[DH1e] The Damocles Contingency (OOC)

[Necronaut]

@Machine God I meant the royal "we/us," obviously. ;)

[Machine God]

@Necronaut - I was laughing at something else. I won't explain as I don't want to get in trouble.

[Mazer Rackham]

I think MG is thinking about "weapons in hand" again...

 

 

I'll be taking you down to the river to scrub out that naughty noggin, son...!

[Machine God]

Quarrels?

 

Has Scourge's bolter transformed into saintly Condemnor Boltgun all of a sudden?

 

 

[Necronaut]

It's a Bolt Thrower(TM) innit? 

[Machine God]

29 minutes ago, Necronaut said:

It's a Bolt Thrower(TM) innit? 

 

Yes it throws or shoots bolts! Mass-Reactive bullets (That used to be Gyrojet or Mictojets in old fluff)

 

It's not a Crossbow.

 

Crossbows fire quarrels that are also called bolts (Short Arrows), but apart from the similar name they are not the same.

 

 

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by Machine God
Clarification

[Lysimachus]

Interestingly, bolts and quarrels are the same thing, they're just words based on different languages (German and French respectively).

 

So it makes sense to me that on whatever planet Scourge is from, or a planet he has visited, the native word for a bolt (as in the bolter kind) might be a quarrel?

 

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Necronaut]

@Machine God yes and human understanding of technology in the benighted years of the end of the Dark Millennium is closer to mysticism and superstition than based upon any understanding of basic scientific principles. A crossbow and a boltgun both, in effect, hurl a projectile at the enemies of humankind do they not? So what if one is a purely mechanical system, while the other launches semi-guided, chemical propellant driven, armor-piercing micro warheads? Do they not both kill the baddies to death with the pull of the trigger? ;)

 

I took an artistic liberty with my verbiage for gothic sci-fi flavour. Take it or leave it. And @Lysimachus is of course correct that the words are effectively the same but from different source languages, ignoring particular exceedingly rare variant patterns of boltgun which are barely worth mentioning. My understanding of Warhammer (Fantasy amd 40K) lore was the boltgun was the logical (and metal) extrapolation of a crossbow/"bolt thrower" taken through 40,000 years of technological development. 

 

Μολών λαβέ! 

Edited June 5, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

Moolah Lube?

 

It's all Ygrekian to me.

[Necronaut]

1 minute ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Moolah Lube?

 

It's all Ygrekian to me.

 

Nailed it.

[Machine God]

@Lysimachus & @Necronaut

 

I can go with that. I can Come and Take.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln31raI2ezY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 5, 2023 by Machine God
Rules of Board Language

[Necronaut]

@Machine God that song is an absolute classic! 

[A.T.]

What are those sneaky xenos kill teams up to now. I'm fairly sure we melted the cogitator core... has anyone seen Locke recently?

[Necronaut]

Treachery! Endless treachery! I'm calling it now: Locke was the Golem all along! The Ordo Xenos commandos are Alpha Legion infiltrators! We're just going to have to kill everyone to be sure.

 

Kill them all -- the Emperor will know His own. 

[Mazer Rackham]

Just as a note lads, feel free to narrate your way into the tunnels, and what you get up to in there. This will be part of your staged progress towards the exit point overlooking the Panopticon.

 

Have at it.

 

Apologies for sporadic contact/direction, this week has been a bit rough.

[Lysimachus]

So, just to be sure I've understood clearly, I assume the sudden cold and female humming means that Helene is on the roof? Is the Voivode still moving? If so, implication is that she isn't alone? (Or is she pushing it psychically?)

 

Either way, we could really do with Gwynne waking up, as I'm guessing that none of us have much chance against witchery...

[A.T.]

1 hour ago, Lysimachus said:

So, just to be sure I've understood clearly, I assume the sudden cold and female humming means that Helene is on the roof?

 

Or Magda, if you fancy breaking out the 'cure one kill the others' syringe...

[Mazer Rackham]

Cards on the table, Magda is gone from the game.

 

Reynard will recognise the tune being hummed. For a small girl, she's got strong arms, and yes, the Voivode is still moving.

[Lysimachus]

26 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

For a small girl, she's got strong arms

 

Do you mean she is the one pushing the gunship?! 

[Mazer Rackham]

From conversations with Nicios, suspicions of your own, and observations of what she can do to heavy metal blast doors, you can surmise her psychic power (PR) is stronger the more she's...uh...imbibed, and yes, she's pushing it, not with her arms - but she can possibly rip the doors off.

[Necronaut]

Unrelated to this fine game:

 

A literary titan has departed Holy Terra: Cormac McCarthy, the author of such works as The Road, No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian, has passed on at the age of 89. He was one of the last living great American authors, and a truly original human being. His literary works, equally inimitable and inscrutable, have inspired and delighted countless readers around the world, and his unique voice will be dearly missed (in no small part by me). His books have had a dramatic impact upon my life, and I would encourage anyone on this board who has not partaken of his bibliography to do so, post haste. His novels, which focus on many of the darker aspects of American culture and heritage, particularly in the American West, are absolutely unbelievable works of fiction, and his prose is the stuff of legends. I would count him amongst the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, if not all time.

 

You have my apology for derailing the OOC thread with this unscheduled broadcast/eulogy; you may now return to your previously scheduled programming. 

 

Rest in Power. 

Edited June 14, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

I think a (very nice) nod to a great writer has a place in amongst our little band of scribblers. I wrote a whole Rapid Fire Challenge to eulogise Clive Cussler, so I don't think an apology is needed. This is our thread, and this is our space.

 

Mr McCarthy now takes the journey of greatest mystery, I am sure he is well equipped.

[Trokair]

Placeholder filled a little

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5959019

 

It’s not much as I failed to save the original idea on monday and this is the best I could make today tofill the gap.

 

@Mazer Rackham, If Bardas want to leave, does he have to go back the way he came and try one of the other two options at the junction?

[Mazer Rackham]

Bardas can go the way he came, or go elsewhere at his discretion. He's not locked in/stuck.

[Machine God]

Back on Grid.