Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader Game, Recruiting/OOC Thread Options

[Tanegar]

Sorry, man, the dice gods have not smiled on you. Willpower 84 vs 41: 4 degrees of failure.

[Drace]

HA! That is awesome! Well if ya would be so kind, a re-roll using a fate point would be nice from the next player to read this?

[Tanegar]

Better, but still no joy: Willpower 57 vs 41, 1 degree of failure. Guess good ol' Lucius isn't sticking his flesh anywhere near that blade.

[LurkerOutThere]

As a third option Lucius can through desire not to appear weak in front of his crew go through it anyway. You'll just take some sanity damage.

[Drace]

OOOooo I like that option, going insane I always see as a trademark of a potentially great rogue trader. Really, all the sane ones (re:the merchant guy whos name I can't remember) are rather boring and never that famous.

how many d5s or d10s?

[LurkerOutThere]

A couple d5's, don't want you going kookoo for cocopuffs just yet.

[Drace]

8! 2d5=8

Oh Lucius is going to be full blown insane by the time he is famous.

[PBTHHHHT]

well, cornelius is not going to look at the paper printout unless the captain is going to share it with him. So he's oblivious of that, he's still finishing the baptism and blessings. Plus, he'll soon start offering it to anybody else in the hangar area.

[Tanegar]

@agustaaquila

Just out of curiosity, why did you bother making a roll to determine whether Mordechai managed to read the pictscreen message? The rule of thumb that I've always taken as read is that dice are only necessary when there's a chance of failure.

[agustaaquila]

Well, I was 1) moving in robes down a slope while 2) trying to keep the better part of my face concealed and 3) read smallish text from a distance. When you combine these, I thought that something could go wrong. So I made the roll.

[LurkerOutThere]

Looking more and more like we're down to just the three, i'm fine with that i'm just wanting to let you guys know so if it seems i'm waiting sometimes it's likely to let you guys have a conversation. I'll post the next big push forward tomorrow night barring something coming up in conversation or RL interruptions.

[LurkerOutThere]

Game over?

[Drace]

Sorry, had a recent hospital trip with the fiance. Will have time to post tomorrow.

[agustaaquila]

Well, I would like to see some combat before, but if everyone leaves then there is not much we can do.

[Tanegar]

I'm still here, ready to head up to the bridge.

[PBTHHHHT]

I'm here, ready and waiting.

[Zyerne]

As mentioned to Lurker in PM, I had some RL things come up then my son got sick. I had hoped to get back to things this weekend but he's still been recovering. He should be back to school tomorrow, hopefully I can get caught up then.

[LurkerOutThere]

The transition to night shift has been a little hard on me and I don't have access to dumpshock from there so I've dropped a little behind on my posting. I will catch up tomorrow morning before hitting the sack.

[LurkerOutThere]

Hey folks school and work have been monopolizing my time expect the next gm post including moving to the bridge tomorow afternoon.

[PBTHHHHT]

No worries, RL has priorities over gaming.

[Lansdren]

Please forgive the intrusion into your game but I really liked reading what you guys have been doing so far, I'm not familiar with the GW rpg games myself but I might have a look now

[LurkerOutThere]

I'm glad your enjoying so far and hey we seem to have a few openings if you decide your interested.

I'll also take this moment to briefly note:

The stance the divine inspiration represents and the things it asks of you guys are my somewhat ham handed attempt at giving your characters an outlet for their beliefs and where they fall in the 40k universe. They are not an obligation to follow any particular path. If you decide that your character is an ultratraditionalist and will react accordingly that's groovy. But the concept that the empire has gone way far from the Emperor's vision has always been soemthign that fascinated me about the setting and something I couldn't help but explore.

[Tanegar]

See, the only people in the entire Imperium who don't revere the Emperor as a living (or at least, quasi-living) deity are the Space Marines. The Adeptus Astartes are the only people who even know that the Emperor didn't want to be worshipped. From a canon perspective, what the Divine Inspiration is saying is heresy of the highest order, sufficient to get the ship melted down and recast into several million urinals. The whole Imperial bureaucracy, but especially the Ecclesiarchy, is devoted to upholding the religious worship of the emperor; if the PCs were to show any sign whatsoever that they agree with or are even willing to tolerate the ship's views, they are basically holding up a giant sign saying, "Attention Inquisitors! Torture and kill us ASAP!"

If you want to make a radical departure from 40k canon and say that the Emperor's original intent is more-or-less common knowledge, that's fine, as long as you're aware of it. If not, the Divine Inspiration is basically asking us to commit suicide by pitting ourselves against the combined might of the entire Imperium.

[LurkerOutThere]

Well to be fair part of the reason the DI needs your intervention is it is fully aware to go on it's stated course would lead to it's own destruction. At the same time while the information is not common knowledge it out there and is even held (in secret) by some factions within the Inquisition. But yes other then the space marines, some of which don't even concern themselves with the finer points of the Emperor's original beliefs the population is well and truely cowed.

But the simple fact is a lot of stuff does slip by the inquisition, for every but of success they have rooting out cults and other activities thousands more go unnoticed so it's not like ascribing to these beliefs is an instant death sentence. Professing them loudly and publicly will be a problem sure, but there's so much Rogue Traders do that skirts imperial law this isn't inherantly worse then most of that. That is after all the problem with a society where the punishment for almost all crimes is death and worse.

So in truth I'm fine if you decide to blow up or otherwise disable the ships cogitator resolving it's a blasphemy you don't want to deal with. In all likelyhood you'll loose some cool toys ( I wouldn't be very good at seducing you to the hard path if i didn't offer benefits) as well as the question of what does a loyal servant fo the Emperor do when they find out his true will. I was trying to avoid being too heavy handed at it but the DI can prove what it's speaking (for certain degrees of prove) if asked.

So yea, I am aware what level i'm talking about and I know what the normal reaction would be, I'm giving you the chance to make that reaction, rather then just assuming. If i get the potential to give my players the opportunity to enter into a matter of treachery and high conspiracy and yet still be the GOOD GUYS in the grim dark future, how could I pass that up.

[Drace]

Good guys? When did we start being good guys? I thought we were only marginally better than the soul stealing, city raizing, civilian slaughtering forces out there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

And I don't think it was until a few thousand years before 41st M that the imperial creed existed. From what I remember (Not at home with books, but on a bus, so can't check for sure) I think it was just before the reign of blood or whatever it was called in the early 30's (30k-34k) that it even became a full blown religion supported by the gov't. Before that it was a faith that was here and there, and before that a cult that was stamped out nearly in it's entirity.

And hey, I am all for slippery slopes and running down them headlong. I'll just try to put up a fight when it comes to demons and the ruinous powers. Try.

Aswell from what Dark heresy describes in several tomes (I think originally when talking about the redicivist group that has the black scythe as their symbol) the majority of non-puritan hardliner inquisitors know that the Emperor was none-divine. Whether they think he is now or not isn't mentioned, but it states that in the inquisition they learn that most machines don't have true machine spirits, the emperor's divinity is a new event/belief etc.

As for Lucius, he is just fine with whatever the machine is saying, as long as he gets his profits to show the matriarch and upper echelon of Voorhes he couldn't give a crap, and just claim ignorance and blame Hakkonen for not telling him that the inane techno-babble he said about the cogitator was unusual and meant it was an AI. Safer path the more people you can throw under a bus and all.