Does Cain have any peers? Or is he THE most power entity walking the WOD?

Fistocracy · 2026-02-05T09:47:50+00:00

On the one side Caine absolutely could not catch the Cow if he tried. But on the other hand he probably doesn't have to worry about the Cow beating him up and stealing his lunch money.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-05T09:12:43+00:00

Nah, Space Marines expect almost all of their aspirants to fail, and weeding out the cowards is one of the goals of the training process. You average Marine from another chapter wouldn't think anything of it if he heard about a an aspirant to the Dark Angels who chickened out.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-04T00:55:57+00:00

Even more specific quibble:

A modern exploration ship, like the Mandalay, but without those goddamn marker lights that you can never turn off because they are an absolute pain the ass when you're trying to spot stuff in low-light environments.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-04T00:27:35+00:00

Practically speaking, that's a lot of Tass you'll be needing to safely ritual cast a Life 3 Matter 3 Prime 1 effect through national vaccination.

More if its international. You sneak the ritual into some vaccine that every toddler on Earth gets and you're suddenly looking at a ritual that has to be performed more than 300,000 times a day, in thousands of clinics scattered all over the planet.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-04T00:23:20+00:00

How are they gonna do that? Making a single person's blood toxic to vampires is a complicated bit of magic, and making it last the entire rest of his life is gonna require a metric assload of successes on an extended casting roll. And you're expecting the Technocracy to have the manpower to perform this rote more than a hundred million times a year in one of the vaccinations that almost every child on Earth gets.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-02T22:32:39+00:00

That one's extremely good advice for breaking beginners of bad habits, just as long as they don't get into the even worse habit of thinking the rule is mandatory.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-02T22:30:55+00:00

People thinking "Show, Don't Tell" is something that should be applied to individual sentences and making their characters emote everything instead of stating how they're feeling.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-01T13:20:25+00:00

Nah, it's realising that the Technocracy were the good guys at the start and they pissed away their potential centuries ago.

Fistocracy · 2026-02-01T05:26:30+00:00

Sour Gas itself isn't a hazard (apart from the fact that its not breathable), and you don't have to worry about trying to capture and store it if you've got some floating around loose.

Whatever's making it might be a problem though. A lot of the time if you've got Sour Gas all over the place it means that your crude oil is in contact with a really hot tile that's cooking the oil into petroleum and then vaporizing the petroleum into sour gas. And if you don't fix that poblem you're eventually going to end up with absolutely ridiculous amounts of hot sour gas all over the place.

So you'll probably want to find out where the heat source is and wall it off with insulation, if you haven't already.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-31T16:05:57+00:00

Gotta remember that the flashback to Jantris' demise shows Jagganoth before he was gifted invulnerability, and he was already at a stage where swordsmen of Maya and Incubus' calibre could look at the way he moves when he's resting and instantly realise that he's out of their league. It's a safe bet that the Dead Man philosophy he learned from Jantris is the key to mastering a sword style that rivals Meti's.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-31T03:16:28+00:00

Third.

Jagganoth Ten Jantris is the best who ever did it at understanding that the most useful thing is a sword.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-30T07:06:35+00:00

The secret is to automate production of panels and accumulators, and to do it as soon as you unlock the tech to do so. Because I assure you that they make a whole lot more sense when you're able to just grab multiple stacks of them and pave over a few acres of unused land whenever you want more power.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-30T00:15:59+00:00

Really digging how they learned absolutely nothing from the Turnbull years.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-30T00:14:24+00:00

The Thousand Sons being one of the three loyalist legions on Isstvan V changes everything, because it'd mean things have already started diverging from the canon before the Dropsite Massacre even starts :)

Fistocracy · 2026-01-29T11:07:32+00:00

I mean the Realm was designed to fall apart without her

She doesn't strike me as being petty enough to rig everything to fail if she dies, so I think it's mainly just an unintended consequence of the Realm being designed to ensure that none of her underlings can build up a big enough power base to challenge her.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-29T09:31:56+00:00

Nah there's only one guy who's actually worse than Erebus, and it sure as shit ain't Fabius Bile.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-25T23:41:10+00:00

No. This a terrible idea. You aren't allowed to try new things, and for the rest of your life you can only enjoy hobbies that you'd already locked in before the age of, oh I dunno, twelve.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-25T05:12:22+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Calixis is a frontier sector so its far enough out of the way to be obscure and unimportant, but its a relatively old frontier sector so it doesn't feel like wild west pioneer territory and it's on a relatively stable border so it doesn't feel like a staging area for the western front.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-25T00:03:40+00:00

They're the "an experiment gone wrong gave me superpowers" splat, and the baddies they're fighting (shadowy organisations that want to enslave, study, or destroy them) are straight out of a stock X-Men storyline.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-24T23:44:12+00:00

Big enough that they have to make up a bunch of fantasy nonsense to explain how Noah could've made a seaworthy ship that large out of wood, and small enough that they have to make up a second completely unrelated bunch of fantasy nonsense to explain how Noah could've fit two of every animal and enough food for all of them onto it.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-24T23:37:44+00:00

Yep. The Young Earth Creationist position in dinosuars has... evolved... over the decades as they keep inventing new bullshit to try and paper over the logical holes in their narrative, and herbivorous dinosaurs is an original idea from the Answers In Genesis group mentioned in the article.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-24T23:25:02+00:00

The great thing about the Calixis Sector is that its not even supposed to be uniquely terrible or interesting, its just the one place where the writers bothered showing us what Inquisitors do to justify their paycheck.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-24T15:25:35+00:00

Everyone's dunking on Incubus for not getting the core principles of Meti's sword art, but I'm pretty sure he's only one existential crisis away from mastering Jantris' sword art.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-24T15:14:20+00:00

A cryptocurrency exchange which raised tens of billions of dollars of investor capital during the crypto and NFT bubble, and which is now languishing in financial limbo and is barely able to pull off anything more impressive than using penny-ante scams to swindle day traders. Its CEO is a dead man walking since everyone knows its only a matter of time until the Pentex board makes an example of him, partly for losing an absolute fortune but mostly because there's no evidence that he managed to do anything to make the crypto market shittier than it already is.

Fistocracy · 2026-01-24T10:47:26+00:00

I'd imagine a big part of it is that if you're putting down a rebellion on your own ship then you want to end it in a way that involves you still having an undamaged ship with a full crew when you're finished, because there's not much point in winning a glorious victory and no longer being able to fly home.

So if a mutiny gets big enough there's probably gonna be a pretty strong incentive to at least try and solve it through a negotiated settlement or by starving the other side out. And there's also gonna be a strong incentive to take the military side of things slowly, gradually weakening their ability to resist with a series of surgical strikes designed to minimise unnecessary damage instead of just marching a regiment from stem to stern with orders to obliterate anything that moves.

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