Deathwatch: Murderers in Black (OOC Thread)

[Lysimachus]

1 hour ago, A.T. said:

Omocs decision would be based primarily on the oath. He considers vengeance for Dorghra or Correllageon a moot point - the xenos are the enemy, this is a war and they were already marked for death.

 

He can swear neither allegiance nor safe passage. And while not opposed to using xenos transportation in of itself he would also see the value of taking two paths lest one never reach their goal.

 

 

That's fair enough, I think if anyone doesn't like the idea of agreeing to mutual non-aggression, as long as they stay quiet, the Eldar won't actually insist on hearing it. So if you never actually said it, you haven't actually agreed to it... Maybe on of those situations where having a non-Astartes on the team is quite useful?

 

Anyway, I'm afraid the idea is not to split the party. The vote is to get a majority that everyone will have to abide by together (which, with Asterius' vote, we now have at least a 5-3 majority for going with the Eldar)

 

However, that doesn't mean your dudes have to like it, it might even be an interesting source of roleplay as to how those in the minority respond?

 

 

[Machine God]

I just had a thought. 

 

Seeing as our Power Armour and Weapons are maintained by the Deathwatch and we are going after Orochi. 

 

Hopefully we don't get Murphy'd with a Directive 4.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Not a bad thought.

 

Maybe Zidemi could code-up a VPN for us?

[Lysimachus]

I'm not sure it's a massive problem, very unlikely for Orochi to have been able to mess with your gear without getting caught?

 

I'm not sure how it works in the background. I imagine maybe Power Armour Autosenses and HUDs might combine to provide some sort of 'friendly fire' warning if the wearer pointed their gun at a comrade? I'd guess it couldn't actually stop them from pulling the trigger, though...?

 

If Zidemi wants to check everyone's kit over to make sure it's not been tampered with, that's cool by me! 

[Mazer Rackham]

4 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

I'm not sure how it works in the background. I imagine maybe Power Armour Autosenses and HUDs might combine to provide some sort of 'friendly fire' warning if the wearer pointed their gun at a comrade? I'd guess it couldn't actually stop them from pulling the trigger, though...?

 

In Steve Parker's: Deathwatch, one of the guys goes to kill an alien/human hybrid thing, and the Inquisitor running the team puts them all in armour lock to prevent it, provoking the Ultramarine of the group to start swearing at him.

 

Edited March 28 by Mazer Rackham

[Trokair]

So how do we all feel about our current reqistioned items and general loadout? 

[Mazer Rackham]

I'm happy enough, but I think more gun would be helpful.

 

With 30 Req each, we could all buy a lascannon...

 

Alternatively, if Asterius saws his other arm off, we can requesition a dreadnought, two slingshots and a bow with four arrows! 

 

I don't know how much impact letting the Supremacy know our plans will have, or if there's any real worry. The path of fate, the way of heaven, is set.

 

A Storm (or combi melta) Bolter, Stummer, and Stalker Bolts wouldn't go amiss, though.

[Urauloth]

19 hours ago, Lysimachus said:

If Zidemi wants to check everyone's kit over to make sure it's not been tampered with, that's cool by me! 

Good roleplaying opportunity, if nothing else! Váfri never liked having the Inquisition near his gear, so I was already thinking he'd voice some kind of suspicion.

 

As for req, that would be nice... but the opsec of making contact with a potentially compromised ship when we could just ghost them seems horrible.

 

Placeholder updated!

[Lord_Ikka]

I think Moridyn is alright- he's using up 20 Req to keep the plasmagun and I don't think 10 Req is really going to be useful for anything else he needs.

[Mazer Rackham]

1 hour ago, Lord_Ikka said:

I think Moridyn is alright- he's using up 20 Req to keep the plasmagun and I don't think 10 Req is really going to be useful for anything else he needs.

 

I take it you're using your free mag of ammo for your shotty?

 

If we want to get a bit tacticool, and go off the reservation so to speak, we could atually do the bomb-up the way I've read squaddies do it: we pool everything we already have, and divvy it all out according to lack/need/suitablility.

 

Could be a nice moment where no-one is talking, we're doing the final prep before mission, filling magazines, trading spec ammo, locking into that mindset.

 

Just a thought.

 

Edited March 29 by Mazer Rackham

[Lysimachus]

19 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

 

In Steve Parker's: Deathwatch, one of the guys goes to kill an alien/human hybrid thing, and the Inquisitor running the team puts them all in armour lock to prevent it, provoking the Ultramarine of the group to start swearing at him.

 

 

You wouldn't have thought the Codex would approve such a response! 

 

Edit: though I'm immediately wondering if there is a Chapter or Appendix with Guilliman-approved curse words!

 

 

 

 

Edited March 29 by Lysimachus

[Trokair]

1 hour ago, Lysimachus said:

 

You wouldn't have thought the Codex would approve such a response! 

 

Edit: though I'm immediately wondering if there is a Chapter or Appendix with Guilliman-approved curse words!

 

 

You know it dose.

 

On the approved lists are for example:

• Sugar
• Biscuits
• By the Codex...

 

For more intense situations the next tier contains amongst others:

• Blistering Barnacles!
• Captain, may I be excused for a moment?
• Ay, caramba

 

 

[Necronaut]

On 3/29/2025 at 4:35 AM, Trokair said:

So how do we all feel about our current reqistioned items and general loadout? 

 

I'm pretty happy with Gerhardt's gear at the moment, though I could be convinced to swap his boltgun for a plasma pistol or combi-flamer, or alternatively (and more cheaply) snap up an auxiliary grenade launcher so he can go in guns blazing and weapons chained in place like a complete nutter.

Edited March 31 by Necronaut

[Trokair]

By the sounds of it, everybody is happy with the gear they got at the moment. Along with a sentiment of nicer things would be nice, but no one has their heart set on contacting the Supremacy.

 

 

Follow up question, do we want to try and take Amaras and headless Nick with us on the Eldar ship, or leave them here, with perhaps a beacon to go up in a few days time for the Supremacy to recover...

[Mazer Rackham]

3 hours ago, Trokair said:

Follow up question, do we want to try and take Amaras and headless Nick with us on the Eldar ship, or leave them here, with perhaps a beacon to go up in a few days time for the Supremacy to recover...

 

Yeah, could always set Amaras' transponder to do a distress pulse.

[Lysimachus]

13 hours ago, Trokair said:

Follow up question, do we want to try and take Amaras and headless Nick with us on the Eldar ship, or leave them here, with perhaps a beacon to go up in a few days time for the Supremacy to recover...

 

10 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

 

Yeah, could always set Amaras' transponder to do a distress pulse.

 

 

Yeah, for simplicity I'd probably encourage leaving them where they are? The Supremacy has better facilities to look after Amaras and remove geneseed from Skaayn.

 

Setting up a delayed beacon from Amaras' transponder is fine, too. 

[Mazer Rackham]

@Necronaut I have a Bolter-mounted UBGL. If we're not bombing up with Req, I'll trade it for your Spec Ammo Kraken mag. Both my Bolter variants have shot selectors.

 

Edited April 1 by Mazer Rackham

[A.T.]

One option that Omoc might suggest, especially if there was meaningful xenos habitation still on the moon, would be to signal immediate terminal bombardment without explanation, as if cut off.

 

Without further context it could appear that the kill team ordered fire on its own position after being overwhelmed to extract a pyrrhic victory - any astropathic messages that run ahead of us would give no warning of our approach.

[Necronaut]

On 4/1/2025 at 5:58 PM, Mazer Rackham said:

@Necronaut I have a Bolter-mounted UBGL. If we're not bombing up with Req, I'll trade it for your Spec Ammo Kraken mag. Both my Bolter variants have shot selectors.

 

 

Mint. I'll bash up a scene right quick with a spot of tacticool.

[Mazer Rackham]

7 hours ago, Necronaut said:

 

Mint. I'll bash up a scene right quick with a spot of tacticool.

 

MINT?! 

 

Oof, that's proper Mega! Haven't heard that in Yonks!

[Trokair]

  

On 4/4/2025 at 7:27 AM, Lysimachus said:

“The way is now open. The path leads to another gate in a staging area aboard my vessel, Fuiseog de Neamh. 

I was planning naother scene and the thought occures, is this a portal in the sence of step through here, come out abord the ship in orbit, or is this more like a mini webway tunnel, where past the wall is a tunnel of some sort and somwehre ahead we come to another portal that leads int othe ship?

[Lysimachus]

I think because it's such a short distance (relatively speaking) you would step through and immediately be on the ship?

 

The staging area would be a mid-sized square(ish) chamber, maybe 10m x 10m, and totally empty. (Tarvathel has obviously had his crew pull any cargo that was here back out of the way)

 

The portal that you enter through is identical to the one in the palace (tall and wide enough for something a fair bit bigger than a Marine to fit through; definitely a Wraithguard, maybe even a Wraithlord if it ducked a bit). Once you all pass through, the portal turns back into solid wraithbone.

 

There is another doorway on the opposite wall that obviously leads further into the ship. It's shut, and will stay that way (unless anyone does anything crazy...?) Logic would suggest that there might be a substantial number of Corsairs waiting on the other side of the door, just in case anyone gets curious or wants a wander.

 

Feel free to describe the design of the room as you like, but it's basically Eldar-y.

 

 

 

[Mazer Rackham]

37 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

Feel free to describe the design of the room as you like, but it's basically Eldar-y.

 

Speaking of which, have to say, I am appreciating all the effort with the Aeldar language so far. There's something about it that speaks deeply to me on some primal level - but then I always include a lot of language references in my writing, so maybe it's that which scratches the itch.

 

Dunno.

 

Edited April 7 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

1 hour ago, Lysimachus said:

I think because it's such a short distance (relatively speaking) you would step through and immediately be on the ship?

 

 

Webway connection / non-warp Teleportation.

 

 

 

[Lysimachus]

Hey all, just a heads up that I've had a few things going on this week that have been taking up my time (that won't be fully sorted until at least end of the day on Saturday). Nothing bad/problematic, just busy.

 

As such, I haven't had time to put together anything yet for Friday's update. Therefore it may be a few days late, or it may even get pushed back to the following Friday.

 

So if anyone is working on a post (answering Alda or whatever else!) you've got a bit of extra time!