#dh2e

“Oh, they’re so creative!”

“They’re an amazing actor!”

“We get along great!”

No. You don’t get it.

I have not stopped thinking about this NPC he cooked up on the fly for me to interact with over 6 years ago. I want to plan 5 different heists with them, but actually I want it to all be the same heist & for us to do it as 10 different characters because I want to see all the different ways their ideas bounce off mine. She’s completely willing to play along with any & all bits, even if she herself thinks it’s really stupid or boring, if it’s what her character would do. Every single time they introduce a new character, I am on the edge of my seat, vibrating with excitement to see what they’ve come up with. Every time we meet a new NPC, I hold my breath, praying that they become a recurring character.

We spent the better part of yesterday’s session repelling huge a Dark Eldar raid. They only managed to take some 60 000 people, and though that still counts as a victory for them (albeit not a glorious one), we kicked plenty of ass. 

The better part of the party was fighting on a rooftop. Kyyros actually got rammed by a reaver and then shot to the head with poisoned shards. He survived and got some pretty neat scars. Norelle had gotten dropped to 2 wounds by the end of the last week’s session, when the encounter started, and managed to take no damage at all despite being constantly harassed by cabalite warriors, incubi and worse. Arman held his own against a succubus and managed to parry several strikes before having to be rescued by Yi. Yi and Cai had been fighting on the ground level and would have probably not been able to help the rest of us had an Inquisitor not decided to whoop half of the Dark Eldar force. Yi also melted the succubus’ arm off. Arzali went full murder, took all the drugs (remember, he’s an assassin with multiple extra organs cooking up combat drugs to be used at will), and killed an insane number of foes before jumping on the Archon’s shuttle to shank him. He lost an eye and a leg during the encounter and was swiftly kicked off the shuttle by the big bad, but hey, not everyone gets to be sliced by an Archon.

I've posted a bit of my Dark Heresy crew, but I've also been working on a massive com to render everyone out in full and the first to be completed is Romulus, our dear mutant and the beating heart of our party, played by Bearded Breadman. In combat, he acts as both a battering ram and a melee tank, and outside of battle is a voice of reason and love and whose towering form provides Oleander a perch for spotting both evildoers and people who just smell vulnerable.

Dark Heresy’s on a break for this week due to real life circumstances, so we played Ork Freebooters using a mix of Dark Heresy 2E and Rogue Trader rules. 

It didn’t make a whole lot of sense, because we really got into being big green space hooligans, but I haven’t had a session this cathartic in a long, long time. Sometimes it’s just fun to embrace the stupid in RPGs. 

Somebody had stolen the Kaptin’s hat, which called for bloodshed. We searched all over the ship nearly getting all of the bridge sucked into the void in the process, until our weirdboy had a hunch and we made a jump to where the hat presumably was. We drove right through a fueling station upon exiting the Warp, and found the place. Seemed like the Kaptin’s hat had been stolen by a band of human cultists, so we did what any proper Ork would do and rammed our giant ass space ship right through their fortress.