[RT] The Silent Architect (OOC/Discussion)

[Mazer Rackham]

Damn!

 

I should have tattooed your arse cheeks!

 

 

Edited January 29 by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

8 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

I just keep picturing the first time Reynard, after chopping his own hand off to escape being tracked by the Inquisition, sees that both Restal and Petrus are travelling on the same ship... 

There is no escape!

[Machine God]

9 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

I just keep picturing the first time Reynard, after chopping his own hand off to escape being tracked by the Inquisition, sees that both Restal and Petrus are travelling on the same ship... 

 

Is it weird that I find the whole idea so funny that it makes me want to do it even more...? 

Reynard bumps into Restal aboard the Rogue Trader.

 

"Why Mister Reynard, you look like somebody just walked all over your grave."

 

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

The start of this campaign is a few weeks away, but with legacy characters needing to set their own scene and to get the new characters introduced (plus I'm still working with a player on his chargen, but we're getting close now) I'll be officially opening the IC for narrative and interactive posts shortly.

 

Consider this as a 'prologue'.

 

A note to Damocles Legacy characters:

Please track (in great or minimal detail) what you have been up to in the last six months of your 'rest' on Damocles, up to the point you have been contacted by Lady Viceroy, and up to the point you step out onto the platform and witness the duel and the conversation about the Silent Architect.

 

Please detail reasons for any picks from the RT tables (such as pilot training etc) and how you got them (for fluff reasons if nothing else, and to give you something to contribute..). This will also be the point at which you can detail your equipment choices (bar you @Necronaut as this has already been agreed and will appear later. You may detail seeing a 'consignment' being loaded aboard the RT's spacecraft).

 

RT Gen Characters:

You will know of the Captain's burning desire to duty and honour, and this will mark a watershed moment for him (as detailed by the secret information in the data thread) as Fabian Cassal was involved. You should detail any movement of the Chylde coming into dock with the spaceport and resupply vessels above in orbit, plus any interactions with each other on the way down. De Wiart will be in a very focussed state, possibly facing his death, and certainly determined to kill.

 

What do you think of this? How does it affect you as crew? Is your trust shaken? etc. As comrades aboard ship you'll have some familiarity with each other. Please make sure to study the profiles of your fellow shipmates. Also, who are these new interlopers? You will have heard the conversation through discreet comms, as arranged by De Wiart for 'insurance'.

 

You have come down in De Wiart's personal transport, a light, but agile guncutter type craft called the Sparrowhawk. (I will detail this at a later date).

 

The data thread will be updated with House Uniform colours, but as a reference, use De Wiart's profile picture as the norm. (Dark blue jacket or tunic with red facings and turnbacks, blue and white striped trews - although there are variations).

 

Have a think, post in here for ideas and feedback, and stand by. 

Edited February 1 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

On 1/8/2024 at 12:48 PM, Mazer Rackham said:

Hopefully not a raspberry ripple!

 

When I read that post though, I heard a few lyrics:

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You get a shiver in the dark, it's raining in the park, but meantime

South of the river, you stop and you hold everything...

 

Sultans? No did that with the Khamsin Brotherhood.

 

I'm more thinking:

 

 

There's a Killer on the road,

His brain is squirming like a toad.

 

 

Although being an AWP fan I cannot but help hearing the lyrics in a Brummie accent.

 

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

38 minutes ago, Machine God said:

Although being an AWP fan I cannot but help hearing the lyrics in a Brummie accent.

 

AWP?

[Machine God]

2 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

 

AWP?

Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

 

 

 

 

[Trokair]

Are we to presume that our Captain only took Malvolio, Castinius deBrae and Anastasia Sola with him to the duel and meeting with Lady Viceroy?

 

If so I guess either deBrae or Sola would have been piloting Sparrowhawk on the flight down.

 

 

Also if Von Cassal had a ‘second’ would one of us have acted as second for the Captain?

[A.T.]

9 hours ago, Trokair said:

If so I guess either deBrae or Sola would have been piloting Sparrowhawk on the flight down.

 

Depends on whether this is a somewhat 'secret' meeting due to the inquisition, otherwise there could be a whole retinue along for the ride. Though the bulk of the ships crew are servitors, techpriests, officers/specialists, and personal attendants - we don't have anything like barracks or stormtrooper detachment so our armsmen count is going to be relatively light and dedicated to defense of the ship alongside the murder servitors.

 

In terms of a second I would imagine deBrae, being a noble? I'm sure there are some 'rules' about who is of sufficient social status to legally fire upon the nobility, but then again a rogue traders retinue have what authority the trader gives them over and above the norm for their class.
 

Edited February 2 by A.T.

[Mazer Rackham]

Good comments.

 

Yes, that's right. It is Malvolio, deBrae and Sola with De Wiart. We can assume that there is a pilot from the Chylde flying or co-piloting with deBrae - unless someone wants to take that narrative place.

 

That would leave our new recruit, Tavesh Marlov, on the ship, grumping and grumbling about his business. @Xin Ceithan don't feel stymied here, you can add whatever you'd like or even be within the Sparrowhawk, looking after her.

 

The actual scene has been left as vague as possible in places to allow for players to decide where they want to be and what they want to be doing - so any of the PC's with De Wiart could have acted as 'second' and this can slot right in if anyone wants to describe it. Don't feel constrained, I can always tinker with the opening post if you have an idea of how your PC would act/speak/etc.

 

In response to @A.T.'s observation, that is the almost the case. The RT Crew command component (the PC's) would know someone (and perhaps are unsettled to discover it's the Inquisition) provided the information on Cassal's whereabouts, and the duel was undertaken not quite in secret, after being arranged.

 

Duelling, whilst admired within the Imperial Militant Organisations is still frowned upon for serving officers of certain position and rank, and you would all be aware this is risky as a soggy biscuit, with or without the Inquisition's apparent 'tacit' approval.

 

Is that any help?

 

Edited February 2 by Mazer Rackham
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[Lysimachus]

Just for clarity, we are working out our opening posts but you still don't want us to post them yet? (The orange in the IC thread still says not to?)

[Mazer Rackham]

Yeah, it's just to buy a bit of planning time to get everything arranged with queries on who knows what because the party is split (again!) and because it influences what the PC's know, how they act and such as they meet.

 

If people have got posts ready to go, I can open it up now. 

[Trokair]

@Lord_Ikka,did you want deBrae to pilot/co-pilot?

 

We both have pilot Space Craft/Flyer, but as Master of Space this might be more his prevue them mine.

 

 

Does the Sparowhawk have any armaments?

 

Just trying out a few ideas for were to put Anastasia on the flight down.

[Mazer Rackham]

Yes, the Sparrowhawk is as per the Guncutter in RT, (2 x long barrel autocannons to front, and 1 x TLHB port, 1 x TLHB starboard.

 

I'll drop a full description in the data thread. I hope this is enough to go on for now? 

[Lord_Ikka]

I think Lt. deBrae would probably pilot- it would make sense for him to be the RT's personal pilot as well as the helmsman for the ship.

[Lord_Ikka]

I'll work up something tonight when I'm not at the end of a 12-hour shift...

[Mazer Rackham]

6 minutes ago, Lord_Ikka said:

I'll work up something tonight when I'm not at the end of a 12-hour shift...

 

No worries man, and no rush.

 

Just be careful and take it steady. 

[A.T.]

Fail with 1 DoF (or maybe 2DoF? I can't remember if RT works like DH/DW, or BC in this regard?)

 

One degree of failure - as per p231.

 

The game can be quite varied with what the author considers to be degrees and 'extra' degrees (particularly things that are written 'for each degree of success' when treating the initial pass as the first degree of success). But that page is the default position.

[Mazer Rackham]

6 minutes ago, A.T. said:

Fail with 1 DoF (or maybe 2DoF? I can't remember if RT works like DH/DW, or BC in this regard?)

 

One degree of failure - as per p231.

 

The game can be quite varied with what the author considers to be degrees and 'extra' degrees (particularly things that are written 'for each degree of success' when treating the initial pass as the first degree of success). But that page is the default position.

 

As AT points out, the default as p.231 will be our position going forward.

[Lysimachus]

Thanks gents, currently away from my rulebooks and I couldn't remember which way it was! So, it's only BC that specifies that a Pass is 1 DoS and a Fail is 1DoF? I wonder why FFG made that single exception? 

[Mazer Rackham]

I think OW and DH2e did the same.

[Lysimachus]

He looks at Raynard and the others, shrewdly. He is calculating perhaps, whether you are known to each other, or pretending not, gauging what he's dealing with.

 

 

@Necronaut @Machine God I don't see any reason to hide that we know each other, I just didn't want to introduce either of you if you wanted to speak for yourselves?

 

That said, now Reynard has introduced himself, I don't mind also making the introductions for Restal and Kovac, should you want him to provide your names to the Captain?

 

[Machine God]

48 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

 

 

 

 

@Necronaut @Machine God I don't see any reason to hide that we know each other, I just didn't want to introduce either of you if you wanted to speak for yourselves?

 

That said, now Reynard has introduced himself, I don't mind also making the introductions for Restal and Kovac, should you want him to provide your names to the Captain?

 

You are too kind, Ser!

 

@Mazer Rackham -I'm still going to use Damocles Character thread to access Kerr Restal, if that is ok?

[Mazer Rackham]

Sure, I don't see a problem.

[Lord_Ikka]

Castinius WIP- Naval Breacher sarge, Solar Auxilia commander head, Anvil Industries pistol. Breachers were perfect for the character, just needed a head and gun.

 

 

Edited February 5 by Lord_Ikka