Deathwatch: Murderers in Black (OOC Thread)

[Trokair]

If Alda is needed for story advancement just go and include her, ill catch up once i am better.

[Mazer Rackham]

Hope you get well soon, buddy! 

[Machine God]

@Mazer Rackham - That's about as happy as Asterius gets. The Marauder quip was about the Mantis Warriors founders.

[Necronaut]

@Lysimachus @Mazer Rackham I've been traveling the past couple of days, sorry. Will have my placeholder filled this evening my time. 

[Mazer Rackham]

This delay is agreeable, but only if by travelling, you mean partaking in a drop-pod assault on Beta-Valkythion IV, against the Enslavers of Ga'Hak Maradon.

 

Of course, this may be a different top secret operation, so respond with 'I Can't Say', and we're good. 

Edited March 13 by Mazer Rackham

[Mike Zulu]

I’m a bit late to the party, but I was hoping I could join in as well if you still have a free spot?

 

I’ve played Deathwatch before as both player and GM, so I’m familiar with the rules. 

[Machine God]

On 1/18/2024 at 12:20 PM, Lysimachus said:

Awesome, so we've now got:

 

1. Brother Gerhardt, Tactical, Black Templars (Necronaut)
2. Brother Azadth Kaedyr, Tactical, Mantis Warriors (Mazer Rackham)
3. Brother Vafri Bloodsong, Tactical, Space Wolves (Urauloth)
4. Brother Asterius, Assault, Black Shield (Machine God)
5. Brother Omoc, Devastator, Red Scorpions (AT)
6. Brother ??, Apothecary/Sanguinary Priest, Charnel Guard (Xin Ceithan)
7. Brother Moridyn, Tactical, Star Phantoms (Ikka)

8. Alda, Inquisitorial Acolyte of the Ordo Xenos (Trokair)

 

 

So we just need to know the name of Xin's Priest, but that looks like a good, solid Kill-Team to me. And in theory, we still have 2 spaces if anyone else wanted to join:

 

9. Tactical Marine or 2nd Assault Marine
10. Tactical Marine or 2nd Devastator Marine
(Or Techmarine if someone wanted?)
 

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16 minutes ago, Mike Zulu said:

I’m a bit late to the party, but I was hoping I could join in as well if you still have a free spot?

 

I’ve played Deathwatch before as both player and GM, so I’m familiar with the rules. 

 

@Mike Zulu Welcome. I'm sure that everyone will welcome a new player. As you can see from the above post there are 2 more spaces left to fill.

 

I am sure that the GM @Lysimachus will soon be in touch.

 

 

 

[Lysimachus]

On 2/23/2024 at 7:36 PM, Lysimachus said:

As mentioned, we've got space for a Techmarine, Assault Marine, Devastator Marine or another Tactical. And in terms of Chapter, as mentioned I'd prefer to stick to non 1st Founding, but their Successors are all fair game. We don't currently have any Chapters from the Salamanders, Iron Hands, Dark Angels (well, we do have a Star Phantom, so that's a maybe on that one!) or Ultramarines gene-lines, so for variety in the team they might be good options to consider?

 

On 2/25/2024 at 7:38 AM, Lysimachus said:

We also have a Drive folder with useful stuff, including a Character Template Spreadsheet that everyone uses to build and keep track of their characters. If you decide you want to play, send me a PM with an email address you don't mind us using and I can add you to the folder so you can see how it's all done and then use the Template to create your own sheet?

 

@Mike Zulu You'd be very welcome to join in (especially if you know what you're doing, I don't! )

 

The above were my posts from a week or so back. If you want my honest opinion, I'd say a Techmarine would be a useful character as we don't have one... but I don't want to shoehorn anyone into playing stuff they aren't happy with. So, is there a character/archetype/Chapter you've got in mind?

 

 

Edited March 13 by Lysimachus

[Mike Zulu]

22 minutes ago, Lysimachus said:

 

 

@Mike Zulu You'd be very welcome to join in (especially if you know what you're doing, I don't! )

 

The above were my posts from a week or so back. If you want my honest opinion, I'd say a Techmarine would be a useful character as we don't have one... but I don't want to shoehorn anyone into playing stuff they aren't happy with. So, is there a character/archetype/Chapter you've got in mind?

 

 

Excellent.

 

I was initially thinking a Salamanders Devastator, but I can take up the role of Techmarine.

[Lysimachus]

Salamanders sounds good to me!

 

I know I've pushed for non-1st Founding Chapters, but the Sallies are a little unusual in this regard of not having many Successors to choose from (pre-Ultima Founding) so I'm good with Mike taking one. Hope that is cool with everyone.

 

If you'd prefer to do a second Dev, I don't mind at all, it's just a Tech might be helpful? I'm totally cool either way. 

 

Shoot me a PM with your email and I'll add you to the Drive folder so you can start on your Character Sheet.

 

Also, check out this post in the Character Data Thread, it has all the stuff on character creation:

 

 

 

[Mike Zulu]

No worries, I’ll send a PM soon.

 

I’ll play as the Salamanders Techmarine. It’s not something I would normally play and they are useful to have in a Kill Team. In my experience, it’s always good to have 1 Apothecary and 1 Techmarine in your team (the rest being combat roles). Techmarines also get access to items and wargear that the rest of the team do not.

[Necronaut]

@Mazer Rackham I can't say. 

 

Placeholder updated. Sorry for the delay; I fell asleep while editing my entry the other night and had another subsequent day on the move. 

 

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/382431-deathwatch-murderers-in-black-ic-thread/?do=findComment&comment=6027153

Edited March 14 by Necronaut

[Lysimachus]

Hi all, I'll be putting in the weekly update tomorrow. If anyone has anything else they want to include re: going to the Strategium, thoughts about the NPCs, swearing the Apocryphon Oath or whatever else, get your (summary) placeholders in if you don't have time to write your post in full?

 

Otherwise, we'll move on from oath-swearing to finding out what happened to the previous Light-bringers!

 

 

 

As Asterius is already up and about, we can assume that he attended the Oath-swearing ceremony as an observer. By the end of tomorrow's post, all of the squad will have all the same information about the previous mission (so don't worry about questioning Asterius about what happened, @Machine God doesn't know yet! )

 

We won't wait for @Mike Zulu to finish creating his Techmarine, but the Kill-Team will be at the Bulwark for some time yet, so whenever he is ready to join in we will say he has arrived on Alucar IV.

 

[Mazer Rackham]

@Mike Zulu Welcome to the Nook, and this band of scallywags! 

[Mike Zulu]

Thank you all for the kind welcome.

 

I’ve drafted a Character Bio and a Character Sheet in the Drive. I presume I can begin posting in the IC thread?

 

Note I’ve not played PBP for a DW games before, I’ve always played in person. Please free to let me know if I am posting out-of-turn or too presumptiously.

[Lysimachus]

Awesome!

 

Yep, feel free to post as and when you feel inclined, it's basically a free for all unless we are in Structured Time i.e. a fight, at which point Initiative rolls determine the order of play.

 

Side point, did you save the Character Sheet back in the same Drive folder, I can't see it at the moment? 

[Mike Zulu]

I believe it’s uploaded now (I am doing this on my mobile, but by the Emperor it was needlessly complicated…)

 

I should get an IC post going soon.

[Urauloth]

Been busy with Grandfather Nurgle's holy work (had a bout of pneumonia, don't recommend it) but I'm catching up now. I'd have interacted more if I'd been around, but there's plenty of time for that once we all get up to speed on why we're here and what we're doing, so I'll jump to the briefing scene.

[Lysimachus]

Glad you're feeling better! Very nice posts, gents 

 

How are you feeling, Tro? I am assuming as Liaison Alda is also at the ceremony/briefing as an observer, so if she has any questions or comments, feel free (but don't feel obliged if you are still poorly!)

[Necronaut]

Placeholder filled:

 

 

 

 

[Machine God]

Emperors Champion? 

 

 

 

 

[Necronaut]

11 minutes ago, Machine God said:

Emperors Champion? 

 

 

 

 

 

Only in his wildest dreams. 

[Machine God]

Post edited to be in line with the story:

 

https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/382431-deathwatch-murderers-in-black-ic-thread/?do=findComment&comment=6027051

 

 

 

[Machine God]

If anyone wants to persue the Black Shield mistrust, then please PM me and we can work something out. 

 

 

 

 

[Machine God]

@Urauloth - Nice guess about Black Shield's Chapter.