@Wraithblade6
you should still feel bad

Killed the rp? Nah, where we are going, death would be preferable.

Where would that be?

... Um, well shit I killed the rp.

Did you?

Okay, so before anything else, @agentmanatee, how much damage are you willing to allow Bravis to take, and what weapons does he have on him? I have an idea in mind for Lucius' next set of actions, under the assumption that I'm able to do at least some stuff to Bravis, but I don't want to implement it by essentially godmodding.

Stiiiill waiting on @agentmanatee to reply, here. Please.

Ah. Tee! Quit slackin.

@BCTheEntity just don't kill him. Free reign otherwise but keep it realistic

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Where would that be?

The warp! >:D

@agentmanatee Wasn't planning on killing him. But... well, you'll see.

Post made. @agentmanatee, if you're not happy with what I've come up with, do say so, but I figure it's the best way to avoid getting any more PCs killed off, at least in the short term.

@Jbcool Are you going depict what happens during the 'boarding action?' From what I can tell, I'm the next in posting order, and I've not really got much to do until that happens.

@Jbcool Are you going depict what happens during the 'boarding action?' From what I can tell, I'm the next in posting order, and I've not really got much to do until that happens.

Good point, you feel free to start us off; just choose one of the smaller Imperial vessels (it will likely be our own ship in the future), have us either landing in their bay or blasting a hole into the interior, then once we're inside you can leap out and probably do whatever psychic thing you've been dying to do.

I'm a slacking sort of GM, and like to give the players a chance to involve themselves in what could potentially be RP-changing events, which I'd say the selection of ship does count as.

I would suggest an escort-class Imperial Navy vessel, but it's up to you.

I would suggest an escort-class Imperial Navy vessel, but it's up to you.

@Necroes BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP!!!!

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@Necroes BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP BATTLESHIP!!!!

Yea, pretty sure we'd all be dead.

is it just me or are most Imperaial ships listed with a crew of tens of thousands? which means the handful of us couldnt crew one remotely effectively much less actually take one

is it just me or are most Imperaial ships listed with a crew of tens of thousands? which means the handful of us couldnt crew one remotely effectively

Don't need to crew it, as long as we control the crew.

sure but a crew of 10-20 thousand would easily have hundreds or a couple thousand marines protecting the ship, and i still dont see us survivng that. other than... making a bee line for the carrier bay and stealing something smaller like a gunship or bomber.

Edit: by marines i dont mean astartes, i mean like guardsmen or something.

Well, if it's going to be left up to me, I think I've got a plan.

However, for it to work, I'll need some help. @Klomster, my friend; how would you feel about performing a dark-mechanicum ritual on a couple hundred eldar? Of course, we'd need someone to perform some light surgery to get them ready. Someone versed in preparing mortal vessels for subjugation to the ruinous powers.

Anyone here heard of death-masques?

@Necroes I feel like if one could drop the ball on a spaceship's design, then the Eldar did so with the Hemlock. What on Earth Terra drove them to not install even marginally larger batteries for such a ship? Or more of them, anyway. It's not like there's that much of a size limit anyway.

Also no, I have not heard of those. Pray tell, what is a death-masque?

Well, if it's going to be left up to me, I think I've got a plan.

However, for it to work, I'll need some help. @Klomster, my friend; how would you feel about performing a dark-mechanicum ritual on a couple hundred eldar? Of course, we'd need someone to perform some light surgery to get them ready. Someone versed in preparing mortal vessels for subjugation to the ruinous powers.

Anyone here heard of death-masques?

While it is a fun concept, i cannot help but think that the Hemlock is so crap as a single ship in BFG and Rogue trader. It's not even fun :P
However, we're not playing one of those games here, and the skeleton crew might prove to be an advantage.

I wasn't planning on making such massive rituals as taking over the crew of an entire ship, not to mention eldar.
So for the moment i have no idea how i would write such an event to make it plausible.
I'd need help, in game.

A more pressing question is, how on earth would we catch an eldar boat? Not to mention board it?

As for taking over a ship with thousands of crew?
Most of those will be menials, whom have no interest in fighting. And how will we defeat the navy armsmen?
We'll just have to be crafty, since we can't take them in an open fight.
However, we have the warp on our side.

Ok, so don't futuristic human warships have safety features that isolate the captain's bridge from mutiny/pirates/fire/etc? We could potentially replace the command stations, if we can get there.

but I figure it's the best way to avoid getting any more PCs killed off...

I am not so sure about that.

You know, originally, I had gotten used to the idea that this renegade band of ours was heading for chaos central, to be rebels and traitors, and such. I also thought about killing Xepherial back when the rp was lagging dryly, then decided to keep him with the involvement of our newest player. In order to keep my staunch loyalist in check, I was gonna let Manatee do a thing to him which would allow some level of control of Xepherial, you know, so that such a group would be more apt to keep him around. BC has thrice revolted against this plan, and now it seems I'm left with Xeph being alive, and soon-to-be functional, and still very much in control of his own choices. That, combined with the fact that we are probably going to board a loaded Imperial vessel, means there's going to be a lot more anti-chaos persuasion on our group.

The current problem, is that, even if Azazel returns Xeph to Lucius, there is zero reason for him not to kill Lucius and/or Xeph at the next opportunity. The two students and the ork are totally going to help, and the creepy mechanicus dude might help as well. Granted, our group was always going to be volatile, but I feel like Lucius has flexed his bravado with no legs to stand on, ie. he's not shown he has anything to offer his present company that justifies them working alongside him, nor that he is strong enough to take them all out. Trapped as we are together, it's not like Lucius and Xeph can go their separate ways or escape. Killing a PC is a very IC and logical thing to do at this point. I'm more or less ok with it, speaking of my character, but I am not sure BC would be ok with it for his. Manatee is a nice guy, but forcing someone to metagame just to keep your PC alive is inappropriate.

I do not know what is going to happen at this point. It's up to Tee.

To answer the questions in the order posted;

@BCTheEntity I'm really glad someone asked.
A death-masque is a type of servitor. It is unique in two ways. Firstly, they are only made by the dark mechanicum. Secondly, the base creature used to create them is not human, but chaos spawn. Making them is difficult, but it can be done, and we just so happen to have the people necessary to pull it off. Though, actually doing it will be tricky. Which brings me to my next answer...

@Klomster Firstly, the hemlock is a bad WAR ship. For our purposes, it's nearly perfect. It sports one of the fastest engines in its size class (which is the class known for fast engines), packs a single weapon with Devastating capability, is purpose-built to be skeleton crewed, and best of all... The ENTIRE SHIP is made of warp-maliable material. Once we get it away from the eldar manning it, we can literally bend it to whatever shape we care to. All we'd need is a crew.

Which brings me to the second point, and this is where the death-masques come in. Urgrugg just so happens to know a spell for converting the bodies of mortals whose souls have been claimed by a single chaos god into chaos spawn-surprisingly, it's not that hard-while also restraining them. Any admech worth his salt would know how to make a servitor. With the chaos apothecary to help with the medical side of things, all we'd need is the materials to do the conversion. Namely, metal for the robot bits, and mortals to turn into chaos spawn.

Now, if only we had an ample supply of mortals whose souls have been claimed by a single chaos god... Oh, right. Space elves!
As for the metal... well, remember all the wraith bone I mentioned?
Before you ask, no, Urgrugg doesn't know how to manipulate it. However, he does know a certain tzeench daemon who just might. Yet another hand to help with the conversion process.
And, once we make our Eldar-flavor, wraith-bone, chaos-spawn servitors, we'll have our crew! With as many elves as we'll have, there should be no end of subjects to test on either.

As for the boarding... Well, our ship IS designed to be cloaked specifically from eldar craft. Add that to the fact hemlocks turn off all non-essential systems when they fire their gun, *cough*radar*cough*, and I think we can pull off getting aboard. Then, we just have to take the boat, and we'll be good to go. Which brings me to my final response;

@Wraithblade6 We're not boarding an imperial ship. We're boarding an eldar ship, which we're going to 'commandeer' the... everything, of. At which point, we'll all be aboard a chaos-dominated ship, crewed by a small slave army of death-masques directed by pink horrors.

And, before anyone asks how we'll take it; hemlocks are specifically NOT fitted to repel boarding action. Six space marines, a plague ogryn (gonna have to pull that one off quick), a magus, and a magic ork by themselves would be enough to give them trouble. When I start summoning daemons for back-up... Well, let's just say that's not gonna be ketchup on those khorn dogs.

So, everyone... are you ready to pilot a ship crewed by the damned and captained by daemons?

All in favor, say "Black Pearl!!!" Who's with me?