Dacian Heresy

[inquisitorkurlin]

The Dacian Heresy continues...

Naturally, I'd like everyone to have fun with it But for the sake of the narrative, please roll by the following guidelines:

1. Don't wipe out the cult completely.

2. I'd like to leave Andriel Ronmocharte's fate ambiguous for now.

3. There's no solid evidence *yet* of a military build up for the cult, but its influence can be felt all over the place. They're an insidious disease and their ways are secretive and manipulative. This does not imply that a military force representing the cult isn't out there, given the number of traitor guard that have been put down...

4. There does not seem to be an alien element behind the heresy at this time, so it wont be a secret plot by the Eldar, Tau, Necron, whatev. This seems entirely human in origin and operation.

I approve of creative freedom within these guidelines for the thing. Surprise me. However, given a list of donts, let me throw out some ideas on how to help the story along.

1. Locating and destroying a supply line for the heresy books

2. Investigation into the local nobility and what it yields

3. Actions of the citizenry in regard to imperial forces and/or the presence of the inquisition.

4. Defensive/Offensive operations against traitor imperial units or chaos forces.

Those last four are just ideas. Dont take them as cut in stone instructions. That's a good roadmap of how I'd like to see the narrative develop, though. Perfect for games of Inquisitor or some clever 40K scenarios.

PS - if you could, let me know where you post updates or participation to the narrative. I'd love to see what you're up to.

[easye]

Can Xenos forces help with this narrative?

For example, Tau elements crushing rebels and traitors influenced by some odd beliefs in the Emperor's divinity within their cities, etc.

[witchking92]

I would assume so. Remember we(you, me, the orks) had a plot line that we discover lots of these black books, and Kurlin didn't have a problem with it.

Also, the Orks have used the books as a sort of psychological warfare. For example, we fired them out of the Zuper Gunz at all the human bases last campaign, an attempt to scare the humans "wif da propganduh"

I enjoy this plot line Kurlin, and I am excited to see what you do with it this campaign.

Witchking92

[inquisitorkurlin]

Yes, Xenos can help, though the Inquisition and "proper" imperials probably wouldn't be too keen on their involvement. By all means, run with the ball and let's see what you get. The xenos are not the source of this corruption, but their response to it is their own to consider!

Thanks for hte thoughts, Witchking. Doing my best to make this memorable. I enjoy that Medusa V kicked off continuining armies and stories about those armies. We're creating quite a combined history here, and I look forward to all this leading into the next WW campaign.

EDIT: THere are people interested in seeing an RP thread on warseer about what's going on with Erudalis IV. It's an interesting prospect and something I could tie into the events of the narrative here (without compromising our armies' influence on the plotline; the lion's share of this belongs to us. Still, they can explore some backstory and maybe it will get some of them to join in). Consequently, how do RP threads work, exactly?
I'll kick one off right away if I can grasp the mechanic of it.

[sircyn]

I have spent an unhealthy amount of time running and taking part in forum RP's as part of the Warhammer Online Community. There are a load of handy resources here <linky>http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=299

Essentially forum RP involves an introduction post, then the participants create, write and post their parts of the story from their perspective, playing off each other and writing a multi author novel as the interaction builds up. The cool thing is it's dynamic and a lot more spontaneous! It differs from face to face RP in that the action takes place in much bigger chunks before the buck is passed around thanks to the medium, it also allows for you to put in some great descriptive writing and detail what thoughts are going through your characters minds. It can be tough to get a good RP, but it is very rewarding.

If you need some examples I could throw some links at you.

I think the major key for a forum RP to work there needs to be some level of behind the scenes communications between the participants so you are all on the same wavelength and aware of the direction the RP is heading. It helps to have one assigned boss to be the creative lead to keep an eye on things and make sure they don't cross out of the realms of plausibility.

I hope that helps a little.

[inquisitorkurlin]

Very helpful indeed. Now to start stringing things together so I can get the action underway...