@ODV: Name your Ordos, sir!
Choose my Ordos huh... Hmmm Xenos! I dont know if I made it known in the back story but I was suggesting the Slave Ship Thaddius was aboard was to take him to a Dark Eldar slave fleet. So his first experience in the big wide space ended up being a giant rape from aliens... So... F!&+ XENOS!
I am writing up a scenario from scratch, but I have the idea solidly in my head. I am working on it, I promise. I should have something up a little later this week.
We could do a little pre-RP if you'd like. Start up the game thread with you just waiting for the ship to finish warp travel and interacting with crew or whatever. Or we can just wait for me to make sure I got the scenario in order. Let me know.
I can wait a little bit longer I suppose eh.
I'm checking once every couple of days on your updates. Look forward to reading what you guys come up with.
Thaddius spent his time in the hyper space lanes on ship cleaning his service revolver slug thrower repeatedly, dry firing it to get the weight of the trigger to be second nature. Getting accustomed to the new grip placed on it since his last visit to the core worlds. He loved the tool. Not one of those new backward engineered xeno job's half the punks seemed to carry around. He had seen what could happen with one of those. Just as likely to blow up and disintegrate you and half your squad. Stupid way to go.
He loved it onboard the Emperor's Boot. An all hum-crew. Folks he could trust, rely on. When in FTL transit he felt like it was the space life he had imagined back home. That universe it COULD be, if only the Xenos weren't infecting the fringes of human territories. If there were only Man, Man could live peacefully. It was something Thaddius was absolutely sure of. To hope he would live to see such a day was foolhardy and he knew it. But he would be damned if he didn't do his best to help bring it about. As soon as possible.
Nice. That fits in nicely with the story I have cooking. And incidentally, if you think anyone is using technology that is Xenos related, you'd best report it to your superiors. It might be time to "audit" the ship's armory. Or perhaps the crew.
Plasma weapons are of course in use in various branches of the Imperial Armed Forces. Thaddius was slow to learn that. His agriworld only ever had access to slugthrowers, and even then that was for the home branches of Imperial Guard.
Thaddius remembers the first time he tried reporting the obvious Xeno tech to his superiors. They laughed in his face, their large thick jowls rolled with laughter.
"Xeno tech boy? That's the Empire's Divine Weapons they are! Man-made, for xeno and heretic killing excellency. Get out of here and report back when you have something a bit better than that eh!"
"I think--I mean...I mistakenly thought that they originally came from reverse engineering of Xenos tech but I have no such facts. My apologies Inquisitor!" He bowed and excited. Face reddening with embarassment. He would have to worked even harder to overcome that slap in the face.
He shrugged the thought from his mind. Regardless what the superiors thought. That plasma gear was far too close to what those darky knife ears use. He wouldn't be caught dead with a piece like that in his hands.
First post is up. If there is any information you think you would like to know, just tell me and I will write up some description. Otherwise I trust you know what to do next!
I have been thinking about how best to approach this game. I am going to try to allow even my scripted adventure more of a sandbox feel. You should find you have multiple ways to accomplish a goal, and I will mostly allow you to gather information and complete objectives as you see fit. I am also considering hiding the facts from you. No obvious gimmes so to speak. Whatever you conclude from your investigation will be what we play off of, and if you are not correct than that's just how it goes, heh heh. You may not ever know. :P
I figure that when it comes time to try and shore up your PCs shortcomings (psykic powers, social etiquette, muscle, etc.) I will once again try to offer a variety of options. I am thinking of a kind of "rock, paper, scissors" scenario with NPCs. Give a you a few contacts who can go off camera and do some things you can't normally or wouldn't be likely to succeed at, but still making you read the situation to determine who would be a better solution to accomplish the off-screen goal. Might be a tricky balance, but I bet we can find it. I want you to be the star, and I will try to stay away from running a GMC unless you want the company.
If you have any suggestions or comments about that, let me know.
Also, I am going to provide the link to the latest forum game that I tried to interest you and Drachenfels in previously. I have already played through two of the roleplay only, no rules games. They are fun and the accusations and shifting alliances are great. The most current moderator of the game would like a few more individuals to join up, so if you are interested in roleplaying with few restrictions then please consider joining us. :-)
Might want to check out this, too. >:-P
Sorry this hasn't been updated yet. I was deciding what equipment I want to be in the duffel the servitor has for you. Since I don't have DH on my work computer yet, it slows me up when I need to check a rulebook. You know I do most of my posting at work, lol. I will probably be sending the pdf to myself over the weekend.
Oh and incidentally. Since you chose Ordos Xenos, I will definitely be picking up Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos. Yes, it's in the Space Marine line, but it pretty much sums up everything a GM needs to know about the different Xenos and their tech. What I am really excited about is the individual splat books they are doing for each of the Runious Powers in the Black Crusade line. The first one up is Tzeentch!
Lol, that's right Drachenfels. FFG knew I would need a lure to bring you into the game. Mwahahaha!
Fantastic!