Necroes

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

It's not that I'm waiting, I'm just trying to be polite. We did just have that big to-do about people posting without keeping others in mind... or however you'd like to word the description of what happened.

There's a lot of things happening, and I wanted to give people who've not posted more recently than I have the chance to respond to it before I do. If everyone is okay with giving me the floor, though, then that's fine as well.

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

@Jbcool you gonna post for our purple-clad driver friend? If not, I think that puts it back to me. Unless @agentmanatee wants to post first.

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

Pro tip: Green iz Best!

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

@BCTheEntity The biggest guy in the room is the ogryn. Marines average 7 to 7 1/2 feet tall, and power armor doesn't add a great deal of height, maybe an inch or two. Ogryns come in at around 8 to 9 feet tall, and are much more heavily muscled. Besides, the magi is already on his team, as far as he is concerned.

Plus, the apothecary is aligned with chaos. That means he's a follower of the Great Green Gods... He just doesn't know it, yet.

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

@BCTheEntity Armor? Who cares about armor? Every boy knows the best fight is always the biggest guy in the room. And, hey, if helping the apothecary improves the chances of getting a shiny new power-klaw, well, that's just a bonus. :D

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

No worries, @Wraithblade6. The operation will be completed. Lucius made a pretty major tactical error in sending the ogryn to go hang out next to the apothecary. Namely, the ork standing right next to him seems to have been left out of the plan all together.

I mean, come on, Urgrugg is going to start questioning if he's turned purple, people are paying him so little attention.

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

Technically, @Klomster would be up to post next, followed by JB, assuming we're going by who hasn't interacted most recently.

Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

@Jbcool It's not explicitly stated that they Aren't, so much as there's nothing that even hints at that being the case. It doesn't take longer for them to heal, there's no mention of them having weaker bones or the like. If anything, there's evidence suggesting they're even more resilient than humans, because half their race somehow manages to live for centuries while injecting the absolute maximum level of drugs possible into their systems. A human doing that would die in a fraction of our estimated maximum lifespan.

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@Jbcool I've read plenty of their lore. Eldar being faster and more agile than humans isn't my problem with them. There are animals that exist that are more agile than us, faster than us, and even those that can process information faster than we can, if not follow more complex thoughts.

No, my problem is, eldar pull all that off with no drawbacks to show for it. They are neither more brittle nor weaker than us, as things that are more agile tend to be. They are not stronger than us, yet weigh less than we do, and still manage to move faster despite the fact they would have to be one of the two, if not both, to pull that off. They suffer none of the physical drawbacks that being better than a human in peak shape should require something biological to be, yet they all are.

In effect, what they are described as being is the same as fantasy elves. The difference is that elves in fantasy are either more brittle than us, which allows for their superiority in certain fields, or they're just better than we are because magic. Eldar aren't the first, so they have to be the latter. I don't care if that's the explanation given, except it's not. They are just better than us, because they are, for no adequately explained or explainable reason other than 'space elves.'

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@Klomster I was mostly just defending my 'space marines are meh' statement. Ogryns, by their fluff, should have better reaction time than their rules make them out to have. It may very well be they, in fact, do. However, being as bulky as they are, how awkward their movement is could balance out the fact they react to danger faster than the average human. Hard to say.

My statements about Eldar are more a general peeve I have with them as a race. Realistically, space marines Should have the fastest possible reaction time of anything in the universe (even if other things Also react that fast), shy of tyranid. Tyranid only get a pass because they're all connected to a hyper-intellect that commands them as a group and processes information from every individual organism on the battlefield simultaneously, so realistically a tyranid warrior could begin dodging bolter fire as the gun is being aimed at him because a termagant sees the space marine with the bolter taking aim. But, again, magic space elves, so they can get away with cheating because they can.

As for necrons... the specific things I was referring to were canoptek wraiths. It's just fact that necrons have the ability to produce, in-mass, A.I. controlled robots that can phase in and out of existence in order to avoid incoming attacks. Being controlled by hyper-advanced supercomputers, wraiths have a faster reaction time than basically anything that relies on physics and not magic, because they have what amounts to an in-built invulnerable mode on/off switch that can be turned on at literal light speed. Why they can't do that with All their... well, everything, no one is entirely certain. Necrons don't make a lot of sense that way.