Hmm... would it be well-received if the 'warning' shots Vespin fires off when the prisoners get there 'accidentally' goes between the eyes of the problematic prisoners? The ones that actually Should be in prison, that is to say.

Well no. He has no reason to believe that it was intentiona. Oskar wouldn't be terribly sad, but it wouldn't count for much

Well, if all of them went literally between the eyes, it would be somewhat hard to believe it Wasn't intentional. But I digress.

My point is, it wouldn't cause undo tension between them, Vespin and Oskar I mean.

N... not on a personal level. But you will be shooting at people with him, he will assume he is under attack, and if he is armed at that point he will shoot back.

You understand you are firing on the imperial guard posse I have with me. Even if I wanted a few of them dead I couldn't know that was your intention nor would I know it's you. If you want to befriend oskar I would recommend some situational awareness and not shooting at him Ex: Oscar is heading towards the armory and the security codes have changed. Maybe you know them and help arm him or snipe the guards between him and the armory before you open it.

Oh, and your character couldn't possibly know that Oscar hates those people.

Or... at least I see no reason that you would know.

If I'm not mistaken, the main people Oskar wants dead are actual, hard-core criminals. Vespin wouldn't be killing them to befriend Oskar; he'd be doing it to protect his own men.

Remember, at present, Vespin is still loyal to the guard. It's a group of ratlings that were sent to deal with the prisoner escape. That's going to mean him loosing allies, customers, and possibly even friends if things go sideways. He intends to avoid that.

The plan is going to be for him to use a superior knowledge of the ship's interior to chart a shorter route than the one Oskar is taking to get to the armory first. It's feasible that he could, given a wider array of routes to take, because he doesn't have to stick to the ones big enough to accommodate a prison's worth of men and is half the size of most of them to begin with.

Once there, he's going to use what little time he has to find an autogun turret with a bullet shield, set it to single-fire, and start splattering criminal across the wall as soon as they cross the threshold. Ideally, after killing the criminals he knows from his connections are bad news, he'll announce himself to try and ease tensions with the group by talking them down through his connection to some of them. One of those people he'd have a (albeit shaky) connection to is Oskar.

Ah, fair enough. I misunderstood your intention. Not sure how you will decide to switch sides but sure that works for me.

Are you all waiting for me to post for Vespin again, or was someone else going to post?

Because, I've been waiting for someone else to post so I wasn't doing mine back-to-back.

@Necroes I've been torn between partial writer's block and a fuck ton of other writing stuff, personally. That said, and assuming I'm not a filthy liar, I ought to be able to get something out for this and An Unholy Mass relatively soon.

I have been playing a ton of warhammers video games and hanging out in like 5 40k discords. I realize I owe a post. I've just been having so much other fun in the little free time I have.

Aaaand I finally posted in this. Whew. Here's hoping An Unholy Mass is still going too...

@BCTheEntity Not to nag, but your post conflicts somewhat with the last one @Klomster made.

@Necroes You are right, and thank you for pointing it out, I'd completely missed it. I'll fix that as soon as I have time.

EDIT: And done.

Btw, i was away for a week.

I see i haven't missed too much. Just the ork dying, a new character, a response to me.
Nothing much :P

@BCTheEntity How did it conflict?

@Klomster By my not seeing your post at all, and thus not factoring it into my post.

No longer directing a psyker, I suddenly feel much less concerned about the ship's astropath(s) and his/their retaliation to Lucius' pet psyker.

That said; RIP minion. We hardly knew ye.

@Necroes He'll be fine. The running gag is that he's always fine, @Jbcool. That's why his terminal case of melodram patheticism is funny, @Jbcool. Just so you're aware, @Jbcool.

I'm back!

*gently prods thread*

@Sophrus I need @Wraithblade6 to reply to Lucius' minion contacting him first.