Wasing is, Wasing not

like, he’s entitled to sick leave, he really ought to take a couple months to break the curse and come to terms with whatever the fuck just happened to him, but instead of embarking on a journey of self-discovery and healing he just keeps showing up to work. no one can get captain maximus to go on his fucking voyage of self actualization and fix the curse because he’s obsessed with catching flinn ryder. everyone really fucking hopes that when he finally catches this guy the curse might be broken anyway, but it isn’t.

he just keeps showing up to work. he glares at the stablehands until they saddle him up. everyone’s gone over the regulations a dozen times but there’s nothing there saying you’re not allowed to saddle and ride the captain of the guard if he makes you do it. his former second in command rides him around like ‘sir i really don’t know about this’ and he’s just like ‘are we going to catch some criminals or what.’

you can see in the movie that everyone in the royal guard defers to this horse. it’s absolutely because that’s their boss. and secondarily because now he’s two thousand pounds of percheron.

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ink and watercolor sketch on 5x7" cold press with digital edits

Like, the point is not for the game itself to tell a story, but rather to give you as wide an opportunity as possible to make your own stories. All of the stuff with the Horus Heresy and tyranid invasions and whatever is to provide excuses for fighting. Once you’ve got those, pick a spot in space, say that’s your spot, and make shit up.

The galaxy is a big place and an old place. Point to map! Invent a sector! Invent subsectors! Invent plants to go in them! Invent Space Marine Chapters! Invent Imperial Guard regiments and Knight houses and random aliens and cults! Have there be wars in the past! Have there be wars now! Invent characters!

I don’t especially mind the Great Rift and all that, but that everything creeps forward constantly just rubs me up the wrong way. Mean, it always kind did, but now it’s faster, and I don’t need that, personally. And with a set and core cast of characters that are involved in everything big it just starts to feel more like Star Wars.

I want the feeling of there being the Agratheon Rift campaign and it lasted for decades but no-one outside the sector knows about it, because that’s the galaxy works. You know?

巴巴鲁斯的农夫与虫🐛