Well, whatever works better for you. You are the GM after all.

I think that I've been imagining her with fairer skin, maybe even porcelain white?

Jade green for eyes sound individualistic enough, unless you want them replaced with augmentations.

Hmm, augments up for discussion GM?

Oh, and by the way! Thanks a lot to the Anon who made sure to archive these threads. If it was up to me, I would fuck it up gloriously.

I would like to remind those of you who enjoy this quest to vote it up on the suptg archive. Though I make sure to save in a word document all my QMing posts, the threads themselves are good for people to get reacquainted with the choices they took easily.

(Would it be presumptuous on my part to call myself QUEST MASTER? It sounds like a pretty awesome title...)

I demand short hair! With perhaps a more elaborate macaroni hair piece for when fanciness is called for.

>>16898673
Sure. A trip wouldn't hurt either.

Did we agree on "prefers the company of females"?

And they were electoos, right? To help with the undercover aspect?

I always saw her as sort of adapting different "masks". Normally, she'd quickly adjust her style of speaking depending on who she's addressing, as per the whole "undercover investigator" style. All the while, her mind's just going with a dozen thoughts a minute. (/tg/ talking to itself)

>>16898673

Whoa, INQUISIQUEST OUT OF NOWHERE

Now, I have one bit of advice OP: USE A TRIPCODE IT'S WHAT THEY'RE FOR.

In the name field: Name##password

The password will generate a code behind your name from the password.

Can't hang around this time, fellow GMT+1 fag and need to get out of bed EARLY.

>>16898724
Most people seemed to accept it. I'm fine with it myself.

>>16898673
No problem. Thanks for running a great quest.

I've always seen her as intentionally going for a "noble" look in general. Probably short chestnut hair underneath the wigs, not quite shaved but definitely not getting in the way. Jade eyes sound good, and she'd be fair-skinned, but not unhealthily pale. (As that'd stand out in a crowd of nobles.)

For some reason, my visualization of her real appearance has her in a stormcoat with carpace armour underneath, and firing a hellpistol single handed. Odd.

>>16898612
You forgot about the "knowledge is power" ideal she has, and that though she wouldn't make a bargain with a defeated sorcerer, she had not compunctions about taking notes on his ravings under torture before she handed him over.

Also, she's not a psyker, right?

>>16898764
Hey, it looks badass. Besides, long ass coat are a warhammer tradition.

She doesn't seem to like the "crush and burn everything, let the Emperor sort it out" approach. Too uncontrolled?

>>16898816
Of course. What's the point of fighting heresy if in the process you destroy what you're trying to protect.

>>16898828
Probably more because the enemy might use the chaos to slip away, and because you're less likely to learn the truth of the matter.

>>16898658
>I think that I've been imagining her with fairer skin, maybe even porcelain white?

I do believe the general consensus was that Ariadna would be somewhat arrogant, viewing herself as quite important. That kind of matches with a past related to nobility, which could justify a pale or extremely pale skin.

>augments up for discussion GM?

Too early for that. Though the electoos mentioned below seem valid.

>>16898695
>I demand short hair! With perhaps a more elaborate macaroni hair piece for when fanciness is called for.

Nobody raised objections to short hair. The question is how short (does cropped mean something tomboyishly short? ), and if it should be curly, wavy or slick. Also, colour.

>>16898701
>A trip wouldn't hurt either.

Trying.

>>16898724
>Did we agree on "prefers the company of females"?

Some Anons did seem intent on making the Savant a female. I would not be against having a mostly female retinue, though my current ideas for the two remaining members of the retinue are male. The change would be painless.

>And they were electoos, right? To help with the undercover aspect?

>electoos were crystals under the skin; invisible; and carry information such as identity, credit rating, security clearances, secret messages, etc;

Nothing against that, though... what kind of information would Ariadna store in them?

>I always saw her as sort of adapting different "masks". Normally, she'd quickly adjust her style of speaking depending on who she's addressing, as per the whole "undercover investigator" style. All the while, her mind's just going with a dozen thoughts a minute. (/tg/ talking to itself)

Adopting masks is kind of a given for most Inquisitors who go incognito. If, when the time comes, you choose to bypass the Imperial authorities instead of going through them (basically announcing your presence to anyone with the appropriate contacts), this will be done.

>>16898900
Probably information allowing her to identify herself as a member of the inquisition and allow her to identify her own acolytes.
Among other things, of course

By the way, what do you think about this image? Is it any close to how you imagine (or would like to imagine) Ariadna? I happened to have it around...

>>16898900
Make it closely cropped. Short locks that won't interfere in donning various accoutrements. The normal sister bowl haircut would be minimum, maybe something shorter would be required.

>>16898900
Electoos can just be tattoos with an off-switch. Avoids embarrassing questions when the rest of the cult members go naked and they start wondering why you have the Nine Wounds of Sabatine inked into your back.

As for masks, I meant she just takes to it naturally and sort of does it even when she's not undercover. Not outright deception, just manipulation through tone and body languge.

>>16898944
A bit more...well-endowed and round-faced than my mental image, but in the general ballpark?

>>16898944
The breasts are too large, and I think her features are just a little too fey, but other then that it looks good.

>>16898948
I'd say closer to Guardswoman than SoB, but somewhere between there. After all, you have to fit a wig over it.

>>16899004
>>16899007

Aha. I am glad to see my supposition was correct. I thought that this image was close enough, but that your mental image (as suggested by the posts in the first part of the quest) was less well endowed, less rounded, with smaller eyes and with a more uniform haircut.

What about her body type? I think the image sticks close enough to that of a woman with lithe physique and average height...


>Captcha: udinglyw insects

Captcha! Don´t reveal the TPK before it shows up!

>>16899086
Like say a marine crew cut?
>>16899090
Body image looks good, though maybe thicker muscles wouldn't be out of order either.

She can defend herself, after all.

Also, I'm pegging her favorite color to be pastel yellow.

>>16899135
>>16899090
>pastel yellow
>daemonhuntress
There's a plot hook in there...

She is a schola graduate, so there would be some muscle on her light frame. Not enough to be noticeable, but enough for her to be a nasty surprise to anyone expecting a typical noble kidnap waiting to happen.

>>16899135
Not quite a crew cut. That'd stand out.

>>16899209
Not if she's wearing a wig

Are you really going to run Inquisiquest every day?

>>16899135
>>16899197
>>16899209

As an Inquisitor, and a fairly young at that, she should be expected to have some muscle and a fairly sophisticated knowledge of hand-to-hand combat, I think. Perhaps not a mystical style in the vein of Eisenhorn´s swordsmanship as learned from that warrior woman who used the sword Barbarisater, but definitely something that would make her a serious opponent one on one against anyone not augmented for close combat, be it bionically or biologically.

It would be interesting to think about her style of fighting, though. The equipment she will have, as extracted from the answers in the quest´s first part, is a laspistol, a power knife, a daemon hammer, and leather armour. The laspistol may be a compact model for infiltration, the daemon hammer being perhaps trusted to one of the acolytes intended to appear when combat is necessary (Jann, for example, though I think it would be badass if Savant Gratio jumped through a glass window to deliver it).

This light armour and, with the exception of the daemon hammer, light weapons would not impede the use of any kind of martial art. The clothes she choses to wear under/over her armour would probably cause more problems.>>16899272


What kind of fighting do you think she would go for? Direct elimination through strikes to the head and/or neck? Disabling hits on the joints? Use of feints, or direct attacks?


>Are you really going to run Inquisiquest every day?

Well... I could do so, yeah. Generally, I am completely free after dinner, which is mostly finished at 20:30 PM. But I doubt I could do that 100% of the time. Sometimes I may not be in the mood, I may be unfocused, etc...

>>16899312
Not a hellpistol? They're almost as compact and much deadlier...

Against cultists, if shooting them isn't an option, going for joints or direct elimination.

>>16899312
Her fighting style should be like Sherlock Holmes in the movie of the same name.

She takes a moment to step back, fending off her opponents attacks with fluid movements as she analyzes their movements, their size, their appearance and habits, and then goes on the offensive, going for the most brutally efficient method that will disable her opponent the quickest.

Head cocked to the left, partial deafness in ear: first point of attack. Two: throat; paralyze vocal chords, stop scream. Three: got to be a heavy drinker, floating rib to the liver. Four: finally, drag in left leg, fist to patella. Summary prognosis: unconscious in ninety seconds, martial efficacy quarter of an hour at best. Full faculty recovery: unlikely.

>>16899344
Also, my throat is dry. I need amsec.

But yeah, sounds about right. She's not really a full-fledged brawler, though, is she? Not like the sterotypical "HURR DURR BOLTER AND HAMMER" Malleus Inquisitors.

>>16899333
>Not a hellpistol? They're almost as compact and much deadlier...

Hellpistols are compact? That is the first time I hear that. They certainly don´t seem so when you look at the Kasrkin and Storm Troopers for the tabletop game. Though, to clarify, when I say "compact" I mean something like James Bond´s mythical PPK.

Something that could be taped under one´s armpit and nobody would notice, smaller in total size than one´s own hand. Perhaps with a shortened barrel, or hardly a barrel at all.


>>16899344

A fight like that (bear in mind I have not watched that movie) seems a bit too playful. Does Ariadna enjoy fights, or does she finish them as quickly as possible?

Also, any fancy movements? Roundhouse kicks, kicks to the head, jumps? Or does she take fighting as seriously as a Storm Trooper just out of the Schola Progenum?

>>16899375
Nah, she can't take too many direct hits. Which is why she makes it so that when she gets into a fight she ends it as quickly as possible.

Maybe a whole turning your enemies energy and motion against himself when in longer knock down drag out brawls

>>16899388
Laspistol models also look pretty big. And I'm sure there's a fairly compact variant of hellpistol; dropping the backpack power supply and cabling would help too.

She'd probably be a serious fighter. Noting lots of small details as she fights, mind working away like usual, but serious about it. That said, she'd be more of the "overseeing the operation" type than charging into the fray, I'd think.

Pic related, it's the whole suit she has a chestplate from and a hellpistol.
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1241904_99060105229_StormtrooperSergpowers
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>>16899388
I don't think she relishes combat, but certainly there's a thrill to the raw animalistic passion, a joy in hearing cartilage creak and bones break.

But above else she sees it as another mental exercise and a means to an end.

An example from the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_vbmZJBXSA

I'm sure for more relational purposes she practices some form of fencing.

>>16899388
Maybe make her agility into her trademark move? Ducking and twisting this way and that?

>>16899408
>Laspistol models also look pretty big. And I'm sure there's a fairly compact variant of hellpistol; dropping the backpack power supply and cabling would help too.

That, however, would mean the pistol would only have a few shots in it. The reason Kasrkin wear whole backpacks with the hellguns linked to them is precisely the massive amounts of energy they require.


>>16899417
>http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1241904_99060105229_StormtrooperSergpo
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Hah! I like the old Storm Trooper models too. I have one squad of Kasrkin and one squad of those models in my IG demi-army. However, that kind of equipment would be too heavy for her given her physique and modus operandi, me thinks? The heaviest stuff she wears is probably flak armour?

That said, refractor fields are powerful and light, and the rumours about them causing cancer are unsubstantiated.

>>16899462
Probably some sort of light armour under the stormcoat, certainly a chestplate. Not sure if flak, as that's pretty much paper-mache.

As for just a few shots, well..it's actually halved according to Dark Heresy. So enough to put down a stray attacker or to get a few shots off while running away from an undercover operation gone wrong. And her schola training would help make the shots count.

I just think most Inquisitors would stay away from penlights with the resources available.

By the way, would anyone happen to have that image of Inquisitorial Storm Troopers that was in... I think the Inquisitor rulebook (not Dark Heresy, the roleplay that had bigger miniatures than WH40k)? It is quite old. It shows the Storm Troopers wearing black leather uniforms, including a leather balaclava with two small lenses in front of the eyes.

Those guys look awesome. Sinister and cold, and in a very different style to both the old Storm Trooper models and the Kasrkin ones.

I imagine that if Ariadna wears anything specific for combat, it would be something similar.

>>16899462
Something thicker then flak I hope. That's about as good as tissue paper and a prayer

>>16899462
Cain had a sort of carapace chestplate light enough to conceal and run while wearing. I was thinking of that back in Thread 1 when I first proposed it. I dunno. In any event, if she'd be in armour and shooting, it'd mean something had gone wrong or stealth wasn't part of the plan.

>>16899489

>>16899489
>>16899489
I don't know if she would hide her face. She is vain...

>>16899517
Really?

In any event, she is not stupid. A helmet...hmm...probably not, unless there was a good reason for one.

>>16899558
>>16899489
Iron halo?

>>16899577
Nope, those are MAHREENS only and need power armour or a lot of pull to get.

>>16899502

That one is an old-style Storm Trooper. As I said, the one I was asking for showed up in Inquisition-related material, can´t remember where exactly, and the whole uniform is leather. I don´t remember seeing any armour. I´ll have to check Dark Heresy and its supplements just in case.

Still, fukken saved.


>>16899472
>>16899492
>>16899495

For reference, when I do free-form roleplaying, I make combat deadly and realistic when it comes to the accuracy of firearms. That is, 90% of the shots will miss you, 5% will graze you or hit the thickest part of your armour, and... if you are clever, the remaining 5% will never be an issue.

So wearing light equipment will not be any bigger a hindrance than wearing heavy armour. I will repeat what I said about answering background questions: there is no wrong answers, there are only differences.


>>16899517
>I don't know if she would hide her face. She is vain...

I like you, kid. The whole "leaders show their faces" theme in miniatures and illustrations of the grimdarkest millennium has always been a nice stylistic choice, in my opinion.


Anyway, guys, I am off for the night. I will copy-paste the most promising of this stuff into the doc to keep it in mind for different discussions. Tomorrow morning, early, I´ll check if this thread is still up and see whatever I have missed.

Good bye, and thanks for all the squigs.

Thank you OP

>>16899593
I'm pretty sure I've seen inquisitors wearing Halos

>>16899712
A fan conversion of an Inquisitor who was in power armour anyway.

>Female Inquisitor
>Lesbian
>Consorting with Elfdar (NOPE NO LESIBIAN SEX INCOMING AT ALL)
>/tg/ is completely fine with the premise of this

I seriously hope every last one of you dies.

>>16900000
And yet, the character is tastefully done, the consorting with Eldar is entirely in-character, limited, and sensibly written to the extent that it actually happened (in backstory), and there's no sex at all. Or violence, yet.

And lesbian? What? No, that's not been stated, and would it even matter?

And the Inquisitor's more or less female Sherlock Holmes with an emphasis on the undercover aspect.

This is a good quest, and I know a good quest on the rare occasion I see one.

>>16900000

>Female Inquisitor
Your point? Female inquisitors are quite common.
>Lesbian
It's only implied and it's hardly central to the character.
>Consorting with Elfdar (NOPE NO LESIBIAN SEX INCOMING AT ALL)
Inquisitor Czevak entered the Black Library. Inquisition-Eldar relations have happened before.
>/tg/ is completely fine with the premise of this
The character is perfectly fine. Why wouldn't we be?

I think we should just drop the "lesbian" bit as an unnecessary distraction and not really suited to the feel, but meh. It's not like we even said it was part of the character at all.

And if you'd read the actual thread, you'd know that the Inquisitor doesn't know the Eldar very well, and simply sees Chaos as the bigger threat. Sure, she'd shoot them on sight unless she had a bigger problem, but she wouldn't go out of her way to purge them unless they were a clear and present threat to Imperial territory.

Give it time and a few betrayals on each side.

>>16900030
I miss Girl!Sherlock Holmes.

>>16900148
I don't remember Holmes battering in someone's face for getting in his way.

>>16900164
That's because people in London know better.

>>16900000
>Maximum dubs

Also

>HAY GUYZ ITS NOT A MARY SUE

Then where are the character flaws? And by character flaws, I mean stuff that would actually work against her in the GRIMDERP forty-first millennium?

>...

My point exactly.

>>16900711
Here's a question: What were Shira Calpurnia's flaws? None? She was still a great character right? Okay then, shut up.

>>16900711
You're a moron.

She's young and inexperienced. She's a good shot and evidently a decent swordsman, but put her in a serious fight without lots of disposable minions and she'll be in serious danger. Her approach to her duty is sensible, but puts her in danger. She has a strained relationship with her mentor, which puts her at something of a disadvantage. Her approach means she's at risk of discovery by her enemies, corruption, or worse. She could succumb to the temptation to misuse the knowledge she catalogs and collects. Her arrogance and disdain for some of her fellow Inquisitors/Imperials could be a problem.

Need I go on?

>>16900711
Look, anyone who makes it to the rank of Inquisitor is going to be substantially above average.

That said, her lesbianism is only vaguely implied, and sexuality hasn't come into play at all thus far.

Inquisitors are known to consort with Eldar. It's not like she's part of Ordo Xenos, and their technology can be useful.

Also, she's so vain that she spent years exterminating all the mutants in an entire orbital complex because their twisted forms offended her refined sensibilities. She eschews the proper weapons and armor favored by most inquisitors for elegant attire and a glorified flashlight.

How is this a Mary Sue?

>>16901638
In the interest of accuracy, the lesbianism isn't even vaguely implied. Nothing in the actual quest implies it at all, and we can't agree if it's part of the character in the slightest. (I say no, to avoid the less mature questers becoming fixated on that.)

Her vanity (if she is vain, which I'm not really convinced about as nothing really shows it yet and it doesn't mesh with the character so far.) had nothing to do with the mutants. That was just a few days/weeks and it was because they were seen as tainted and in league with a Chaos sorceror/hadn't reported him. The offense at their seeming mockery of humanity I'll grant.

As for her choice of weapons, she does use digital needlers and hellguns, which are nasty and nowhere near as bulky as power armour or boltguns. The elegant attire is because she tends to go undercover a lot and it helps, while in the field she'd probably wear the stormcoat and carapace.

Just giving my take on the character. 'Enjoys the fine things" means even she'd need a break from the horrors of her duty by indulging in a few bottles of amsec.

Just posted this, >>16902720
then looked this thread up. I guess I'll read through what's been posted on her looks.

>>16900711
>Then where are the character flaws? And by character flaws, I mean stuff that would actually work against her in the GRIMDERP forty-first millennium?

>>16900000
>>Consorting with Elfdar (NOPE NO LESIBIAN SEX INCOMING AT ALL)

Currently, she is not as well developed because I put my foot down firmly on what she is like gradually, instead of establishing her fully in one post, so the flaws are few. The reasons are that she is young, the other posters have a right to shape her, and this shaping can be done through the questing, as was obvious in the first part of the quest when I asked questions about her past. That said, I was a bit disappointed at how the choices constantly made her pure and less than intolerant... until it was decided she was a bit of a bitch when it came to the purity of the human body, which is nice.

But if you want an obvious flaw, you got it right there: consorting with Xenos. Remember that the Inquisition constantly fights against itself because there is no great book of rules that is respected by everyone. Ariadna´s willingness to talk to Xenos before shooting them can easily come back to bite her ass, and it can be explained as her having greater priorities (Daemons > Xenos). Of course, not all Inquisitors are going to think the same way.

There is also her strained relationship with her master, due to the fact that he was briefly tainted by the Warp into a mutation that had to be excised through amputation. Ariadna obviously is puritanical in that "once tainted, always tainted".

>>16904096
I thought of her "purity" as more lack of opportunities for contradictions in her credo to show themselves. Sure, she might underestimate the xeno threat and have what appears to be the most sensible strategy for her profession...but it's fairly untested in the field, has failed her at least once and resulted in a fiasco, and she's already got material that a completely Puritan Inquisitor would never have recorded in the first place and what might lure her to damnation.

Are we having a session tonight, Mr InquisiGMdude?

>>16904096
If you want to talk Adrastia and her heretical tendancies, she can equip a Daemon Weapon later in the game, and the flavour text for it talks about her belief that not using every weapon at ones disposal to fight chaos is a bigger failing that using weapons that would be considered heretical.

>>16908093
Nah, I'm talking about our quest's heroine and her personality, but that's really interesting.

Any chance of a screencap of that, btw? I want to see how they worded it.

Just for reference. Not because I'm trying to get our Ariadna to turn Radical or anything. Really. It's cataloging, for the good of the Imperium!

Bumping in the hopes of having Inquisiquest tonight.

Also, as far as Lesbianism goes. I see it as perfectly valid. Perhaps she spent her formative years in an all female academy? Perhaps her relationship with her father pushed her away from heteronormative relationships. Maybe she was just born that way.

At any rate, I think that it doesn't take anything away from her character and adds to it nicely. Just as long as it doesn't become her only defining character trait.