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Inquisitor Obadiah Fabian and his team are looking into the string of deaths occurring on the planet Lneff Octavus in the Enujim sector. These deaths appear to be ritual in nature or possibly perpetrated by xeno insurgents working to undermine Imperial rule in the area. Lneff Octavus itself is a border world, located along the south fringe of Ultima Segmentum, south of the Salem system on the border of the exodite worlds. It is primarily a trading hub between rogue traders and the Imperium, but also contains materials used in the fabrication of space vessels. Even on a border world, these murders cannot be left to go unnoticed and may be the precursor of something far more sinister. That is why it has fallen to Inquisitor Fabian and his people to uncover who or what is responsible and bring anyone to the justice of the Emperor lest His servants allow a loyal world to be lost when it should not have been.
Rules
So what are the ground rules that I'm laying down in this RP? Lets take a look:
- So to me, one of the most important aspects of an RP comes from its story element; its great if the GM can spin an epic tale but if the players are only producing two or three lines a post that actually drags it down, it can even drag other people out of character or worse because while they are putting in effort, some may not be and who wants that. For this RP, the minimum post requirement is six decent length sentences. For an idea of what I mean by decent length, the previous sentence would likely be it.
Now six may sound like a fair amount, and it rightly should; but many people are well and truly capable of it. For an idea of what a six sentence long bit looks like, I made sure the introduction was at least six decent length sentences long
-Number of posts per member between updates: Post once, post a dozen times, makes little difference to me as long as you meet the minimum sentences per post. You might find yourself running out of material to work with or unable to proceed because I need to advance stuff, but if you think that after update X your work would be better off working alongside another member and one or both of you does a two-parter post (thats something like your post starts off, then there post continues, then you post again and end things) then thats fine with me. It can give the feeling that your taking your time, getting into things, interacting and developing with other characters, and most importantly working together. Just don't go overstepping things, you know by starting to take the story in your own direction.
-As GM I reserve the right to request/demand any changes be made of a character; in the end, no matter what you may want the GM's say is the final one.
-Generally, if you go up against something that cannot be beaten in a single post, you'll know it. Those of you more used to working with me will be able to easily point this out, I tend to go into more detail with those kinds of problems.
-The obvious no god modding or trying to hijack the story; this more or less goes without saying but doing so for the record. If you want to control another player's character you better damn well make sure they don't have a problem with it or you've gone over things with them. I love it when members work together and collaborate, and make no mistake that I hate when people take control of others of their own accord to make there own characters look or be that much more epic.
-There are a few other things, but I will mention them, and then add them here, before the action thread opens. (Reason being because they will come with a warning of some kind.)
Characters
Yeah so that felt pretty long, mostly because the first two just have a lot written I guess (yeah five rules with a few other things, not all that much.) Now onto the characters themselves; Fabian is a normal inquisitor, despite his age and experience. He has many operatives throughout the segmentum, and for this I'm going to have as many as twelve character slots open. This is subject to change, depending on certain things, but likely will not drop below eight or nine.
For those familiar with inquisitors in the witch hunter or daemonhunter codecies, yeah its more; and there are a few reasons for that. The first being because a few members have known about this RP ahead of time, and, stroking my own ego here for a moment, like working with me. If the number of potential slots is to low, I'll get those people and no one else because they will jump on this like a fat kid to a wedding cake. The second reason being because not every inquisitor is like the ones you find in the codecies.
And let me give you the character template:
Name: (Goes without saying, first and last please and no nicknames; you don't choose those other people give them to you. Now if other players want to give you one, then by all means I am fine with that.)
Age: (Once again goes without saying, some characters will be able to be older than others, within reason.)
Appearence: (Seriously, what on Earth do you look like? And no cop-out on this one, if a blind man/woman wanted you to describe what you looked like with some detail you certainly would not give them a shit description. Put some effort into it, and no pictures, I want you to do the describing not the image.)
Personality: (What the fuck are you like? I don't want to see silent or speak only when they have to or shit like that. Some flaws and quirks are nice; but if you try to cop out here I can make this a chore rather than something interesting or fun.)
Background: (Once again goes without saying, whats your story? Don't need a novel here, but three or four sentences also won't cut it. Again no cop out, your character may not remember his past, might not want to talk about it, it might be expunged so that no one else knows, but I want it here. If anything then for an interesting read.)
How did you become part of the retinue: (So how did you come to work for/with inquisitor Fabian? This can range from something like saving his life, to him seeing use in you because your good at reading people, or maybe your smart, or a good fighter and some muscle every now and then is a good thing.)
Before going on to do that last one, might help you a little to know something about inquisitor Fabian. Obadiah Fabian is an Amalathian inquisitor with ties to both the Ordo Xeno and Ordo Sicarius though he does not work as a member of any particular ordo. Fabian has a large build, standing at roughly six and a half feet tall; he has a reddish tint to his skin, sharp features, salt and pepper hair and goatee, and hazel eyes. He looks to be in his mid thirties, though seeing as he has mentioned having met inquisitor Gideon Ravenor in the early 550's (this RP is set some time around 700 M41, prior to the Tyranids and the Tau have only been recently discovered) Fabian is obviously much older than he looks, and possibly older than he cares to mention.
Should definitely mention this now rather than later; I am not looking for a bunch of super awesome badasses, you don't all have to be fighters. Like Dark Heresy some subtlety, finesse, or brains will go a long way as well. I'm only looking for so many characters of a given type, so let me give you some idea of what I have no problem with people being:
Fighters (soldiers, bounty hunters, crusaders, pit fighters, mercenaries, big game hunters, enforcer)
Evolved human (psyker, blank)
Interrogator
Trader (rogue trader, merchant)
Followers (fanatic, preacher, penitent)
Brains (savant, lexicanum, munitorium clerk, mechanicus operative/magos)
Specialists (medic, hacker, theif, acrobat)
You'll notice no assassins, no space marines, no abhumans, no ordo militant sororitas; generally if its not up there, PM me and we'll see.
Rules
So what are the ground rules that I'm laying down in this RP? Lets take a look:
- So to me, one of the most important aspects of an RP comes from its story element; its great if the GM can spin an epic tale but if the players are only producing two or three lines a post that actually drags it down, it can even drag other people out of character or worse because while they are putting in effort, some may not be and who wants that. For this RP, the minimum post requirement is six decent length sentences. For an idea of what I mean by decent length, the previous sentence would likely be it.
Now six may sound like a fair amount, and it rightly should; but many people are well and truly capable of it. For an idea of what a six sentence long bit looks like, I made sure the introduction was at least six decent length sentences long
-Number of posts per member between updates: Post once, post a dozen times, makes little difference to me as long as you meet the minimum sentences per post. You might find yourself running out of material to work with or unable to proceed because I need to advance stuff, but if you think that after update X your work would be better off working alongside another member and one or both of you does a two-parter post (thats something like your post starts off, then there post continues, then you post again and end things) then thats fine with me. It can give the feeling that your taking your time, getting into things, interacting and developing with other characters, and most importantly working together. Just don't go overstepping things, you know by starting to take the story in your own direction.
-As GM I reserve the right to request/demand any changes be made of a character; in the end, no matter what you may want the GM's say is the final one.
-Generally, if you go up against something that cannot be beaten in a single post, you'll know it. Those of you more used to working with me will be able to easily point this out, I tend to go into more detail with those kinds of problems.
-The obvious no god modding or trying to hijack the story; this more or less goes without saying but doing so for the record. If you want to control another player's character you better damn well make sure they don't have a problem with it or you've gone over things with them. I love it when members work together and collaborate, and make no mistake that I hate when people take control of others of their own accord to make there own characters look or be that much more epic.
-There are a few other things, but I will mention them, and then add them here, before the action thread opens. (Reason being because they will come with a warning of some kind.)
Characters
Yeah so that felt pretty long, mostly because the first two just have a lot written I guess (yeah five rules with a few other things, not all that much.) Now onto the characters themselves; Fabian is a normal inquisitor, despite his age and experience. He has many operatives throughout the segmentum, and for this I'm going to have as many as twelve character slots open. This is subject to change, depending on certain things, but likely will not drop below eight or nine.
For those familiar with inquisitors in the witch hunter or daemonhunter codecies, yeah its more; and there are a few reasons for that. The first being because a few members have known about this RP ahead of time, and, stroking my own ego here for a moment, like working with me. If the number of potential slots is to low, I'll get those people and no one else because they will jump on this like a fat kid to a wedding cake. The second reason being because not every inquisitor is like the ones you find in the codecies.
And let me give you the character template:
Name: (Goes without saying, first and last please and no nicknames; you don't choose those other people give them to you. Now if other players want to give you one, then by all means I am fine with that.)
Age: (Once again goes without saying, some characters will be able to be older than others, within reason.)
Appearence: (Seriously, what on Earth do you look like? And no cop-out on this one, if a blind man/woman wanted you to describe what you looked like with some detail you certainly would not give them a shit description. Put some effort into it, and no pictures, I want you to do the describing not the image.)
Personality: (What the fuck are you like? I don't want to see silent or speak only when they have to or shit like that. Some flaws and quirks are nice; but if you try to cop out here I can make this a chore rather than something interesting or fun.)
Background: (Once again goes without saying, whats your story? Don't need a novel here, but three or four sentences also won't cut it. Again no cop out, your character may not remember his past, might not want to talk about it, it might be expunged so that no one else knows, but I want it here. If anything then for an interesting read.)
How did you become part of the retinue: (So how did you come to work for/with inquisitor Fabian? This can range from something like saving his life, to him seeing use in you because your good at reading people, or maybe your smart, or a good fighter and some muscle every now and then is a good thing.)
Before going on to do that last one, might help you a little to know something about inquisitor Fabian. Obadiah Fabian is an Amalathian inquisitor with ties to both the Ordo Xeno and Ordo Sicarius though he does not work as a member of any particular ordo. Fabian has a large build, standing at roughly six and a half feet tall; he has a reddish tint to his skin, sharp features, salt and pepper hair and goatee, and hazel eyes. He looks to be in his mid thirties, though seeing as he has mentioned having met inquisitor Gideon Ravenor in the early 550's (this RP is set some time around 700 M41, prior to the Tyranids and the Tau have only been recently discovered) Fabian is obviously much older than he looks, and possibly older than he cares to mention.
Should definitely mention this now rather than later; I am not looking for a bunch of super awesome badasses, you don't all have to be fighters. Like Dark Heresy some subtlety, finesse, or brains will go a long way as well. I'm only looking for so many characters of a given type, so let me give you some idea of what I have no problem with people being:
Fighters (soldiers, bounty hunters, crusaders, pit fighters, mercenaries, big game hunters, enforcer)
Evolved human (psyker, blank)
Interrogator
Trader (rogue trader, merchant)
Followers (fanatic, preacher, penitent)
Brains (savant, lexicanum, munitorium clerk, mechanicus operative/magos)
Specialists (medic, hacker, theif, acrobat)
You'll notice no assassins, no space marines, no abhumans, no ordo militant sororitas; generally if its not up there, PM me and we'll see.