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((OOC UM i thought i was use doing normale rping))

((ooc, whats considered normal will differ between different RP's. This particular RP is more story driven than action driven, therefore the majority of people here are posting several parargraphs of well-documented information that describe what their own characters are doing, what other characters are doing, and describing the environment around them so readers can visualize the scene.

I'm afraid adding little one liner sentences just does not give other players anything to work with. I believe that one liner sentences are more in key with DnD style RP's than story driven ones. You'll notice that even characters who are unable to post a lot are posting a minimun of a paragraph and giving enough information for players to work with or work around.

Why not try and take a little more time with your posts, and post quality over quantity, I think you'll find it more personally rewarding as well as giving everyone else a much better chance to sync in with your posts and contribute to your side of it. I'm saying this in hopes of helping you contribute here and not to insult you or anything))

EDIT: dragonjaj, if you ever have any queries or want some assistance, please don't hesitate to contact me via PM and I'll do what I can though a lot of the leg work will need to be done by yourself.

HellsGuardian has hit the nail on the head here.

You're not alone here. Reisen and Vulkan share your style of RP. My advice, and this is advice only, is for all of you to flesh out your post, or at least give other posters something to work with.

OOC: Sorry for not posting in a while, I've had a nasty blood infection that's kept me bed-ridden in a hospital for the past 2 weeks or so.

BIC:

Character: Aajz
Location: Northern area of the Compound
Situation: Having Team Regent and Slavro's half of Team Fallen meet up

Avare lay wounded while Aajz sealed up the wound using the reductor. The bleeding has stopped which was good, but there was still a chance of infection. Taking several syringes, she applied the analgesic first, then the various antibiotics.

Luckily nobody else was wounded except for the unfortunate gangers who had managed to get in the way of the warband. Looking at one of the gangers who has recently been killed by the warband, he look strangely diseased being a pale sickly colour with few pock marks, yet also looked as if he were in perfect health. Aajz noted this as worthy of further investigation and secretly took samples while the others were not looking with utmost discretion.

(OOC: Whoa, blood infection, not good, hope ya get better soon Snarky... )

Hmm, it appears this Rp is at a standstill. Avare's team is waiting for Slavro's team to link up with them. Soric sent for him, so now it's just waiting until ToastedAndy posts an IC post.

OOC: Meh.. I'll write something up now.

Edit: But first.. reading back! Oh what joy.. Goddamn my memory.


OOC: I do hope the humble offering below is satisfactory.

Character: Blake
Location: Team Regent, Jackals base
Situation: Purging the Unclean

Khan had so far merely observed the combat, various members of the retinue engaging, killing and occasionally getting wounded by the Gangers. He noted with detached concern that his fellow Interrogator had been shot a short distance away, but was quickly being tended to by their resident Sister Hospitaller.

He looked around when he heard a nearby sound and watched as at least a dozen Gangers rushed out of a nearby building, equipped with a mixture of Auto and Las weapons, however to his dismay he noticed several more esoteric weapons such as Chainswords and also a Plasma gun. A Stormtrooper dropped seven metres to his right, the man's upper torso shredded by mass firepower. Khan's eyes began to glow with ethereal power as he rose up from his cover, summoning his fearsome psychic powers. A few of the Ganger reinforcements turned to engage him, but much to their disappointment their weaponsfire merely impacted upon a barely visible forcefield that was now surrounding the Acolyte. They stopped and stared in terror as he outstretched his arms - the forcefield dissipating - and searing lightning leapt from his splayed fingertips, great power corruscating about Khan's body; flowing through him. They screamed as they were burned and electrocuted until they were nothing more than charred skeletons, their flesh having been seared from their bodies' even as their innards were cooked. Steam rose off the blackened bones as the chain lightning leaped from one horrified Ganger to the next, consigning the same fates to the others.

The light in Khan's eyes disapeared as he banished his power until next he needed it. Overlooking the results of his psychic onslaught, he decided that he had been far more thorough than necessary. But it had indeed felt good to vent his hatred of this disgusting gakhole in which he had been forced to live in recently. He was so engrossed in his musings that he was completely taken by surprise as a massive bear of a man tackled him to the ground from behind. Khan wriggled onto his back in time to see a large fist hurtling towards his face. He tried to dodge the blow, but there was no way he could and before he knew what had happened his nose was broken. The man readied another punch, but Khan stopped him with a hard punch to the throat. He consolodated his counter-attack by punching the man in the face before pushing him off. He scrambled to his feet and delivered a kick to his gasping opponents' face with his iron-tipped boots. Blood poured from the massive Gangers' face, who apparently wasn't out of the fight yet. Khan kicked him in the stomach, but grasping hands grabbed his leg and pulled him to the ground. The man stumbled to his feet and as Khan tried to escape he found himself being lifted into the air by the throat. The giant holding him tightened his grip as he slammed Khan into the wall of a building, choking him. Knowing that attempting to release the crushing grip around his throat was futile, he reached down to the small sheath at his side and grabbed the eight inch knife. He brought the blade up and deftly plunged it into his assailers' throat, the steel blade impaled through one side and protruding out the other. The giant man recoiled in horror, dropping Khan in his shock and agony. Swinging his legs, he knocked his opponent to the ground before leaping upon him even as he gasped for oxygen. He stared directly into the giant's terror-filled eyes, blood from his nose and mouth dripping off him and mixing with that on the Gangers' face.

"Your soul is forfeit, heretic," Khan whispered as he withdrew his blade, causing blood to spurt from the dying man's jugular. He stood, whiping the blade clean on his vanquished foes' clothes, before sheathing it and heading off to retrieve his Lasgun from the ground, adrenalin blocking out his pain.

((Great post Darkvoid! However, as I have already said, the immediate area has been cleared of gangers. You also forgot the Character/Location/Situation heading. Can I ask which of the Stormtroopers was killed? Nice writing, and I hope to see more of it once we go underground
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@Snarky: Good to see you, hope you get better soon.

@Scrazza: Everyone else seems ready to move on, if Toastedandy hasn't posted by the arvo I'll fill in and we can go ganger hunting.))

I'm looking forward to go ganger hunting.

((OCC Roleplayers, since we are now directly underground, rather than just in the sub-levels, we will not be able to communicate with other teams. Wilson, Agypus and Ronan have to make a tactical decision as to whether finish doing their damage to the gangers and fall back or push on and try to meet up with Avare. Weapons live and power-weapons sizzling, let's get sum.))

Character: Avare
Location: Northern Area of the Jackal Compound
Situation: Rallying Team Regent and Slavro's Team

Slavro left Flicker inside the building, running out to report to Avare. The other team members kept a keen watchon the abandoned street, apparently their attack had gone unnoticed for now. He didn't bother to throw a salute, that would only help any lurking gangers identify who was in charge, the less the enemy knew the better. "Well ma'am, as you know, Brother Ronan and Wilson are to the south of us, and they seem to be doing a fine job of drawing the Jackals attention, they're under a lot of pressure and won't hold out much longer. Ronan has reported Agypus as MIA, we don't know his whereabouts or his situation. As for us, there's me, Trooper Furn and Interrogator Claudius. Flicker is out, but breathing."

Avare nodded, with only one casualty so far Team Fallen had fared better than Regent. "We'll have to leave him behind."[i] Slavro's silence answered her. [i]"There's no other option, sergeant. We'll pick him up on the way to the outpost. For now, we need to keep moving." Slavro didn't respond for a few moments, but he eventually relented nd gave a curt nod. "Interrogator, there's a lot more gangers than we anticipated. Have you considered calling in reinforcements?"

Avare smiled sourly, "Too late for them to be of any real use to us against the Jackals. And I doubt communications will be clear, or even viable, down here. But with the Arbites also after us, I'll have Holtz's send a communique requesting extraction all the same. If anyone can get through to the Sactum's Pride then it's him." Avare tuned in her commbead to the Engineseers line. "Holtz, can you get through to the Sanctum's Pride from here? We won't be able to return to the surface the way we came with the Arbites breathing down our neck, we'll need pick-up and reinforcements."

Mikal responded genially [i]"I should be able to get a message, though I estimate that it will take them some time to navigate the under-levels and get to our position in this cavern, even if I activate a beacon. Two hours would be an optimistic guess."

"Good, get right on it. We'll rendevous with you, Kelly and Gaz at the outpost as soon as we can." Avare cut off the channel.
Slavro nodded again, less than delighted at the prospect of being hounded by the Arbites. Ah well, no helping that. "We've got an entrance to the underground over here." he said as he walked back towards the half-collapsed building. Pulling aside a rusty grate he threw a flare down the tunnel, illuminating the darkness. "It looks like the tunnels are lit by torches further up. he pointed as Avare peered into the hole. She turned, the rest of the team members had gathered behind them, ready to spring into action. She grinned wickedly, calling over her shoulder as she sped off down the tunnel. "No time to lose, Furies. We have a job to do. By His will."

"The Emperor Protects." Came the chant from behind her. Avare's grin grew wilder.

((OOC im sorry to say this but half the reson my post are small is i forgit whos who and the people controling others pcs dosent help. i match oc names to avatar pictchers to keep them strait and as things have been that dosent work in this rp))

dragonjaj wrote:((OOC im sorry to say this but half the reson my post are small is i forgit whos who and the people controling others pcs dosent help. i match oc names to avatar pictchers to keep them strait and as things have been that dosent work in this rp))

Out of ~10 people, you're the only one to complain how this RP is played. I'm telling you, this is THE normal way to play an RPG. I don't think EF, or any other player, would want to change the way this RP is played. So please, stop whining.

BIC

Character: Soric
Location: With Avare
Situation: Ready

"The Emperor protects." Soric muttered with the rest of the assembled men. They all crouched in cover, other gangers could easily find them and attack them with renewed vigor. Avare sped off down the tunnel, and Soric was the first to follow her. He sprinted just a handful of steps behind her, the others in turn behind him. He could see the torches further down the tunnel, proof the gangers weren't far off.

"I should suggest you move with caution, My Lady." Soric said. "The tunnel ahead may hold dangerous enemies, and with respect, you are already wounded."

Avare replied by saying, "Wounded, yes. Incapacitated, no. We move on, further down the heretics' lair."

Soric reluctantly agreed, and comforted himself she was an Inquisitor in the making, she could take care of herself without bodyguards. As they moved further and further, the light from the torches grew stronger. Soric could hear noise up ahead. No, not just noise. It was chanting. The gangers, now cultists, were chanting to their vile god, a god of which Soric could not dare to pronounce the name of. The chanting grew louder, and as soon as the team rounded a corner, Soric could see the culprits. Seven cultists were praying to their false god at an altar. Across the altar lay a leather-like skin. Soric recognized it as human skin, he had seen this kind of ornament before, when an Ork warboss wore the dried skin of a squad of Ousians as a trophy. The memory of this made Soric even more angry, and even before Avare could react to this sudden discovery, the first of the cultists toppled over unto his face, his back one bloody hole as the overpowered shots from Soric's Hellgun carved thraight though the heretic.

The cultists kneeling before their altar hardly had any time to react to the threat. Moments later, the combined fire of Team Regent and Fallen's assembled members cut the remaining heretics down even before they had time to draw a weapon. It was faintly humorous. The cultists literally died worshipping their vile deities. Soric threw one of his remaining grenades at the altar, the explosion reducing the blasphemous altar into pieces of wood and burned skin.

The chanting was gone, vile words left unsaid, and the team moved on, ever closer to their target.

Emperors Faithful wrote:((Great post Darkvoid! However, as I have already said, the immediate area has been cleared of gangers. You also forgot the Character/Location/Situation heading. Can I ask which of the Stormtroopers was killed? Nice writing, and I hope to see more of it once we go underground

Meh. They popped out of another building.. a garrison or something. Or perhaps my post took place whilst the combat was still taking place. Doesn't really matter now.

Have fixed the lack of heading.

As for the stormtrooper.. I have no idea. Just pick one at random I suppose.

Scrazza wrote:

dragonjaj wrote:((OOC im sorry to say this but half the reson my post are small is i forgit whos who and the people controling others pcs dosent help. i match oc names to avatar pictchers to keep them strait and as things have been that dosent work in this rp))

Out of ~10 people, you're the only one to complain how this RP is played. I'm telling you, this is THE normal way to play an RPG. I don't think EF, or any other player, would want to change the way this RP is played. So please, stop whining.

Agreed. Also, dragonjaj, if you forget who's who, then look at the original post - all the characters and their respective players are listed there.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Scrazza wrote:

dragonjaj wrote:((OOC im sorry to say this but half the reson my post are small is i forgit whos who and the people controling others pcs dosent help. i match oc names to avatar pictchers to keep them strait and as things have been that dosent work in this rp))

Out of ~10 people, you're the only one to complain how this RP is played. I'm telling you, this is THE normal way to play an RPG. I don't think EF, or any other player, would want to change the way this RP is played. So please, stop whining.

Agreed. Also, dragonjaj, if you forget who's who, then look at the original post - all the characters and their respective players are listed there.

What I don't understand is how you can get so debilitatingly confused when nearly every single post (except for yours might I add) has a heading with the names, location, and situations of every single PC in this game.

Its not that hard, if your lost, the easiest thing to do is to go back and read half a page or more if necessary before the last post and see whats going on. /rant

((OOC I read last 3 pages of stroy and cant find what i should do. And this is the frist rp out 30 i have done that dose the post like this most do thing dnd stile not story writer.)

dragonjaj wrote:((OOC I read last 3 pages of stroy and cant find what i should do. And this is the frist rp out 30 i have done that dose the post like this most do thing dnd stile not story writer.)

Then it isn't our fault you can't keep up. We're not going to change the style of RP we're doing because you prefer the other one. I'm sure EF wrote that this would be a story driven RP, and not an action one. This is a long post RP, not something like those other 'things' that call themselves Roleplay Games, in which you post a single line of IC content and be done with it.

dragonjaj: At the moment you are with Avare/Slavro/Rally/Soric/Aajz and Khan as we enter the underground complex.

As Scrazza has pointed out, this RP is more story driven than the Dark Heresy roleplay. I've repeatedly encouraged players to include and interact with one another in their posts. What I definitely want to avoid is people just doing their own thing, with no heed to the situation around them.

A short post like "Avare jumped out and killed three gangers with her powersword, then ran into the next room." doesn't cut it.

Emperors Faithful wrote:dragonjaj: At the moment you are with Avare/Slavro/Rally/Soric/Aajz and Khan as we enter the underground complex.

As Scrazza has pointed out, this RP is more story driven than the Dark Heresy roleplay. I've repeatedly encouraged players to include and interact with one another in their posts. What I definitely want to avoid is people just doing their own thing, with no heed to the situation around them.

A short post like "Avare jumped out and killed three gangers with her powersword, then ran into the next room." doesn't cut it.

((OOC TY for telling me where i am and i never see things like what you said in the turn by turn rps that still where story based what was done was a player, makes a attack gm say if it hits or misses or is countered or the apposed player, and it gave better conversions player to player. ))

Character: Furn
Location: underground
Situation: Searching for the package

Furn ran down the halls with the others "This place gives me the creeps even with good tunes playing." said furn as they searched of there target.

((OOC that's all i can think to post i got nothing more...... And also i am 100% uncomfortable rping others actions.))

((You mean you've never played in an RP that was story driven rather than turn based?))

In addition, Interrogator Claudius and the Callidus Assassin are with us, but they haven't done much in the way of making their presence known.

Emperors Faithful wrote:In addition, Interrogator Claudius and the Callidus Assassin are with us, but they haven't done much in the way of making their presence known.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time Mordo's joined a game, posted once or twice and then abandoned it.

dragonjaj wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:dragonjaj: At the moment you are with Avare/Slavro/Rally/Soric/Aajz and Khan as we enter the underground complex.

As Scrazza has pointed out, this RP is more story driven than the Dark Heresy roleplay. I've repeatedly encouraged players to include and interact with one another in their posts. What I definitely want to avoid is people just doing their own thing, with no heed to the situation around them.

A short post like "Avare jumped out and killed three gangers with her powersword, then ran into the next room." doesn't cut it.

((OOC TY for telling me where i am and i never see things like what you said in the turn by turn rps that still where story based what was done was a player, makes a attack gm say if it hits or misses or is countered or the apposed player, and it gave better conversions player to player. ))

Character: Furn
Location: underground
Situation: Searching for the package

Furn ran down the halls with the others "This place gives me the creeps even with good tunes playing." said furn as they searched of there target.

((OOC that's all i can think to post i got nothing more...... And also i am 100% uncomfortable rping others actions.))

We are not doing things the wrong way, YOU are doing it the wrong way. If 10+ people do this in the way it's supposed to played, and you're STILL not changing you way of RP to suit the rest, then we can't help that. We are not changing for you.

O of the O of the C:

Scrazzy, I do believe he's got the point, you can leave the poor less-than-200 posts dude alone.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:O of the O of the C:

Scrazzy, I do believe he's got the point, you can leave the poor less-than-200 posts dude alone.

It just drove me mad he just posted another One-Sentence-post-of-IC-material.

Alright, alright. /Rant

Scrazza wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:O of the O of the C:

Scrazzy, I do believe he's got the point, you can leave the poor less-than-200 posts dude alone.

It just drove me mad he just posted another One-Sentence-post-of-IC-material.

Alright, alright. /Rant

I feel your pain bro. Come vent your anger in Toyhammer, the totally non-serious roleplay.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Scrazza wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:O of the O of the C:

Scrazzy, I do believe he's got the point, you can leave the poor less-than-200 posts dude alone.

It just drove me mad he just posted another One-Sentence-post-of-IC-material.

Alright, alright. /Rant

I feel your pain bro. Come vent your anger in Toyhammer, the totally non-serious roleplay.

Nah, this one will do just fine.

(Aaaand...IC GO!)

Character: Brother Aygapus (Team Fallen)
Location: Gangers hide out.
Situation: Alone in the dark.

With the final bullet, Aygapus heard the sound of what he guessed was a heavily bleeding corpse slump to the floor, and almost as to back up his assumption the firing came to a halt. That meant either two things-one, all the enemy were dead, or two, they were conserving ammo to pepper him with shots when he left gunner. He decided to put his trust in the Emperor and hope it was option 1-after all, nearly all his ammo was gone, so he was going to need to get moving anyway.
Sure enough, the end of the corridor was chock a block with the dead, and if there were any more they’d began to fall back. Aygapus doubted that though-these people were cowardly, that was true, but when they sensed what they believed was weak prey they’d fall upon it like the hounds the warp themselves. He was lucky-in the confusion, he doubted they would have been able to realise he was a Space Marine as opposed to a normal man, and that meant they stayed around longer for him to kill them. As he approached the bodies, Aygapus let out an acidic spit-they weren’t just gangers. They were mutants. The taint of heresy here was worse than he’d thought.
Mutants…Aygapus’ mind flashed with images. He and members of his task force had been beset by numerous mutants during the Badab War, operating in isolated communities upon the worlds the Minotaurs chose to grace with their presence. They were nowhere near as well equipped as these had been, but even so there ferocity had been quite surprising. Not that that had made it any more difficult to erase the stain of their existence.
The memories of that war brought his mind back to the present…Ronan. Where was Ronan, or Wilson? Then it occurred to him-in his rampage he’d accidentally penetrated much further into the Crimson Jackal’s hideout than intended, and his brother and the mortal had stayed behind. Good-no need for them to die down here as well. For a moment Aygapus considered trying to vox the rest of the team, before deciding against it; even if there was any power left in the communication systems built into his armour, which was unlikely, Avare had made it very clear that any liabilities would be left behind. And as much as it pained him to admit it, that’s what he now was.
Up ahead the dull red light still throbbed at the end of the dark tunnel. Aygapus reasoned that that must be the entrance to the Chaos Shrine which Mikal had just managed to message him images pertaining before communications got knocked out. To think there was a shrine to the dark gods of the warp, close to where he was standing…Aygapus felt the rage build up inside him. He suppressed it with an effort. Now was not the time to be choleric-like it or not he was wounded and low on rounds. Solving those problems, just surviving came first in this instance. Vengeance later.
Turning to stalk back down the dimly lit passage, Aygapus cast a momentary gaze towards the ceiling where he knew the rest of the task force were preparing for phase two of the operation. “Hunt well.” quietly murmured the Astartes, before he slipped away into the darkness.

Emperors Faithful wrote:((You mean you've never played in an RP that was story driven rather than turn based?))

((i didnt know there was a difreance if you look at the trun bace i ran on ekas it had a lot of story to it but it was still trun baced i though all rps are trun baced.))