[DH1e] The Damocles Contingency (OOC)

[Mazer Rackham]

I will award Necro 400xp to help him catch up.

 

The rest will be the cost of the Talent.

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham you spoil me! And I will greedily take it! 

[Lysimachus]

So 400 for the Talent and 400 to spend, bringing Scourge level with the rest of us at 2k? That sounds very generous to me, all hail the largesse of our GM! 

(That's both thumbs up! )

 

@Necro: Dont forget that if you spend all 400, it will put you up to the start of Rank 4 and you'll get a free level of Sound Constitution (that's 1 Wound back already! )

 

Edit: ...though I fear we may need every Wound we can get!  

Edited March 13, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Necronaut]

Oh well done! I had forgotten about Mazer's house rule. Thanks for that! 

[Mazer Rackham]

41 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Edit: ...though I fear we may need every Wound we can get!  

 

Heheh!

 

I admit nothing. 

[Necronaut]

Scourge's character sheet has been updated. 

[A.T.]

Hasn't Nicios missed his entire action there ?

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Yes he has, apologies to Lord Ikka.

 

This has now been rectified.

Edited March 13, 2023 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

@Mazer Rackham - if you have time, perhaps Scourge can be marked as active in Character Data?

[Mazer Rackham]

I'll get to it at some point.

[A.T.]

Ikka - you'll get an extra hit from firing at half range (+10), which I think you've included to get to 46. But that would be three hits either way (the original and two full DoS)

 

I don't think Falk can do more this next round than get up to a junction and try not to get spotted

 -perception test so the posting isn't held up  = 35 vs perception 47

[Mazer Rackham]

Appreciated AT.

[Lysimachus]

Was just looking back at the Data thread, and the Inquisition NPCs in particular.

 

Is Vendetta the female Agent previously known by Stitches, or is there another character we've not met yet?

 

The codename Viceroy makes more sense now too. I thought she was a full Inquisitor (right?) But if so, now I assume she is a more junior one still working for Locke (an Inquisitor Lord?), maybe a former Acolyte who has since gained her own Rosette?

 

 

 

 

(Perhaps this is stuff that will be clarified later, so no biggie, just curious! )

Edited March 14, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

4 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Was just looking back at the Data thread, and the Inquisition NPCs in particular.

 

Hope you have clearance, Acolyte? 

 

4 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Is Vendetta the female Agent previously known by Stitches

 

Yes.

 

4 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

The codename Viceroy makes more sense now too. I thought she was a full Inquisitor (right?) But if so, now I assume she is a more junior one still working for Locke (an Inquisitor Lord?), maybe a former Acolyte who has since gained her own Rosette?

 

She is an Inquisitrix in her own right, but Locke is her superior officer. She commands the Cell in his absence.

 

4 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

(Perhaps this is stuff that will be clarified later, so no biggie, just curious! )

 

Curiosity kills =][= REDACTED =][=

 

[Lysimachus]

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Curiosity kills =][= REDACTED =][=

 

 

Just a little bit more clarification if possible?  (again, feel free to ignore this if it is stuff that should come out IC and at a later time, I just want to make sure I've properly understood the stuff we've already been told!)

 

I'm just trying to get a sense of how much time has passed in the greater story, I know Locke was supposed to have been killed 150 years ago, but how long ago did he come to Damocles? How long since the situation with the Black Ship started and Aldario Senior disappeared?

 

I seem to remember it saying a 'young Inquisitor' coming to investigate, and obvs Locke/Hyronimus is an older man, has he been stranded for a long period of time? So, has he been out of contact with Viceroy for most of that time, or were they talking throughout? Did they know he was alive and there on Damocles, and just not giving us all the info back in the Vault?

Edited March 14, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

28 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

I'm just trying to get a sense of how much time has passed in the greater story, I know Locke was supposed to have been killed 150 years ago, but how long ago did he come to Damocles? How long since the situation with the Black Ship started and Aldario Senior disappeared?

 

This was left deliberately vague to give me room, but it has been about 30 - 40 years, ish.

 

28 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

I seem to remember it saying a 'young Inquisitor' coming to investigate, and obvs Locke/Hyronimus is an older man, has he been stranded for a long period of time?

 

Yes.

 

28 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

So, has he been out of contact with Viceroy for most of that time, or were they talking throughout? Did they know he was alive and there on Damocles, and just not giving us all the info back in the Vault?

 

That's a prickly one. If you know what an Irradial Cogitator is, and how it has claimed the Mechanicum assets within Damolcles, you can be certain that traffic is monitored. His Cell Acolytes are mostly known to the Golem, and obviously something tipped the Golem off as to Locke's survival, location or existence. It could simply be the Golem did not become fully cognisant of his whereabouts or operations due to his methods. (HUMINT vs SIGINT).

[Lysimachus]

Ok, had to look up irradial cogitator but I think I'm there now. Thank you!

 

So, if I understand right, the story goes along these lines:

 

Locke defeated the Golem somewhere else, locked it into the cogitator. It was being transported somewhere else on the Black Ship where Aldario was serving (as Captain, was it?)

 

But Aldario had a secret - psykers in his own family bloodline. The ship came home to his world and was going to take his children. So he made a deal with the Golem, freeing it in return for getting his daughters out?

 

Did the Golem corrupt systems aboard the Black Ship, causing it to crash or even be destroyed? I'm assuming the large piece of armour, hidden with the cogitator+log, also relates to the ship somehow?

 

(Locke was there or on his way to prevent all of this, but he was too late)

 

Some time in the following years, Helene did something to her father and/or her elder sister so she could take over. Presumably she also had the help of the Golem? And maybe is even still working with it?

 

But by the present, the Golem has now corrupted and taken over all of the Adeptus Mechanicus assets on Damocles, which is how it was able to blow up Tertius and Secundus?

 

Presumably the cults springing up around the Hive are dedicated either directly to the Golem, or to other Chaos powers (like Pirentus' Slaaneshi worshippers) who are allied for this uprising? Or just joining in with the general chaos?

 

Does that sum up the info we've discovered so far?

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure why this is all blowing up now though, after so many years? Is it that Dreyfuss came in (relatively recently?) and uncovered the genetic work being done in the Underhive by the Aldarios and was trying to fix it. He had Tracer take something (copied data that he wanted or something?) from the cogitator from the Black Ship, and thereby the Golem infiltrated the Sanctum systems and learned that Locke (Dreyfuss' boss, even if Dreyfuss himself didn't know it?) was on Damocles? And that kicked off the current threat as it wanted revenge on its old nemesis?

 

 

 

 

Sorry again, I just want the backstory clear in my head... 

[Trokair]

Sounds plausible to me Lys, and a tad more coherent then I had pieced together. 

[Necronaut]

All I know is Irradial Cogitators and the Dark Mechanicus are metal as hell, and this has been a cracking good yarn to catch up on and rejoin. 

[Mazer Rackham]

35 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Does that sum up the info we've discovered so far?

 

Mostly.

 

35 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

I'm not sure why this is all blowing up now though, after so many years?

 

Good. More to be revealed.

 

22 minutes ago, Trokair said:

Sounds plausible to me Lys, and a tad more coherent then I had pieced together. 

 

I dunno Tro, there've been points where you've been very close to guessing.  Had to bite my tongue more than once. 

Edited March 14, 2023 by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

19 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

I dunno Tro, there've been points where you've been very close to guessing.  Had to bite my tongue more than once. 

 

A broken Chronometer is still right three one err... some times a day.

[Lysimachus]

22 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Mostly.

 

 

'Mostly' in the sense of this:

 

22 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Good. More to be revealed.

 

(in which case, that is fine by me! )

 

 

 

 

...or in the sense that I've misunderstood something that has been clearly explained/confirmed but I just missed it?

 

 

 

I'm guessing we are focusing on the Fight involving Nicios/Falk, but after that will there by an opportunity to ask Locke to clarify about all of these things? (In which case, I'll shut up and wait! )

 

Edit: and go back and re read everything Tro has written...

Edited March 14, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Trokair]

2 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Edit: and go back and re read everything Tro has written...

It’s all just paranoid rumbling, honest.

 

Just because they are after you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be paranoid.

[Mazer Rackham]

1 hour ago, Lysimachus said:

I'm guessing we are focusing on the Fight involving Nicios/Falk, but after that will there by an opportunity to ask Locke to clarify about all of these things? (In which case, I'll shut up and wait! )

 

Once the fight is concluded, Locke will take your questions in the form of an organised Q&A panel which Necro will moderate.

 

1 hour ago, Trokair said:

Just because they are after you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be paranoid.

 

^ Wisdom.

[Necronaut]

Yes, let's have the man who was blown up and stitched back up, and now operated upon and stitched back up, all within a roughly 24-48 hour timespan moderate the Q&A panel.

 

"So for our first question we'd like--"

 

"EXISTENCE IS SUFFERING."

 

"But..."

 

<Muffled screaming>

 

"We'll be going now." 

Edited March 14, 2023 by Necronaut