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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    • This specific ship is not all that big. It's a tramp freighter, a design millenia out of date, economically unsustainable but the for the little floating city niche it managed to get itself in.
    It's got 25 000 people in it, it's ghetto is 30 meters long and contains a grand total of 24 people, and so on.
    Scale might not play in our favor here.

    And While we have (or rather, Praxis has) pull with the distant owners of this ship, that gives us only a limited amount of pull with the specific captain. This ship only came into their ownership relatively recently, in a game of cards. The captain might be somewhat resentfull if we start meddling overly.

    open_sketch said:
    while the Sanctifiers' wealth came mostly from the medical services and esoteric skill training they could provide to planetary clients.
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    That said, it's sort of interesting that the Sanctifiers haven't gotten much luck selling medical services.
    I guess we could try to coax the captain into doing universal healthcare or something, to provoke stronger domestic demand?
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    This specific ship is not all that big. It's a tramp freighter, a design millenia out of date, economically unsustainable but the for the little floating city niche it managed to get itself in.
    It's got 25 000 people in it, it's ghetto is 30 meters long and contains a grand total of 24 people, and so on.
    Scale might not play in our favor here.

    And While we have (or rather, Praxis has) pull with the distant owners of this ship, that gives us only a limited amount of pull with the specific captain. This ship only came into their ownership relatively recently, in a game of cards. The captain might be somewhat resentfull if we start meddling overly.



    That said, it's sort of interesting that the Sanctifiers haven't gotten much luck selling medical services.
    I guess we could try to coax the captain into doing universal healthcare or something, to provoke stronger domestic demand?
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    It should be noted there are another 16,000 crew or something like that, I have to review my notes. It's also, bizarrely, undermanned, because it used to have more guns and stuff. It needs that big crew to operate all the engines because Dragon's vision of ship engines in 40k is just so amazing.
     
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    open_sketch said:
    It should be noted there are another 16,000 crew or something like that, I have to review my notes. It's also, bizarrely, undermanned, because it used to have more guns and stuff. It needs that big crew to operate all the engines because Dragon's vision of ship engines in 40k is just so amazing.
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    16 000 included in the 25 000, or on top of that.

    Either way, how bad is your healthcare if you have 16 000 linesmen working around yer average radioactive plasma based pseudo-sail reaction engine, and you can't make money selling medicine?

    One might almost expect the reverse. Steel, does, after all, last longer than flesh.
     
    Seems like the best long term option we can do is create enough internal demand that the tithes can be paid even without any extra-ship interactions. Set up a way for the crew to hire from the hold for odd jobs so they see the passengers as a resource rather than treat them as barnacles?
     
    Glau said:
    Seems like the best long term option we can do is create enough internal demand that the tithes can be paid even without any extra-ship interactions. Set up a way for the crew to hire from the hold for odd jobs so they see the passengers as a resource rather than treat them as barnacles?
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    Yeah we absolutely need to open up the Enforcers and other shipwide institutions to the passengers, this would siphon juvies off from the militias and help foster investment in a shipwide identity.

    The thing is the, crew fundamentally see the passengers as different and lesser-than, and it's exactly the reason the captain probably doesn't care what's going down in the hold as long as the tithes keep coming up. It's a classic problem for voidships in the Imperium, just one that's much less pronounced here because it's so small-scale. That also makes it easier to fix, hopefully.
     
    Honestly yeah I think a lot of this tied up in the disconnect between the internal ship communities and the external money economy that they're attached to and that the passengers, captain and crew, all the worlds on their route, all need in cold hard Thrones Gelt to pay to the Imperium at large. There's definitely something to how all the posturing of eternal conflict is both completely true and kinda slippery and, like all great feud cycles, there's a rhythm here that right now is just in like the climatic maximum or something, the bloodiest stage of this couple of centuries. That ultimately, this is the grim barter in bodies and blood-payments that collects and allocates the monetary resources of the hold, the bridge between the vessel's shadow economy of guild obligations and kinship networks and the universe outside.
     
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    10ebbor10 said:
    16 000 included in the 25 000, or on top of that.

    Either way, how bad is your healthcare if you have 16 000 linesmen working around yer average radioactive plasma based pseudo-sail reaction engine, and you can't make money selling medicine?

    One might almost expect the reverse. Steel, does, after all, last longer than flesh.
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    .... yeah i hadn't really intended this connection but oh my god they def aren't getting the healthcare they need and they're avoiding all these doctors in the hold out of prejudice (while buying tools and stuff from them because that can be done through intermediaries)

    wow thsi ship is fucked up huh :V
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    Either way, how bad is your healthcare if you have 16 000 linesmen working around yer average radioactive plasma based pseudo-sail reaction engine, and you can't make money selling medicine?
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    Are we sure their reactor is that radioactive? If it comes from a complete/near complete STC it probably has all the GAoT safeties because removing them would be literally blasphemy.
     
    Altom said:
    Are we sure their reactor is that radioactive? If it comes from a complete/near complete STC it probably has all the GAoT safeties because removing them would be literally blasphemy.
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    Dragon's conception of the 40k's engines, which I can not find right now, relies on the idea that ships have elaborate crews of linesmen who have to shepherd, connect and disconnect the plasmatic fields that diverty plasma from the reactor at the ship through the various engines.

    So the reactor can be as safe as you want, you're still getting a nice suntan because you're working on the outside of the ship while the engine is spewing it all into space.
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    This relies on the Captain being sufficiently liquid to afford this though.

    Docking fees, fuel, crew wages, supplies, and so on. None of that pays for itself.
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    So, we go to the captain and quietly explain that we've discovered an irregularity in the ship's finances, wait a few heartbeats for various nightmare scenarios to be imagined, then clarify that no, it's actually good news!

    As a matter of policy, Inquisitor Praxis doesn't do this sort of thing by half-measures - when she wants a ship diverted from its usual route, that means buying out the hold's capacity. All the passengers and cargo can stay as they are (absent some more specific need), but for the duration of this adventure, they don't owe passage fees. Just send an itemized invoice to Ordo Hereticus Accounts Payable, instead, and let both churches know they're off the hook.

    Of course, said department isn't physically here on the ship, so to address immediate liquidity, write the captain an IOU on official Inquisition letterhead, usable as collateral for a loan from whoever does have cash. Old Nate himself - beloved by all, beholden to none, relevant skills, wide-open schedule - seems a nearly ideal pick for neutral banker.
     
    [X] The lay Sisters are a neutral force in this conflict; they may have information, or could be swayed to back a side.

    Voting for this for now because it would be good to learn more from a neutral party before we start going around arresting and punishing, but I am open to arguments for the other options. Finding an equitable long term solution to this is going to be tricky.
     
    Hmm.

    [X] The lay Sisters are a neutral force in this conflict; they may have information, or could be swayed to back a side.

    I think we do need more detailed information on the religious side of this. Clearly, part of the issue is separate from the churches being churches at all -- it's economic pressure and the division between Us and Them. Especially if we want to make a major long-term improvement here, though, rather than something that solves the current economic crisis but leaves the fracture there for some future pressure to cause issues with, I think we need to know just what the differences in their beliefs actually are. Best case scenario, we might be able to bring the hold together through syncretism, but at the very least it'd be good to find out about any diplomatic landmines that may be lurking out there via talking with the Sisters, rather than stepping on them.
     
    [X] The lay Sisters are a neutral force in this conflict; they may have information, or could be swayed to back a side.
     
    Reese said:
    Best case scenario, we might be able to bring the hold together through syncretism, but at the very least it'd be good to find out about any diplomatic landmines that may be lurking out there via talking with the Sisters, rather than stepping on them.
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    It's simple, really.

    We pretend to be an Imperial Saint, declare some dogma, and be done with it.
    Of course, just doing that would get us lynched, but...

    open_sketch said:
    Oh sure, when you saw and did impossible things it was the work of daemons, but when the tall blond Sororita with big tits did it, well, that's a miracle.)
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    With an extensive make over, we resolve both the Luminaries financial troubles and gain a cover story...
     
    10ebbor10 said:
    It's simple, really.

    We pretend to be an Imperial Saint, declare some dogma, and be done with it.
    Of course, just doing that would get us lynched, but...



    With an extensive make over, we resolve both the Luminaries financial troubles and gain a cover story...
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    Still important to check context, make sure that whatever new rules we're adding to the pot will actually resolve the matter, rather than curdling into a third mutually-hostile faction. Good news is, similar to The Great Divide we've got a legitimately unique claim to detailed, accurate, personal knowledge about the past, including (but not limited to) events on this very ship, so long as they're associated with strong emotions and a specific object, while the locals already know they have gaps in their own records thanks to the loss of the Old Library.
     
    [X] There was another story here. The Illuminated Church of Saint Malpeus, its cleric Father Gründ, and their militias represented the other side of this conflict. A masked member of their Martyr's Platoon pulled the trigger which had killed Ada, but you suspected they had tragedies of their own.
     
    [X] The lay Sisters are a neutral force in this conflict; they may have information, or could be swayed to back a side.

    A Difficulty 8 Community roll, please. (You have +1 to this).

    Remember, write in the 'reason for roll' box the number of dice you are rolling before you roll!
     
    Ok, this is a pretty terrifying roll, so I will be conservative and roll... 3 dice? I hope this is a correct decision.
    Edit: Not the best, but we passed.
    Aliya threw 3 10-faced dice. Reason: 3 dice Total: 16
    4 4 5 5 7 7
     
    Wow, just finished reading the Prequel to this and then this one. Really enjoyed it. Awesome perspectives on 40K universes. Binged this thing hard and then suddenly found myself at the end.
     
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