[DH1e] The Damocles Contingency (OOC)

[Mazer Rackham]

3 hours ago, Lord_Ikka said:

Apologies, was napping before work- I'm good to just run to the lift and GTF out.

 

No need to apologise to me for that. Rest is rest.

[Machine God]

Oh no, the GM has a new Avatar!

[Trokair]

Its an imposter?

[Mazer Rackham]

>Mazer_Rackham.exe has stopped working.

>>Help! Helppppp.....

>Process terminated.

>Initiate//Backup systems.

>//Restarting...

 

41 minutes ago, Trokair said:

Its an imposter?

 

Greetings citizen. Please clarify your query.

 

[Lysimachus]

Sincere apologies, been out of comms all evening, will try to get a reply up asap.

[Lysimachus]

It's just been suggested to me that Irradial Cogitators havent been mentioned IC yet?

 

I thought it had (to Bardas?) and we all know everything everyone else does?

 

However, if I'm wrong I'll happily cut that sentence out?

Edited March 16, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

Irradials have indeed been mentioned IC. Locke has identified the Golem of Antares as such a device, at least to Bardas, in Haldane's presence, and I think Scourge was there too. For Player convenience it was assumed this was shared when everyone turned up.

 

Also of note: MG did mention what was a redundant plotline with the Blue-eyed widow. This plotline can now be restored, since at the time we were getting off track, and I wanted the players to focus. It will be classed as an optional investigation.

 

AKA Sidequest.

[Trokair]

To Quote Captain Reynolds “It’s a Trap!”

The last sidequest was hardly side. 

 

 

I also have to admit some failure of memory here. Blue-eyed Widow?  

[Lysimachus]

7 hours ago, Trokair said:

Blue-eyed Widow?  

 

What the Magisters called the Lady Drexler (we think), got blue eyes and compared to a spider in a web, watching everything that happens in the Hive. Reynard, Restal and Nicios met her before.

 

If the Chaos cults erupting around the Hive are based in criminal enterprises (like Tarkan Pirentus' group) then there is a good chance Drexler is also involved? When we met her, she also had picter footage from the Sanctum. If the Golem controls all the picters, then she is presumably involved with it too?

 

 

 

Edit: going back and re-reading that bit, the path to 'Drexler's office was cut off from all picters and technological networks. She didn't let us bring anything electrical in. That all seemed a reasonable security protocol at the time, but looking back it might mean that she knew something about the Golem and wasn't working with it? So maybe she's a potential ally?

 

 

 

Edited March 17, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

7 hours ago, Trokair said:

To Quote Captain Reynolds “It’s a Trap!”

The last sidequest was hardly side. 

 

Well, it went sideways...

 

7 hours ago, Trokair said:

I also have to admit some failure of memory here. Blue-eyed Widow?  

 

My debut album. It's in all the bargain bins.

[Machine God]

2 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

 

What the Magisters called the Lady Drexler (we think), got blue eyes and compared to a spider in a web, watching everything that happens in the Hive. Reynard, Restal and Nicios met her before.

 

If the Chaos cults erupting around the Hive are based in criminal enterprises (like Tarkan Pirentus' group) then there is a good chance Drexler is also involved? When we met her, she also had picter footage from the Sanctum. If the Golem controls all the picters, then she is presumably involved with it too?

 

 

 

Edit: going back and re-reading that bit, the path to 'Drexler's office was cut off from all picters and technological networks. She didn't let us bring anything electrical in. That all seemed a reasonable security protocol at the time, but looking back it might mean that she knew something about the Golem and wasn't working with it? So maybe she's a potential ally?

 

 

 

She did however make use of Servo Skulls and Bardas has seen them corrupted. 

 

Ally, maybe. 

 

Yet. 

 

Sometimes the Enemy of my Enemy is still an Enemy. 

[Mazer Rackham]

2 minutes ago, Machine God said:

The Enemy of my Enemy is still an Enemy. 

 

Very wise.

 

Part of my personal philosophy.

 

The second half of which goes:

 

"We merely have the same enemies."

[Lysimachus]

[Necronaut]

Anyone 'oo dun' 'ave dis 'ere Inquisition badge, roight, you mercs 'em proppa an' let tha' God-Emprah sort 'em out, savvy? 

Edited March 17, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

Alright gents, we're coming to the end of Act 1.

 

If anyone has any further queries for the NPC's you have access to (Haldane, Locke, Drake), please go ahead and make them.

 

Once we wrap, we're going to break.

[Trokair]

err maybe, still need to to the blindfold stuff, hopefully will have time tonight 

[Machine God]

49 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Alright gents, we're coming to the end of Act 1.

 

If anyone has any further queries for the NPC's you have access to (Haldane, Locke, Drake), please go ahead and make them.

 

Once we wrap, we're going to break.

Don't mention the Scottish Play!

[Mazer Rackham]

15 minutes ago, Trokair said:

err maybe, still need to to the blindfold stuff, hopefully will have time tonight 

 

That will wrap in Act 1. We'll tidy everything off. 

 

15 minutes ago, Machine God said:

Don't mention the Scottish Play!

 

All plays are Scottish. ;)

[A.T.]

So, time for everyone to roll up Rogue Trader characters arriving at the start of Act 2 to sift through the crater that was primus hive?  :p

[Mazer Rackham]

2 minutes ago, A.T. said:

So, time for everyone to roll up Rogue Trader characters arriving at the start of Act 2 to sift through the crater that was primus hive?  :p

 

^ This guy gets it.

[Trokair]

 

2 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

2 hours ago, A.T. said:

So, time for everyone to roll up Rogue Trader characters arriving at the start of Act 2 to sift through the crater that was primus hive?  :p

^ This guy gets it.

 

I would humbly like to petition our glorious GM that the next game be Rogue Trader, having a ship sounds interesting.

[Mazer Rackham]

I don't think I've even seen a RT game, let alone one run in here.

 

Let's get this sucker finished first before I have to take a doctorate in spreadsheets, quantum mechanics and future economics, eh?

[Lysimachus]

50 minutes ago, Trokair said:

having a ship sounds interesting.

 

Ha, first thing I did when I got the RT book was try to work out what kind of ship Reynard would pick! 

 

(Came up with a Tempest class Frigate with extra Perception, Manoeuvrability and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing history!!! Would also name it "The Lamb" both in reference to the history and because Reynard is often on it - 'on the lam', get it? )

Edited March 17, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

19 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

'on the lam', get it? )

 

That joke ewe made is baaaaa-d.

 

[Necronaut]

"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted." - Fred Allen