>>24963736
>Name:
Lothaire Blanchett
>Gender:
Male
>Background:
Freeborn Pirate
>Additional information: (Optional)
Refuses to drink anything but cognac. Will stab a man who offers him beer.

>>24963736
>Name: Ogrin Shatta'tooth
>Gender: Ork
>Background: ork warboss
>Additional information: the krumpin'ist. Fists only.

>Name:
Lothar Von Wittenburg
>Gender:
Male
>Background:
Runaway noble
>Additional Info:
Still has a hard time adjusting to commoner life, he lost his family and his fortune in some generic depressing backstory. Has a fondness for franks, sauerkraut, and beer.

>>24963736
Name: Percius Aurex
Gender: Male
Background: Techpriest of Mars (Favoured Soul/NG+)
Additional Info: Refers to anyone who can protect him as as biological defense unit (BDU).

>>24964033

seconding this

>>24964033
Yes.

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Privateer Quest is back?!

Praise Tzeentch!

>Name:
Aleister von Morgenstern
>Gender:
Male
>Background:
Runaway Noble
>Additional Information:
Insists on exceedingly foppish attire.

>>24964033
Sure, let's get moving.

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>>24964033

I may need to specify that NG+ option will override a certain character creation option and add additional, possibly familiar additional info/quirks.

It does add a multitude of crazy encounters, though.

Additional Information:

The year is currently late 335.M41, and your wolfpack is raiding a convoy in sector Deus before exiting for the neighboring sector Corgus.

>>24964149
>NG+ is railroad option
eeehhh...

>>24964107
Seconding.

>>24963736
NG+ ?

>>24964149
Unlocking more stuff for picking it? I'm fine with that.

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>>24964107
>Aleister
Confirmed for Chaos cultists.

Try a different spelling and I'm in.

>>24964181
He's run this quest before. The ending was anticlimatic, to say the least.

>>24964149
Sure, lets go with NG+

>>24964181
New Game Plus.

>>24964181
New Game Plus

>>24964149
NG+ A-GO!!!!

do we get the hidden system with core block station?

>>24964181
New Game +

>>24964162
>railroad option
Once you get your own ship, I can't railroad you much in a sandbox.

>>24964149
Yeah, drop the NG+ but otherwise still support >>24964033.

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>>24964149
I support this option.

Let's do it.

>>24964252
>>24964167
>>24964054
Going for a techpriest again? We've been down that path once already.

>>24964224
I hope not. This character hasn't earned it yet.

Well we'll see...

>>24964311
What, you don't want a week of 200+ post threads debating what bionics to get?

>>24964311
I hope not. Tech priests tend to be annoyingly insane and antisocial.

>>24964311
I like the Techpriest option.

If we can just avoid extreme waifuing, we can have a lot of fun.

>>24964311
Yet it was fun. And the propossed ork is the only other interesting character on the docket right now...

>>24964365
Did the last thread have a major problem with waifushit?

I vote for chem gelding, if so. Like, "physically removing the part of the brain responsible for lust" level.

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>my company when this thread
You guys are going to need all the help and more you can get to not fail.

>>24964365
>If we can just avoid extreme waifuing, we can have a lot of fun.
There's literally a greater chance of the sun exploding right now than there is of avoiding the curse of the waifu.

At least if we're a male character it won't be so gay.

>>24964390
No.

>>24964390
We fucked the majority of the named NPCs in the last version of this quest.

>>24964406
>>24964404
Okay yeah, The Flesh is Weak, I vote we start with chem geld for free.

>>24964404
You had to jinx it...

>>24964390

didn't we get pissed at one of the crew for dying before we could 'We Have The Technology' them?

>>24964423
So now the sun is going to explode? I'm okay with that.

>>24964435
Yes.

>>24964435
Yep, but then we'd never told that crew member that we'd planned to make them better, stronger, and not horribly crippled while wracked with excruciating pain all the time...so in some ways it was kind of on us for not looking all the legwork on that one...

>>24964422
Or you could have discipline and focus on the privateering rather than waifu shit.

>>24964482
You realize this is /tg/, right? If we remove the option we never have to worry about it.

>>24964390
>>24964422
>chem geld

Holy fuck! This could avoid soooo much shit later on.

I fully support.

>>24964482
I assume they're trying to shrink the sandbox - permanently eliminate some avenues of character expression and player choice so that they're more likely to get the game they want...

>>24964482
>have discipline and focus on the privateering rather than waifu shit.

It is difficult to focus when your are a hivemind.

Unfortunately, a huge portion of the /tg/ hivemind loves to waifu.

>>24964539
Shrinking the sandbox is always a bad idea.

>>24964107
I say go with this one.

Distant, dull thuds reverberate through the deck and up your flesh, the raider's specialized guns launching massive, hooked chains at it's victim. For a moment, you sense the vessel lurch, but the sudden momentum is quickly compensated for and neutralized. You are Percius Aurex, techpriestess of mars and formerly a captive of the very pirate vessel you now serve. Captured as a lowly adept, you quickly put your limited skills and quest for knowledge to use for these pirates, sensing that they would open new options for your own quest and skills to grow. Flanked by 30 biological defense units under your command, you make your way to the platoon's assigned egress point and prepare to seize your moment. As your flesh brain's excitement is suppressed by the logic of your cogitators, you ponder your tactical situation and objectives...

Objective 1: Gain entry to the enemy ship. Melta charges and cutters assigned to your platoon make this trivial, but the location your BDUs enter the target is quite important.
>How near the enemy's bridge will you attempt to insert your team?

Objective 2: Secure the bridge. The ship's captain is unlikely to go down without a fight, and many times the first team to reach the bridge fails to survive to enjoy their victory in the 'rat race' as Captain Hariso calls it.

Objective 3: Survive. After all, you can't continue your quest for knowledge if you're dead!

>>24964560
Oh god, now we're a woman.

Fuck this, I'm out.

>>24964544
Alternately, we could seek to gain a harem befitting a pirate lord, satisfying the waifu impulse without all the emo relationshit.

>>24964560
ITS LIVES!

>Option 4. Target the Life support systems. take them and we can suffocate the crew. make it two pronged to look like were aiming at the Cargo bay so they don't try and scuttle the ship.

>>24964587
That would be really fun.

>>24964560
Reasonably close that we're not the first team to make it but close enough to be there to take over when the initial teams fail. Of course, friendly fire is always a risk if the first team actually manages to take over the bridge.

>>24964560

above the Bridge if possible. Then we can cut though the floor and send the BDU's right into the thick of it...

>>24964560
>How near the enemy's bridge will you attempt to insert your team?
Through the bridge windows.

>>24964560
Close enough that it's not a long walk, far enough taht we don't drop right into a pile of dudes. Preferably above the bridge so we can put holes in the floor and have the high ground as we assault, and along a untraveled area of the ship so we're less likely to run into opposition.

>>24964539
>permanently eliminate some avenues of character expression and player choice so that they're more likely to get the game they want

Well.... Honestly, yes. When you boil it down, that's the core of it.

The only reason I support it, is because it's never about about the character or the narrative.

It's just about the waifus. To the expense of all else.

In quests where the waifufaggotry was clamped down on, and real character development and relationships were developed often turn out great.

But just waifuing doesn't give that.

>>24964555
Alas, it seems you were a few minutes late with that vote, anon.

Knew y'all shouldn't of picked new game plus. New game plus is always dull.

>>24964754
Don't blame me, I voted for the foppish nobleman. >>24964107

>>24964560
>>24964683
Sorry, let me rephrase that

Objective 1: about 750 meter from the bridge
Objective 2: Let some other team get to the bridge first then ambush and kill them claim you did everything
Objective 3: If team 1 fail to kill captain lay in ambush and wait for team 2

>>24964777
I agree. Much better than trying to enter directly onto the bridge or destroying a vital system on a ship we want to capture and keep.

>>24964560
>your platoon of armsmen inspect eachother's carapace suits
Are we void suit equipped?

If yes: I say open the sections we take to the void one by one.

Place breaching charge on bridge doors.
Stand well back.
Boom.
Even if they're also void suited, the explosive decompression will kill or maim half of them and the rest will be thrown about and easy to overwhelm.

>>24964850
You do know that the decompression from 1 atmo to vacuum isn't really that bad, sure you die if you're in a vacuum and not suited up, but it's a different of one fucking atmosphere, maybe a bit more if the ship is over pressurized, there's not going to be much in the way of maiming, killing, or throwing about from that.

>>24964107
Voting for this one.

>>24964905
Oh wait, disregard that. Didn't see we'd already gotten past character creation.

>>24964573
Safe travels, anon.

>>24964596
>target the life support of a ship you're looking to steal and captain
Cogitator core 596 may be in need of self-diagnostic. Noted for later.

>>24964643
>>24964656
>direct bridge insertion plans
Multiple platoons working together would likely be required for such an action, as nearby enemy positions would be left intact. Keller and Elise would likely support you, but more would be better.

>>24964658
>>24964777
>medium-range insertion [750 meters is only about half of the ship, though]
>possible betrayal of other pirates

Value assessment of fellow pirates is acceptable.

>few more minutes for more ideas or support changes

So a New Game+ is the exact same quest with a few minor changes and a almost assuredly different but overall predictable ending?

>>24964993
Maybe if you did the same shit as the first game...? Sandbox setting. I don't know why you think the ending is set. Don't do the same stupid shit you did in the previous one and you'll be fine.

>>24964850
Yes, every armsman is equipped with a void suit and carapace over that. Most of the crew is, as well.

>>24964899
this is true, but lack of air is generally bad for everyone, including those with punctured void suits.

>>24965018
the ending was, not like what you think it was.

>>24964899
>there's not going to be much in the way of maiming, killing, or throwing about from that.
I think you're underestimating the effects of explosive decompression.

The instant venting of atmosphere would cause a violent pressure shift. It takes appraisingly little PSI to fuck someone up.

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>>24964199
>>24964993
>>24965018
>>24965092

I thought the trope-filled ending was decent, considering my complete lack of ideas at the time...

>>24964958
Vote for medium range insertion.
Breach at a reasonable distance, advance section by section, open the decks to the void as you go.

Expose the bridge to explosive decompression with breaching charges.

>>24965092
I'm sure enough that it resulted from some silly choices that were made during the quest though.

>>24965281
Not really, no. It was more of a I'm bored, you all die, no you don't get to roll type thing.

>>24965175
Eh, a lot of people were trying to establish their own empire lots of fun to be had there.

>NG+
Wait, are we really just doing a slightly different version of the same story as last time?

Fuck it. Shadow Quest is bound to return soon anyway.

>>24965345
I think too many people piled in to declare themselves techpriests because they were afraid of waifu's pity too, as it was over before I was able to vote.

>>24965330
I Still Want My Damned Hidden System Station!!!


>>24965314
On that note, have you sorted out the major points to the sub-sector we get to play in?
or are you running it just like the last one?

>>24965373
Yeah, I just got here. Voting was over fast.

>>24965429
That's not even MS dude. Just some mad guy.

>>24965448

Not shouting at him. just lamenting over plans that never got the chance to see fruition...

The compartment slowly drains of atmosphere as you grip your clip harness and prepare to secure to the platoon's boarding cable. Some of the more foolhardy pirates enjoy the thrill of leaping to the target ships unassisted, but only a small number of such manage to survive the maneuver. Time seems to drag on for ages as your cogitators debate the advantages of various insertion ideas, including a direct breach on the bridge itself. Daring, but in many cases suicidal. Eventually, you decide upon a moderately distant insertion. With luck, you calculate that your force will arrive just in time to not save the first team...

Another shock resonates as the chains pull your vessel into contact with the target, and your comparment's armored door opens with a minute hiss. Before you is a massive ship, easily a kilometer and a half and dwarfing your platoon, yet dwarfed by all others of her kind. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of small weapons batteries cut across the void between the two vessels as both also begin to swarm with thousands of armsmen and crew. Steeling your awed flesh brain, your cogitators sent the impulses to jump. Inertia and the safety line carry you across, magnetic boots securing you to the hull as your BDUs and fellow pirates fire. Lasgun at the ready, you advance toward an area you calculate will suit your insertion goals perfectly. Unfortunately, it seems you'll have to fight your way through a small squad of foes!

[Combat Begins!]
>7 enemies stand in your path!
>damnit captcha stop being a bitch tonight!

>Orders?

Rolled 43

>>24965546
Blast 'em!

>>24965471
...but that's what happens when a quest ends. Your plans are lost to the winds of time and unfulfilled imaginings. Which is the beauty of new quests, you get to make new plans, try new things and interact with new characters pulled from the story tellers mind.

Tl;dr. Keep living in the past Face and your going to miss the future.

>>24965579
Meh, I still want to do that. Need a pile of bitches for the pirate queen though

>>24965579

technically, he is living in the future and missing the past. PQ originally took place post-M41, now you're in M41 and running roughly parallel to [and currently in the same sector as] a certain Chapter Quest. Cross-overs should be interesting, to say the least!

>>24965546

Let the BDUs deal with them. We should mess with the door controls to prevent any unwanted company in our flank...

>>24965618
We're in the past, eh? New goal: become the great-grandparent of the protagonist from the original quest.

>>24965686

You are currently in the void, on the target vessel. Your ideal point of insertion into the ship is beyond the enemy armsmen.

>also, you'll need to roll for your BDU platoon, 3d100's for shooting. Please roll them together.

Rolled 65, 23, 83 = 171

>>24965701

well, MS Did say that the NG+ prevented certain aspects of Character Creation... (most noticeably being Female rather than the suggested male)

>>24965710
... Very well, Let us light up the Void...

Rolled 58

Enemy roll

This doesn't seem to have gone very well.

Maybe try restarting it tomorrow night?

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"Blast 'em!"
Your BDUs send a storm of las-bolts into the seven men, cutting down six of their number quickly while you place a single shot into the chest of the seventh. Lost in the storm, the fire of your enemies fails to find any of your men. The machine god smiles upon you as your force secures the location you've picked out, two of your BDUs setting the melta charges as friends and foes alike swarm and war across the surrounding hull. A shudder as your charges detonate, turning the thin armor of the vessel into a massive jet of molten plasteel and adamantium. The decompression of the section pulls a half dozen corpses, most missing large portions of their mass and sporting obvious burns where they were caught in the blast. One unfortunate soul is sucked into the void without a void suit, the thin presence of escaping atmosphere protecting him from the void until he is several meters clear. "Emperor protects" mutters one of your BDUs.

"Into the vessel! Squad Alpha, clear the point!"

>3 squads available: squad 3 contains a pair of demolitions specialists, the remainder are generic armsmen.

>Plan of attack for your route to the bridge?
>Breakthrough and press your attacks on defense points.
>Flank and encircle, crushing your enemies between your full forces.
>Other?

>Where will you lead from?

>Navigation Roll 1d100
>Combat Roll 1d100
>Squad Rolls 3d100

Rolled 90

>>24966119
>>Flank and encircle, crushing your enemies between your full forces.

Lead from the rear. We're a techpriest, not a soldier.

Rolling navigation.

Rolled 12, 49, 66 = 127

>>24966119

Squads 1 and 2 will push towards the area above the bridge, Squad 3 will cover their rear. We will deal with the Machine Spirits of the doors and prevent uninvited guests...

>>24966050
Probably a good idea at this point. Is there anyone else still in this thread?

>>24966212
>>24966214

I do believe this is a sign that we'll continue next tuesday. map will also be rendered for the adventure to the bridge.

Thanks for playing this short and slow crazy train.

usual Q&A for a bit if anyone is still around

>>24966490
I am. But I think people left from being too mad at certain options. Hopefully some of the old regulars show up after they see this has restarted.

>>24966527
I get the sense that most people didn't realize what they were voting for when they picked the NG+ option.

As one of the old regulars, I'd rather either start a wholly new quest, or continue where we left off.

>>24966568
What do you think was picked? As far as I can tell, it just unlocked certain things or references that might be relevant from the old PQ. Not like we're restarting from day 1 as Elesh.

>>24966568

I wouldn't mind returning to the old crew... Either way, I'm looking forward to it.


MachineSpirit, do you have the twitters?
Have you got some plot for this one?
Do you have an Interesting Persons List?
Is sending an enemy vessel into the warp without a geller field on the off chance that it will return shortly as a Hulk filled with treasure something that is liable to be legitimately considered by Aurex?

>>24966494
Does our character have stats rolled yet or we gonna do that later?

>>24966568

All NG+ really did was fix the gender choice and unlock extra event/perils/interaction options or tables. If you'd like, I'll set up a survey to let people vote on the gender factor of NG+ for the next thread, though some of the things would probably start upping your insanity in that case.

minor examples: dreams/nightmares being flashbacks/forwards to PQ events
major example: "that frigate seems familiar..."

>>24966610
I assumed that was the sequel option. You know, take over after the apparent demise of the last quest's protagonist.

Otherwise I'd have probably voted for >>24964107

>>24966758
Might as well. Seems like the whole NG+ issue is bugging some people.

>>24966790
But it's a different sector and different timeline, isn't it?

>>24966758

I hold no real preference for NG+. I see it as kind of like the 'Wild Wasteland' perk...


>>24966808
Ships and people are not bound to single locations... and that warp has a habit of spitting people out all over the place/time...

>>24966758
I don't know about the other anons ITT, but the gender of our character doesn't bother me one way or the other.

Being a tech priest, gender shouldn't really matter all that much.

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>>24966719
Stats were fixed based on character type. I'll have them posted to the wikia for the next thread.

>>24966692
The old crew is dead, well... unborn, rather. Most of them had a decent fate in another game or two, though.

No twitters. I loathe birds.
Plot? yes. Several, actually. And I've also got several partners in crime who will help come up with crazy side-plots. Mostly, though, you've got over 100 solar systems to do shit in after you've discovered them.
An Interesting Persons List does indeed exist, and will be maintained on the wiki once you encounter them.
You want to do what?

>>24966941
>You want to do what?
I think he means to sabotage the warp drives of the enemy ship, causing it to briefly enter the warp unprotected so as to kill off its crew, leaving only the loot behind.

>>24966790
>>24966808
>>24966835

You will be returning to PQ's original sector some... 3000 years before the events of PQ. The sector is in the first 10 years of discovery and filled with loot.

Currently, your pirate wolfpack is operating within Sector Deus, the setting of Skargan's Chapter Quest, in order to secure what the pirate lord you serve believes you'll require for your adventure into the unknown. [proper channels have been taken for this]

>>24967024

Such a plan would generally be sending a ship on a one-way trip. I've always seen the warp drive as simply tearing a hole between reality and the warp, flying through it, and then propelling the ship through the warp. If you break it during transit, you're still in the warp, just stuck with the currents and you're kind of stuck there until you fix it.

>>24966941

Once this really kicks off, I'll see about adding it to my Archive Storybooks...

A Mad-Genius plan really, You take 1 captured ship, complete with mook level crew (no captain, no navigator, no astropath, no techpriests...) Remove it's Geller Field Generator, Set it for a delayed Warp Jump, Leave for unspecified quantity of time (pray to the immortal God Emperor for warp-time-jiggery-pokery and luck)
Hope for outcomes;
- turned into a Space Hulk
- Localised exit
- Short time Realspace, Long time in the Warp

Then board and collect the considerable quantity of loot that could have accumulated though its unpleasant adventure...

>>24967136

... you would have a statistically greater chance of never seeing any Fe in a score of solar systems, I calculate.

>>24967136
That's a terrible idea.

What if the ship's crew turn to Chaos, and when it emerges from the warp, you've got thousands of pissed off cultists ready to spill your blood for the glory of Khorne?

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>>24966494
and once again a quest I'd like to participate in has started at a time I couldn't catch it.
ah well, I hope you'll have more fun running it than last time.
as a tech priest you people might need a face-bag