=Machine spirit loading=
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=Game Master software online=
=Initiate Program 'Ques't=

Chapter organisation:

Brother-Captain Reason
Brother-Dreadnought 'Tactical Marine'
Brother-Chaplain Nigel
Brother-Librarian 'That guy from /m/'
Brother-Apothecary mchl
Brother-Sergeant Unonymous
Brother-Techmarine O'Grady
Assault-Brother Strill
Battle-Brother Korosov
Battle-Brother Dante
Battle-Brother Atlastic
Battle-Brother Celt
Battle-Brother joc
Battle-Brother H
Battle-Brother Tvetov Nato
Battle-Brother SomeDood
Battle-Brother Vanheim
Battle-Brother I Named Myself
Battle-Brother MinorAdeptus
Battle-Brother my beakie is contempt
Battle-Brother Ellermus
Battle-Brother Apothicary
Brother-Initiate Anonymous

Lore for Initiates:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17586818/ I
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17595495/ II
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17605495/ III
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17618098/ IV
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17646053/ V
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17661099/ VI
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17683493/ VII
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17696790/ VIII
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/17723250/ IX
(previous threads)

Reporting in. Finally caught it as the thread started.

Sountrack NEEDED in order to enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTwg5KAjOjI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASj81daun5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBmVndzNIkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOXe0RfMHvo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Q2WlVuaqs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38zN_vF_dQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjrfAfbt72Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhoCf7Kq8Bc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37gzabRDcc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYWO84GUIg8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-_g8NZr1tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvKppMvFZbU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJvzTknCmo&feature=related
SPACE MARINE soundtrack(find yourself)

and anything else you find to be epic(i will add them to the list)

Listening is mandatory. Failure is punished by death, Not having earphones is not an excuse.

>>17803905
Good to see you. Despite that, your contribution to this quest are rivaled only by Tactical Marine, this says a lot.

some fluff on zombies :)

and in a minute you will receive strategical report on Nordgrim.

Reporting in, I have been looking forward to this quest.

>>17804073
I'm surprised that I am a Brother-Captain I mean it's so much responsibility.

Can we get an artificer to build us some thunder-bolters today? (preferably based on our moon-base, if we can)

These are meant to searve as a stopgap for our vets before we get terminators. They also have the advantage of moving faster on foot.

Btw, have we started to carve out a grand fortress monastery of the rock yet? (not because, hurr durr masons in space, but because why the fuck not masons in space? We can do other things too.)

You stand on the bridge of Eternity, watching as a dark green world with deep blue oceans and grey mountain ranges rotates below you. Nearby team of tacticians argue with Cessarius and Voroshilov on the next course of action. You feel tired, but focused. You chose this burden - burden of saving a world that you owed nothing except a few hundred recruits, but this was your duty and you believe that this is the way Emperor would want you to act, However this is not the time to contemplate.
'Mircius, I have orders to relay...'
'Fuck yeah, sir!' he seems to be more than eager to act...

So what are your orders?

>>17804155
I was actually thinking of using the moon as a holding camp for the endangered populace of Nordgrim. So we would not have to worry about protecting them as we harry the Zombies.

(With plans for the moon base to expand into a full colony after the war it over.)

>>17804196
Hit and run tactics. Stealth assalts and traps. Also gratuits orbital assalts (or those postions that will do the most harm).

Detailed plan coming in a minute.

>>17804088
I am always happy when someone says that, good to see you.
>>17804155
TM! so the core crew is here. btw, i don't think I approved your work enough last time:

NEW LEXICANUM ENTRY:
-Thunderbolter(Unique STC)

I am proud to say that this is the first Lexicanum entry not of my handiwork and first serious piece of Chapter Lore.

Nimrod:
>Sir, it was not wise of you to lose the first and most important Relic of our chapter. I respect your decision, but Second Generation marines depend heavily upon Chapter's traditions... As we have almost none of these, it is hard for them to feel a part of our brotherhood, because they have very little to connect themselves to.

Cessarius:
>Lord, I must congratulate you on your wise decision to get rid of that sword! It just held us back, constantly reminding us of our beginnings as a whim of a High Lord of Terra... Endyrion Machus ended up dead because of his machinations and we are free now to forge our own destiny!

Omiron:
> The sword was a symbol among men and a great asset on the battlefield. I really hope you know what you are doing, Lord.

IMPORTANT MATTER:
Sternguard has no captain... Some of the brothers feel that you should appoint someone.

Sorry I'm late, had class.

We do not have the numbers to support direct confront so hit them asymmetrically

How to do this

Don't get hit
-Set independent groups of about 50 Marines each
-And keep these groups moving
--All of should be coordinated by HQ on Eternity

Do damage
-Set traps
-Set ambushes
--And if necessary coordinated assaults on AA batters (and other such things)

Get a supply line to sustain it
-Set up a manufactorim on the Base moon

Notes
-Remind all the brothers that their first priority is to stay alive. For this is a battle of attrition.

I would like to see how this battle plan works before committing more than half our forces to it. I lets give it a two week trial run. The other half will see if they can not take out the anti air guns of the force attacking the witch hunters. Also would it be possible to fly in from the sea ignore the problem entirely?

>>17804368
No worries, I am a week late :D

Nordgrim Events:
>City known as Byzantea was recently retaken by semi-organised rabble of surviving humans on South-Western Continent. It will be marked on the map as B. At least one concentration of zombies is moving that way and will be there in a few months.

>Your efforts since coming here saved over 180.000 refugees from isolated villages and farms. Extensive fuel usage cost us d3 Wealth(roll someone). There is a problem with feeding and sheltering all those people... Any ideas?

>Heretics seem to take particular interest in the city of Kiolnos(map - K). They somehow cured the diseased king and use him to rally all non-zombie population. These people are then used as slaves for sacrifices and labour. There are rumours abour projects of some strange origin, but you cannot obtain more info without direct reconnaisance.

>>17804490
Blast it, stuff I forgot

Give each group of Marines:
- A ration of explosives/promethium to use as them see fit
- Camo cloaks and other stealth parafanaitla
- And any spare flamers and heavy bolters (and other guns that are good against masses of bodys)


Also ask the Apothecary to develop/mass produced the cure/immunization he was talking about.

>>17804490
Witch-Hunter fortress is more than 70 miles inland, it's just that on the map it seems close to shore. It is surrounded from all sides.

Do you want to assign someone to command the operation? This might improve/decrease performance.

Roll d100

>>17804587
Send and company to Byzantea to contact the locals and prepare the battle field with traps and ambush places.

>Refuges
Put them on the Moon thats the whole reason I asked to start a base there.

> Kiolnos
It it seems possable send a few battle brothers who are good a stealth to infiltrate it and set a beacon to guide our orbital cannons.

>>17804612
Hypocrates is still working on it.
>My Lord, I need more samples, preferably fresh, living zombies. This could dramatically improve my reasearch speed. Also, some of the refugees speak about abominations, terrible creatures that roam together with zombies. I suspect that this might be the next stage of disease or of their twisted evolution. If one of the teams would catch me one of those, or at least bring me the body, it would help a lot.

Project 'Panacea': 14%
Roll d20 for Hypacrates research.

rolled 35 = 35

>>17804625
If I remember right Cessarius is good at sneaking and getting the job done I propose him

rolled 15 = 15

>>17804679
I guess I'll roll the 20 too

>>17804677
If we will commit to defending Byzantea, our forces will be severely undermanned when faced with a task of fighting whole army(even through attrition). Do you:
a) split forces
b) Just Byzantea
c) Just war of attrition

Also:
Stealth recon -> commander(if anyone special)? numbers? priorities? + roll d100.

So, Rising Sons establish a base on the Nordgrims mountain-moon Icarus... Population is happy to resettle there, as atmosphere and ecology are suitable for human needs, however very soon new inhabitants find out about the lizards... This will become interesting in time.

>>17804804
Just Byzantea right now, as we can continue the war of attrition at any moment.

In regard to the moon, give some of them lazeguns teach them to form a Militia(Nimrod might be helpful here). Also once them have sustainable food flow use what labore they can spare then help with the war effort.

>>17804781
Project Panacea: 29%

>>17804709
Remembering a whole chapter of marines is a difficult job... Right after you come back into your cell after giving Cessarius his orders, Moriarty(who somewhy is waiting for you in your cell) asks:
> Wanna join me for a drink, marine? Best Amasec on this side of Segmentum. I know that I am new here, but I just wanted to let you know, that from what I hear some of your servants laugh behind your back how you appointed a headstrong young captain to lead a stealth mission... I would never support them of course, I think you made a good move and what will come will be hillarious. So how about that drink, marine?

Roll d100 and tell me how many marines did you sent with Cessarius.

>>17804906
Damn it.
What I need I a big list of all the men and there respective skills.

Normal tem Marine squad.

rolled 11 = 11

>>17804970
Forgot roll

rolled 100 = 100

>>17804986
Thats it I'm not rolling any more

>>17805004
Why why why.

>>17804902
Nimrod:
>I am glad you trust me with this task, Lord. But if the battle where young ones will fight comes, please remember your promise.

Refugee colony reaches 210 000. Do you want to name it?

>>17804709
I assume then, that this roll(35) is for defence of Byzantea.

>Task Force Alpha: 2G-157 marines, 1G-60 marines, 3 apothecaries, 4 techmarines HQ

I assume that his whole force is sent there, right?
Except for pilots who continue evacuation efforts.

>>17805038
Colony should be called Deliverance

>>17804906
"Clearly i have left you to your own devices too long."

(ignoring his request)

"Tell me, how would you go about bringing nordgrim back into the imperial technology age, if you were chosen to rebuild it?"

>>17805038
>whole force
Yes and we had time to set more traps than the Vietcong.
Also how did the cities leadership react to us barging in?


>>17805054
Sure lets go with this.

So, do people actually have characters now? how does this work, if you don't mind explaining.

>>17804970
Appointed men are listed here >>17803927 Under Allies. However there are at least a dozen of unnamed NPC's that you have given no official position, so they aren't there.

>>17804986
That's good actually.

>>17805054
Initiate Anonymous, IMHO - Deliverance souns awesome and suits well with Salvation-theme. Does everyone agree? Or someone has something better to offer?

>>17805070
>Oh, marine, my skills lie in building lies, truths and relationships, not cities or technology... However I would do what you have just done - ask someone smarter than you. This means that there is salvation even for you. Also, I am lucky to have some expirience with this(even though it is one of my lesser skills). Some of my friends are known conquistadors - Gelgalian Thorn, Dexcar Morri... I worked with them for some time, so if you would put me in charge of this task I would probably cope with it quite well. I might not be the most sensitive from all governors, but I am sure as hell am resourceful - I could play all the local factions to my tune - tune of progress and advancement, get Mechanicus to sign the contract for selling equipment and sending specialists, and in less than a decade you would look at a Imperial world like no other...

>>17805225
Oh so it's low good, high bad.

Anyway.

Moriarty- Good advice, Would you mind teaching those skills of yours to the Marines here so when the time comes to give you your governorship we don't lose something vital to the chapter.

And do you think you know where to find a good secretary?

Also a question, You created factions inside Heidrun so that no one force could oppose you correct? How would you propose to unite different factions?

Kiolnos raid(roll 11)

You gain relic: Staff of Pride(not official name, given after Cessarius' actions)

>>17805212
Welcome aboard(if you are here to play). No, these ranks determine the level of dedication show/input given for this quest(posting, creating new stuff, ideas, lore, etc), they do not determine 'superiority' of one player over other or something like that. On the other hand if someone wants to play for a 'real character' I can include him as such.

>>17805529
Actually, I would love to play an actual character, but I can wait as long as it takes if thats problem. If to much, I can just do what the others are doing.

>>17805594
also, is there a chat somewhere? irc?

>>17805529
Stacise lock the staff till we have time for a librarian, a chaplain, and a tech marine purge it of taint.


>Cessarius
See weather it would be possible to do a rescue mission.

>>17805633
>Stacise lock the staff till we have time for a librarian, a chaplain, and a tech marine purge it of taint.

No such thing.

Our librarian hates the warp. And making him use a tainted weapon invites disaster by putting untold pressure on him. This is why i wanted to give him a combi-bolter. To give him alternate weapons besides those of the warp.

Why do all our weapons have to be captured from chaos? What purpose do such thing serve? Filling a hole in your soul for objects and aquisitions? We should focus much more on making our weapons, and enfusing our relics with the emperors might.
Reclaiming it from chaos is most likly bait.

>>17805687
I mostly ment that should put it some where it won't be a problem and forget about it till we reconquered the planet.

>>17805489
Moriarty:
> Oh, it is easy, my thick headed friend(seriously, could you smash that wall over there with it?). Especially here on Nordgrim. People are afraid, their world has changed a lot recently... Just give them a new god - technology and claim that it is their salvation. They might hate you for it later... But it will work, believe me.

AFK, IRL problems

>>17805594
I am willing to try this, what kind of character would you like to be?

Just remember that you character must be under Chapter Masters command.

We don't have a chat, because I fail at computers and don't know how to set up irc(i have just a vague idea of what it is actually). If you can help - you are welcome. Also I am more than willing to quickly react through skype - if someone asks me, I will give my details.

>>17805633
Enemy jammers are making it difficult to scan inside the city... We don't even know if Cessarius is alive. If you will give the details to Tacticae division, they will calculate the odds for successful penetration. On the other hand, Traitor presence is a wild card we didn't know about before...
>>17805687
>>17805719
1:1
Staff is locked in stasis. Jorgan and some of the men would argue harshly for keeping it, because they view it as Cessarius' last will.

>>17806045
Just a Space marine, focused on Melee combat. what else would you like me to specify?

>>17806045
This being a Marine sounds interesting, Maybe there should be some rules to help figure it out?
Something like:
Each Marine gets two good traits and one bad trait.
Good traits are things like; Good at melee fighting, Calculating, Faithful, or a specialist (EG tech marine).
Bad traits are things like; A poor shot, Quick to anger, insubordinate, or a weakness of alcohol.

Hey, if anyone wants to, I got a IRC up. go hear : http://cbe001.chat.mibbit.com/
under Connect, find Rizon
put in a nick, then for channel use #RisingSons

Yeah, Rising Sons!

I think setting up a base on the moon to help with supplies is a good idea. We need farms to get up and running to feed this new populace, as well as hold us over till the warp storm passes. Manufactorums and the like for ammo. I think we should take more defensive positions, around the witch hunter camp and the refugee city.

>>17806315
So, what are we thinking?

Because for about 5 sessions ive been toying around with the idea of turning this into DW game.

But i probably cant make such a commitment to GMing full time. Which makes the suggestiono sound a little stupid.

If you turn up in the other thread maybe we can discuss it?

Finally, I am back... if there still are at least a few people, I will continue.

>>17807429
Jump in the IRC, TC just left it, but me and REason are sitll in.

>>17806505
this one is not working, I think, at least not anymore.
>>17807122
>>17806315
This idea is indeed very interesting. However if I would have to respond to more than 3-4 characters at the same time, I think this could get real slow...

>>17807465
WEll, if you can't let that many people in, then don't. whatever your thinking up now, lemee play test it a bit, see if it works out. if not, I'll step down.

>>17807465
I imagined it as the players making NPCs for you to use. I totally see how it may be hard to keep track of.

If you like the proposed Rules here are some more.
Related to traits are skills. Skills are things that a marine can do thats not unique to their character (EG, Melee combat, Diplomacy, Stragy, ect.)
For each trait you may pick 4 (or how ever many Skargan wants to give us) ranks in skills related to that trait.

>>17807569
>>17807460
>>17807547
We are now in IRC, you can join us for the discussion

Ave brothers, Celt reporting in.

I won't be able to make too many posts today, extremely busy, but I'll try and keep my eye on the ball and chip in where I can.

Well, we're probably going with the 2nd scheme.

Here is an example of what kind of Idea I had

Tech Marine Reason
Traits:

+Tech-Marine related skills: Technology 3 Logical 1
+Humble related skills: Logical 1 Teacher 2 Meticulous 1
-Overly Cautious related skills: Technology 2 Meticulous 2

Total
a Humble Tech Marine who is very careful
Skills: Technology 5, Meticulous 3, Logical 2, Teacher 2

>>17807817
Good to see you celt. we speak mostly now on IRC, but posts are still in /tg/.

>>17807961
Tell the king that we need his work not his son. And that we are only angles fighting daemons.

Stuff to do in order of importance

-Start arming the civilians that are of able body.
-Evacuate the old, young and sick.
-The should have bands of 500 natives lead by a Marine.
-The ground around the city should be prepared with even more traps and tunnels.
The city should get some artillery add as soon as possible.
-The harbor and the temple district should be rigged to be destroyed and guarded but other wise ignored.
-The Poor district and the citadel should be are last hard points with a launch pad in each set up. --Lastly I want a tunnel dig from the Poor district to the citadel (and rigged to collapse)

>>17808213
>The should have bands of 500 natives lead by a Marine.
The Ratios of Marines to Natives can vary I want no more than half the chapter tried up in that.

>>17808380
>>17808213
ok, please allocate time points for preparation(as in pic) and roll d100

2 time points spent arming and organizing the Natives.
3 time points spent trapping the surrounding land. (one in the swamp and 2 in the open)
3 Time points spent installing a evac pad and artillery. (Count it as defence of the wall)
2 time points spent getting the none combatants out of there.

rolled 58 = 58

and the roll

My Tech Marine redone

Tech Marine Reason

+Meticulous
+Humble
-Flaw something about being too careful

Skills
Body
Awareness 3 Evaluate 2 Dodge4
mind
Tech-Use 5 Repair 4 Hacking 1
Soul
Logic 6 Educate 4

I am sorry for a short thread, but at least I am glad that we did so much important brainstorming over IRC. Next thread... hell knows when. if you want to, i left my contacts near the nick, so if you will write me, i will inform you about the next game. also IRC link -should- always work.

See ya later

>>17804196
I was against it before, but I figure what we ended up doing is ultimately better than having to exterminatus the planet after the warp storm AND deal with tons of nurgle daemons running around to all the other planets.