The Conclave

Evening all,

This thread has been created to discuss goings on in the 'Chronicles of the Carthaxian Conclave' so as to avoid cluttering up that thread with out-of-character discussions.

I've reposted the guidelines for the thread below, but no one is going to be enforcing them - the idea is to encourage people to post, not to bog them down with rules.


As discussed here (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=344.0), the 'Chronicles of the Carthaxian Conclave' thread is a place for people to record the exploits of their characters as they use them in games.  Feel free to post your reports in any style you like (inquisitorial reports, transcribed vox records, short pieces of fiction etc), but please try to stick to the following guidelines;

• Reports should be kept short - a few hundred words at most.  If you want to post longer pieces of fiction about your characters, then the 'In Character' sub-forum is probably a more appropriate place.  Feel free to hyperlink to your fiction from this thread or the main one.
• Longer battle reports should likewise have their own thread in the 'In the Field' sub-forum which can be linked to from here or the main thread.
• Detailed character backgrounds and stats should be posted in the 'Inquisitor Rules Discussion' sub-forum, but again, may be linked to from here or the main thread (especially if you are looking for feedback).
• Please avoid posting commentary on games in the main thread - I've created this thread for discussing your characters exploits.
• To keep loading times to a minimum, please hyperlink to photos rather than posting them in this or the main thread.
• The Chronicles thread is for records of character exploits in games (primarily of Inquisitor and Dark Heresy) - pure online roleplaying should be kept to the 'In Character' sub-forum

I've created an outline for a sector as a starting point, but don't feel you have to use it if you want to set your games elsewhere.  Feel free to create (and destroy!) and worlds, characters or institutions needed for your games, but please refrain from interfering with anything created by someone else (unless you have their permission).  Remember you're telling the story of your characters, not that of your opponent's.  So for example, your character can declare he believes that an opposing character is a heretic, but don't declare that your opponent's character has been declared Excommunicate Hereticus by the Carthaxian Conclave and is being hunted across the Imperium (unless, of course, your opponent agrees).

Likewise while it's fine to despose a sub-sector governor, execute a heretical cardinal, or destroy the odd planet; don't take it so far as to do things that would affect other people's stories.  So don't kill off the entire sector government and plunge it into chaos, or assassinate the head of the Carthaxian Conclave etc.  My plan is that some of these larger events can be played out at things like the Spring Conclave.  For example, I have an idea for a one day campaign based on the politics and intrigue surrounding Lord Grolin's death and the race to succeed him.

Finally, try not to worry about inconsistencies and contradictions - after all, Everything you have been told is a lie.

Be seeing you
- Dave

Now that I reread some of what I posted, I believe that some of it was written by Necris when we discussed this idea a while ago, so this is just to give him the credit he deserves.

As I was trying to avoid cluttering up the original thread, I'll register my support for this idea here.

Tying the games together in this kind of fashion creates a wonderful web of relationships between dozens of different characters, elevating games from just "out of continuity" one-offs up into something much more representative of the vast and intricate battle for the Emperor's Soul.

I'd love to get involved... ideally at the IGT, of course, but that is still dependent on being able to shift things around.

I'm definately going to be contributing to this thread ;D
Now, to paint some proper figures, find an opponent, and, oh yeah, remember how to play...

Just to mix things up a little I figured I'd throw in a short piece of fiction I wrote about the aftermath of the Hastor Incident...

Good to see this project off the ground, I shall be watching these threads like a hawk. What I'm going to do (and as a suggestion to others), whenever I first mention a character in a thread I will hyperlink to a most recent picture, just to help with remembering so many names!

Quote from: RobSkib on November 24, 2009, 02:35:17 PM
whenever I first mention a character in a thread I will hyperlink to a most recent picture, just to help with remembering so many names!

That's a good idea - when I find time I think I'll go back and do that with the things I've already posted.

Thanks Kaled

I think I'll pop on over and fill in some bits about Necris I may even do a similar thing to Kaled's fiction on the aftermath of Hastor.

My hope is that this thread will hot up a bit after the IGT - I plan to post short reports on the activities of my characters in the games I play on the day.

Also, what I'll probably do is post the names of my characters and a few details on the scenario I GM on here after the IGT, so people can prefer to them if need be in their 'reports'.  It'd be useful if other people could do the same.  I suggest this so as to reduce the need to take notes on the day as it's usually pretty hectic with a lot of games and other activities taking place.

In fact, next week I might post a short report as an intro to the game I plan to run...

My gaming buddies and I usually have a game weekly, so there won't be a shortage of posts from me for a while!

Excellent - are any of your buddies on here?  It'd be good to see reports on the same events from different perspectives.

Also, I'm sure Rob isn't the only one who plays fairly regularly - please everyone feel free to add to this thread, even if you're new here and are just starting out with the game.

Quote from: Kaled on December 03, 2009, 05:58:25 PMI suggest this so as to reduce the need to take notes on the day as it's usually pretty hectic with a lot of games and other activities taking place.

What I tend to do for games is leave a digital dictaphone running next to the table. No worries about having to take notes, and I can just go back through it afterwards if I should be too hazy about any particular detail.

If recorded at a low quality mono (all that's really needed), you can store an unbelievable amount of conversation digitally. I've got a DVD somewhere that I save the sound files on to. There's a couple of dozen games saved on there, and I don't think I'm even into double digit percentages on disk use.

You can sometimes find someone who's fussy about being recorded, but no plan is perfect.

For me that would be far too much material to work through.  I generally just want a few notes of character names and the most important events as an aide memoire for when I get home.  I know though that given the fact that the IGT tends to be a bit more hectic than most events I probably won't manage to make many notes (most of the time I forget to even take photos), and I don't want to slow things down by taking notes when I should be playing.

Quote from: Kaled on December 03, 2009, 08:01:41 PMFor me that would be far too much material to work through.

It is quite a lot of information, but for the small amount of data space it demands, the inability to miss details and removing the need to keep notes, I think it's not a bad option.

Not for everyone, but it works well enough for me.

Quote from: Kaled on December 03, 2009, 08:01:41 PM
(most of the time I forget to even take photos), and I don't want to slow things down by taking notes when I should be playing.

's the problem i have :(
plus i only ever play Inq at the conclave meets  :'(

http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=352.msg4908;topicseen#msg4908

In other words, don't be surprised if you run into Enslavers at the IGT again this year...

I'm in the process of composing my entry for this thread, but in the meantime here are a few details that might be of use to people in writing up games.

My warband comprised the following characters (see here (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=409.0) for more details);
Orla Riall, Tech-Priestess
Zurek Nabokov, Calculus-Logi
'The Pariah', Servitor-Experiment

The introduction to my scenario read;
Enslavers have invaded Grimholm II.  Currently their activities are concentrated in and around the capital city, but attempts to contain the menace have failed, and so the Inquisition has resorted to extreme measures.  An orbital bombardment of the city has been ordered, and all communications between the planetary surface and the orbiting fleet have been jammed to avoid the Enslavers interfering in the execution of that order.  All roads out of the city have been blocked by the Planetary Defence Force and are packed with fleeing refugees - your only hope is to escape by air.

You have fought your way to the spaceport, and have been lucky enough to find a hanger containing a Valkyrie, an Arvus Lighter and a civilian flyer.  Unfortunately, you are almost out of time - the bombardment is due to commence imminently.  To further complicate things, your enemies have arrived at the same hanger, also looking for transport out of the target area.

So people have the names available, my own Warband was:

- Lyra Joandra Rhodes, Inquisitor.
- Kai Gillmore, Kasrkin Sergeant.
- Renatus Neuvler, Illusionist pskyer.

to go with the rest then, i had

Tech Adept Liwet
Clone 4N1-K4 or Annika
Cyclops Internal Defense Droid or CIDD for short :)

I had Inquisitor Hanja http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/Adlan/Hanja-1-1.jpg (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/Adlan/Hanja-1-1.jpg)
His Bodyguard Ungen Batu http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8052/imgp1130.jpg (http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8052/imgp1130.jpg)
And Rifleman Verger http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/Adlan/Verger.jpg (http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/Adlan/Verger.jpg)

I will get around to posting an IC account of Hanja's doings in the Thread.

For what little role my warband played, here they are:

Inquisitor Amadeus Xerxas (http://buildyourimagination.co.uk/minis/conclavegt09.php?i=DSC_0280.jpg)
Omar Anoke, Kroot Bounty Hunter (http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e58/RobSkib/Inquisitor/anoke1.jpg?t=1260789318)
Organicist Lingus Quinne (http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e58/RobSkib/Inquisitor/quinne.jpg)

My own warband, the Inquisitorial acolyte Terwyn-Awchus, acting under the authority of inquisitor lord Smogg, along with her redemptionist(sort of) cannon-fodder, may be found here:

http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=383.0 (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=383.0)

Getting a bit to close to an RP now Rob. If you want we could continue this IC.

Ah adlan, that was just a little something I'd cooked up after the IGT to keep the thread going :P I just figured with my Inquisitor's miniscule impact on other people's warbands I wanted to try and make a big a fuss as I can over what little I did! The only other game I played was with Dave and James and my Inquisitor wasn't even spotted :( My part in the web of intregue is kinda slim when my web has no strands...

ah, but like the iceberg, your web is mostly hidden?  ;D

i spent 2 games wandering around and got beaten up by Hanja, an acrobatic staff-wielding psychic ninja inquisitor shouting "get the (little) girl!" :lol:

A slightly long post from the perspective of Lyra's IGT.

I've tried to fit the various things into a kind of sequence of events. I should note that I thought that as part of the Order Perditus, the Imperium's secret keepers, that it was appropriate for it to actually be Lyra who was behind the cover-up around the Sword of Saint Theodoric.

I'll try and offer fuller battle reports later on.

I rather enjoyed the bit of in character, not least because I saw Torquemeda as a somewhat taxing individual to put up with.  Good to see the thread rolling though - certainly in my case it's the first time I've had many games to work with.

Who's is the judge model that Aldan linked to? He his awesome.

Other-Rob (or as he used to be known on here, Arbitrator Bob, but I prefer to call him Other-Rob :P) He's essentially batman crossed with Judge Dredd - he has batman's cool kit (he's got a zipline gun!) except he's not afraid to pop some caps in some asses if it all goes horribly wrong.

He was the Goddam Batman. An awesome figure, a one man warband.

It's a shame he spent most of my game missing with that boom-stick of his, and then spent the second half of the game writhing in agony from an angry mutant with an over-grown pair of garden shears :P

He Shot Slannesh nickolash in the leg. And blew it off.

Quote from: Adlan on December 17, 2009, 05:20:50 PM
He Shot Slannesh nickolash in the leg. And blew it off.

Glad to be of service.

Thanks for the positive comments guys, I appreciate Bayne was a bit on the Batmanesque side. Surely this is a good thing  ;)

'Arbitrator' Bob


p.s. If you played in the game I GMed, expect some follow up story fluff to be coming your way.

Quote from: robmeister on May 27, 1970, 12:16:00 AM
'Arbitrator' Bob

:O

I knew it! I knew there couldn't be ANOTHER Rob on the forum, the world isn't ready for any more dashingly handsome fellows!

Think we could get some close-up snaps of Bayne on the P&M forum? Pretty please? :D

and the monks, live and dead  ;D

Quote from: robmeisterp.s. If you played in the game I GMed, expect some follow up story fluff to be coming your way.

Now this is dedication. Even after all the spectacular effort that went into that game, you're still working on the immersion!

~~~~~

I also need to ramble a little about what I've just posted in the thread.

Some of you will recall the details I posted about the Order Perditus on the last 'Clave, but others won't, so I'll need to offer an OOC refresher. The first thing to understand is that the Order Perditus are the Imperium's self-appointed secret keepers (as inspired by "The Operative" from Serenity).

They therefore spend a whole load of time making sure that all kinds of secrets don't get found out, and as much time covering up exactly what they were doing. Indeed, many Inquisitors have never heard of the Perditus, and even those that have generally don't actually know what they do (for the most part, official records list their role as professional trackers).

What this means is that some of the IC stuff I just posted in the main thread is absolute tosh.

Trans-Aethyric Association is a fancy term for when two people seem to share a mutual mental link*. No-one is quite sure how it works (hence, why Byssus is researching it). The research is being kept quiet for a whole horde of reasons.

*Yeah, a little bit clichéd, but I don't play it quite the way some writers do.

Rhodes is hunting the Palix Array in order to ensure it remains hidden (by destroying it, if she must) - and when she found someone that knew too much about where it might be, she called in a favour from an Inquisitor she had good connections with to have the person "removed".

Lastly, as others of you will know, Marco is not hunting Frost - the two of them get on perfectly well, and it's part of a deal that they have between each other that Frost does work for Marco on occasion and in return, he deliberately misdirects any investigations that are on her tail.

Just posted an intro for the Spring Conclave - it seems to follow on nicely from events at the IGT...

To be entirely pedantic, surely 10 am on April 24th falls under 0310010.M42, not 0031010.M42?

Yep, you're right - I did type that one wrongly...

Quote from: MarcoSkoll on December 21, 2009, 06:55:37 PM
To be entirely pedantic, surely 10 am on April 24th falls under 0310010.M42, not 0031010.M42?

of course, the question is did you look it up?  ;D

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on December 21, 2009, 07:20:30 PMof course, the question is did you look it up?

Look it up, no. Spend a moment converting, yes.

Mwahaha... This is the perfect oppertunity to pull my Big Bad(tm) out that I've been saving for a special occaision ;) I'm not going to tell anyone what it is, but I'll give hints in upcoming IC posts and a Dark Magenta article that I'll try and get finished shortly.

For now, I'll merely point out that Inquisitor Xerxas has contacts in more than just human circles...

Well, Inquisitorial politics is the theme of the day for the Spring Conclave, so you're welcome to bring any character who'd have an interest in affecting the outcome of the succession, whether for good or ill.

Dammit, I can't work this out.  How does that date work?

Quote from: Myriad on December 23, 2009, 09:02:18 PMDammit, I can't work this out.  How does that date work?

Lexicanum explains it well enough: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Imperial_Dating_System

The only thing I'll add is that for "flavour" we tend to express dates as if they were 39,000 years in the future. So rather than the date being M3 (As 2009 is in the third Millennium*), it's written as M42 (The 42nd millennium).

*In the same way that dates of 2001-2100 are the 21st century, not the 20th.

If you decode this then I salute you. I've not made it easy.

The Black Helix returns......

Photobucket resizes big pictures, I can't read the writing, it's too small for my wasted eyes :(

I know, and I can't resize it to true size. My advice is to save it and view it in fax viewer in actual size.....

EDIT: Photobucket sucks, I've redesigned a more readable copy......

The post I've just dumped in the main thread is for if I do end up using Frost at the Spring Conclave - so you know what the Imperium actually knows about the mercenary, and what your characters might reasonably know in advance.

Those who are familiar with my characters will know that Frost is not male (as the IC post says), but that's what Imperial reports think anyway - whether the mistake is a result of sheer confusion or someone actually manipulating the data... I'm not telling you. ;)

So, once again, my "in character" information has included quite a lot of nonsense. ;D

Out of curiousity, did anyone ever do anything with Macabre's code?

I think its beaten everyone *insert evil laugh here*

Has it beaten everyone?  Or is it that no one has given it a go?  I was surprised there wasn't any debate about it - when you've posted these things in the past there was a fair amount of discussion.  I considered giving it a try, but I've got enough other projects to be going on with...

I never actually tried. I'm usually reasonable at cipher breaking*, but sometimes I'm just not up for trying... and then when I actually would be, I forget it's there to be done.

Looking again, I notice there are number of consecutive number pairs (even a triple). Not sure yet whether this is the result of the cipher used, or simply the underlying plaintext. I'll look at it over the next few days and see if I can crack any of it.

I'm just hoping it's not the same level of evil as the ciphers I write...

I tried it and got bored, I always do with codes and ciphers...

Is this Adelaide Niska....?

Quote from: Kaled on February 10, 2010, 09:19:11 PM
Has it beaten everyone?  Or is it that no one has given it a go? 

personally, i'm no good at codes and such; beat it till it works or needs replacing!
hence RPing alot of high SG characters; complete opposite to me :D

Quote from: greenstuff_gav on February 11, 2010, 10:49:08 PMhence RPing alot of high SG characters; complete opposite to me

Last time I took a Sg test, I got 79.

I is an jenius.

Quote from: Adlan on February 11, 2010, 09:06:33 PM
Is this Adelaide Niska....?

No that would be firefly.....

But I admit that's where the surname in part comes from it's also a play on a much earlier character by the name of Liska who was similar to what Niska will be

The candidates listed in this (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=352.msg8080#msg8080) post are ones described in the Player Pack for the Spring Conclave.  As I've mentioned elsewhere, players do not have to support someone from this shortlist, and it'd be really good if some players decided to put their own player characters or NPCs forward as candidates.  Also, during the course of the day players are likely to meet other NPC Inquisitors who they may wish to support.

In case you were wondering, some of the candidates have mysterious pasts with the intention that they can be used as plot hooks by players - so if someone turns up to the Spring Conclave with a Chaos warband (for example) they may want to write that Ze Thiago is in fact an agent of disorder who has infiltrated the Conclave.  The characters listed have no background other than what is written here (although since I've made a model of Calleia, he may get more in future).

In the run up the the event it's probably best if people keep things fairly vague when writing about the candidates (unless you plan to support one of your own PCs/NPCs in the election).  This is especially the case where the plot hooks I've inserted into the character backgrounds are concerned.  Once the event is over I'll be looking for the winning player to write up something on whoever becomes Inquisitor Lord to tell us what his story is, what his policies might be, and so on...

The model almost makes we want to side against Calleia just to see what he does to try and regain the lordship

after all even a taste of power can have a changing effect

One thing that has just occurred to me. Farness II (in Iacton Regis' fluff) seemed unnaturally familiar to me - and I finally figured out why. There's a Farness Beta in the Eisenhorn books.

I'm not saying that two planets on different sides of the Imperium can't have the same/similar name (and indeed, with a million worlds, quite a few probably will do), but just thought I'd bring it up.

Interesting - I have read Eisenhorn, but any similarity is unintentional.  When stuck for names I normally just throw together a few letters or syllables and then make it into something pronounceable - it's probably just one of those random coincidences, but there's always the chance I was sub-consciously remembering the novel.

Nah, I'm not suggesting that there was a deliberate similarity. I just thought I'd note it in case it was entirely unintentional and something you wanted to adjust.
I've done that a few times - coming up with a name at random, and finding that it's either cryptomnesia (i.e. I've read it somewhere else but forgotten about it) or that someone else got there first.

But that's often what I do for names. Mash the keyboard until a sequence of letters that looks like it could be made pronounceable comes out of it.

Anyway, as regards my entry in the thread...

I haven't named a candidate for two particular reasons. One, it's appropriate to Marco's mentor to not give anything away until he has to. Two, I've yet to figure it out myself! I'm considering writing my own character, but if inspiration doesn't strike, there are options there which seem appropriate.

As for who Miss Kestel is, I think you lot can figure it out. (Obvious hint: It's not her real name.)

Thanks to Marco, the files from the Spring Conclave are now available online;
http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=683

The most useful file is probably this (http://www.mediafire.com/?oam3ewhv0zt) one which contains all of the NPC contacts I created for the day, and which will hopefully help people in writing up their reports of the days events.

In addition, they can be viewed as a resource describing some of the people, places and conspiracies within the Carthax Sector.   In there you'll find a mix of Inquisitors, nobles, respected members of the Adeptus, wanted heretics, pawns, and other, more mysterious, figures, as well as all manner of plot hooks and ideas for stories and campaigns.  Feel free to use them however you see fit, however don't go killing off Calleia as he's now head of the Conclave and one of my PC/NPCs (and I also plan to build a model for Inquisitrix Novia Fraal, so the same goes for her).  What you see is all the background that exists, so you're free to make up the rest however you choose.

- Dave

I'm intending a short fiction documenting the trials of Jon Necris as seen through a flash back,

There may also be some surpirses in store for some of you included in the fiction.....

I added my record of how events transpired from Sarthuul's perspective. I hope it isn't too long, or the pictures too large. I don't know how to make them any smaller...

Anyway, if I've done anything wrong, i'm happy to fix it.

Calleia is far better at speech writing than I am, so instead you've got Ottokar's heavily edited transcript.  If anyone can think of anything I ought to have included but haven't, let me know and I'll edit my post.

http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=352.msg9182#msg9182

I decided Sarthuul, being who he is, wouldn't take the fact that he has now been personally identified lying down, so I decided to add a little message, with a response that was in his usual 'style' (i.e. manipulative and with the pretension of a revolutionary). I hope it wasn't too close to IC, but i figured that would be a good thread, as it was the same thread that contained the post which named him.

I thought it would be interesting to steer the investigation into Calleia's attempted assassination in a certain direction - my Inquisitor *is* a highly experienced Ordo Xenos member after all ;)

Oh and Necris, kinda late now, but the link you posted at the bottom of page 3 to your IC post is broken.

Thanks rob fixed it now

those images are great by the way

Cheers, they were for my drawing and comp ICA, they were a bit rushed though as I did them at the last minute. I'll try and patch them up a bit over summer, I also intend to continue the story somewhat, or at least chart some of my Inquisitor's other shenanigans on his own personal crusade.

I've just realised, I don't think there's been any explanation anywhere as to what exactly the Graveel Hegemony actually is. Or was this deliberate Dave?

Yeah, I've no idea what it is - it was just something I wrote on the contact card for Calleia, one of many plot hooks I came up with while creating all those characters.  I've had a few thoughts about what it may be, but Holiad's characters are now running the cabal (as he won the Spring Conclave) so I'm more than happy for him to decide.

I've added a little prologue to the events which occured as a result of the games played in the Mancunian Conclave thread (http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=741.0). It just explains how both Zophar and Sarthuul escaped and were reunited, but I also thought it was a good opportunity to expand upon the nature of the bond between Zophar and Sarthuul, through showing what it's like for Zophar when he is not under Sarthuul's influence (and what happens to him when he gets Sarthuul back). Anyway, I decided to tell the story from both Zophar's and Willie's points of view in order to get a better overview of exactly what happened.

I apologise for the double post, but seeing as this is about a different matter to my last post it seemed a bit odd to try and add it on as an edit.

I just wanted to say that I read Marco's report and thoroughly enjoyed it - i wanted to thank you on how you handled Willie's explosion. Humourous, but allowing for his return, it was nicely done.

Anyway, i hope that doesn't sound too sycophantic; but i feel it's always pleasant when others show that they appreciate one's effort.

You must have been working hard to read all that less than half an hour after I posted it.

Yeah, I deliberately wrote Willie's explosion to be vague and open ended (because of course, he didn't actually die*). Not that Marco would doubt that's what Silva thought she had seen, but it does sound far fetched. (The fact that what she recalls actually was pretty much was the sequence of events in game is irrelevant.) Besides, who would I be to say whether or not someone could survive such an explosion? Silva's own background includes her surviving an improvised explosive - although it literally cost her an arm and a leg.
*He's only mostly dead.

Also, I wanted to leave a certain amount of doubt in Marco's mind - reasons why he might suspect that the figure he had run into wasn't actually Zophar/Sarthuul. Sometimes some mystery, confusion and general uncertainty is a good thing.

Anyway, thanks - nice to know that people enjoyed reading it, because I certainly enjoyed writing it. I'd quite like to get back to writing Marco more often, but as far as RPing, he's still tied up in "After Hours", which is unfortunately still on hiatus (as far as a timeline, I'm canonically taking the events of After Hours to preceed the Tigguo Cobauc election).

Recently, in order to survive the loathsome 10 hours of revision a day I'm putting myself through, I've been thinking of war bands or characters I can make once I've put the nightmare of exams behind me. On top of this I've also gone on what might be described as a 'spending spree' as far as models are concerned. The result of this is that i now have a new model I intend to use as an Inquisitor and a lot of pent-up energy fuelling his back story.

I decided i wanted hi m to be quite different to anything I'd seen and so decided to create a super-secret society for Inquisitors. I decided it would dispatch one member to each sector of the Imperium to do its bidding. I also decided I wanted the society to be sufficiently shadowy that the motivation of my Operative is unknown and that his actions are still fairly shrouded in mystery.

I know that the Inquisition itself is more or less a secret society, but as per the Illuminati, I don't see why there can't be secret organisations within secret organisations. The Organisation could be real or it could be a hoax, only the Operative will know that; observe how many lines there are inside the winged O.... Similar, perhaps to a certain star shaped symbol?

I wanted it to be very open ended and ambiguous, once exams are out of the way i intend to write an entry about it in the 'Dark Millenium' section of the forum, but until then, i decided to upload a bit of a teaser, and also set the scene for my inquisitor's entrance to the sector.

Any ideas, comment, criticisms etc... about The Organisation are welcome and appreciated, as i say, once i get sufficient time, I WILL expand on their backstory more as well as the backstory of my Inquisitor himself (although expect it to still be very open-ended, mysterious and ambiguous, as that's how I want it to be).

Rumours that my most recent post is offering clues as to the nature or background of my IGT scenario(s) are absolutely true.

I'm not sure about the IGT Marco, but this line was priceless...

PDF desertions are at level Beta X, despite unprecedented dwindling of the Commissariat's ammunition stores.

What are everyone's thoughts on sector-wide events that have the potential to make their presence felt in everyone's games? This might be a crazy idea that not everyone will like, but might get enough support so it can start being implemented for those who want to take part.

For example, every so often (week, month etc) myself or others will put up a massive 'live' event, that fellow Inquisitors can take into the next game that they play, tying everyone's storylines a little closer together but without inhibiting on the personal freedoms that Inquisitor is famous for.

One idea would be Astropaths across the sector have been falling ill, claiming a vast warp disturbance is washing over planets at a frightening speed. It appears to be a colossal psychic scream, emminating from an unknown origin on the eastern fringe of the sector. With the correct equipment, it can be traced back to the source for further investigation, but what happens when it hits... not even the Astropaths know.

In the next game that you play, the GM rolls 2D6 before the game starts - that is the turn the Psynami (heh) arrives. Each character must make a Wp test at -20 or be knocked down and stunned for D3 turns. Any further effects are down to the GM's discretion.

I can think of quite a few other ideas as well, perhaps the ammunition available on your planet is substandard, and projectile weapons start off with -D6 ammunition in every magazine, or the passing of a nearby solar flare in your particular region cause all forcefields to double any odds rolled, or half every evens rolled, or massive pulses of warp energy bubbling out a crack in the material realm give any Chaos-aligned characters +10 to strength and toughness, but -10 to Wp and Sg.

Loads of interesting things could be done with large-scale events, but it's up to individuals to decide whether to take part or not. If I started an event (one that could run for a few weeks/month or two, say, to give people time to have a game) how many people would join in? If it's enough, I'll write something up for the Carthaxian thread.

It sounds interesting. Almost like the story updates they did for the 40k/Fantasy summer campaigns where special effects would apply for a few days or a week (I remember that the Dark Shadows campaign had the Winds of Magic Rules where different lores waxed and waned in strength) before something else happened for the next week.

I'd love to get involved and would if games presented themselves, but unfortunately, it seems I get to play fewer and fewer games outside of Conclave events any more.

However, you said things there that give me ideas to weave into what I'm already doing for the Autumn Conclave. Like I said somewhere else, I'm planning on things happening around what the players are doing, and these events might introduce different effects to the next round of games.

We'll see how complicated I'm prepared to make things.

Just a quick note there was a major psychic event prior to the election campaign of Lord Calleia in which many inquisitors were slain in a mass assassination and a world lost, which led into a crusade through out the Nexus Belt Worlds being led by the Inquisition Imperial Guard and Space Marines (I really should put a field report of that up at some point)

QuoteOne idea would be Astropaths across the sector have been falling ill, claiming a vast warp disturbance is washing over planets at a frightening speed. It appears to be a colossal psychic scream, emminating from an unknown origin on the eastern fringe of the sector. With the correct equipment, it can be traced back to the source for further investigation, but what happens when it hits... not even the Astropaths know.

My sector! + tyranid assault = nothing to fear for your sector's continued, but it does for mine.

I like the idea - when I came up with the idea of the Carthaxian Conclave, the idea was that events that affected the entire sector would be played out at events such as the Summer Conclave, however this sort of campaign seems like another good way to do it - as long as there are enough people (even 8-10 would do) who will be able to join in to make it really seem like it's affecting the entire sector and not just a few isolated incidents.

Also, I see there have been quite a number of posts in the thread recently (not that that's a bad thing!) - but the thread is meant to introduce characters/scenarios that they intend to use/play at Conclave events, and to be a summary of games that people have played (rather than pure background or in character posts).  That may well be the case with the recent posts, but they refer to things that aren't familiar to me (and I hope I'm not the only one) - therefore it would be good if when people do post things, if they could also post in this thread with a short OOC description of what they're posting.

For example, say that it's a summary of your character's activities at the IGT or a character you intend to bring to the Summer Conclave.  Also, if your post relates to a game you've played then why not post a battle report in a separate thread and hyperlink to it - or you can hyperlink to an IC post or one in the rules sub-forum if it's a post about your character.  The more links there are to information elsewhere on the 'Clave (or on your own site), the more it ties all our characters together into a chronicle of events in the sector - and that's what the thread is all about.

One of the main reasons for me not posting anything about the Nexus Belt Crusade as it evolved into a 40K campaign that I ran (am still running) last year.

I'll do a post about it at some point (maybe tonight)

Alrighty then, time to get the ball rolling!

This will coincide quite nicely with the end of my university year - having free time again, as well as a nice 30 second animation to illustrate the story a little bit. I'm going to try and do a short piece every time I do a Carthaxian Sector Event, to give it a little more gravitas, as well as keeping my hand in. Don't want to go all summer again without picking up the drawing tablet!

I've got a couple of ideas where I'm going to take this and I'm just refining them at the moment. Expect an update in the next few days, with a few scenario ideas and some special rules for those looking to join the fight against the darkness...

...Don't forget to pack your torch...

Just a little fun for those who want to journey beyond Imperial rule in their campaigns in the Carthax sector to a region of space where Inquisitorial authority means less than nothing.

This isn't an exhaustable list by any means, indeed I'd like to encourage people to PM me world suggestions that I can add to the map.

Let me know what you think.

That is fantastic! That sort of thing really helps me when I'm coming up for character background a well as any campaign use. Good times :)

I've posted a link to my Keltani Subsector site - apparently, I hadn't added it yet.

Might PM you some ideas Macabre...

Hinnom, submitted by DapperAnarchist, added to the Wilderwest map.