The Wolf Game - Exterminatus - Day 6 - Chaos Wins!

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Inquisitor Flavien 203270234.M47: My investigation into the taint of chaos has led me across the system to the forge world Kalia IV. I will proceed to interrogate forge workers tonight to narrow down the source of the stench of chaos which pervades this system.

Inquisitor Flavien 203280234.M47: The interrogations have been… disturbing. I sensed a strong taint of chaos in the room but none of my subjects showed any of the usual signs of contact with chaos - no indications of heretical thoughts. Autopsies revealed nothing unusual. They are completely baseline humans - no hidden psykers, no undeclared genetic enhancements.

Inquisitor Flavien 303290234.M47: An overwhelming psychic presence is here, in this facility! Powerful thoughts of chaos and heresy flow through the air. It takes all my psychic powers to just barely resist the call of the warp. A chaos sorcerer is here, somewhere in this facility, undoubtedly he has already captured some weaker minds and turned them into agents of chaos. I have sent out a general distress call but I do not know if I can hold off such power for long.

Lifesigns Terminated. Automated Broadcast Beacon Activated - 303310234.M47

A chaos sorcerer has been discovered on Kalia IV. It has twisted the minds of imperial subjects to his will and murdered an inquisitor. Such heresy will not be tolerated; An imperial exterminatus fleet is en-route, prepared to destroy all life on the planet to ensure that the taint of chaos does not spread any further. You must kill the agents of chaos and expose the chaos sorcerer before the fleet arrives!

Gameplay

This is the wolf game! The game has two teams, imperials (often referred to as humans) and chaos (often referred to as wolves). Both teams are trying to eliminate the other team before the timer ends (and both teams lose). The chaos team are a small but coordinated team of merciless killers, they are aware of each others identities and will work together to destroy the imperial team. The imperial team is a larger team, but no one is aware of anyones alignment but their own!

The game has two phases, night and day. During the night phase the chaos team will communicate with one another in secret and murder an innocent imperial. During the day phase all players (imperials and chaos) will vote on who to lynch for the murder - imperials must try to deduce the real identity of the chaos whilst the chaos team will be carefully sowing confusion and misinformation.

If you’re new to the game we have a lot of experienced players, ask them for advice (but be careful, they may be on the other team). Naturally you may also ask me (the GM) for advice, but I am limited in what I can say without ruining the game!

Some players may receive special roles. These roles may be passive or active, may happen during the day or the night, and may be given to imperials or chaos - it depends entirely on the role.

Roleplay Setting

We’re in the 41st millennium during which time the Imperium of Man is waging a constant, never ending, galaxy wide war against numerous threats to our galactic dominance and/or our basic survival as a species.

Aside from conventional threats (i.e. aliens that want to eat our faces) there is a powerful element of Chaos in the universe, which is a reflection & concentration of the emotions of all living beings, and Chaos is represented by several Chaos Gods which live in The Warp, which is slightly analogous to Subspace, but it allows for ships to travel within it. That said, The Warp is an exceptionally unstable and dangerous place which can destroy or corrupt ships and the minds and bodies of those within it.

The Imperium of Man - A highly xenophobic, theocratic and authoritarian body that spans literally millions of words and trillions of citizens. Their military has two main divisions, the Imperial Guard, constructed mainly of conscripts from various Imperial worlds, are largely “human” in the traditional sense and are analogues to modern soldiers with somewhat better equipment.

The other division is the Adeptus Astartes, aka Space Marines, genetically engineered supermen who posess astonishingly powerful weapons and who, themselves, are devastatingly powerful. We’re talking about guys who are 7 or 8ft tall, 500lbs of screaming muscle with specially designed organs that allow them insane levels of survivability and massively enhanced combat capabilities.
They traditionally wear powered armor that makes them, literally, walking tanks. The “leader” of the IOM is ostensibly the God-Emperor of Mankind, a super-being and psychic of unimaginable power.

Only problem is he was betrayed and mortally wounded thousands of years ago, and the only way he’s kept alive is in a gigantic device (the Golden Throne) on Earth (known as Holy Terra) which is kept running by feeding it other living psychics (conventionally known as Psykers in this universe) who are gravely mistrusted because they can be easily compromised by Chaos(more on this later).
As such, he’s not exactly an active administrator. His largest contribution now is threefold; he lights the Astronomicon, a psychic guide that allows human ships to navigate the Warp semi-safely, he gives aid to those in battle (generally by possessing them or giving them visions/strength/etc) and he’s constantly fighting the influences of the Chaos Gods of the Warp, trying to keep them from corrupting us all.

Praise be to the God Emperor, for His is the only Light in the vast Dark.

Rules

  • The GM will never directly lie.
  • Violating any rule is punishable by death.
  • During the night phase no one may post in the forum thread. However, private messaging between players is allowed at any time of the day or night.
  • Dead players must never contact other players about the game. They may post one single message to roleplay their death, but this must not contain any important information about the game.
  • PM Communications between the GM and the player are secret. Do not screenshot or directly quote PMs from the GM to other players.
  • Days will last 48 hours, nights will last 24 hours. Inactive players will be killed mercilessly.
  • Votes and day role actions should be bold.
  • Editing of posts is not allowed

Didn’t we already do exactly this wolf game?

I opened up a wolf game a month ago but many of the frequent players were busy. We agreed to delay for a month, and here we are!

Imperial Subjects

To sign up simply post I’m in below along with who you will be roleplaying in this game (keep it something at least vaguely appropriate for WH40K universe). Here’s a few suggestions to get you started: imperial guard soldier, forge world overseer, low level imperial worker drone, priest to the machine god, priest to the god emperor, secret inquisition agent.

Events

  • Night 0 - Inquisitor Flavien Murdered
  • Day 1 - ClassicalPotato Vaporised
  • Night 1 - Lomsor Explodes
  • Day 2 - Juno Flattened
  • Night 2 - Topperfalkon Mindflayed
  • Day 3 - cybercritic Banished
  • Night 3 - Tjafaas Devoured
  • Day 4 - Xamino Falls
  • Night 4 - Kreydis Vaporised, Enginish Hacked
  • Day 5 - Arkenbrien Disposed Of
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Copy/paste my RP.

Pain

Searing pain

Heat and ice

Pain, the seemly only reason for existence

The conscience struggle within, the conflict of the soul

The sounds … the endless resonant drone

Of everything, the sounds burned the most

The sounds picked, tore asunder, rebuilt, then destroyed

Thoughts not of oneself, but of legion, Destroying the soul

Destroying self, rebuilding self, build and destroy

The drones, with it’s precipices and valleys, increased

Destruction, reconstruction

LIGHT!

A new sensation, sight

Darkness, twelve pillars standing before the light

The drone increased

**The soul plunged deeper than the void itself **

Bounds

The drone … the sounds … darkness

It must stop

It must be stopped

Rage

Revenge for the pain, for the burning, for the broken soul

The twelve pillars fell, crashing down before the light

Other pillars rose up to replace the ones that fell

But the drone, that hateful sound, was gone

Freedom

The pillars were taking shape

The pillars caused new pain

Pain unlike anything felt before

It tore through the surface of self, passing through

It must be stopped

As the pillars rose up, they fell

The light, the only way forward

The light dimmed, sight increased, a corridor, one way forward

Other pillars, these creatures who bring pain, rose up

They must be stopped

Stop the pain

The sounds they made, like the sounds the pillars made, but it did not bring pain

One spoke, another acted

Two creatures approached

One spoke, they both brought pain

One fell

The other must be used, to understand the sounds

It’s mind swept bare from unrelenting force

Understanding came

It’s form must be taken

Sudden darkness

“We’ve got a live one here!”

“You alright?”

A slow nodding of the head

“What happened, where did it go?”

“It’s free.”

“Curse it all… what? Curses… Imperial guards are coming. We must go, now. What’s your name?”

“Ephreme… my name is Ephreme”

“We need to get on the ship and get out of this mess. We don’t want to be here when the Guards are. Can you walk?”

Slowly, shakily, the ability to stand on the two lower appendages came.

“Come with me” to the others “we need to get to the safehouse! Leave the rest, we’ve no time!”

Distant shouting

“Curses, they’re already here! MOVE!!!”

But it was too late.

The Imperial guards had already entered the facility. The small group that Ephreme had found himself it was surrounded.

Ephreme slipped away, leaving the group to it’s fate.

“Not so fast!”

An imperial guard had taken a position behind him.

"Soldier, your armour is bloody! I said take the heritics hostage!

“Sir! One resisted, Sir!”

“As you were. We’ve got plenty here. They’re going to wish they had died here before were done with them.”

“SOLDIERS! We are to transport these heretics to Kalia IV! Move the filth to the holding cell!”

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I’d suggest to include the summary of the warhammer 40K universe in your intro topic, @martindevans

Copy below:

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We’re in the 41st millennium during which time the Imperium of Man is waging a constant, never ending, galaxy wide war against numerous threats to our galactic dominance and/or our basic survival as a species.

Aside from conventional threats (i.e. aliens that want to eat our faces) there is a powerful element of Chaos in the universe, which is a reflection & concentration of the emotions of all living beings, and Chaos is represented by several Chaos Gods which live in The Warp, which is slightly analogous to Subspace, but it allows for ships to travel within it. That said, The Warp is an exceptionally unstable and dangerous place which can destroy or corrupt ships and the minds and bodies of those within it.

The Imperium of Man - A highly xenophobic, theocratic and authoritarian body that spans literally millions of words and trillions of citizens. Their military has two main divisions, the Imperial Guard, constructed mainly of conscripts from various Imperial worlds, are largely “human” in the traditional sense and are analogues to modern soldiers with somewhat better equipment.

The other division is the Adeptus Astartes, aka Space Marines, genetically engineered supermen who posess astonishingly powerful weapons and who, themselves, are devastatingly powerful. We’re talking about guys who are 7 or 8ft tall, 500lbs of screaming muscle with specially designed organs that allow them insane levels of survivability and massively enhanced combat capabilities.
They traditionally wear powered armor that makes them, literally, walking tanks. The “leader” of the IOM is ostensibly the God-Emperor of Mankind, a super-being and psychic of unimaginable power.

Only problem is he was betrayed and mortally wounded thousands of years ago, and the only way he’s kept alive is in a gigantic device (the Golden Throne) on Earth (known as Holy Terra) which is kept running by feeding it other living psychics (conventionally known as Psykers in this universe) who are gravely mistrusted because they can be easily compromised by Chaos(more on this later).
As such, he’s not exactly an active administrator. His largest contribution now is threefold; he lights the Astronomicon, a psychic guide that allows human ships to navigate the Warp semi-safely, he gives aid to those in battle (generally by possessing them or giving them visions/strength/etc) and he’s constantly fighting the influences of the Chaos Gods of the Warp, trying to keep them from corrupting us all.

Praise be to the God Emperor, for His is the only Light in the vast Dark.

Original rundown here.

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Good idea. I’ve added that into the first post

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Do space marine pilots exist? Are they ever characters? Or are they too background for the normal stories?

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I know nothing about WH40K, so…

Another Universe to drop in, I thought that the multi-dimensional gate testing would have been long done by now, but no, it’s still not fit for commercial use. Another damn Universe to collect data in and ensure that no anomalies can cause feedback into our own Universe. I just hope that the dammed administration allows smoking in buildings this time, maybe it’s a plant world, that would be nice, nice and relaxing. Let’s see what is on the other side of this gate, 3-2-1. Multidimensional Engineer

As per usual, I have created a SHA256 from Martins post to be used as a seed for RNG if required, that’s 8 keys, it should be enough. For additional security, the key used will need to have Martin’s first word written after the RNG list has been created appended to it.

SHA256
b0b73dbc a1054f6c f54608c9 8277f6eb 7567a598 595d9fb5 38cdca06 388c6b19

File Used
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32239143/wolf_hash_exterminatus.txt1

random.org
https://www.random.org/sequences/?mode=advanced

/copy-paste
There is two of me in the OP Martin, but I don’t mind, have to get killed twice. :wink:

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Wait, who dropped out?

edit: nvm, I’m being dumb :disappointed_relieved:

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Xamino sat in front of the terminal and listened to the voice input. His job was to enter the commands exactly as he heard them. Twelve hours a day, every day. Glory to the Emperor’s name.

"Alpha One One Gamma Two Three Iota Nine Zero – " He typed it all in. Another four hours and his shift would be over. Just another day in his life as a part of the great bureaucratic machinery that made the Empire function.

I’m in.

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Still here, just no time to roleplay today.

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My status has not changed. Im in … firmly.

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Depends what kind of pilot you want to be. In “conventional space”, I guess most space marine can be entitled to be a pilot for the smaller ships. You could consider being a land speeder pilot :slightly_smiling:

The biggest ship are most of the time tended by some mechanical priests and travelling through the warp requires a Astropath, which is also a psyker. The latter has some nifty powers but not necessarly combat-oriented.

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This is Enginseer Walton Houchard. Something has agitated the machine spirits; I demand an explanation.

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Still 100% in. Same RP, which I’ll try to add to when the game starts.

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If there is still room, I would love to join! I am rather new to RP but would love to try it. I’ve binged a few 40k audio dramas so I have a loose grasp of universe. I am at work now but I will think of a character and post more later!

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There is indeed space, welcome to the game :smiley:

Since sign ups have been slow for this game I’m thinking of starting the game, regardless of player numbers, soon. Maybe this time next week?

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Small update: I’ve got my original account back, so @martindevans be sure to send the PM to the correct account once the games starts. :wink:

I’m still in, of course.

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Alright. I’ve changed the opening post to reflect that :slightly_smiling:

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Convinced another of my friends to sign up. Don’t start the game without him! :0

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I’m the other friend (John). I’m also new on 40k lore, but I’m in.

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Sorry for the slow reply abystander2, it’s been a busy week! I’ve added you to the players list :slight_smile:

I’m going to be tweaking the design of the game for 14 players tomorrow, so I will aim to be starting Monday evening (roughly 40 hours from now).

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