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Ok, so, I've got this godling character in Koumei's Rifts campaign. Our first mission is to attack 4 buildings (1 power generator, 3 weapons turrets) and free a bunch of prisoners.

Two of the characters in the group are able to use the Telemechanical Operation power; so we can take over two of the towers and use them as weapons against the third tower, and then the power generator structure.

Now, I've got this idea that might help make the whole mission 1) go a lot smoother, and 2) really shatter the morale of the CS troops that we're going to face, hopefully spooking them.

The idea is that the two characters with TMech operation play a recording over the CS's own intercoms and/or broadcast channels. The recording is uhm... well it's a bit funny, since most of us here know what the 'speaking' character is, and they'll get many of the references to Holy Terra and such.

I have twisted the original spirit of the speaking 'voice', mostly b/c it fits my goals to spread seeds of doubt about the CS leadership (the False Emperor) and it also fits into my goals to make CS troops think that Mages and D-Bees are just as much their brothers as Psykers are.

"The recording goes something like this:

"To all users of the Machine Spirits divine gifts and holy devices, I warn you now that you are in gross violation of I, The Machine Spirit's, teachings.

You use my gifts and devices to crush the Holy Imperium of Terra, not to protect it, and for this you have awakened a most powerful fury in me.

If you do not spread the word to your <i>Heretical</i> and <i>Blasphemous</i> brothers and sisters in your "Coalition State" I will be forced to <i>take back <b>all</b></i> of my supreme and generous gifts and devices from your unfaithful hands and ungrateful lives.

Even now, I have shut down my engines of war that you are using, and have given them to your enemies so that they may be my flail across your heretical and blasphemous selves.

I love you all so dearly, and this is why I gave you my ancient and terrible gifts of Technology and Machine to you, my precious and beloved human children. So that you may safe-keep Holy Terra from the depredations of the evil Daemonspawn that wish to consume Human and Xenos-Alien alike.

Instead you have shunned your Xenos-Alien brothers and sisters, who, like you; hate the evil and terrible Daemonspawn and are tortured and enslaved by them. You have embraced your Psyker brothers and sisters, and this is good, and for this generosity and protection I have stayed my hand thus far.

<b>However</b> you have at the same time turned your back on the men and women that walk along the lines of power that encircle and empower Holy Terra; the mages. You cannot both embrace and protect your Psyker Brothers and Sisters, and <i>shun</i> your Mage Brothers and Sisters.

Holy Terra is holy <b>because of</b> the great blue lights of power that move the great <i>living machine</i> that is Holy Terra. To deny the holiness of Holy Terra's own Machine Soul is to deny me, the Machine Spirit, and to deny my blessings and bountious gifts of technology and machine. You must embrace and accept the Machine Spirit in all of it's glory if you wish to not earn my terrible and implacable ire.

Since I love you, my human worshippers so much, I will stay the hand of those who will come today. They will not raise a hand against you, my beloved children. Nor will they raise a hand against your beloved families, your dear wives and husbands, your precious children, your esteemed parents or your noble ancestors.

However, those who come to punish you today, <i>will</i> punish you. They will take my gifts of machine and technology, and set it to the sword and the gun and to cleansing fire. They will take away your technology today, as a chastisment, so that you may learn the value of my gifts and do not take them for granted.

They will come to free your Magi brothers and sisters who you have placed into fetters and irons in such a <i>blasphemous</i> and <i>heretical</i> a manner. I know that you were ignorant of your crimes, and that the true criminals lie not here among the ranks of the common soldier who wishes to protect Great and Holy Terra; but among your apostatical leaders, who send your lives to die for their own hidden and secret and <i>Evil</i> gods.

<b>YES!</b> I do know the secerets of your False Emperor. He wishes to blind mankind to his evil blasphemy, and has turned the souls of those who have died in his blasphemous wars over to terrible and dark gods. Even now, I grapple and fight with these terrible <i>daemon</i> gods to free the lost souls from their terrible maws and grasping claws.

All that I ask of you, my precious and beloved human children, is to leave your towers of war; leave your sheilds and swords on the ground; leave your armour, your railgun, your laser rifle and your tanks and planes.

I have created a massive storm to protect your city, and have left a narrow corridor to the east, go there. I have set angels to watch over you, and powerful angels in the form of Mortal warriors and men of Magic and Psychic power to protect you and to chastise you.

They will destroy your machines here, today, as a message. They will take your Mage Brothers and Sisters away from the donjons where you have treated your own flesh and blood so poorly. My angels will take them to safety where they will recieve their just rewards for suffering unjustly at your hands.

However, do not stop my angels my beloved children. If you raise a hand against them, I will allow them to smite you. If you harm my Angels, I will be furious, and my fury will no <i>no bounds</i>. I will set fire, sword, gun and angel upon not only you who have raised a hand, but against every man, woman and child that you were supposed to have protected. I do this, not out of hatred, but to show you that you have gone too far, and I am giving you all a second chance. Do not squander my gift of a second chance my precious and beloved children."

Now, this needs some tweaking; probably a lot of tweaking; but what do you guys think?

Note:

The "storm" that is mentioned is thanks to uh, several shenanigans. Basically it's massive, and will block off all but a tiny corridor through which CS can leave. PM me if you want to know how.

Yes, there are some pretty big logic faults in this speech, i just want to know if it sounds convincing or not, as well as things that I should fix to make it flow better. I sort of just wrote this as I went along, some sections probably need to be reshuffled with other sections.

Dude. That's fucking Epic. Full stop.

Yeah, that pretty much rocks, right there.

I read it over a while after posting. It's got some wierd logic and argumentative errors in it.

The 'hope' is that in the long run that the CS will change into a much more accepting empire on earth.

It should be noted that I'm a very idealistic and humanistic person. The CS being turned into a powerhouse without the Prosek's in charge would be .....


oh shits, i could establish my character as the "God Emperor" of mankind.

He's got an IQ of 35 (30 being considered the "start" of god-level intelligence), a Physical Beauty of 31 (Freya and Aphrodite have like 30; the 'description' that I wrote for how he looks is a serious contendor for Mary-Suedom) and he's brutally fast (something like being able to run 810 m per minute; yeah, he can run 100 metres in 8.1 seconds >_>); and pretty fast with a sword or any of the mix of hand-to-hand options that HtH: Assasin grants (physical prowess of 33).

He's also tough. Like, tank armour tough (224 MDC), and regens a decent amount every minute (1d6x5 every 4 melee rounds/1 minute). So, he's defintely a contender.... He's also been around since the time of the Sumerians, which .... fits in with the GEoM backstory. I don't know if I should cheer, giggle, laugh, crow or weep and moan at how this is, fuck, so much for having a an immortal lothario character with a bad magical-weed habit that kicks tons of ass.

The funny thing is that while I suddenly got this idea, my character does not have this idea. Yet. I doubt that the game will progress long enough to have this happen. I'm probably going to have the character pass themselves off as the 'prophet' of the Machine God, if an other player suggests going GEoM, then I'll go for it.

Prak, if you read this, you don't count, since you actually post here. Koumei doesn't count either. Even if she's the GM, unless she writes it in somehow during the game itself.

Talk about creative, this is great.

Wait.... you really think this is great Surgo? That's, actually kind of impressive.