[DH1e] The Damocles Contingency (OOC)

[Lysimachus]

Agreed!

 

If the screen has lit up, can we now just open it or do we need to do more Tests? (If we do, has the successful Security test made the required Tech-Use tests any easier?)

[Mazer Rackham]

It's an Extended Test, which means there's a touch more fiddling, but yes, the Tech Use Tests will be much easier with the successful bypass.

[Trokair]

Posts updated with a bunch of short snippets.

 

5 July

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5968804

6 July

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5969257

8July

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5969862

10 July

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5970488

12 July

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5970906

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5971154

 

Almost caught up, should be up to date by this evening.

 

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https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/375260-dh1e-the-damocles-contingency-rpg-ic/?do=findComment&comment=5971552

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2023 by Trokair

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham have had a busy morning over here. Will get a quick post up shortly, but suffice it to say, Scourge will adopt a defensive posture near Arbites squad 2 as he is still blind. 

 

[Necronaut]

As an hour has elapsed waiting for the door to partially open, is Scourge still blind? I just want to make sure if the OOC comments regarding photon flash grenades and similar effects superceded the IC post. 

[Mazer Rackham]

Scourge's sight will have recovered.

[Lysimachus]

The thought pops into my head, if this vent is big enough and presumably reaches all the way to the exterior of the Hive, could the Voivode (or a Valkyrie/aircar) be flown down it to our position?

 

Just trying to think about an escape route if things go pear-shaped...

[Necronaut]

Escape route?! Who do you think we are, an Astartes kill team?! We're only slightly above cannon fodder on account of our marginally better per capita funding! ;)

[Mazer Rackham]

Role: Acolyte

Qualifications: Any

Sex: Yes please

Job Description: Non-Flammable is essential, also severe allergy to bullets very desirable.

Salary Range: Be thankful you're alive, peasant!

 

19 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

The thought pops into my head, if this vent is big enough and presumably reaches all the way to the exterior of the Hive, could the Voivode (or a Valkyrie/aircar) be flown down it to our position?

 

 

 

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

1 hour ago, Lysimachus said:

The thought pops into my head, if this vent is big enough and presumably reaches all the way to the exterior of the Hive, could the Voivode (or a Valkyrie/aircar) be flown down it to our position?

 

Just trying to think about an escape route if things go pear-shaped...

 

Somehow I think it will take longer than thirty seconds to get out of the nuclear vents.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8N-LA-9qE

 

 

 

[Necronaut]

It is actually an iron law of fiction that it takes precisely as long for the protagonist to escape a corridor/passage/duct/tunnel/etc as necessary to allow them to heroically, and with great style, leap/fly/ride/surf/etc. to safety from an enormous fireball heralding the demise of the villain, all for the benefit of the audience at home. Things like air/fuel mixture, fluid dynamics, narrowness of channel, etc. are mere terms for nerds with physics degrees to fret over the hows, the wheres and the whys, while we, the discerning consumers of quality entertainment, know that no story can truly come to a satisfactory denouement without the villain being incinerated/blasted to smithereens/brutally dismembered/etc. and our intrepid and stalwart hero riding into the sunset with a pillar of flammable material reaching to the heavens behind him as a giant middle finger to Evil(TM) everywhere. 

Edited July 16, 2023 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

Welp.

 

Spoiler

 

 

[Necronaut]

Cor but that ain't the end of the film, mate! 

[Mazer Rackham]

Neither is your boss fight....

[Lysimachus]

1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Neither is your boss fight....

 

 

 

Ooh, is anyone else taking that as Mazer giving written agreement to write us an Episode II...?

 

Quick, someone bag a screenshot!!

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Oh, you. 

 

Spoiler

No. 

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Mazer Rackham
Clarity!

[Machine God]

Is the Hololith W?

[Mazer Rackham]

No, 'W' is the mechanithall giant robot.

 

The hololith is merely a projection from the main statue.

[Trokair]

How much time do we have left untill swords drop?

 

Just concious that we spent an hour for a door to open, and an hour for a lift to go down, and i cant even remember how much time the first lift was.

[Mazer Rackham]

From my calcs (I've had to move you on a bit and do some fudging, so time was 'lost' in between the updates there as well) I'd say about 3 hours.

 

I'll update the post with the mission clock.

[Trokair]

Right lads, we have maybe half an our to slay the beast, as otherwise we wont have neough time to travel back up hive far enough to get a signal to Locke to not let swords fall. 

 

Charge?!

[Machine God]

1 hour ago, Trokair said:

Right lads, we have maybe half an our to slay the beast, as otherwise we wont have neough time to travel back up hive far enough to get a signal to Locke to not let swords fall. 

 

Charge?!

 

Three Minutes to Midnight....

[Trokair]

Well good luck everybody, my dice have decided it was nap time.

 

 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Trokair

[Mazer Rackham]

Somebody can rouse you in their turn on a successful Toughness Test. (Snapping Out of Shock + this is game end, so). Alternatively you could try a FP Re-roll?

[Trokair]

2 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

 Alternatively you could try a FP Re-roll?

 

I could, it is tempting, very.

 

Do I have the heart of the Dice to maek it work? Evidence is mixed at best.