Whoami

[Warhammer 40k] Blood & Beauty

@Whoami
Ok, what about a sanctioned psyker? Maybe even a primaris psyker.

Just so you know ive been playing 40krps for atleast seven years, so im not going to be the psyker that causes perils at the earliest opportunity. Instead im going to play him as sort of a philosopher who buffs the team.

@Steel Legion

Having read up the lore for Arbites use of psykers, I don't think a psyker would fit the direction I'm going for in this RP. This is meant to be a mystery/investigation and I think having someone around who can use psychometry and telepathy would make certain aspects of the mystery too easy or irrelevant. I want to find ways that allow critical and deductive thinking, as well as lace the story with hints, clues, and foreshadowing for the keen eyed reader. So I'm gonna say no to the psyker proposal.

I'm more so saying no to the psyker purely on a mechanical basis for the flow of the plot, as lore-wise I wouldn't be opposed.

Somewhat interested. Could a Chaplain of the Arbites be played? In the role I was thinking he'd investigate "faith-crime" in addition to just ministering to other Arbites spiritual needs

@bugman

I am open to having an Arbites chaplain around as the inquisitor coming to conduct in the audit is a member of the Ordo Hereticus, and thus having a specialist in matters of faith could prove useful.

[Warhammer 40k] Blood & Beauty

To be clear, I'm not occupying any one character. Think of the inquisitor as a major NPC among others. But I'll be running the world around your characters.

I'm not opposed to characters having augmentations, but not anything that'd allow you to pull off feats that astartes or imperial assassins pull off on the daily.

[Warhammer 40k] Blood & Beauty

I'd really love to join this but I've never done an advanced roleplay before. I usually keep to casual posting lengths etc. Did you have any idea what kind of posting length you'd like?

@GingerBoi123

I'm not super strict for post length. I myself go from making really long posts to making like... a paragraph or two from time to time. It's in the advanced section based on the level of commitment I'm looking for. Ideally we get a small group of dedicated players who'd be down to go through this story with me.

[Warhammer 40k] Blood & Beauty

I am glad to see so many 40k rps pop up.

@Jamesyco

The Darktide beta really inspired me xD

[Warhammer 40k] Blood & Beauty

Link to: OOC Thread

Warhammer 40,000

Blood & Beauty

...// Segmentum Ultima \\...
...// Planet Arterium \\...
-- Designation: Agri World
-- Hive Cities: 1 'Babellum'
-- Main Export: Sanguinalla Extract
-- Strategic Priority: Low
-- Status: Stable (Marked for Inquisitorial audit)

"It is easy to overlook such a quiet, beautiful world when rooting out corruption and heresy. To the untrained eye, a world such as Arterium plays no part in the greater schemes of the galaxy. Much to their surprise, these worlds are the most at risk of incursion from the alien, the mutant, and the heretic. While the rest of the galaxy turns a blind eye, I watch through a magnifying glass. These are the worlds that decide the fates of entire sectors. There is corruption here. I can smell its wretched stench hidden among the lovely flowers. I can taste it in the sweet air. It does not want to be found, but I will find it all the same."
Inquisitor Arthur Trask
Ordo Hereticus
991.M41

"Arbitrators! Atten-tion!

... Right, listen in, everyone. Some excitement just landed on our doorstep. I'm sure you're all tired of corralling the common rabble to and from the flower fields and arresting petty criminals. Seems our quiet little world is up for an audit by the Holy Inquisition, and the inquisitor, who should be planetside in a matter of weeks mind you, is requesting a local escort from Babellum's Adeptus Arbites. That's right, that means half a dozen of you get to tour an Inquisitor around and show him all the pretty sights. Arterium is peaceful enough, so I don't expect he'll come across any real issues. That said, in case something arises, I want you to report it back to me immediately so we can take care of the problem in house before things get too out of hand. I'll be passing down a list of names for the Inquisitor's escort party in a few hours.

Ahem... Arbitators! Dis-missed!"
Thaddeus Blesse
Babellum Arbites Judge
991.M41

Welcome to the interest check for Warhammer 40,000: Blood & Beauty! This has been something I've been itching to do since I tried out the Darktide beta, and I am super inspired to get this on the go! If you haven't gathered from what little exposition I've left here in the interest check, this is meant to be about a group of Adeptus Arbites being assigned to tour an Inquisitor around a quiet, beautiful, and peaceful planet's singular hive city, Babellum. Of course, this is Warhammer, and things are never peaceful. The intent for this plot is for the Inquisitor to uncover an ever-deepening rabbit hole that could completely upend the calmness and peace of Arterium. This plot is intended to be focused on the arbites and regular humans. There will be no playable space marines, or inquisitorial assassins, or sisters of battle.

Should this interest check take off, the OOC will be prepared with far more information of Arterium and Babellum. For now, please accept this small slice of world building.

Arterium was once a Fortress-Monastery to a Blood Angels successor chapter known as the Sanguine Hands. Nearly two-thousand years prior to the events of Blood & Beauty, war had broken out across the surface of Arterium as forces of Chaos bore down on the planet. The attack was very deliberate with its singular goal being to wipe out the Sanguine Hands chapter and enslave the population. Dozens of imperial guard regiments were dispatched to Arterium to hold the world and assist the Sanguine Hands. The war was brief, but very bloody, with only one imperial guard regiment surviving the conflict, and even then, it had been reduced to less than a quarter strength. The Sanguine Hands has been utterly annihilated in the defense of the hive city Babellum. Only one battle brother survived, an apothecary named Ramiel. Unfortunately, the chaos scheme to wipe out the Sanguine Hands was fulfilled, and the gene-stock of the chapter was irreversibly tainted. There would be no more brothers to come to the chapter. The Sanguine Hands were officially listed as destroyed, and their names would be memorialized within the walls of Babellum for the rest of time. Every street corner in the upper hive now features a golden statue of a fallen battle brother of the Sanguine Hands.

Arterium was left a war scarred wasteland for several hundred years following the conflict. Then, practically out of nowhere, blood red flowers began to bloom upon the sites where brothers of the Sanguine Hands had died. Scholars first thought that the plant was an invasive weed brought from another world, and work parties were sent out to exterminate the flower, much to Ramiel's protests. He was but a single Astartes, and he could not defend all of the sites at once. The plant began to spread rapidly, faster than it could be contained. It was then that its valuable traits were revealed. The flower had impressive versatility. Its extract could be made into a lubricant for machines and a compound for rejuvenat treatments. In fact, the rejuvenatory properties of the plant quickly became known in the sector, and many worlds were suddenly trying to get their hands on it. The planetary government of Arterium saw the value of the plant, and immediately halted all extermination of the flower. Over several years, the flower was left to flourish and grow across the surface of the world. It mattered not where it was. The flower would creep up structures through strong vines to reach the sunlight and grow atop the spires of Babellum if it had to. Soon, the entire color of the world changed, and the great swatches of red could be seen from orbit. Arterium began to harvest the flower and export it to the corners of the Imperium. Arterium became rich beyond measure, and since it had no direct impact of the imperial war machine, it maintained its rather low profile. The people thrived, and the planet was quickly reclassified to a paradise agri-world. Nobody questioned the origin of the Sanguinalla Flower after the economic boom, and the planet fell into a life of complacent comfort. There, in all of its comforts, beauty, and peace, nobody would think to check for the dark seed that would blossom.

OBLIVION

Any word or critique on my CS? I haven't heard anything about its status >.>

OBLIVION

Hmm, I can also see Kade and Ella having a rather tumultuous past with one another as well. Kade was just a punk/misfit reject who took nobody's crap, whereas Ella was the queen bee type. There's tons of fun little interactions that can happen with this cast of characters. Also the fact that Kade went discreetly into organized crime while Ella went into law enforcement.

OBLIVION

I can definitely see Kade and Natalie having a lot of beef with each other in the past!

OBLIVION

@Whoami
If you want just DM me and throw me what you mean

@Salsa Verde

I was just asking in general. How dark and adult is the intent?

OBLIVION

I accidentally posted my CS app into the wrong tab lol, here it is!

Kade Martell, the Rebel

█ Kade Martell

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▼ PERSONAL DETAILS ► Age - Twenty-Four ► Gender - Female ► Sexuality - Bisexual (Male Preference) ► Nickname - Rebel ► Occupation - Personal Driver, Wheelman ► Qualifications - N/A ► Residence - Delton, Maine ▼ PHYSICALITY ► Scars - N/A ► Tattoos - Kade's body is a canvas, and she has many tattoos to show for it all over her body. While she isn't completely covered from head to toe, one wouldn't need to look hard to find a tattoo on her. Her arms and back are where the highest concentration of tattoos can be found. ► Piercings - A single silver nose stud and some ring piercings on her ears. ► Style - In unprofessional environments, Kade wears punky clothes, and she favors tank tops that will show off her ink. Her hair is usually styled when she is relaxed and off the job. When dressed for her job, Kade wears a neat suit with pants in addition to black leather driving gloves. She is rarely seen without a sentimental pair of aviator sunglasses. Kade will have her hair combed and held back cleanly. ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔

LIFE AT RITMAN Known to be the queen rebel during her tenor in Ritman High, Kade always gave off an air of confidence and nonchalance. She struggled with authority figures and they struggled just as much with her. Kade was often tardy from classes, often found to be hanging out with other undesirables and misfits from the school. She always kept her cool, and she wasn't afraid to confront disrespect. But Kade was never a bully. She kept to her clique, and she only assailed people who stepped out of their bounds and into Kade's. It was very well known that Kade's home life was very troublesome which very clearly led her to be the restless fireball that she was in school. Many believed Kade would slip into a life of drugs, crime, and poverty after high school. They would be right about two of those three things, but only partially right. Kade's reputation in small town Delton was easily heard, and few wanted to take on such a troublesome girl as an employee. With her home life deteriorating further, Kade found herself out on her own. She couch surfed for a while, right up until she fell into a wrong crowd and achieved a sense of twisted security. Even during high school, Kade had a number of petty crimes under her belt, but nothing was ever proven. The only things she ever truly got in shit for was stealing her dad's vintage mustang and street racing the thing at absurd speeds past the highway patrol. Not only did she win the race, but her arrest caused some ripples in the right places. Her parents didn't bail her out, not that she expected they would. Instead, it was a rich entrepreneur, who had just expanded his business to Delton. The man paid her bail and hired her on as his personal driver. Kade was puzzled by the man's generosity for a time. So when she asked, it became clear that the man wasn't entirely on the up-and-up. He didn't just want a personal driver, he wanted a talented wheelman for his less than legit enterprises. And just his luck, one had drifted right past him on the interstate exit ramp and was arrested just after! Kade expected to be in debt to the man so she would have no choice but to do his dirty work. But he explained that he was in favor of having subordinate that wanted to work for him, rather than be forced to. The only stipulation was that she knew the risks of screwing up and the consequences if she ratted him out. She knew how to keep her lips shut tight. Kade found herself working out of town a lot, but she would always return to Delton in a new luxury home paid for by the high risk, high reward jobs her boss sent her on. She and the entrepreneur wound up developing a friendship and trust in one another. And soon she had become a part of his criminal family. Kade would know her schedule many weeks in advance, which afforded her plenty of agreed upon time off when she needed it. As it would happen, her latest break would fall on the window of time as Ritman High's demolition. She figured since she was around, she might as well check it out. PSYCHE Kade was a very complex individual. She had a chip on her shoulder, no doubt about that, but she was a go-getter. She displayed a cool confidence that made her unafraid to take on challenges far greater than her ability. Often times, that would wind up with her being beaten into the ground, but she never seemed to concede or yield. She was a born fighter. Nowadays, and very contrary to her attitude back in high school, Kade has refined her cool. She has gone from being bold, loud, and boisterous, to calm, professional, and reserved. It is clear with one look in her eyes that the spark is still there, just now with several years of maturity to temper it. ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔

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POWER Does it ever boggle your mind when you try to force your brain to interpret one sense as another? Such as trying to taste something purely because it smells good? Or trying to associate colors with something you hear like music? Have you ever succeeded? Then you might be a synesthete, someone who's senses have become linked in a limited capacity. But what if that ability was dialed up to eleven? What if not just two of your senses were tied together, but ALL of them? Hyper-Synesthesia, something that would theoretically drive a human being insane from overstimulation of the senses. Seeing and hearing glass shatter. What would simply observing such an event feel like? Taste like? Smell like? It's hard to comprehend, so just imagine somebody experiencing Hyper-Synesthesia and the sheer amount of willpower they must possess to get through it. Kade's power of synesthesia might not be the entirety of her power. It is possible the power came with a little something on the side to help dampen the effects of the synesthesia. The best hypothesis is that her brain is processing the sensory information at a superhuman rate. Nevertheless, with practice and mastery, Kade's synesthesia could be used massively to her advantage. She could potentially even isolate her sensory experiences to two or three senses at a time instead of all five. ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔

- ▼ STRENGTHS ► Effectively using a sixth-sense to analyze environments and situations ► Heightened reflexes and reaction speeds ► Strong empathic advantages by experiencing body-language and micro-expressions through other senses ► Can be 'switched on and off' at will ▼ WEAKNESSES ► Can be overwhelmed, and incapacitated in extreme circumstances, by very sudden loud noises, bouts of pain, bright lights, horrible smells, and bad tastes ► Easily exploitable if the power is figured out ► Hard to use without extensive practice, being unprepared and activating the power in an area with several stimuli could be potentially dangerous ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔