[OOC] Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp

[WardenCelestine]

Opening to the story.

[-Incoming priority message from Canoness Andromedai Morgenstern.-]

[-For Celestian Superior Aviza Morgenstern.-]

[-Any unauthorized personnel viewing this message are to report to the messages recipient for summary execution.-]

Celestian Superior Aviza Morgenstern, I have been called to the Solcrum system for an important matter of which I cannot disclose at this time. As of now, you are in full command of the Erathellian campaign and my retinue. This mission must be approached with a gentle touch and cautious mindset. We do not know where these Chaos infiltrators have taken root, and we both know they can create exact replicas of those they have killed. We have the tools and knowledge at our disposal to smoke out these traitors, but be very careful who you approach, interrogate and accuse. These are members who hold high standing and power within the Imperium of man and can make everyone's presence there a living hell. If all else fails and you require my assistance, I can be easily contacted.

The full might of the Inquisition will fall down upon the system if my help is needed, but there would undoubtedly be a very heavy price to pay. Along side potentially losing very important information, we could lose the opportunity to discover who these forces of Chaos are and why they are here. I do not wish to have that happen, for obvious reasons. My advice to you is to blend in as much as possible, take part in events happening around the city where these members of society often visit or partake in. Do what you must to make this campaign a sweeping success. I have informed the rest of the retinue, filled with members we both know quite well, to meet you down in docking bay ACH-333, later this evening. You have my full permission to use your customized gunship as you see fit. Remember to report back to me when you can, I wish you the best of luck, and may the emperor guide you, my younger sister."

Notes from the GM.

Hello and thank you for your interest in, Warhammer 40k: Enigmas of the Warp. This is a high-casual to low-advanced RP that takes place in the Warhammer 40k Universe. Please keep in mind that this will not be a 100% lore accurate RP, but I will do my best to make it fit in with the current lore to the best of my abilities. I will be playing the part of Celestian Superior Aviza Morgenstern, the leader of the retinue that the rest of you will be part of. Along with intense combat, story building, and moments of planning, I also have time set back for our characters to get to know each other. In some cases, the choices that your characters make in certain situations will have an effect on the area around them, the people around them, and the story as a whole.

Our story will begin while on board Aviza's personal and heavily customized gunship, known as the Typhon. Our first destination is the Planet Erebus, within the Erathellian system. This planet serves as the hub of the system and houses a number of very high ranking officials within the Imperium of Man. The choices made upon this planet effect not only their system but also dozens of other nearby systems. There is word that a group of unknown Chaos forces have made their way onto the planet and have replaced important figures who hold positions of great power. Celestian Superior Aviza Morgenstern has hand picked a squad to accompany her to the planet to root out the Chaos corruption and return the system to its formal state before any irreversible damage may occur. If this mission should fail, the repercussions could ripple through the Imperium of man, in many severe and untold ways. This is just the beginning though, for I have much more planned out for all of us to experience.

Rules

1: Do not God-Mod.
2: Do not Meta-Game.
3: Do not Mary Sue.
4: Be polite and respectful to your fellow RP'ers.
5: If you have any suggestions or ideas for the RP, please let me know.
6: If you are going to be absent 7 days or more, please let us know in OOC.
7: If something or someone is bothering you in the RP, please let me or a co-gm know.
8: If you have any questions or concerns, please let me or the co-gm know.
9: Please post your CS here in OOC, once it is approved, you can post it in the characters tab.

Character Sheet

Name:
Age:
Sex:
Position within The Imperium of Man:(Space Marine? Psyker? Imperial Soldier? Sister of Battle? Something else?)
Armor:
Weapons:
Equipment:
Personality:
Characters Theme Song: (Optional)
Characters Voice: (Optional)

List of RP'ers

1: @Andromedai
2: @Eisenhorn
3: @rivaan

Update #2

First IC is up, just waiting on everyone else now.

[Rithy]

Sounds like it could be fun!

Especially as I suspect we'll get a lot of combat characters for an ostensibly cloak & dagger infiltration mission ^_^

[rivaan]

I will join. I think, I might be able to slot this in me schedule after all!

[rivaan]

@Andromedai

My Hider

Name: Vala Sal Felere

Appearance

She's 5.8 ft tall.

Age: 29
Sex: Female
Position within The Imperium of Man: Former Mercenary Engineer
Armor:
-Reinforced leather jacket, pants.
-Custom Armor plating – Created by using parts of salvaged imperial power armor. Multiple modifications and corrections were made for it to fit its new role. Barely resembles its origin. Still somewhat better than carapace armor though and of course more aestetic.
-Armored leather boots with inbuilt powerful electromagnets.
-A pair of armored gloves.
Weapons:
-‘White Skull’ Las Pistol – a heavily modified version of the standard issue laspistol, this work of engineering has been created by Vala herself. It has almost triple the power draw of a normal laspistol, making it more useful than it’s original, but it depletes powercells quickly and the wear on the weapon is increased, making the need for replacement parts quite frequent. She has created only 3 of these with the other two now destroyed. It’s kept on a holster on her right hip.
- MAG Autogun MkIV(Shelly) - An autogun that fires hexagonal solid projectiles. The projectiles are about 6 cm in length and 0.7 cm in diameter. She acquired this specific gun or at least what was the remnants of a gun while on one of the many lawless space stations scattered across the fringes of Imperium space. After a lot of tinkering and experimentation she managed to create a workable and actually useful variant of it. It has the same range as a standard autogun. Its flat projectiles/slugs are propelled using a system of incredibly powerful electromagnets. The rifle uses standard powercells. Devastating against lightly armored targets as causes both blunt and puncture damage with each slug. Lacks penetrating power against heavily armored targets, though still hits like a hammer. The rifle has 10 slugs per clip. Held on the right side of her back with a magnetic buckle.
-'Nova' LAS Heavy Sniper. - This a custom made las sniper, she made in the last year. It's strength stands in both it's incredible power and armor penetration plus great range. It's almost entirely custom rigged from both original and standard technology. Instead of one great emitter like the standard heavy las weapons, this one uses 4 smaller ones. The first three fire slightly before the fourth which is arranged in between the other 3, thus at impact the first 3 create a weaken heated spot in the middle, which allows the fourth to more easily puncture through the armor. This weapon can hold 2 power cells for las cannons, allowing for 2 shots at a time, before needing reload. The barrels and powers are cooled by 2 other special slots where she puts old depleted power cells that serve as sinks for the heat generated during a shot, thus lengthening the lifespan of all parts. Still for safety purposes, the required waiting time between shots is at least 10 seconds.
-Autopistol – Held in a holster on her left hip.
-Short straight sword – She keeps it for when she’s out of all her other weapons. Kept in a sheath across the left side of her back.
-4 small frag grenades.
Equipment:
-A forearm mounted grappling hook launcher – uses same electromagnetic tech as her rifle.
-Known to also carry portable set of tools during missions.
Personality: As a person, Vala's a quick thinker and calm even under pressure. She's fast to come up with plans when problems arise and even faster to act up on those plans. She's friendly and mostly easy to get along with, but does dislike people who fool around too much even when the situation is not appropriate for it. She loves technology and loves tinkering with it in new manners that could prove useful, discovering new ways to deal with problems and get results with better ease or less costs. Naturally this trait of her tends to get her in conflict with tech priests, but what the techpriest do not know about, doesn't hurt her. The benefit of the Inquisition. On the humanity front, she doesn't really hold much zealous fanatism or pride, she doesn't hold much hatred for the xenos or the mutants, but will kill either if she has too without as much as a thought. She hates chaos, but not to the point of being blinded. Chaos destroyed everything she ever held dear and she doesn't mind returning the favor if she could without getting herself killed that is.

List of Notable Deeds.

As a merc Val cannot really boast with deeds such as those of the soldiers of the Imperium, but she has stacked up a small list of accomplishments non the less.

The Kroozer Gambit

Hired by a Rogue Trader, away from the notable trade routes, Vala and her crew were tasked with bringing down a ork Kroozer that was discovered waiting in ambush for an unsuspecting transports. The Trader didn’t want to damage his own vessel so he hired mercs to be his scapegoats while his ship would pass the sector, hoping to escape paying.

Her crew immediately got suspicious of it and forged a plan to both do the job and get paid. Since what they had was a old modified transport ship, they pretended to be a random unsuspecting pray while a Vala and 4 of her crewmates took an assault boat. When the Kroozer moved to intercept their transport along with it’s fighter escort, the assault boat rammed to the engine room. Following a lightning fast gunfight, they set 5 heavy explosives across the engines and left the ship just in time for the bombs to explode and cripple the vessel. During that time, their transport had led the escort wing straight to the Rogue Trader’s vessel. Without support from the Kroozer, the trader managed to deal with the fighter escort. Their transport ship had susptained medium damages, but they got paid non the less. She later heard that an imperial Dauntless stumbled upon the Kroozer and destroyed it. Surely the Rogue Trader had taken all credit for disabling it…

3 days of darkness.

Vala’s crew had been forced to land on an uninhabited world when they came into confrontation with a light corsairs pirate vessel. Luckily for them the elder ship wasn’t heavily armed and after an incredible accurate hit on their part, both vessels were forced to crash land.

Vala’s armed transport had taken a serious beating and given the degree of the damage it would have required at least a week to repair. Without given much choice in the matter they were forced into a fight for their lives. After 3 days of almost constant battling with the corsairs, Vala’s crew managed to repel the enemy and grant her enough time to finish the repairs in a record time of 3 and a half days! They lost 5 people in that event, but finally managed to escape the planet.

Death to the Infidel.

While on a break from missions and traveling towards a nearby lawless space station for refuel and repair, Vala’s transport suddenly shook heavily from the impact wave of an immense explosion. By the time they saw what was going on, the transport was knee deep in a chaos attack of two Infidel class escorts on the pirate station.

The station’s weak shields were quickly down, it’s frankly old weaponry couldn’t match the two escorts. As the transports around it were destroyed, Vala’s ship found itself with no place to run. She and other 5 of her 15 crew members barely managed to get to the assault boat that also doubled as a escape capsule before their transport was blown to bits by 2 torpedos. With the destruction of the station, one of the Infidel class ships left to chase some ships that managed to escape the initial barrage while the other one stayed behind to finish wiping the place from anything that moved. Without place to land anywhere in the assault boat’s range there was only one option left. They used the debris as cover from the batteries, they boarded the Escort’s engine compartment like they had done in the past with the orks.

It was a slaughter against the chaos marines their weapons didn’t really carry much punch. It took Vala mere 2 minutes to set all the explosives and move back to her assault boat, but by the time she pulled the boat away from the chaos ship, she was the only one left. Alone and heavily wounded she watched with a big smile as the explosions took place, rendering it motionless in space… She laughed loudly as Imperial ships started warping about the place, probably having noticed the chaos presence.

Characters Theme Song:
Characters Voice: N/a

[WardenCelestine]

@rivaan Approved, as always :3

[Rithy]

@rivaan

Our tech heretek is back!

[rivaan]

And completely protected from the cult mechanicus by the bloody inquisition <3 what could be more glorious!?

[Rithy]

And completely protected from the cult mechanicus by the bloody inquisition <3 what could be more glorious!?

@rivaan

[Rithy]

@Andromedai

CS: Adrianne Valenthin

Name: Adrianne Valenthin
Age: 24
Sex: Female
Position within The Imperium of Man: Sanctioned Psyker
Appearance: 7ft tall, pale skin and snow white hair. Sturdy and heavy frame, but still retains her feminine figure despite adhering to a strict physical training regime.

The base of her outfit consist of a simple yet elastic skin tight jumpsuit in dark brown color that is capable of withstanding the vacuum of space as well as provide a decent protection against the elements, though offers little protection versus physical threats. Overlayed on top is a series of armaplas plates that form a chestguard, cuisses, knee-high boots, shoulderpads and gloves stretching back and up to her elbows where they form into a sharp point. They offer good locational protection, especially from the front, but leave her jumpsuit exposed in other places, particularly from her lower back and down to the back of her knees where her boots cover both sides of her ankles. The plates are polished to a light gray color, and almost look like silver. The surface is covered with a series of intricate design and artwork in typical imperial fashion, featuring numerous flutes and ridges across the plates, as well as a couple skull imprints. Above her armor she wears a satin blue silk cloak that hangs down from the back of her left shoulder, as well as a silk loincloth hanging from the front of her belt of similar color. Thrown sideways around her torso is a series of books and scrolls attached by chain.

Running up along the spine of her chestguard is a refractor field generator built into the plate itself, taking form of a small generator emitting a series of horizontal, blue lights up along the back of the chestplate, and shaped much like a human skeletal spine. When activated, a faint, blue and almost invisible barrier appears around her figure.

Her helmet is made out of the same material as that of her armor, and it takes the form of a gothic plated helmet, with a narrow but wide blue glass visor and a longer neck guard extending out behind her helmet. Two plastic tubes are attached to a rebreather device at the bottom mouth piece of her helmet, that stretch out on each side of her neck and down into a small, highly pressurized air tank built into the back of her chestguard.

Her boots are magnetic, and her entire suit when worn enables her to survive in space, and also provides immunity to most chemical and biological attacks. She carries enough oxygen to last for two hours.

Armor:

Ceramite half-plate armor. Description under Appearance.

Refractor Field. Description under Appearance.

Weapons:

Her primary weapon is a two handed power-weapon in the form of an oversized saber with a sleek blade and an extended handle which doubles as a psyker staff, and adorned with sigils, trinkets, technological gadgets and inscriptions. She often uses her weapon in conjunction with her telekinetic powers to amplify its destructive potential.

Mk V "Wrathfire". Plasma Pistol.

Ceremonial Dagger. In essence, just a normal albeit flashy dagger with an adorned handle. Typically only carried for show, but is sharp enough to slice through unprotected skin with ease, and small enough to be concealed without much problem.

Equipment:

2x Servo-Skulls: Familiars. Mostly used to store events, data, recordings and scrolls and provide reconnaissance.

Plus a bundle of miscellaneous texts related to the Warp and esoteric psyker tools.

Personality: Hot blooded and sanguine.

[WardenCelestine]

@Rithy Approved, Why so tall though?

[Jamesyco]

@AndromedaiStill looking for people?

[Eisenhorn]

@Andromedai She's always been tall, and blame the 4th degree interdimensional warp fuckery. Tall is good though, to be fair.

[WardenCelestine]

@Eisenhorn No argument here!

[Rithy]

@Andromedai She's always been tall, and blame the 4th degree interdimensional warp fuckery. Tall is good though, to be fair.

@Eisenhorn

@Andromedai, indeed, I basically copied the old description over!

Also, height helps with reach! Don't forget Adrianne favors long power swords ^_^

[Eisenhorn]

Meanwhile short Kriger is short.

[WardenCelestine]

@Rithy & @Eisenhorn, you two are up for posting, make it snappy, please.

Enjoy this from my all time favorite video game:

[Rithy]

I am almost surprised we didn't find the Krieger already entrenched somewhere in the hangar between ammo crates and rations... ^^

[Eisenhorn]

Don't worry, by the time they've landed, the gunship will be a veritable fortress world of its own!

[WardenCelestine]

I will have a post up this weekend. ^_^

[CleanBreeze]

Charsheet inbound if you all don't mind.