Welcome to the Truth (or the Conclave Archive) OOC

[TheNephew]

I .think. I'll have time to sit down and hammer a post out my notes to intro my guy before dawn Monday.
We'll see.
He's a techpriest specialising (with an almost uncanny knack) in cogitator, data bank and repository maintenance and the like.
Unfortunately I didn't realise until I was already reasonably set on the character and concept that it sounded dangerously "40K hacker lol", butt that's not how I'll be playing him anyway.

For doorstop posts - I've got to agree with Koval on this.
If I have to hit Page Down a dozen times on the same post, the risk that I'll leave it for later (then tomorrow, then whenever I next have a free evening) increases exponentially.

[Inquisitor Maltheus]

Personally, I like the long posts. I remember in the "old days", waiting and and waiting for one of the RP'ers in your story to respond and continue the story. Then, when they finally did post...it was awesome if the post was nice and long...worth the wait. Sometimes the short posts kept you wanting more...and not in the good way.

Just my two cents.

[Dosdamt]

I agree that monster posts can turn people off, and I as a general rule would prefer not to, however if there's a need to include the information then I believe it's important to get it down.

There's a lot of stuff in this next post that is kind of crucial for a few narrative purposes, and for what Menti, Maltheus, Charax and I have planned.

I do think there's merit in breaking it down into smaller chunks. I could very reasonably break it into three or four chapters.

[TheNephew]

By all means go for giant exposition, character establishment etc. posts, I think that's the most engaging way to do that sort of thing, but if the entire play is done in ten-thousand word blocks, the sheer length of the posts might make reading them a drag, and will also probably necessitate a very drawn-out posting cycle.

[Dosdamt]

I agree. I took some time out to divide the post into portions, and have come up with three titled chapters

- Losing Limbs and Alienating People - the forging of Jacqueline Dubois
- The Terrible Comfort of Knowing - the terrible purpose of the Tiresias Configuration is revealed
- Ghosts of the Past I / II - the events of the past, that influence all futures

Apologies this is taking so long - I will be posting Losing Limbs and Alienating People this week, the rest likely next week as they're the areas which need more collaboration and hence are going to take inherently longer.

I've spoken with Macabre and Charax, who should have posts up this week.

Van Helser, I may do a brief response post which your post would seem to imply?

[Van Helser]

Go for it.

Loved that post by the way - the Magos was beautifully done.

Ruaridh

[Gimond]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I was wondering where should I go to become part of a warband?

[Koval]

WELCOME TO THE CONCLAVE

"Becoming part of a warband" isn't really the idea, but if you design yourself an Inquisitor along the same sorts of lines as other people in this thread have done, there are definitely ways into Welcome To The Truth. My own character Markus Krenn, for example, started life as a name and two ideas (one for him, the other for his operative Giovanna Rossi), but is in the process of developing further from there.

The problem, I admit, is working through the huge wealth of material on which Welcome To The Truth relies. It's not especially easy for me to get into it, and I've been on different iterations of the Conclave for the past nine years. To that end, I quote Sargoth:

For those confused and with limited time to trawl the archive....

PLOT HOOKS

1) Archive reveals corrupt Inquisition!

It contradicts official history! People might try to prove it a forgery, verify it, use it as a political weapon against the Inquisition, look for people assumed dead (like Maltheus) and any other loose ends.

2) Sanguinius on Terra

Is this actually true? A vile heretic, posing as a primarch and saint? What the hell is this?

3) Secret's Hold.

Drawing lots of Inquisitorial (and other) types to see what's there. Maybe something is there]...

There's also the Brief History of Everything, which is basically how people that weren't involved in stuff from Way Back Then can catch up without spending two months reading the archive.

Feel free to drop me a PM if you want some insight into one person's approach to character creation. Throne knows I make enough of them.

[TheNephew]

Post up.

Shorter, scrappier and generally not quite as good as I was working towards, but I'm vacating the country for a couple of weeks in three hours, and it's better than nothing.

Magos Baader is being brought in to investigate some chewed-up data banks, by forces unknown but of serious weight.

And Baader himself comes across as a bit of a stuck-up tit, on re-reading.

I'll try and keep up with current events, but I'll probably not be posting more than once in the next fortnight.

Anyone that wants to claim patronage of Baader, or responsibility for requisitioning him, just PM me and we can sort something out - at this point it'd definitely be easier for me in terms of story management if there was an easy slot to write him into.

[Dosdamt]

Hi all, my next post is in progress! A few others are punching through as well. I've broken off the next chunk, got feedback from Menti and Maltheus, so should be the next few days, Maltheus by the weekend.

[Inquisitor Maltheus]

Yes...I am tweaking and retweaking and most importantly...trying to find time to actually write my post.  But the goal is for the weekend.  I'm having a lot of fun with this.

Nephew...message sent, response received, and response responded to.

[Inquisitor Maltheus]

Alright...my post is up.   I think, at this point...I am just waiting for Dosdamt to put his post up.  Maltheus will have some more screen time after that...and maybe Novus will get his guidance...

Anyways...enjoy.

Inquisitor Maltheus
(Luke)

[MarcoSkoll]

The name Novus is not a particularly fortunate one. I now can't avoid imagining the psyker from our Dark Heresy game.

And... well, I'd put him this way: one of my assassin's skills in that game is Slap (Novus) +20. No, I'm not joking - it is actually on her character sheet.

That said, the other character sheets and escapades from our game include items literally described as "Bitching cassock", "Holy barf bag of the Emperor", "Hover Renault Espace" (although it perhaps loses out to the "Grimdark Mini Cooper"), "Two score and ten hues of umber" and "The cricket bat of testicular smiting".

[Van Helser]

*Bitchin'.  The cassock is bitchin', no "g".

I have fond memories of Acolyte Ripley.  I'll be interested to see where the character has gone over the last couple of centuries.  Not so bright-eyed and enthusiastic now I would assume.

Ruaridh

[Inquisitor Maltheus]

Indeed not the same bright eyed seventeen year old boy that once had delusions of what the inquisition actually was.

I have already had a lot of fun with him as Novus.  I look forward to developing him more. By the way...anyone know what happened to ONI?  I sent Leon Holst an email but it was returned by a mailer demon. Unfortunate.

Looking forward to more...I have quite a few new characters that I can't wait to work into the narrative.


Thanks,
Luke