yeah, Rocky Horror means I am not going to be doing it tonight for sure.
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Inspiration Friday 2016: Thousand Sons (until 1/13)
#401
Posted 20 October 2016 - 03:49 PM

My Chaos WIP Thread (Bigger Pics and Foul Xenos offsite) Hall of Honour, My Storm Reavers (DIY SM Chapter) Story, My Chaos 7.5 Homebrew Codex Thread
In us burns a fire for vengeance that will only be quenched when we stand triumphant over the smoldering ruins of Terra. Our laughter on that day will haunt their survivors till the end of time. We will stride forth victorious through the shattered gates of their fortress, holding high aloft the defiled corpse of their rotting god as our prize.
Wulfkry, on 02 Jul 2013 - 3:38 PM, said: So an inquisitor is receiving SM implants using GK geneseed stolen off the fields of armageddon interesting..
Captain Semper, on 29 May 2015 - 4:10 AM, said: There is crazy and there is Teetengee crazy...
x9
I'm not dead, and I like 8th better than 7th.
#402
Posted 20 October 2016 - 04:03 PM

I don't want to be selfish about it, but I would like another week to work on my reentry into the contest.
#403
Posted 20 October 2016 - 07:39 PM

Halloween fun contest. Or horror story. Or both.
Best Of. Contest for frequent participants. Post the story you have submitted that you feel is your best written, or one of the best you have written. Maybe as a bonus round.
Troop model and background. Post a picture of one of your troops, not a champion, and tell his story. What is life like for a line troop in your warband? What are his goals, and what is he doing to achieve them?
Propaganda. How does your warband spread its infamy? Do they want to be feared? Or do they want to deceive others in to thinking life is better under their rule? Write a propaganda piece for your warband.
Legend. What tales are told of your warband. Do mothers frighten their children into behaving with fairytales of a real enemy from their worlds distant past? (Eat your peas, or the Eaters of Worlds will come.) Do feral tribes speak of an ancient evil that represents your warband. Are there myths of your warband that are studied in the scholams of a hive city, long after they are no longer believed? Tell a legend about your warband.
#404
Posted 20 October 2016 - 11:38 PM


And thanks for those suggestions, Carrack. The challenge after this one will be our regular Halloween/Horror theme

#405
Posted 28 October 2016 - 05:08 AM

For reference, this campaign is the culmination of several stories throughout the life of this competition:
The Dark Apostle Harnak announces his arching of Warsmith Bolverk in this story from the Chaos Nemesis competition.
The Iron Hounds carry on with their usual activities, including recruitment in "A Gift For A Gift."
Harnak and his Word Bearers strike their second blow, preaching the Primordial Truth to the unknowing victims of Bolverk's blasphemous cult in the Interview With A Dark Apostle challenge.
The Warsmith, frustrated by his inability to locate the Dark Apostle Harnak, strikes at the Word Bearers Legion in general, interfering with the dedication of another Dark Apostle's attempt to construct a Gehemanet in Imperial space as told from the perspective of a loyalist space marine and an Imperial Guardsman caught up in the destruction.
Through the fallout of this action, and from the Warsmith's forging of a critical alliance with a desperate Dark Eldar House, the Iron Hounds gained the means to end their game of cat and mouse and strike directly at Dark Apostle Harnak in his own lair.
The 49th Grand Company mobilized an unprecedented percentage of their available assets, nearly emptying out their precious space hulk and calling in an avalanche of pledges of loyalty and favours from allied and client warbands. This apocalyptic force marched through dark and forgotten passages in the Webway and even transiting secret Eldar Maiden Worlds on their route to a surprise attack upon the planet Sicarus, home of the Word Bearers Legion itself.
The Iron Hounds and their allies struck deep underground on Sicarus, aided by a well positioned accomplice within the Word Bearers Legion who acted for his own nefarious reasons, securing a bridgehead with the heavy use of advanced parties of Warp Talons and Raptors in the Upon Cursed Wings/Jump Assault challenge.
With overwhelming force, the 49th Grand Company and their many allies and slave soldiers crushed through the front gates of Harnak's personal Cathedral in Campaign II: Assault.
The Iron Warriors of Warsmith Bolverk bring fire and ruin to a fortress deep underneath the surface of unholy Sicarus, but their window of opportunity is closing, and their revenge must be swift. One more installment, I present Campaign III: The Crucible:
#406
Posted 28 October 2016 - 03:03 PM


Any more entries to come?

#407
Posted 29 October 2016 - 01:25 AM


I thank you for your entries in Inspirational Friday: Campaign Part III: The Crucible/Tables Turn over the last three weeks.
Many thanks to Carrack and a warm welcome back to Warsmith Aznable.
MyD4rkPassenger, you never got the second and third parts of your entry uploaded but don’t worry: before the end of the year (or perhaps early next year. Time is going rather quickly) we’ll have the fourth and final section (Campaign IV: Climax). If you can get in the second and third parts before then (or at the same time as part IV) that’s fine. Likewise anyone else (looking at you IF stalwarts in particular, Teetengee and Scourged

I hereby close that topic for the purposes of rewards (though as always if you have more entries on the topic please post them at any time, with a suitable note in the post’s title).
Here begins our thirty-first challenge of Inspirational Friday 2016:
Halloween
It is the witching time again. The Dark Millennium is one of abject and creeping horror. Tell us this week a tale to make our skin crawl.
Inspirational Friday: Halloween 2016 runs until the 4th of November.
Let us be inspired.
And who shall judge this new challenge? That decision lies with our current judge: me. Give me some time to read through the entries.
To the chosen victor: step forward and claim your Octed Amulet:

#408
Posted 29 October 2016 - 02:20 AM

And in the second section, chapter master Barcar’s thoughts, his view of his enemy, were excellently written. I thought they gave a great image of how a loyalist marine thought and viewed traitor astartes.
And finally, I want to see a model of Lord Carrack and his trophies after this campaign is over

MyD4rkPassenger
Firstly I love the name `Abyss Walkers`. Fantastic. And that the 8th intend to employ sons of Prospero in order to aid them in their raid? Most intriguing. Please post the second and third sections when you have time (title the posts Campaign II and Campaign III and we’ll know

Warsmith Aznable
“They swept around the tanks and siege engines still idling before the broken gates, and poured into the trenches and redoubts like liquid hatred.” Such a wonderful way with words!
The clash of the Word Bearers and the warsmith’s grand company was excellently written; that the sons of Lorgar sent their fanatics and spawn first in a tsunami of flesh, before they themselves entered the fray, not worrying themselves with mortal foes but pushing on to the Iron Warriors themselves. And I find it interesting the lengths warsmith Bolverk is willing to go to – losing so many of his men – in order to chase down his foe.
And I gave you Trapped in the Webway: the Psychopomps continuing their assault upon craftworld Carth-Lar, things having go slightly awry as the Eldar managed to take their vast craft into the nexus, and finally awakening the spirit host: the craftworld’s entire army of wraithguard, lords and even a wraithknight, turning the tables upon the pawns of Slaanesh.
I choose Warsmith Aznable as the winner of Campaign III: Tables Turn/The Crucible as I felt his story best fitted the theme.
With the death of chapter master Barcar in this third episode, Carrack, I look forward to seeing what you come up with for the fourth, final and climactic part...
#409
Posted 29 October 2016 - 06:24 PM

Halloween eh? Sounds good! I'll watch this one with keen interest, and hopefully I might actually finish writing an entry of my own this time!
For the record, would a more humourous (if still lore friendly) entry be permissable for the Halloween entry? I have some fiendish ideas...
I come here to discuss and find out about Warhammer 40,000 with people of every ethnicity, sexuality, country and yes, as sickening as it is, even Eldar players.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people, but monkeys do too, if they've got a gun." -Inquisitor Edmund Izzardos, on Jokaero.
(Formerly known as Squigsquasher)
#410
Posted 29 October 2016 - 07:37 PM

For the record, would a more humourous (if still lore friendly) entry be permissable for the Halloween entry? I have some fiendish ideas...
The Forsaken will be guest judging once again, channeled through my mortal flesh. He does love to be amused. Betrayal and due come-uppance for the arrogant are his go-to knee-slappers.
He also like spooooky stories.
#411
Posted 29 October 2016 - 08:03 PM

Aspis Sub, the Short Version
-Quill and Glass, A tavern outside of the Administratum Tower on Crypa Mundi, Segmentum Obscuras.
Edited by Carrack, 29 October 2016 - 08:56 PM.
#412
Posted 30 October 2016 - 01:14 AM

Monsters: Part 1:
My Chaos WIP Thread (Bigger Pics and Foul Xenos offsite) Hall of Honour, My Storm Reavers (DIY SM Chapter) Story, My Chaos 7.5 Homebrew Codex Thread
In us burns a fire for vengeance that will only be quenched when we stand triumphant over the smoldering ruins of Terra. Our laughter on that day will haunt their survivors till the end of time. We will stride forth victorious through the shattered gates of their fortress, holding high aloft the defiled corpse of their rotting god as our prize.
Wulfkry, on 02 Jul 2013 - 3:38 PM, said: So an inquisitor is receiving SM implants using GK geneseed stolen off the fields of armageddon interesting..
Captain Semper, on 29 May 2015 - 4:10 AM, said: There is crazy and there is Teetengee crazy...
x9
I'm not dead, and I like 8th better than 7th.
#413
Posted 31 October 2016 - 07:39 PM

Warsmith Aznable
“They swept around the tanks and siege engines still idling before the broken gates, and poured into the trenches and redoubts like liquid hatred.” Such a wonderful way with words!
The clash of the Word Bearers and the warsmith’s grand company was excellently written; that the sons of Lorgar sent their fanatics and spawn first in a tsunami of flesh, before they themselves entered the fray, not worrying themselves with mortal foes but pushing on to the Iron Warriors themselves. And I find it interesting the lengths warsmith Bolverk is willing to go to – losing so many of his men – in order to chase down his foe.
I choose Warsmith Aznable as the winner of Campaign III: Tables Turn/The Crucible as I felt his story best fitted the theme.
With the death of chapter master Barcar in this third episode, Carrack, I look forward to seeing what you come up with for the fourth, final and climactic part...
Now that I actually have more than a minute to sit down, and am not staring at this on my phone, I'd like to say thanks so much, it's good to be back!
I am very much looking forward to finishing the campaign story and doing an epilogue for it. It's made me think a lot about my warband, way beyond just the initial IA I did for it, and with more of an eye for its future than the non-campaign stories I wrote for it before. The 49th grand company may see some big shake ups before this is through, sort of in-line with what seems to be happening with the fluff coming out of the recent campaign books.
#414
Posted 01 November 2016 - 11:25 PM

Kasr Woolten
I thought of this trick or treating last night with my kids, the time of year where suburbia has enough skulls to make a respectable battlefield in the 41st millennium.

#415
Posted 05 November 2016 - 05:47 AM

#416
Posted 05 November 2016 - 05:55 AM


I thank you for your entries in Inspirational Friday: Halloween over the last week.
I have not had the chance to read everyone’s entries yet (due to the DDOS) but look forward to doing so.
Here begins our thirty-second challenge of Inspirational Friday 2016:
Tales of Vengeance
“Revenge is a profound moral desire to keep faith with the dead, to honour their memory by taking up their cause where they left off.”
Retribution, retaliation, revenge...payback. A harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance real or perceived, in the absence of formal law.
Give us this time a tale of grudge-bearers setting out to restore the balance of honour.
But remember,
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Inspirational Friday: Tales of Vengeance runs until the 18th of November.
Let us be inspired.
And who shall judge this new challenge? That decision lies with our current judge: Warsmith Aznable.
To the chosen victor: step forward and claim your Octed Amulet:

#417
Posted 05 November 2016 - 02:25 PM

#418
Posted 06 November 2016 - 05:30 AM

Don't worry about judging mine, I figured I would have until tomorrow because of the DDOS, but alas, things went back up faster than I expected. I'll get up the remainder when I can.
My Chaos WIP Thread (Bigger Pics and Foul Xenos offsite) Hall of Honour, My Storm Reavers (DIY SM Chapter) Story, My Chaos 7.5 Homebrew Codex Thread
In us burns a fire for vengeance that will only be quenched when we stand triumphant over the smoldering ruins of Terra. Our laughter on that day will haunt their survivors till the end of time. We will stride forth victorious through the shattered gates of their fortress, holding high aloft the defiled corpse of their rotting god as our prize.
Wulfkry, on 02 Jul 2013 - 3:38 PM, said: So an inquisitor is receiving SM implants using GK geneseed stolen off the fields of armageddon interesting..
Captain Semper, on 29 May 2015 - 4:10 AM, said: There is crazy and there is Teetengee crazy...
x9
I'm not dead, and I like 8th better than 7th.
#419
Posted 08 November 2016 - 04:02 AM

Monsters (Halloween 2016) Part II (at least 1 perhaps more parts remain)
My Chaos WIP Thread (Bigger Pics and Foul Xenos offsite) Hall of Honour, My Storm Reavers (DIY SM Chapter) Story, My Chaos 7.5 Homebrew Codex Thread
In us burns a fire for vengeance that will only be quenched when we stand triumphant over the smoldering ruins of Terra. Our laughter on that day will haunt their survivors till the end of time. We will stride forth victorious through the shattered gates of their fortress, holding high aloft the defiled corpse of their rotting god as our prize.
Wulfkry, on 02 Jul 2013 - 3:38 PM, said: So an inquisitor is receiving SM implants using GK geneseed stolen off the fields of armageddon interesting..
Captain Semper, on 29 May 2015 - 4:10 AM, said: There is crazy and there is Teetengee crazy...
x9
I'm not dead, and I like 8th better than 7th.
#420
Posted 08 November 2016 - 07:11 PM

In what will probably be the only vote I cast today with any real meaning, I choose the winner at this time.
Sorry for the delay, life is still kind of crazy...
Not many to choose from, but I really enjoyed the quality of what was submitted.
But I choose Carrack's "Joey's Skull" as the winning entry. While both were good stories, Joey's Skull was more tightly written, managing to get more across with less, capturing both the theme of the challenge as well as the background of 40k neatly, with the added bonus of a twist ending that made me chuckle while at the same time being completely inline with the setting.
#421
Posted 09 November 2016 - 04:55 AM

Carrack, that was excellent.

Teetengee please do give us the remaining part/parts, I look forward to them

EDIT: it's interesting that we all went for stories featuring families.
#422
Posted 09 November 2016 - 07:26 AM

#423
Posted 09 November 2016 - 01:40 PM

I got time to read the entries today.
Carrack, that was excellent.
Teetengee please do give us the remaining part/parts, I look forward to them
EDIT: it's interesting that we all went for stories featuring families.
I will. Recent events have me a bit discouraged, to say the least, but I shall prevail.
My Chaos WIP Thread (Bigger Pics and Foul Xenos offsite) Hall of Honour, My Storm Reavers (DIY SM Chapter) Story, My Chaos 7.5 Homebrew Codex Thread
In us burns a fire for vengeance that will only be quenched when we stand triumphant over the smoldering ruins of Terra. Our laughter on that day will haunt their survivors till the end of time. We will stride forth victorious through the shattered gates of their fortress, holding high aloft the defiled corpse of their rotting god as our prize.
Wulfkry, on 02 Jul 2013 - 3:38 PM, said: So an inquisitor is receiving SM implants using GK geneseed stolen off the fields of armageddon interesting..
Captain Semper, on 29 May 2015 - 4:10 AM, said: There is crazy and there is Teetengee crazy...
x9
I'm not dead, and I like 8th better than 7th.
#424
Posted 09 November 2016 - 02:42 PM

My first entry. Fluff for Drang and his warband of Iron Warriors
Sorry about the weak formatting.
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DRANG
Edited by Barbatos, 09 November 2016 - 04:50 PM.
#425
Posted 18 November 2016 - 05:15 AM

Aspis High Orbit, Subsector Seat