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Nice pose. What spot colour you going for? I.think she'd look great with a puddle of white blood at her feet, btw, along with flecks of white on the blade?

Oh, and how about counts as penitent engines?

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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Nice pose. What spot colour you going for? I.think she'd look great with a puddle of white blood at her feet, btw, along with flecks of white on the blade?
Thanks. I'm not entirely sure what spot colour I will use and where it will be. I'm going to see how she looks at the end in B&W and then decide. Initial plan is possibly the hair and possibly red or blond... but that depends on what head I choose and what I do with the hair (in a modelling sense). Yeah, a splash or two of blood (in white) are very suitable.

Oh, and how about counts as penitent engines?
hmm... they are not very "repair/mechanic" like in their nature from what I can tell. They also look quite a bit bigger than this chap (don't want to be accused of modelling for advantage now, do I... ).

Here's a scale shot and the painting progress on Kabalite Warrior number 1 (He looks more green irl...):


You can also see, I've been filling gaps in the Wych in the background...

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This walking workshop is great! Would definitely count as Techmarine with complete harness. You could give him a number of modified Tau drones with one dangling tentacle each, counting as his servitors?

-oh and thank you, thank you, thank you for giving him the nuts magazin!

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 Hruotland wrote:
This walking workshop is great! Would definitely count as Techmarine with complete harness. You could give him a number of modified Tau drones with one dangling tentacle each, counting as his servitors?
Thanks. Yes, that is one option.

There will be servitors at some point, each will be different as with the rest of the army, so it's likely that a drone will form the basis on one at least.

-oh and thank you, thank you, thank you for giving him the nuts magazin!
Thank you, it was a good idea and well timed.

Today's progress is on Wych number 2 for the Nerdcademy:

I see her as somewhere between Miho and Kevin.
Only minor changes to the stock model; Straightened the front leg and turned up the toes and swapped the gun for another knife.

Now to think about head...

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Techmarine/enginseer/mek/warpsmith/haemonculus looks good in his primal undercoat.

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 monkeytroll wrote:
Techmarine/enginseer/mek/warpsmith/haemonculus looks good in his primal undercoat.

Lord Enginseer Techsmith Haemekulus reporting for duty Sah!
Yeah, a Techmarine seems to fit the best from that lot;
Rivet gun = Bolter
Welder = Servo-harness plasma cutter = twin-linked plasma pistol
All those arms = Servo-harness
The armour save for the Artificer armour seems a little too good for this chap, but could explain it as being difficult to hurt something that can fix itself...

Nice start to wychy-wych....
Thanks.

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 dsteingass wrote:
There;s nothing like inventing a fantastic model, full of character, then being forced into classifying it as another model. Play it as it is. Your invention.
[Pirate]Argh, It will be adapted , but I need something to base it on to get something that works in the game (however bad the official rules may be) and will be recognisable by other people.

A game designer, I am not, and I'm not going to pretend to be able to improve on what GW has done. It would be very easy with this army to create a completely unbeatable army that can draw from all the best rules, from all the races. So I take the rules for what I will play the model as (e.g. a techmarine), take out things I don't want to use (e.g. atsknf) and then add in what I have added (e.g. the army-wide implanted gizmos that I'm still working on rules for), etc...

Me hearty.
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Yar. Ye be from Cornwall? (They-- the Cornwallish (?) sound the most like pirates to American ears...)

There are still 'counts as' rules in the game, no? ( haven't played in 5 years, so no clues have I)

And I have to ask, you have seen Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts"? The Pirate Alphabet.... Pffffft! Tea??!!??

The Mechanic is a cool mini. Excellent Conversion.

 
   
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 Red Harvest wrote:
Yar. Ye be from Cornwall? (They-- the Cornwallish (?) sound the most like pirates to American ears...)
I am not, no. I be from the Midlands... can't get much farther from the sea (in England). It is amusing that pretty much one actor has set what everyone considers a pirate should sound like.

There are still 'counts as' rules in the game, no? ( haven't played in 5 years, so no clues have I)
Don't ask me, I've never played the game...
But that's using a different model with the rules of something in the game. I'm adapting the rules to fit what I make into the game. One day I will post a thread of my own codex, but I need to learn the rules for each army to make sure what I have works together... or something... whatever, not ready yet... Still compiling.

And I have to ask, you have seen Michael Nesmith's "Elephant Parts"? The Pirate Alphabet.... Pffffft! Tea??!!??
lol

The Mechanic is a cool mini. Excellent Conversion.
Thanks. Glad it has been received so well, considering I just threw it together to use some legs I made ages ago...

So, progress on the Nerdy-Wych, she now has a head and something to stand on:

The base was made with the filter carbon grains, packed together tightly on a piece of acetate, and then peeled off and "snapped" (more like ripped) in half to give the broken tarmac look.

This is pretty much built. I'm not going crazy with additions and want to keep it simple and then push the painting (even though it's all going to be grey) as far as I can. Will see how she looks once primed and then make any changes/additions before starting painting.

Also...
Here's the start of the long awaited (yeah, right) Necron fluff:
Spoiler:
Trazyn walked into the chamber, followed by the poor soul that he was controlling with mind-shackle scarabs, and then Trazyn's personal lychguard who fanned out and secured the dark, cold, room. Getting this far had been easy. The directions he had received anonymously, had been accurate and the planetary defences were so disorganised and had so many holes, it had been a mere formality to swipe them to one side and take control of the planet. With such a rare artefact as was stored here, the defences were unforgivable. The flower could have been lost to an attack from the most shambolic bunch of orks you could imagine. Trazyn was really doing the universe a favour in liberating this rare treasure from these pitiful people.

Now was the hard part though. The box that contained the flower was almost as legendary as the flower itself, but for a different reason. The box that housed, and has to house The Flower of Meikokaji (also known as the Flower of Carnage), is exceptionally dangerous if handled incorrectly. Stories of what happens to those foolish enough to attempt to open the box without proper consideration to the rituals required, were few, varied, and very graphic.

Trazyn and his lychguard searched the room methodically, passing over various trinkets and heirlooms, all sealed in their own glass cases, all worthless compared to Trazyn's own collection. Then he saw it, surrounded by a red rope barrier, in it's own glass case (that he noticed had been reinforced by metal strips at the corners), was The Box of Frogs. Made from a dark wood and large enough for an average human to squeeze into, the box was covered with carvings of small amphibians of all shapes and sizes. The carvings were in exquisite detail and if stared at for long enough, the eye would be fooled and the creatures would appear to move, or was it that they would move and you would be tricked into thinking that they didn't.

At his order, Trazyn's guard removed the rope barrier and carefully cut away the glass. The smell of wood filled the chamber as the seal was broken, together with another smell that he couldn't place, it was only subtle but would have left many people with a sense of warning. His curiosity got the better of him and Trazyn commanded the man, who until this morning had guarded this room, to open the box. The man stepped forward and, at first, attempted to lift the lid. Nothing happened. The man started to feel around the edge of the lid for a place to prise it open, or a lock, or some other way to open it. After a short while the frustrated scrabbling became a gentle stroking. The man kneeled down and leant against the box, caressing the carvings with his hands.

Trazyn looked on confused. This kind of reaction had not been written about when describing the box. It had always been fear, anger, blood and horrible deaths, none of this... sensual stuff. The man seemed to be completely "in love" with the box and was now not responding to Trazyn's commands. The man was almost trying to caress every inch of the box with every inch of himself, and then Trazyn saw it. There was a subtle glow, that started around the carvings and then spread to cover the man's features. It would be easy to miss if they weren't in such a dark room, but the glow continued to spread. The man's shoulders were now shaking and Trazyn noticed that he was crying, tears streaming down his face. Trazyn took a step backwards to distance himself from the glow.

Then there was a change, the room appeared to get darker, the glow became brighter and there was a low, thrumming noise that appeared to be emanating from the box. The man's wails of anguish turned to laughter. He continued to caress the box and appeared to have finally taken notice that he was not alone in the room. He started to act possessive of the box and shot Trazyn looks of evil and mistrust. Then Trazyn noticed the small wooden frog standing on the man's shoulder. It just sat there and, while still obviously made of wood, it appeared to be alive. Another amphibian appeared, hopping onto the man's head and looked at Trazyn. As he watched, more and more of the carved creatures came to life and settled on the man. As one, they then began to bite the man, tearing chunks of flesh away, blood splattered the ground surrounding the box. Within a few minutes the man had been totally consumed by the creatures, bones, scarabs and all. The creatures then returned to the surface of the box and became carvings once more.


Tune in next time to find out what is inside the box...

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Nicely done! Good story and always is good when Trazyn is even confounded. He may have a very advanced mechanical body, but this ego of his as in the stories does get one to want him to be trumped at times, but just caution as he is slippery

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For me Necrons lost "it" the moment they got self-aware. Now the ancient faceless, nameless and purposeless robo zombies, they were something!

Whatever The Scientist decides to do to (with) them will definitely be an improvement! Go, Dr.! Make them rue the day the decided to have names!
   
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shasolenzabi wrote:Nicely done! Good story and always is good when Trazyn is even confounded. He may have a very advanced mechanical body, but this ego of his as in the stories does get one to want him to be trumped at times, but just caution as he is slippery
Thanks. That's pretty much how I've written him, so that's good to know.

Hruotland wrote:For me Necrons lost "it" the moment they got self-aware. Now the ancient faceless, nameless and purposeless robo zombies, they were something!

Whatever The Scientist decides to do to (with) them will definitely be an improvement! Go, Dr.! Make them rue the day the decided to have names!
I've seen a lot of people disliking the newer Necron fluff.
As someone that wasn't aware of the original concept (2-3 years ago I was only aware of SM, Genestealers, Orks, Chaos and Eldar, and only in general at that, everything else is new to me), I don't have a problem with the Newcrons... but I can see where you are coming from.

Nobody has names in The Army of The Second Law, not even The Scientist. As I've said, I do have a few ideas of things to do with the Necron raw materials (aka models) and I do now have quite a good collection of bits. Watch this space.

Today's update is on Kabalite number 1.

Yes, he doesn't look much different from last time...
I have been having problems getting those highlights to look right and have been going back and fourth with them. They are now at least looking the "right" shade to me. Still need some more tidying of some of the lines and then I can start on the other colours...

Future kabalites will be done differently...

Next instalment:
Spoiler:
The Flower, that was contained within this box, could do far more deadly things. To look at it, the Flower of Meikokaji was a highly detailed representation of a fairly mundane flower, made of a transparent glass, with just a tiny hint of green to it. It's apparent frailty is in sharp contrast to the effect it has on people. If left outside the box, on any planet, the population would slowly turn to violence and would eventually tear their own planet to the ground, attacking anything from rocks and trees to any strangers or machinery and buildings. Only after many years, would the people under it's influence attack each other, leaving the planet a desolate wasteland. It is said that only a fragment of the glass is required for this effect. Left in it's box, as it had here, there is no effect, even if you manage to open the lid safely. The ritual to open the box would take many hours to complete, and Trazyn intended to follow it to the letter to get his first glimpse of The Flower, and then he would remove both the box and it's contents to his collection on Solemnace.

After just over 7 hours, the ritual was nearly complete and all that was left to do was a drop of blood into the mouth of the central amphibian of the lid. Trazyn bent down and rubbed his hand on the blood-soaked floor. Standing up he held his hand over the creature and a drop of blood fell from his finger into the wide open mouth. There was a pause where nothing happened as the drop of blood ran down the length of the creature's tongue into the depths of it's throat. Trazyn took a step back and waited. Just as he was going to consult his notes again, the creature blinked and it's mouth closed. After another pause there was a click and the lid popped open a fraction. One of Trazyn's lychguard reached down and opened the box. After it was apparent that nothing was going to happen, Trazyn leant over and looked into the box.

It was empty. Empty except for the stand designed to hold the flower and a small data crystal with a piece of paper stuck to it. On the paper was written his name, "Trazyn!", with an extremely large exclamation mark. Who would be stupid enough, while knowing enough to open the box, to remove the Flower and leave the box, and why did they know that he would be the one to open the box in order the find what must be a message. Trazyn took the data crystal and ordered the box taken to his ship ready for departure, and to keep the box open for when they find the Flower.

Trazyn had to wait until he returned to the planet Solemnace to access the data, as the crystal was in an ancient format and the only reader he had that could work was in his archives. It took a while to set up the old equipment and get it to work with the newer display equipment he had available and link it to his database to download the data and convert it to a new format. After two hours it was ready and he inserted the data crystal. He then had to wait for the data to be extracted and downloaded, the older equipment working sluggishly compared to what he was used to. Eventually, a video message began to play:
A man appeared on screen, he was standing in the chamber with the box behind him. He looked at the camera and said "Greetings Trazyn. I am The Scientist. If you are watching this, you will have received the tip-off I sent about The Flower, I hope that your arrival on this planet was smooth after I've handicapped their defences... and you will have found something with which to play this message on. Ha Ha. I have something for you..."

The Scientist steps off screen for a moment and returns with The Flower held lightly in his fingertips. "This Flower, to be exact. It's very nice and I'm sure you still want to get hold of it." While gesticulating with the delicate and deadly artefact, he continued "I want to trade this for a few little things that I'm sure you won't miss. The first of these, a copy of your entire database, will be on it's way to me by now. You see, making you use that particular data equipment, means that your usual defence against AI intruders has been completely bypassed." He smiled. Trazyn reached for the connecting cables "It's too late to pull the plug..." The Scientist interrupted "...The program is already on your system. But worry not, you won't loose anything you have there, it's just copying and transmitting it to me. Now, the other thing I want... is a selection of your more standard Necron equipment, nothing fancy, just some troops and other fighting constructs. Not a lot, one or two of each will do. I'll give you an hour or so, to get them ready and then I'll pop in, drop off this lovely flower and take my things in return. See you soon. Ha Ha." The message ends. Trazyn does not move and continues to stare at the screen in a mix of astonishment and anger.

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Looks fantastic. If you where aiming for an emerald green hue then you nailed it, DE looking great too.




 
   
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Ah, the Midlands. Where people speak understandable English Unlike say, that Geordie accent. Whoa. Midlands is the dominant accent type here in the US. It came from the same Parent as the the current Midlands in the UK ( 17th century Midlands English.) Hence the name.

May I suggest painting the Wych in bright, cheery anime colors? Go against type here.

 
   
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Camkierhi wrote:Looks fantastic. If you where aiming for an emerald green hue then you nailed it, DE looking great too.
Thanks. I've now tidied up the lines and he looks better. Need to deepen the shadows (if that is possible) and do a few highest of highlights and I'll be done with the green lines...finally. Ta.

Red Harvest wrote:Ah, the Midlands. Where people speak understandable English Unlike say, that Geordie accent. Whoa. Midlands is the dominant accent type here in the US. It came from the same Parent as the the current Midlands in the UK ( 17th century Midlands English.) Hence the name.

May I suggest painting the Wych in bright, cheery anime colors? Go against type here.
You don't have to go far in any direction for the dominant accent to change in England. But I don't see myself as having an accent (and I suspect many people do also despite others thinking they do), but I was told that after spending just over a decade in Birmingham that I had developed a slight brummie inflection. That may have faded now. I'm also no good at imitating other accents. *shugs* Seems like black magic to me when people can.

The Wych is for Nerdfest's competition and will be grey-scale with one spot colour.
There are many more Wyches to be done, chances are one will end up with bright colours.

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Oh it is on now! Feud between trazyn and the scientist as he has asked for quite the lot for that flower. Trazyn will want more Methinks

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Nice color choice on the DA. I'm quessing that they will be getting the next codex update based on the new models GW is putting out.

 
   
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Warboss_Waaazag wrote:It's almost as if your Dark Eldar were made for these beautiful dynamic poses.
Thanks Warboss.
She didn't require much modification (relatively, I suppose). The head, body, left arm and right leg are all unmodified.

The right arm has only had a gun removed and a knife added, oh and I did remove a little from the armpit area to bring the arm in a bit.

The left leg, which was bent right up in a running pose, was cut at the knee (being careful to keep the bat-wing which was moulded to the thigh. I will have to carve that away on all the Wyches ), straightened, re-glued and filled behind the knee, and the toes were cut and glued on bent up.

And I had to fill a small gap in the shoulder armour.

That's it, very simple. But I made sure to make it tidy and seamless (not that I don't on all my other models).

I had this pose idea written down on my list of things to do, so I'm very happy to be giving it a go and ticking something off.

shasolenzabi wrote:Oh it is on now! Feud between trazyn and the scientist as he has asked for quite the lot for that flower. Trazyn will want more Methinks
It is a very nice flower...
The Scientist is one for ruffling feathers. It is all in the name of creating chaos. Pretty much anything you do will be a favour to him, except building a large, regular, building/city... the sort of thing that lowers entropy... but that's not the sort of thing people do as a reaction.

Solar_lion wrote:Nice color choice on the DA. I'm quessing that they will be getting the next codex update based on the new models GW is putting out.
Assuming you meant DE, yes they are the next update as it turns out.
It wasn't so definite up to a couple of weeks ago, so I got both DE and Necron battleforces (before they are discontinued). But I can't open the Necrons until tomorrow...

So, progress...
Kabalite #1 is now tidied and highlighted (hooray!) I can now move on to the other colours...

His gun may change colour, partially or entirely. Not sure on matching armour AND weapon... Will see when I've done the other colours.

Wych has now had the main areas blocked in with the main shades and have had a black wash:

You will see that I am doing her skin very pale, and the armour, generally dark. I'm aiming for high contrast between neighbouring areas of the model.
I will now start shading the various areas.

and here is part 3 of 4, Trazyn meets The Scientist...
Spoiler:
73 minutes later there is a knock at Trazyn's door. He looks up, confused. He had not summoned anyone and nobody in his command knocks on any door, they are programmed to open upon the approach of a Necron. There is another knock, as if to dispel the thought that he might have imagined it. He opens it remotely and is greeted by the sight of the man from the video. Trazyn stands up, grabbing his Empathic Obliterator. "How did you get in here, where are my guards, you better..." He stopped when he saw what the man was holding; a bunch of flowers, all identical to The Flower of Meikokaji. The light in the room glittered off the collection of glass, in a beautiful and yet somehow menacing way.

"So nice to meet you, Trazyn, in the... well... metal, as if were. Ha Ha. Your guards have just popped off for a bit. I have The Flower here, and I transported the agreed upon material up to my craft. But, first..." He walked closer to Trazyn. "...I wonder if you would be so kind as to give me a guided tour of your collection. I promise not to touch anything. Ha Ha." He smiled.
"And what is to stop me from killing you where you stand?" Said Trazyn.
"Ah, well, a couple of things. One, you don't know which of these is the real flower. There are two ways to tell which is the correct flower. You could leave each one on a separate planet and wait until the effect becomes obvious, which I calculate to be approximately 14 terran months. The other method, I won't tell you just yet." He winked. "And the other reason you won't kill me is the explosive device I hold in the same hand. This will explode if I release my grip. This will contaminate you and your planet here with the glass dust of The Flower... and you don't want that." Trazyn relented, he would play this man's game for now.

After walking amongst his collection, stopping occasionally to discuss various pieces, Trazyn had been struck by this man's intellect and knowledge. The Scientist had even given Trazyn information about many incomplete pieces in the collection, without asking for anything in return. It was proving to be more than worth the time it was taking. Finally they came to gaze upon The Box of Frogs. "A fascinating construction, is it not?" Said The Scientist. "The wood that was used for this box can be used to make all manner of items that can perform duties... and any entities made from the wood can be trained as you would any animal. These amphibians are magically linked to the actual box, otherwise I would have kept one as a pet. Would be a fantastic talking point: 'Have you seen my wooden, killer frog?', hilarious. Ha Ha." Trazyn looked at the man quizzically.

The Scientist turned to Trazyn "Right, well the other way to tell these flowers apart, as I'm sure you're dying to know... is that I've designed these other flowers so that only the real flower will stay on the stand in the box, all the others will fall off. Try it..." The Scientist pulls a flower from the bunch and hands it to Trazyn. Trazyn looks as The Scientist for a moment and then bends over and places the flower onto the stand. It falls off almost instantly and he tries again, but however he positions it, it will not stay on the stand.
"See..." Said The Scientist "...won't stay, and the same is true for all of these, but one... This one." He hands an identical flower to Trazyn and then bends over and retrieves the fallen one from the box. "Try it" insisted The Scientist.

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Seems Trazyn and the Scientist are doing well, especially consider the Necron view of other beings and all.

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Love the wooden puzzle box, you've totally captured Trazyn's detached fascination btw.
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shasolenzabi wrote:Seems Trazyn and the Scientist are doing well, especially consider the Necron view of other beings and all.
True, but The Scientist is more than just a mere mortal...

inmygravenimage wrote:Love the wooden puzzle box, you've totally captured Trazyn's detached fascination btw.
Thanks. Well the story called for a rare artefact and so I looked for a "flower" on the internet (by typing in "Flower of" and seeing what came up)... I wanted it to cause chaos of a sort and started trying words to that effect and ended up with The Flower of Carnage:
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Note the name of the artist responsible for that music and the name I gave the flower...

I did a similar thing for the box, but I wanted something strange or unusual and ended up with frogs... "Mad as a box of frogs"
The story pretty much wrote itself from that point...

I'm glad I managed to get Trazyn right too.

Your Deldar are just lovely, I really like your paintjob. Also, the Wych is going to fit right in to the army as a whole in the grey scale - maybe a whole squad of them?
Thanks. Hopefully the kabalite will come to life when I add the other colours. He was such a PITA to get those lines right, I feel sorry for anyone who decides to do a whole army like that.

Yep, the Wych will be used in the army, she had to remain usable, I'm even going to do my usual base-edging in grey.

Update later, depending on what I get done.

I've opened up the Necrons and I'm quite pleased with the way the bits are split up. I can definitely do much with what is there. The Ghost ark will end up quite different from what it usually is, and I can probably make 2 vehicles from that. I was surprised that the ribs were solid plastic, you definitely get your monies worth in weight there.

So, last part...
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Trazyn bends over once more and places the flower on the stand, it stays there and Trazyn notices a small glint of light from The Flower as he stands up again.
"And with business concluded, I thank you for an enjoyable tour and I'll let myself out." Said The Scientist and turned to walk out the room.

"I don't think so" Said Trazyn and pulls a tesseract labyrinth from the folds of his cloak. He activates it just as The Scientist turns, trapping him inside. "See if you can trick your way out of that with your exploding bouquet, Ha." Trazyn returns to his room, placing the small cube on his desk, he sits down and starts to study the wealth of information that this man had given him. He turns to a communication hub and gives orders for a search to find the craft that The Scientist had arrived on, as he turns back to his research he is suddenly aware of a presence in front of his desk. Trazyn looks up and into the face of The Scientist.

"That wasn't very nice." Said The Scientist "I was nothing but fair to you, I'm almost hurt. But it was an interesting puzzle nonetheless. So I will let you off... for now." He turns and leaves the room. Trazyn looks on in shock. No being had ever managed to escape a tesseract labyrinth, never mind in such a short time. To navigate a labyrinth that uses dimensions that you cannot see, to escape the pitfalls and to dismiss it as a simple "puzzle", required more than just a superior intellect, and the man had escaped still carrying the bunch of glass flowers he had been trapped with... He could not be a mere human. As The Scientist leaves the room, and the door closes behind him, Trazyn looks down and notices that the tesseract labyrinth has gone. He stands up to run to the door when there is a loud explosion in the corridor outside, muffled by the thick door, it still shakes many items in the room. The door opens as Trazyn approaches to reveal the damaged corridor peppered with shards of glass, but no blood. Cameras in the corridor recorded the man disappearing a fraction of a second before the explosion. Trazyn started to think that he was the one that had just had a lucky escape. A being that could escape a tesseract labyrinth and then vanish from a corridor that is shielded against teleportation, could probably cause untold destruction. Trazyn never noticed that The Flower of Meikokaji was missing about an inch from it's stem.

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Trazyn taken down a notch or two, oh how the other Necrons would chuckle over that! (as you have read by now Trazyn is seen as quite the scoundrel himself by his kin.)

But the Scientist has to have some limits, someone he may be worried about.

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True. Well The Scientist is his own foil really. But, yes, I should write something to illustrate that things don't always work out well for him.

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Oh and I do have progress on the Generals too boot. I need to snap fresh pics as I painted the bases at their feet.

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except building a large, regular, building/city... the sort of thing that lowers entropy



I am not a physician (physicist? physic? Native english speaker I am also not), nor do I possess the collected knowledge of an entire planet, but I beg to differ, Mr. Scientist. By building a large regular building/city maybe you lower the localentropy insofar that a crstaline concrete structure has lower entropy than the viscotic mashup it once was. But in the process a lot of energy is transferred into thermal energy - the overall entropy rising. Not to talk about the lot of creatures buzzing around and living their petty lives in this structure. Producing heat by just being an organic bioreactor, by driving vehicles around, opening windows, closing doors...

Or did I understand entropy wrong? I always thought raising entropy in the long term means every form of energy is caught up and equally distributed as brownian motion throughout the universe in the end of time (infact this being the definition of time: the raising of overall entropy).

edit: stupid, stupid, stupid! How could I be so stupid and risk TheScientist setting an eye on me? Don't wanna be a droooooooone!

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shasolenzabi wrote:Oh and I do have progress on the Generals too boot. I need to snap fresh pics as I painted the bases at their feet.
Pics or it didn't happen... and it has happened, as I have seen...

Hruotland wrote:
except building a large, regular, building/city... the sort of thing that lowers entropy



I am not a physician (physicist? physic? Native english speaker I am also not), nor do I possess the collected knowledge of an entire planet, but I beg to differ, Mr. Scientist. By building a large regular building/city maybe you lower the localentropy insofar that a crstaline concrete structure has lower entropy than the viscotic mashup it once was. But in the process a lot of energy is transferred into thermal energy - the overall entropy rising. Not to talk about the lot of creatures buzzing around and living their petty lives in this structure. Producing heat by just being an organic bioreactor, by driving vehicles around, opening windows, closing doors...

Or did I understand entropy wrong? I always thought raising entropy in the long term means every form of energy is caught up and equally distributed as brownian motion throughout the universe in the end of time (infact this being the definition of time: the raising of overall entropy).

edit: stupid, stupid, stupid! How could I be so stupid and risk TheScientist setting an eye on me? Don't wanna be a droooooooone!
Physicist is a person that does Physics.

That is pretty close. Heat is a very good sign for entropy as it is quite good at spreading out into it's surroundings to reach equilibrium (maximum entropy for the system). The main thing to remember about entropy is that in a sealed system, entropy will either stay the same or increase. The problem with trying to think about something like a planet, is that it's difficult to get a sealed system; matter and energy will dissipate into space (as well as the occasional thing dropping on to the planet), so it's not sealed. The universe is a sealed system as nothing can enter or leave (or can it... in this setting this is not true when you can consider the warp).

The other main thing to realise is the bit in the brackets... The (Mad) Scientist... while his reasons are based on science, he makes some... miscalculations from time to time.

You'll like being a drone, you'll be programmed to like it. How do you know you are not already...

Not a lot of painting progress today, but I am about to do some, so I'll have something to show tomorrow.

I did do some fluff though, based on the earlier conversation about things not always going smoothly...
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When the average person/being encounters something that appears to do something or react to an action (a button/switch or a small furry creature, for instance), there is an overwhelming urge to engage with it and see what happens, this is normal.

When the result is less than favourable for the being (assuming it is not fatal), a small electric shock when pressing a button for example, the being will generally think along the lines of "I shan't do that again", this is normal.

There are two types of being that differ from this; one is of such a low intelligence that they either don't realise that action and reaction are linked, or are just plain stupid. The other type can be described as a scientist: When a scientist presses a button and receives an electric shock they will think "I wonder if it does that every time..." and will eventually require medical attention.

The Scientist sat at his desk. A bowl of flowers lay smashed on the floor, crumpled up pieces of paper lay scattered about. He was furiously scribbling on another piece of paper. Row upon row of numbers interspersed with letters from many alphabets and strange symbols linking them all together in a language only he understood.

He sat back. "So, she wants to play it that way, heh" He reached forward and underlined one last number. Two digits that meant nothing by themselves, but were vitally important to all beings in the universe. The Scientist stood up and carried the paper out of the room. Outside there is a long corridor, flanked with filing cabinets. "E, e, e..." muttered The Scientist as he walked along "...e, e-v, e-v... Ah, here we are" He placed the paper in a drawer and walked on, turning left at the end of the corridor.

The Scientist entered the small laboratory and removed his white lab coat. He then hung this up next to many others on a line of hooks and picked up another, identical one. Putting it on, he walked over to a chair that sat in the middle of the room and faced what appeared to be a mirror on the wall. He flicked several switches on the impossibly complex machinery behind the chair and then sat down. A small robotic hand reached out from the middle of the machine and hovered by The Scientist's right ear. He reached up and took a small connector, trailing a thin wire, from the hand and plugged it in to a port just behind his right ear. He closed his eyes for a moment.

There was a large shower of sparks from part of the machinery and The Scientist stood up with a sigh, retrieved a hammer from beside the chair and brought it down on the offending part, leaving a dent amongst many others already in the metal. He sat down again and looked up at the mirror. The mirror cleared to reveal a window into a large chamber. The walls of the chamber were organic in appearance and small creatures crawled over the surface, tending to it as the tended to the chamber's main occupant; a huge bloated head and atrophied body of a Tyranid Zoanthrope. This Zoanthrope, however, was very different from what might be seen on any battlefield; It's tail was elongated and would stretch, if it wasn't coiled up around the body, to hundreds of metres. The armoured carapace was missing and the body was not much more than an extension of the tail, joining it to the head. The head was now 10-15 times the size of the average Zoanthrope and rested on bony extensions from the jaw. It faced the window and The Scientist, and opened it's eyes as he looked at it.

The Scientist felt a shudder pass over his body as the Zoanthrope's mind reached out and focussed on his mind. Moments like this one were the only times that he allowed her into his mind. It was dangerous for both of them, but necessary.
"You've been a naughty girl" he said.
A wave of indifference washed over him from her mind.
"Now, now. You know that you perform a vital duty here on this planet".
"Yes" he sensed in reply from her.
"And that I have been good enough to allow you the freedom to think for yourself" He said, as if disciplining a small child.
"Yes" he felt in reply. This was followed by a sensation of euphoria; something she always did as an apology.
"Accepted" The Scientist said. "This kind of probing MUST stop. You could damage all that we have built here, you could damage yourself..." He left that hanging.
Another wave of euphoria passed over him, with a hint of sexual arousal. She was sorry, he could tell. There would be no more probing thoughts sent out from the planet, without his permission.

"Now then, I want to contact the others." The Scientist said. It was not an order, she would only perform this duty if she was ready and willing. There was a long pause... and then a weak "yes" passed though his mind.
"Good. Now I want to ask her what she thinks about the answer, what she feels" He said.
A sharp pain flashed though his mind and came to rest above his left eye.
"Yes, yes. I know it's dangerous to deal with her feelings. But this is important. If she doesn't want to play, we'll end it. Yes?" He said, wincing from the pain. The pain stopped and was replaced with a "Yes".

Beads of sweat stood out on his forehead, The Scientist concentrated. communication of this type, over this distance, is very hard work. Without the boosting effect of the mutated Zoanthrope, he would only manage in giving himself an aneurism and not even contact the room next door. He reached out with his mind and started to feel the tendrils of the many fleets out in interstellar space. After another half an hour of concentration, he could feel her mind poking at his defences, trying to determine who he was, and where he was. He concentrated on distracting her and giving false information to her questions. Once the contact had settled down and he had been accepted, grudgingly, into the gestalt collective, he started to ask questions. Poking at the sensations he received and working up to the answer he had deduced. On a couple of occasions she nearly broke through his defences, but his resident Zoanthrope saved him and guided him. And then came the moment, what was her reaction to the answer.

Would she agree, would she accept it, would she know the question...? No, he asked, and the hive mind had lashed out.

The Scientist walked into the room and looked down on his previous body. The steaming, bloody froth was still oozing from the orifices. The body curled up as the muscles and tendons shortened as they were boiled. He walked over to the window and looked into the Zoanthrope's eyes. "Rest now, you performed well." He said and then walked over and switched off the machine. The window returned to it's mirror finish and the small arm extended. He bent over and retrieved the cable, placing it back into the hand, it retracted. "and that's why I record these things" he said to the room in general, "I wonder if that happens every time...".

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Good thing he clones himself as the Hive Mind is so deadly powerful. In Tigurius, Ultramarine Librarian has survived direct mental contact.

Hmmm probing contact waves? if local, I would have suggest that the Zoey caught the attentions of my factions, LOL! oh how much trouble that would be, The Khadrovian Union, the Dragons errant fleets, WAAAGH!!! Magnotz, the Kraal' Q Dominion and the Sept Kal' Dath a very militant Tau sept I may add. That sept has a ever living shas' o, Shas' O L' en' za' Bi who is in a full prosthetic cyber body and downloads himself to a new replacement if he is destroyed in battle, ( I wrote that all up back in the old Medusa-V campaign in 2008).

But that would be fun for some fights with probe forces. Problem with crossing the Pond though.

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