spykers are fed to the throne as in consumed? I thought I had read most of the absurd things already...
Ayup. The fabled Black Ships of the Inquisition make a continual circuit of the Imperium, picking up all the arrested psykers. From there they are transported back to Holy Terra, where they are either consumed by the golden throne, or are trained for service somewhere in the Imperium. Sanctioned Psykers in some Imperial Guard regiments are a thing, but they tend to live short, miserable lives. Generally the only soldiers that hang around with them are the ones that are assigned to do so, with standing orders to shoot them if they show signs of being posessed or otherwise tainted by the Warp. Some undergo a ritual of Soul Binding, where they are exposed directly to the psychic energies of the Emperor (which burns out their eyes and often also causes nerve damage and stuff). Astropath's all go through this.
The most coherent of the astropath's on board the Nostalgia for Infinity is a quiet old man called Heltin. He obsessively maintains a small garden of beautiful flowers from many different worlds. He shows them off to anyone that visits his quarters for business reasons, imploring them to "paint me the picture, young man!" to describe the rich fragrances; the ritual took away his sense of smell.
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SlyJohnny, is it possible for me to get a power pack for my armor that lasts longer?
Sale of those kinds of power packs are most strictly forbidden and especially restricted, and steps are taken at the highest levels to ensure that the usual 'midnight issue' shenanigans don't happen with such rare and valuable artifacts. It's not like there's a lot of extras to go 'missing', in any case.
In other words; yes, everything can be had for the right price. But it'll be difficult.
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Sale of those kinds of power packs are most strictly forbidden and especially restricted, and steps are taken at the highest levels to ensure that the usual 'midnight issue' shenanigans don't happen with such rare and valuable artifacts. It's not like there's a lot of extras to go 'missing', in any case.
In other words; yes, everything can be had for the right price. But it'll be difficult.
Will I have to do it IC, or is it possible to do an aquisition test? After all, this place is already teeming with smugglers, hereteks, and criminals. They could very plausibly have a few.
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Will I have to do it IC, or is it possible to do an aquisition test? After all, this place is already teeming with smugglers, hereteks, and criminals. They could very plausibly have a few.
They're common enough, but those powerpacks tend to be owned by Battle Sisters and the Inquisition.
You can make an acquisition roll and go from there. Right now, though, you have less than 24 hours to find the guncutter and may thereafter want to go chasing after the frigate it came from, so prelonged shopping trips may have to wait.
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They're common enough, but those powerpacks tend to be owned by Battle Sisters and the Inquisition.
That is the same as "not common at all" for people who are not Space Marines, Inquisitors, part of the Ruling Priesthood of Mars, or Sisters of Battle. There's only a billion Adeptus Sororitas and there's said to be less than one space marine for every world in the Imperium, after all.
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You can make an acquisition roll and go from there. Right now, though, you have less than 24 hours to find the guncutter and may thereafter want to go chasing after the frigate it came from, so prelonged shopping trips may have to wait.
What would be the difficulty of it?
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1. Find the item...
Commerce check varying between -20 - -40 if the population is > or < than 100'000 (assumig Ex Rare or Near Unique) and the time... 1d5 weeks - 1d5 months
2. Commerce if you wish to bargain and the aquisition test.
Sadly the same for our things as well. Even if we can find the conversion fields it may take weeks!
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Probably Near Unique, but your character's not sure. It's certainly occurred to him that something like this might exist... he's never fought with space marines, but has heard tales of lengthy operations they've taken part in, and knows enough of the mundane aspects of soldiering to figure that if their armor requires constant recharging, that'll be a logistical nightmare. However, you've also heard they interface directly with their armor, something to do with their physical modifications or the Will of the Emperor or something. Maybe it's just that they are naturally strong enough to carry their armor around, even when the servo-assists turn off, and can rapidly power it on when the fighting starts? Or maybe the stories are exaggerated? That might be a more reasonable explanation than the ridiculous idea of a compact fusion power source that can run powered armor indefinitely, surely? And yet... if such a thing did exist... what a prize it would be!
Ah! And it appears your captain has appeared. Let me catch up :)
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Probably Near Unique, but your character's not sure. It's certainly occurred to him that something like this might exist... he's never fought with space marines, but has heard tales of lengthy operations they've taken part in, and knows enough of the mundane aspects of soldiering to figure that if their armor requires constant recharging, that'll be a logistical nightmare. However, you've also heard they interface directly with their armor, something to do with their physical modifications or the Will of the Emperor or something. Maybe it's just that they are naturally strong enough to carry their armor around, even when the servo-assists turn off, and can rapidly power it on when the fighting starts? Or maybe the stories are exaggerated? That might be a more reasonable explanation than the ridiculous idea of a compact fusion power source that can run powered armor indefinitely, surely? And yet... if such a thing did exist... what a prize it would be!
Ah! And it appears your captain has appeared. Let me catch up and post :)
But he's fought against Space Marines. The Red Corsairs. He even has one of their heads on his wall.
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Oh, damn. For some reason, I thought red corsairs were eldar. Well, you've fought against them, then, enough to have a strong suspicion that they operated continuously, rather than merely having a faster start-up sequence than your armor, which they used to activate their armor for short bursts of fighting.
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This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Oh, damn. For some reason, I thought red corsairs were eldar. Well, you've fought against them, then, enough to have a strong suspicion that they operated continuously, rather than merely having a faster start-up sequence than your armor, which they used to activate their armor for short bursts of fighting.
Also, if going by current timeline, Red Corsairs don't exist yet. :/
Also, if going by current timeline, Red Corsairs don't exist yet. :/
I'll read up on that. Worst comes to worst, we'll have our own timeline, or you can have fought against other chaos space marines. Not out of the realm of possibility for characters as powerful as yours.
Edit: By the way, check your PMs.
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This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
I believe it's given for completing actions in an endeavor, Blunt. Unless you mean how much per completion? I can't speculate on that.
I totally forgot that for acquisitions there's a commerce check to find the thing. Thank you for reminding me, DrK! It does make Fiona marginally more useful.
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I believe it's given for completing actions in an endeavor, Blunt. Unless you mean how much per completion? I can't speculate on that.
I totally forgot that for acquisitions there's a commerce check to find the thing. Thank you for reminding me, DrK! It does make Fiona marginally more useful.
Yeah, for example, if you need 500 points to complete one action, but get 800, you can use the extra 300 towards another. Quite handy.
EDIT: I'm all for sneaking up to whatever's there, silent running, teleporting a few of us aboard, and stealing the guncutter from under their noses, with a liberal application of violence.
We could leave a case of Thrones as a cheeky payment for it, the amount that the Lord-Captain initially offered.
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I'd be down for that. Would you guys also be interested in an edupad chat to compliment the OOC? I do prefer realtime stuff to this thread.
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This image you have of European peasants huddled fearfully in decrepit hovels while packs of baby-eating wolves terrorize the countryside has no basis in reality.
Yeah, for example, if you need 500 points to complete one action, but get 800, you can use the extra 300 towards another. Quite handy.
EDIT: I'm all for sneaking up to whatever's there, silent running, teleporting a few of us aboard, and stealing the guncutter from under their noses, with a liberal application of violence.
We could leave a case of Thrones as a cheeky payment for it, the amount that the Lord-Captain initially offered.
To the first part -- what? You don't need experience points to complete actions.
To the second part -- the amount originally bid for the guncutter maxed out the Lord-Captain's credit. That's... a lot of boxes.
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