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*injects BC with a luminescent greed liquid*
Oh, it's just a little chip in the brain, that back up BC's consciousness in case of damage. Your possession has messed with all the electronics in his body, so I'm going to see if I can salvage it.

*a silvery, oval shaped devise is placed on the side of BC's head*

[Entirely too happy about the syringe] S'this then?

I'll be straight with you, tech's not going to work too well whilst I'm manifested, unless I die entirely. There's a bit of a fish hook effect going on with his "soul" at the moment, it's the only way to get two of us in the same body.

You could yank his consciousness out, but ... I'm not sure what happens when you rip someone's warp presence from their consciousness whilst they're still alive... I wouldn't like to try.

*detaches devise, leaving a 2" wide whole in the side of BC's head*

Oh, no, I just want to see what happened to it.

*roots around in head until a small chip is extracted*

There we go.

*replaces bone and tissue*

*injects with another syringe, silvery grey this time.*

There we go, that should heal you up. It should be done in about an hour.

*Stops starring off into space*

Wait!? WE ARE IN HELL!

*Pulls out daemonic sword and drinks another potion*

Wait why is everyone.... never mind.... Take me back to the world of the living or I shall destroy you!

mister angry armour want grog?

*holds out mug of the strong grog to Zombie.*

What if I simply plugged this in and shot you through the head?
His soul would go right into my little device here, but where would you go? I can save his mind...

THE HERETIC COMMISAR TRIES TO MESS WITH MY MIND!!!! DIE HERETIC -dakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakkadakka-

 brochtree wrote:
mister angry armour want grog?

*holds out mug of the strong grog to Zombie.*

*Takes mug and downs it*

Thanks for the grog... needed this... Last time I was here my soul was eaten by daemons...

*Fills mug with liquor from flask*

Not to bad... Getting off topic dammit! Can we go home! Or do I literally have to crawl out of hell again!

 Verviedi wrote:
What if I simply plugged this in and shot you through the head?
His soul would go right into my little device here, but where would you go? I can save his mind...

Well, um... Technically as we're in the warp, I would just be dead... I can only be banished back here if we're in the material world already...


...! [Attempts to hide behind armchair from Tactical_Spam] You okay in there?

++ Hurts ++

I'm sorry about that, I'm- [Bolt shell goes through armchair near face] -not in a great position to assist.

Well talkings over...

*Charges buttery Commissar throwing lightning at him*

Prepare to die creature!

*Possesses T_S's armor, wrenching his trigger finger up and breaking it*

I'll attend to that later.

Now... I will allow those nanites to take effect. I see no reason to shoot you right now.

OOS: I dont think you kno w how power armour works

[Swears] This is the least provocative I've ever been and still half of the people here are trying to kill me.

Give me that thing. [Attaches Verviedi's device] I have a feeling that angry magical knight isn't going to be so lenient.

[Runs out from behind armchair] Feth off! [Hurls a ball of warpfire at Zombiekilla and carries on running towards the Butter Tank] [Flips three middle fingers and dives into tank] [Hatches slam]

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
OOS: I dont think you kno w how power armour works

OOC: Yeah I agree... one of those things that needs EXPOSITION! Cause honestly nothing hacks a space marine suit not even necrons who are the only creature with the ability to posses a vehicle... No offence V...

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
[Swears] This is the least provocative I've ever been and still half of the people here are trying to kill me.

Give me that thing. [Attaches Verviedi's device] I have a feeling that angry magical knight isn't going to be so lenient.

[Runs out from behind armchair] Feth off! [Hurls a ball of warpfire at Zombiekilla and carries on running towards the Butter Tank] [Flips three middle fingers and dives into tank] [Hatches slam]

*Smashes through warp fire*

Think I care how your being nice your a horrible abomination that possed a poor mortal. You shall destroyed!

*Gets to tank tries to open hatch with no avail*

Damn you creature! Wait I have a idea!

*Pulls out scroll reads off it till a green light surrounds me. Then I rip off the hatch with one arm and jump in the tank*

Hey careful little girl in there!

*runs over to tank and stares in to see if the little girls okay!*

[Throws cooking pan at ZK and ducks into tank kitchen] Hey I didn't exactly get a choice! You think I wanted to be dragged into this, away from my sweet job choreographing daemonettes?
This poor fether went and got himself messed around with by the Inquisition! Neither of us were exactly willing participants!


[Tank beeps unhappily]

++ We'll sort you a new one. It can have go faster stripes ++

*Recoils from the suit's countermeasures*

Oi! No!

*Runs into the tank*

OOC: I try not to do random acts of haxx, but it's fairly simple if you think about it. Those suits are streaming massive amounts of wireless data from voxes and computers that are linked up to them, so it shouldn't be that difficult to send it a message that forces the suit to activate one servo. EWO for Tau battlesuits works the same.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
[Throws cooking pan at ZK and ducks into tank kitchen] Hey I didn't exactly get a choice! You think I wanted to be dragged into this, away from my sweet job choreographing daemonettes?
This poor fether went and got himself messed around with by the Inquisition! Neither of us were exactly willing participants!


[Tank beeps unhappily]

++ We'll sort you a new one. It can have go faster stripes ++

I dont care about any of that creature! I want to go home this place is dreadful and I just HATE daemons.

Now killing you is more or less for the betterment of universe... And this is coming from a guy who is chaotic evil...

*Right arm hums with energy*

Now... lets dance you ugly bitch!

*Charges*

OOC: V every machine of the IoM has machine spirits... Making it so they could not be hacked the whole point of machine spirits is to stop being so "open" and to stop the need for AI... everything has a machine spirit from the lasgun to a tank and each machine spirit is literally ALIVE.. there is a great story of ork kommandos trying to steal a titan and the titan gets pissed and destroys the planet! They did all this crap because of the Iron men who were robots (You should just be one of them it makes alot of sense for you character)... now chaos has been known to hack (hack should be changed to deformed and mutated into a machine daemon) and necrons who have sort of been rewritten and can no longer "steal" machines... I have no clue about tau... It just doesn't make sense for you to hack things with machine spirits though.

OOC: Machine Spirits don't exist in anything smaller than a Land Raider. It's basically been stated in canon that what the Mechanicus refers to as Machine Spirits in large vehicles are actually semi-sentient AI, and any mention of a Machine-Spirit in a small object is just petty superstition.

 Verviedi wrote:
OOC: Machine Spirits don't exist in anything smaller than a Land Raider. It's basically been stated in canon that what the Mechanicus refers to as Machine Spirits in large vehicles are actually semi-sentient AI, and any mention of a Machine-Spirit in a small object is just petty superstition.

OOC: Thats BS... I can name a ton of books that state the opposite. "Dead Sky Black Sun" is a perfect example; when Uriel Ventris drops his helm on the ground essentially abandoning it he literally prays to the machine spirit in his armor for forgiveness. Now granted a machines spirit in a las gun is supposed to be a slowed but still... I am sorry you gotta sight that source.

Right here: "From Bolters to Power Armour, the blessing of the Machine God and his subservient Machine Spirits allows for the Emperor's enemies to be defeated." http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Machine_Spirit

OOC: Considering tau have been able to hack imperial weapon systems and communications, I'd say that the imperium is not hack proof.

 zombiekila707 wrote:

 Tactical_Spam wrote:
OOS: I dont think you kno w how power armour works

OOC: Yeah I agree... one of those things that needs EXPOSITION! Cause honestly nothing hacks a space marine suit not even necrons who are the only creature with the ability to posses a vehicle... No offence V...

OOC: ... Tech priests can do that... But there is no way anything that doesnt undrstand machine spirits can mess with it

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
OOC: Considering tau have been able to hack imperial weapon systems and communications, I'd say that the imperium is not hack proof.

OOC: Can you source that? I mean it makes sense for communications but weapons? Wtf? And even so can they hack a Space marine, Titan, or space ship? If so... god help us all.

I am just saying I have read tons of books and editions and never got to the part where space marines were hacked and thenforced to dance while the Tau laughed and drank cocktails...

Now orks on the other hand... if the believe they can hack armor enough then it may happen!

OOC: I've read that book, but a Space Marine praying to something does not mean something is real.
And in The Chapter's Due, Dark Mechanicus hacked some Praetorian Servitors.

[Holds up hands] You're in a realm that's pretty much made out of fething daemons, and you're going after one that has so far read bedtime stories, shared free drinks and given people blankets... [Rolls shoulders] I guess this is the level of crazy I'm dealing with today...
[Opens upper fridge door in ZK's face, slamming him in the helmet]

 Verviedi wrote:
OOC: I've read that book, but a Space Marine praying to something does not mean something is real.

OOC: when the orks came to crump the Crimson Fists, the last defender was an unmanned Land Raider that proceeded to halt the WAAAGH completely and kill the warboss and half his mob.

OOC: Hence when I said Machine Spirits didn't exist in anything smaller than a Land Raider.

 zombiekila707 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
OOC: Considering tau have been able to hack imperial weapon systems and communications, I'd say that the imperium is not hack proof.

OOC: Can you source that? I mean it makes sense for communications but weapons? Wtf? And even so can they hack a Space marine, Titan, or space ship? If so... god help us all

OCC: It's one of their signature systems. It's not full control, but it can jimmy with them enough to cause them to overheat/jam. Although that may change with the new codex.

Hacking is sadly overlooked in a lot of 40K lore, even with tau, who being all about tech you would think information warfare would be right up their ally. It's barley mentioned at all. Probably because it doesn't involve any overly large swords or explosions.

AFAIK, most "machine spirits" are just normal programs that keep stuff running corrects (like controlling cooling on plasma weapons, that sort of thing). You then progress to more true machine spirits like the one in the LR, AI. And then there is the really weird stuff like titans, were generations of pilots have had there personalities mirrored and combined into some weird conglomerate AI thing.

Buttery Commissar wrote:[Holds up hands] You're in a realm that's pretty much made out of fething daemons, and you're going after one that has so far read bedtime stories, shared free drinks and given people blankets... [Rolls shoulders] I guess this is the level of crazy I'm dealing with today...
[Opens upper fridge door in ZK's face, slamming him in the helmet]

*Smashes through door*

I care not! You are still a daemon!

*Shoots red laser from hand that sucks the light from the room*

Verviedi wrote:OOC: I've read that book, but a Space Marine praying to something does not mean something is real.
And in The Chapter's Due, Dark Mechanicus hacked some Praetorian Servitors.

OOC: Key word(s) "Dark Mechanicus" They are evil chaos and such already said chaos can hack stuff so it makes sense they hacked machines by corrupting them... now if you do that great! But still you need to be hands on and such not watching from a far. All I am saying is when I say "I drink a potion and rip off the hatch" I am explaining how I did not just saying "boom you shoot yourself"

I just searched machine spirit and all the sites state everything has a machine spirit...

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Machine_Spirit

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Machine_Spirit

both agree with what I am saying...