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for most of us, this hobby is a large part of our lives and inevitably, it leaks over into other parts. Im curious about times when thats happened to you.

I'll go first:

at work, we have a notoriously unreliable truck we sometimes use. It has a temperamental battery, it struggles to start when its cold, takes like 10 seconds of ignition to catch,etc.

So, one cold morning, i walk over to this truck to get it ready. Just as i am about to turn the key, i full on, out loud, invoke "Sprit of this machine, HEED MY WILL!" , and turned the key....the engine caught almost instantly. I was full on giggling to myself in geek glee for about 10 minutes afterward, much to the confusion of my co-workers.

so, anyone else got a similar or better story?

My work comes with an Inquisitorial Mandate.

That’s pretty 40K

I lost a war against fungi.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I lost a war against fungi.

I am horrified and intrigued in equal measure...

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I lost a war against fungi.

We've all been there at some point.

I've had internal organs surgically removed and replaced with mechanical alternatives.

I've assisted in cutting people open and replacing bits of them with mechanical alternatives.

I work in an odd bit of the civil service.

Best I've done is to speak the canticles of activation, while striking the machine's casing with the holy hammer of retribution.


"Start you b***ard!" - whack!

I am currently parttime the memory of the most holy judges and court of a local district. Supporting the honorable arbites by allowing for easy research and investigations of past transgressions against the state. I am the memory of the apparatus of repression, i will not forget.




Iow I am an a partime Archivist for the local court.

I died, and came back thanks to the car battery in my chest. Praise to the Omnissiah.

I unironically chased a police officer down a street (yelling at the guy to halt him) all the way up to his car and then went to the station to confront him there aswell.

(corrupt officer)

I know how badass that sounds and I am still suprised myself of that having actually happened.

I channeled my inner Guardsman and killed a deer with a single shot from. BB gun (actually a pellet gun shooting bb's). I didn't know it was fully pumped up and shot the deer in the chest.

 Haighus wrote:
I've assisted in cutting people open and replacing bits of them with mechanical alternatives.

Yeah, but only as a hobby.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I channeled my inner Guardsman and killed a deer with a single shot from. BB gun (actually a pellet gun shooting bb's). I didn't know it was fully pumped up and shot the deer in the chest.

Best to be sure, that deer could've called reinforcements .. making you have to fight off a dozen wildwood rangers.

Killed a wasp with a Deathwatch Codex in my local GW once. Does that count?

My squad and I charged out of the boarding ramp of an M113 and assaulted an objective. That's pretty 40K.



It's also why I think the Transport rules for 3rd Ed. were perfectly fine

Nothing like RF engineering to make you a firm believer in the whims of the machine spirit and the need to properly appease it before attempting any work.

 Gert wrote:
Killed a wasp with a Deathwatch Codex in my local GW once. Does that count?

Using one of the designated holy scriptures to pulverise a hated foe? Yes that's the most 40k you can be.


The most 40k thing I've ever done is carry a lot of skeletons around in a van.

You an archaeologist as well Olthannon? For me it was working here

Norwich Castle during the refurbishment just such a 40k scene.

I performed an exorcism on a blackhawk helicopter.

I dislocated my kneecap and tore my patellar tendon. After popping it back in I tried walking it off.

you have crazy storys.

After a succession of 3 different outsourced IT providers, I get a real Imperium vibe at work these days. Current teams are struggling to support old systems and seem to be relying more on ritual than actual understanding...

Crispy78 wrote:
After a succession of 3 different outsourced IT providers, I get a real Imperium vibe at work these days. Current teams are struggling to support old systems and seem to be relying more on ritual than actual understanding...

We must work at the same place.

 Olthannon wrote:

The most 40k thing I've ever done is carry a lot of skeletons around in a van.

I did have to accept a box of human remains as a postal delivery once. That was an odd day.

Then I had to wash my hands, as the package had been roughed up a bit on its journey from Florida and the ashes were seeping out. I didn't even realized what they were until I turned the box over and saw 'human remains' stamped on the top of the box. Yeah, the US Postal Service has an (ink) stamp for that.


[I was doing contract work at a national park with an attached military cemetery, and was the only person in the building, and it absolutely had to be signed for. The deceased's kids thought the best way to handle his full honorary burial was cremation and packing him up in the post. The sheer level of callous disregard feels very 40k.)

Voss wrote:
The sheer level of callous disregard feels very 40k.)

That does sound 40kish. At work a few of us joke that management is just there to root out heresy.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I lost a war against fungi.

Sounds like a mold problem.

In response to a question the other day someone at work replied I'm just a servitor.

Fired a DshK Heavy Machine gun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DShK) from the hip while having the belt draped over my shoulder. (Needed two hands to lift the frigging thing, it weighed over 40lbs and was unwieldy as hell. Basically attempted to fire an Auto cannon from the hip on full auto. Burned my hand and gouged my neck where the rounds snagged.