After some debate, I have decided to start up this thread separate from my P&M thread for the current fiction I'm working on.
This is a Warhammer 40.000 piece and will be added to as new sections are completed.

So I hope you all enjoy!!!





Story:


The Fall of Calliope VI - Prologue.

The Fall of Calliope VI - Foundations

The Fall of Calliope VI - Silence

The Fall of Calliope VI - Advent




Rules:

"Hunter Slayers"




PART 5: "Consolidation", COMING SOON!


In the words of Frankie Howerd, "If you enjoyed it, tell your friends!"

i subscribe now for being on the safe side^^

and your link for the story should be linked to this thread then rather then to your main P&M thread...just saying^^

I think you clicked the wrong banner Vik

the Papa-Nid one is my P&M one, That Calliope banner is my Fiction link

ha... it was the one of the far right then... never realized it wasn´t part of the big long one...d´oh...

No harm no foul

and fool ?

Well maybe just a little...

Also, the banners have spaces between them now so there is no confusion

yup now it is looking better organized^^

tho the height of the calliope one is a bit bigger then the others...

you´re not the only one with OCD^^

Lols I'm letting it slide because its a spherical-shaped-object type ache

I'd need to resize then prat about with photobucket...

the size or the shape of the ache is of no consequence to me

meh

Anywho, as an update to Calliope:


Expect part two either Monday or Tuesday, as I need to do its final edit and formatting before uploading to scribd!!!

well i should now take a leave and get me some sleep... stay in good spirits mate! and i don´t mean booze^^

cheers, vik

Lols Night dude!!!

I like it so far, great details and good impressionism on those details.

Thanks Lysenis, tis much appreciated!!!

Might just be me trying to read it on my phone, but the stuff I'm seeing on scribd is like scrambled or something...
I can see what I believe is your watermark, but the text looks like its in some kind of code or something...
I will try reading it on an actual computer, as my phone has the tendency to need smashed with a BFR sometimes

swordman86 wrote:Might just be me trying to read it on my phone, but the stuff I'm seeing on scribd is like scrambled or something...
I can see what I believe is your watermark, but the text looks like its in some kind of code or something...
I will try reading it on an actual computer, as my phone has the tendency to need smashed with a BFR sometimes

I think unfortunately it is because of reading it on a phone. Scribd has done that to me before on my phone.

Oh ok dang I read the first bit of fiction you had before and it was really good, I as looking forward to reading this bit as well

Awsome, heh, didn't know I had fans out there already lols.

uc, good stuff whens the next update?

Hoping some time monday 2nd/tuesday 3rd. Just need to re-fiddle with part two, and format it into pdf file.

I unfortunately was a little lax in editing this weekend as I've been trying to sort out part 3, as I had a little writers block to one of the transition elements... which hopefully is sorted now,

So fingers crossed and whatnot lols

ill pray to the beer gods that you get it sorted out

Right, update time:

Part 2: Foundations is almost done, it needs another proof read before publishing, but unfortunately that will have to wait until tomorrow. word count: 2k ish

Part 3: Silence is being typed up atm, half done, half to go. reads quite nice and I think will shift it to a less clinical tone. word count: over 2k

writers block.... have a pint and a good measure of whiskey and all should flow again^^

either from his gut or his hind end or both maybe get lucky and you will spew forth good material

lol.... soddin´humor

I go away to type gak up and you two start... eeeesh...

anywho, thought I'd mention wordcount as I was here, which currently resides at:

6156

*falls off seat*

but my question is...when is it going to be posted

tomorrow *fingers crossed* as my proof reader is ill atm, and I'm waiting on someone to get back to me on filling in for the other person. otherwise your looking at the end of the week unfortunately :(

this is not acceptable uc even from you nah i know it will be good when you do get it up

... poor choice of words...

It'll definitely be uploaded this week, and I think while I'm waiting on the proof reading I'll at least start part four "Advent"

I'm considering going back to my original plan also, which is to upload a single chapter once a week so I can avoid waiting on others too much for proof reading.

proof reader is ill? what did that poor guy have to read?

how much is that 6k of words innpages?

anyhow...nighty^^

Erm, roughly 11 pages on top of whats been published with the prologue

now that is what i then probably will call an entertaining read

meanie

mo

eh?

eenie, meenie, mo...

you missed out "mynie"

did not

did too

you too?

where noo?

hey hey im the bipartisan american in this argument so i go with the mass...well im just being difficult and since i am the bipartisan american
UC you are not fulfilling your end of the arrangement on this einey meany miney mo game so it is both your faults )

Did someone mention mass? Papa-nid's hungry...

hmmm well tell papa nid that theres pizza in the fridge but dont eat it all

Om nom nom nom nom nom nom...

and with that I'm off to watch MI: Ghost Protocol

papa nid is only getting the nid between the sofa cushions... nothing more

Part two: "Foundations" Available 6th July 6pm GMT

Well hello once again people, its that time, The second part is now available to read (see the front page for link).

Apologies it took so long, was experiencing some technical difficulties... i.e. me needing to reinstall several programs after deleting them thinking I no longer needed them...

anywho, hope you all enjoy, part three will be available this time next week, and I'm about to embark on party four. So see you next time peoples!!!

just got done reading it UC, great openingmakes you wonder what the Inquisitor did. Very graphic in describing the world.

keep up the great work man

Thanks, I always appreciate a fan lols. Well Silence is out next week

i just support creative arts and ideas.

good to here the next installment is going hot next week keeping fingers crossed for the crazy stuff that may happen in between

Tiny update, "Silence" is almost complete it seems, having needed very little editing.

yay toast! good to hear man. you should stop by my place and check out the madness i been working on

I'm not sure whether your coming onto me there or not

if you mean your thread, I've been meaning to just never got round to it before lols

hey hey im easy not cheap just remember that and i was talking about my thread besides i dont want to interfere with your bromance with with rouge he might get mad

lols he wishes

lol well you know one mans wish is another mans nightmare...hmmm waking up in cold sweats thinkg about rouge now are we?

at any rate your third bit of your story needs to be linked up tis a good read and would like to read more awesome that comes out of your tater

oh i been plodding along in your thread stuff looks mighty fine really like the eyeless nid thing makes them that much creepier

lols Part 3 will be available friday, so patience

and thanks, although I've had very little in the way of updates recently for my main P&M thread...

Also, I recently approached the amazingly talented Mr Daemonfae for a star map of the Calliope System, if you havent seen his, work, please do here:

cool idea... this will be right up his alley i think... and he did ask for such "jobs"

read the fluff. I like how you go about it and you discription is excellent with nice word choice. I feel like i really understand whats going on. Keep up with the fluff.

Thanks panda, CC is always welcome as well as the praise dude!!!

remember part three is friday


I'm also considering a special two part release for the midway section of parts 4 and 5, so you may get both at once, depending on edit time and such.

Lols I didn't know that Vik, but I'm glad I got in touch with him, he's bloody talented

ilkl hold ya to it on fridays release and the mid week release might be a good idea

i ahve deamon´s most recent works all on my table atm waiting to get assembled... even my wife liked his work!

yeah I may do a midweek release for part 4 and then part 5 on the friday.

I'm also quite happy how smoothly "Silence" progressed from the writing to edit to finished phases. fingers crossed the rest goes as smoothly

Yeah I love his terrain work, and his artwork is exceptional.. if GW doesnt employ him when he's a bit older then they are bigger idiots than I took them for.

his style of work is a digital version of the early Rogue Trader stuff which I love so much!!!

yup... the effects and the textures as such look very good... that is an understatement tho^^

Thanks Vik, I really appreciate it

btw Mattias will show up in part 4

lol... still one full chapter to wait^^

patience my friend... it won't kill you to wait two weeks

hmmm... and if i will never be able to ...wait for it... READ the tale^^

lols... I'll bloody slap you beyond the grave if I have to

lol... talk about a wakeup call

After managing to wrok through the night, from daylight to daylight, I have now managed to finish up a wip version of "prologue" with new background textures and fonts.

I would really appreciate feedback and CC please...


... time to go nap before my appointment

the new background is much better looking... the faided and grubby looking suits the grim dark scheme much better!

and what appointment?

the prologue is looking great! i havent quite finished part 2 yet, but so far im liking it, i especialy like how when you mentioned a servitor, you mentioned a tidbit of backstory on what a servitor is without taking away from the plot

^that RW... i never thaught about it but childe is writing in a way that doesn´t expect too much knowledge of the lore and the fluff of 40k but can still be enjoyed by a noob...

tis why i mentioned it, although he is putting it here for us who know, i conisder my self a fluff noob and i honestly didnt know where servitor some from, now i do! and i like that he put the backround in it

well at least that info i got earlier... it was so despisable that it got stuck damn good in my brain... really there is little the IoM isn´t cpable of doing to their next of kin as they do to their enemies^^

Rule of writing No.1. When writing, make the reader aware of everything without making them feel like an idiot

and thanks you two, I really appreciate it!!!

it is the rather simple compliments that work the best^^


the other day i was fetching groceries with my wife...being a man...i look occaisionally at other women then i saw someone.. looked and found it was my wife... told her my train of thought and she blushed...yey strike^^

Also, I've re-done the background again in the pdf, but haven't uploaded it yet. Basically I've inverted the colours that I used so its now a bluey grey which I think works a whole lot better. When I get back this afternoon I'll endeavour to finish off working on them and upload the revised versions.

hmm... could...could... will see about that

what you mumbling about eh Vik?

"Silence" Now available to read!!!

Liked the new part...still didnt understand why everyone with a brain blew up, but it sure added to the oh "your so fethed" catagory.

Lols it was only a select few people who's head blew up

it depends on what you know from 40k fluff... but its explained in the next part Advent, which has just this minute been typed up... now entering edit phase

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Lols it was only a select few people who's head blew up

it depends on what you know from 40k fluff... but its explained in the next part Advent, which has just this minute been typed up... now entering edit phase

(4999 heads popping) is a very select few childe.

Spoiler alert dude lols

is the third part out...for real??? how do you do that? you know the odd human needs sleep once in a lil while...

lols I decided to early release it Vik, because I wanted to knuckle down to parts 4 and 5 without distractions.

spolier alerts? i gave nothing of the sort. :(

losl thats my point ya noob

i´ve read your comment on dave´s thread... seems that is a gakky situation...

will start to read soonish^^

nice job childe, releasing it so fast, im probibly going to read it tonight though

Viktor von Domm wrote:i´ve read your comment on dave´s thread... seems that is a gakky situation...

will start to read soonish^^

pretty much Vik, he's been highly abusive in his messages as well as accusing me of mail fraud.

Lols np, hope you enjoy

Rogue Wolves wrote:nice job childe, releasing it so fast, im probibly going to read it tonight though

heh, thanks man, enjoy

i only ever saw him on one of my subbed threads as a regular... but well.... i had some mail stuff happen to me too... tho in the end they all came out well...lucky me... but i bet if something went wrong back then i would have had a bad time too...regardless which position...the distance always is the most hustle...

I just find what he's done unessesary.

yup... things like that should be at first get sorted out between the both of ye...

indeed

what did i miss? i was taking a nap.

Oh me posting a new chapter (yesterday) and shizz kicking off lols

Part 4: "Advent" now available!!!

wow childe you are coming along with great time!

I do try

haven't started part five yet though having said that...

i´ll be then reading part 3 and four in one go... *pulls plug from the telephone set...*

even though i read part 1 and 2 already, i think i want to go through all of them in a row, because the more times i read it, the better feedback i can give!

Viktor von Domm wrote:i´ll be then reading part 3 and four in one go... *pulls plug from the telephone set...*

Rogue Wolves wrote:even though i read part 1 and 2 already, i think i want to go through all of them in a row, because the more times i read it, the better feedback i can give!

I look forward to the feedback you both will give!!!

Alright Childe i read the new part, i like it and i figure a epic fight should be had.

thanks panda, and oh there shall be, there shall be...

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:thanks panda, and oh there shall be, there shall be...

dont know if i should fear or not..

Patience is a virtue my dear Panda

there will be destruction, on a large scale

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Patience is a virtue my dear Panda

there will be destruction, on a large scale

but cant the nids and the inquistor just talk it out over a nice cup of tea? that surely would be a plot twist.

cormadepanda wrote:

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Patience is a virtue my dear Panda

there will be destruction, on a large scale

but cant the nids and the inquistor just talk it out over a nice cup of tea? that surely would be a plot twist.

Tea is a little too tame for our tastes...

Too tame you say? I demand for the irony of it that the inquisitor sits down with a lictor over a full three course meal.

I'm supposed to be the one with the over active imagination dude

Dont challenge me childe. I am American and a Russian Panda. I will show you all the fowl and horrific, yet wonderful mind of my imagination if you dare.

Lols it wasn't a challenge...

and I feel I may have to stick a nudity disclaimer in one part of the story... workshop doesnt generally cover it, but it happens, especially when donning power armour during a ceremony.

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Lols it wasn't a challenge...

and I feel I may have to stick a nudity disclaimer in one part of the story... workshop doesnt generally cover it, but it happens, especially when donning power armour during a ceremony.

if i can fap to it i will reward you.

can-fap? do I really want to ask?

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:can-fap? do I really want to ask?

Well if its worth touching myself over +1000 writing skills to you. If not, then +1 for trying.

because I couldn't help myself:

ok that second photo might be the best i've seen... ever

Can I get a yay for Photoshop?

yay photo shop

i didnt realise it till now... in every corny alien movie we beat them because of the smallest stuff, like sickness... well we now know the tyranids weekness thanks to childe! "Childe can never be sick...he has like 30 million bio morphs." - ComradePanda

Yes but that means you need thirty million ways to combat my biomorphs... a sizable task

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yes but that means you need thirty million ways to combat my biomorphs... a sizable task

Have you tried the apporach of... KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!! typically works...

lmao... ah spoken like a true imperial "Aliens" quote stealing stereotype

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:lmao... ah spoken like a true imperial "Aliens" quote stealing stereotype

It is what every single one of my pilots says... its annuoying for everyone.

Unfortunately I have neglected this thread a tad in the last few weeks... attempting to sort it out in the next few days, so hopefully will have some new material for you all in the next week!!!

Right, here is a small interlude on the project, the first in a series of rules for "The Fall of Calliope VI":

"Hunter Slayers"

So, for those of you who offered up yourselves as play testers, please print off a copy and test them to destruction and let me know the outcome!!!

Happy Gaming

oo didnt know you where going to be making rules, I think I'll take a gander at them

Lols, I said ages ago, this is going to be turned into a fandex Imperial Armour style book

Rogue Wolves wrote:

Good news peoples... I've started writing again, but I intend to attempt to write in bulk before posting anything this time lols.

hopefully this will mean it gives me some time to write a large proportion of the story.

good to hear your back on to writing, its been a while since I've seen you on dakka

Oh I've been around lols... mostly answering questions on mine and panda's thread, plus posting updates without an sd card slot is a pain in the buttocks atm... but I do have updates to post once I've bought a new sd reader.

Well play testing is gunna have to happen

ok played a few games with the hunters and i have to say they are utterly worthless. 8" range is to short to be worth while we found that in the five games they were taken with 4 squads of them, they vaporized for their points with not even remotely coming close again to doing harm. We then house ruled them to shoot 12" and found that they were decient with that, and then found they were perfect (with no save) and their low stats with a 18" range gun. More or less they are heavy bolter snipers. With short range. they should be assult 1 18 inches. Just my groups thinking, love the idea anyways.

cormadepanda wrote:Well play testing is gunna have to happen

ok played a few games with the hunters and i have to say they are utterly worthless. 8" range is to short to be worth while we found that in the five games they were taken with 4 squads of them, they vaporized for their points with not even remotely coming close again to doing harm. We then house ruled them to shoot 12" and found that they were decient with that, and then found they were perfect (with no save) and their low stats with a 18" range gun. More or less they are heavy bolter snipers. With short range. they should be assult 1 18 inches. Just my groups thinking, love the idea anyways.

Thanks for the feedback Panda!!! Its really much appreciated

If I were to increase the range to 18" would you think it better for them to have "sniper" rather than the "rending" special rule (I am aware that sniper includes rending, but it also gives pinning)

I would say that they should be assault 1, rending and pinning because sniper also means they always wound on a 4+

If it's not too much trouble could you and your group test both "Assault 1, Sniper" and "Assault 1, Rending, Pinning" as different units. Curious to know playability and outcomes.

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:If it's not too much trouble could you and your group test both "Assault 1, Sniper" and "Assault 1, Rending, Pinning" as different units. Curious to know playability and outcomes.

just looking at the rules their is a conflict, because the sniper definition says its a heavy, pinning weapon...so assult sniper is a bad classification and doesnt work, if you want we can play it as Posion(4+) rending, pinning, and then just normal S(5) rending and pinning

Yeah that works, although depending how they playtest I may need to amend points cost tbh.

well they are super squishy, and cover in this edition sucks, and with my thinking IG have ratlings (snipers) fr 10pts i may feel your nid counter part is perfect for 10-12 pts depending on the posion rule or not.

Poison is it always wounds on the value shown in brackets regardless. Will sit down and have another look at the rules in a bit and see whats what.

I know this threads been a little unloved by me recently... but I hope to get back in the writing saddle soon

d´oh... i always meant to read the whole as is story... i am atm in holiday fever... so after that i will print it out completly and read it on my way to work...deal?

deal lols... its far from finished, but yeah, could do with imput on it so far before I pick up pen and paper again

well^^

i have read it all childe, i require more pylons.

Pylons? elaborate please...