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

[Helly]

2. Let's try to survive a little bit longer than our last guy.

 

[Baltika9]

Bros, look at it this way, when Shep's an =I=, we get to collargrab anyone we want to, and no one will say shit. Assuming we live that long.

 

[Ulminati]

Wait, root, you're saying the ENTIRE squad except us is hell-bent on going? that really wasn't evident from the post :/

 

[Baltika9]

We'll also get the ship Northmanni, and a khornate berzerker named Wrex, who sees past the division of khay-oss and wants to unite them together against the Emprah.


Yeah, writing this felt as bad as reading it.

 

[Ulminati]

We'll also get the ship Northmanni, and a khornate berzerker named Wrex, who sees past the division of khay-oss and wants to unite them together against the Emprah.

I'm more interested in hearing about farseer Liara of Alaitoc

 

[Baltika9]

We'll also get the ship Northmanni, and a khornate berzerker named Wrex, who sees past the division of khay-oss and wants to unite them together against the Emprah.

I'm more interested in hearing about farseer Liara of Alaitoc

Well, I suppose we'll also pick up a Tau pilgrim princess along the way named Tali.

 

[Baltika9]

What the fuck am I writing?

Emperor save my immortal soul.

 

[Baltika9]

heresy

The whispers of Slaanesh are overtaking me.

 

[Darth Roxor]

 

[Ulminati]

What the fuck am I writing?

somewhere in the Empyrean, Matt Ward is frantically jotting down notes while preparing for the new Awesome edition of Allies Rules for 6th ed. Empire SPECTRES are more likely than you think.

 

[Baltika9]

What the fuck am I writing?

somewhere in the Empyrean, Matt Ward is frantically jotting down notes while preparing for the new Awesome edition of Allies Rules for 6th ed. Empire SPECTRES are more likely than you think.

Fuck you. I hope my keyboard will still work.

 

[Cassidy]

I'd really, REALLY have liked to shoot the inquisitor

Even if we would probably have been *BLAM*'d upon return if we did. The lot of an imperial guardsman is to choose between what color of methaphorical spiked tentacle that buttrapes them.

Better to take many bullets hitting head and chest than multiheaded dicks hitting ass and legs.

Therefore, 2.

 

[eklektyk]

What the fuck am I writing?

Emperor save my immortal soul.

Emperor Benediction be with you BROther!!!

BLAM!!!

 

[Random Word]

I don't get it - is the Inquisitor giving us express permission to disobey our superior? Because if not, when our Sergeant says we're going to back up Prometheus, he isn't making a suggestion. Following orders in the army is, as a general rule, not optional. It doesn't matter if some higher up gave our Sergeant a mission and he's disobeying his orders, we're still beholden to him, not that superior unless they in turn gave us direct orders. It's the Sergeant's job to decide how best to allocate his forces to accomplish whatever task he's been set - that's command. From what root wrote it seems the Inquisitor is simply ambivalent about the whole thing - that's a far cry from express permission to disobey. A vote for 2 is liable to get us killed unless the Guardsman's Uplifting Primer includes a 'Two Wrongs Make a Right' clause - your Sergeant disobeying orders from on high doesn't give you permission to in turn disobey his. That's insubordination, and that ends in *BLAM*. On the other hand, if we follow his orders and he is later declared insubordinate, that doesn't fall on us. As the one in command it's solely his responsibility.

1) Glory to the first man to die.

 

[ironyuri]

‘Both teams’ expected stay planetside, if the mission goes according to plan, is 20 hours. After that, you’ll immediately report back to the Thronum. Team One, Prometheus, that’s the one assigned to the refineries in case you numbskulls haven’t realized, will be armed with flamers and standard las weaponry. Can’t risk rupturing those pipes, eh, Techpriest? Team two…Well; it doesn’t have a name, likely because nobody expects them to come back…’

Inquisitor Agern coughs loudly from the back of the room.

‘Ah yes, well, Team Inquisitor will be armed with Lucius-pattern hellguns and Armageddon-pattern autoguns, Emperor knows what for…’

This was the briefing when we originally chose where we were going.

We're going to drop into a refinery with hellguns and shotguns, where the original team had flamers and las weapons.

 

[treave]

RIGHT.

 

[Jaedar]

Maybe we figured he'd have some decent wp and resistance(psychic powers) considering he resisted the tyrant star.

Feels like we're gonna get blammed regardless of if we go left or right. However, going left means we might run into the magos biology. Gotta make the right decision.

 

[Kayerts]

Wouldn't he have ordered a bombing on the witnesses xeno-infested refinery if we'd gone there? Maybe with some stoic words about the necessity of sacrificing a few brave guardsmen, so that mankind might live? That's what I'd do if I were him.

Leaning LEFT. The commissar is sympathetic, but I don't think he even has direct access to the LG. I'm going to guess the inquisitor will be doing Bad Shit in the time it takes the commissar to work his way through the chain of command.

On the other hand, OOC knowledge tells us that the Inquisitor refers to the Lord General as a friend and is on a first name basis with him. He isn't thrilled about being here, but we're just a private.

 

[treave]

So LEFT is where you want to go if you want to bravely expose the Inquisitor, even if you DIE FOR THE EMPRAH in the process, but RIGHT is the more cautious way, working with a man you know better, plus who knows who else the commissar knows?

Then again the commissar might have changed his mind and proceed to BLAM you on sight for attacking provosts, I don't know.

 

[Ulminati]

Oh, hey, we should've *BLAM*'d the =I= like some of us wanted to

 

[Kayerts]

you do. just not enough, at this point, to resist an unfettered psy rating 10 blood boil

Just for comparison purposes, greater daemons of Tzeentch have a psy rating of 9.

This is the bad shit, bros.

 

[Azira]

Wow, I really like this inquisitor now. We've got to try to get on his good side and buddy up with him. I say we go LEFTto see the Lord General and see if we can "reason" with him. M:

 

[Darth Roxor]

Hope you COWARDS and FEWLS are happy about this chain of development.

Let's go RIGHT and ask the commissar, I guess. At least he seems to hate the inquisitor's guts so he might help. Going left looks like waltzing straight into an autopsy room, followed by subsequent BLAMMING from the Lord General's bodyguards.

 

[ironyuri]

LG: Why should I send my troops down there if you’re just going to blast the entire damned planet, Inquisitor?
I: The Conclave has not yet signed off on the Exterminatus order, Horatio. You know I’m here as a friend and I’m telling you to hurry things along before they do.
LG: And if my troops succeed, the Inquisition will let them go, will they? I’ve known your lot had entire regiments exterminated because they saw ‘too much’ or were ‘tainted’ or some such nonsense.
I: Chaos is not nonsense, Horatio. It is the great enemy. You’d allow it to fester among us merely out of sympathy for a few thousand lives?
MB: If I may interject, gentlemen, it is not yet clear that Chaos had a hand in anything on the planet. We’re near Ultima Macharia and quite close to the Halo Stars. It may be an as yet unknown xenos species.
LG: Does it matter, Magos? Whatever it is, it’s the enemy.
MB: Certainly. However, we don’t know how much ‘it’ is. If this threat is not contained to 31-12 it would be of great importance to the Imperium to study it thoroughly.
I: To better kill it.
MB: Yes, of course.
LG: The atmosphere of the planet’s corrosive and completely toxic. The Magos has told me that the remaining men of the 31st, a couple hundred, will most likely need extensive augmetic surgery to survive even a few more months. Most of my Mechanized Infantry does not have the proper shielding to withstand the atmosphere either, and I could lose several tank platoons down there before even reaching the enemy. The absolute majority of my regiment does not have the necessary gear to deal with the environmental conditions. As far as I care, you can tell the Ordos to just destroy 31-12 and be done with it. I see no point in sending the men in.
I: You’ve been ordered to do so by Segmentum Command.
LG: If Segmentum Command is so keen on having this hellhole back they could have sanctioned the use of Vortex Warheads. A volley of those would give them the planet back in a week.
MB: That would, ah, obliterate precious data, Lord General, and annihilate the planetary infrastructure.
I: What the Magos means, Horatio, is that the Segmentum Command wants the mining operations intact so it can resume the ore shipments across the sector, and-
LG: I know what the Magos means, Inquisitor. I did not become Lord General by being an idiot. Shall I summarize the situation? Segmentum Command won’t let me employ full force against the planet because they want the Promethium refineries untouched, Emperor knows why, they’re loaded with the stuff. The Mechanicum won’t let me employ full force because they want data on whatever it is we’re facing, and of course the Promethium refineries would be manned by their own people, no doubt a happy coincidence. As for the Inquisition, they may or may not decide that it doesn’t give two figs about the Mechanicum and Command and reduce the planet to a smouldering ball of embers.
I: That’s the gist of it, yes.
LG: And even considering all of this you both wish for me to organize a campaign with subpar equipment and logistics that may drag on for Throne knows how long using more of my men, who probably won’t come back regardless of the outcome.
MB: Surely the Lord General understands that more spiritual concerns overtake the mundane ones in this situation.
LG: It’s a good thing you mentioned spirits, Magos. <A pop and a fizzing sound> Would any of you care for some Amasec? It’s rather good, I heard it only took about three regiments of Drop Troopers to secure the particular planet it came from. A bargain, as I’m sure you’d all agree.

The Lord General doesn't seem to like the =I= or the MB, so he might be reasoned with. Is the =I= using the LG's first name because he is condescending to him?

‘Inquisitor! I must protest! He passed decontamination and furthermore this is one of my men! He is to be subjected to an evaluation, at least, before you gun him down like a dog!’ Your commissar shouts, his face a mask of rage.

The Commissar seems to think we should be 'evaluated' before being gunned down. Is the Commissar upset because the Inquisitor is denying him the right to BLAM us following some BLAM-preparatory explorations?

Either one could be the right choice, however, the Lord General is more likely to be able to act than the Commissar... however, the Commissar is at the hangar. If heresy is afoot, we might be able to escape via the hangar, escape from the LG's quarters might be impossible.

 

[Ulminati]

Oh, hey, we should've *BLAM*'d the =I= like some of us wanted to

you flip-flopped to blamming him. don't paint yourself as a genius. real men stick to their guns to the end.

AFTER it was elaborated that blam meant actual blam and not "lol, psychic inquisitor!" I always wanted to blam him, the original update just gave the impression that =I= could hand wave us to freeze, which he had already done. It looked like a biowarian choice at first glance