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Euh. It's been a hot minute. Things are rather different for me now, and I don't know how that translates to my presence here.
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I don't *think* I'm a bad person. I might be wrong there. I try not to be, even when I screw it up for want of social awareness.
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Harambant, who once went by Harambe, now only recalled in light of what followed.
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Bio
Hello, I am me from the internet. I migrated here from Kongregate's Forum Games Forum, so feel free to look for me there if you wish to follow a career in internet stalking people. (ಠ_ಠ) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
“I really don’t follow how your faith believes its perfectly acceptable to doom 4,000 years plus of sentient beings, on a pre-set path of no escape from sin, just so their descendants can be offered the ‘chance of salvation’ when the god murders its own son.” ~vikaTae
“Don’t be an ass or a pussy, ’lest you get screwed by life. Being a mouth or a hand is somewhat safer, and an eye socket is pretty much sacred in this regard, so always keep a look out.” ~BCLEGENDS
If you're reading this, I can only assume you're interested in creating a character for this game or The Grim Crusade. Well, this isn't the right place to do that. The right place to start doing that is here, as was linked to twice in the first post; acquire the Primarch and Legion sheets, write something up for them, and PM them to me and my co-GMs.
DO NOT POST ANYTHING IN THIS TAB, PLAYERS AND NON-PLAYERS ALIKE. CONSEQUENCES WILL BE SEVERE FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY.
Hello, ladies and gentlemen! If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've come here from The Grim Crusade, a game I'm currently GMing where the galaxy has changed greatly from canon, to the point of replacing every Primarch in the setting with completely different ones, created by the players. However, there's a lot more going on in the galaxy than just what the Primarchs are doing, and likely a lot that the game's timeline won't cover. This thread, then, is intended as a place for the players to log the actions of their Legion beyond their Primarch's sight, and to a lesser extent the activities of their Legion's homeworld and, if GM-approved, other people and places within the Imperium and the wider galaxy. This won't just be events occurring at the same time as the game, however: flashbacks to the earlier days of the Crusade are also perfectly acceptable, and indeed encouraged, to expand the lore of both the setting in general and of your Legion's personal interactions with others in the Imperium.
Rules
These rules are not quite identical to those in the main game thread, so please read them before making your posts.
-Forum rulesapply, obviously. Most pressingly out of these, if I've decided on something happening a certain way, then my decision is final unless I'm given good reason to change my mind.
-Do not godmod. That is to say, don't control other player's characters for them without their permission. If you want to make a combined post between two or more players, or have decided between yourselves to allow a certain interaction to occur in a certain way, that's perfectly fine, but don't do stuff to other people's characters without their say-so.
-As with the main game thread, I'm not too concerned about activity levels, so don't feel overly pressured to post as often as possible. However, if you're going to create a flashback or other event that does not involve the Primarchs and/or is not set in the present day of the main game, put it in this thread, not the main thread.
-This is an Advanced roleplay. Please write to the appropriate level of quality - two or three significant paragraphs per post with good SPAG should be fine as a minimum, but try to come up with more if you can.
-You do not need to stick to just one character per post, as you do in the main thread. However, be reasonable about it - I don't expect you to perfectly and uniquely characterise every individual in an Astartes Legion, but try to form a reasonable personality for the characters whose perspectives you actually write from.
-We need to know where and when any given event occurs, as well as who's involved in it. See below for the formatting template for that post.
-@agentmanatee is currently the co-GM for this game; unless I actually contradict something he says, his word has as much authority as mine.
Formatting Template
I'm not too fussed about how people write, as long as they adhere to the rules as mentioned above. However, we do need to know when and where any given event takes place, as well as who's involved with it. To that end, please place the following template at the beginning of every IC post, and fill it in accordingly. Yes, the headers do need to be bolded.
Event Name: [The name of the event, either an official designation or an unofficial reference. This is mostly so I know how to describe it in the timeline.] Location: [Where in the galaxy this takes place. The order of precedence when listing location should be the planet, voidship, void station, or other location the event took place upon or within; the star system the aforementioned location was contained in; the sector containing that system; and the segmentum containing that sector.] Date: [The full date the event occurred or started upon, as described by the Imperial Dating System - check number, year fraction, year, millenium. As stated in the latter link, one Year Fraction is roughly 8 hours and 45 minutes on Terra.] Parties Involved: [Who was involved in the event, be it Primarchs, Legions, Adeptus Terra officials, or good old Imperial citizenry. Note that the present day events any given Primarch is involved in should be portrayed within the main game thread, and that for anyone other than the Primarchs and the Legions, you will need express permission from one of the GMs to write from their perspective; also, it stands to reason that if you intend to include a Legion or Primarch other than your own in the post, you should collaborate on the post with the owner of said Legion or Primarch.]
Q&A
What is this? Side-stories, essentially - the stuff the people not in-focus are doing in the Imperium and the wider galaxy in general, as well as flashbacks to events set before The Grim Crusade's most current events. You know what world-building is? This is where you put that stuff, when it doesn't pertain to the Primarchs in the present day.
Which people are these? For the most part, the Legions of the Primarchs created for The Grim Crusade. However, it can also be posts made from the perspectives of those on your Primarch's homeworld, or- with my approval or that of @Roosan or @Yennefer, the game's co-GMs- the perspective of somebody outside the main scope of the Legions, such as a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus working on some significant project, a Custodian Legionary doing their thing, or even just a humble Imperial Armsman doing his or her duty for the Emperor of mankind, to give a few examples. There's plenty of possibilities for that sort of thing.
What was that about flashbacks? The events of The Grim Crusade take place across a comparatively linear timeline, starting off at the climax of the Battle of Ullanor and progressing forward from there. By contrast, a Chronicle may end up taking place at various points in time before then, right up to the time the Emperor first produced the Space Marine regiments that would grow to become the Legions; additionally, the galaxy is a big place, and whilst the Primarchs can't be everywhere at once, events will nevertheless progress concurrently with main game events in locations other than those the Primarchs are present for. We've created a template to cover timings and locations, as well as who was present for particular events in the past, amongst other things; see above for that.
What's with the bunch of posts below this one? That's the timeline. Basically, it's there to give a brief listing of events through the course of the Grim Crusade, primarily in the form of posts made by players both in the main thread and in this one. It may or may not end up becoming quite large, so I've put a full seven posts down for it; if I somehow manage to exhaust more than a million text character's worth of space, I'll know this RP has been successful.
Can I join this? It says "Apply"! Well, yes and no. This isn't specifically intended for new players to join, and the Characters tab will contain a post reinforcing this point, but if you'd like to join The Grim Crusade and build an appropriate Primarch and Legion to play as, then you'll be allowed to create posts in this thread as well, given that it follows the above mentioned rules. Here's a link to the game; please read through the first post to get an idea of what we're aiming for.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome @Yennefer as the second co-GM for this game. May her co-reign be co-bright and co-prosperous. She and @Roosan will also be the co-GMs for the upcoming Chronicles of the Grim Crusade thread, so keep your eyes peeled, folks.
'Rank'/Type: Big Mek, thus at roughly the same level as a Nob. Also a Flash Git some time ago, but now less obsessed with guns than he was.
Age: 57
Klan: Bad Moons
Appearance: As with any Nob-level Ork, Gowglakk is incredibly large - about eight and a half feet tall, thus a foot or more taller than any mere Boy and even some other Nobz, on top of being significantly wider and more than twice as heavy as the former, mostly for sheer weight of packed muscle. His skin is a nice Orky shade of dark green, his left eye possesses a lovely blood red hue, and his gob is chock-full of teef with a great yellow colour on them, plenty of which are gold-plated.
More notable, however, are the large number of bioniks attached to his body, to the extent that other Orks might wonder why he hasn't degraded into a Madboy yet. Most notably, a chunky mechanical arm covered in large slabs of gold is attached to his right shoulder, ending in a four-bladed Power Klaw with joints on each "finger" akin to those in a normal hand, as well as the capacity to rotate those blades to any angle both on their own axis and around a circular slider on the weapon, apparently for "more dekks-territy" when working on technology, but with the incidental capacity to chop and stab in whatever direction Gowglakk likes with each blade, for instance in the manner of an Astartes Lightning Claw, or a power blender.
As well as this, his head has black-painted metal plates bolted over the top and back, a pattern replicated in the form of 'Eavy Karapace Armour bolted across much of the rest of his body, to make his most important bits ded 'ard (though the brown Squig leather clothing underneath is inexplicably able to be removed regardless), and his right eye has been replaced with a bionic eye that picks out targets for long-distance krumping with whatever shooty weapon he's using at the moment. A myriad of lesser bioniks are prevalent in various areas across the rest of his body, though few of these have had any significance as of yet. Lastly, a blue-painted Iron Gob is attached to his face, just to make sure all the dangerous bullets miss his head, though he has plans for an even more Orky type of 'ead protection in the works.
Personality: Gowglakk is, of course, a Mekboy at heart, and has the mindset to prove it - when he's not bashing the gitz weaker than himself, he's thinking about his next project, be it a simple shoota for one of the Boyz, or the burgeoning suit of Mega Armour he's been cooking up for a couple of years now. "'s a big projekt," he says about it when asked, "I's gots ta test everyfink ta make sure it werks properly." And that, right there, is what makes him so strange - unlike the vast majority of Orks, Gowglakk has acquired a somewhat absurd amount of what he calls "pragmattik forts". That is to say, he thinks like a Blood Axe despite being a Bad Moon, and then to a degree that quite a few Blood Axes never achieve. He's a big proponent of tactics and strategies that most Orks see as highly un-Orky, even downright bizarre, things like "dodgin' da enemy's attakks so dey don't krump ya" and "attackin' da enemy from a 'idin' place so's dey don't see ya attackin' dem 'til it's too late"; indeed, a certain lesser degree of this kind of thinking was what led him to become a Flash Git in the first place, though he now sees that sort of attachment to flair and weaponry as "distraktin' from da reel biznis ov buildin' things ta krump gits wiv". Of course, he still retains a reasonable amount of Orkiness, being just as up for a scrap as any other Ork, and holds a bit of a soft spot for his personal equipment as a holdover from his days as a Flash Git, even if he claims to be totally past it.
History: Right, lads! Fer sum reason, ya all wanted me ta talk about wot I's done in da past, an' I's gots da time ta talk, so I's gonna do dat. In da meantime, you all shut up unless it's a zoggin' great kweschun yer askin'!
So, back when I wuz jus' a Yoof, nuffin' much 'appened, an' nuffin' reely 'appened before dat eever- I SED SHADDAP UNLESS YER ASKIN' A GREAT KWESCHUN, YA GITZ! Dis is important ta establish! Basik'ly, I wuz doin' da same krumpin' and that wot all Orks do, but even-cher-lee I figgered out dat I wuz reely good wiv Orky teknollergy, an' became a Mekboy, an' I wuz proper pleezed wiv dat.
Now, da fing about Mekz is dat dey don' always fink in to-tully Orky ways - dat iz ta say, dey ain't direkt-lee Orky, but even-cher-lee get round ta bein' Orky, right? So I's workin' on dis Snazzgun fer one ov da Flash Gitz at da time, right, an' it occurs ta me dat ak-cher-lee, iv I 'ad a nice gun like dat, I could krump 'umies an' dat from far away, so's dat dey don't krump me first, right? 's no fun iv ya get krumped by some lukky shot ta yer kray-nee-um, izzit? So wen da Nob came back askin' fer his new weppen, I pulled it out and dakka'd 'im in da face with it! BWA HA HAA ha ha ha haaa, da look on 'is face... I mean, e' didn' 'ave one, 'coz 'is face wuz gone, but if he 'ad a face... haaa!
Okay, okay, settle down lads. So I's gots me a brand new Snazzgun, loadsa barrels so it's extra-shooty. An' I decides, 'coz I can now, dat I'm gonna start bashin 'sum gitz ta get more teef! So I goes out, start whackin' Orks wiv the gun ta take dere teef, an' shootin' off da legz ov any Nobz dat try ta stop me, 'coz dey all try ta git up close ta krump me. An' over time, as I keep improvin' my Snazzgun, I's noticing dat I'm startin' ta get bigger an' bigger, an' even-cher-lee, I's ended up as a full-blown Nob myself! Dat's a Big Mek ta you gitz, but dere a type a Nob, so shaddap. 'Course, I's also a Flash Git, since now I 'ave all da teef from the gits I bashed as well as da teef dat were given ta me ta do Mekky fings, which I woz doin' between bashin' gits fer teef. An' I's got real gitty about it, wiv all da swagger an' dat I's throwin' about, an' even renamin' myself ta show off loadsa types a dakka - yanno, "GOW GOW, glakk glakk glakk, BAAAANG, dakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakka", right?- an' dis starts annoyin' sum fellow Mekz an' Big Mekz an' that, 'coz dat's wot Flash Gitz do.
Now, at sum point, a real git fort it woold be clever ta snatch my Snazzgun whilst I's walkin' round wiv it, an' den break it in 'alf in front a me! 'Oo even does dat?! Ob-vee-us-lee, I woz propa mad, an' wot dat git forgot is dat I still 'ad my Choppa! An' I whack his head in 'alf wiv it, and den start goin' on a right gitty rampage ov krumpin' uvver gitz, lef', righ', fron', bakk, but even-cher-lee, all a dat stops 'coz ov ev-ree-fink goin' dark fer me. Next fing I know, I's on my own on sum plannit wiv jun-gol trees growin' outta sand! Dere's like a 'umie viddie-ya screen in front a me, an' ob-vee-us-lee I's still a bit woozy from da annas-fettik, so I pikkit up an' press da button like a Snotlin' might do, an' dis git Krombasha shows up, talkin' about 'ow I's gone an' disres-pek-tid da name a Mekz ev-ree-where, an' so I's been left behind like da git I am. 'e woz right, an' I'm not a Flash Git now, but 'e's still a git fer doin' dat, an' I's gonna krump 'im an' ev-ree uvva Mek in da tribe e's wiv if I eva see 'is sorry gob again!
'Course, I got kort up in me own anger at 'im, so's I don't realise dat 'e's men-chunned a final ser-prize until it's too late, an' at dat moment, da 'ole fing blows up an' takes my arm off! An' dere's no way any Painboy iz gonna put it back on, it iz MULCHED. So's I eat it, 'coz I's gonna need da sus-tin-ants, an' den I sit an' fink fer a while. An' it okkurs ta me dat even wiv an arm missin', dere iz no way dat I would be dere alive if dere wuz no reazun ta be dere, an' so I's starts ta think Gork, or maybe Mork, wants me ta go on a vizzyun kwest ta find my troo self or summat!
Orright, orright, calm down... I SED CALM DOWN YA GROTZ! Wot, a man a si-ents can't also 'ave a vizzyun kwest?! Iz dat right? Dat's wot I fort. So's I go in ta dis sand jun-gol. Dere's not much ta eat, but dere's enuff little cree-churz an' leefs an' dat ta servive on wivvout bein' 'ungry, right? An' as I go in more, I starts 'avin' dem vizzyunz, 'bout finks like monsters an' that, but it's not like I woz left wivvout a choppa, 'coz no Ork iz gonna be DAT much of a git, so's I jus' chop 'em up as I goes, all fancy-like 'coz a the cullerz goin' ev-ree-where an' that. I dunno how long dat's goin' on fer, but even-cher-lee, I's gone and found myself inna cave, made a rocks an' that, even in dat sand jun-gol. An' as I go in more, da vizzyuns start fadin', an' I ree-lize dat I's finkin' diff'rent-lee ta how I woz before, but I's not sure 'xact-lee how yet. I tries ta figger dat out fer a bit, but stops when I discovers wot is pretty much... da muvverload.
Wot do I means by dat? Only da biggest pile a loot a Mekboy could ever want! Dere wuz fyool ta power stuff, a lotta komp-likk-ated ser-kit-ree ta make fings werk betta, tons a solid mettol- more dan enuff fer me ta make some rokkitships ta get off da plannit, an' prob-lee enuff ta get me a bionik re-plays-ment fer my missin' arm... an' GOLD! So much zoggin' gold! 'nuff ta bring a tear ta my eye! Yeah, dat's right, lad, us Bad Moons know wot's up! An' da rest a you can shut yer gobs about dat, it's well shiny! Amazin' stuff. Anywayz, I's gots da loot I need ta get out ov dere, an' so I's starts buildin' me a new arm, wiv a Power Klaw on da end... den it okkurs ta me dat if I jus' make a normal power klaw, den it's not gonna 'ave da dekks-territy ta put summa da more delli-kit bits a teknollergy togetha, so's derefore, I needs ta make da blades 'ave some joints, like wot 'ands 'ave, so I does dat, an' it works like a charm.
Dat, as I would even-cher-lee figger out, woz da first a my pragmattik forts! Eh, wozzat? Oh, no, yeah, I deffinit-lee meant da sorta fort dat you 'ide inside an' shoot da enemies from. NO, YA GIT! Da sorta fort wot goes froo yer 'ead unless ya've 'ad a Squig brain transplant, which you clearly 'ave! An' in dis case, my forts were more pragmattik dan most Orks, coz ov da vizzyun kwest, so's I's woz finkin' 'bout wot I woz gonna do 'fore I does it, see? Still am, at that. Dat's also why I tested da ferst few rokkits I made, ta make sure dey wouldn't blow up when dey start goin' up, 'coz 'splodey rokkits are only nice when yer not inside 'em. Deffinit-lee 'elped when some Snots and Grots started showin' up, at that. Dey 'elped wiv da buildin' later on, an' made great test pilots. Hurr hurr hurr.
Well, I 'ven-cher-lee got a rokkit goin' dat didn't blow up first- I ak-cher-lee 'ad ta make it a bit more powerful dan I ferst fort, 'coz uvverwize I'd 'ave 'ad ta leave all da gold behind, right? Not dat much stronger, though, 'coz when I got it werkin', I crammed as much a da gold an' uvva loot in as I could, inkludin' all over da outside, with a big load a gold on da top, reel pointy-like, an' ya know 'ow yellow makes ev-ree-fin' more likely ta 'splode? I woz finkin' it might do dat ta me, but I 'ad a stroke a gee-nee-us, 'coz of my pragmattik forts, an' put sum more ser-kit-ree innit ta redirect the 'splodeyness to da engine an' make it even faster! An' den I got in, an' I turned it on, an' WHAM, OFFITGOES, INTA SPACE! I figgered out why dere's so many Speed Freeks dat day... an' I fink I saw sum Orks down on da plannit I left. I wonders iv dey's gotten use outta da loot I 'ad ta leeve be'ind.
An' den, after a bit ov time, my rokkit crashed inta da ship we's on now. Ob-vee-us-lee, it woz a Freeboota kroo, an' I woz ak-sep-tid on as a member, 'coz dey's always needin' more Mekboyz an' Big Meks. An' dat is my 'ole story, lads! Any kweschuns? Yeah, you... w- NO, I DON'T MEAN BLEEDIN' 'IDEY FORTS, I MEAN 'EAD FORTS! YOU WANNA GO, YA ZOGGIN' GROT, DEN LET'S ZOGGIN' GO! WAAAAAAAAGH!
Skills: As a Mekaniak, Gowglakk is obviously very skilled with Ork technology, being able to build a great deal of the devices and bioniks and whatnot that he puts his mind to. Indeed, the rate at which he produces new ideas in his head is surprisingly high even for a Mekboy, often great enough that he forgets a lot of the ideas he has after just the initial consideration, though his most important ideas are always crudely sketched to make sure he can come back to them. Additionally, thanks to his nature as a Bad Moon, he's well aware of the value of the items he builds, and is more than capable of selling them off for far more teef than that to his less aware clients, as well as to haggle the price of the equipment and raw materials he buys downward when acquiring them from other vendors, typically backed up by his extreme bulk.
His most important skill is arguably his exceptional brutal kunnin', i.e. his "pragmattik forts", but heavily linked to that is his tendency to be far more cautious than an Ork has any right to be. For instance, he finds himself taking a little while longer to create some bits of tech than most Mekboyz would, since "dey need ta be tested ta make sure dey works prop'ly, see?" Of course, what he generally means by that is "get sum Grot or Snotlin' ta use it a few times first ta make sure it won't blow up", since the lesser Greenskins are substantially more disposable than any Ork, and it pays to have a good reputation for reliable gear.
Finally, though he's not necessarily had much opportunity to exercise it since his acceptance into his new tribe of Freebootaz, his nature as a Big Mek means lesser Mekboyz often flock to him when given the chance, and he's more than capable of commanding them to do his bidding where appropriate.
Equipment: As stated above, his armament typically includes his Kustom Power Klaw as part of his bionik right arm, as well as some sort of large shooty weapon, generally either a heavily-tested Shokk Attack Gun or a similarly-heavily-tested Tellyport Blasta, though he'll settle for a sufficiently-snazzy Kustom Mega-Blasta or Deffgun if he absolutely must. Closer-range equipment includes a big spanna and plenty of other Mek tools and raw materials to help him build things with, including a fair amount of what he calls "komp-likk-ated ser-kit-ree" in the form of massed wire bundles, to help improve whatever he builds and repairs and make it less likely to malfunction on him or whoever else is using it, as well as a Big Choppa for maximum damage up-close, though the spanna will also suffice in a pinch. Also stated above is his preference for the best protection available - 'Eavy Karapace Armour bolted in various places to his body, including to his skull, as well as an Iron Gob with an improvement in the works. He's even building up a suit of Mega Armour for the purposes of warfare, though he's not satisfied yet with how fast it goes, and hasn't had much success so far in making it go as fast as or faster than he'd normally like. "Maybe iv I paint da legz red..."
@Sophrus Did you not? I thought I sent it to you. I'll check that when I get home. Alternatively, could somebody befriend Sophrus and invite him into the chat, please?
@Savage To wit, an Ork Boy generally stands at roughly the same height as a human. However, they would be substantially taller if they weren't hunched over all the time, and would therefore probably be about Marine height, maybe with slightly more growth than is standard for an Ork Boy.
@Natsucooldude Psh. Any Ork can build their own Snazzgun. That is, it's literally a trait of any Ork that they can build their own basic guns even if they're not a Mek, and adding multiple barrels is presumably not that much harder for them.
Hello, I am me from the internet. I migrated here from Kongregate's Forum Games Forum, so feel free to look for me there if you wish to follow a career in internet stalking people. (ಠ_ಠ) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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“I really don’t follow how your faith believes its perfectly acceptable to doom 4,000 years plus of sentient beings, on a pre-set path of no escape from sin, just so their descendants can be offered the ‘chance of salvation’ when the god murders its own son.”
~vikaTae
“Don’t be an ass or a pussy, ’lest you get screwed by life. Being a mouth or a hand is somewhat safer, and an eye socket is pretty much sacred in this regard, so always keep a look out.”
~BCLEGENDS
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Hello, I am me from the internet. I migrated here from Kongregate's Forum Games Forum, so feel free to look for me there if you wish to follow a career in internet stalking people. (ಠ_ಠ) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)<br><br><a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/173815-static-tabs-do-not-take-up-internet-bctheentitys-character-links/ooc">A link to some of my past characters, which I need because static tabs do not take up internet.</a><br><br><div class="bb-center"><span class="bb-u">Infamous Quotes From People Who Exist</span></div><br>“I really don’t follow how your faith believes its perfectly acceptable to doom 4,000 years plus of sentient beings, on a pre-set path of no escape from sin, just so their descendants can be offered the ‘chance of salvation’ when the god murders its own son.”<br>~vikaTae<br><br>“Don’t be an ass or a pussy, ’lest you get screwed by life. Being a mouth or a hand is somewhat safer, and an eye socket is pretty much sacred in this regard, so always keep a look out.”<br>~BCLEGENDS</div>
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