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Updated my resources and will follow your plan for now.

Aha...I'm loving how much of this story is just building organically. What a brilliant Game of Thrones we've conceived. [Amazon, are you paying attention?] LOL

Right, engaging dialogue, it'll be continued when Pyro answers.

Loisy is quite happy with this: he will put his counterpart under the pressure of knowing, but it is too late for him to cancel the action. If he refuses, he will probably be marked as a target as well. If he agrees, he gets rolled into Loisy's fold.

However, Loisy not being a political genius, he doesn't see that this might come back to haunt him later. But in his stubborn paranoia, he will go any length,.should.the whole world.turn.agzinst him.and.prove himself faulty.

I am keeping this cult of priests on my backburner for now. I have plausible deniability at the moment, and I can leverage knowing of their existence to look like an avenging reformer later.

Played around with microsoft copilot a bit... that is roughly how I imagine von Gaussenberg

Sorry about being late to reply to Pyro, Work and travel to my regiment for a reserve activity got in the way, I'll try to post somewhere today

I'll write the answers to Von Gaussenberg, I assume we consider the raid is happening while they are conversing, so maybe Loisy could have got direct feedback from his troops to share?

Just to keep the back and forth compact: is the mutants vanishing in some access tunnel something Gaussenberg can help with? If he gets that information live from Loisy, could I describe him raising a hologram from his tablet showing the tunnel infrastructure there? Maybe quickly checking the camera logs of nearby maintenance servitors or pressure fluctuations in the drainage pipes caused by lots of people and equipment being moved through them, thus guiding Loisys men towards their prey?

Sure, Gaussenberg would be able to supply that information.

You will quickly find out though that the mutants have vanished into what will someday become an underhive (think Necromunda).

The idea is that they will be hard to find. However, that can also be part of the story.

I.E. The realization that you now have an Underhive type situation to deal with that is chalk full of undesirables and potentially worse things.

BTW, in case you were wondering, the result of launching an attack would have been far...far...far worse. The Colonel made the right call!

Right, answered, I blended the failure of the raid in, so Von Gaussenberg has got live broadcast of the empty place and the much surprised pdf SF.

That's a' unexpected twist again though, got to love it

Hey Dekskull, I think I would also like to meet with the Bishop this turn if possible.

On that front, I have three objectives:
1. Find out about the rogue Priests and see what the Bishop knows. I don't want to crack down on them as they are aligned with what I am doing, but I need to know if they are a threat to what we are doing on the planet and can playball.

2. Understand and maintain his loyalty as we keep building the network and the Cathedral to St. Bonafatious.

3. Get him onside as my political attack dog in the council chambers against the chafing demands of the PDF.

I need to have the Bishop, and Tech-Priest 01 onside in order to keep control of the Council meetings with the Governor. When confronted with a council of 5, it is best to be on a side of 3+ councilors.

It's really funny to see - as the Cardinal pointed out in game - this balance of power forming and being maintained by the "big players". This fine tuning to keep power distributed between the three+ of them, shifting alliances and loyalties... Game of Thrones in space.

 Easy E wrote:
Hey Dekskull, I think I would also like to meet with the Bishop this turn if possible.

On that front, I have three objectives:
1. Find out about the rogue Priests and see what the Bishop knows. I don't want to crack down on them as they are aligned with what I am doing, but I need to know if they are a threat to what we are doing on the planet and can playball.

2. Understand and maintain his loyalty as we keep building the network and the Cathedral to St. Bonafatious.

3. Get him onside as my political attack dog in the council chambers against the chafing demands of the PDF.

I need to have the Bishop, and Tech-Priest 01 onside in order to keep control of the Council meetings with the Governor. When confronted with a council of 5, it is best to be on a side of 3+ councilors.

Definitely. I'll write up a response. The Cardinal is definitely playing the political game superbly.

As you can see, Loisy gets back rolling: his latest investigation seem to relief him in that it seems less likely now that it could be a Genestealer cult - although his stern demands to counter a potential Genestealer sect still remain needed in his mind- and the full force of his paranoia and outrage is now turning towards the munistorum, that he now sees as the root of all the corruption currently spreading on this world.

Time to playing the Heretic card and try to get out from under the suspicions of Loisy.

I will of course have our agents denounce these rogue priests, and help root them out. I would also recommend we place a bounty on their heads as they are Ex-Communicatus Traitoris. We can leverage our luxury goods and/or a place in the proto-hive as incentives for their capture/deaths.

The pure evil genius of the cardinal is delightful

und wieder: Spaß mit Microsoft Copilot:

Edit: for some reason I wrote in german. I meant: "again: fun with microsoft Copilot"

oh my goodness. This AI art is so good. But also scary.

True grimdark

I was out-of-pocket for the weekend, and it looks like I missed a lot of exciting developments.

Time to get rally around the flag and get onside with everyone else.

Seems like the most epic is to come, as I'm now having my character fight for his life!

Btw, fell free to make something for Loisy, I'm wondering what he'll look like

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
Btw, fell free to make something for Loisy, I'm wondering what he'll look like

say no more...

That's freakin rad, the dude has been around the block and I wouldn't like to be the target of one of his bursts of anger

 Maréchal des Logis Walter wrote:
That's freakin rad, the dude has been around the block and I wouldn't like to be the target of one of his bursts of anger

I agree. But you know what is not rad? Remember at the beginning of the game when one of the options was to invest in personal protection and no one did?

Mwhahaha

Well, I mentionned it at some point but that may not count in game terms. Oops

Oh right, I see know why you talking about bodyguards. Wish you lucky rolls, Easy!

Happy the Colonel did not disappoint, I'll write a post somewhere in the day!

Oddly, my character had started shedding parts of his retinue in narrative because he did not trust them! LOL.

My suspicions were right!

So, in game terms I wish to:

Ready the military
Abduct the governor
Meet with Von Gaussenberg
Rest at the medical for now.

The part about gathering the corpses being standard procedure, he gives the command to make sure but that'd be more or less part of the firefight anyway so I let you our dear GM see if you want to make something of this.