Sors Remuneror Audax OOC

[Henry the 57th]

SlyJohnny, do we have any men-at-arms aboard? I'm not talking about professional soldiers, just men trained and armed for fighting aboard ship. You know, people we'd use to repel boarders and stuff.

[SlyJohnny]

Yeah, some dedicated armsmen, and a larger pool of crewmen who are trustworthy enough to be issued arms if you are boarded. They vary a lot in proficiency, though. They're a rough lot, but only a few who actually fought the eldar are still alive and serving, and most have never seen serious battle.

[Henry the 57th]

Originally Posted by SlyJohnny

Yeah, some dedicated armsmen, and a larger pool of crewmen who are trustworthy enough to be issued arms if you are boarded. They vary a lot in proficiency, though. They're a rough lot, but only a few who actually fought the eldar are still alive and serving, and most have never seen serious battle.

Still, as a high-ranking crewmen, I could take some of these meat shields valued crewmen with me on missions when I wanted, right?

[SlyJohnny]

Sure.

...I have lengthened my message to at least 10 characters.

[Henry the 57th]

Originally Posted by SlyJohnny

Sure.

...I have lengthened my message to at least 10 characters.

Thanks.

It'll also really help with carrying around stuff - each clip for my cannon weighs 5.5 kg, in addition to the cannon's weight of 55 kg. I can lug around 78 kg safely, but I'd like some room for a backup weapon and grenades and stuff.

[SlyJohnny]

Cool with me. Bear in mind that if you load your "valued crew members" down with your extra ammo and your spare armor, and then they bite it after being attacked by a dikironium cloud creature, you might be short some essential supplies unless you can recover their corpses.

[Henry the 57th]

Originally Posted by SlyJohnny

Cool with me. Bear in mind that if you load your "valued crew members" down with your extra ammo and your spare armor, and then they bite it after being attacked by a dikironium cloud creature, you might be short some essential supplies unless you can recover their corpses.

Like I said, they're backups. I'd rather risk it than get encumbered and gain fatigue after a few hours. Besides, the guy with my stuff can be near the center of our formation, behind me.

Heck, that dude can even wear my extra armor, if it's better than what he's got by himself.

[Cilvyn]

Donan,

I read a few things about you interacting with technical devices. How does this work and is this common with techpriests and stuff?

[Donan]

In the Imperium, tech priests are the only ones allowed to work with repairing and building technology for the most part. And it's become very ritualised.

All machines are said to have a spirit that must be cared for and appeased. So it's less repairing and more appeasing the machine spirit when it's wounded.

If you load a gun too quickly and without following the proper ritual of loading, and it jams, then you've offended the machine spirit.

Because it's considered so arcane, only tech priests are allowed to perform complex tasks, and others doing it against the Adeptus Mechanius is a big no no. (In large part, because having sole control of technology gives them an unspeakable advantage.)

[SlyJohnny]

Yeah. Tech-Priest Engiseers are part of the Adeptus Mechaninus, the machine cult. They worship the Omnissiah, and believe the Emperor was a living embodiment of it; they’re about the only people that are allowed to have a religion that deviates at all from the Imperial Cult. Alien technology is unholy, unreliable and inferior, and in any event, xenos don’t revere machine spirits and are thus enslaving the poor devices. The AdMech hold that flesh is weak and imperfect, and replacing it with cybernetics is better. Zerah is a lot more personable and “human” than most of them tend to be, though even she has a respirator unit which completely replaces her lower face and neck, sports a long, prehensile metallic tentacle with tools on the end that's apparently growing out of her back, and has various circuitry bolted on to her skull, spine and lower ribcage; though the latter is likely concealed beneath her red robes and hood.

Your character grew up on a Hive World, and thus lived in a place more technologically inclined than most; you’re used to living in an environment shaped by machines, so basic machines and mechanical devices are not as strange to you as they are to most of the other characters. Tech-priests probably still look pretty freaky, though.

The word "Engiseer" is a combination of the word "Engineer" and the word "Seer", just to give you an idea of the silliness involved :)

[Cilvyn]

Okay, thanx for the clarification. So I would see technology and devices like some sort of respectable being. Would I even worship the spirit of it or just see it as something I should respect and care for. Howmutilated are you as a tech priest, I inmagened you being some hot piece of cyborg-human-ish chick. I ahve seen some pictures of mechanical implants and stuff would it be like that or more robotlike?

[whiskytangofoxt]

With Tech-Priests, "male" and "female" are simply constructs created by the imperfect flesh. All that matters is your dedication to The Omnissaiah, and the purification of being through rigourous cybernetic replacement.

So yes, she might look like a hot chick with a few well-placed, complimentary pieces of cyberware.

Or she might look like a tank.

When dealing with Tech-Priests, do not assume gender. They're all the same under the red robes...

[Cilvyn]

Originally Posted by whiskytangofoxt

When dealing with Tech-Priests, do not assume gender. They're all the same under the red robes...

Shame. Do they have emotions? I think I might flirt a bit since that is his nature. and Fiona is too cold hearted for that **** so I hope she doesnt look like this:

Tho she act pretty cute ^^
For the record:

[Donan]

The higher ranked ones have their emotions and personality surgically removed. It's why I'm playing her as a low rank, so she still has one, as it's sort of dull playing a blank computer.

[Lucretia]

Between people being afraid of Fiona and her being cold-hearted, I'm a bit confused. So a girl talks about torture and suddenly she's made of ice?

[Cilvyn]

Okay, okay, secretly I find that enormous attractive, but i'm affraid to make her insecure and embarrising herself in front of the captain

EDIT: No, I just don't know how to really talk to her, i don't want to alerm her in any way or to be too soft towards her because she might be offended. I it will be better, maybe some combat together will break the ice

[Lucretia]

I was also surprised about the comment concerning 'no weapons = naked.' Of everyone in the room, I figured Scythia would be the one that applied to. For Fiona, the weapons are status symbols.

EDIT: And if we have digi-weapons in the armoury, I'll be super surprised.

Of course, if we had been allowed to make acquisition checks before all this happened, we might have had some element of stealthy weaponry. But noooo.

[Cilvyn]

I though as an assassin and a fierce woman who likes hard interrogation manners, weapons are as much as important as regular cloths

[Lucretia]

Nope! You don't need a gun to poison people. Leave the shooting to Lucius and Scythia, thinks Fiona, that's what they're paid for.

[Cilvyn]

Okay, well then it is still an assumption and nothing offending in any way IC.

Maybe we will get more close later on, it would be a nice character development

[SlyJohnny]

Originally Posted by Lucretia

Between people being afraid of Fiona and her being cold-hearted, I'm a bit confused. So a girl talks about torture and suddenly she's made of ice?

The way she's so cool and distant, and the way she's friendly and gregarious one minute and all acerbic the next, plus the very dispassionate, almost disinterested way she talked about taking a man to pieces suggested to me that your character is the kind of officer the crew fears rather than loves. Sailors are terrible gossips, after all.

Although, if your sentiment was something other than crocodile tears, I'll tone that down. Maybe Fiona's all sweet and sunshine with the crew, and a peach in general once you get to know her, I don't know :)

[Lucretia]

Generally speaking, she puts on the facade of the excitable young woman who likes to read those silly underhive stories and spread wild tales about Grufkins the Destroyer and other remarkably unthreateningly named xenos warlords. It's only when she's actually doing her job -- and even then, that's normally behind closed doors -- that she drops down to pure intellect unhampered by emotion.

The irony between Donan and myself is that we're playing the other's character, on some level. Fiona is far more AdMechy at times, to Zerah's humanity.

[SlyJohnny]

So is it all good if I assume everyone scurries off to perform their respective tasks, plus whatever else they may wish to PM me?

[Cilvyn]

LJ will certainly try to get those emotions to the survace luc . He is really an emotion guy so to say and puts alot of faith in people and builds his relationships on trust and loyalty. I hope this is not uncharacteristic for the setting?

[Donan]

Ayes on the scuttling. I'll make an argurment for Zerah to run her logic skill and foresight and total recall talents with the data searching for quickly finding possible connections that suggest VII ships.

[Donan]

Also, blowing ships up isn't right in Zerah's world view.

[Lucretia]

Originally Posted by SlyJohnny

So is it all good if I assume everyone scurries off to perform their respective tasks, plus whatever else they may wish to PM me?

I need a response from someone before I can say for certain. It would have been nice to have been able to ask the question before the meeting broke up, but that's not what happened.

Originally Posted by Cilvyn

LJ will certainly try to get those emotions to the survace luc . He is really an emotion guy so to say and puts alot of faith in people and builds his relationships on trust and loyalty. I hope this is not uncharacteristic for the setting?

He can try all he'd like. She'll exhibit loads of emotions -- it just becomes Lucius' task to determine which are real and which aren't.

[SlyJohnny]

Originally Posted by Donan

Also, blowing ships up isn't right in Zerah's world view.

Zerah is cute as a button. I kind of adore her.

I totally forgot she had Total Recall... d'oh. I'll try to mention that more in future intelligence-gathering shenanigans.

[Henry the 57th]

It's probably pretty obvious, but Sythius is a man who inspired fear and respect in his subordinates. He's a pretty harsh trainer and disciplinarian, and he takes a dim view of some of the crew's favorite activities, like drinking, gambling and whoring. He doesn't outright forbid them, but he does go out of his way to make them difficult and is fond of publicly shaming the particularly flagrant ones. On the other hand, he also inspires a good deal of respect, because he applies the same harsh standards to himself as to everyone else. You'll never catch him at a bar or gambling den unless work takes him there, and he doesn't indulge. He is also unafraid of going into combat himself, which is a nice change from officers who do nothing but hide behind their men and flee at the first sign of personal danger. Furthermore, his tight discipline does work, and the crew under him are pretty efficient. The ammo is neatly stored and easy to acces and load, and their hit percentages are considerable higher than average (represented by the high BS skill I have). Some even take pride in the harshness of their regimen, because it makes them tougher and stronger than the average gun crew.

That's how I imagine it, at any rate. Of course, SlyJohnny is free to overrule it if he likes.

[Lucretia]

It's a bit of a stretch to indicate how the crew react to him, but Sythius acting in the way you've described makes perfect sense.