Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Though the easy answer would be unimaginable pain prolonged for decades at the hands of the Dark Eldar, to the point that one's still conscious and lucid body could scarcely be distinguished from a a hunk of meat hanging from a meat hook in an abattoir, the Harlequin's Kiss is up there in my book. What's your take?

Interrogation for heresy by the inquisition?

Penitent Engine'd by SoB/ecclesiarchy.

Demon-possession sounds less than fun. Same with a ninth action. Turned into a Grotesque or Arco-Flaggellant sounds less than thrilling as well. Getting raped by a 300 kg Slaaneshi Space Marine who insists on laying on top is probably not a good way yo go also. Nevermind facing a Lictor who just for gak and giggles just sprays you with the intestines of everyone you have ever liked nevermind loved.

Worst way that I could die in 40K?

My soul being forever tortured by the likes of Chaos Gods, no fate can be much worse than this - even being captured by Dark Eldar.

Well tis be a long list indeed, but here are a few.
1. Get manshagged by a group Of Cacthan Devils
2. Encounter a Noise Marine
3. Loose a figth with a Genestealer, and get faceraped + implanted with a genestealer seed!
4. HERESY!
5. Get shot with a Necron weapon
6. Dropping the soap nearby a gang of Slaanshi Cultists

The WORST way you could go?

Retconned out of the universe by Matt Ward ofc.

Chaos Dreadnought sounds pretty bad

The worst way I can think of would have to be becoming a Slaaneshi Daemon Princes plaything. They ain't shortened to DP without good reason ya know!

And if I had a choice? Well now, I'll take Muti-Melta thank you very much indeedy.. The briefest flash of pain, then, POOF, reduced to your constituant atoms in less time than it takes to blink...

An Eldar who's om-nom'd by Slaanesh. There's a reason they're so terrified of it.

I can't think of anything that would be worse than getting captured by Dark Eldar.

They go out of their way to cause physical agony, and they get off on doing it for extended periods of time. A tyranid just wants to eat you.

Hasn't this been answered before. For the benefit of this thread..

Absorbed by tyranid biomass spores....

You make a deal with one of the Chaos gods to become invincible and they lock you in a small blank room with nothing to do and nobody to talk to for the rest of eternity.

Being turned into a Daemon host by a radial inquisitor

Old age..can you imagine all the crap that you would experiance through out the many soul sapping years of terror , toil, and tiresome grimdarkness..

Better to die early and messy then to linger on, and on.

Taken into the warp would be the worst.

At second though, would be the Parasite of Mortrex infecting you. Having ripper eggs growing in your marrow, splintering your bones would be pretty agonising.

Be an Imperial guardsmen.

 WhazzDakka Da 3rd wrote:
Be an Imperial guardsmen.

^This, because you have all wonderful choices stated in this thread + being lobotomized (servitor style)

[Literally] Fall into the warp.

I would think getting captured by the Dark Eldar would be the worst way to go.

Joining Nurgle--
And then Nurgle forgets to make the diseases painless.

It involves Slaanesh and immortality. As in, an eternity for him/her/it to play with you...

 Beaviz81 wrote:
Demon-possession sounds less than fun. Same with a ninth action. Turned into a Grotesque or Arco-Flaggellant sounds less than thrilling as well. Getting raped by a 300 kg Slaaneshi Space Marine who insists on laying on top is probably not a good way yo go also. Nevermind facing a Lictor who just for gak and giggles just sprays you with the intestines of everyone you have ever liked nevermind loved.

I've been looking everywhere but I can't find any thorough descriptions of the 9 actions. Can anyone please give me a source?

Also OT, in the Night Lord audio drama Throne of Lies, an assassin dies after 17 days of excruciation at the hands of Talos. Thats about the worst way to die I've read about in 40k.

Getting tortured by a Daemon of the Undying (I think its their name) Where they know all forms of painful torture where you will give up everything at the end.

Leman Russ, without doubt.
C'mon, he was a barbaric viking who rise up with the "stronger survives" ideology, his chapter IS one, if not THE, most anarchic chapter among ALL THE OTHERS, I don't wanna think what he or his chapter can do.
Inquisition interrogation, dark eldar sadistic ways of torture, Slaanesh perversions...

Survive getting attacked by the Parasite of Mortrex. You either live for a few hours until your ripped apart from the inside by Ripper Swarms, or die within seconds from them.

As a guardsmen, there are plenty of ways to die. The worst of those I bet would be to be run over by one of your own tanks because they don't value enough to wait for you to get out of the way.

Doesn't it all depend on how you decide the soul works? As in, if you die its just black, or if you die your soul cant be taken. Then dying and your soul getting sucked into some chaos playground should be worst thing ever, unless souls can expire.
If souls dont work that way, Dark Eldar would be worst I think.
Slaaneshi involvment doesn't have to be bad, if you end up on he/she/its side, since then all that pain and joy would just be pleasure in a perverted form. You would enjoy it all.

I think though, were I to wake up tomorrow in a warhammer 40k Hive, I'd empty a boltgun to the face first chance I got. As far as I know, suicide doesn't lead to feeding chaos. :-/

Being eaten alive by squigs doesn't sound too pleasant either.

Being behind Papa Nurgle when he lets one rip.