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So, imagine that you've got a group of cultists meeting in a basement in the underhive somewhere, and they're trying to summon a demon. Not even a greater demon or demon prince, just some of the regular ones. Now let's say that it all goes wrong somehow, and like the worst possible case scenario happens for the cultists. What would that be?

Like, for khorne it seems rather obvious. The inquisitor shows up in the room where the ritual was taking place and finds the room carpeted and wallpapered with blood, gore dripping down from the ceiling, clear sign that bloodletters showed up and horrifically slaughtered them all. Likewise, I can imagine nurgle pretty easily as the cultists all the sudden become plague-filled zombies that burst from their summoning circle to spread their putrescence.

But what about slaanesh? What about tzeentch?

What happens when the cultists get what they wanted, and then very quickly learned to regret it?

 Ailaros wrote:
So, imagine that you've got a group of cultists meeting in a basement in the underhive somewhere, and they're trying to summon a demon. Not even a greater demon or demon prince, just some of the regular ones. Now let's say that it all goes wrong somehow, and like the worst possible case scenario happens for the cultists. What would that be?

Like, for khorne it seems rather obvious. The inquisitor shows up in the room where the ritual was taking place and finds the room carpeted and wallpapered with blood, gore dripping down from the ceiling as the bloodletters show up and horrifically slaughter them all. Likewise, I can imagine nurgle pretty easily as the cultists all the sudden become plague-filled zombies that burst from their summoning circle to spread their putrescence.

But what about slaanesh? What about tzeentch?

What happens when the cultists get what they wanted, and then very quickly learned to regret it?

The Slaanesh one involves rape.
The Tzeentch one results in no daemons summoned and the mutation of the cultists.

I don't know, I guess I was assuming the cultists would all be killed regardless.

Like, maybe in slaanesh's case it's that the cultists all die horribly in a fit of overstimulation, their ears and eyes exploding as their hearts are stopped from the shock. Or else maybe they all quickly go insane, reaver-style with a slaanesh twist. Like, the one guy wants to have the experience of killing someone, and another wants the experience of eating human flesh and another wants to know what it feels like to have a limb cut off, and they all hack each other into viscera...

... with the one cultist who could stand it idly running his finger through the blood on the walls, bored.

Tzeentch would either end in mutant bodies lying on the floor or bodies so horridly figured they either killed themself or lie there writhing in a fate far worse than death.

Have you seen Event horizon or red the book?

Remember when they finally get the garbled video message straightened out and get to see what the crew were all doing to eachother while it was sent (specifically the couple who are having sex while the woman is eating the guy's neck?)

That's the sort of thing that would happen with a Slaanesh summoning gone horribly wrong. Death not by over-stimulation of excess.. But by literal excess itself.

 Ailaros wrote:


What happens when the cultists get what they wanted, and then very quickly learned to regret it?

There was a chapter of marines that this happened to. They were as loyal as they get, and one day wished the knew when a heretic was lying. Tzeentch heard their wish, and granted it. Every time someone lied, they would hear it. Soon it drove them insane, and they turned to chaos.

All this is not taking into account the possibility of a "reverse summoning" i.e. the cultists get pulled into the warp. I think that's about the worst possible outcome honestly. It's scary in there...

Same thing when someone divides by 0.



But then again, doing chaos stuff ends up with "Divide by 0" stuff anyways.

Has there ever been a Chaos Cultist who actually just survived in general? To my knowledge all possible paths for most average forgettable cultists end in a violent and untimely death. And if they get what they even wanted in the first place..... they still die.

Summoning for Chaos Cultists never goes truly right, as even when it's right, it's wrong. Or in other words, Cultists cannot have their cake and eat it too.

Sure, Be'Lakor was a cultist...at some point.

 zogwort123 wrote:

 Ailaros wrote:


What happens when the cultists get what they wanted, and then very quickly learned to regret it?

There was a chapter of marines that this happened to. They were as loyal as they get, and one day wished the knew when a heretic was lying. Tzeentch heard their wish, and granted it. Every time someone lied, they would hear it. Soon it drove them insane, and they turned to chaos.

The Scourged. I always liked their fluff.


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 Wyzilla wrote:
Has there ever been a Chaos Cultist who actually just survived in general? To my knowledge all possible paths for most average forgettable cultists end in a violent and untimely death. And if they get what they even wanted in the first place..... they still die.

Summoning for Chaos Cultists never goes truly right, as even when it's right, it's wrong. Or in other words, Cultists cannot have their cake and eat it too.

Isn't there something saying that lucky cultists rise the ranks but it is the truly unlucky ones that successfully summon daemons? Besides that, there'd be more if we had a codex for them . That said not nearly as many big guys that would be iconic probably as there are CSM.