Dark Heresy: The Oremor Affliction IC

Game Master Rookseye

trafficking in proscribed lore... alright everyone roll malignancy...

lol

all the while I thought it was only the big four... how foolish

Here is a short list for you Rad.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chaos_Gods

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khorne

as an example of sacred numbers, and the like.

Btw, this is my favorite website, and covers most things dealing with 40k history and general background. It is by no means complete, and they are adding to it all the time.

It's funny you guys have hit on the numerology aspect, because it is present. I will say no more.

Does his ID say he is from Gunmetal City?

No, the cover identities that you are using show him as being an indentured bodyguard to a Malfian subsector trade consortium, based out of Malfi. Although they are false idents, they are actually "real" in a manner of speaking because they were generated using Ahmazzi's extensive resources.

It's funny you guys have hit on the numerology aspect, because it is present. I will say no more.

Now if we can only translate the numbers into the winning combination for the lotto...

BTW, do we have a private code for vox transmissions like morse code?

Now if we can only translate the numbers into the winning combination for the lotto...

Well we know who Tzeentch is corrupting...

all the while I thought it was only the big four... how foolish

It is chaos, do you think they would be that regimented?

Damage for unarmed combat is 1d5-3+str bonus. Page 197 in the rulebook.

Oh, good. Just a straight 1d5 for me then.

Well lets hope Zani told the security we were good tippers...

Rookseye, would it be proper to say we are going to the astropaths for confirmation of trade negotiations?

Let me guess, he ate a shoggoth for lunch. Oh, the joys of Nurgle.

Rookseye, would it be proper to say we are going to the astropaths for confirmation of trade negotiations?

Yes. The Orcut VII Astropathic Choir is located on Central Upspire level 3, just beneath the oversized, inverted mushroom-cap like halo that serves as the hive's primary spaceport.

Let me guess, he ate a shoggoth for lunch. Oh, the joys of Nurgle.

Nurgle. Making poop scary since 1987.

OK, sorry to leave you in suspense, but it is getting late here.

I will post a battlemap for the impending combat tomorrow for Iacton and Sav. Also, Johnnnie's situation will be caught up and we will see the others arriving at the Astropathic Choir.

Not sure who is having the scarier time. Me and Davi battling daemons and gangers, or Lorm and Rad dealing with the Bureaucracy of the Imperium.

I think I win that prize, after all I have Ishmael with me.

Well, since my plans for this combat is "break door down, get Savolos and guy out, run back to servitor to get shotgun because I'm not touching those Warp-birthed things", I'm guessing we're in deeper s&^t than them. (Pun fully intended.)

we will see the others arriving at the Astropathic Choir.

Rookseye, to use the codes, will Uriah have to reveal himself as Inquisition?

Well, since my plans for this combat is "break door down, get Savolos and guy out, run back to servitor to get shotgun because I'm not touching those Warp-birthed things", I'm guessing we're in deeper s&^t than them. (Pun fully intended.)

Davi, you have to remember Imperial bureaucracy have swallowed up more victims then daemons ever have.

Davi The Eccentric wrote:

Well, since my plans for this combat is "break door down, get Savolos and guy out, run back to servitor to get shotgun because I'm not touching those Warp-birthed things", I'm guessing we're in deeper s&^t than them. (Pun fully intended.)

Davi, you have to remember Imperial bureaucracy have swallowed up more victims then daemons ever have.

That isn't very comforting when you're getting into a fist fight with ambulatory effluence.

Rookseye, I thought you should know that I will be working later than normal. I will post as soon as I get home.

That's OK Lorm, my wife hijacked me for a night out for Valentine's Day. I will be unable to post myself and will resume tomorrow.

Hope you and your wife had a good time.

Question for you Rook. If someone pass's a fear test against a certain fear causing creature. If they encounter the creature again would it be safe to assume they don't have to test again?

Hope you and your wife had a good time.

Question for you Rook. If someone pass's a fear test against a certain fear causing creature. If they encounter the creature again would it be safe to assume they don't have to test again?

We did, thanks Bal.

I'm not sure if it explicitly says anything in the DH rulebook, but will check. I was always fond of the Call of Cthulhu/BRP rule that you would be OK in the specific encounter for that entity if you made the check once against a particular entity. That applies here, too. Encountering a 'minor' threat like a nurgling in similar circumstances to your first encounter would likely be easier, but I would have to say it would depend on the nature of the encounter.

The same amount of nurglings as before crawling down a hall toward you...maybe not...or at least a bonus to the WP test.

Nurgling climbs out of your dead friend's distended abdomen...yeah, you might need a Fear test...

I'd say some warp entities are just so damn terrifying you'd need the check every time, though.

Hey, look on the bright side, according to the sidebar on p. 237, "Only the Insane Shall Prosper", if your current Insanity Point total in the tens column is equivalent to the Fear Rating of a particular foe, you need not test. Thing is, this advantage has its own drawbacks.

Lol thanks. Personally I would like for Sav to keep his sanity.

I just wanted to iron out the rule since it seems Nurgle's Scrubbing Bubbles might do more than one guest appearance in this campaign.

I just realized something. Whenever I'm thinking Iacton's lines, I keep imagining Agent Smith saying them. Just the general unchanging tone and speech pattern.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled out-of-character discussion.

I just realized something. Whenever I'm thinking Iacton's lines, I keep imagining Agent Smith saying them. Just the general unchanging tone and speech pattern.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled out-of-character discussion.

Heh!

"We are here for you, Mr. Anderson...err...Krade."

For Rook

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I figured I might as well explain why I'm helping the Yelloboros get the door open. First, unless Iacton jumps onto their backs and chokes them, there's no way he's stopping them from getting the door open at this point. Second, Savolos doesn't seem to be the type to start screaming just because a couple gangers are trying to get in. Keeping them from getting in won't help if the person your protecting's got his throat slit. (Right now, Iacton's probably expecting Workmen X somehow has a knife, locked the door and is trying to kill Savolos. Of course, Iacton's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer.)

Radavel wrote:

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Everyone familiar with "Glossia"?

The photography website or something involving tongues? Of course, you could just be talking about speaking in tongues.

Never heard of it myself.

I believe Rad is talking about the code language used by Inquisitor Eisenhorn in the Dan Abnett books. Essentially unrelated words are strung together in particular structures known to a select group of his acolytes to relay messages.

An example would sound something like this:

"Thorn Wishes Talon, Sundered Near."

This might be a directive for one of his acolytes to lay suppressing fire on a position close to him.

So, basically the Secret Tongue(Acolyte) skill?

So, basically the Secret Tongue(Acolyte) skill?

Pretty much.

As an aside, having read the Eisenhorn omnibus and most of the Ravenor one, I would highly recommend them to anyone. I usually have pretty low expectations for RPG fiction, preferring to avoid it entirely, but he really nails the feel of the 40k universe and tells a compelling tale. They are solid science fiction first, that happens to be well-couched in 41st millennium.

I have read alot of 40k series. But I haven't read the Eisenhorn or Ravenor books yet. Only Inquisitor series I have finished is the Inquisitor Wars Trilogy, but thats old school. I mostly read the Ultramarines, Soul Drinkers, and Horus Heresy series. With off shoots of some of the Chaos novels with Storm of Iron, and The Lord of Night being my favorites. The Lord of Night has a fantasic Inquisitorial Acolyte character in it. It also shows how devious and far sighted the Eldar are as a race. If I ever get caught up on all the novels I am reading I will try and check those series out.

Presently reading Angels of Darkness by Gav Thorpe, a story on the mysterious Dark Angels

Pardon the sudden outburst, but weren't those gangers described as slab-muscled brutes earlier? The kind of people that have more than 30 strength? Maybe they just shoved sides of beef down their shirts to look tougher...

Question: what is our XP level now? 1,000?

Rad, we have 900 xp's.

Yeah I remember the gangers being brutes as well. Guess there size shrank with the stink.

Lets see if I have death by nurglings.

Lets see if I have death by nurglings.

Then we would have to flush you.

Ewwww!!!!

Balfic-graa wrote:

Lets see if I have death by nurglings.

Then we would have to flush you.

You better hope I don't back up.

Pardon the sudden outburst, but weren't those gangers described as slab-muscled brutes earlier? The kind of people that have more than 30 strength? Maybe they just shoved sides of beef down their shirts to look tougher...

Yep, that's the problem sometimes with using canned stats for antagonists, a closer look at what I was using showed Mr. Savalos "He-Man" Thul was actually stronger.

I actually considered bumping them up after the fact...I guess I am guilty of over-description on this one.

Just say that they are musclebound strength and Savalos is wiry strength.