[OOC] Beyond Civilisation's Grasp... - A Rogue Trader (WH40K) RP [Seeking Desperate Souls for Adventure!]

[Sarpedon]

Here is the copypasta for those having trouble with our glorious leader's link

[BCTheEntity]

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Sure, why not, you have certainly piqued my interest (I think piqued is the right word? I could be wrong)

@Mortarion

Yes, "piqued" is correct. I'll PM the theory to you, since it doesn't currently seem like anyone else is interested in hearing it, but if more people start getting interested, I'll put it up in the thread.

[Bright_Ops]

I'm interested in hearing it.

[Jb]

@Mortarion@Sarpedon Thaaaat is weird...well, apologies then, you might be better off with the link Sarpedon provided.

@BCTheEntity I would like to hear your crazy theory, if you don't mind.

[BCTheEntity]

@Bright_Ops@Jbcool Haha, now we're talking. Anyway, I'm going to pitch this theory on the assumption that you've all never heard of the setting I'm going to describe, since that simplifies things for everyone.

So, the crazy theory is that the setting of RWBY, a planet named Remnant with an inexplicably shattered moon, is a Daemon world in WH40K, or at least a world heavily beset by Chaos. There are entities called the Creatures of Grimm who prey on the human (and abhuman Faunus) inhabitants of the planet, and only them, to the point that human civilisation is at present restricted to four major cities and a few minor villages; these Grimm are, in fact, a localised form of Chaos Daemon, twisted into the shape of black-furred, white-armoured animals by the collective unconscious of the human population, which obviously received free reign to enter realspace and roam the planet after whatever Chaos-based event broke the moon into pieces that didn't then get pulled back to the main body by gravity. Grimm spawn from the Warp, they dissolve back into the Warp when they're killed, and their power and intelligence increases over time because they're gradually becoming more attuned to realspace, or the human collective unconscious is turning them from lesser into greater daemons, or something along those lines. Said collective unconscious also led to the planet not being twisted into an entirely horrific landscape of death, as most (though admittedly not all) Chaos planets are... or maybe the actual breach is on the moon, hence shattering without gravity collapsing it back into a single celestial object, and the Grimm daemons just drop down to the planet from there.

Normally, this would have ended the humans easily, and as RWBY itself tells us, it nearly did. However, two major things (and one minor thing) have let them survive to in-setting modern times. First of all, the presence of so much ambient Chaos energy has led to rampant mutation in the majority of the human population, which inexplicably only manifests as low-level, semi-uniform psychic powers; these are represented by the Aura every human and Faunus (and other normal animals, to a lesser extent) possesses on that planet, and usually also includes a Semblance which is unique or semi-unique to any given individual. These low-level psykers are practically immune to being further mutated by the use of their powers or to other negative effects that might normally occur through use of psychic powers, but suffer for this by not only having limited psychic strength and versatility, but also restricted access to the Warp itself at any given time, thus why Aura depletes as damage is taken and dealt out, and recharges when not in use.

Secondly, Dust, with uses and effects as explained by RWBY. This is a useful resource, and is obviously one of the major reasons the human inhabitants have continued to not die. What it actually is is crystallised psychic energy. More specifically, the four basic types of Dust each indirectly represent one of the four Chaos Gods, who are probably looking at Remnant and giggling like lunatics at the struggles the humans on the planet are going through, since there's no way in the Warp they can win in the long run. The third, minor point is that constant exposure to the Grimm daemons and the aforementioned ambient Warp energy has lessened the collective supernatural fear response of the human inhabitants, such that trained Hunters can readily fight against the Grimm without flinching... though obviously, normal humans are still going to be terrified by a large-scale attack, since normal humans tend to be scared of giant monsters regardless. If it's not obvious by this point, the humans and Faunus have no idea what's really going on - "what is the Warp, what is Chaos, you're a crazy person for worshipping these weird fake "Chaos gods"" - which is in part why they're not all Chaos worshippers on a Chaos planet. The planet's also relatively obscure, and probably contained somewhere in Chaos-held or uncharted space, thus why it hasn't been Exterminatus'd into oblivion or overrun by Chaos Space Marines.

There's a bit more to my theory, but it's very spoiler-ey in nature, so I won't talk about it unless you guys really want to hear it. Other than that, I'm pretty much done. Any questions?

[Bright_Ops]

@BCTheEntity

To be fair, in theory just about any given anime, rpg or franchise can be present in one form or another could be found in the Warhammer 40k Universe if anyone put their mind to it. This one however makes a great deal of sense...

My personal favorite one that I've come up with myself is the idea that the Naruto world is somewhere in the Warhammer universe. I won't spoil it because a lot of the evidence revels quite a few plot twists, but things start making a great deal of sense if you consider the 'Ten Tails' to be a Demon Prince of insane power.

[BCTheEntity]

@Bright_Ops Naruto is a bad show which is bad. I also don't care about spoilers for it at all, so please PM me your theory about why it's part of the 40K 'verse.

[Jb]

Right, everythings looking good so far, we're just waiting on a couppla character sheets, then I suspect we'll be on our way into the great unknown; on that note, if you do know anyone on RPG that you think might be interested/willing to join the Loony Ship, then please do give them a link or a PM.

[Sarpedon]

@Jbcool Fuck yeah! Adventuring and shit!

[Jb]

@Sarpedon You know it!

We gonna pew-pew with the pew-pew, and fly that thing into the thing and BOOM, then Necrons and OH NO, before flying off to that planet with the thing and OHMYGOD TYRANIDS and then we colonise an entire planet via mass genocide of the native populace and build shrines to the Big E out of their fleshless skulls...

Or something like that, anyway.

[Sarpedon]

Necrons have nice technology... It'd be a shame if some of it... Disappeared...

[BCTheEntity]

@Sarpedon With that said, here's an idea for a team-building exercise: come up with loot from our rogue trading adventures, which may or may not have its origins as xeno tech. Since we are, presumably, going to acquire loot at some point or another.

[Sarpedon]

@BCTheEntity I am not sure I understand what you're after...

[BCTheEntity]

@Sarpedon Well, I mean, like... loot discussion. A discussion about possible loot items that Jb can incorporate into the game later on, after everyone else has forgotten they ever had this discussion. I wasn't asking anything of you specifically, just that maybe we and the other players could get involved in such a discussion, if it is indeed relevant to the game at hand.

[Jb]

Oh they'll be loot aplenty, don't you worry about that, dear friend.

[BCTheEntity]

@Jbcool Yeah, I know. I'm just thinking, maybe player submissions for loot could be accepted by you as well, just in case you run short on appropriate loot items of your own or something. Speaking of Necrons and loot, I saw a few good ones a couple of days ago, which are in part what inspired me to ask the initial question, if anybody's interested to see them.

Obviously, a game like this would lack the solid stat alterations presented there, but the concept remains the same.

EDIT: Actually, a thought's occurred to me based on something somebody else said in another thread. Am I being too... pushy, I guess is the word? Obstinate? I feel like I might be acting in a manner that's trying to push things other people don't necessarily want to see or what have you without realising, is all. Feel free to call me out on it if that is the case, everyone, and the same goes for if I start to act in that sort of manner in the future too.

[Sarpedon]

@BCTheEntity What is this?! A picture for ants?!

[BCTheEntity]

@Sarpedon Yeah, I thought it would be bigger. I've edited it to be a link, so it should be readable now.

[Sarpedon]

@BCTheEntity In all seriousness, next time just link to the 4chan post. I read the same thread yesterday. I dunno how I feel about people turning into necrons. Sounds like a quick way to end the game.

[BCTheEntity]

@SarpedonI mean, yeah, I could do that, but then the link breaks completely once the thread falls out of existence, which will probably be soon knowing the activity rate of threads on the site. If it's on TinyPic or whatever, it sticks around for at least few months, which is ideally what we want.