Summer Conclave 2012 - 15th September - Kaede Mack Conspiracy

[Van Helser]

With wedding plans of my own gathering pace, I would say that keeping on your good lady's good side in the run up to the nuptials would be advisable!

If I don't see you, good luck with it all Dave!

Ruaridh

[RobSkib]

I'll just leave this here...

Infodump coming over the next few days, I'm back in action!

*edit* Quick headcount

Confirmed attending

RobSkib
MarcoSkoll
Joel McKickass
Van Helser
Greenstuff Gav
Bloodpact

Maybe attending
Brother Brimstone
Almundis
Kaled

Keep me posted how many can make it/maybe make it, this one is going to be a stormer

[greenstuff_gav]

Infodump coming over the next few days, I'm back in action!

hooray!

i have a confirmed +1; Adrian (who is coming to his first Inq event for his 2nd game )

[RobSkib]

Kaede Mack, the most infamous criminal mastermind the universe has never heard of. On some planets he is the administrator of an unstoppable narcotics ring. Throughout the Dust system he is the notorious head of an authority-crippling weapons smuggling syndicate and has been linked with illegal cloning and organ harvesting. Across the Onus region, the name of Kaede Mack is not spoken in hushed tones, but celebrated and paraded every Harvestquart as the charismatic revolutionary that allowed the planets to throw off the Monarchical shackles keeping them in the dark ages and join the future of high technology. Where organised crime or armed conflict exists in the universe, the Kaede Mack Conglomerate will have their hand in its success or failure.

Yet despite all this, nobody has ever captured the real Kaede Mack, only lowly knock-offs claiming to be him and going out in a blaze of cheap glory. Whenever investigations get close to unravelling the Conglomerate, law enforcement are handed a Mack on a silver platter, satisfying their need for justice and temporarily quietening criminal activity in the area. These handful of Macks ardently claim to be the real Kaede Mack, and have gone to execution halls and court rooms screaming it until their last breath.

It has troubled high authorities for decades how the kingpin of the Mack Conglomerate can be so elusive, even with an entire division of the Inquisition assigned to the investigation. Wicked whispers circulate that Kaede Mack is an alien conspiracy, or a device of Chaos or that the name is merely a placeholder for a larger, more powerful shadow organisation. Whatever the case, the Conglomerate is adept at feeding authorities precisely what they expect to find when they get too close to the truth - until now.

The inquisition's double agents, brainwashed Mechanicus Cistron spies and grizzled trackers have sent reports that have set lawmen and lawless men on edge. Never before have two Mack operatives been spotted in the same place, but on the unassuming planet of Daphnia in the Dust system, dozens have been confirmed to be operating openly.

Like a cloud of proto-locusts they descend to the planet – enemies and allies of the Kaede Mack Conglomerate, all chasing their own agendas. Lawmen can taste victory; Mack has nowhere to run any longer, they will finally capture and bring him in for questioning. Criminals are attracted to the Conglomerate with promises of riches and acknowledgement of unparalleled proportions if they can aid or usurp the infamous Kaede Mack. There are even those who have infiltrated Mack's operation and have been using him for decades as the most far-reaching and advanced spy network ever to have existed, and cannot let that be compromised.

Whatever their alignments, pro-Mack or anti-Mack, they all have one undeniable shared goal; to reveal the truth behind the Kaede Mack Conglomerate.

*edit* replaced 'Dust sector' with 'Dust system'. Derp.

[MarcoSkoll]

Nice.

I'd like to see if I can get the Kaede Mack related short story I've got tidied up and posted, but I suspect I'm pressed enough for time simply trying to get enough models finished before the day and I'll be disappointed if I miss yet another modelling deadline (not that it's unlikely I will again, given how much I've been procrastinating).

[RobSkib]

Splendid! I have been accosted by Gav to save any extra macguffins that don't make it into the final prep for a Mack-related Dark Magenta article - I'd be stoked if you would put that forward!

Also, I'm getting the 7.30 from St Pancras on that morning, if you're still up in the air about booking tickets.

Double also, I have a TONNE of modelling to do for this event! I'll start posting up some WIPs if that's what you need to keep you motivated. I'll show you mine if you show me yours...

[Koval]

Not my event, but where is Dust in relation to Carthax?

[RobSkib]

Derp. Meant to write 'Dust system', not 'Dust sector'. Dust is on the outer fringes of the Carthax sector

[MarcoSkoll]

I'd be stoked if you would put that forward!

What I was referring to features a Kaede Mack, rather than being focused on him/her. So that's probably not ideal for a KM article, but I have considered some ideas that would be more appropriate.

Also, I'm getting the 7.30 from St Pancras on that morning, if you're still up in the air about booking tickets.

I'm no longer up in the air, but I am indeed booked for the 0730. I decided the extra leeway on late arrival at Euston was a more sound reason than getting to chat outside WHW for a few more minutes before it opened.

A fortunate choice, it turns out.

Double also, I have a TONNE of modelling to do for this event! I'll start posting up some WIPs if that's what you need to keep you motivated.

Motivation might help, but the issue is often that I'm trying to do it on a narrowboat. I'll see if I can get some photos when possible. Some of it has worked out pretty well - this time, Skoll actually manages to vaguely resemble his inspiration (that of course being Nathan Fillion as Captain Malcolm Reynolds).

[RobSkib]

What I was referring to features a Kaede Mack, rather than being focused on him/her. So that's probably not ideal for a KM article, but I have considered some ideas that would be more appropriate.

Well I was looking for a nice bit of prose to open the article, and besides, I think it's the stories of the personal Macks that make him/her interesting. I would do something similar if I was to write an opener, it's much more interesting for a reader (IMO) knowing nothing about the Conglomerate to read an example of a Mack in action, rather than a dry piece about the Conglomerate on a universal scale.

I'm no longer up in the air, but I am indeed booked for the 0730. I decided the extra leeway on late arrival at Euston was a more sound reason than getting to chat outside WHW for a few more minutes before it opened.

Fab. I'll give you a bell when I get there, assuming you still have your number from last time?

As a semi-related note, I've decided to reverse-engineer my scenarios for this event - I have a suitably awful pun as the title of the scenario and work backwards from that. So far I've got  Mack to the Future, Curse of the Mack Pearl and The Imperium Strikes Mack. You have been warned.

[Koval]

Extend it into song titles too, or bands -- Mack Sabbath, anyone?

[Bloodpact]

I hadnt realised quite how much this has snuck up on me! I've got 40k doubles the weekend before as well which im still painting for! Luckily, i have strategically taken a week off, ostensibly to paint Orks, but with their advanced progress, this may be co-opted into painting my new Inquisitor!

[MarcoSkoll]

Well I was looking for a nice bit of prose to open the article, and besides, I think it's the stories of the personal Macks that make him/her interesting.

I'd agree. I'll perhaps poke the keyboard when I get ideas (AND time), see if anything of literary worth comes out of it.

I'll give you a bell when I get there, assuming you still have your number from last time?

I still have my old number, as it's too good to give up. (And that reminds me, I need to put credit on my phone - still being the kind of unconnected person who has an ancient phone and considers what a lot of people would have as a monthly contract as enough to suffice for a couple of years).

So far I've got Mack to the Future, Curse of the Mack Pearl and The Imperium Strikes Mack. You have been warned.

Mack to the Future, eh? Reminds me of that line I've long wanted to fit into an RP where I'm playing Inquisitor Lyra Rhodes...

Extend it into song titles too, or bands

Song titles, eh? From the top then:

"Paint it Mack", "Mack in Black", "Mack Dog", "Fade to Mack", "Get Mack", "The boys are Mack in town", "Mack into Hell", "Mack Holes and Revelations" (Yes, I know this one is actually an album), "Leader of the Mack", "Jumpin' Mack Flash", "Hard Mack Hallelujah" and, for something a bit different, "Ace of Kaedes".

[Koval]

Extend it into song titles too, or bands

Song titles, eh? From the top then:

"Paint it Mack", "Mack in Black", "Mack Dog", "Fade to Mack", "Get Mack", "The boys are Mack in town", "Mack into Hell", "Mack Holes and Revelations" (Yes, I know this one is actually an album), "Leader of the Mack", "Jumpin' Mack Flash", "Hard Mack Hallelujah" and, for something a bit different, "Ace of Kaedes".

From what's on my computer's music-library, I can offer Praise Lamented Kaede, Mack Night, Mack Clouds And Silver Linings (also derived from an album title rather than a song), Mack Earth (also derived from an album title), Mack Rain, Kaede To The World (a bit of a stretch, but meh), Mack Illusion, Triggermack, Mack Of The Year, Novokaede, Kaede Of Orleans, Beneath Mack Skies...

There's probably more further down, but I've got to go to work.

[MarcoSkoll]

I did have more rhymes/puns in my collection, but I suspected they'd be more than a bit too obscure.

For example, tracks from a 2011 album from Finland, even if amongst my favourites, probably aren't very widely known.