Let's LARP the Emperor's Finest - a wh40k IF

[Ulminati]

Looks like the vote's in the bag. Are anyone seriously NOT going to follow the inquisitor given our past choices?

 

[Gondolin]

Does anyone believe that we're not heading into a trap?

 

[Baltika9]

We're dead anyway. Might as well do it with style.

 

[Kayerts]

I don't think it's a trap. If you charge ass-first into a tyrannosaurus's mouth, I wouldn't call that a trap. I'd call that dinosaur-assisted suicide. Anyway, superfluous vote for 1.

 

[Esquilax]

Does anyone believe that we're not heading into a trap?

Of course it isn't a trap. I believe instead that Papa Nurgle loves us all so very, very much.

I'm going to buck the consensus here and vote for 2). I think that our skills would be better suited towards getting the traces of xeno matter along the hive entrances instead of joining up with the Inquisitor. Then again:

You can’t imagine how you’re supposed to collect any kind of sample under these conditions.

But we're already in a dangerous situation and the data is more important than anything else.

 

[Omicron]

1

 

[eklektyk]

bumpan for da bump god!

edityedit of 'coz 1 we want to se this armor of his in action up close, real close, yes.....YES

 

[Renegen]

1

 

[Saark]

Although it would make the chances of survival for the 2nd squad much bigger when we accompany them while the first squad goes with the inquisitor, I'd say we stick with him. Also, they're just guardsmen and therefor expendable while our I'y friend sure would like someone with medical skills around him when shit hits the fan. Not to mention that we can use him to climb up the ladder a bit, so we can become quartermaster afterwards and see Ulminati rage again

1

 

[Jick Magger]

1. As Kayerts said, it's technically not a trap when we know we're gonna die!

 

[oscar]

1. This inquisitor seems like a p. nice dude

 

[Esquilax]

1. This inquisitor seems like a p. nice dude

Just like Holt, right? Of course he's civil to us, we've volunteered to be thrown into the meat grinder after the Commissar told us it was a shit idea. Let's stop having mancrushes on people that see us as nothing more than expendable. Which... we are, but we must nevertheless be wary.

 

[Excidium]

1) Last time we didn't when we should have done it, so now we'll do it when we should not

 

[Jick Magger]

2. We know our duty and we will do it

 

[Baltika9]

1. We ingored it once, and look where that got us.

 

[Gondolin]

1) Last time we didn't when should have done it, so now we'll do it when we should not

That's the spirit.

 

[Jaedar]

1 if the inquisitor is still alive/capable
However, if he is incapacitated which lets us make the shots, then 2. I don't think we should go into the city without a power armor to hide behind.

 

[Saark]

Seeing how at least these 2 cultists have been ambushed, that we're down to 4 people and that we've seen dead people come to "life" again I'd say going into a combat zone with about zero vision and at least 6 of our now (maybe) corrupted/tainted mates seems like a bad idea. A really bad idea. Something is in there that either was resilient enough to survive plasma warheads, or was smart enough to avoid them. I'd rather try and gather some of these samples and get them back to safety than dying to something even our Inquisitor doesn't seem to know much about. If shit hits the fan I think knowing at least something about what we're facing after the exterminatus has been ordered is more important than facing whatever it is head-on.

Since I'm not exactly great at identifying what is a dangerous situation and what is a trap when playing any form of WH40k RPG, I'm still gonna vote 1. At least all the smaller things should have been nuked to hell, and we might meet up with another squad sent by Holt. I'm quite certain he wouldn't just bombard an area and not check it out afterwards.

edit: Forget that. Voting 2 now, totally forgot that we've only got 2 hours left before having to meet up with the valkyrie.

 

[Darth Roxor]

The second scout is dissolving in front of your eyes; his armor, flesh and bone eaten away by lieutenant’s corrosive blood

One of them has had the back of his head and most of his brain torn out, whereas the other seems to have been impaled by some sharp, barbed weapon. Their weapons are still in their holsters. No time to react, you think to yourself.

HIVE'S ENTRANCE

OUR DEATHS WILL BE MAGNIFICENT





1 seems like a bait. If it was possible to stop whatever was there earlier, now it's probably too late without massive support.

2, however, means that we can collect samples and understand the enemy better to destroy it. Or just call in Exterminatus and be done with it

 

[ironyuri]

Just because we didn't do it earlier doesn't mean we should do it now, this isn't time for meta-gaming. We volunteered to join the Inquisitor to collect samples, let's do what we came here to do. We're a medicae, not a fucking Rambo.

2.

Play the character you've got, not the character you want to metagame.

 

[Hellraiser]

2) We didn't do it last time, and it's to late to fix that error now. So don't, focus on the mission. Odds are it's neck deep in nurgling shit by now anyway as it is after whatever ritual fucked us over the last time.

We are the emperor's battle nurse and we must act like one as ironyuri said.

 

[Kayerts]

I was going to say what Saark did. I'd add that it seems like our carapace armor does not seem to allow us to engage the infected in close combat without high risk of fatalities. So despite our specialist armor and weaponry--which root made it clear that we aren't well-trained to use--encountering even, e.g., a squad of infected heretics like we found in the corpse pile would probably ruin us. The one thing that might make a difference is if we've got an (environmentally sealed), power-armored psyker to hide behind. Jaedar's question seems pretty relevant. (edit: Actually, that's probably not enough of a difference anyway.)

Also, we've got a total of two hours to get back to the Valkyrie; if anyone thinks we can slip in and out of the hive city in that time, while gathering meaningful intelligence, by all means, speak up. Otherwise I'm going to say that's extremely unlikely to work, and our best case scenario if that fails is to hold out against whatever's here until a secondary rescue team can find us, while breathing through respirators. Prospect of survival: slight. Prospect of achieving the mission but dying: also slight.

2.

 

[Stygian Lurker]

1

 

[Saark]

Changed my vote. Btw root (or anyone else who can still track it), you wouldn't happen to have a small sort of map which shows the hive-city, the bunker, the first "outbreak", our first zone of deployment and ground HQ? I'm kinda lost now as to where everything is in relation to everything else. A description suffices too.

 

[Jick Magger]

Just because we didn't do it earlier doesn't mean we should do it now, this isn't time for meta-gaming. We volunteered to join the Inquisitor to collect samples, let's do what we came here to do. We're a medicae, not a fucking Rambo.

Plus Root said the main reason we had a chance of surviving last time was because we had a blank with us. Sure we're more resiliant to psykers, but that probably won't get us far.