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At your side is Willie, one hand twisted into your pantleg for guidance, the other clutched defensively over her chest. She hasn't said a single word since you tossed your cane in-between the robo-dogs legs to save her, though she did stop bawling a few hours ago. Now it's just intermittent sniffles. You tried to get someone to stay with her for a while, but she spurned every candidate, opting to stay on your couch, wrapped up in a blanket under the AC vent.

You haven't thought about Willie for several days - just too much going on, too fast. As usual. Naka's words about crumbling mountains come back to you. Grinding your molars, you push them away. Willie's made tremendous progress, thanks in large part to Hate's shenanigans. Naka didn't get her instant fix either. Real life's not like the movies; things don't all sort out nice and neat after the big climax. It's a long, slow slog, and *that* is where real Duty lies. Someone once said that a hero is no braver than an ordinary man; he's simply braver for a few seconds longer. You've always thought that much the same could be said of duty - except it's measured in months and years.

You drop your big hand onto Willie's hat and roll it around a little, letting her know you're paying attention as she limps along with you towards Arizona's apartment. It describes the battleship perfectly - that quiet, composed dignity, always ready, always willing, and possessed of seemingly infinite endurance for any sort of toil or trial. It goes unremarked and unappreciated, and yet it's what truly underpins the safety of the millions that depend on military force for protection. For all the ads showing men stabbing CGI dragons with NCO swords, it's the guys that spend twelve hours a day fixing turbine gears and helicopter engines that really keep a Navy in fighting trim.

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Or for that matter, little destroyers. Coastal patrol, anti-submarine warfare, convoy escort, et cetera - the smallest, cheapest and most overlooked units are often the ones you find yourself needing the most desperately. Those are the day-to-day operations you've had little time to concern yourself with; especially with the war kicking into high gear almost the instant you touched down in Japan. Willie's certainly gained confidence in her inherent fighting prowess, but you've no idea what her life is like amongst the other ships - she's the lone American of her class on this base; Sammy nonwithstanding. And Sammy isn't the best wingman in the world - she's more of a tank, with a cautious Willie crouching behind it as it snorts and roars its way through an urban area.

You wonder if the cliques and camaraderie that form amongst combat units in high-stress situations have already crystallized long ago with the Japanese DDs, leaving Willie a newcomer, an unwelcome interloper, an outsider. You wonder if it's just plain, old-fashioned grade-school bullying. You wonder if Willie's channeling her past experience, or if she was just scared shitless because she's a little girl that was chased down by a fucking killer robot. You think and think and think, trying to untangle the child from the combat ship right up till you knock on Arizona's apartment door.

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Or try to. Before your knuckles make contact, the door springs open to reveal Arizona. Her usual small smile is smiled, but her blue eyes are dazzlingly bright. She's wearing a dark t-shirt and shorts - and her duster, tied around her waist like one might tie a sweatshirt. You haven't seen her wearing it since you landed two weeks ago; but given the heat of a southern Japanese summer, that's no big mystery.

She fixes you with that blazingly happy expression for a moment, then notices Willie. Willie might be a walking disaster zone, but it doesn't make her stupid - the way she turns her face downwards tells you she knows exactly what she's interrupting. Shame seems to radiate off the girl like waste heat.

[ ] You know Arizona might hate you forever for this, but you couldn't abandon her. You could *not.*
[ ] She just had the ever-loving shit scared out of her, and you know there's nowhere she'll feel as safe as here, under the protection of the big guns.
[ ] Just pat Willie on the head and smile politely - take us both, or take nobody. If “personal time” with any one person is going to require you shirk your duty towards another, you may as well cut it off right here.

Didn't you start this same thread earlier today?

>>46582457
No fair OP.
It was my turn to bait the 40kids today!

>Not a gigantic piece of meat.
>Not bald.

Disgusting.

>>46582357
You would first have to define what having a soul does.

>>46582357
>>46582387
This, but I'm going to leave the thread before the soul argument inevitably devolves into shitposting.

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>>46582387

It could open up interesting avenues for technology if the soul is a quantifiable and containable thing especially if an otherwise completely artificial being suddenly developed one.

Then again I've always liked the idea of throwing esoteric beliefs, metaphysics and technology into a blender and getting some Evanglion tier technology out of it.

>>46580908

They might be neat, but they're now too often associated with the American-invented holiday as a mascot. You might as well as why there aren't Easter Bunnies and Santas in your setting.

Fey like faeries and stuff get used because they're not overly marketed or associated with a specific holiday. Elves get a pass because of Tolkien and others with the High Elves elf archetype rather than the Keebler kind of elf. No idea what the analogue for the Easter Bunny would be, but I'm going to just say Vizzerdrix and see if that works.

>>46580985
>You might as well as why there aren't Easter Bunnies and Santas in your setting.

Well, why aren't they?

>>46580908
Because they're called gnomes

>>46580231
it goes something like "within this meatsack of weak flesh is the heart of a human, the heart that beats for the entire human race" etc etc etc

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>>46580231
>>46580261

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>>46580283
HERETICS BTFO

Look to mythology: Biblical angels, Gnostic archons, Hindu asuras and Shinto yokai.

Or do what disgusts or frightens you and your player. One of my players is grossed-out by blood so a lot of my Eldritch monsters are blobs of flesh and guts.

>>46580027
It should be something that's slightly off. Like a person whose skin seems to not fit properly. Or something wrong with the eyes or too many teeth.
You shouldn't try to describe it, build an outline and let the players fill in the rest.

>>46580027
Creeped out my players by making one which was basically a vaguely bipedal cyst in space. Well, usually vaguely bipedal. It didn't stay connected to itself - its head and limbs basically were anywhere it needed them to be, regardless of where the rest of it was.

>>46576289
>What would be the best steps for hunting and looting these dungeons?

Satellite imagery to find them. Highly-trained and well-equipped teams to loot them, with dedicated transport to get there ahead of the competition.

Governments would probably take great exception to private mercs in their territory so the Mercs could expect to have to work in the shadows, and to end up in firefights with potentially anyone they meet on the way or inside the dungeon.


>Also how would said doors affect religions assuming that this setting still has the same religion?

Fundies would shriek that they're the work of the Devil and the artifacts from them are the tools of Hell. This would be common in the Islamic world, where they would be delcared haram by the Ayatollah and many important conservative Sunni clerics. In the US and Northern Ireland there'd be a minority of politicians who'd bang the fire and brimstone drum, but wouldn't really get anywhere with it.

Apart from the fundies, religions would either do the "mysterious ways amirite? xD" thing they always do, or not care at all in the first place.

>>46576507
>In the US and Northern Ireland

Oh yeah, forgot to mention Africa. And the Pope could go either way, come to think of it.

>>46576507
You would also need certain equipment depending on where the "door" is now that I think of it. Because if it can just show up wherever, even in thin air with no wall. If the "show up wherever thing" is true than you would need different equipment to get to a door at the top of a active volcano than one that's at sea floor. Also depending on what's actually inside of said dungeon.

A ps3.

>>46576232
/thread

>>46576190
Savage Worlds, with the Pulp Toolkit. Hell Vanilla would work.

>>46572588
You could still have "natural undead". Skellies controlled by vines, "zombies" controlled by parasites.

Shit like that.

Natural predators would probably sort out the undead problem real quick. Don't know about demons and shit

Just make Demons and Undead a "natural" threat. Demons are no longer invaders from a demonic plane of existence but instead a race of incredibly powerful but still mortal bestial race; if the setting is magical enough, they might still be literal manifestations of the world's evils. Undead are no longer minions of vile wizards but instead the natural product of improper burial – and considering how brutal most of the world is, anyone that dies outside the cities is not likely to receive their proper rites.

If they still don't seem to mesh well, then yeah maybe they should be cut. I think natural Undead could fit though.

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You mean fudge dice? Oh, you want at least 15 possible results. Okay. Make it 4d6 -12.

>>46572091
>the most frequent result is 0

>>46571957
>1. A range of at least 15 different possible results
>2. The most frequent result is 0
>3. You are NOT equally likely to roll above 0 as below 0, instead having a ratio between 2:1 and 3:1
3D20-15
Every number below 0 IS 0.
Then you 1D3 or 1D4 (depending on preference. If the result is one, the previously rolled number is negative. Otherwise it's positive.

>>46570986
If there was an invasion fleet capable of reaching the Sol system, past thousands of world's with high powered military and resources, I would assume this would be an apocalypse type siege. Like Black Crusade made a hateful love child with the Tyranid hive fleet and the Necrons mass rising.

Then it'll be a siege to end all sieges, with all the soldiers of man arriving to fight this galaxy wide terror on Holy Terra.

Rate my head canon broskis.

And it will be something openly said in imperial worlds? You know, If people knows that Terra is on siege, maybe there could be worlds with rebellions, or world becoming more and more fanaticized in their beliefs.

Imagine being a worker that makes screws for whatever you want. And someone from the imperial cult starts saying that earth is on siege. And in some point everyone knows it. What you would do? make more screws? tryto join a crusade? Remember, you're a loyal citizen.

>>46570986
EVERYTHING.

Without Terra there is no Emperor. Without Terra there is no Astronomican. Without Terra there is no High Lords. The Imperium IS Terra.
Also Mars is just next door and it's almost as important.

Every other system can burn, so long Terra stands. Every. Single. One.
If Terra stands, the Imperium is alive. It can recolonise, in theory. Without it, the Imperium is dead.
Oh sure, plenty of planets will keep ticking along for a while. Separated. Fragmented. Prey to xenos and the Warp.
Assuming that Choirs can even allow for Warp travel at all. The Segmentum Solar is almost certainly entirely dark for Warp ships. Who the fuck has a choir up to guide ships that close to Terra? Just use the massive fuckoff psychic lighthouse at that range.
It's entirely possible that Imperial Warp travel is immediately grounded. Webways and Warp Skimming become the only viable means of ftl transport. Everything crumbles. Humanity is nothing more than a widespread minor xeno race to the Tau, and a memory for the Eldar.

As you exhale, you feel calmness and serenity flow through you. When you were a young child, meditation was difficult. You couldn't sit still. But as you've grown older, you've come to enjoy it.
There's a loud knock on the door. "Come in," you say.
A man walks into your room. He looks to be in his late 50's, and is exceptionally tough looking. Roughly 6'3", with a short beard and a shaved head. A thick blindfold covers his eyes.
"So, you're my new apprentice?" He says. His voice is deep and holds a commanding power. "You're a bit scrawny, aren't you?"
You look up at the man. Not what you expected, especially with the blindfold. Then again, you have heard of blind Jedi being able to see perfectly well through the Force. It catches you off guard for a second, and you don't respond immediately.
"Never mind, you'll get stronger as you get older," he says. "I'm Master Connerian. You can call me Shon. We're going to be working together for a long time."

>"It's nice to meet you, Shon. I'm Taleep."
>"When do we start?"
>"Are you blind?"
>Write-in

>>46570145
I never knew I wanted a yoga Yoda in my life, but now that I have seen it I can think of little else.

>>46570373

Stretch, you must! Important the breath is!

So what should we talk about? I think we should get a small, descriptive paragraph on the wiki about the Dune riders. Also, if anyone can help fix the wiki please do

>>46554336
>dune riders
I agree. We should flesh them out more so though. What we have now isn't much
>strategies
>weapons
>loyalty
>view of space marines
>vehicles
>history
>go off world or strictly pdf/recruitment pool

>>46555797
Don't forget religion. That's a real important one I think

My players and I prefer detective style superhero games. There's lots of mind games while also letting loose at times to see the dice fall and throw car sized spears at building sized scorpions.

>>46575521
>Me
Light-hearted intra-party roleplay between bouts of gritty urban detective work and deadly dungeon crawls.

>My group
Pretty much just the dungeon crawls.

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>>46575521
A campaign that takes itself moderately seriously. Nobel Dark setting. Probably something out of the 1980s It's always night and there are neon lights everwhere.
I.E. Dark Future where corporations rule and the players are cyber punks fighting against the man (see image)

Other option: Combine the following settings into one game: Mad max, Shadowrun,Vampire The (masquerade/requiem), Tank girl, Deus Ex. (basically 80s to early 90s)

Dice fall where they may.

>>46575150
anon you have literally all the makings of an aggro babby. i bet you think cancel or counterspell is overpowered as well.

>>46575150
I really don't think Lightning Helix is particularly overpowered. I mean, it's good. Great even, but it's not even run in every burn variant.

Lightning bolt.

Lightning helix is a close second, but the R/W mana requirement severely limits the amount of decks that can use it.