dahlia to focus on combat if touching her gun gets her hit by past visions of space marines imploding
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    Actually, taking the psychometry into account the fusion pistol might be more interesting than I originally thought, purely cause it would have been owned by a harlequin at some point.
     
    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.
    [X] Hellpistol

    A Hellpistol is the same as a hot-shot laspistol, right? So effectively just a higher-powered laspistol that produces less mess?
     
    [X] A cafe in the shopping arcade in the Talons, an upscale region for clergy and visiting dignitaries. The upscale public surroundings limits overt options, but it being well-guarded may be a double-edged sword right now.
     
    [X] Dahlia's Auncle picked out something that they thought suited her.

    Not REALLY a real vote, I just don't actually know weapons and trust that smarmy asshole with Dahlia's life and wellbeing despite the fact that: See, Smarmy Asshole.
     
    The Sketchquest stupid sidearm curse is in full effect I see

    [X] A construction site at the edge of the city which was originally supposed to be worker's housing, which was abandoned mid-construction to redirect resources toward temples behind schedule. Excellent cover and out of the way, but also nothing preventing a foe from bringing real force.
     
    [X] A construction site at the edge of the city which was originally supposed to be worker's housing, which was abandoned mid-construction to redirect resources toward temples behind schedule. Excellent cover and out of the way, but also nothing preventing a foe from bringing real force.

    [X] A phosphor serpenta

    My arguments;

    - A serpenta makes great sense, because Marvel Ann is around and she would absolutely give a smol bean a deadly incendiary pistol
    - Aesthetics; on point
    - It's weird, rare and stylish enough to be exactly the kind of thing an Inquisitorial retinue would be hauling out to make a point, but not so weird and rare as to mark us as possibly a heretic.
    - The presence of a phosphor weapon on the battlefield allows an excellent chance of sketch writing The Funny when something goes wrong.
     
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