4521 pts · December 5, 2015
*Screams abyssally*
Oh, probably. But there are also *actual god damn levitating trains* left over from the Dark Age of Technlology. The new Repulsor-type vehicles the Space Marines got with their Primaris Refresh use something similar (I think).Though I think I read something about getting trapped underneath one of those has about the same result as forcing the human body to occupy a comically oversized blender.
It's also ignoring that the magrails are hovering *above* the rails, and thus there's no way for the train to reasonably or reliably turn said governors daughter into pâté in the first place. Sure, it could be 40k magrails that turn things below them into paste, but lying down is probably a good way to have the gravitational forces disperse around you rather than force your entire skeleton plus internal organs downwards, which loops back around to making the endeavor pointless to begin with.
'Cartoon Villain Syndrome' is a noted side-effect of Warp Exposure. Literal corrosion of mind, body and soul will inevitably lead to trying to tie up the planetary governors daughter and leave them on the magrail tracks while cackling that the Inquisition will never save them in time.Of course, that's ignoring the fact that the Inquisition *will* save them - it's just a side-effect of tracking down an arch-heretic whose modus operandi is being a Snidely Whiplash-alike with worse dental.
The Urbie is the funniest thing to upgun. The stupidest thing I've done with one in MWO is manage to rip out enough parts on the -R60L to include an additional ammo bin for the AC/20. One of the sacrifices was the engine, so it was somehow *even fucking slower* than normal.Was it good? No. Was it funny? Yes.
More to the point, they were described as 'flat polar bears,' so they probably look like a mix of that one REALLY fat (and flat) crocodile and polar bears.
Ah, thought it was the horses, not those guys
If I recall correctly, the guy who made the horses got killed by envious members of the priesthood who forgot to steal all his blueprints before they burned his house down with him in it. Why were they envious over the horses? Because they're powered by a perpetual motion machine. The function of which means they have to be CONSTANTLY moving otherwise the engine might overload and shut down, and *no-one* knows how to turn one back on again.
Don't care, still mad I couldn't get the guy to join my Retinue.He and Yrilet could've done so much together...
I'm forever reminded of that bit from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits,' how someone can be physically ugly but still beautiful, but truly wicked people end up looking ugly no matter how beautiful they try to make themselves look. Or something along the lines. Been years since I read it.
The only reason I know this is because of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II. The campaign intro cinematic had the two chat for a bit, and it was apparently from the Fall of Cadia novel.
The two interacted during the Fall of Cadia. Trazyn helped Cawl get the Cadian Pylons online, but it was too little too late by that point because Abbadon chucked a hissy fit and threw a damaged Blackstone Fortress at the planet and blew it up.Outside of that, no clue.
If you're familiar with the Old World of Darkness, the best analogue to use is that the Dark Eldar are basically Tzimisce.That lamp PROBABLY had a story behind it, once. Now it's just a one-off joke/art gallery piece some mad, knife-eared bastard decided to make one day out of whimsy.
SERIOUSLY. DON'T.THERE'S NOTHING COOL OR NEAT ABOUT IT. IT'S JUST HORRIFIC AND DEPRESSING.
And now we wait for an edit of Belos in the electric chair, I guess.
Same here in Aus. Someone in one of the GoG forums said that using a VPN works(it does btw)
Minor nitpick, but wasn't it a landmine? Otherwise yeah, that's what happened. He (Lucius) was confused about the whole thing because he reconstituted right on the manufacturing line.
Kroot in general are mercenary minded. As a species they don't give a fig about the Greater Good, it's just that the Tau pay well and are willing to turn away when the Kroot go and do their thing when they chow down on Sapients (though IIRC there's a stipulation they aren't allowed to do it to Tau while they're on the payroll)Kroot being included in Rogue Trader retinues aren't unheard of, but most don't work with the Imperium all that much what with the rampant xenophobia.
Well, there's always Cap'n Bluddflagg from Dawn of War II: Retribution. He sounded like he was doing both at the same time.Patrick Seitz must've been having fun doing his voice.
Shadowrun Returns was my official introduction to the setting, so while I agree that it's probably the weakest it does a VERY good job actually introducing the setting.Haven't gone to Hong Kong yet, but I have done Dragonfall. And boy fucking howdy was Dragonfall amazing.
That's not true, he also tanked the campaign of the LNP over here in Australia. So he's done at least *two* good things.(The PM-to-be Peter Dutton was basically copying Trump's policies until they stopped resonating with their own voter base and had nothing to replace it with. It resulted in such a severe political shift that the Labour party got its biggest win in history, and Dutton lost his own electorate seat and thus isn't even serving in the senate anymore.)
Given that the Imperium of Man is so wide and vast that human lives are valued less than individual sacks of grain, they aren't opposed to the idea of sex. After all, cloning is an abomination and perversion of the Holy Human Form and creates only soulless homonculi fit only to be made into servitors. They need to get manpower from *somewhere.*No, sex for *pleasure* is banned, because that feeds the God of Hedonism. Y'gotta lie back and think of the Emperor.
"Do not boop that merry suicide bomber" is one of many phrases that lives rent-free in my head. God I miss TTS
In your defense, one of the lines I remember the Force Commanders from Dawn of War giving off was 'Beware the Alien, the Mutant, the Heretic,' so Alien and Xenos are still used interchangeably enough that Space Marines swap the distinctions.
I dunno, somehow missed it. Given that it does basically disappear when flat, it doesn't detract fully from the camo thing.Maybe it's for mating purposes? 'Hello, pretty fish lady. I am right here, as you can tell by my flashing fin. I am not a strangely mobile clump of sand. Do you want to propagate the species with me?'
Given it's a well-camouflaged fish and in response, seemingly, to being spotted it decided to bury itself, it's probably some sort of lure.Fish see's something wiggly and wavy in the ocean and thinks 'hee hoo, tasty worm for me to eat' and when it bites on the ribbon BAM. Drawn in and eaten.
Also I only JUST noticed that you labeled this 'chapter 1'. So that's why it feels unfinished. I am blind.
Feels unfinished, but it is damn good. The switching perspectives is a good narrative tool.
Huntsman, by the looks of it. Harmless, but yeah - it's a big fucken spider. It'll still give your therapist a raise if it lands on you.
Generally speaking, once an Exterminatus is ordered, it's carried out. Ramifications happen afterwards: the one who gave the order is interrogated, everything around it investigated, and if it's shown to be a hopeless situation that genuinely warranted Exterminatus they're let go. Otherwise it's long, painful, agonizing torture until they die for wasting so many resources and souls that could've otherwise still been used by the Imperium
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNxHUfGc3gE
Oh, probably. But there are also *actual god damn levitating trains* left over from the Dark Age of Technlology. The new Repulsor-type vehicles the Space Marines got with their Primaris Refresh use something similar (I think).
Though I think I read something about getting trapped underneath one of those has about the same result as forcing the human body to occupy a comically oversized blender.
It's also ignoring that the magrails are hovering *above* the rails, and thus there's no way for the train to reasonably or reliably turn said governors daughter into pâté in the first place. Sure, it could be 40k magrails that turn things below them into paste, but lying down is probably a good way to have the gravitational forces disperse around you rather than force your entire skeleton plus internal organs downwards, which loops back around to making the endeavor pointless to begin with.
'Cartoon Villain Syndrome' is a noted side-effect of Warp Exposure. Literal corrosion of mind, body and soul will inevitably lead to trying to tie up the planetary governors daughter and leave them on the magrail tracks while cackling that the Inquisition will never save them in time.
Of course, that's ignoring the fact that the Inquisition *will* save them - it's just a side-effect of tracking down an arch-heretic whose modus operandi is being a Snidely Whiplash-alike with worse dental.
The Urbie is the funniest thing to upgun. The stupidest thing I've done with one in MWO is manage to rip out enough parts on the -R60L to include an additional ammo bin for the AC/20. One of the sacrifices was the engine, so it was somehow *even fucking slower* than normal.
Was it good? No. Was it funny? Yes.
More to the point, they were described as 'flat polar bears,' so they probably look like a mix of that one REALLY fat (and flat) crocodile and polar bears.
Ah, thought it was the horses, not those guys
If I recall correctly, the guy who made the horses got killed by envious members of the priesthood who forgot to steal all his blueprints before they burned his house down with him in it. Why were they envious over the horses? Because they're powered by a perpetual motion machine. The function of which means they have to be CONSTANTLY moving otherwise the engine might overload and shut down, and *no-one* knows how to turn one back on again.
Don't care, still mad I couldn't get the guy to join my Retinue.
He and Yrilet could've done so much together...
I'm forever reminded of that bit from Roald Dahl's 'The Twits,' how someone can be physically ugly but still beautiful, but truly wicked people end up looking ugly no matter how beautiful they try to make themselves look. Or something along the lines. Been years since I read it.
The only reason I know this is because of Battlefleet Gothic: Armada II. The campaign intro cinematic had the two chat for a bit, and it was apparently from the Fall of Cadia novel.
The two interacted during the Fall of Cadia. Trazyn helped Cawl get the Cadian Pylons online, but it was too little too late by that point because Abbadon chucked a hissy fit and threw a damaged Blackstone Fortress at the planet and blew it up.
Outside of that, no clue.
If you're familiar with the Old World of Darkness, the best analogue to use is that the Dark Eldar are basically Tzimisce.
That lamp PROBABLY had a story behind it, once. Now it's just a one-off joke/art gallery piece some mad, knife-eared bastard decided to make one day out of whimsy.
SERIOUSLY. DON'T.
THERE'S NOTHING COOL OR NEAT ABOUT IT. IT'S JUST HORRIFIC AND DEPRESSING.
And now we wait for an edit of Belos in the electric chair, I guess.
Same here in Aus. Someone in one of the GoG forums said that using a VPN works
(it does btw)
Minor nitpick, but wasn't it a landmine? Otherwise yeah, that's what happened. He (Lucius) was confused about the whole thing because he reconstituted right on the manufacturing line.
Kroot in general are mercenary minded. As a species they don't give a fig about the Greater Good, it's just that the Tau pay well and are willing to turn away when the Kroot go and do their thing when they chow down on Sapients (though IIRC there's a stipulation they aren't allowed to do it to Tau while they're on the payroll)
Kroot being included in Rogue Trader retinues aren't unheard of, but most don't work with the Imperium all that much what with the rampant xenophobia.
Well, there's always Cap'n Bluddflagg from Dawn of War II: Retribution. He sounded like he was doing both at the same time.
Patrick Seitz must've been having fun doing his voice.
Shadowrun Returns was my official introduction to the setting, so while I agree that it's probably the weakest it does a VERY good job actually introducing the setting.
Haven't gone to Hong Kong yet, but I have done Dragonfall. And boy fucking howdy was Dragonfall amazing.
That's not true, he also tanked the campaign of the LNP over here in Australia. So he's done at least *two* good things.
(The PM-to-be Peter Dutton was basically copying Trump's policies until they stopped resonating with their own voter base and had nothing to replace it with. It resulted in such a severe political shift that the Labour party got its biggest win in history, and Dutton lost his own electorate seat and thus isn't even serving in the senate anymore.)
Given that the Imperium of Man is so wide and vast that human lives are valued less than individual sacks of grain, they aren't opposed to the idea of sex. After all, cloning is an abomination and perversion of the Holy Human Form and creates only soulless homonculi fit only to be made into servitors. They need to get manpower from *somewhere.*
No, sex for *pleasure* is banned, because that feeds the God of Hedonism. Y'gotta lie back and think of the Emperor.
"Do not boop that merry suicide bomber" is one of many phrases that lives rent-free in my head. God I miss TTS
In your defense, one of the lines I remember the Force Commanders from Dawn of War giving off was 'Beware the Alien, the Mutant, the Heretic,' so Alien and Xenos are still used interchangeably enough that Space Marines swap the distinctions.
I dunno, somehow missed it. Given that it does basically disappear when flat, it doesn't detract fully from the camo thing.
Maybe it's for mating purposes? 'Hello, pretty fish lady. I am right here, as you can tell by my flashing fin. I am not a strangely mobile clump of sand. Do you want to propagate the species with me?'
Given it's a well-camouflaged fish and in response, seemingly, to being spotted it decided to bury itself, it's probably some sort of lure.
Fish see's something wiggly and wavy in the ocean and thinks 'hee hoo, tasty worm for me to eat' and when it bites on the ribbon BAM. Drawn in and eaten.
Also I only JUST noticed that you labeled this 'chapter 1'. So that's why it feels unfinished. I am blind.
Feels unfinished, but it is damn good. The switching perspectives is a good narrative tool.
Huntsman, by the looks of it. Harmless, but yeah - it's a big fucken spider. It'll still give your therapist a raise if it lands on you.
Generally speaking, once an Exterminatus is ordered, it's carried out. Ramifications happen afterwards: the one who gave the order is interrogated, everything around it investigated, and if it's shown to be a hopeless situation that genuinely warranted Exterminatus they're let go. Otherwise it's long, painful, agonizing torture until they die for wasting so many resources and souls that could've otherwise still been used by the Imperium
Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNxHUfGc3gE