[OOC] Are We the Bad Guys? - A WH40k RP [Mature]

[Necroes]

Hmm... well, that brings up a question. With the three of us, would there be enough players we could fit the encounter into the RP proper without interrupting the flow, or would another collab be in order?

@Wraithblade6@Jbcool@Klomster

[Klomster]

I dunno, would it?

[Wraithblade6]

I think we should write in rp proper.

Because, it would allow others to see what's going on and *possibly* interact. It gives the rp more of a "living" feel.

[Necroes]

Did no one else want to post first?

[Klomster]

I guess i'm just waiting for someone else to post.

Perhaps that is the wrong move?

[Wraithblade6]

@Klomster@Necroes

Between the three of us, I went last. It's between you two.

[Necroes]

Well, with the tau gone, and Hank AWOL, that leaves Depressed and Sophrus as the last two to post before a full round. That gives us enough wiggle room to continue, I suppose.

@Klomster, you want to take this one, or should I?

[BCTheEntity]

Well, with the tau gone, and Hank AWOL, that leaves Depressed and Sophrus as the last two to post before a full round.

@Necroes

I was just about to say. @Sophrus, @DepressedSoviet, @Hank, you've all been addressed by Lucius IC. He needs you to respond to him.

[Sophrus]

sorry, im coming up on the end of the term and do not have much time to spare between studying and such. so my post may be delayed a little.

ill try to get something this weekend but i cant say for sure.

[Klomster]

@Necroes You go, i think i'm a bit in the drool zone.

[Wraithblade6]

Decurion Vedius Celer.

[Necroes]

Decurion Vedius Celer.

@Wraithblade6

Huh?

[Wraithblade6]

@Necroes

Jbcool, 1 month ago:

Like leeches they came...so many leeches...latching on to the warplogged flesh of the amalgamated carcass, intent on sucking from within it something that they knew not the identity of but knew they had to have; in many forms they came – mercenaries attuned to the Immaterium, a ship of rogues and xenos, and once loyal servants of the Emperor now intent on their own gains in their nearly immortal lives.

Although some vermin already scurried about within the bowels of the filthy wreckage, as new lives set foot upon decks not trod for centuries on end things began to awaken within. Foul alien life-signs down in the belly of the beast, heretical and flesh-eating cults that had been kept alive only by the queer flow of time within the daemon-infested Warp, and other older things that flitted in the shadows and had no name to call them.

From the floor of a deck aboard the once noble Aquila a lone figure began to shudder, their Catalepsean Node and Sus-an Membrane causing the entire transhuman structure to lash out in spasms not of their own making. The figure did not realise what they did, huge fists hammering at the decking, the lit eyes of their helmet far different from the eyes beneath the ceramite which rolled back into the skull of the unfortunate one.

What was happening? Where am I? How long have I slept?!

These unspoken questions came out as grunts and moans from between clenched teeth, everything at once tense and locked up, only for the entire armoured behemoth to go as limp as a fish the next.

The Seventeenth Legion cannot get their hands on them...they must not be allowed to succeed!

Slowly but inexorably the figure lifted itself from the deck, somewhat dazed and curious as to why it's boltgun was no longer present at its side, sweeping its helmet in one direction and them looking to the other – what it saw made the blood within it boil, for all around lay fallen warriors, tens of them, clad in both perfect purple and gold or rusty crimson and gunmetal.

No...no...no.

With a superhuman effort, his legs still ceased up and the power armour doing little to solve that internal problem, Decurion Vedius Celer of the Emperor's Children limped off into the darkness to find both the tools of his trade and that which he had sworn to protect.

This is where my posts were going.

[Jb]

Can tell who actually reads others posts here then.

You'll meet him soon, I promise it.

[Klomster]

In all fairness, that name is a rather strange one.

[Necroes]

That's a name? I thought it was just randomly quoted 40k faux latin. See, you have these problems in settings like 40k, where for some reason everyone likes to name things with made-up words for a language that's been dead for 40,000+ years. Especially when one of those words is Real latin.

Anyway, I've led the xeno psyker/tech-heretic psyker team to the tech-marine. Now, for the fireworks!

[Jb]

Both of them are real Latin; Decurion is a rank in the Legiones Astartes, the other is a name. Where's the confusion?

[Necroes]

Both of them are real Latin; Decurion is a rank in the Legiones Astartes, the other is a name. Where's the confusion?

@Jbcool

You mean a lieutenant? That rank is more commonly called Lieutenant. Decurion, by comparison, is less widely used than Pack Leader. Which makes no sense, because in the Roman army it was a term used for cavalry. Then, you give him a name like 'Celer,' the main form in Latin for 'fast,' and it just makes the whole thing sound like a random faux-latin term made up solely for 40k.

Even more confusing, you picked the one term for that rank that's plastered across the internet in association with an entirely different faction.

[Wraithblade6]

@Necroes Although what you say may be true, after not stating it for like a month after he posted it, you forfeit the right to criticize. imo

[Wraithblade6]

@Necroes@Klomster

Well, I'm sure you guys can do something about a few bolter rounds.