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Life's been hard ever since the Tau took over.
Learning their foul xenos language and working their factories has been demeaning.
But after catching wind of heresy on the rise in the Tau city you find yourself uneasily striking a balance between cooperating with the alien filth and taking great risks to operate outside their laws.
Now with a wire under your shirt you find yourself pretending to join a chaos cult.
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You look down at the violet fizzling liquid. Yeah... there's no way in hell you're drinking this.
What's taking those idiot Fire Warriors so long? With no way out all you can do is stall for time.
"What's in this drink?" You ask.
Maiya pipes up "A blend of hallucinogens and stimulants-"
The psyker interrupts "and a touch. Of the Warp! To enhance the ė̸͈̠͈̀̇́̿x̷̡͓̾̚p̷̜̤̙̖̯̓ȇ̵͖̳̪̦͌̀̊͘r̵̭͚͔̔̓̌ͅͅì̶͖͖̰̰ę̶͈͚̯͋̈́n̶̪͙͙̩̋c̷͎̗͊̈́̈́̌ȇ̵̩̂͒͘
"Don't worry Cas, you won't overdose." Maiya reassures you.
You continue your questions "Are you certain we can free this world from xenos?"
The Chaos witch glares at you: "You are STALLING. You want a purpose. I give you a purpose: To serve the dark god Slaanesh! He asks only two things! killing his enemies and indulging yourself in pleasure without restraint."
"Very well, but there are some things I need to know before I commit my life to this purpose." you lie.
"Two more questions." she snaps, "then you will drink, or you will leave and never return."

>write in
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>>5074700
>>5074702

we need to spill the elixir in the girl body and lick the parts without elixir to trick her

>dont forget the erection and bite hard

make us look like slaneeshi degenerate to pass as cultist
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>>5074710
We should suggest to do that, but we need to ask the questions.
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Okay, we need to think about what questions will A) make the Fire Warriors storm this place ASAP, and B) take the longest for these heretics to answer.
Logically, this means asking about things that pose an immediate danger. Weapons, slaves, sacrifices, spreading anti-Tau sentiments, that kind of thing.
I propose
>Do you even know how to use half of the weapons here? I know some people who used to be in the guard and aren’t too happy about the Tau occupation either. I’m sure they’d be happy to help out.
>Those people over there in chains. Tau supporters, I assume? Why haven’t we killed them yet? Assuming there are slaves visible, of course. There’s a cage in the background so there might be.
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>>5074753

>remember we have a tau speaker on us,if we say we know other anti-tau aligned people,we would indirectly be ratting them out
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>>5074756
I mean, we could be bullshitting for all the Tau know.
That said, you might be right. Maybe we could just say we think there are probably other guard survivors who wouldn’t mind sticking it to the Tau.
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>>5074700
I bet this quest wont make it past the first thread.
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>>5074702
>Before I go all in, what can I expect beyond 'purpose'? Give me some details
>>5074769
Anon, we're on the second thread you absolute negroid monkey
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>>5074769

you dum dum,this is the second thread,the first one was this

>>5020800
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>>5074710
She's a psyker, you're not tricking her and who knows how many other cultists watching, AND the girl (who would know you're purposefuly not drinking the liquid) you want to so desperately lick. She wouldn't just lay there like a dead fish, she'll notice this "bluff".
>>5074702
>Will we try to take this world for ourselves?
We need to tip the Tau listening in that these guys are planning an actual revolution, so a question like this should be good. Someone else pick other question.
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>"Two more questions."

"You are just asking me to trade one god that never helped (lie) me for another! What proof do you have that this one isn't as fake as the first one? I was hoping to be free of blind obedience to a inactive god..."

I sense this cultist, like many others, is always looking to "prove" that the emperor is a false god and that their gods are real. They always shit on the faithful that the emperor is a false god while their gods are active and grant boons etc.

If she starts showing off shit it will give the fire warriors incentive to act, I feel like they probably don't care about our life and are waiting to see what they can get. If she shows us guns/ psychic abilities / etc we can just keep saying 'the imperial guard had that too' until she shows us something really big.
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>>5074892
+1
This idea good
If this fails, then we resort to chest-drinking
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>>5074892

+1,this one is really good

let them take the bait to showoff
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>>5074892
this is actually a decent question
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btw,should the MC study some engineering ot take a carrer?

he would probably benefit of being something about menial
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>>5075302
>getting too comfortable in this xenos hellhole
we're here to kill chaos and fondle blue tits, nothing more
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>>5074769
This is the second thread retard
>>5074892
+1 to this
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>>5074892
You're a clever one, anon. +1 to this.
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>>5074892
Supporting this as the first question.
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>>5074892
+1
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>>5074892
>(lie)
Corpse worshippers baka
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>>5074892
Actually, omit "You are just asking me to trade one god that never helped (lie) me for another!". Everything else is fine, but that line is likely to get us zapped for impudence as "proof"
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"You are just asking me to trade one god that never helped (lie) me for another! What proof do you have that this one isn't as fake as the first one? I was hoping to be free of blind obedience to a inactive god..."
The Psyker laughs "You doubt his power? Ha! Slaanesh rewards the faithful with supernatural boons. Most famously he grants preternatural senses and speed. Observe."
She calls over another cultist, he holds his fist to his chest in salute "Yes, mistress?"
"Close your eyes, marked one."
He does so.
A blade springs out from her bracer with a soft click, and without warning she throws it right at his throat.
In a blink he catches the flying blade. Then opens his eyes.
"Behold! Please the Dark god and receive his blessings. And that's only the beginning of his power!" The witch proclaims.
The cultist flips the blade and catches it by the handle. "Something is amiss... Who are you?"
He closes in on you, eagle eyes staring at your chest. He's on to you! Time to bail!

>Climb up into an exposed pipe
>Scramble for a weapon
>Knock over the drug labs
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>>5075701

>poke her eyes with your fingers
>then knock over the drug labs,try to get something flamable if possible

gotta run fast guardsmen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7zPlQjAr8
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>>5075701
>>knock over the drug labs
No point going for a weapon, we're not here for a prolonged engagement (we wouldn't survive it), just try to get out so the Shas can do their thing
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>>5075701
> I don't like the way your friend is looking at me
Aaand book it.
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>>5075704
Supporting
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>>5075704
Agreed. Gotta buy ourselves a few seconds and run like the daemons of the warp are after us. Which might actually happen - better not think too much about that.
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>>5075704
This, but only if we do the Three Stooges bit and pull their mask over their head
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>>5075704

Supporting this.
Also if any of them has a weapon or there is one (for example on a table or crate) grab it.
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I can’t help but feel we’re fucked if we try to directly attack him. Did he not literally just show that he’s fast enough to catch a throwing knife? Best bet is to smash the drug lab and hope it has a similar effect to a flashbang, then book it.
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>>5076018
This guy is right. Why are we trying to poke out someone who's way faster than us? Our only hope is to create confusion. Maybe if the drug labs fall on them their face will melt.
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>>5076018

we are brainded guardsmen of course,the power of kek runs through our veins
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>>5075701
>Scramble for a weapon
Do we still have our lasgun? If so, draw it and fire at the cultist with a knife. If not, then >Knock over the drug labs
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>>5075704
+1 run nigga run
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We weren't given an option to write-in, but aren't we being a bit hasty?
The guy basically just said "Wait, who are you?" and approached us so as to look us over.
Perhaps sperging out immediately isn't the best option?
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>>5075701
>>Scramble for a weapon
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>>5076361
Pretty sure he spotted the wire we're wearing with his super-senses, since he's staring at our chest.
>>5075701
>Smash the drug lab and run
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>>5076529
In that case, given that we're surrounded by cultists and the guy in front of us is supernaturally empowered the best option is probably to play for time and avoid direct confrontation, so..
> Knock over the drug labs, preferably onto someone
> Avoid being caught for as long as possible and hope the Fireteam don't write us off as acceptable collateral.
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>>5076570
+1 to this
>>5076139
I don't think we have our lasgun, I mean we're literally wearing a wire for the tau and them knowing about us having a lasgun would get us fucking arrested.
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"A SPY!" he roars!
Your arm springs out to jab the cultist in the eyes but he blocks with the side of his hand. He slashes your belly with a shallow cut, the pain is sharp.
"Seize them!" The psyker screeches. Maiya stands paralysed with shock.
All the cultists in the room start running straight at you. You grab one of the nearby tables covered in chemicals and Chymistry glass and heave it over.
The glass noisly crashes onto the floor spilling every drug known to man into a single puddle. A vapour of hallucinogens, aphrodisiac and stimulants starts permeating the room.
You struggle to hold your breath.

Roll 1d100 to avoid being affected by the gas.
(Average of the first 3 rolls, you need 35 or better)
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Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>5076787
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Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>5076787
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Rolled 36 (1d100)

lets see if we roll well
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>>5076789
>>5076798
>>5076806

averages out as 56,we are unnafected
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>>5076809
Strong lungs from singing hymns praising the Emperor every day.
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Seems like Maiya didnt expect us to be loyal. Too bad, she seemed nice but there's no redemption from chaos. Once they own your soul there's no going back.
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>>5076847
Don’t the Inquisition have penitent witches? And I don’t just mean regular psykers who have been convinced of the Inquisition’s bullshit from day one, but actual former Chaos worshippers? Or is the Inquisition just getting some use out of those heretics before their souls go straight to the asshole of the Warp? It would be suitably grimdark, I suppose.
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>>5076787
Aw shit boys, look at the CCTV in the back. Eleven whole Fire Warriors in here, maybe more.
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>>5077022
Penitent Engines are literal torture machines, and their souls are still bound to the dark gods. Unless she was somehow completely untouched by the warp, there'd be no hope, and seeing how her body is completely covered in tattoos, that's unlikely. In fact, some chaos gods go all the way as to fuck over people who try to kill themselves to repent and turn them into chaos spawn.

Of course, she's getting murdered by the fire caste anyway so it doesn't matter.
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>>5077026
let's try not getting caught in the aftermath
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>god i fucking swear as long we manage to keep our boyo alive we should be able to stack gradual training on him untill he ascends into kek the god of /qst/ autism
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>>5077026
Now all we need to do is avoid getting murdere and we'll have so many merits we'll be able to cash in our very own blueberry waifu
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>>5077054
Neck urself xeno fucker
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>>5077088
No.
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If the fire warriors have two unmarked vans shaped like Devilfish, they should be able to use them as a mobile bunker.
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>>5077026
>when the greater good is the lesser evil
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>>5077218
At least with Tau you fight the emperor's enemies, and i would guess that Tau are smart enough not to use Gue'vesa Warriors against imperial humans unless it's an emergency.
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>>5076787
Can we roar out a solid, "FOR THE EMPEROR!" as we demonstrate our superior lung strength and purity?
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>>5077709
"For the Greater God!"
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>>5077709
>>5077729
Considering we just rolled to not breathe in the Slaaneshi drugs, that's probably not be the best idea.
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>>5077847
Bellowing out air makes gas go away.
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>>5077848
Do I really need to explain to you how breathing works?
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>>5077859
A guardsman doesn't take one step back, nor one breath in!
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>>5077860
> Guardsman: *Inhales accidentally*
> Commissar: "The value of that oxygen is coming out of your monthly ration allowance."
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>>5077847
Do you honestly think the QM would fuck us over like that after we just made a successful roll? C'mon now.
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>>5078851
>Do you honestly think the QM would fuck us over
Yeah. Especially if it’s nobody’s fault but our own.
No one is MAKING us breathe poison gas, anon. That’s all on you.
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>>5079036
You don't breathe in when you exhale.
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>>5079045
Exhaling reduces the amount of remaining air in one's lungs, thus making it harder to keep holding one's breath. Roaring something, in particular, is followed by a strong urge to inhale.
>In the grim darkness of the far future, people are literally too dumb to breathe.
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>>5079110
Shouting out your devotion will help against the Slaaneshi super drug. Always remember to Deny the Witch.
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You hold your breath fast and are unaffected by the gas spreading throughout the room.
The cultists without gas masks start thrashing like crazy, when suddenly the front door is shot down with a pulse blast.
Fire Warriors start streaming in, "FIRE CASTE! THROW DOWN YOUR WEAPONS."
The crazed cultists in their drugged up haze screech and attack immediately, lasbeams and blades flying wildly. The shas return fire, and you narrowly escape the firing line.
More cultists are rushing out from deeper in the base to defend. Maiya, avoiding the gas opens up a secret hatch and crawls through.

>Sneak attack the psyker
>Chase after Maiya
>Steal something in the confusion
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
We have zero chance of being able to take down a person who's able to blow up our head with just a thought. I'm not even going to say why stealing something from a chaos cult is bad.

Conversely, we cannot let anyone of those cultists get away. If maiya is able to flee, she'll just start another cult again. We'll have to find a way to get her, permanently.

Do we got any weapons? Something without chao taint?
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>>5079234
You didn't bring your weapon with you to the Shas outpost (and you went straight from there to Maiya's place)
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
GET THE FFFFUCK BACK HERE
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
Full agreement with >>5079234 . If we're able to quickly snatch up a weapon while chasing her, go for it, but focus on not letting her get away. A trained guardsman should be able to subdue an apparently unarmed female clerk in hand-to-hand combat anyway, plus we're still wearing the wire so the Tau can always reinforce us if we get in trouble.
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>>5079229
> Chase after Maiya
Knowing them, the fishmen probably won't respect the time-honored traditions of battlefield salvage and demand we surrender whatever we loot into evidence or something. Though that might be for the best though given that this is a chaos facility, touching anything here is the equivalent of playing russian roulette with a pistol that shoots STDs (Spiritually Transmitted Diseases).
Attacking a psyker is straight up just a terrible idea and is only really viable if you happen to have an untouchable strapped to you, which we presently do not.
So by process of elimination, cutting off the recruiter's escape is our only real option out of the selection provided.
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>>5079297

Supporting this.
If we can grab some weapons (even a rusty pipe is better than nothing).
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Maiya is probably gonna play the whole 'innocent' routine
>they forced me!
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
We can redeem her Bros
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>>5079457
I'm sorry lad, but no.
You can't fix her.
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>>5079468
The fact that she didn't stay and fight means she isn't all in on chaos
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
Also
>Grab a lasgun
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>>5079472
I would agree with you if this wasn't 40k and this wasn't goddamn Chaos we are dealing with
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
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>>5079472
Anon, she’s covered in Slaaneshi symbols. Her soul is already fucked, figuratively and literally. Snatching souls back from Slaanesh is such an obscenely fucking tall order that Cegorach, the only being capable of doing it, saves it for very special occasions.
I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to put your waifu pole down.
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>>5079229
>Chase after Maiya
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>>5079229
>>Chase after Maiya
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>>5079297
This here.

>Grab a weapon
>Chase after Maiya
But don't grab anything obviously fucking heretical. I'm thinking like a pipe or something.
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>>5079758
They've been using the pipes to smoke.
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>>5079760
Not that kind.
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Space Marine 2 confirmed
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>>5080182
Nice, looks promising.
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You grab a bit of lead pipe as a improvised weapon and chase after Maiya. Crawling through a narrow escape tunnel as the sound of pulserifle and lasfire continues behind you.
Clutching your shallow knife wound, you press on. The tunnel drops into another corridor, you land on the concrete with a soft thud turning around Maiya.
She points a combat knife at you with both trembling hands.
"How could you? You would side with alien filth over your own kind? Why?!"
(You can disable the Wire at any time)

>Attack
>Disarm her
>Coax her to surrender
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>>5080518
We should call her out on her hypocrisy. She has no right to call us an traitor when she's sided with the chaos cultists. How can she say we sided with them over our own kind when she's forfeitted her soul to a literal daemon god called "Prince of Excess"?

We did what we had to do to protect all those innocent humans from being dragged into hell by the things she worships. We didn't want to work with the Fire Caste, we didn't want to lie to her, we had to because she CHOSE to follow the chaos gods.

I mean, fucks sake, you'd think she would realize the people who worship a deity of excess and earthly pleasures, carry around torture devices (which they use on themselves) and sacrifice people were not good.

I reallly wish we could save her, i do, but she was all tattooed with slaanesh stuff. There's no way she's getting saved from her owner, not here in Tau space with no access to religious stuff.
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>>5080518
>>5080544
Supporting, do not turn off the wire
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>>5080552
Might not be a good idea to insult the Shas if we don't turn it off, though.
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>>5080518
>>5080544
+ tell her that even if she doesn't die here her soul will be forever dam for betraying mankind and the emperor
and try to disarm her but if that is not possible then we shall give her the emperor's peace
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>>5080544
>>5080596
You fucking retards, we should use this opportunity to get some social credit. Give her the spiel about how you "found a new purpose in the Greater Good, and how she's disturbing it", make it sound like we're a good loyal citizen.
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>>5080607
Fuck no. We already found out and infiltrated an entire chaos cult that was planning to take over the planet, we have enough social credit to spare. This is about us and her.
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>>5080607
Gay. We don't need to bullshit up some useful idiot Tau nonsense. This is about dealing with a heretic that somehow thinks she isn't an arch traitor just because she doesn't work with xenos.
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>>5080518
Disarm then rape. As punishment for turning her back on the emperor.
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>>5080679
>rape
>punishment
You do remember she's a slaaneshi, right?
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>>5080683
Then why is coaxing her to surrender an option? That implies that theres some hope for her left.
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>>5080544
>>5080596
+1
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I don’t get it. Why are we voting to leave the wire on as we say this shit? Tau will be on our ass.
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>>5080753
Because if we take it out the Tau will probably get suspicious? After all, what are they going to be angry about, that we called the dangerous cultist an traitor?
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>>5080758
Then why are we saying dangerous shit in the first place?
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>>5080518
She is clearly scared and has gotten in over her head with this cult. She probably just hates the tau more then she worships a chaos gods. As I said before she didn't stay and fight.

You guys are baseing your choices on meta knowledge our character wouldn't have about chaos, he would probably think big E could easily save her soul if she repents and does his work. The specifics of what happens to mortal souls is extremely vague anyway, 40k lore is always left to interruptation on purpose.

Take off the wire and try to recruit her into our resistance, the REAL resistance. It's about time we got some recruits.
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>>5080787
>he would probably think big E could easily save her soul if she repents and does his work
but probably only in the most suicidal/painful/dramatic matter

>The specifics of what happens to mortal souls is extremely vague anyway
Maybe from a meta perspective, but followers of the God-Emperor generally believe that Big E will protect their souls in a manner more or less like heaven
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>>5080787
Are you kidding me? We're a guardsman. If anything, our propaganda would make it worse. We already know way more than a normal guardsman anyway - we know about chaos, and the name slaanesh.

Chaos is literally irreversible, it's not even an secret. Who knows what kind of fucked up stuff in the first place?
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>>5080791
>who knows what kind of fucked up stuff she did in the first place
She literally has chaos tattoos all over her body.
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>>5080544
> Support
> Don't mess with the wire
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>>5080790
>Maybe from a meta perspective, but followers of the God-Emperor generally believe that Big E will protect their souls in a manner more or less like heaven

"more or less" I know, but i'm more talking about how many levels of "already damned" this girl is on.

>>5080791
what are you talking about, most guardsmen are kept in the dark about chaos and have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes, same for normal citizens. Commissioners execute guardsmen that know about chaos. Slannish is probably a name we heard through gossip and hearsay, we know its BAD and heretical but we don't actually know SHIT. If we actually say a demon down here our minds would have been blown.

>she has tattoos
She is in the cult so she has tattoos yeah. If I went to prison and joined some skinheads because they are the ONLY GAME IN TOWN that doesn't mean I would identify with the prison tattoo swastikas I now have all over my body. Im just trying to survive prison.

It going to turn out that she lost a brother or something in the Tau attack and she got recruited by some cult who has the means for her to get revenge. Young + impressionable doesn't = irredeemable.
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>>5080607
Agreed
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>>5080518

>call her out

yeah we did work with the tau,but only because chaos is far worse,chaos worshiping push people to mutation and excess

so what begins as drinking wine,ends up as making wine out of the dried off corpses of your friends and family

in comparizon the tau are lesser evil

we didnt betray the cult because we love the tau,we betray the cult because we hate chaos more
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>>5080830
>lesser evil
I guess you could say that siding with the Tau....

Was the greater good
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>>5080787
>clearly scared
>just hates the tau more than she worships a chaos gods
https://youtu.be/PMt7C3COiVM?t=44
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We better get like 1000 merits for this shit or we are taking blueberry's ass as payment
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>>5080845
Anon, the former leads to the latter.
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>>5080518

>Turn of wire
>Disarm her
First chaos's biggest threat is knowlegde itself. Just by knowing about it the dark gods can whisper to you (dreams, etc), And slowly deform your perspective of things.
A low level cultist is no more than a simple citizen of the empire a simple ... Pawn. If you look at it this way:
Aliens invaded our planet, our god Emperor could'nt protect us, and somebody forming undergound resistance and they say if you pray to them instead you will have the power to repell the enemy (and they can literary show their unnatural abilities).

I say turn of wire, disarm her and... Well just talk to her. Maybe she has usefull info. First we need info to their other bases. Second we can turn her in, let the fire caste deal with her (might get some merits).
If she resist we can still kill her.
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>>5081008
>turning her over to the fire caste
Not a good idea, i feel. She still has knowledge of the chaos gods, she literally filled herself with chaos tattoos. She's a cultist.

That means sadly, we gotta put her down. She cannot be allowed to share her dark knowledge.
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>>5080518
>Chaos is called the ARCHenemy for a reason, Maiya. All the demons' gifts are poisoned; to turn to them is the the greatest error one can make, no matter the circumstances. The cult does not serve mankind, and this small glimpse already showed me far worse than anything the Tau could come up with. Do not barter your soul to false saviours, for salvation can only come through the Emperor.
That should get through to her and reveal whether there is anything left to save. It should be fine with the Tau due to their views on religious freedom, so there's no reason to turn the wire off.

Remember that the local head of the Administratum is involved in the chaos worship, and there's almost certainly a whole bunch of cults and cells. She probably knows much more about them, and her support would be invaluable in rooting them out. We'd obviously have to keep her on a short leash anyway, but since the Tau themselves have told us that the serious chaos worshippers cannot be redeemed to the greater good, I don't worry much about them allowing her to get away or do chaos things.
I do not expect a miracle, but since we've got our bases covered, we can try anyway. Maybe we can turn her around, maybe we'll have to put her down.
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>>5081088
That's the problem though, even if she felt sorry, the chaos gods would still find a way to fuck us all over. Even if she was redeemed, they'd do something solely to keep her from getting away.

I don't think there's anything that can save her, even if she gives up on chaos.
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>>5081091
Only the Emperor can save her, that much is true. But even if her soul isn't saved, she can still be useful. A list of other cults would be invaluable. Like I said, we can still put her down, and the Tau will certainly keep her on a very short leash, so there's little risk.
Turning her into our waifu would obviously be an incredibly stupid idea. Anyone who wants that should fap before posting.
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>>5080518
>Attack
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>>5081105
Yeah, we already have a wife and she's blue
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>>5081105
Feels like way too much of a risk. For all we know, Slaanesh could decide to turn her into a warp spawn.
>>5081115
correct
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>>5081091
> the chaos gods would still find a way to fuck us all over.
The gods don't care. If even a single cultist has the full backing of the chaos gods then it would already be over
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>>5081179
They do that stuff all the time with their worshippers, it's less of a full backing and more of a "You cant leave us" thing
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>>5081184
Give citation
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>>5081187
I remember it.

Thats my citatio.
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>>5080518
>Attack
It’s too late. Death will be a mercy.
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>>5080518
>>5081088
Supporting
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>>5081191
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You slowly advance towards her, as she retreats step by step into the darkness.
"You have no right to call me a traitor. Of all mankind's enemies, heretics are the worst of all. You are the traitor."
"Traitor to whom? He has given us NOTHING Vaede, can you not see it?"
"He has given us a place at his side in the next life. Your cult threatened that covenant for everyone! I had no choice but to side with them."
"Slaanesh offers an afterlife as well." she stammers.
"All lies, you know this Maiya. You have damned yourself. Let me give you the Emperor's peace and save your immortal soul."
"You're going to kill me?!" She steps back, bumping into a deadend behind her.
"It's the only way."
"N-NO! All I ever wanted was a life. Do you have any idea what it's like being an Imperial Clerk? Nothing but an endless mind numbing flood of papers and forms day after day. Nothing but tasteless Basedlens rations and water. The only stimulation was the drugged up recaf they fed me. My fondest memory was getting my first paper cut. I want to live Cas. To feel excitement, comradery, fear, hate and suffering. Like you."
"The Emperor grants life eternal. It's not too late. Return to him."
The traitor falls to her knees and drops her knife. "If I'm going to die here... I want to return to the Emperors side."

>Execute her
>Recruit her
>Leave her
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>>5082753
Execute, The Emperor doesnt give second chances cunt.
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>>5082753
>Recruit her
The Emperor forgives, but only for those who earns her forgiveness. join me
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>>5082753
She knows too much, doesn't she? Even knowledge of the chaos gods can damn you. She fell once. What are the chances she might fall again? Her life is gone anyway - the Tau know she's an cultist, so she's either getting brainwashed, "Interrogated" or executed, possibly all three.

Give her the final rites and the emperor's peace, quickly.
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>>5082753

>Turn off wire
>After that take her knife away
>Recruit her
She cannot be trusted! However we need an inside man to erradicate all cultist activity.
If she tries tries anything kill her!
(I wonder if her tattoes are real or can be washed of. Either way her soul is probably lost)
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>>5082791
If her soul is lost, why would you trust her to be our inside man? Won't she just relapse?
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>>5082753
>Recruit her
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I cannot believe you faggots are white knighting for a literal Slaaneshite
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>>5082831
This. It's fucking pathetic
>noooo we need to forgive the chaos cultist she said she was sowwy :.cccc
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>>5082753
>Execute her
I see no reason to spare her. We have plenty of other associates, and they are neither Slaaneshi cultists, nor on the Tau's shitlist.
Speaking of the Tau, I see no mention of us turning the wire off, so they are gonna ask after her if we whisk her away. It's really not worth going through all the trouble for a fucking Chaos cultist of all things.
Giving her a quick death and sending her to the emperor is mercy enough.
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>>5082753
>Execute her
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>>5082753
-recruit her

We don't have universe meta knowledge, if our mc kills her then he is a murderer.
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>>5082858
we're a guardsman, our knowledge is pretty much
>heretics repent then die
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>>5082753
>leave her
The most reasonable decision. Sink or swim.
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>>5082863
If things actually worked that way you wouldn't need commisars or a chain of command. The imperial guard are just normal people from all sorts of backgrounds and worlds.

I would understand if the vote was to turn her over to the tau. But to kill this hapless woman in a dark corner is murder. If the mc is capable of beating her to death with a pipe then I'm out lol.
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>>5082883
handing her over to the Tau is even more evil than a quick execution
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>>5082831
>>5082834
Let's not forget that she probably knows a lot about the cults that almost certainly exist throughout the former Administratum. Even if we kill her, we should at least get that intel first.

I'm for recruiting her - repent through actions, not death. Doesn't mean we should trust her.
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>>5082887
This.
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>>5082753
>Execute her
DIE you servant of Slaanesh
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>>5082887
I agree on asking her about the cult, but other than that, she should die here. Way too risky - and the Tau will do her in anyway, so it's a mercy.
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>>5082885
In a not-meta way, how would we know that? Keep in mind we're a (former) enemy combatant that has been treated fairly well by a conquering force.
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>>5082753
>Execute her
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>>5082753
execute her
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>>5082753
>"'When I raise my sword, so I wish that this poor sinner will receive eternal life.'"
>Execute her
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>>5082753
>Execute her
no rest for the wicked
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>>5082753
>Execute her with the knife and a hug
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>>5082753
I'm gonna urge the lot of us here to think carefully and avoid shitflinging. Let's weigh the options and consider.

If we decide to offer her redemption, it ain't gonna be all hugs and forgiveness. The only way it would be tolerable is for her to remove those markings: A process which will be incredibly painful because the Tau won't do it, and it will leave her horribly scarred. Additionally, I don't think it's even remotely within our ability to ensure she is free from corruption. I'm not sure how possible that is even with the best equipment and knowledge available. We might be able to give her a more noble chance at redemption than merely Big E's mercy, but chaos might always have a hold on her. Additionally, if the other ex-guardsmen or those still loyal to the Emperor find out we spared a heretic, things are gonna be really bad for us. We might not be able to get any support from anyone else anymore, if they don't outright accuse us of heresy ourselves. The same goes for the Tau if they learn we spared one of the cultists. We run a big risk letting her live, as much as my morality leans me to that.

On the other hand, putting her down guarantees she cannot be fully consumed by chaos further down the line, thereby saving her soul from complete damnation. It means there is no possible vessel left for something from the warp to take advantage of—and if some kind of daemon can it will. It's a sure means of saving her from corruption, but the cost of it is obvious. We also have to consider that it might fuck Cas up a bit to do so. I don't know if it's ever been stated how much combat experience he has, but killing an unarmed young woman, even if it's still a mercy, is gonna weigh on him. I don't know what else there is to factor in, but I'd like to see what other anons have to say to this.
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>>5083104
>We also have to consider that it might fuck Cas up a bit to do so
He's a guardsman. He knows about chaos, too. Way i see it, in this GREEMDARK universe, giving her the Emperor's Peace is the best mercy.

Again, i have to repeat it, if we let her go the Tau will most surely send her to brainwash camp.
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>>5083104
The only way to get rid of tattoos is flames.
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>>5082753
>Execute her QUICKLY
Kick the knife away, soothe her with nice words, reach in for a hug and snap her neck while she’s oblivious. Quick and humane, far better than anything Slaanesh could have offered her.
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>>5083148
Use the knife to execute her.
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>>5082753
>Execute her
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>>5082753
>>Execute her SLOWLY
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>>5082753

>execute
>make it quick

no need to make this harsher than it already is
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>>5083104
too many edgelords wanting to RP as commissars or sociopaths. I was thinking it'd be better to have as many hands as early as possible, if she betrays us then we'll deal with it as it comes to make an interesting narrative. I'm always against killing of characters in quest too quickly
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>>5083104
tl;dr virgin
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>>5082753
> Execute
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>>5082753
>Execute
Imagine recruiting an agent of chaos. Couldn't be me.
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kek some faggot went crying to qtg about this vote.
>I dont want to be meanie wanie and kill people :(
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>>5083654
Lol.
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>>5083654
Nah, the worst part is
>muh meta knowledge
We are literally a fucking guardsman, that we haven't chimped out and beat her to death with the rusty pipe for being a traitor to the emprah already makes us more reasonable than the majority of people in the imperium.
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Moral compunctions aside, I thought players might consider recruiting her because of her insider knowledge and the fact she knows the locations of valuable weapon caches out in the ruins.
Anyway looks like execute won the vote ez, I'll write the update later.
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>>5083692
So be it, though we should have attacked her last turn since I don't like the idea of tricking her to be defenseless AND THEN kill her
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>>5083654
Ahahah
>>5083692
I hope we make it quick so she doesn’t realise what’s happening. A guardsman has to do what he has to do, but there’s already enough suffering in the dark grimness of the 40-somethingth millennium.
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>>5082753
Recruit her
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>>5083713
Why are you namefagging?
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"Emperor, forgive me."
You pick up the knife gripping it tightly.
"The Emperor protects the faithful."
You cut her throat. The end was swift.
You climb up the ladder nearby into the light...

"Have you finished writing your report, Gue'la?"
Shas'la Tash leans over the desk expectantly.
"Yes alien, I take these matters seriously. Now, are we finished here?"
The fire warrior gets out his holochron.
"It is my duty to inform you" he says reading off his device, "Feliciations Gue'Cas, your demerits have been removed and your social debt to Tau has been paid. 10 merits have been deposited in your account."
"Ten? Are you serious?"
"Do not interrupt! - Thank you for your service, loyal citizen. Stand tall and take pride in the your humble role in todays victory."
"Wait, what happened. Did you finish them all off? Did you find any leads on their co-conspirators?"
(The place Maiya took you wasn't even the main base the ratlings told you about. And their leader Gallius is probably still alive. Who knows how many more cultists are lurking under the city, and in plain sight.)
"That is the concern of the Fire Caste, human. You may now return to your habitation unit."

>Press him for info
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
>leave
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>>5083800
>Press him for info
Need to know MORE, also ask if it's possible to attain tau armaments through social credits
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>>5083800
>Press him for info
how did things went against the psyker?
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>>5083800
>leave
Trying to press him for info is just going to end badly, he's some dumb grunt. We can hand the info to an fire caste that isn't an brainwashed retard - we know those exist, with how often they defect to the Farsight Enclaves.
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>>5083820
> Support.
There's no need to play our cards right this second.
We can take some time to plan and observe how the situation develops - see what moves the Tau make and how the cult responds.
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>>5083800
>leave
Whatever xenos nigger.
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>>5083824
The Tau aren't stupid. Out of their depth, yes, but not stupid. They wouldn't have survived this long if they were. The problem is that we're stuck dealing with the low-level retards. It'd be like having to deal with manufactorum slavedrivers and low-level tech priests.

What we need is to find an tau who isn't retarded. I mean, there was an Human who managed to climb the Tau ranks enough to get a custom Crisis Suit.
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>>5083800
>>Press him for info
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>>5083800
>Press him for info
>ask about the Tau policy on gun ownership (use our concern about being targeted by heretics as an excuse)
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You fucking morons, pressing him for info will just get us demerits. We just got them removed.
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>>5083800
>leave
We are just some random human, there is no way they will share their info.
And giving them info will just get us in trouble.
We will just have to keep an eye on the cult ourselves.

For what it's worth, our newfound good standing with the Tau would probably be useful to a great deal of people, we could capitalise on that to make contacts.
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>>5083800
>leave
We can give him more info when we find out on our own or leave anonymity message
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>>5083800
>leave
he wont tell us anythign else
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>>5083884
Who gives a shit. Stopping a fucking cultist cell isn't even enough for goddamn flowers.
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>>5083900
>they didn't give us what we deserve, so we should kill yourselves
retard
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We probably got less merits because they listened to our conversation with Maiya
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>>5083912
If they cared about it, they wouldn't have given us any merits at all. What's happening here is that we're dealing with some low-level grunt who probably doesn't even know the importance of what we did.
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>>5083800

>leave
Contact the ratlings as soon as you can.
Tell them to go and scout/scavenge the cultist base that the fire caste cleared (if the tau are there they will leave eventually and there are a ton of weapons and secret passages in there. We need weapons and explosives.
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>>5083919
Ah yes, using weapons infected by chaos. Great idea, my dude.
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>>5083930
Cry
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>>5083930
More
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>>5083930
Faggot
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
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Samefaggotry?
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>>5083986
Where?
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>>5083986
Yes, those posts are all a single samefag. Literally 1 minute apart from each other.
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>>5083994
You only say it's samefaggotry because you don't like the result.
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>>5083995
Oh, spare me. Several votes of the same type, all 1 minute from each other, all with "1 ID by this post"?
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>>5083995
You're not even being subtle
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>>5083997
Check your math if you think those are all 1 minute from each other. And 1 post IDs were fine in the previous vote. Why not now?
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>>5083800
i would like to
>leave
as soon as possible
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
I would like to tell him everything
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>>5083999
>get salty people picked the option you didnt like
>spam
That's pretty fucking pathetic.
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Just report the seething retard and ignore his spam, he didnt even try to hide it
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>>5084003
>admit you samefagged the option you liked
>project
That's pretty fucking pathetic.
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>>5084006
Suuure, anon. Everyone who picks an option you dont like samefaggee. Have you considered spamming votes on a make believe story wont make her love you? Are you really that mad we didnt whiteknight for a slaaneshi cultist?
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>>5084009
>>5083930
no u
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>>5083800
>Leave
We can look elsewhere and put together the pieces. I'm pretty sure that we won't like what we find, though.
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
We can tell him and get more good boy points.
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This is just sad. QM, consider just ignoring the flurry of obvious "1 post by this id" samefagging
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>>5084029
QM, don't listen to this 1 post id. He just hates democracy
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>>5084029
By the way, i'm >>5084009 with a phone, that should be obvious
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>>5084033
Of course. A phone that keeps posting "1 post by this id" votes.
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>>5084030
Ah yes, the suddeb influx of 20 new IPs voting for what you want.
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>>5084036
Except i'm obviously not voting. Why would i switch if i was not voting but replying? Retard.
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>>5084037
But is fine when it's new ips voting for what you want, right?
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>>5084039
Yes, yes, you didn't vote with this specific 1 post id. How about all the previous ones? Do you think you're being subtle?
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>>5084041
I'm not the one who had a dozen IPs come to vote for what i wanted in a short period of time.

Crying and spamming will not bring your slaaneshi bitch again
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>>5084043
You mean the ones voting for what you want?

Its prettty obvious you're just trying to ruin the quest and get QM to quit because you're salty we killed your waifu, faggot.
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>>5084000
>>5084012
>>5084049
How about these two, or all the previous ones voting for what you want? You're ok with those, right?
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>>5084046
Why are you lying anon? Everyone can see you samefagged to execute that "slaaneshi bitch"
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>>5084051
You mean the ones that conveniently started after your chimpout?
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>>5084052
An samefag who reveals himself? Very logical, bro.
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>>5084058
No one said you're smart man.
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>>5084029
OP should take the ones that have explanations on them and aren't just the choice.
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
It's gonna be better in the long run if we pretend to go along.
>>5084063
I agree
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>>5084063
There s a clear point in time where the retard started spamming. Just ignore the 1 ID retards after that.
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>>5084051
don't associate me with your shitty arguments
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>>5084083
That's a good idea too. QM should do both.
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>>5084083
Well, if they want to validate their votes they can link back to their old posts, no?

Just gotta engage the StV anti-faggotry measures.
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>>5083800
> Offer to trade him for info

His reply hurts our feelings. We just did a major service, 10 merit points worth, but it feels like he doesn't trust us at all. Honestly, what's the point of merits if Tau like him are still prejudiced against us.

If he shared info with us, like on other possible cultists, then we can maybe put some dots together for them.

But if they're still gonna treat us like this, we'll have to file a complaint to their Commissar equivalent.
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>>5084093
That could work
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>>5083891
This is an underrated comment. We gotta start getting authourity then sharing the wealth. For the Greater Good (of Mankind).
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
The Tau just heard us say we're executing a heretic for the Emperor. Not for The Greater Good. We need to wash that stain.
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>>5082953
In a non-meta way what kind of propaganda do you think exists in the Imperium regarding the evils of the Tau? Not to mention the alluded to "re-education camps", ain't no Imperial gonna think anything but the worst of those seeing as they have servitors back home.
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>>5084103
We turned off the wire for that bit.

>>5084100
> Tau Fire Warrior gets visions of HR review for discrimination in the workplace

We can also get kicked up the chain of command if they're unreasonable. Say that we might have more info but we don't feel comfortable discussing it with such a hostile Tau, so can we see his commander.
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>>5084107
No we didn't. They heard everything. I'm surprised we're not looking at a reeducation camp from the inside actually.
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>>5083800
>leave
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>>5083800
>leave
This guy has nothing.
Also, goddamn this autist is salty lmao.
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
Best thing to do now
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>>5083800
Actually, I’m gonna change my vote from >>5084122 to
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
We should also tell blue lady about “our” findings if this grunt ignores us for whatever reason.
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>>5084112
Well that was retarded then.
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>>5083800
Changing my vote to leave. We can give the info to someone else other than this asshat.

>>5083697
Just saw this, but we gave her a chance for redemption spiritually, so there's that.
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I did not expect someone would sperg out over one fucking Slaneeshi cultist
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>>5084130
It really was. Might as well have shouted FOR THE EMPEROR and attacked this foul xeno in front of us, if we were that suicidally devoted to the Emperor's Creed. Suffer not the Xeno to live and all that.
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>>5084140
White Knights are sad.
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>>5084190
Not as sad as retards who think they're doing the Emperor's work while serving the fucking Tau.
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>>5084193
Yeah it's sad how they'll larp as a commissar when it's safe and then turn around and lick Tau boots without a second thought.
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
We gotta be honest. For the Greater Good.
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It's okay, boys. Our Blue Bird will help us through this dark time. Beautiful, patriotic, shy, femenine maiden vs deamon worshipping whore probably fucked upwards of, say, five hundred guys? I think so.
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>>5084214
>Blue Bird
I wonder who could be behind this post.
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>>5083986
Massively.
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Well we should remove the wire then after this unless we want to use it to bait the Tau in the future.
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>>5084193
Yes anon, i do think that killing chaos cultists is doing the emperor's work. Would you rather die protecting some inbred cannibal highborn?
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>>5084107
No we didn't, there was no mention of us turning off the wire.
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>>5083692
I do feel a bit bad about Maiya, but the tattoos were a step too far. It would have been cool if she became a second PC or something.
>>5083800
Anyways, let's just leave. Pressing an apathetic fire warrior is going to get us back in shit with the Tau again. Telling him about Gallius will cause them to question how we got the information, and that either leads to us pulling stuff out of our ass or ratting out our ratling bros.
Also, anybody have a link to the previous thread on the archives?
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>>5084398
It's named Warhammer 40k Alien Occupation like this one
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>>5083930
well that's one of the drawbacks of qst if it's a majority vote, one dude with 5 devices gets the say unless it's like the first 3-5 posts that decide it like Mrculexus quests
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>>5083800
good luck counting those votes up OP lmao
anyway we should leave and regroup with the ratling boys, we need to sic them on that other suspicious lady from work
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> That entire autistic shit-flinging contest
Geez. My condolences OP.
You really don't deserve this.
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>>5084499
I disagree. He deserves worse
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>>5083829

agree on this,we need to climb the tau star case of influence,actually talk with a major grade tau from any of the castes
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>>5083800
Holy fuck this went downhill fast
>leave
We need a better plan to deal with the Chaos Cult proper.
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>>5084274
Yeah you're right. Killing cultists and working for the Tau are both the emperor's work.
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
For the emperor!
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
>>5084614
What anon said. We should climb the ladder fast.
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>>5083938
>>5083939
>>5083940
kys retard
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Ratling waifu?
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
Leave without getting anything? Are you guys retarded?
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>>5084746
Ethereal waifu
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>>5084751
Wouldn't she stink of methane, especially when secreting pheremones?
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>>5084664
The Tau will help us deal with the filthy cultists
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>>5084752
By the emperor, imagine the smell
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>>5084752

>sex high on drugs and emotions

tho ideally i want to yeet into space like a tau equivalent of a rogue trader

the imperium sucks and the tau empire is better but is too restraining on freedoms for my liking
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
Ethereal waifu when?
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>>5084757
The only real way to have T'au level comfort/tech and more freedom would be to join the Enclaves, they even have a human planet.
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>>5083800
Gonna (You) you again OP but any measures to deal with samefagging or is it just gonna be whoever has the most IP's get to decide what to do. Look at the post from >>5083930 to >>5083978. If last action was samefagged and this action is samefagged then it might be worth thinking about how to remedy this or not, up to you tho
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Doesn't ID use the router IP address so multiple devices (phone, laptop, desktop) on the same network will all have the same ID?
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>>5084877
Testing to see if I get a different IP, I’m this guy>>5084807. I’m no hackerman but phone shenanigans is an easy thing to use
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Okay regarding the controversy and samefagging accusations. I believe:
Multiple devices on the same network share the same public IP address and thus share the same 4chan ID.
You can change your Public IP and get a new 4chan ID but you can't change it back (Your ISP assigns you your public IP address)
So I could just rule that only votes from IDs that existed before the vote opened will be counted. (I can check this easily by highlighting a vote's ID and ctrl+f to see if it's the first match.)

Pros:
-Samefags are limited to 2 IDs per vote, 1 from their Router and 1 from their phone's Mobile Network (unless they own multiple routers or mobile data plans)
-players don't have to put in any effort
-very easy for OP to implement

Cons:
-The first vote in a new thread is still fully vulnerable to samefagging
-Newcomers to the thread don't get to vote until after they've posted ITT
-Samefags get to vote twice with impunity

Am I wrong in my thinking somewhere? Anyway that^ is what I'm planning on for now.
I will apply this to the Maiya vote, and will consider a retcon if the recruit vote wins.

Aside from that I think I'm going to take a break from updating the quest for the rest of the work week. (ie: I'll update again after 3 days)
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>>5084894
You do you OP.
>>5083745
This is why I'm namefagging.
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>>5084894
Seems ok, we'll see. We don't need to redo anything since you already drew and wrote the outcome, just worried about future actions since samefags sucks out the fun out of the quest.
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>>5084894
Could ask us to adopt names and establish ourselves, plus at the start of a thread, we can just shoot the shit and talk about stuff to get the Post ID numbers up.
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>>5084894
This is about as optimal as it gets. 2 votes isn't enough to swing a vote, often, and the very nature of samefags (especially the guy losing his shit and samefag flooding the thread to try and kill the game and the QMs desire to run it) means that they can't stand losing votes so eventually they just leave.

It's like an antibiotic, it runs the course over a period of time, it's not an instant cure.

Look at how well it worked for StV and BCQ: Space Boogaloo
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>>5084917
> respond to samefagging with namefagging

Why would you do this. Please no, that never turns out well.
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>>5084894
Bruh I am actually very happy with the way you wrote the outcome.

I am just worried that since everyone got all worked up about the cultist, people forgot to vote to turn off the damn wire.

Even then I'm actually pretty okay with it because if anything the Tau will know we have a bottom line in common, and that we're willing to work with them to achieve limited goals. Way less difficult than trying to be all about the Tau suddenly, instead they have a starting point to approach us in order to turn us.
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>>5084894
I have 5 phones and 3 computers. If I was retarded enough to samefag, I'd still have 16 votes.
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>>5084917
This is easily the best option. You can separate real players and samefags if everyone uses a trip.
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I already mentioned it but what about only the first 5 replies or even 3 decides the action since samefagging occurs after a while to swing the vote. Could even combine the trip idea into it or paragraph/opinion with the action idea
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>>5084945
>>5084932
Not a fan of using names but if it solves the problem of samefagging which I think is more harmful to questing than using temporary names then its okay.
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>>5084943
Who the fuck has 5 phones.
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>>5084963
desu I think you can also just have like 20 simcards and it'd work the same way
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>>5084943
> 3 computers, still one IP.

Just get a vpn or use a proxy at that point. Geeze.
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>>5084894
Well, there's a thing OP, what about people who change their ID every day? This is what happens to me - everyday, my IP changes location, so i get a new ID.
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>>5084963
People with separate work phones, personal phones, business phones.
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>>5084965
I assumed 3 computers running different vpns and having 1 IP each.
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>>5084963
Could use family or siblings phones.
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>>5084971

Oh yeah I didn't even think of VPN. Yes Free VPNs are banned on 4chan but paid VPN accounts aren't.
Normally you'd get one ID per network but with a VPN you could have 1 persistent ID for each server on the VPN, basically unlimited
I guess my method won't work well then, since a samefag can just use a paid VPN account to maintain multiple IDs.
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>>5083800
>tell him the intel the ratlings found
Xin jin Pooh would be proud if he was here.
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>>5084896
You namefag because you like to suck dick, you kike?
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>>5084989
I mean, assuming Anon cares enough to do so.

Like I said it worked for the biggest and most shitposty recent quests, Sworn To Valour and Black Company Quest 2099 or whatever that number is.
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>>5084945
>>5084989
Tripfagging is no better. Nor is namefagging, since Anon still just has ro use the IP and make up a trip/name.

Just require anchor votes or a persistent ID. Not like that's hard to get, even with a phone, so long as you go outside once in a while.

Samefags usually do it because samefagging is so low effort and easy.

Also 4cha blocks a lot of paid as well as free VPNs.

To sum up, don't worry too much about it. Taufag is probably one missed neetbucks payment away from necking themselves, and when they do I only hope they stream it for our entertainment.
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Dol you shouldn't retcon any posts you submitted. That's a sign of a dying quest. Own it and adjust for samefags in the future if you have to.
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>>5084989
Samefags are the ones crying about trips. Ignore them
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Imagine if the cultist came back as a demon.
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>>5085967
Not really possible at this point
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>>5085213
I namefag because I want to and there's nothing you can do against that.
Now, I won't take the low quality bait anymore.
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>>5085728
Oh please.
Namefags and tripfags are widely despised across every board for good reason.
While this may be one of the few fringe circumstances where the use names and trips are justified, that doesn't change the fact the name/tripfags are attention-starved homosexuals deserving of nothing but eternal scorn.
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>>5086223
I mean, the problem is that it doesn't do anything to prevent samefagging that an anchor post wouldn't do.

The only thing you can do is make samefagging more difficult, not impossible.
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As long as anon voting exists, samefagging will persist.
/qst/ is dying because veteran QMs eventually realise they're writing only for the biggest retard on the board and leave for greener pastures.
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>>5086280
That and anonkun is tailor made for quests
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>>5086088
Are you the QM?
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>>5086604
No, I'm the QM.
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>>5086621
No, im the qm
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>>5086635
Look at me. I am the QM now.
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>>5086604
>>5086621
>>5086635
>>5086637
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>>5086674
helo
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>>5086674
Meow
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>>5086158
That's a weird way of spelling "I am a nigger. I suck dicks, you can see more on Reddit where I post myself sucking cock."
I accept your surrender though.
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>>5087548
>That's a weird way of spelling "I am a nigger. I suck dicks, you can see more on Reddit where I post myself sucking cock."
>I accept your surrender though.
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update?
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>>5087718
No
Quest ded
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>>5086280
Oh please. Even on forums where everyone has to login has samefags.
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Okay for now, we'll just go on as normal. Hopefully samefagging won't be a serious issue in the future, but if it ramps up again I'm going to try the "Only votes from IDs that existed before the vote opened will be counted." thing
(Oh yeah, obvs I didn't count those 8 identical 1postbythisID posts that appeared 1 minute apart)

I'm reluctant to do it right now because all these votes would get nixed for this update:
>>5083879
>>5083897
>>5083965
>>5084000
>>5084001
>>5084012
>>5084015
>>5084075
>>5084096
>>5084103
>>5084198
>>5084398
>>5084736
>>5084742
>>5084748
>>5084758

Skipping those, the vote is won by >Leave
Including those the, vote is a tie between Leave and >Tell him the info
I'll give priority to Leave as the tie-breaker
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[You now have 16 merits and 0 demerits]

Tash obviously doesn't want to cooperate. And by the Emperor, neither do you.
The Fire Caste is at least aware of the cults existence now, they're no inquisitors but you expect they will at least systematically exterminate them. Without a word you exit the outpost and begin the walk home.

You lie awake on your bed in the middle of the night when suddenly you hear the sound of Imperial ordnance. The rythmic zapping of lasfire, the shock of krak missiles, the hiss of plasma. Peering out the window you see human warriors rampaging through the streets. Cultists. Suddenly banging on your bedroom door, Wisby's voice comes from the other side "We're dead meat Chief! The Chaos cult is going all in!" A noisy announcement starts playing on your Holochron, you recognize the face of Ethereal Aun'vre Kass speak "People of Tau'va. The city is under attack by armed and dangerous Gue fanatics! Remain in your homes. Engage all security protocols. Do not open your doors for any human. Do not attempt to communicate with any human. Do n-"

>You need to get somewhere safe
>We must fight for the Emperor!
>An opportunity to acquire some valuables
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
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>>5088748
>An opportunity to acquire some valuables
Lets go nick some stuff
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>>5088748
>>We must fight for the Emperor!
>After all, we own a lasgun. Let's go Wisby, I'm pretty sure you and your friend are amazing marksmen. Let's Shoot and Scoot
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>>5088748
>You need to get somewhere safe
We need to find somewhere to bunker down. Playing Astartes will do us no good and chimping out to loot will just make an enemy of both Tau and heretic. Ask Wisby if he knows any good spots for Imperial loyalists or fuck off to a Tau centre
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>>5088771
Oh and call blueberry to make sure she hasn't been SLANEESHed.com
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
These dudes are a bad bunch, threatening all our other fellows.
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
This attack seems too big to be a final act of desparation, so they're probably trying to seize power. I definitely don't want to live in a demon world. Let's operate together with Wisby and attempt to target the heretic leadership and infrastructure - he probably has a better idea where their hideouts and ammo caches might be than the Tau.

Cooperation with the Tau seems to be right out. The Ethereal has ordered a lockdown and to not communicate with any humans. I'm pretty sure that any human ignoring this curfew will be treated harshly or shot on sight. Definitely if they're armed or resist in any way.
It's time to build our own budget inquisitorial strike team and target the linchpin of this assault.
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>>5088780
>target the lynchpin of this assault
we have no idea where it is and who is the mastermind of this uprising, and that's not even taking into account that we're just a lone guardsman who is admittedly pretty good with a lasgun
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
FOR THE EMPEROR MEN!
If Wisby doesn't want to fight then let's go join him in fighting, otherwise time to fuck up some heretics.
>>5088789
Well it's probably the guy that Wisby told us about.
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>>5088789
We know the former Administratum is the hodbed of heresy. Wisby collected this intel for us, and in doing so probably found out some more relevant things he didn't tell us right away. He also has connections to various of Imperial remnants and resistance groups, and with the new information, should be able to decide which ones are probably heretics and which are loyal and willing to lend a hand. Linking up with the latter should be our first concern. I'm pretty certain most cults have painted themselves as resistance groups fighting for mankind after the occupation, so the actual Imperial resistance probably knows them quite well. They almost certainly didn't know that they are heretics, but in light of the new info, it might click that "That group that always seemed a bit off" is a cult.
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
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Hmm...i have to say, it kinda makes things hard for me since votes usually come when i'm asleep and i got an new IP every day, but, if we still have that lasgun, we should use it to murder any cultists we come across. Maybe murder that administratum fuck.

We should call tolku, though. She's been nothing but nice to us, so we should try to see if she's safe.
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>>5088748

>You need to get somewhere safe
Tell Wisby that we need a SECRET base of operations.
We need guns and supplies, hide until the Tau purge them( I think they will deal with them,first of they have superior firepower and numbers. Secondly even they admitted that the followers of the " chaos religious faction" cannot be reasoned with ).
Take up arms though, it is a literal warzone out there.
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!

We're in the human slums, yes? Clearly we must rally our fellow humans. Get some to form a defensive line, while the children and ill are withdrawn to a protected location. Make sure to watch out for Cult infiltrators, maybe we can have them recite a prayer to the Emperor to prove they aren't Cultists.
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>>5088748
>An opportunity to acquire some valuables

Let the cultists and tau wipe each other out.
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>>5088748
>>You need to get somewhere safe
we need to meet up with more Imperial loyalists instead of LARPing as Sly Marbo.
Also
>Give T'olku a call to see if she's okay.
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>>5088748
> We must fight for the Emperor
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
CHAAARGE!
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>>5088748
>We must fight for the Emperor!
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>>5088748
>>We must fight for the Emperor!
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>>5088748
>An opportunity to acquire some valuables
Weapons!
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>>5088737
Modern forums check ip and device ID for every login, so sockpuppets get auto banned.
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>>5088839
We ARE counting all votes including new ID votes for now. Apologies for ambiguity
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>>5088748
>You need to get somewhere safe
While also looking for some valuables along the way
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>>5088748
>You need to get somewhere safe
>We must fight for the Emperor!
In that order. We're not gonna do fuck all with just our limp dicks. Wisby is conniving motherfucker, I'll be he knows some place we can go hideout in and gather up some allies and make a plan. And maybe go make sure our blueberry isn't about to be captured by heretics or something.

Regarding the IP thing, I am this >>5075491 anon. I will only ever be using this ID from now on. Unless something remarkably catastrophic happens to my router or some shit.
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>>5088870
This guy has a point. That emergency broadcast stated not to trust any humans at all. I'll bet the T'au don't give two fucks about the non-heretical humans out there. We should probably do something to get people to safety. But that also coincides with my last post. We won't be helping anybody until we get some manpower and a plan.
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>>5089597
Humans gotta look out for each other. We should make sure though, to emphasize that we're just getting non-combatants out of the way and frame it as more of a "citizens rescue" operation than an incipient militia.

I bet it'll work better on the Tau with their caste roles than with other humans suspicious about any large gathering of people even tangentially related to combat.

Because, hey, we're just laying the ground for community. A community that looks out for each other, protects each other, and worships the God Emperor together awaiting the day when they can return this world to his light. Totes innocent stuff.
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>>5088748
>An opportunity to acquire some valuables
I want to steal a mech suit
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>>5088748
>You need to get somewhere safe
Fighting can come later. We need to meet up with Wisby's crew and secure a base of operations first.
Also, we should find Tolku and bring her along. She might be able to talk down any Fire Warriors that mistake us for cultists.
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>>5090208
this. We should at least call our tardwrangler to make sure she's alright
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>>5088748
>You need to get somewhere safe
>Check on T’olku
Set up a defensive position. The railings should have a good idea of where to go. If not, we can always try to hide out in our secret gym.
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>>5088748
>You need to get somewhere safe
Run, run like hell
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You rush out of your bedroom.
"Settle down Wisby. We are the Imperial Guard. We've got to stand and fight this heresy."
"I don't know about that Chief, we got no formation, no armour, no numbers, no nothin."
"We don't need all that. We just need to defend this Hab block and its human inhabitants from the cultists."
"Well, if the good Emperor wills it. I'll go down to the Rat's nest and get our weapons."
"Good. Meet me in the mess."
After Wisby is out of an earshot, you get your holochron out of your pocket and dial T'olku. To your surprise she quickly picks up the call. "Cas Vaede! Oh goodness. Are you hurt? Ooooh I should not have answered. The noble Ethereal said we are not to communicate with humans."
"I'm alright T'olku", you reply, "What about you, are you safe?"
"We Tau are safe; the Shas are withdrawing to protect the middle city area. But I fear they are leaving the humans in the outer city to fend for themselves. Cas, you need to get out of there!"
"Don't worry about me Por'la T'olku. The Emperor protects." You hang up the phone and dash to the cafeteria. Some of the braver occupants are already here with whatever arms they could gather. Wisby should be here with your Lasgun any second now. You need a plan to protect the civilians.

>Hunker down and weather the storm
>Retreat into the underground
>Evacuate into the middle city
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
We can make a fighting retreat if it gets too dicey, also affirm our numbers and arms if possible to set up some decent defensive positions. I doubt the Tau will check if we're not cultist before shooting us if we went to the middle city so our best bet is to defend the block if it's the closest bastion we have
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>>5091218
+1
May Dorn help us
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
We should rely on this defensive position that we know the terrain of rather than retreating somewhere that is probably swarming with cultists, we probably won't be able to convince everyone to come with too, strength in numbers and all that.
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
May Dorn and his Fists bless our defenses
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>>5091210
>Hunker down
FORTIFY
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
FORTIFY

We should also consider keeping something in case the shas arrive so they won't think we're cultists.
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>>5091218
supporting
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>>5091210
> Hunker down and weather the storm
Perhaps we ought to deliver an uplifting sermon to the assembled humans, something about the glory of mankind and the Emperor's everlasting providence.
Just to keep morale steady and get everyone in the mood to smite some filthy heretics.
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
Dorn be with us.
That stairwell behind us looks like a good fall-back position if we get overrun and can keep the heretics out until we need it. We should set up choke points, invalidate their numbers advantage as much as possible.
Maybe Wisby or his other rattling pals can take the top floors and alert us if the cultists try alternate entrance routes like vents or simply blowing holes in the walls.
What kind of armoury do we currently have, QM?
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
Completely barrage and fill up passage ways doorways. Windows and vents of the first two floors with only small firing slits open.
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm

We must reinforce this position! I wonder if we can have a couple ratlings establish a fallback position in the tunnels, though? Just in case.
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>>5091210
>Cas Vaede! Oh goodness. Are you hurt? Ooooh I should not have answered. The noble Ethereal said we are not to communicate with humans."
you aight blue girl
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>>5091210

>Hunker down and weather the storm
Gather every able person. Tell them that the Tau abandoned them and the only way to survive is to defend this place in the name of the Emperor.
Do not go to the upper floors,if they get in we need to move undergound otherwise we trap ourselves.

Tell the ratlings that take up defensive positions undergound, the heretics probably have acces and knowlegde of the undergound network.
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>>5091485
She really loves us.
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>>5091691
She genuinely just broke an Aun's orders. This is more than just her trying really hard on the job.
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>>5091797
>Slaaneshi gigawhore who could make you cum with 2 fingers offers you anything you could ever want
>NO WAY FAG
>blue tardwrangler doesn't ghost you
>BY THE EMPEROR YES
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
Could we get a tally on our equipment, combatants and non-combatants? That drone could be pretty good for recon and we should get one for ourselves from the Rat's Nest's armory if they're in stock.
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>>5091797
>>5091905
> Would you rather eat rancid, AIDS-laced elephant dung or black mold infested asbestos drywall?
Both of these options are about as far as you can possibly get from an acceptable romantic partner and both of you are giga-faggots for implying otherwise.
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>>5091210
>Hunker down and weather the storm
>Get bricks and craft the 2 poor man's deadliest weapons : half brick in a sock and a sling to throw half bricks made out of sock
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>>5091905
This but unironically

She broke the other of an ethereal just to speak with us. You don't know enough 40k if you don't realize how rare this is. The only times when stuff like this happens is when they join the Farsight Enclaves

Blueberry girl is CUTE
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(I finish drawing the updoot but since I'm sleepy I'll finish writing it tomorrow)
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>>5092463
Sweet dreams qm.
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I hate you Dolomite, where is Seekr Quest 2, fuck you! fuck you!
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>>5092463
Hm, that entrance with the corridor would make a good choke point for those two guys manning the emplacement gun. We should stack some tables in front of it and create a funnel. We’d have to watch for grenades from the windows, though. Can we destroy a table or two and use the fragments to board up the ground-level windows?
That door on the other side of the room should be barricaded as sturdily as possible. We should restrict their entry points as much as possible to concentrate what little firepower we have.
We should also think about melee weapons that can poke through barricades, preferably resembling spears. We’re going to run out of gun food eventually.
We also need to be aware of the tunnel entrance. It may be a potential escape route, but the heretics know about it too and could use it as a flank path. I say we assign someone to guard it and, should we ever need to, retreat up the stairs rather than down them. At least we know there are no cultists in the building, and the goal isn’t to win or escape so much as hold out until the Shas get their asses in gear and save us.
Sleep well, QM.
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>>5092463
Sweet dreams are made of QMs
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>>5092463
>check the basement to see if heretics could come up from there, if so then it needs to be barricaded off
>turn the entryway into a bottleneck so any daemonfucker gets a face full of lasgun the second they step through the doorway
>take the noncombatants and put them in the back room (with the sink)
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>>5092463
I count 2 shovels, 2 sticks, 2 crowbars, 2 laspistols, 3 lasrifles, 1 drone and I think an autocannon?
Anyways, this anon >>5092491 has some good ideas. We should board up the windows with the tables and barricade the back door. I propose dragging that yellow cooler in front of it and having a few melee guys stand guard.
We also need to scout out the lower floor, preferably with the drone. It's either our escape route or the main entrance for cultist insurgents. The drone looks like it's got weapons, so it should be able to hold its own against a cultist or two and not raise suspicions from any Tau recon parties down there.
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>>5092868
>>5092491

What these two said.
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>>5092463
Can I assume this is correct?
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>>5092972
We should get the ratlings upstairs as snipers upstairs. Better field of vision and when the structure is breached the stairs bypass the main floor so they can provide covering fire while we retreat to the tunnels.

Also we should pile up a bunch of burnable shit by the stairwell to torch the structure behind us in the case of a retreat
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>>5092972
Shit missed one CRUCIAL stick boy

Okay, I'm going to assume we have no time to barricade the windows and doors so I'm employing my flash game last stand tactics. With the tables we create a line barrier, the back will consist of the MG, the slugger rattling on a box or something, Us and the other guardsmen providing further support. The front line will be made up of the brave block inhabitants, they will provide melee support so that the backline is safe. The northern(?) door will be protected by the Drone and the 2 autogun rattlings since it's just a close quarter gun battle, there's more dudes at the north to support the drone and rattlings in case it gets too hot and if shit hits the fan we'll make an organized retreat underground(we might have to ditch the MG tho)
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>>5092972
yeah, but the rats got laspistols not autoguns
also you have 2 stick (very important)
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>>5092996
Can we send the Tau drone underground to scout out the best escape route?
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>>5093000
ahh my bad, hopefully that doesn't obstruct my plan
>>5093008
Depends if the attack isn't too bad, if it's safe enough to spare the drone then sure. Id rather send one of the rattlings though since I'm a bit iffy on the drones allegiance
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>>5093009
>putting the civvies with melee weapons right in the FoV of the heavy stubber
based meat grinder chad
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>>5093008
the drone seems smart enough to distinguish cultists from "gue'vesa" (or possibly it just distinguishes intruders from residents via their holochron) but you can't control it. The drone seeing you possess illegal weapons is a concern, but fighting chaos is more important right now.
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>>5093014
I'm not going to lie, sometimes there will be sacrifices, (I assume the melee dudes will be ducking down and will only attack if the cultist get too close)
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>>5093014
I mean, would you rather have them shooting in the guardsmen in melee?
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>>5092996
Why wouldn't we have time to barricade? We aren't a high profile target.

We can barricade the windows and set up a killzone at the door with the melee dudes flanking in case anyone gets through the door/windows.
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>>5093156
Dismantling furniture for wood and finding materials will take a considerable amount of time, the OP hasn't written the scenario yet so I'm assuming they could just be right around the corner and it would spell bad news if we were caught off guard while setting up barricades. I just propose the quickest defensive measure that involves just moving some turned over tables, I don't even know if the drone even moves under our commands so I took that to account too.
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> Suddenly the /qst/ metamorphized into a psudo-skirmish.
Fucking rad.
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Can we please improve sticks by tying half-brick in socks on the top? Making them flail could greatly improve damage output and thus survivability of our stickmen.
If we lack half-bricks, we can maybe put some full cans or whatever
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>>5093325
Why do you want hobo flails so badly? Flails are hard to use and people without training are just as likely to brain themselves or a buddy as they are the person they’re trying to hit. Better to give them pointy sticks that can thrust through gaps in barricades and be used effectively in narrow corridors.
Phalanx worked for the Romans and it’ll damn we’ll work for us.
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>>5093343
Because I love Terry Pratchett. If an half-brick in a sock is enough to defeat the worst magical threat of the last millenial, good enough to bash some cultist skulls in.
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>>5092463
Seriously though, this style of illustration is really slick QM.
The more I look at it the more I'm inspired to learn how to replicate it.
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>>5092996
I feel damn uncomfortable about all those windows. A few guys with guns could suppress us from the outside, and a grenade or molotov would fuck us up badly.

This looks like a canteen with a food counter, so there's bound to be a few sharp knives lying around. Duck tape those to the sticks to make ghetto spears, and hand the rest out as backup melee weapons. Main goal for the melee guys is to keep any attackers at a distance, spears are perfect for that. The broom in the back room should be turned into stick-spear #3.

Toss the chairs in front of the entrances to create difficult terrain and slow down the heretics. Also, can we lock the doors or sabotage them shut? Simply cutting their power might already buy us a few minutes.
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>>5093393
We could put tables against the wall in front of the windows, and hammer them or tape them to it.
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>>5093346
As much as I hate to say it, we are a guardsman in 40K. Terry Pratchett is most definitely not backing us up here.
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"Not bad rats, I didn't expect you to have a heavy autogun stashed away."
Wisby tosses you your Lasgun, "Damned thing was too expensive to sell."
The guardsman to your side clutching his Tau holochron addresses you "You two are Imperial Guard right? The names Lant, I got guys on comms watching the windows on the 2nd floor, plus the back entrance and underground."
"Good man, patch us in." You pass your holochron to him.
You device is returned to you, you're now part of the comm chatter.
"Hello, main entrance here, all stations report in."
"This is Lo'taa street, all clear."
"Stern side, all clear."
"Aun'el Vash street, enemy sighted; range 300. approaching marching speed."
"Okay, Aun'el Vash. We're setting up the gun enplacement now."
Lant rushes up to you. "We need to lock down this area immediately, what's the plan?"

>Camp in the corner using the tables as cover
>Block the windows, point guns to the door
>Fortify and fire from the windows
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>>5093455
If we got lookouts keeping tabs outside then
>Fortify and fire from the windows
If they suddenly attack us
>Camp in the corner using the tables as cover
using this set up >>5092996
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>>5092483
>where is Seekr Quest 2
ooooh I'm not getting sucked into running a 3 year long fantasy quest again

>>5093369
>The more I look at it the more I'm inspired to learn how to replicate it.
Thanks mate. I basically just googled "isometric grid" and copy pasted one of them under my drawing layer. Just look up isometric perspective tutorial, ez
also check out my Chalco Civ for more of that style
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?searchall=chalco+civ
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>>5093460
>This but the the one firing from the windows are Rattlings, and on higher floors.
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Could we also ask Lant what regiment is he from or if he was part of the original PDF, maybe he knows where some spare imperial equipment caches are at.
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>>5093455
>Block the windows, point guns to the door
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>>5093455
> Fortify and fire from the windows
Might be able to draw them out onto a killing field and mop them up cleanly, assuming the space around the building isn't too cluttered.
Here's my suggested plan of action:
> Split into two teams. Smaller one on the ground, larger one on the higher floors.
> The ground team initiates combat by lightly spraying suppressing fire at the approaching heretics.
> Meanwhile the team stationed on the second floor hold their fire and line up shots, doing their best to remain undetected.
> When the cultists attempt to gain ground while the ground team reloads the team upstairs rains down death from their vantage point.
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>>5093455
>Block the windows, point guns to the door

>>5093465
Agreed. The upper floors may fire outside and whittle them down, but we have to dig in and bear the brunt of the assault. Us being able to shoot outside is not worth them being able to shoot inside. Block the windows, seal the doors if possible, and toss chairs and clutter in the entranceway.

A barricade only helps if the enemy is poorly armed and melee-heavy. Try to get a report on their general composition, how many and how well armed are they? That's absolutely essential to know. Also, the upper floors should hold fire until we're done fortifying or about to be attacked anyway. No need to draw attention before we're ready.
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>>5093490
Speaking of reloads, how much ammo and spare lasgun power packs do we have lying around? Do we even have any of the latter at all? Our lasgun is fine on a single pack for a few fights, but in an extended siege running out of charge will be a concern.
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>>5093455
Okay, we have just over three minutes until they arrive and I’ve been looking up various defence strategies from various time periods. Here are some good ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_strategies_and_concepts#Defensive_strategies
https://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-castles/defending-a-medieval-castle.htm

I say we
>Block the windows, point guns to the door
Windows are more numerous and difficult to watch. Setting up a choke at the long doorway means we have to watch far less entry points and can concentrate firepower. Besides, we always have the top-floor defenders to harry them from above so it’s not like we’ll lose the advantage of multiple positions just by fortifying the main entryway.
I also think we, Wisby and Lant should join the top-floor crew and take potshots before the enemy gets into range. When they get to the building we can head back down, but it would be a shame to waste our firepower just waiting when we could be taking free shots and thinning the herd. HOWEVER, we should use autoguns for sniping until the heretics figure out which building we’re in. Lasguns will give away our position immediately and I’d like to keep the cult confused as long as possible.
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>>5093455
>Fortify and fire from the windows
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>>5093343
> Half brick inna sock

The Sourcerer's nemesis since Rincewind showed that while magic is tricky, a half brick inna sock never lets you down.
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>>5093455
>Fortify and fire from the windows>>5093490
Although I like this if we cab d
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>>5093455
Can we siphon diluted promethium or petroleum from a kitchen unit? We could make fire bombs.
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>>5093455
>Block the windows, point guns to the door
Gotta get that kill box set up.
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>>5094338
>>5093455
Actually switching to this.

Security through obscurity, we don't want to be firing outside and drawing too much attention.
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>how much ammo and spare lasgun power packs do we have lying around?
The small arms have more than enough power/munitions. The Autogun might run out if overused.

>Can we siphon diluted promethium or petroleum from a kitchen unit? We could make fire bombs.
The kitchen uses xenos appliances and is fully electric.

>Could we also ask Lant what regiment is he from
Emron Minor 19th Regiment, (Emron Minor is the planet you are on right now)

>half-brick in socks
sure whatever, Cas has one in his inventory for the rest of this battle.

"Let's not wait for them to barge in. We should fire from the windows." you assert.
Lant replies "If you say so. Someone's got to take command. You a corporal?"
Wisby lightly punches your arm "He's a chief!"
Lant scratches his head "Uh Good enough. Lead on."
"Listen up everyone. Push up those tables to barricade the windows. Ratlings, Lant and Heavy Weapons team give cover fire from the upper floors. Hold fire on the Las Weapons until they find our location. The rest of us will stay in here, and make sure no one gets up those stairs."
The men spring into action and haul upstairs leaving yourself and the Tau gun drone the only ones with proper weaponry guarding the entrance. You Help the civies haul the tables blocking vision through the windows. Shortly after the heavy autogun and sluggers begin to fire. You shout into the 'chron "Hello. Main Entrance. Status report?"
One of the ratlings replies on the the line "Hello. Aun'el street. Chaos forces are pinned behind cover. Some have broken off and are coming to main entrance from the flanks, they got xenos withem watch out!"
With the earsplitting KRAK of a grenade the left door bursts open. With some cultists and some hideous sexy creature that you can only assume is a warp bourne daemon.

roll 1d100+13 (first 4 rolls count)
A roll of 60 is needed to dispatch an enemy before it harms anyone.
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>>5095622
FILL THAT DAEMONETTE WITH THE BLESSED DAKKA
FOR THE EMPEROR
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>>5095636
Oh wow, 60 exactly. Cool.
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>>5095622
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Rolled 21 + 13 (1d100 + 13)

>>5095622
As long as it's not a nat1 we are good
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>>5095622
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> 50% success rate
Not fantastic.
Brace for impact.
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>>5095696
Drone can pick up the slack as long as we get the daemonette
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>>5095696
Average is 61.25.
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>>5095713
> There are 4 hostiles.
> We rolled 4 dice.
> This quest hasn't once used an 'average of [x] rolls' system.
Put the pieces together.
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>>5095622
Do bit forget to yell your battle hymns praising the Emperor. His holy light shines upon all his followers be they baseline humans, the abhumans, the rare mutant, and even the xenos if they are true to his light.
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>>5095716
But...we have

Repeatedly, in fact. In this very thread. Scroll up.
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>>5095696
Look at it this way, we geeked half their forces at the door. Now we roll for combat hopefully, and they're outnumbered and outgunned for the first wave.

Plus we can loot their weapons, upgrading the survivors.
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Quick as lightning you shoot at each invader. You manage to drop two of the cultists. But the third and the daemon are too quick and rush in to attack. One of the civilians is shot down by the laspistol. "Another soul for Slaanesh!" He roars before the gundrone shoots him down. The Daemon, sprints forward and punctures your torso with it's razor sharp claw. You collapse backwards, with a searing pain boring through you. Not a second too soon, your allies brutalise the monster with their clubs. "Purge the alien!" "Kill the alien!" They snarl. Clutching your wound with one hand and your holochron in the other you report "Main entrance. Chaos forces eliminated. Losses: 1"
"Aun'el street, 5 more a minute away"
"Hey... you ain't hurt are you Chief?"
"Lo'taa street. 4 coming from the other side right now!"
You're hurt bad. You should probably get patch yourself up. With the hiss of melting plasteel you see the other door being broken down by lasguns.

>Apply first-aid ASAP
>No time, continue to fight injured
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(Merry Christmas lads, have a good one)

Your fortune: It's going to be a white Christmas!
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>>5096712
I would rather treat injuries AFTER a fight but if it's that bad to the point of passing out then
>>Apply first-aid ASAP
>>5096714
Merry Christmas qm

Your fortune: You're getting a lump of coal in your stocking!
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>>5096712
>No time, continue to fight injured
Someone grab the laspistol, and you guys get away from that door.
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP

Your fortune: You're on the nice list!
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP
Better than dying, i believe
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP
Merry Christmas to all anons.
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>>5096712

>Apply first-aid ASAP
Merry Christmas guys!
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>>5096712
>No time, continue to fight injured

Lasguns cauterize as they vaporize. Since it didn't immediately kill him, it must just be a flesh wound. He's conscious and talking, toss him the first aid kit and he can treat himself.
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP
DOCTOR! Are you sure this will work?!
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>>5096866
This! That's pretty clever.

>>5096712
Get a stim for the pain if we have any, set the laspistol to the lowest setting possible, test a shot against the floor to determine if its low enough to cauterize, then apply to your chest wound.
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP
Dying won't let us kill the enemies of man!

>>5096866
>Lasguns cauterize as they vaporize.
>The Daemon, sprints forward and punctures your torso with it's razor sharp claw. You collapse backwards, with a searing pain boring through yo
We've been stabbed by a Daemon claw, not hit with a Laspistol/Rifle. The other dude who was died
> "Main entrance. Chaos forces eliminated. Losses: 1"
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>>5096882
>>5096866
Never mind me, I am a retard. I understand how you meant it after I posted. Still prefer the medpack option. It is a Daemon wound so it's best we tend to it properly.
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>>5096866
> Support
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>>5096888
Just fucking pray it off, pussy.
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>>5097002
This.
> Once I served with two guardsmen during a mission to escort a critical supply convey to the front. One was convinced that he would perish during deployment meanwhile the other had a will of ceramite.
> One day, under the cover of a storm, a kommando raid hit us and the second man's stomach ended up getting shredded by an improvised orkoid grenade. After the odious xenos were repelled, the man's innards were shoved back into his torso and the wound sewn up. The following day he was back on patrol duty.
> The second man got a papercut from the wrapper of his munatorium-issue nutrient bar and died of multiple organ failure several days later.
> True story.
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP
Well we want to keep the blessing for as long as possible, if we're able to avoid using it here then that's good.
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>>5096888
Yeah sorry. I was pretty high.

Probably why I considered "shoot ourselves in the chest" as an option. A proper dressing would be good too.

But how metal would that be if lasgund could be used for cauterizing wounds?
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>>5096712
>>Shoot the demon a few times to make sure its dead for good
>>Apply first-aid ASAP
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>>5096712
Shouldnt the demon dematerialize after death, or was this either a heavily mutated human or a human posses demon? The latter would be impossible to defeat unless it was a stupidly weak demon.
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>>5097394
>Support
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>>5096712
>Apply first-aid ASAP
We're no good to anyone dead. You always serve the Emperor better while alive. Remember to chant our prayers to purge the vile thing's touch from our human form.

>>5097729
I imagine it was just a human with some warp "gifts." We may not strictly know the difference between the two.
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>>5096714
When will QM return?
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>>5100093
Okay okay,
Been busy with Holiday stuff
Quest resumes within 24 hours
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>>5100200
Merry christmases qm :DDD, glad to have you back.
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>>5100200
Check'd and deck'd
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You give the Daemon an extra shot to the skull to make sure it's dead. The carcass fades away into nothingness. Bizaare. Then you limp into the stairwell to patch yourself up. Holding your breath, you carefully angle your lasgun. Cauterising yourself with a lasbeam isn't exactly safe. The sound of the door crashing down roars from the next room, the shooting starts. You scorch the wound from the front and back, then bandage it with some kitchen cloth held tight by a knot.
"Hey catch!"
You catch something against your chest. A Painkiller. Looking up you see Wisby hurry down the stairs.
"Thanks Wis." You take the med, it quickly takes effect relieving some pain.
"Thought you sounded hurt." He grabs your hand and pulls you to your feet. "Let's finish this."
You rush out and join the defenders, the attackers are dead but your allies took some heavy losses as well.
Comm chatter shouts out "Fire warriors are hitting them from the other side, they're done for!"
You see the last wave of cultists that were approaching start to flee. Through an exposed sliver of window you see their main force is trapped between your Autogun and a hail of pulse rifles.

>Pursue and destroy the cultists
>Grab your contraband and flee
>Stand your ground
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>>5101077
>>Stand your ground
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>>5101077
>Stand your ground
We do not want to get caught between the Tau fireline and them. They don't really have a way of knowing whether we're friendly or no.

However, we need some way to avoid getting arrested for owning contraband.
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>>5101077
>Stand your ground
>Leave it to Wisby if he either wants to hide some of the equipment or not
poor bot bro
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>>5101077
>>Stand your ground
>>5101101
RIP, also support on the wisby hiding equipment.
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>>5101077

>Grab your contraband and Stand your ground
Tell Wisby and his friends to hide the autogun and all the better equipment and ammo, tell the others to stay ready.
We dont know if the fire warriors are willing/going to spare us, better to plan our escape too....
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>>5101117
> Support
Check the downed cultists. There may be survivors to interrogate or intel on the bodies.
We absolutely don't want to salvage any wargear for fear of chaotic corruption. Any texts taken off the cultists may also be saturated with memetic influences too, best to exercise caution.
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>>5101077
>Stand your ground
Tell someone with medical knowledge to double check if our casualties are actually dead. Look for a pulse.
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>>5101101
+1 to this but I imagine that the tau already know we got contraband since we had that drone with us and drones have cameras.
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>>5101101
F for the bot.
GR1-5HK4 was too pure for this world.

>>5101077
>Stand your ground.
Hello Mr Fire cast, my lasgun is part of my religious believe and we proved it was part of the greater good to arm and train civilians.
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>>5101077
>Stand your ground

Send the ratlings into the tunnels with the heavy autogun though
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>>5101077
>Grab your contraband and flee

Even if the firewarriors don't do anything at the moment, we will be marked as having weaponry and contraband, which will bring problems later unless the firewarriors totally don't care to report it.
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>>5101077
>Stand your ground
Have them hide the heavier ordinance. The heavy stubber and our personal lasgun. They probably already know we have the weapons. It's just a matter of how well we can convince them and whether or not they feel reasonable.

Worst case scenario, the only ones they can punish are us. Not the unarmed civilians in the rest of the hab.
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>>5101077
>Grab your contraband and Stand your ground
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>>5101719
Pretty much this.
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>>5101719
This.
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You toss your Lasgun to Wisby. "Hide the guns, it's the Shas."
"Way ahead of ya Chief" he holds his chron up to his mouth and says "Code Blue boys, scram!"
Wis disappears down the stairs with your gun, right as a team of Tau pathfinders rush inside.
They shout with their tinny alien voices "Human combatants! Lay down your weapons and surrender to the Greater Good. If you fail to comply; we will not hesistate to attack!"
The three men in front of you drop their pistols. Lant and the other men upstairs come down in surrender. The ratlings have all disappeared. More fire warriors start streaming in, buzzing and chatting to each other in their alien language. They start herding every human resident in the building into a large hovercraft. You and the other humans who took up arms are restrained and taken on a separate gunship. One dec later you find yourself taken to a detention facility and placed in a holding cell.

>Demand your mediation advisor
>Chat to the neighboring cell
>Proclaim your innocence
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>>5102275
>Demand your mediation advisor
We need to prove our innocence, but prcolaiming it isn't going to work. Tolku can swear for us.
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>>5102275
>Demand your mediation advisor

>>5102278
Agreed.
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>>5102275
>The three men in front of you drop their pistols
The fuck? Why didn't they hide their shit too? That's what the vote was for wasn't it?

>Demand your mediation advisor
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Any ideas of how to prove our innocence? Other than Tolku swearing for us, there's probably another way. We helped them take down the cult, so it's probably not impossible to get them to find that out.
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>>5102281
I mean, there was a drone that probably captured footage of us using our guns, also, what would they think we fought the cultists off with, our hands?
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>>5102281
Thought the vote was, stand your ground and face the Shas, let the rats hide shit if they want, beware the cultist equipment since it might be tainted, check if any of the bodies are still alive. (Didn't do that last one cos I wanted the update to be more concise)
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>>5102303
"Stand your ground" when contrasted with "Flee" and "Fight the cultists" seemed to be just to stay in the same place, not to literally face the shas.
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>>5102275

>Demand your mediation advisor
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>Chat to the neighboring cell

Dumb noobs wanted to get pinched for retardedly no good reason.
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>>5102275
>Demand your mediation advisor
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>>5102275

>Chat to the neighboring cell
We aren't going anywhere, time to make some friends and get some info : what is going on and how fucked are we....
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>Chat to the neighboring cell
Calling our tard wrangler isn't gonna do much for us, Tolku isn't some higher up.
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>>5102390
>Dumb noobs wanted to get pinched for retardedly no good reason.
>no reason

>Ethereal Aun'vre Kass has ordered everyone to remain in their homes
>Any Gue not in their hab block are in blatant vialation of direct Ethereal orders
>Any gue violating direct etheral orders receives over 9000 demerits
>Any gue accumulating 10 demerits is sent for reeducation
>"no good reason"

>>5102421
Perhaps, but getting a sympathetic tau to vouch for us is better than nothing.
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>>5102424
Mentioning Tolku might actually work against us and it would certainly endager her. When the Ethereals learn the human she was assigned to and the human she vouched for had illegal weapons? Gonna end badly for her.
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>>5102421
What we need is to find a way to prove we're innocent. She can vouch for us - we helped the Tau get rid of that one cult.
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>>5102424
But we were in our hab block
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>>5102424
We could have hid in our room at least.
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I really don’t think we should mention Tolku. If they learn she violated a DIRECT order from an ethereal by contacting us, she’s fucked, and not in the good way.
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>>5102275
>Chat to your neighboring cell
We did what we had to do to protect the Emperor's people. What happens now is up to Him. No point whining about things. Unbecoming of one of His soldiers.
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>>5102609
And this. I have a feeling Tolku will find out about us soon enough.
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>>5102275
>Chat to the neighboring cell
You have a point, while we want to prove our innocence, we don't want her to be hurt.
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>>5102275
> Chat to the neighboring cell
We shall suffer this indignity.
For now.
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>>5102275
>>Chat to the neighboring cell
just wait it out, no need to call the gf to bail us out yet
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>>5102275
>Demand your mediation advisor

We shall use the Xeno's faith in innocence against them!
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>>5102275
>Chat to the neighboring cell
See how to goes before calling the blue girl
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>>5102275

we are a militia operating outside tau chain of command in middle of a chaos invasion

even the imperium would suspect of possible chaos corruption and quarentine us

best thing we can do is lay down,and get someone to support us

>Demand your mediation advisor

>at least the tau have actual lawyers i guess
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>>5103211
>even the imperium would suspect of possible chaos corruption and quarentine us
lmao they'd just kill us outright even if they knew we were 100% innocent
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>>5103313
>le imperium killing innocent peoplefor no reason meme
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>>5103713
The Months of Shame Called
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>>5103313
If they were somehow 100% sure then they wouldn't, however they wouldn't be 100% sure and so they would kill us
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>>5103830
They would kill the MC for getting wounded by a demon.

The rest of the squad is probs alright. Maybe conscripted into the Inquisition.

Really, depends on the Inquisitor.
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>>5103834
You're assuming an inquisitor would be present, those guys are pretty rare.
Generally the Imperium takes a "why risk it we have more people" approach to chaos
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>>5103830
They constantly killing guardsmen for getting even close to chaos.
>>5103834
That wasn't a daemon, daemons don't leave corpses behind. They dematerialize, and that thing right there had a corpse. Plus if it was a real daemonette, we'd have been long writhing in agony because of the wound.
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>>5103887
>daemons don't leave behind corpses
It literally stated in the next post that it dematerialized, my guy. Why are you even arguing about this for? Relax.
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>>5102275
>Demand your mediation advisor
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The extent of transmundane injuries inflicted by thoughtforms are largely subject to the will and psychological state of the target.
In short: If you believe that something will happen then it will.
So rub some dirt on the wound, throw up a prayer to the emperor, and quit worrying about it.
Besides half of you are already loathesome xenophilic degenerates and chaos simps. Let's not pretend that there's much left here to corrupt.
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>>5104290
>loathesome xenophilic degenerates
There is nothing degenerate about loving your kind blueberry waifu. Being a simp won't make the sisters of battle love you, anon.
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(ok looks like we have a 8/8 split on the vote
I'll go with >Chat to the neighboring cell
if only because blue waifu gets enough focus already)


"I demand my mediation advisor" you shout, pounding on the shimmering force field.
The guard hisses back "Be silent Gue! The fire caste will determine your innocence in due time."
When you give no reply she humphs amd moves on with patrolling the cell blocks.
You scan your cell. It's as small as a phone booth. You can't see any speakers.
*knock* *knock* you tap on your cell wall. "Anyone there?"
"Chief Cas? Is that you?" you hear from the other side.
"Lant!" you reply, "Just call me Cas. Looks like we're screwed huh?"
"Maybe." he replies, "I try not to think about what happens next."
"Yeah. Well, we might be here a while. Let's take our minds off it."
"Sounds good to me."

Talk about:
>your past battles
>living under Tau
>the chaos heretics
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>>5104905
>your past battles
Time for some lore drop, we oughta know more about cas
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>>5104905
>your past battles
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>>5104905
>your past battles
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>>5104905
>your past battles
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>>5104905
>your past battles
what regiment or pdf are we even in also what's the date? m41-44?
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>>5104905
>the chaos heretics

I presume everything we say is being recorded, so let's shit talk Chaos.
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>>5105017
> establishing the date

Nah man. Let's not get dragged into 40skub.
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>>5105017
Well, presumably it has to be within a time period where the tau already appeared since they're pretty recent and new. It also has to be within the time period the tau started expanding into imperium territory, and considering they know about chaos some of the stuff happened, but i'm not sure about the fourth sphere.
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>>5104905
>She

I'm hot for firewarrior
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>>5105031
This, the moment you provide a date the hyper autists will start trying to metagame. Give us nothing but hell op
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>>5104831
The.
Fucking.
Irony.
That you think you have any room to accuse others of simping after spending every spare moment of this quest pining after the first female-adjacent thing to bat its baby blues at you. Frankly, it beggars belief.

>>5104905
> your past battles
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>>5105438
I feel like there's a difference between the nice blueberry and the actual chaos cultist. Might have to do with the fact that one wanted you to sell your soul to demons.
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>>5104905
>your past battles
Allow our recollection of past triumphs for the Emperor to wash away the thoughts of the alien and Archenemy.
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>>5105096

kek

>befriend the firewarrior
>she is tomboyish friend
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>>5106790
Bestiality is wrong, Anon.
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>>5106827
If you think about it from their point of view, we are the beast. Thats kinda makes it hot.
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>>5107162
Not really, the tau have new stuff but the empire are the old kids on the block with stuff even they don't have.

This is a classic blue space babe situation.
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"Became a Guardsman over 2 years ago. A little bit after the Tau empire showed up. How about you?" you say through the walls.
"Yeah I've been a rank Guardsman for just over a year, I joined the Guard just in time for the Necrons to wake up on Magnan Majoris." Lant replies.
"That's some horrible luck. Did you get sent to MagMa? How are you even alive?" you ask surprised.
"Yeah I got sent there, but we gave up the campaign very fast. The high gravity and bad atmosphere was too much for us. I only saw combat against them twice."
"What was it like fighting necrons?"
He pauses for a bit to think, "I only ever saw one type of necron. They are really REALLY tough. And they don't stay dead, even when they're slagged. They are very predictable though. At least compared to Orks and Tau. I'd rather fight necrons than anything else."
"What happened after the campaign ended?"
"Went back home to Emron Minor as reinforcements. Fought against Orks and Tau until the Guard abandoned this planet too. Only this time I got left behind. And well... you know what we chose next."
You nod to yourself. To this day you wonder if you made the right choice to live under alien occupation.
You begin to tell your own story: "I got deployed to Emron Minor right away. Fought Orks and Tau like you did for 2 years. But over time there was less and less Orks and more and more Tau."
"You must of seen a lot of combat Vaede. How did YOU survive?"
"Easy, I was smart and broke the rules a little. Took Lasguns off dead guys and bypassed their heat limiters using field tools. Makes them powerful but they burn out after a few battles."
"Ha! I saw you'd given your Lasgun an Ork-job. You rat."
"Made ones for my comrades too. My entire squad was using them. Smoking Ork boys like they were nothing."
A voice buzzes from outside the cell. "I doubt they could stand against Fire Caste pulse rifles." Two fire caste guards approach the force field.
One continues "Gue'la Cas, please face the wall and place your hands on your head. You will be escorted to your physical exam."

>Go along with them politely
>Go along silently
>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
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>>5107473
>>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
No true /k/comrade would tolerate a slight to their raifu
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>>5107473
Sure, the pulse rifle is fairly effective, the recoil of the gun requires the fire caste (not humans cuz we stronker) to be stationary to fire them effectively, not to mention its slower rate of fire. Good at tough big things, not so much an endless swarm of tyranids. Now lasguns, those are your best friends against them, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of different patterns in the Imperium. Although they all might look the same to your poor xenos eye sight, looks can be deceiving. Some lasguns are geared towards versatility with adjustable power and rates of fire, some are dedicated powerhouses that burn brightly but lasts shorter, and some are more potent than their lesser brethren. It also helps that almost all powerpacks can work for most different lasguns. Say what you will about Lasguns, they still remain the kings of rifles in the galaxy, thirty plus thousand years of supremacy baby!
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>>5107473
>Go along silently
They're right to say that pulse guns are generally more powerful, lasguns are generally speaking more reliable.
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>>5107473
>>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest

Then flex you muscles and welcome these two ladies to the imperal gun show. Tau can't compete with that
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>>5107473
>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
And they've yet to prove otherwise!
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>>5107473
>>Go along silently
No need to farm demerits
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>>5107473
>Go along silently
I don't want to fuck with them, no demerits please
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>>5107473
>Go along silently
He is technically correct. One-on-one, the Tau have more powerful weaponry - the Imperium just has a whole lotta diddley. Still, I don't want a demerit and we're in enough shit as is, so bite your tongue just this once.
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>>5107473
> Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
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>>5107473
> I'd rather fight Necrons than anything else

Wut

> Go politely
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>>5107473
Actually can we do the "dressing down" guardsman face? Just as neutral and yes sir no sir as possible?
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>>5107473
>Go along with them politely
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>>5107473
>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
But
>Go along with them politely
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>>5107473
>Go along silently
But also
>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
Show us your Titans, blueberries. Oh, wait.
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>>5107827
>silently
I meant politely, fuck. I mean, I know it’s not polite, but I’m basically saying just don’t show any physical resistance.
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>>5107473
>Go along with them politely
It's not worth the hassle
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>>5107473
>Go along with them politely
>while informing them about imperial weaponry supremacy
Honestly Cas going on a 40k equivalent of a /k/ rant as he's escorted away is actually just such a hilarious prospect that I just need to see it happen.
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>>5107473
>>Go along with them politely
>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
Greatest debate of all time.
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>>5107473
> "I doubt they could stand against Fire Caste pulse rifles."

You can literally charge the battery by throwing it in a fire. Sure, fancy gadgets are fun and all, but when you're down in the muck you know the lasgun is gonna work. And if it doesn't, you can do a lot to make it work anyways up to and including turning it into a bomb.
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>>5107473
Voting for politely going with them, while enlightening them as to the superior functionality of Guard equipment.

Literal children can learn to use them, can any non-fire caste pick up a pulse rifle and use it long enough for their grandchildren to inherit it, with no facilities to repair or maintain it? Can they blow it up if needed? Overcharge them to drain their ammo in one shot? Make enough for billions of soldiers?

Pfft. Fucking road bike Tau guns.
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>>5107927
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>>5107473
Also internally acknowledge that you would love to try out those pulse rifles.
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>>5107473
>Go along with them politely
we're in deep, no trouble
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>>5107473
>Go along with them while informing them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
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>>5107473
>Go along with them while informing them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
Nothing can hold a candle to the flashlight.
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>>5107473
>Inform them that imperial weaponry is the greatest
>>5107927
Also +1 to this, the most important thing for an army is logistics.
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>>5107473
update faster qm slave
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>>5108512
If you're not happy with the update rate, you can always delete system32, it can improve it.
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>>5107857

>debate me xeno
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>>5108555
>>5108361
>>5108120
>>5108069
>>5107927
>>5107918
>>5107857
>>5107839
>>5107827
>>5107597
>>5107509
>>5107496


but yeah,objectively pulse rifles are better on individual level (plasma snipers and plasma burst rifles depending on what type of pulse rifle are you using)

but that doesnt take away from the lasgun advantages,wich are logistical rather than performance

lasguns are cheap,rugged and their ammo is easily accesible (charge them with energy,in some cases solar,in other heats,in others connect them on a charging infrastructure)

meaning that a lasgun can be used without much external support or repairing,where pulse rifles are always tied to technicians and logistics

the fact a random guardsmen could modify lasguns to its need without breaking them or blowing himself up,is a testament to the reliability and simplicity of lasguns

each has its advantages and issues

so we should respectfuly point both their advantages and issues,while politely following

>go along politely while informing them of the issues and advantages

they are soldiers,they might like gun talk

>plus,maybe we can make fire warrior tomboy fren
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>>5108558

>tau tomboy btw
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>>5108558
> ShamelessTauPropaganda.lexicon
Too Heretical, Didn't Read.
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>>5108594
I hope our Tau GF has fat fucking milk bags and a nice six pack.
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>>5108625
Dude, they all look like lanky, emaciated greys. Despite the fact they have hooves, there is no tau - from any caste - that will come remotely close to meeting your raunchy dairy farm fantasies.
Stop basing your perception of reality on those debauched comics you're always drooling over.
Seriously, it isn't healthy.
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>>5108655
That's an ethereal and you know it. Ethereals are to Tau what emaciated highborn are to normal humans.
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>>5108702
> That's an Ethernal and you know it.
~REALLY~
Shit anon, what tipped you off. The name I chose for the image, or the fact that the specimen is literally labelled in the image?

> Ethereals are to Tau what emaciated highborn are to normal humans.
Oh please. Lie to me all you want but don't lie to yourself. The other castes are just marginally shorter/lither/ buffer/smarter variants of this template, each having their morphology tweaked to gain an edge in their specific discipline.
There is no stacked cowgirl caste in the tau, you brainwashed coomer. Get that through your dense skull.

> Inb4 Water-caste
[Image related]
No.
Go sit in the idiot corner.
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>>5108561
Cute
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>>5108723
>Oh please. Lie to me all you want but don't lie to yourself.
Are you stupid? They are in no way equal to them, the ethereals literally appeared from nowhere with their weird pheromones to unite them all.
>muh random image i found proves they are like this
Fuck off to your retard hole, chaosfag.
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>>5108655
>>5108723
I will not fall for your lies and propaganda. Give unto me my blue berry milkers!
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>>5108723
Tau look how the writer wants them to look. It's just like how Eldar flip flop between looking like genuine ayyys and humans with pointy ears
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>>5108741
> Ethereals eject fartgas, they're totally different
They all belong to the same species. There are anatomical differences between each case, but they are marginal at best - slightly more extreme than the variation between human ethnicities.
This will continue to be true no matter how much you tantrum.

> Chaosfag
Chaos brainrot is equivilent to xeno brainrot.
Neither should be tolerated.
Here's another water-caste for you since you liked the last examples so much.
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>>5108558
I know Tau dakka is better than 41st millennium Imperium dakka, but that doesn’t mean I’m about to admit it to them.
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>>5108763

human dakka is not better or worse

it is specialized with a different mindset

tau have better baseline but worse reliability and logistics

humans have better elite weaponry,but shittier baseline but those baseline are more rugged,reliable and easy to supply
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Okay okay intermission time.

I'm fine with the players waifuing and attempting to romance alien characters.
I don't want to write gratuitous sex scenes though. (I didn't make Dark Eldar one of pickable races because of this).
The quest's tone is a lot lighter than a normal 40K quest thanks to the stickman artstyle and premise, so I'm not pedantic about lore accuracy.
It's really just about exploring what it's like to live as a human under the yoke of an alien race in 40K. Anyway I'm pretty sure the waifu fags are in the majority but I'll make a poll here just in case:

Do you support waifu-faggotry in this quest?
>No
>Yes
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>>5108774
I just like the blueberry girl. She's nice.
>Yes, but not all waifufaggotry
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>>5108774
Yes, ignore all 1ip for this one mate
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>>5108774

>yes

if i wanted to read pure grimdark i would be reading a black library book,or some fanfic done by a edgelord

i come here for power fantasies and waifu fagging,a light hearted fun time

>MC has plot armor
>everyone else around him dies horribly
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>>5108779
Pretty much, though obviously not all waifufaggotry is created equal. No one likes bland, generic characters who only exist as an dumb archetype with no personality.
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>>5108774
> Do you support waifu-faggotry in this quest?
Blanket no - doesn't matter if human or xenos.
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>>5108774
Only if you're willing to draw giant anime milkers on the stick figures
otherwise no
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>>5108797

kek
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>>5108774
yes, just don't go overboard with it like the faggots on anonkun
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>>5108797
Dick Figures style?
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>>5108774
No, it's getting out of hand. I wouldn't mind if it didn't constantly derail the quest.
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>>5108837
what the fuck are you even talking about
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>>5108774
Waifufaggotry inevitably shits up a quest. Look at what happened with Maiya. Definitive no.
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>>5108774
Sure. I don't care so long as its not intrusive which it hasn't been.
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>>5108848
Maiya was a problem because the autist who kept desperately trying to defend the chaos cultist.
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>>5108867
I wonder what would've happened if we spared her given the chaos uprising
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>>5108844
Probably the spergout where some anon was pissed we killed his waifu so he spammed like 50 "1 Post by this ID" votes
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>>5108890
Since she's a slaaneshi, probably something severely fucked up.
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>>5108867
And why was that? Because she was a girl with a possible waifu route. If it was a guy trying to rope us into a Slaaneshi cult there would have been a lot fewer apologists and no samefagging.
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>>5108902
It's not just that she's a 'girl with a possible waifu route,' though. I'm certain that if she was just a laidback who didn't like the tau there'd have been next to zero discussion - that's how it was before we learned she was a crazy slaaneshi chick

The problem is that, being a chaos cult girl, there was a retard who wanted to "redeem" her. That kind of white knight is the one who sperg out like that.
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>>5108774
>Yes
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>>5108774
Only for fellow humans. Fishfuckers are gross.
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>>5108944
take it up with the Lord Commander then
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>>5108917
Of course people love the mysterious girl that's interested in you. But having a partner who cannot do wrong makes them a bland character who's route doesn't matter. Maiya being a crazy cultist is what makes her memorable, just like Tolku still being a firm believer in the Greater Good.
I guess I should clarify that I'm not against romancing as long as we have realistic choices which means no indoctrinated tomboy fire warrior gf with chances to irreparably fail. This is a choice quest, not a dice quest after all.
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>>5108867
> Implying tau fuckers aren't being just as autistic.

Whatever, not my first rodeo. Blueberry a shit, A SHIT.
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>>5108951
He ain't fucking Yvraine no matter how hard you stan it.
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>>5108954
There's a difference between "cannot do wrong" and "literally a slaaneshi cultist"

Like, fuck man, at least if she was a khorne or tzeentch cultist i'd understand since at least those could have started out benign. She literally just turned to chaos because she was bored.

That's it. She was bored of working for the administratum so she turned into the kind of degenerate that gets off by disemboweling themselves.
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>>5108774
As long as it's not the focus, Y. I'm still shocked we're still alive after the quick end to our previous character.
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>>5108980
You mean the character consistently rolling extrmely bad, that got her ass beaten twice, that we choice the high risk- high reward option for?
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>>5108963
I think you misunderstand. Maiya being a slaaneshi cultist is not her doing nothing wrong. It's her being a memorable character and our options with her actually mattering. The quest shouldn't have girls tailored to our tastes who we effortlessly win over. That only leads to even worse meltdowns than that one autist over maiya.

tldr, I just don't want a repeat of fate quest. Is that too much to ask?
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>>5108989
To be fair, she had way less of a choice due to being a slave to the orks. While Tau attempt to integrate people - even if through this totalitarian china-type system, they won't shoot your face if they feel kind of pissed off. Orks will krump you any moment they feel like it.

But yeah, even the QM said that now this has become more of a real quest (Cas Vaede, that is) as opposed to an faster situational thing like the first was, so we probably won't get a "You lose one roll, game over" type of deal.
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>>5108997
>The quest shouldn't have girls tailored to our tastes who we effortlessly win over.
I agree, but i feel like that's more so a description of a girl like tolku than maiya. Because, again, even if we're in a less grimdark and more light universe, she is literally a chaos cultist - and not only is she an chaos cultist, she's an slaaneshi cultist.

She's a memorable character, yes, i agree, but what i'm saying is that there's a long jump between a character that 'can't do wrong' and 'a character that worships the demonic deity of fucked up stuff'.
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>>5108062
We should use that clout we've been getting to become this planet's Slovaz.
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>>5108774
I don’t really care either way. If it happens naturally, sure. If not, I’m fine with Tolku simply being our kindly tard wrangler.
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>>5109194
Wasn't there an inquisitor who was given (his? her?) own custom tau mech for their service as gue'vesa?
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>>5108774
Generally, yes.

On the real though, I am horrendously torn inside between wanting to murder all aliens full great crusade style (especially if I find we have a chance of succeeding), and realizing that some of them, like Tolku, are just completely benign and not want to murder them all. The internal struggle flares up again every time the T'au give us shit about their superiority.
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>>5109311
Obviously the answer is to flee with tolku to the based farsight enclaves
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>>5109311
See, that's what good writing for Tau looks like. Understandable that you haven't seen any from BL.

I personally don't want to hate Tau, but Taufags are fucking garbage. Anyone who takes anything in 40k seriously has missed the point.
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>>5109320
Nah, get an exemption for them somehow by bringing them under the wing of Humanity. Rare, but it happens, and perhaps they can be used to fight against Chaos thanks to their insensitivity, to the warp and to conflicting ideas.
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>>5109284
This would be the best quest IMO.

>>5108561
> Y'all ain't even willing to fuck the actual Tau Tomboy pic related.
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>>5109321
I try to stay away from some those books because I'm afraid of what they'll do to my perception of things.
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>>5108774
yes

>>5109366
Y E S !
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>>5108774
>Conditional yes
I don't mind if the MC ends up in a relationship but it shouldn't be the focus of the quest
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>>5109366
That's very impractical and un-scientific armor for Tau.

Honestly, have some REAL thicc tau tech.
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>>5108774
>Yes
As long as it isn't forced and is natural then yeah sure, it's a light hearted quest and not super grim dark.
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>>5109297
I know Farsight has a former inquisitor advising him on matters of the Warp.
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>>5109297
I don't think the Tau let humans pilot battlesuits but some part of me remembers some tidbit of lore stating it.
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>>5109849
I'm pretty sure that gue'vesa can reach a rank high enough to have their own crisis suits.
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>>5109321
>Anyone who takes anything in 40k seriously has missed the point.
Nah, 40k is over the top to the point of ridiculousness, but there are a lot of hidden truths and wisdoms underneath. Some of those truths would be far too painful otherwise, others are too subtle to really think through unless they're exaggerated into a caricature.

>Tech priesthood and archaeotech
Any sufficiently advanced tech stagnates and decays because of diminishing returns on further improvements. Mere application and maintenance requires far less effort, but the subsequent loss of understanding will only be noticed as a problem when it's already too late.
As tech becomes more complex and intransparent, rituals that usually just work replace meditated actions. In a few decades, you might first speak a petition to Alexa, Siri and Cortana whenever you want anything technical done, because one of them might hear and help you.
>Religious dogma
99+% of people are too stupid, lazy, cowardly and egocentric to develop an entire worldview with convictions and reasons to live. Most of those who try anyway fuck up horribly and end up with with mangled messes that are devastating to themselves and their surroundings (i.e. Chaos). It is best for them to not even try.
The Emperor's glorious vision was doomed from the start, since he was an idealist who didn't want to accept the shortcomings of man and blinded himself to them. This happens to most visionaries.
>Harsh Inquisition
If among a thousand suspects is only a single guilty one who would doom millions, it is better to kill them all than to let them go. Painful and unjust, but necessary.
With great power comes great irresponsibility. Carelessness and casual cruelty are common.
>Imperial system
Mankind will evolve whatever political system is necessary to withstand any given environment, and it will degenerate and corrupt itself to the point where it just barely does its job. The need for safety and stability trumps everything else.
The desire towards corruption and pointlessly excessive luxury will exist even under the most threathening circumstances.
>Rogue Traders
When you have a lot of money and (fire)power, the system will happily bend the rules for you.
>Commissariat
A lifetime of indoctrination and an obviously absolutely evil foe which will do even worse to those who refuse to fight is still not as motivating as a plain old gun to your head.
>Life is cheap
A million is indeed a statistic, and most lives do not really matter. They are doomed to die from birth, and their lasting impact is negligible.
>Happy orks
Ignorance truly is bliss. They don't bother with all that philosophy crap that brings everyone else only despair, and instead have fun.
>Degenerate eldar
Eternal blissful life without purpose and aspirations may seem sweet, but it is unnatural and leads to a wretched and ultimately self-destructive existence.

And a lot more that I won't bother to list.
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>>5109876
This. The Imperium is doing about as well as it can be expected given it's running a galactic confederacy in a world where toasters have souls and the God of Hope is evil
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>>5108774
>No
The waifufags here have become atrocious..
muh tau waifu xDDD
KYS!!! KYS!!!
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>>5109876
> Autism

Orks exist so your argument is invalid.
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Okay thanks for the replies.
Obv the waifufags outnumber the anti-waifufags and indifferents, but people mostly don't want that stuff dominating the quest.
I'll try not to focus on it too much or force anything disjointed.

(sorry but no update rn, will crank out a bunch of updates over the next few days to make up for my low activity recently)
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>>5110046
Its alright man, glad you are taking time to hear out peoples opinion and what they want. This quest gives my days a bit more to look forward to (:
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>>5110046
Thats okay you can make up for it by writing 10 updates tomorrow. Or you can die
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>>5110046
when do we get to mating press the blueberry?
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>>5110215
As long as you can't behave, we won't.
This is why we can't have nice things. You are why we can't get nice things.
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>>5110220
I want to like blueberry wife hooves
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>>5110223
I want you to stop being a coomer shitting up the thread.

Sometimes you just have to accept you won't get what you want.
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>>5110215

when we invest time and effort socializing with someone enough that they have sex with the MC?

and even if they do,it will be more likely a "dafe to black" type of scene,where sex is implied but not described/showed

only tasteful romance that have development behind,no waifufagging making them love the MC out of nowhere
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I have been convinced King.
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You face against the wall with your hands on your head.
"Very well Shas'la, me will cooperate" you say politely, in their dumbass xeno language.
They apply your restraints and lead you out of the cell. "However..."
You begin to enlighten the ignormamuses about the superiority of Imperial munitions.
"...Lasguns deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that."
"Be silent! We are not meant to talk to prisoners." snaps one.
"Indeed, besides lasguns do less damage than ORK guns." adds the other, unable to resist having the last word.
They lead you on through the metal halls of their Tau military complex.
"Rifle is fine!" you continue, "Weapon damage is only one factor. Consider recoil, mobility, firerate, versatility, reliability, ammunition, usability, maintenance and cost effectiveness."
"You speak rubbish Gue'la!" Says the curmudgeonly one, apparently forgetting he's not supposed to talk, "Were I Shas'ui I would give you a demerit on the spot! It is well known Tau boasts the finest weapons."
"Esteemed Earth caste engineers are constantly making improvements to Tau weaponry. Gue weaponry is stagnant backwater." the other retorts.
"Imperial weaponry is the greatest in galaxy! There is no need for further improvement." You conclude.
Finally you stop at the door of some sort of medical bay.
"Clearly you are in dire need of reeducation prisoner." says a guard as he opens the door.
"You will learn the superiority of the glorious Fire Caste in time. Good luck human." says the other shoving you in.

The door closes vertically, and you find yourself face to face with a Kroot.
The alien speaks in its strange croaky voice, "I am doctor. Take off shirt. I will inspect you for mutation."
You comply, a little suprised at the fluency of this bestial looking alien. It suddenly gets *very* close and lays its hands on your sides causing you to shudder. You've seen the bonesnapping strength of these hands first hand. The grisly snapping noises replay in your head for a moment. "You are not tyranid. You are not corrupted by chaos. I will apply fresh treatment to your injuries." the Kroot announces, and pulls an Imperial Guard medikit from a drawer.

>Ask about the kroot in the ruins
>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising
>Ask what they're going to do to you
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>>5110682
>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising
>Ask what they're going to do to you
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>>5110682
>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising
>Ask what they're going to do to you
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>>5110682
>>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising
>>Ask what they're going to do to you
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>>5110682

kroots are nice

their culture is a martial honor one
fight worth adversaries in mostly honorable combat

where honorable combat is either by being mercenaries on wars/conflicts (at wich point is soldiers killing soldiers,both sides doing their duty)

or by previously agreed duels

they eat adversaries to gain their strenght and to honor them in order to at least continue their legacy

and outside of combat they are laid back and easy going with little to no prejudice

and more importantly,the kroot are one of the biggest intelligence webs on warhammer

they have a sort of "soft hivemind" in wich they can share memories of stuff they have eaten with each other (albeit in a really vague manner)

>He let the fire blaze for a few minutes, then took out a piece of stiff, waxed hide and smothered the flames. A thick plume of smoke rose from the charred pieces and he placed the hide over his head, leaning low over the blackened mess, taking long, deep breaths, letting the fumes flood his consciousness. His head grew light and his stomach growled. He saw the craggy eyries of his home on Akchan-Kur. He saw the farewell ceremony at the Perch of Nine Hawks, standing at the pinnacle, victorious, rain-lashed and surrounded by his warrior kin. The elders summoned him home, insisting that he alone, the oldest of his kind, had the experience to journey to the Western Reaches. The Karakh-Kar had warriors scattered across the galaxy, serving in countless armies. They knew of the Blackstone’s presence long before the warlords of Terra [!!!!].
>[excerpt from the blackstone series]

if we do things good enough,we might get access to the nice web of intel kroot have acess too
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>Ask about the kroot in the ruins
>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising

so based on this,i definetly want to know what the fuck the kroots are planing to do in the ruins
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>>5110682
>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising
>Ask what they're going to do to you
Yeahhhhh probably not a good idea to talk about those kroot we shot and killed in an area we're not supposed to be in.
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>>5110682
>Ask about the ongoing cult uprising
>Ask what they're going to do to you
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>>5110682
> Ask about how the situation outside has changed since your containment. Have the odious heretics been fully purged yet?
>Ask about the status of the guardsmen and the civilians who you fought alongside you during the chaos assault.
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>>5110682
Having a Kroot touch you is always considered gay since they breed by rubbing their palms on the back of others. Something about cum secreting pours on their palms.
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>>5110773
it's okay bro, it's a female kroot
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>>5110775
I dont think female kroot are a thing, nor do they have two different genders.
But I'm not gonna like, I want a kroot handjob.
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>>5110773
Speaking of that, is Tau reproduction ever explored? We know Eldar breed more or less like humans, it just takes more effort since genetic material is delivered multiple times. Are Tau mammals or do they come from eggs and shit?
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>>5110908
I'm pretty sure they're mammals. I'd look at cows.
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>>5110717
> Ask which weapon he would use, and describe the qualities of a lasgun and a pulse rifle

Tau can't hit shit without markerlights anyways.

> Ask how qualified he is to work on humans

And if when he's done we'll be able to play the piano. After his response reply with well that's good, we couldn't play it before.
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>>5111171
DR ZAIUS DR ZAIUS
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>>5111179
I HATE EVERY KROOT I SEE
FROM XENO-A TO XENO-Z
NO YOU'LL NEVER MAKE AN ALIEN OUT OF ME
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>>5111171
Obviously he ate a humans.
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>>5111254
Pfft, so have we and we're no doctor. Although we did handle that daemon wound pretty thoroughly so maybe . . .
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>>5111377
Corpse starch doesnt count. As far as we know only the Kroot and most space marine chapters has the anatomy to processes things they eat and learn from them. For the kroot they have a soft core evolution thing going on.
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>>5111171

tau have better long sigth than humans,making them great snipers

but have a bit slower reflexes,making them less good on mid range fire fights
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>>5110682
Also, wtf Cas hair reveal
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>>5111717
Seems Humans and Tau are similar in their sexual dimorphism.
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>>5111779
Though it's all the same to me if both sexes are bald, I've always thought Taun We was hot.
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>>5109896
>The Imperium is doing about as well as it can be expected
https://youtu.be/usJRU4djnrE
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>>5111717
He has the quintessential "action game protagonist" hair.
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>>5111781
Imagine, Cas and a Blueberry running their hands all over each other's bare scalps as they kiss and feel the oddly unfamiliar condensation from each other's alien nasal cavities...
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>>5111835
This is almost painfully wince-worthy.
Please keep your perversions to yourself.
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>>5111835
t. T'olku
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>>5111835
>from each other's nasal cavities
are they eating their own snot?
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>>5111951
I mean you do that constantly every day, where do you think your sinuses drain to?
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"Say Kroot, could you tell me how the battle is going?" you ask as the xenos stitches you up.
"The humans of dark spirit have some heavy support the Tau garrison cannot handle. They have withdrawn from the outer city area." the Kroot replies, pulling the threads tight.
"Are there reinforcements coming then?" you ask, with dozens of tactical situations cycling in your head.
"Many mercenaries have been summoned to quell the uprising. Sslyth warriors and more of my Kroot brethren. I look forward to joining them in battle."
"Don't they have any Fire Caste reinforcements to spare?" you muse.
"This is not known to me." it wraps the last of the bandages around you, "You are healed. Go."
"Wait! I have more questions." you protest.
"No. Go now."

After leaving the medbay the guards escort you somewhere else while you educate them on the efficacy of krak-grenades.
You wind up in a small interrogation room.
Seated alone at a small desk with A Shas'ui Fire Warrior asks you several questions regarding the events leading up to and during your battle with the cultist.
"Thank you for your cooperation, Cas'Vaede. It is quite clear to me you are NOT affiliated with the Gue'la fanatics and are innocent of insurgency." The officer asserts.
"So I'm free to go?"
"Not so fast. We have determined you and several humans living in your habitation block have been in possession of several illegal weapons since before the incident occurred."
"You are mistaken sir. I never had a weapon until after the cultists attacked." you state defiantly.
"There is no use in denying it. The penalty for breaking the Ethereals' law is quite severe. However, we can offer you a deal: Tell us how you and your fellows acquired their weapons and we will unconditionally pardon your co-conspirators."

>confess
>lie
>stay silent
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>>5111967
> Refuse
> Stay Silent
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>>5111967
>Demand your mediation advisor
You're Ethereal laws state I get to see my advisor.
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I'm not sure, refusing here would obviously be the right choice, though at the same time lying could prove useful. In all honesty, we got the gun to defend ourselves from the cultists, not to form any kind of resistance against the tau.
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>>5111967
We should lie, these fucking gun grabbers are going to steal our weaponry anyways but we can always get more if we don't tell
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>>5111967

The problem here is that they are going to cross examine all of us, so you can't lie too much. And since we are a narc, it would be good not to lose the trust we built up. Best to weave in the lies with the truth.

Just tell him that it's easy to find weapons as they are just laying around. The tau have not done a very good job cleaning up after the attack, the current cultist uprising is proof of that. Other unaffiliated factions may have also had dreams of rising up at some point and hid cashes. Lie about a rumor you heard while in a tavern about people finding lascannons under piles of rocks. The people you hunkered down with seemed to just have weapons and the rest was taken from defeated cultists. Someone passed you a gun because you knew how to fire it, no idea where it came from.
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>>5112036
>Support
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>>5111967
>confess
SOMEONE is gonna fucking comply so it might as well be us. We could sneak in some kind of lie about how the weapon was meant to be a memento.
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>>5112036
This but don't let them know where exactly the weapons are because the Tau would just double their efforts to get them off the hands of the plebs.
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>>5111951
I'm just saying hers would go on his forehead and his would go on her lip since it's a pretty steamy situation.
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>>5111967
>Ask him if he would turn over his bond brothers so easily. Explain that every guardsman is our bond brother.
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>>5112054
>>5112036
This. Hopefully those fucking idiots won't have the manpower to spare in searching for loose weaponry. We need to stock up on shit after this as much as we can. I having a sneaking feeling they might go back on their word anyway. Why wouldn't they?

And make sure we grill this dickhead about us having to do their fucking jobs for them. Innocent people would be dead in that hab if we hadn't stopped the cultists at the doors.
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>>5112036
This.
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>>5111967
>stay silent
I have a feeling the tau drone saw and heard the conversation about the weapons us and the rattling was having at the hab floor, they must have examined it's blackbox or something. Any lies or playing dumb will just get us a demerit regardless of what we use as an excuse, so I suggest we remain silent and call for some legal backup
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>>5111967
>confess
Tell him we got our las-gun from some ruins and don't know where the others got their guns, also don't tell him that Wisby was storing our guns he doesn't need to know that, it's honestly not that bad since it's literally just some random ruins and they likely don't have the time or manpower to search through all of them, even if they do search through them they likely won't look through every nook and cranny where there might be even more guns at.
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>>5112102
forgot pic
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>>5112105
F for the bot.
GR1-5HK4 was too pure for this world.
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welp,we been catched by the tau,we could stab our friends on the back and get higher on tau graces (to eventually stab them on the back and leave for a nicer place)

we will be under heavy survailance,but access to higher ranked positions could serve for the moment our MC leaves for greener pastures (plus,i want to rejoin the military and get a mech)

we could be loyal but more likely than not,the tau will remember this and have us under heavy oversight

you dont allow the dude that is a veteran,managed to disarm a chaos cell,and guide resistance against chaos uprisings,who has clear links to rebellious behavior to be unsupervised

and we could stay silent,wich would lead to same heavy survailance but maybe less demerits

personally i like the idea of getting higher on the ranks

>confess

but only tell him about keeping our personal guns or scavenged ones from ruins,dont tell them about the origins of heavy weaponry of ammo

esentially make them think "they kept their service weapons out of paranoia" rather than "they were preparing for rebellion"

lie through the use of half truths and omitting important info

>tzeench approves this message
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>>5112036
We should be doing this
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>>5112036
>>5112071
>support
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>>5112151
>you dont allow the dude that is a veteran,managed to disarm a chaos cell,and guide resistance against chaos uprisings,who has clear links to rebellious behavior to be unsupervised
>you dont allow the dude to be unsupervised
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>>5112036
There's no reason for much deception beyond not ratting out anyone. We already have the perfect excuse in that we found out about the cultists first, and even helped the fire caste to get a bead on them. The Tau may not have much experience dealing with chaos insurgency, but the Imperium does. We immediately knew how dire the situation is and how many innocent lives were at stake. We offered further assistance to the tau, but regrettably were refused. Hence, we did the best thing we could and spread the warning that there is dangerous cult activity. When the Archenemy looms, everyone - from toddler to geriatric - knows to keep their gun close. And there are more than enough weapons for that on any proper Imperial world.
We received our gun from the cold hands of a fallen hero. He'd be proud to know that his service to the Emperor went on beyond death. Everyone else, no idea, but it can't have been that hard. There's a stubber under every other pile of rubble after all.

If we play it right, the dumbass Shas'la from >>5083800 might even get a big demerit for chasing away willing help that was, in retrospect, clearly needed. It could have prevented a lot of tau and human deaths after all, and helped the integration of humans instad of making them doubt the competence and priorities of the tau.
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>>5112336
What? No, that's insane. They would just ask us to join the Gue'vasa auxilaries and then lead into why we didn't previously, as well as putting heat on us for being part of a paramilitary group.

Y'all wanna get Tauntomo Bay'ed??

>>5111967
I'm down with asking for our lawyer, or tau advisor before we say fucking ANYTHING.
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>>5111967
Ask for our lawyer
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Do lawyers even exist in the grimdark future?
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>>5111967

>lie/change the pace
"-Do you have any evidence that proves what you are saying? Do you think i'm afraid of any kind of YOUR "punishmet"?! I just fought against chaos worshippers and killed a fucking demon bitch.
Anyway I don't think anything bad will happen to me you got enough to deal with.... I heard that you guys cannot handle these heretic fucks on your own. Tell your superiors that I can organize a strong resistance against them. We will use our own imperial weaponry you just need to provide enough support and supplies. And I make it dirty cheap too.... A new mech will do it, I always wanted to try one out...."
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>>5112892
Even if, T'olku sure as hell isn't one. She'll just say something like "You should tell the truth to the nice officer, Cas!"
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>>5112541
>They would just ask us to join the Gue'vasa auxilaries and then lead into why we didn't previously
We didn't exactly get an offer, honestly.
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Real jo’nah hours
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"Okay okay, look. There are weapons just lying around the outer city area. There's all sorts of junk from the war trapped under the junk and rubble in the underground and unrefurbished areas." you plead.
"And where exactly in *Saz Montal the did you find your Lasgun?" the Shas'ui asks tenting his fingers together in smug anticipation.
"I didn't find it. One of the other residents gave it to me after the fighting began."
He squints, "Who gave you the weapon? What does he look like?"
"A human male, bald about my height. Has a horizontal line for eyes. He died in the battle."
The alien makes a sort of rumbling noise in his throat. Tau always do that when they're angry.
"And who was the owner of the Heavy Autogun?" he growls.
"Don't know. Probably one of the guys who died." you shrug.
The Fire Warrior massages his temples and composes himself.
"Well then, Cas Vaede. Thanks to the magnanimous Shas'El Commander. All humans have been pardoned for raising arms in self defence. And with no incriminating evidence, I find you innocent of all transgressions against the Greater Good."
"No evidence? You said you determined me guilty of illegal possession." You exclaim.
"That was a non-truth to inspire compliance. You have been found innocent." the alien explains shamelessly. Typical xenos treachery.

Soon after you are grouped up with several other humans and escorted to your new new home.
It's what looks like a repurposed warehouse. Your new shared bedroom contains nothing but large plasticy hammocks. It's about midday now and you haven't slept all night. You're expected to return to work tomorrow and there is a 24/7 human curfew in effect.

>rest up
>find some food
>recreate with the others

*The Tau name for the 'Outer City' district
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>>5113083
did you draw that? Or just add writing to it
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>>5113091
‘Twas I
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>Thanks to the magnanimous Shas'El Commander. All humans have been pardoned for raising arms in self defence. And with no incriminating evidence

well,thanks commander
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>>5113100

nice,we got a draw fag among us
thank you very much anon

>now draw cas petting a kroot hound
>just joking about the kroot hound...unless
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>>5113089
>> recreate with the others
Find a nice poorly surveilled nook and commiserate with the others regarding the general shitbaggery of the Tau.
Gotta start networking with our own kind.
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>>5113089
>rest up
We don't even get a day off after fighting off cultists trying to use your intestines as sex toys to pleasure themselves with. Some greater good this is.

>>5113102
>drawing Cas petting a hound
>not drawing him giving T'olku headpats while they watch the sunset together on a bench
Disgusting, Anon.
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>>5113089
>rest up
Long day tomorrow
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>>5113089
>rest up
Damn, we lost the gym.
Didn't thought we'll made it this far wtih Emperor's benedication still up
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>>5113089
>rest up
>and maybe find a way to contact our friends
Let’s make sure our human buddies in the hab block are unharmed. After that we should call T’olku, who I’m fairly certain is okay but it never hurts to check.
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>>5113089
What are we recreating with the others?
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>>5113083
based and diasporex pilled
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>>5113089
How about chatting while laying in the hammock? Since everyone's so bunched up some convos should naturally happen.
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>>5113100
>‘Twas I
haha very nice! Quest fan art is always appreciated
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>>5113089
>rest up
>call our battle buddies
>call T'olku
in that order
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>>5113105
>take down a chaos cell
>+10 social credit score
>defend yourself against chaos uprising while blueberries suck their thumbs and run for their battlesuits
>back to work tomorrow bright and early gue :)
this is a fucking scam, we need to ask our tard wrangler what the fuck we can actually do with merits
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>>5113089
>"Hey, anyone else think the Aquila looks kinda like the Van Halen logo?"
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>>5113469
+1
>>5113083
Good shit mate.
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>>5113481
*Or* we could give up the lifestyle of wagie cuck and actually start working to reclaim this world for humanity.
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>>5113808

so instead we can go back to wagie for the admech and ministorum :v
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>>5113810
> No! I refuse to take the initiative and change my circumstances! Things might get worse!
Low IQ perspective.

> B-but Skullman bad!
An alien invasion rolls in, slaughters your comrades by the thousands then indoctrinates the survivors, and here you are running damage control for them.
Besides, this doesn't need to be an either/or situation. Forging a path of our own *is* a viable option.
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>>5113843
I agree, if we revolt successfully we could be a Governor or as Independent as the Enclave.
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>>5113843
We could always fuck off to the CHADsight Enclaves with our chosen few.
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Exhausted you fall onto one of the hammocks, despite the bustle of dozens of people in a single room you fall fast asleep. You awaken refreshed and restored. It's dark, but still early in the night. Unable to return to sleep at the moment you stretch your legs and look around. You leave your impromptu bedroom and find the entrance area. A single Vespid creature seems to be keeping an eye on things around here, ensuring no humans escape lockdown.

>sneak out
>find Lant and the others
>check on your Holochron contacts
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>>5114216
Chat with the vespid see what they know of the situation outside
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>>5114218
"Greetings Stingwing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URBbPgvVs90
"BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
"nevermind"
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>>5114219
>kek

>>5114216
>find Lant and the others
Unless everyone else is trying to sleep; in that case >check on your Holochron contacts. No need to piss off people who are trying to get some well-deserved rest.
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>>5114216
>check on your Holochron contacts
give and receive updates on the situation with the blue girl
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Call da blue girl
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>>5114216
>check on your Holochron contacts
Lant’s probably fine. Let’s check on the guys we haven’t seen since Chaostime.
>>5114219
>nod in agreement
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>>5114216
>check on your Holochron contacts
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>>5114216
> Find Lant and the others
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>>5114216
>check on your Holochron contacts
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>>5114216
>check on your Holochron contacts

Just remember, we're pretty hot right now.
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>>5114216
>find Lant and the others
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>>5114216
>Why do they even let those things near buildings? Ugh, put up some cots in key spots to ensure the ceiling doesn't collapse onto you.
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>>5114219

>nod in agreement
>check on your Holochron contacts
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>>5114216
>check on your Holochron contacts
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Bug boy is no help. You doubt he can even understand you.
You sit down in a quiet supply closet and pull out your holochron. Looking at your contacts list.
Mal
Malia
Jokh

No real need to call your coworkers. You'll see them in person tomorrow.
Wisby
He doesn't pick up the call. You feel concern for your lost comrade, who knows if he escaped the Chaos and Tau forces safely?
Maiya
Dead. But at least you redeemed her soul in the end. Slaa-whatever is obviously no match for the Emperor. You delete her contact.
Shas'la Tash
Hard pass. He obviously hates humans. Weird, come to think of it you don't really hate xenos as much now. Too used to living amongst them. You make a mental note to pray for more hatred later on.
Ivan
Who? Oh yeah he's that scavenger guy who gave you some tips about looting the kroot infested ruins. Good man. You ping him a message asking if he's alive. He responds quickly. He and most of the scavengers survived and are now in the middle city.
Lant
He got herded to the same shelter as you.
Por'la T'olku
It is.. comforting to speak with her. Even though she is an alien proselytizer meant to win you over. You dial her name.
"Cas Vaede? Is that you?" her voice says from the speaker.
"It is. Hello Tolku."
"Oh by the Ethereals! I was so worried. Are you safe?"
"I am. The Shas took me to the middle city. I'm packed into a warehouse with many other human refugees. Are you safe?"
"Yes. The Fire Caste defended us very bravely. The Greater Good protects its people."

>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
>Bluntly ask about escaping the planet
>Ask about joining the defence as a Gue'Vesa
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>>5115771
> Bluntly ask about escaping the planet
> Terminate conversation
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>>5115771
>>Ask about joining the defence as a Gue'Vesa
It's for the best, guys.
Tau are not that bad, we'll need to band together for a chance against other threats, and for the greater good of mankind.
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>>5115771
>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
Why would we ask about something like that when all those holochrons are most likely conected to the tau? That'd just be dumb.

She can't exactly let us join, either. Let's just talk.
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>>5115787
Ah yes, let's go talk about escaping the planet in the obviously tapped holochron. Kind as t'olku is, she is also very loyal to the idea of the greater good.
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>>5115771
>>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
Maybe the real bugs was the electronics we got along the way
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>>5115771
>Ask about joining the defense as a Gue'vesa
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>>5115792
An astute point.
Changing my vote {>>5115787} to:
> Terminate conversation.
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>>5115771
> Ask her about what merit points are actually good for.
> Complain about treatment from the Shas
> Talk about the superiority of Lasguns

Ya know what, I'm fine with working together. To return this planet to the Imperium.
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>>5115788
Namefags always have the worst ideas.
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>>5115771
>Ask about joining the defence as a Gue'Vesa
what's the actual process for joining, is their a temporary placement or is it permanent sort of thing. Also ask if everyone gets their own bin lid drone, love those things
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>>5115817
>Ask her about what merit points are actually good for.
We already asked this before, anon, merits are basically social credit points. For example, 500 and you can get flowers like those she gave us.
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>>5115840
Yeah but I just want to complain at her about how we're treated.
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>>5115771
>just talk
and immediately after
>pray for hatred
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>>5115814
Changing my vote {>>5115787} again. This will be the last time:
> Terminate conversation.
> Pray for hatred
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>>5115771
>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
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>>5115771
>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
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>>5115771
>>5115817
I also want to add [pray for hatred] to my vote.
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>>>Ask about joining the defence as a Gue'Vesa

i want a crysis suit
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>>5115771
>Just talk
>pray for hatred
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>>5115771
>>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
>PRAY FOR HATRED
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>>5115771
>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
>pray for hatred
‘ate chaos
‘ate xenos
luv me Emperor
luv me lasgun
simple as
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>>5115771
>Ask about joining the defence as a Gue'Vesa
Seriously all this sitting around is maddening and as good as lasguns are you'd like to at least try using a pulse rifle
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>>5115771
>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
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>>5115771

>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright.
Ask her is she alright and after ask if they are evacuating civilians and do she has any usefull info on the situation.
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>>5115771
>Just talk to her, make sure she's alright
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>>5115771
>Just talk.
>Pray for hatred.
The Shas have done nothing but shit talk us every chance they get. We COULD have just turned our autogun on them when they came rolling up and it would have been a real bad fucking day for them, even with their weapons and armor. But we didn't. We COULD have led them straight into a trap and let the cultists know they were coming. But we didn't. We could have been spending our time sabotaging their fucking equipment at the factory. But we didn't.

No, we're just a dumb fucking gue obsessed with that stupid "Imperator," with no imagination or aspirations to speak of.
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>>5117883
Add
>Complain about the Shas.
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"Yeah... Well I just wanted to make sure you were unharmed. You're not feeling frightened or alone or anything?" you mutter into the 'chron.
"I feel no distress. Cas. It gladdens my heart to know you care for me so. T'olku replies.
"Wha- hey what are you implying?" you ask astonished. It's not like you LIKE her. She's just something you don't want to be harmed, like... a fine Basilisk Artillery!
"I am very proud of you Cas Vaede. The day we first met you wrote you would rather befriend a Tyranid than me. You would hardly even speak to non-humans. You have become far more congruous since then."
You feel a deep sense of guilt. He who allows the alien to live shares in the crime of its existence. "I have mixed feelings to the concessions I've made here."
"I know it has been hard. That is why I'm so proud of you. You can live a good life here Cas, I am grateful you have given it a chance."
"A good life. The merit system and the Shas haven't exactly been helpful with that."
"You speak the truth Cas, they can be very harsh. But know everything we do. No matter our caste is for the Greater Good. One day we will all reap the full bounty of Tau'va. Don't give up."
You're unsure how to respond. You just want to fight the Emperor's enemies, right? "...It's good you're safe. I will see you on my Aun'Rotaa."
"I will see you then, Cas."
You disconnect the call and let your arm fall limp and lean back onto the junk behind you staring at the ceiling.
You've been on this stupid planet and listening to this stupid blueberry too long. You fall to your knees and pray to the Emperor for hatred. You almost felt there might be some truth to her words.
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>>5118365
I like this conflict we’ve voted for.
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(Okay we're up to page 10 now and honestly I don't feel up to committing to another thread. The updates are taking way longer than they did originally and I'm feeling drained. I've started work again this week too. so I'm going to call it quits here.
Thanks to everyone for joining me on this quest, had a good time running and drawing for it. Until next time.)
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>>5118374
Thanks for running. It was a good place to leave off.
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>>5118374
Thanks QM. Hope to see you soon.
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(btw may as well post this nude of Maiya I drew a while back. Click at own risk.)
https://imgur.com/a/mKvzn0s
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>>5118374
Well, its been good, but i'm sad we never got to smooch the blueberry
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>>5118374
Thanks for running.
Really nice ending, nice thread that started on a funny light tone. Character development, stuff went serious; all team can get the conclusion they want in mind : burn all the Taus, getting allowed in Fire cast and getting our own Lasgun-fitted mech, getting or not Blueberry...
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>>5118374
This was fun, sad that it's not continuing but it has been enjoyable.
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>>5118372
We're a fucking tsundere
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>>5118629
>I-It's not like i like you or anyhting, xeno!
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>>5118365
>No matter our caste is for the Greater Good. One day we will all reap the full bounty of Tau'va. Don't give up."
It's so precious. It's like they don't even realize they're in Warhammer 40k
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>>5118374
Good job, OP!
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>The story of a tsundere Guardsman who falls for the heretical lure of xenos thighs and ends up autistically standing with his cock in his hand, ultimately achieving nothing
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>>5118374
it's been a blast, some ups and downs but great overall
>>5118389
nice
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>>5118829
we saved the lives of our fellow humans and BTFO a chaos cell. Not bad for one guardsman.
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i liked it,a self contained story about a guardsmen coming to terms within tau society while having some adventures figthing cultists
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I am going to fucking KILL you dolomite



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