[OOC] Warhammer 40K: Beyond the Law - A Mercenary Adventure [MATURE] (Open for business, apply within.)

[BCTheEntity]

@Wernher That does sound interesting, and again is food for thought. So, uh, I'll need to sleep on the ideas, I think. Repeating Jb's request, any other opinions would be appreciated in helping a decision, folks.

[Quinntessential]

@Jbcool PM'd! Sorry it's long.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Jbcool Possibly interested, my character idea is basically a Chaos cultist who actually turned loyalist and now worships the Emperor. Most of their equipment would be mockeries of Imperial equipment or just plain looted from the time he was with Chaos. This acceptable?

[Jb]

@ClocktowerEchos In short, no. I'm out atm, but I can explain further when I get home.

[NecroKnight]

@Jbcool

Was my Eldar char aight?

[Jb]

Let me be clear on a few points -

We're mercenaries, and not part of a Rogue Trader crew, we are beyond the law and that includes laws set down to govern more-or-less ungovernable Rogue Traders.

Secondly, this is an Advanced RP and as such everyone will be held to a standard, that standard being well-written posts which one can imagine in their minds eye. It does not mean elitism or looking down on fellow RPers, nor does it mean great walls and novels of text, but if you can't hold yourself to this standard then you're gonna have a rought time.

Read the OP - to which I think I may well add a summary soon - read what I've written in the Char tab, think carefully and get your thinking-caps on and we should all be aight. :)

I've had good profiles so far, and I look forward to getting this show on the road.

Please feel free to ask any questions as well.

Cheers all.

[TemplarKnight07]

Hello again Jb, I'm interested. Considering maybe a Kroot or Imperial Guard Deserter. Probably thinking the Kroot since I've never actually tried to make one before.

[Jb]

@TemplarKnight07 Hello, hello.

Kroot sounds good, could certainly go with one.

[Jb]

@Jbcool Possibly interested, my character idea is basically a Chaos cultist who actually turned loyalist and now worships the Emperor. Most of their equipment would be mockeries of Imperial equipment or just plain looted from the time he was with Chaos. This acceptable?

@ClocktowerEchos

I was going to explain...

The core of the matter is thus; going from Emperor to Chaos is standard, but going in the reverse direction is pretty much impossible. The reason for this is that once you dedicate yourself to the chaos gods, well, they pretty much own your soul after that.

A cultist who realised his/her mistake would still be marked forever more by the fact they even considered giving themselves to chaos, but I can see a good redemption story in all that.

Write up a character profile and I'll take a ganders; if it's all good then I'll probably say yes anyway. We're mercenaries, not Arbites after all.

[Hank]

Sent my sheet to @Jbcool. If you thought yours was long, @Quinntessential... I may have gone slightly overboard.

[BCTheEntity]

@Hank Great character sheet right there, and I'll fondly admit that I've learned something new about the WH40K universe thanks to you. Xenarch death-arc has a nice rhyme to it.

That said, you've also reminded me that the Jokaero exist, and have rather powerful Digi-weapons. All things considered, that probably won't be something I integrate into my character... but on the other hand, is it in any way reasonable for a human to have a greatly oversized cybernetic arm with a multi-melta or a lascannon or something mounted into it? I'd guess no, and again might just drop the idea anyway, but hey, it's worth asking.

[Quinntessential]

@BCTheEntity - Obliterator Cults are on the 4th floor, that confusion happens all the time around here. :P

Jokes aside, I love the idea of a giant Cyberarm modded out with weapons and gear. Lascannon and Multimelta seem extreme...but it still sounds like a blast.

@Hank - Good. GOOOOD. Grimdark needs more Sociopaths.

[Hank]

Multimelta ... but it still sounds like a blast.

@Quinntessential

huehuehue

[BCTheEntity]

Okay, I have something like a basic outline for this potential character now:

As a kid, this guy was caught up in some form of Chaos attack that killed... a large proportion of his home planet, probably, but certainly nearly everyone in his home town. He himself lost an arm, and as a result of the excess Warp power in the area, he awakened a fair modicum of psychic power, then inexplicably managed to escape death with his soul and sanity barely intact. "Barely" by 40K standards, of course, meaning he wasn't lost outright to the Ruinous Powers, but still ended up severely mentally scarred. Being on a planet with perhaps slightly over modern-day standards of technology, he found the resources to build himself a new arm, only to become obsessed with making it ever more complex and better able to defend himself from being killed, resulting in an obnoxiously bulky construct with a bunch of automatic weapons and a lot of integration into his flesh to support it, which only got more complicated once he finally found his way off-planet, discovered how comparatively weak the arm actually was, and rebuilt it to the best of his abilities, becoming a mercenary to fund the rebuilds, and because what the hell else could he do in his state? All the while, he was forced to fend off daemons which were drawn to his mind every so often, something that he as a witch just about managed to deal with by manifesting the encounters as horrible hallucinations of monsters in a world of gore and metal rather than the reality of mind-fracturing monsters in a soul-obliterating realm of madness and Emperor-knows-what, so he's naturally not in the best state mentally, but better than he would have been otherwise (totally insane and/or dead and/or possessed). He hardly dares to use the fairly limited psychic powers he has, and unless forced, will do so but sparingly.

I think that incorporates assets from everything that's been brought up as possibilities for him so far other than the Jokaero's digital weapons. Obviously, that's just a rough draft; @Jbcool will receive the full version in a while, assuming nothing I've brought up is too infeasible. If anyone else has comments for further improvement, that'd again be appreciated.

[Hank]

My only suggestion would be to replace actual Daemons (who are all horrendously powerful) with some kind of Warp-echo or lingering seed of Chaos that causes him to hallucinate in combination with his ordinary mental trauma.

Hell, the apparitions could be the ghosts of the people that died on his world and now haunt him with bitter resentment for surviving. There's precedent for that in one of the Ultramarines novels.

[BCTheEntity]

@Hank That's actually a way better suggestion than daemons. Given how many witches presumably go through their lives not being attacked by daemons on the level of their soul, I'd assume those events are actually comparatively rare, and generally not survived. And the ghosts of dead men past make for a way better Silent Hill theme than LOL SUPER-MONSTERS, especially if it's their actual souls (or fragments thereof) which are just about sustaining themselves on his own psychic power and limiting his real strength in the process.

[Jb]

Okie dokie, just waiting for a couple more folks to get their sheets to me (@POOHEAD189@Austronaut@DrunkasaurusRex) and we can get going.

Thanks to Quint, I've already got the first scene/introduction sorted, just need the people - I'll start with a lower number, if needs be though.

[Hank]

Can't wait.

[NecroKnight]

(GM asked me to post this here and get an opinion. So thoughts about my sheet?)

A gloved hand, pushes down a button on an old, beat down but still working Imperial Vox-Caller, its Machine Spirit awakening and ready to record whatever its user intends. "This is the First...log, if one could call it. Ashra Myruk, former Bonesinger of Craftworld Il-Kathe. Its been around thirty-five celestial passings, since I have been on this Path. One filled, with hardship, pain, death and more hatred. Anybody holding this, can throw it off into space - if they expect to hear some Eldar secrets, from this. Rather its a log... of my journey; you spend so much time away from other Eldar and amongst the other Xeno races, you gradually pick up some of their stuff. Be they as primitive, as a many those 'Flight-borne' call them - they can be said to be tough and less prone to their arrogance than us."

"One may think, what is an Eldar doing with an Imperial...repeater...thing. No, I hadn't killed or butchered mon'keigh civilians to get it. I might be a 'xeno-witch' as some are eager to spout, but I am not some Chaos-murdering demon. In simplest terms, I had...traded this. One makes do, with what options they have - seeing as I am barred from any Craftworld, for pain of death. Why you ask?"

There is a moment of silence, where grumblings of 'going crazy' and 'stupid mon'keigh cultures', before the smoothed being' voice returned. "In simplest terms, I was banished. Why? I killed another? Ha. That might be the oldest joke in the galaxy, seeing as everything is killing anything. Rather, we Eldar in all our pride - had cometh with a truth, if an Eldar slayed another, in the wrong state of mind or emotion - they can be branded Fallen. What is this? Basically, stating your likely to get possessed or influenced by a demon - and your asked to leave. That or you get shot, and thrown out into space. And since, an Eldar' death - without an Infinity Circuit is the equal of being thrown into eternal damnation."

"As such, I have been forced to walk the 'Path of the Fallen'. I am denied access to any Craftworld - no afterlife, no hope and no future. Being as such, I had two options for the rest of my enlightened existence. Join another group, or go to Comorragh. Incase your wondering, its the home of the Dark Eldar. Yes. There are TWO factions of Eldar - you brainless, dogmatic-##¤-"

"-back to the issue. For me, it was a sentence of torture and death. So naturally, leaving me with only one option. By terms of another group, it meant joining a non-Eldar group. Seeing as the Path of Fallen, came also with a nifty psychic mark - that told all other Eldar in the vicinity 'you were bad, stay away from her. Kill her, if she tries to get close'. Fun, eh? Finding another group of skilled people, was easy. Finding one, that didn't have that primitive belief of - me equal kill, was slightly harder."

"I eventually founded a like-minded group. Although, by that - I meant they were as brain-dead crazy as a Dark Eldar torturer. Often times you wonder, that 'they' rule the galaxy and are still in existence. By the Fall, how had our Ancestors fallen, so easily?"

"Initial contact, was...rude. Although, talking had been an option before guns were pulled. Namely, some had commented I passed as one of...'them'. How do they expect, my permex pale skin, long black hair and silver eyes to pass one of...them animals? Suffice to say, it returned to the usual degree between eachother. Until I calmed down...my fault on that. Yes, not all of my kind - are 'arrogant, genocidal, heretical witches' - as one human said it mildly."

"After, the calm came - talks were open. They were crazy enough, not to ask or expect too much - their ideals of the Dead Ruler on the Throne; was less ingrained then I expected. A bonus, since they were willing to accept me into their group. Namely it was my skill, as a Bonesinger - that likely got me accepted, without getting burned alive in my sleep. Not many race, could create tools or weapons, from the very air itself. I mostly create, simple things among this group - since I am not stupid enough, to arm any mon'keigh or rar'kar with a Shuriken Cannon. Yet even a simply civilian, harvester-tool appeared, like one of their 'Lord-Blessed' items or something. Likely because, their lacking tech has a habit of blowing up or turning against its owner - which is always a slight, humorous scene."

"Nowadays, its mostly living with these pack of lunatics. I haven't kept much - seeing as I couldn't store it anywhere, I couldn't carry it. I still have my Shuriken Pistol - one of the first things, I learned to create and perfect. Later, as I was banished, I created a rifle for myself. It mimicked, those used by Outcasts. Eldar who have chosen to leave, yet have the opportunity to return later. It seemed fitting, since I left..."

"There is always, the idea of changing my appearance or my suit - to something more 'local' to better blend in, with my surrounding. Albeit, nothing in the entire sector, could hope to match the comfort, adaptability or protective capability of my black Irenian Armor. Most think, us Eldar wear all the same armor...typical ignorance. Oh, need to finish this here...another incident, I hear coming. And I have no wish, of being burned or blown up, by an idiot human, playing with his weapon."

[Quinntessential]

@NecroKnight - I dig it. I'm not familiar with Eldar lore or how Bonesingers work. My experiences with them tend to be from the other side of a plasma rifle. :D I feel like I may be putting my foot in my mouth for this one but the stylized writing approach you took for her accents is flavorful, but it makes this more difficult to read. The tempo is off...at least for me. Forgive me if that offends. I think because this was all in "first person" with no break to describe action, the stylistic choice doesn't have any context for it to be stylistic.

Other than that, I like her. I could see her and Nakera getting into it over "Machine Spirits".