Inquisitor Ira Stannhope of the Order Sepulturum + Henchmen

[MarcoSkoll]

As Kaled says, Heroic is not just about keeping your nerve. The Indiana Jones test is also my favoured method - could you see them doing the kind of things Indiana Jones would do? If so, they probably deserve heroic. But if they're not taking risky actions on a regular basis, they're probably not cheating the odds enough to be worthy of it.

(It is, after all, a skill that should be looked on as reducing the odds of risky actions, not one that means you'll pass more actions).

[Kaled]

(It is, after all, a skill that should be looked on as reducing the odds of risky actions, not one that means you'll pass more actions).

If I were writing the rules you'd only be able to use Heroic on a turn where you've declared a risky action. It's always disappointing to see people using it to perform mre safe actions...

[MarcoSkoll]

I do sometimes use a variant of it where the re-roll only counts against risky actions. (i.e. If you roll 1, 1, 4 & 6 and re-roll one of those 1s and get a 5 instead, it would cancel the risky action, but you'd still only get two successful actions.)

That said, I don't entirely dislike it as is, as a slightly improved action chance does also fit with an Indiana Jones like character being able to make decisions quickly on the fly - in other words: "I don't know, I'm making this up as I go."

[Dwi]

Been thinking of late. What the chance that a sepy inquisitor would take on a team mamber who survived a zombie plauge? Someone with that much faith to not contract or fought off the plauge would be worthy of Inquisitorial conspription right?

[Dolnikan]

A survivor could be a recruit, if he or she has also shown other skills, probably while surviving. Someone like that would have first-hand experience with what the inquisitor looks for, so I would say go for it, as long as the background works.

[Myriad]

Well, depending on the inquisitor they can recruit whoever they like.  You don't necessarily have to be exceptional, merely of interest and / or convenient. 

A plague survivor may well have some useful skills, and / or the inquisitor may very well be curious as to how they survived the plague and whatever information they may (or, worse luck, turn out not to) have.  They could get recruited simply until the inquisitor decides what to do with them  .

[Dwi]

Explacator Holst Morlain
Born on the Hive world of Ultas Sigma in the city of Hive Lorgast 978M41 Holst was the son of a foundry worker by the name of Crassus Morlain.
Crassus was a single father, his wife haveing been killed in a slag heap colapse a few weeks after Holst was borne and being a Foundry worker for the lower class House Bern, he was hardly there for his son though he did his best.
Holst's life was just as normal as any other childs despite this and like may he became an cheep labour source for one of the houses. In this case, like his father, Hourse Bern who employed him as a "Duct Rat", boys and girls who would clean the ducts, vents, rafters and smoke stacks of House Bern's foundrys.

As time wnet he got older and grew to large for the work, as those who survive the nasty job do and was employed once again as one of House Bern's foundry guards for Bern Foundry 13. His size often made him a bit of a joke agmonst his fellow workers who saw him as a great dumb ox, much to Holst's anger.
It was during this time however that Holst's lafe was changed.

As the Thieteenth Back crusade ragered splinter fleets of Chaos warships and warriors undoubtly brook free of the fighting and begain to attack world near and ever far from the Cadian Gate. Ultas Sigma was one of these worlds being close to Cadia itsself.
As the choas forces drew near, led by the Traitor Guard General Pox Narl, released a number of bio weapons on Ultas Sigma.
While Hive Lorgast was running scared Holst rallied his fellow gurads and forced the workers in the plant to stay, with threat of gunning them down if they didin't, lest they spread mor panic or worse illness.
While they kespt the themselves same it was unavoidabul the may would get sick in their crampt home.
As time went on Holst begain to form a retinue of the toughest workers and Guards he could find and begain to organize teams of workers to give aid and support.
Never the less even Holst himsewlf could not hope to be free of hurt and was soon confined to bed after takeing a metal splinter to his left eye  and it becomeing infected.
As the chaos forces spread deeper and deeper in to the hive Foundry 13 soon found itself cut off the from the other hold outs.
Finaly after anumber of running battles with chaos forces the Foundry found itself on the verg of attack.
The guards unslung their shock mauls and preped their riot sheilds and with the workers picked up rivet and nail guns, forgeing hammers, shovels and many more nad tools besides the remaining healthy and recovered workers and guards rallied and readyed themselves to do their best to fend off the chaos raiders.

To the surpirse of every one it was Holst who porrved to be the most notabul member among them. Tought he would now be forever scarred, his infected left eye and though it was black and blue and seeping yellow pus from his infection he stood in the front lines holding a nail and ritet gun in each hand and preped to meet the invaders.
In a running, gunning battle through the halls and walkways of Foundry 13 Holst and his fellows seemed lost despite haveing large amounts ammo for their ranged weapons there were just to many cultests and pleauge zombies.
At last with his rivet gun spend and his nail gun distoryed by a stray las gun plast Holst snlung his Shock maul and stood sholder with his fellow guards and workers and prepared to meet the cultests head on in an all out colse combat charge to hopefuly save the day.

In the end it was not nearly enogh and as the guards and workers were drivven back, an unexspected visitor arivved.

Clad in a fine green great coat and armour and a large number of caraopace armoured men and women at his back the visitor charved a bloody trail through the chaos cultists with his warriors.
The foundry workers started to lay down some nail and rivet fire at the horde. Doing thire best to aid their saviours.

The visitor proclaimed him self to be Inquisitor Ira Stannhope of the Ordo Sepulturum. He was surprised to find any one alive as far out as they were. Surviveing chaos this far out from Imperial controlled levels was a nigh on impossable task and deeply impressed Stanhope. With bolth Holst and his fellows Stanhope took holst and the best of his fellow workers and guards, around 20 in all, and desided to second them to Inquisition servance for testing and possibul recrutement.

Over time Holst reseaved a new, albet crude, bionic eye from Ira as a thank you for holding the foundry for the Imperial cause and Ira implanted it to Holst himself.
As the war came to a close and the remain workers were taken on fully in to Ira's staff Ira ordered the complate withdrall of imperial forces from Ultas Sigma, much to the dismay of Holst and his fellows.
While Ultas Sigma was later retaken and Holst and Ira became friends the withdrawll is still a sticking point with them to this day.
This also prompted Ira to promte Holst to Explacator hopeing that the distance that shuch a job would give them would perhaps mend the wound of Ultas Sigma, a vain hope but one that he hopes will pay off one day.
Holst's natural leadership made him and exalent choice for the job and ira granted him the use of a few of his fellow agents even better the one who he had fought with on him homeworld.

WS BS S T I WP SG NV LD
52 56 67 65 68 55 65 70

Equipment: Stubgun with three reloads, Shock Maul, Surppression Sheild, mesh armour on chest and abdoman, Crude Bionic left eye
Talents: Leader

Parts to be used: Tryus' head, blacks legs and chest, slicks arms (or maybe "Tooth Pick"'s arms), barbaretta's maul and sheild, slicks stubgun

Writers Notes: I have been keeping to the "Recruted from the battlefeild" theam as quite honestly I am at a loss for how els a guy like Ira would recrute any one. Hes a battlefeild man himself so i think he would be drawn to those types of people.

[krenshar]

On recruitment.
Would Stannhope take defeated foes for questioning?  If so that's another avenue for recuitment, allowing a minor servant of a plague cult to seek redemption in service to the Inquisition.

A medicae or orderly might also be sought out by a Sepultrum inquisitor; if a plague is anticipated, it would make sense to watch the hospitals and someone with first-hand knowledge of how the run in the Imperium would be ideal for that work.  They'd begin as a convenient native but if they keep their wits in the face of the walking dead, they'd probably be worth taking along to the next investigation.

[Dolnikan]

Taking foes to question them seems like a thing any inquisitor would do, but a cultist would have to really proof his or her loyalties to even be given a chance by anyone who isn;t the most radical inquisitor of the sector, they are tainted after all.

Someone with medical training would make a fine recruit, it s always useful to have someonw who can look after your health with you and when zombies are involved such a person could become even more useful.

I like the story, but I would change the giver of the eye to Ira, the owners of the foundry would have been ruined by such a massive outbreak, they would probably not be handing out bionics anymore, chances also are that they would have fled.

[Dwi]

I would like to note that Ira is allready a docter. Haveing two in the warband would be rather pointless. As for the eye I thnk Dol's got the right of it so I wll change it.