BCTheEntity

Beyond Civilisation's Grasp... - A Rogue Trader (WH40K) RP [Seeking Desperate Souls for Adventure!]

@Sarpedon Yeah, I thought it would be bigger. I've edited it to be a link, so it should be readable now.

Beyond Civilisation's Grasp... - A Rogue Trader (WH40K) RP [Seeking Desperate Souls for Adventure!]

@Jbcool Yeah, I know. I'm just thinking, maybe player submissions for loot could be accepted by you as well, just in case you run short on appropriate loot items of your own or something. Speaking of Necrons and loot, I saw a few good ones a couple of days ago, which are in part what inspired me to ask the initial question, if anybody's interested to see them.

Obviously, a game like this would lack the solid stat alterations presented there, but the concept remains the same.

EDIT: Actually, a thought's occurred to me based on something somebody else said in another thread. Am I being too... pushy, I guess is the word? Obstinate? I feel like I might be acting in a manner that's trying to push things other people don't necessarily want to see or what have you without realising, is all. Feel free to call me out on it if that is the case, everyone, and the same goes for if I start to act in that sort of manner in the future too.

Beyond Civilisation's Grasp... - A Rogue Trader (WH40K) RP [Seeking Desperate Souls for Adventure!]

@Sarpedon Well, I mean, like... loot discussion. A discussion about possible loot items that Jb can incorporate into the game later on, after everyone else has forgotten they ever had this discussion. I wasn't asking anything of you specifically, just that maybe we and the other players could get involved in such a discussion, if it is indeed relevant to the game at hand.

Beyond Civilisation's Grasp... - A Rogue Trader (WH40K) RP [Seeking Desperate Souls for Adventure!]

@Sarpedon With that said, here's an idea for a team-building exercise: come up with loot from our rogue trading adventures, which may or may not have its origins as xeno tech. Since we are, presumably, going to acquire loot at some point or another.

An Unholy Mass: Warhammer 40,000 RP [Black Crusade Inspired] [Mature Content]

@Jbcool
1. Thought it might be something like that.
2. Alright, fair enough. Still, I figure crowds of five are pretty uncommon at a bar proper; from what little I know of bars, you'd normally see that many people around a table, or at least not clustered in a relatively linear grouping the way Lucius and company are.
3. @Bright_Ops was the most recent poster, and has been active recently; @Lord Coake and @Hank don't show when they were last online, though Coake's got his family emergency to deal with, and Hank's last post was five days ago; @Keepvogel was last seen three days ago; @Noxious was last seen four days ago; and @The Whacko was last seen twelve days ago.

In the meantime, and in order to maintain a semblance of thread activity, who here likes theories that merge settings together?! I do, which is why I wrote up this one in one of Jb's other game threads. So here it is:

I'm going to pitch this theory on the assumption that you've all never heard of the setting I'm going to describe, since that simplifies things for everyone.

So, the crazy theory is that the setting of RWBY, a planet named Remnant with an inexplicably shattered moon, is a Daemon world in WH40K, or at least a world heavily beset by Chaos. There are entities called the Creatures of Grimm who prey on the human (and abhuman Faunus) inhabitants of the planet, and only them, to the point that human civilisation is at present restricted to four major cities and a few minor villages; these Grimm are, in fact, a localised form of Chaos Daemon, twisted into the shape of black-furred, white-armoured animals by the collective unconscious of the human population, which obviously received free reign to enter realspace and roam the planet after whatever Chaos-based event broke the moon into pieces that didn't then get pulled back to the main body by gravity. Grimm spawn from the Warp, they dissolve back into the Warp when they're killed, and their power and intelligence increases over time because they're gradually becoming more attuned to realspace, or the human collective unconscious is turning them from lesser into greater daemons, or something along those lines. Said collective unconscious also led to the planet not being twisted into an entirely horrific landscape of death, as most (though admittedly not all) Chaos planets are... or maybe the actual breach is on the moon, hence shattering without gravity collapsing it back into a single celestial object, and the Grimm daemons just drop down to the planet from there.

Normally, this would have ended the humans easily, and as RWBY itself tells us, it nearly did. However, two major things (and one minor thing) have let them survive to in-setting modern times. First of all, the presence of so much ambient Chaos energy has led to rampant mutation in the majority of the human population, which inexplicably only manifests as low-level, semi-uniform psychic powers; these are represented by the Aura every human and Faunus (and other normal animals, to a lesser extent) possesses on that planet, and usually also includes a Semblance which is unique or semi-unique to any given individual. These low-level psykers are practically immune to being further mutated by the use of their powers or to other negative effects that might normally occur through use of psychic powers, but suffer for this by not only having limited psychic strength and versatility, but also restricted access to the Warp itself at any given time, thus why Aura depletes as damage is taken and dealt out, and recharges when not in use.

Secondly, Dust, with uses and effects as explained by RWBY. This is a useful resource, and is obviously one of the major reasons the human inhabitants have continued to not die. What it actually is is crystallised psychic energy. More specifically, the four basic types of Dust each indirectly represent one of the four Chaos Gods, who are probably looking at Remnant and giggling like lunatics at the struggles the humans on the planet are going through, since there's no way in the Warp they can win in the long run. The third, minor point is that constant exposure to the Grimm daemons and the aforementioned ambient Warp energy has lessened the collective supernatural fear response of the human inhabitants, such that trained Hunters can readily fight against the Grimm without flinching... though obviously, normal humans are still going to be terrified by a large-scale attack, since normal humans tend to be scared of giant monsters regardless. If it's not obvious by this point, the humans and Faunus have no idea what's really going on - "what is the Warp, what is Chaos, you're a crazy person for worshipping these weird fake "Chaos gods"" - which is in part why they're not all Chaos worshippers on a Chaos planet. The planet's also relatively obscure, and probably contained somewhere in Chaos-held or uncharted space, thus why it hasn't been Exterminatus'd into oblivion or overrun by Chaos Space Marines.

There's a bit more to my theory, but it's very spoiler-ey in nature, so I won't talk about it unless you guys really want to hear it. Other than that, I'm pretty much done. Any questions?

@BCTheEntity

An Unholy Mass: Warhammer 40,000 RP [Black Crusade Inspired] [Mature Content]

@Bright_Ops I mean, I guess. I was thinking a fair majority of the purveyors would actually end up being relatively normal-looking citizens, though, whilst the obviously-mutated monstrosities would tend toward being permanent "guests" in the place, since one typically needs to enter from relatively public locations and all.

An Unholy Mass: Warhammer 40,000 RP [Black Crusade Inspired] [Mature Content]

@Bright_Ops What, and the person swathed in bright silk veils and the practically-rotting mutant are completely inconspicuous?

Actually, what colour are Atella's silks, anyway? I don't think @Jbcool has said in any of Atella's posts so far...

An Unholy Mass: Warhammer 40,000 RP [Black Crusade Inspired] [Mature Content]

@Bright_Ops Hey, all we need is for people to be a little bit active every so often. I might have suggested Draco actually head over to the group of five people crowding around one another, since I'd assume such a large group is pretty notable in a bar scene, but I think it's a pretty good post you've made nonetheless.

Beyond Civilisation's Grasp... - A Rogue Trader (WH40K) RP [Seeking Desperate Souls for Adventure!]

@Bright_Ops Naruto is a bad show which is bad. I also don't care about spoilers for it at all, so please PM me your theory about why it's part of the 40K 'verse.

An Unholy Mass: Warhammer 40,000 RP [Black Crusade Inspired] [Mature Content]

Is this still alive? Does anybody mind if I bump it up a little? I'm sure nobody minds, but just in case it's been forgotten, @Jbcool @Hank @Lord Coake @Noxious @The Whacko @Bright_Ops y'all guys should check in.

@BCTheEntity

A reminder to everybody, since it's been four days since the last post. @Bright_Ops specifically, since I know for a fact you're online right now.