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The rest of the marines followed suit with introductions and a few other requests for the return of their equipment, none of which were answered and were rather taken for enthusiasm, a pointless notion if ever there was one. Still there was the ceremony of the return of their armor so at least that could be checked over now. As their armor was borne to them by a number of tracked servitors - things that had once been men and women who had serve the Imperium unflinchingly and with all due diligence and thus received the Blessing of Iron.

As the Ecclesiarchy priest(in Draksal’s opinion versed in the Cult Mechanicus would have been more suitable) applied what was in some places his suits third coat of paint, the reality of the situation began to set in. That despite it seeming like he only just left due to his time in the stasis field, he was now many light years from his fellow Sons of Medusa, among people whose beliefs were very different from his own. Yet he was expected to work with these people who were far too attached to their weak flesh and none of whom worshiped the emperor as a god, the only exception being the Black Templar Berauth and his faith was via the Ecclesiarchal teachings. For most believers of the Cult Mechanicus this too would be at least as distasteful as meany chapter’s continued belief in the Imperial Truth, but The Sons of Medusa where perhaps one of the few groups who did not view the Imperial religious institution that they were not a part of with disdain, due to their rather quiet belief that the two would one day become unified in their worship.

It was with mixed feeling then that, after his donning his armor and running similar checks on it as he had on himself, that he was assigned a member of the Iron Hands as his ‘Initiate’. Having one who shared many beliefs and potential needs would be rather useful for him in getting used to the fortress. However there was the problem of the ‘many’ part, as those few that separated them had resulted in the exile of those who eventually founded his chapter. He would need to head closely the advice of the Chamber Ferrum and not bring it up. Ever. The Techmarine’s wordless salute did not help clarify whether his opinion of Draksal’s chapter was cold disdain or if it was a genuine show of respect. He returned it all the same. Not exhibiting any outward emotion did have a few disadvantages in the communication department but they could be overcome by being forthright with your intentions.

It is a blessing to be placed in your custody for my initial assignment, Brother-Techmarine. ” It truly was, for the Techmarines of the iron hands and their descendants acted as chaplains would in other chapters, along with their usual duties.

I have a few questions, after which I intend to head to the armory to inspect my own equipment and what heavy weapons this station has access too before we assemble formally. Is there a digital map of the station available? Will I be able to continue the path of purging the weakness of my flesh here or does the deathwatch not have access to that amount of Bionics? Also are you or any of your brothers versed in techno-exorcism?

He was very interested in what the armory held, for while the Sons of Medusa’s forges were known to be able to produce most equipment of the Adeptus Astartes, even some of the rarer pieces, the deathwatch may have access to some particular advanced or novel devices his chapter did not yet have patterns for or nor the chance to examine.
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That'd be downright adorable, I am thoroughly sold on the idea. And, as you point out, it does help secure the Will as the Captain, unless we happen to have a particularly skilled tailor on the crew roster. We don't, of course, but that is something to be worried about. I am particularly enamoured of any story where "the tailor could lead a mutiny because they're the only one capable of sewing the hat back together" is a legitimate concern for a would-be captain bee.


knits colorful sweaters whenever possible.


This is the scariest thing about the giant spider as far as The Will is concerned. knitting is almost tailoring.

@Hylozoist
I added sewing as a skill because its kind of needs to be explicit at this point and actually decided on a definitive height of the bees

With great pomp and ceremony, the Captain's Hat was awkwardly perched on top of one of the hives, and that was that.


I was thinking of maybe having a bunch of bees try and wear the hat at once, or having used the material to make lots of little hats and for a bunch of them that sit in the captains chair in little booster seats(with seat-belts and everything) kind of like baby's first EU or Senate. This means that nobody else can wear the captain's hat because no-one is small enough and has that many heads and with out The Captain's Hat what kind of a captain would they be. Therefor the mind is the captain and you better like it or you will have to deal with his swarms of paper mache armored, laser-pointer wielding guards-bees.

Keep the pony stuff comin'.



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Teleporter malfunction. They really need to have more people working the teleporter at the castle so they can do more shifts and this sort of thing wouldn't happen.


Naija probably shouldn't have left all her seafood in a big pile next to sensitive teleporter equipment either. Some of the soup might have spilled on something impotent.

Hooray! If you do end up being the Captain, would you mind if we worked out (together!) how The Will came to be Captain? I'm going to be asking everyone to provide a little snippet of their history that basically explains how they got on board, whether they're part of the "original" crew, or a replacement, or what-have-you.


My initial idea:

The one of the previous crews got a mission from some long ranged observing botanists to save the species from the impending destruction of their planetoide. After the initial invasion attempt of the ship by the bees is held off with fly swatters and bug spray they sort of live in the cargo bay while the crew fail to get them resettled somewhere as, unfortunately, nobody wants a swarm species on their planet, even if it only has a threat level B. Having free-time, more food and entertainment kind of mellows out the bees and eventually they are allowed to help out around the ship.

Jump forwards to now and they basically live in every nook and cranny the ship, having seen several crews come and go who have all applied their own distinct modifications to everything. The bees have to get anyone new up to speed on things like what all those weird buttons on the searing wheel do, mainly by punting post it notes on everything. Even if they don't know why or how they do that stuff, so they boil down to basic functions from the manual, exerts from the installer's journals and lots of do not touch ones.

The mind is captain because they control 99% of the crew and are the most experienced person there apart from the AI, even if that knowledge is rather dispersed among the bees.

What do you think? planet destruction might be a bit to grim for the setting even if everyone got off it alive way in advance.
So who are we waiting for?


Buck for sure.


Also Garrett hasn't actually arrived yet

@Archmage MC
If the rp lasts long enough I plan to try to turn our humans and civilian cast gems into that.

"come with me and we will steal all the lasers from that crashed ship from that one episode"
I went with cute space fairies rather than fist sized bees or creepy aliens because i think it will be funnier when they get hurt.



If no one else wants it The Will can be the captain.
@Archmage MC
I think they're homeworld, its one of rocketrobie2's chars
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