What do Callidus assassins actually look like under the suit?
Can the suit morph with them? otherwise, wouldn't it be easier if they wore generic clothes?
Do they have any sort of normal life between missions and that's why they're masked?
>>43788411
>Normal Life
>Any Imperium unit
Boy, you crazy. If it was Eldar, a case could be made, but the Imperium just isn't the type to allow their special operatives downtime.
>>43788411
>dem thighs
HNNNNNG
>>43788434
As I said, I'm only asking because of the full body suit concealing their identity. why wear one if you're literally nobody?
>>43788411
Their bodysuit can morph with them to an extent it isn't literally absorbed into their body (IIRC), but it changes shape to match who/whatever they're impersonating. Obviously if this is something significantly nonhuman they'll have to remove and stash their gear somewhere.
None of the Temple Assassins have normal lives. They live (or in the case of Eversors, are kept in stasis) within their training grounds when not being deployed, honing their skills for the moment they're given a mission.
>>43788411
scarred up dudes and dudettes, likely
probably, but they also wear disguises/plainclothes to assist with their infiltration (some being semi/permanent grafts)
no, even if the Callidus would be capable of maintaining some kind of civilian lifestyle, Imperial Assassins are all psychopaths
>mask
>>43788411
synskin is sprayed on the body but i think they very often have also armor and padding so they pretty much look like that. they need extra clothing in addition to polymorphine to fully transform into someone else
Are they all super ripped bodybuilder models or is that just a polymorphine alteration too?
>>43788504
in the grim darkness of the far future anabolic hormones are probably perfected
>>43788453
>dat ass
>dem thighs
>dem abs
>also hips and calves
>>43788493
Callidus could fake being human, and Vindicares could be as normal as a modern sniper. So, kinda weird and twitchy but able to get over it.
>>43788556
they could
but they don't, unless on a mission
>>43788504
They were born with a number instead of a name and put through a training regime on par with the Astartes. They were likely monitored by a cadre of Magos Biologis on every step of the process - I'd say it's a safe bet that they are at peak physical condition.
>>43788580
once they've mastered polymorphine all bets are off, however
remember that some of those sexy gymnasts were originally dudes on the level of the hulkmasters we see present in the other assassin temples
>>43788609
If it's biologically female down the the internal organs, then...
Even worst Callidus would look better than sanest Culexus
>>43788609
most callidus assassins are female because the assassinorum found out they are better at stealth
>>43788609
So the answer to >>43788504 would be 'they looked like super-ripped gymnasts before the polymorphine'
Maybe they retain a 'baseline' look they can (have to?) easily revert to?
Can they take the bodysuits off or are they bound forever?
>>43788715
See above, it's sprayed on.
>>43788715
the body suit is sprayed on them like i said above
>>43788714
that doesn't really change the fact that some of them are dudes
>>43788714
I think the official answer is that polymorphine works better with a female genom.
The real answer is "sexy ninja chicks in tight bodysuits"
>>43788580
... but why male models?
>>43788728
This
>>43788740
...Are you serious? We literally just went over this.
>>43788411
If a Callidus Assassin changes into a Farseer before you have sex with them, is it still Heresy?
>>43788768
>Callidus is infertile
>you waste time and not kill enemies of Mankind
>no future soldiers produced in process
>xeno fuckery
I have no words for you son
>>43788768
Reminded of pic related.
>>43788881
Is that how Illiyan was created?
>>43788881
If you're guardsman who can wield bolter without braking his arms then you deserve some xeno's ass
>>43788891
Contrary to common belief, Bolters have very little recoil. The only force on the bolter itself is just to get the bullet out of the chamber. At that point the bullet itself, which has a miniature self propulsion system, does all the work.
Hense, how those massive things are fully automatic and are still rather accurate.
>>43788768
polymorphine is something of a rare substance, and sending an extremely important assassin to not assassinate someone is an enormous waste of resources
although not heresy, using the high lords to get your booty call would probably result in a serious, likely fatal reprimand
>What do Callidus assassins actually look like under the suit?
Hot as fuck, and they can morph to suit any desire
>>43788915
then why there are no bolter equiped regular guard squads while there are plasma (considered more advanced and rare)? Also wasn't recoil stated as reason Sisters are using power armour?
>>43788891
To add on to >>43788915, there are very many Guard-pattern bolters - fit for the average man to use. Astartes bolters can't be used by humans; in some sources, they have genetic lock, like Dredd's Lawgiver. In most, they're just too fucking big.
>>43788943
sisters use power armor and bolters because the ecclesiarchy can afford to pimp them out
guardsmen use lasguns because it's more efficient, logistically
>>43788881
Who made this?
>>43788889
No. His mother was a human that was banged by an Eldar merc.
>>43788768
>>43788925
Remember the Callidus in that one 40K novel who turned into a genestealer and worried about whether her poop looked like human poop?
>>43788859
Are Callidus Assassins infertile?
Are Assassins in general infertile?
>>43789338
Not sure about male ones, but in general, even ignoring combat drugs and genetweaks and shit, isn't being at the level of physical fitness and muscle tone that your average Assassin is at make it difficult for women to get/bring to term a pregnancy? The testosterone and body fat levels being all wrong, and shit?
>>43789338
Due to the sheer amount of combat drugs, invasive surgeries and high stress training that that all experience, most probably.
>>43788411
I wonder if their paragraph of fluff will answer the question about their morphing and their suit... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>43788411
Just know, those breasts are that large by CHOICE. She could morph smaller ones, or none at all if she wanted.
>>43789402
its distracting to the enemy
>>43789338
You couldn't impregnate one if you tried. The bodysuit is permanently attached, remember?
>>43789360
Nah. Even with these ABS it's not impossible for a woman to get pregnant and have the child in her womb develop normally.
Drugs and other stuff assassins are exposed to however may result in this but I don't remember anything saying that Imperial Temple Assassins are infertile. I may say it's highly probable, but we need more info on that.
>>43789366
Most probably, but I wouldn't say it's 100%.
>>43789423
Goddammit, how do they answer nature's call when they need to use the toilet?
>>43788464
The bodysuit serves as a "bottomless" bag of sorts where they can store their weapons.
Otherwise I'm guessing its just for protection since other clades use similar styled suits.
>>43788580
Your reply is good and makes sense, but the fact that you even made it makes me sad. How are people this stupid? Even when I started this hobby when I was 10, 23 years ago, I wasn't this stupid.
>Dur, are assassins fit?
WTF
>>43789433
>Goddammit, how do they answer nature's call when they need to use the toilet?
The suit probably reprocesses body waste, like a Stillsuit. This isn't that far from real world technology in spacesuits.
>>43789479
That's actually clever.
But what about the more physical one? I don't see any Astartes Power Armor Waste Processor that would turn waste into taste-less nutrient paste.
>>43788627
Internal organs change too with polymorphine.
>>43789479
>>43789506
Me'lindi pooped when in genestealer form. Dunno what that means, but there it is.
>>43789531
Temple Assassins.
They are deadly, yet odd.
On the other hand that means that maybe one can actually bang a Callidus Assassin...in the ass.
>>43789423
Not the case, written twice in this thread already.
In the old fluff some assassins were recruited from a pool of normal people. Is that not true anymore? It makes more sense if they pick the most suitable people rather than just raise them and hope they work out.
>>43788641
Wasn't the Culexis in Nemesis supposed to be a qt? I mean, they used her as a prostitute to get her close to that Psyker warlord on Terra, she's gotta be able to put out, no?
Which Clade do you think would be the best fuck, /tg/? Callidus seems like the obvious choice, but Evesor and Venenum seem like the could be fun. Vanus and Vindicare would be the worst by far.
>>43789588
Nah. I think it's still canon that they take in orphans with talent and train them to superhuman levels.
>>43789625
Which are Vanus and Venenum again? I only remember the old 4 with models; Culexus, Callidus, Eversor, and Vindicare.
>>43789644
Vanus are infocytes who do the Handler/matrix-esque Operator stuff, and Venenum are the toxin specialists.
There's also one that just does mad bombing shit but I think they're just Imperial Agents as opposed to a particular Officio Assassinorum Clade.
>>43789669
Ah, okay, thanks.
Venenum seem a bit redundant, given that it seems to overlap a fair bit with the Callidus and Vindicare. Seems more like it would be special order of the Magos Biologos or something; you know, devoted to making nasty toxins and shit.
>>43789588
>Greeting my good man! Would be interested in becoming a drug fueled time bomb and spend 95% of your lifetime in cryosleep?
>>43789669
And don't forget the one that was the Maerorus's first and last because it was heretical.
Also rule 63 Alex Mercer.
>>43789625
There's female Culexuses?
>>43789725
There are male and female assassins of every type.
>>43789758
And Callidus male ones are extreme rarity since polymorphine works on females.
>>43789625
>>43789725
>>43788411
>>43789758
I've never seen canon versions other than the basic setup. Male of all temples except Callidus. Where can I see these alternate female assassins?
>>43789704
Oh yeah, I remember that one now.
"hey we need to kill a lot of people all at once"
"so like, a bomb or something? Air strike? Evesor?"
"how about a daemon/xeno hybrid made from rendered-down genetic material"
>mfw
>>43789725
Yup, combat-grade autism doesn't discriminate
>>43789835
No models afaik, but they're in books
>>43789827
Terrible fucking animu style.
>>43789625
Isn't the soulless aura of a powerful null like a Culexus supposed to make even non-psykers find the inhernetly abhorrent and unable to be in the same space with one without an urge to run away or kill the fuck out of it?
>>43789888
She had a necklace thing that suppressed the Aura of Ginger so that she could get close. When she did and took off the necklace, the Psyker went crazy and the whole place went into a panic.
>>43789758
Don't date female Eversors.
>>43789836
Yeah, and what she did when she touched someone...prime /d/ material here.
Good thing she doesn't have an official pic.
>>43789888
That's what makes it kinky, horror boners are the best!
>>43789946
>Yeah, and what she did when she touched someone...prime /d/ material here.
What happened?
>>43789914
What, you don't want penile fractures or something? What are you? A widdle baby ewdar?
>>43789970
Mind rape with fucking IIRC
>>43789970
She absorbed their flesh into herself or could do the reverse to turn them in to a flesh zombie clone of her, she really was an egg-laying Alex Mercer.
>>43789970
Sheabsorbs them and uses the absorbed biomass to either mutate into a more powerful form or to lay eggs from which new Maerorus Assassins hatch. The absorption is instantaneous.
>>43790077
>>43789996
>What, you don't want penile fractures or something? What are you? A widdle baby ewdar?
Nah, but you'd be sad when your waifu inevitably blows herself up on a mission since Eversors are kinda one-use.
>>43790105
>Eversors are kinda one-use.
Let me tell you about heresy. Here at Heretic Corp, we have discovered a way to create Eversors that reconstitute after detonation! They can even blow themselves up again, for even more utility!
>>43790105
So who would you date? Eversor, Culexus, vindicare or Callidus?
>>43789962
I was also going to say that the Imperium is a scary, alien place to our sensibilities in some part. Some parts of it (or at least some degenerate Nobles) might prefer a manly or androgynous Culexus that was a woman. Although, to them I guess it wouldn't be degenerate, would it? It would just be a "strong, healthy woman".
Or it could be totally degenerate in the sense we understand /d/ to their native society and especially other imperials.
But come on, there HAS to be a significant minority at least of Imperials who have a thing for strong, forceful women. There are inquisitors, and sisters of battle, and probably some amount of officials and priestesses who are women. Many Imperial societies also value strength and vigor, and look at the men they turn out. Either the women are also hyper exaggerated in their femininity, or they are also built like trucks, albeit smaller, sleeker trucks than the men. The better to produce suns and daughters that are Jacked, for the Emperor.
>>43790105
I almost want to try my hand at feelsy writefagging about Evesor, should I?
>>43790212
You fall in love, she blows herself into soup, endless feels, the end.
I wrote it for you.
>>43790212
The answer is always yes.
>>43788556
I dunno, I always feel like people depict Vindicare as too human.
These are guys that can spend literally weeks hanging upside by their legs from a hive tower waiting for their mark to pass by. They're more than just psychotic killers, they're stone cold death robots.
I feel like they'd be immensely impersonal, beyond even the Culexus.
>>43790212
Can't it be a sweet writefagging instead?
Vanus and Venenum get assassin models and rules, how would they make them different from the other assassins?
>Venenum, gas mask type assassin with a special compact jump pack of some kind
>jump infantry
>140 points
>the usual stats and specials rules as well as
>cloud of death: this unit has shrouded and any unit that charges it takes d6 s1 poisoned hits
>weapons: venom talon, needle pistol, Venenum Grenade launcher
>venon talon: S user ap2 fleshbane, instant death
>Needle pistol, 6" s1 ap2 pistol, fleshbane, instant death
>Venenum rifle, 2 modes of fire
>Corrosive gas shot: template s4 ap 3 fleshbane, armourbane, torrent
>poison gas shot: assult 3 18" s1 ap- small blast, flesh bane, instant death
Good idea or bad?
Is it heresy to get frisky with a xenos-form on-leave Callidus?
Like, say she just got back from a Tau infiltration mission and is still all blueberried up because she's got another Tau mission again in a few weeks so no real point to have to change back. She is of course a Callidus assassin, but for all physical purposes she is a xenos.
>>43790286
You asked that before Guardsman.
>>43789694
>redundant
not at all imagine infiltrating enemy court and poisoning them one by one. You could kill them that's for sure but it'd be more effective to weaken their will, undermine their position etc. Also I doubt Venenum make their poisons themselves, just like vindicare doesn't produce his bullets or rifle. Think of them rather as pharmacists who have to choose perfect mix of toxin to achieve desired effect.
>How much not to kill them?
>How long will effects last?
>How to apply it unnoticed.
Not all assasin clades are combat suited. I alwas imagined venenum as mix of Wormtounge and Poison Ivy looking like those reneisance doctors with beak masks.
>>43790293
Excuse me Commissar, but why...
>>43790286
>>43790293
What if it's a xeno in the form of a callidus?
>>43790368
>implying xeno can sufficiently mimic glorious mankind form given to us by our Emperor
>HERESY
>>43790229
Thanks senpai
>>43790230
>>43790264
Should I go longform or shorter? I feel like stretching my writing muscles a bit, but if the consensus is short and sweet I'll smack that
>>43790105
Nah, multiuse. They blow up when they failed anyway.
>>43790386
short with open ending
>>43790386
>Should I go longform or shorter?
Well what's it gonna be about?
>>43790414
Hmm, considering
>>43790419
Was going to go for Inq. Acolyte being saddled with an Evesor, taking care of her while her Stasis pod gets fixed onboard a transport ship. She's old enough to go completely murderhobo, but curious about what the rest of the imperium gets up to while she's asleep
>>43790368
What about a callidus in the form of the Emperor?
The female Emperor, that is.
I've sort of considered a story where acouple of young people on some planet get drafted to become assassins due to genetic compatibility and get horribly dehumanized by their trainingbut it'd be way too against canon I think.
>>43790522
Eeeeh, the only temple that recruits on gene-compatibility is Culexus, but they vat-grow the vast majority of their recruits, pariah gene being one in litteral billion I think.
However, there is a story about the first Cadre of Assasins ever created, with 2 siblings being assasins. Brother being Vindicare and the sister being Callidus. So it's not completely impossible to have 2 people being recruited at the same time from the same group.
>>43790574
The founders of the temples were four people literally named Culexus, Callidus, Vindicare and Eversor. I think Callidus was the sister of one of the others. Everyone in their temples to this day emulate their appearance.
Here we go.
>she was old for an Evesor
>in a Clan whose members prided themselves on self-immolation in their teens, a 20 year old was positively ancient
>old enough to develop past the unceasing lust for murder and servitude
>old enough to think
>it took you a few seconds to realise you were alive, at first. When the Inquisitor had sent you down to check on a "coolant irregularity," you'd come to terms with your death. When you saw the words "Officio Assassinorum" on the cargo manifest, it hadn't taken long to theorise exactly what was down there.
>no point in hurrying, then. You'd learnt long ago that death was more than happy to be patient, and another Lho before your meeting with the Throne wouldn't hurt. You ended up smoking the rest of the packet.
>Dead men don't need the stuff
>you'd barely taken a step beyond the doubly locked bulkhead before you'd been tackled, head cracking against the metal of the floor. You'd heard enough wet crunches of shattering bone to know nothing vital had been broken, but it took a few seconds for the roaring figure above you to come into focus
>the punch snapped your nose like a twig, and by the sheer speed of the punch there was no doubt that had the blow carried through it would have pressed your face through the rear of your skull
>"MISSION DATE. INPUT MISSION DATE." screamed the Evesor, spittle flying hot and free against your face
>the concussion of your head hitting the deck a second time prolonged your confusion, and all you could seem to focus on was the nude form straddling your chest
>it was a mass off muscle and scar tissue, with tubes and cybernetics covering the expanse of its chest - "her chest," you quickly realised, glancing down momentarily - but the thing that surprised you was the heat
>the cargo chamber was kept cool, but in the frosty air she was nearly steaming
>it was surreal, but odd as it was you liked the idea of living to see real ground again
>you spat a noseful of blood onto the deck and spoke
>>43790595
There, I found it, Eristede Kell and his sister Jenniker Solam.
Not the founders, but siblings that ended in different temples.
>"What do you mean "she's your responsibility?" you asked, aghast at the idea. The Techpriest had taken a look at the pod and declared it unfit for field repair, and seeing as there was still another week of projected Warp Travel it was to be a while before a full refit could be madE
>"precisely that, Interrogator" waved your boss, head buried in a Dataslate while he toyed with his Rosette." He looked up at you with a wry smile about his features. "Besides, knowing your success rate you could use some female company."
>it took a great deal of self control not to splatter yourself with your stub as the Inquisitor high-fived his Sanctioned Psyker, and instead you flew out of your chair and into the hall
>she was waiting there, as she'd been ordered. Apparently she was very good at that, which was surprising given what you'd heard of Evesor. You'd imagined she would have slaughtered her way through the crew by now, but all she seemed to have done was stare holes in the bulkhead across from her
>"DIRECTIVE?" she screamed, baring her teeth. She didn't seem to have an inside voice, and how she still had vocal chords was beyond you.
>"food." you said, beckoning her to follow you to the mess
>the galley was thankfully empty, and you sat her down at one of the long tables before going to get a couple trays of nutrient slurry, making sure there were no sharp objects around to pique her interest
>she was surprisingly amicable. Once you'd given her a mission update and displayed your credentials, she'd let you stand. There was no apology or even remorse, but that was almost to be expected. Could she formulate the concepts of those things? She was almost childish in her aspect in that way - only the emotion was used, the constructs beyond that lying unbuilt
>it was almost...
>adorable? Not pitiable, but endearing. Was that the word?
>>43788768
Inquisitor Draco did this with his Callidus waifu.it's heresy if you do it
>returning with the food, it seemed her table manners were as developed as her tackle etiquette. She shovelled down food with her hands, tearing skin with jagged, sharpened teeth. She ate with the ferocity of a starving animal, and you realised that, in a way, she was. How long had she been in cryosleep? A year? A month? Eating like this had most likely been drilled into her, to devour before moving on - or was it an instinctive reaction? From what you'd heard, they were a weapon of terror, a thunderbolt like the Emperor's Angels - not an operative to live off the land.
>"YOU... NOT EAT?" she growled, pointing at your tray. You'd been so deep in thought that you'd not touched your gruel. You pushed it towards her with a small smile, making sure not to show teeth. She struggled to return the gesture, scarred face twisting into a lopsided rictus of a grin. Was that reflexive, too?
>"do you have a name?" you asked, half wanting to know what to call her and half wanting to break up the snarling slurping of her rapid consumption
>she almost looked stunned, head snapping up from her blood-streaked hands.
>"DESIGNATION IS..." she faltered, suddenly aware of the volume of her voice in the echo-laden acoustics of the galley. "Designation is Karesh." she said, before cocking her head in an effort to remember. "I am Karesh." she said, a ghost of something resembling pride crossing her features.
>to say you were shocked was an understatement. You'd barely expected a response, let alone an attempt at speech.
>"you speak?" you asked, incredulous. The inflection was a little hammy, but you didn't want to lose the spark of humanity you saw in those eyes. You'd not noticed her eyes before - they were a brilliant turquoise, a pair of sparkling oaises set against a battlefield
>the praise didn't go unnoticed, and she puffed up a little in pride
>"Karesh is smart. Karesh listens in pod." she says, the childish pride in her voice tempered by her crushing the metal tray like paper.
>>43790270
I never got the impression the poison assassins were used in military combat. They're more GoT style political dickery. It'd mainly be putting hyper AIDS in the wine of some dickbag High Lord at a swanky gathering.
>she points a gnarled finger at you. "you, name?" she asks, before pausing again to remember. "what you name?" she growls, smiling again. It wasn't a cold gesture, but with a mouth full of blood-streaked canines it was a little spooky. Images came to your mind unbidden as you glanced at the smile. Her lips were surprisingly full despite the pockmarking of scars, and they were a deep red. The Inquisitor was right. They were full and juicy and would be fantastic aro-
>"Karesh wrong?" she asks, cocking her head as a measure of uncertainty played about her face. Again, she'd had to catch you staring. You thanked her cluelessness in such matters, and cleared your throat.
>"I Anon." you say, unsure where to take the conversation. What does one speak to a killing machine about?
Anyone reading? Kind of running out of ideas, I remember the reason I don't write. Should I make this a quest-lite for a bit?
>>43790865
And then Jain Zar ruined everything. Is it a crime for a man to have his body morphing waifu!?
>>43791069
Keep up your writing Anon, I like it so far
>>43791069
>Should I make this a quest-lite for a bit?
Good Christ no. Just stop and think for a bit about the characters motivations and situation.
And write more prose descriptions. Set the scene. Describe what people look like, how they act, the things that are going on around them. The faux-movie-script "he said, she said" thing fanfiction does is a terrible habit.
>>43791099
>>43791110
Cheers lads. Given me a bit to think about. Gimme a second to get to writing
>>43791153
Anon, perhaps it would be better if you posted your story in a storytime thread?
>>43790619
>>43790773
>>43790952
>>43791069
That's something...
>>43791079
What did she do? She killed her?
>>43790952
>"you speak?"
>she just asked if you were gonna finish that tray
otherwise good
>>43791179
True. It's a bit lengthy and shite at this point. I'll revise.
>>43791234
Brilliant writing on my part, sorry anons.
>>43791200
Aye. Meh'lindi was yucking it up in the webway and bumped into Big Mama Banshee. She got dunked on.
Anyone else read the Inquisition War trilogy? I really liked how they depicted Emps when Inquisitor Sean Connery visited him on the Golden Throne.
>>43790773
>>43790952
>>43791069
jesus fuck writefag just stop
>>43791280
> Draco
> He has a Squat
Dammit GW, you had to reprint those books didn't you?
>>43791079
Which is funny because Jain Zar is a bodymorphing waifu too. Everyone who dons her phoenix armor slowly turns into her, finally acquiring her spirit and becoming a copy of her.
>>43791302
That goes for every Exarch that dons a Phoenix Lord armor that corresponds to the shrine they are part of.
>>43791300
Well they canonically are back, though tucked away into the background. I don't have the image saved somewhere, but there was was a page somewhere (vague I know) about a species previously thought eaten by Nids being found alive. I don't think it calls them Squats, but it heavily implied it was Squats.
>>43791329
Yes but since Jain Zar is the only female phoenix lord she's the only one who offers a canonical elf chick transformation. All the rest are dudes and guy to guy TF's aren't really my thing.
>>43791302
Ya know since male Banshees are canon, there's a good chance Jain has a bit of dick floating around in her spirit pool. The slag.
>>43791361
6th ED did it well.
>>43791371
Genderbending in my 40K? Why not?
>>43791200
She got killed so hard that when Draco used time shenanigans to bring her back to life she was still mentally trapped in the state of being killed. Jain screams so loud not even death will stop your ears ringing.
>Mfw Draco loved his body morph waifu enough to turn back time itself
She's poopin' in heaven now.
>>43791411
>Genderbending in my 40K? Why not?
Just don't tell Tumblr
>>43791371
Actually the wearer of the suit doesn't really stansform in physical sense, they just have their soul become part of the Phoenix Lord's spirit pool and their body highjacked by the PL (a Phoenix Lord, like all Exarchs, is essentially a hivemind of souls sealed in their armour, except in the case of the PL the original soul so so powerful it maintains complete control of the collective, retaining the original PL's personality even if somebody dons the suit). This may or may not cause the body of the wearer to fuse with the suit or even disappear completely (it's one of those things that depend on the writer).
>>43791377
Yes, spiritually there's probably a few male exarch spirits in there wagging their ethereal dicks around.
>>43789888
They have equipment to suppress it unless needed. Everyone starting screaming the second they enter a room would hinder a little every tentative of stealth.
>>43791411
Was always canon with Slaaneshi anyway.
>>43789996
It would be like dating a woman constantly on her period.
>>43791483
Most fluff seems to have PLs completely vaporize the physical body with them just sucking souls out like Shang Tsung. At least Doom of Mymerea, Thorpe stuff and that Mcneil short story anyway. Only thing I can think of that didn't do it that way was the Night Lords omnibus where she had a physical lady inside.
>>43791377
Male banshees wear the same armor and use the same vocalizers as the females though so they all appear to be busty, curvy chicks.
>>43790301
I love Venenum.
>Urhua Thereaux, Assassin of the Venenum Temple, is dispatched to assassinate the renegade Governor Yawell of Morisha. During transit, the starship is caught in a Warp rift, holding the vessel in temporal stasis for some six hundred and ninety-eight years. Not knowing that this has occurred, Thereaux proceeds to her target, only to find Yawell long since dead and replaced by an anti-Imperial democratic committee consisting of over a thousand members. Faced with such an extreme task, Thereaux only succeeds in killing the committee members after spending three days poisoning all the chairs in the council’s auditorium prior to a meeting of the full committee.
>>43791473
Darn. Poor Draco. Even such Inquisitors will never get a happy ending.
Also no wonder Jain Zar is so OP. If you are capable to make Night Lords have a panic attack, then you are something.
Also I ain't gonna tell Tumblr about it. Idiots are touchy about it.
>>43791498
But it was always...Chaosy.
>>43791280
You mean the time where he tries to warn him of an assassination attempt, TIME itself fucking stops, and you read that Empy is a shitload of souls talking to each other, probably the shamans, and that it's a bigfucking mess up here?
Pretty cool yeah.
>>43791302
It can't stop Guilliman to feed her with his genesperm.
http://i.4cdn.org/d/1448148972902.png
>>43791575
Wouldn't pumping some highly poisonous nerve gas or something into the room been a lot more efficient than spending three days poisoning chairs (what kind of poison you have to use to kill somebody from sitting on a chair, anyway?)?
>>43791629
Why is it always guiliman? Not the first time I see that kind of pics.
Have I missed something in the HH?
>>43791629
That's gay tho, she's got guys inside her. Literally.
>>43791602
I love the idea that Emps is a gestalt that thinks of himself as a 'we'. It nicely encapsulates him as the embodiment of humanity.
>>43791629
>I am now aware there is fappable porn of Jain Zar
This really gets my Spear of Destruction going.
>>43791629
She doesn't have a body. That pic is silly.
>>43791710
She did in the Night Lords book. The codex fluff for Asurmen also kind of implies that there is somebody inside the suit, too, as it mentions the wearer of the suit becoming a vessel for the PL's will (implying there is a body still in there, but ti becomes a meat-pupped for the soul of the PL bound in the suit). I believe one of the older codices also mentions when talking about Asurmen that regardless of who is wearing the suit, his personality remains the same (due to the aformentioned PL soul taking over the weaer thing), which also implies that somebody is wearing the suit rather than it being empty and moving on its own.
>>43791577
Fuck Draco.
He went looking for time-travel because he wanted to use it for the good of the Imperium, and then he wastes it trying to bring his dead girlfriend back to life.
To elaborate on how he does this for you all, he takes a woman who looked exactly like her, trains her to act like his dead lover, (rapes her), and then drags her through the Webway and her mind is erased and replaced by his dead girlfriend's. After all of that mess, the Space Marine basically turns to the Squat and says "what a bullshit heretical waste of time, want to go find a battle to die with honor in?" and then they go do that.
>>43791302
>Jain Zar is a bodymorphing waifu too
Get your disgusting fetishes out of my 40K. There's nothing about the Phoenix Lords that says they actually body-morph the wearer of the suit, and that the collective will of all the soulstones embedded in the armor override the mind of the one who puts it on.
>>43788915
>The only force on the bolter itself is just to get the bullet out of the chamber.
Incorrect.
The muzzle velocity of a Bolter Round, before the rocket motor engages, is powerful enough to deliver the round with lethal force through most armor systems. This would inevitably mean that the recoil of a Bolter is quite considerable, otherwise the Bolter would be useless at short ranges, as a consequences of the rocket motor needing time to bring it up to lethal velocities.
>tl;dr
>a Bolt round if a 2-stage rocket, and the first stage is just as powerful as the 2nd.
>>43791855
After all of that mess, the Space Marine basically turns to the Squat and says "what a bullshit heretical waste of time, want to go find a battle to die with honor in?" and then they go do that.
Pfffffffff. That's a good ending.
>>43791839
New Asurmen book had him vacuuming a lady's soul into him with no process of suits being donned. Bitch wasn't even an Avenger, just a Guardian.
>>43791839
In the old fluff an exarch would undertake a perilous quest to retrieve the phoenix lord's armor from where the previous wearer had fallen, don it and if he or she was worthy they would be overtaken by the spirit of the original lord and everyone else who had worn the suit, which would unlock its power. I can't recall any mention of the suits eroding the body inside in 3rd edition where that fluff was addded, but maybe it came along in 4th or later.
>>43791629
from feeding her*
Holy shit.
>>43791653
He is the most handsome and humane of primarchs.
>>43791710
She could have body during Rowboat's lifetime.
>>43791839
And then there is Gav and his PL's with stars inside of them.
>>43791892
Maybe because of this she chose U-Man, instead of A-Man.
>>43791969
IIRC in Path of the Eldar, the Striking Scorpion PL's suit is full of dust after he's killed.
Must admit I can't remember wether the Exarch that passes near it catches the will of the PL or if it's the suit that does it and goes back up after being smashed by a Dreadnought.
>>43792042
That came out way later than the original fluff, so I'm tempted to call it a retcon. A lot of things have been changed around over the years with 40K.
>>43788915
>>43791855
Bolt rounds are a 2 stage rocket, but I'm not so sure about the recoil.
IDK about the codices, but in the books it's never explicitly mentioned as having considerable recoil. Space Marines never feel the recoil when firing it, and humans comment that it looks like it would tear off their arms with recoil, if they could even lift it. But I don't remember any proof of that.
>>43791892
Darn. They don't limit themselves to their respective Aspect Warriors?
That's scary.
> Eldar dad and son (that is their equivalent of a 6 year old) are walking back home with edible stuff. They go through a pathway to shorten their walk when they suddenly find a strange armor.
>Look son, this is a armor that belongs to the Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra. Why is it here and not in the Dark Reapers Shri...
>All of a sudden the Eldar's soul is sucked into the armor's Spirit Stone in front of his son. The armor comes to life and Maugan Ra is reborn again.
>Pssss. Nothin personell kid.
>As the Phoenix Lord walks away, the child is left with a load of groceries and a puddle of dust and clothes that were once his father. Seconds later the child responds...
>Fa...ther?
>>43792158
> Pssss. Nothin personell kid.
Goddammit Cold Steel.
>>43792062
Oh yeah sure, as many others said, there are many interpretations and versions.
40k is nothing if not a lot of inconsistencies. Which always help to not take retcons of other franchises. Vidya fans are very touchy with thay sort of things for example.
>>43792158
They don't even need to be dead. Karandras straight up raptured a motherfucker because he was injured. Sometimes they just like to top themselves off.
>>43792158
> They don't limit themselves to their respective Aspect Warriors?
To my knowledge, they never have. You could have some random nobody Ranger finding the husk of a slain Pheonix Lord and it would still work - they're just the fire in which the Pheonix Lord is reborn.
>>43789588
I believe so. It's possible for snipers to get promoted to vindicares in dark heresy and I see no reason why significantly skilled individuals can't be promoted to ones from the other temples with the exception of the Culexus.
I wonder if the male exarch and female exarch ghosts inside Jain Zar's armor are having spirit-sex for eternity. It wouldn't surprise me, those dirty minded eldar.
>>43792219
>>43792249
If it ain't Slaanesh, awakening an Avatar, then it's douchebag Phoenix Lords that suck you in and aren't picky at all.
Life of an Eldar ain't easy at all, right?
>>43790261
But they arent "the thing" or psychic-black holes.
>>43788411
There's a callidus in the new Stephen King Marcharius books, she doesn't wear the suit all the times, the main character bangs her when she's disguised as a nurse, what gives it away(to me) is he notices how much heavier she is than she looks(possibly due to implants).
>>43791284
It's ok though
>>43791473
>She's poopin in Heaven now
Heh
>>43792310
>Stephen King
>40k books
Wait what. How could i miss this.
>>43792152
>Space Marines never feel the recoil when firing it, and humans comment that it looks like it would tear off their arms with recoil, if they could even lift it. But I don't remember any proof of that.
That only really applies to Space Marine Bolters.
This was argued over many times on the FFG forums, and as long you don't ascribe to poster Lynata's bullshit about how "everything is valid, nothing is valid, 40K fluff is just like a buffet!", then it makes perfect sense. You see, she doesn't know fuck all about ballistics and has a hair up her ass about how Sororitas bolters and power armor don't have exactly the same stats as the Astartes versions. And a larger and more robust weapon, such as what you'd be able to give to an Astartes, would be able to fire a round with a higher propellent charge (as well as a being able to chamber a -longer- round).
But humans are perfectly capable of using Bolters, since they were originally made to be used by them (granted, with power armor). They are just scaled down from the ones that Space Marines are famous for (though more accurately, the Space Marines have bolters that have been scaled up).
>>43792281
>Be random Eldar
>Just heading down to the shop to pick up some groceries
>Fuegan: The Burning Lance just saunters up to you
>'Rhana Dandra soon my good kin!'
>Really? When?
>'NOW.'
>Get added to his spirit like a metaphysical Katamari ball
>Just wanted pasta
>>43792607
> Be Eldar teenager (a girl to boot)
> Go on your first date with that hot Pathfinder from Alaitoc
> Suddenly Jain Zar runs past you and sucks your soul out
> The Pathfinder is still waiting...
>>43792310
>>43792522
I think Anon wanted to say William King.
It would have been too beautiful.
>>43792607
>>43792669
>>43792158
tfw you stumble upon phoenix lords like there wasn't less than ten of them in galaxy. I guess I'd ask for autograph or make a photo with them.
>>43792669
> The Pathfinder is still waiting...
I didn't ask for feels anon...
>>43792254
it's stated that death cult assasins sometimes get promoted into "true" imperial assasins
>>43792710
Yeah Sorry William King thank you, they were good books I recommend them
>>43792758
Stephen King would feel at home in 40k I guess
>>43790301
This. The Imperium uses assassination as a political tool more than a military one. And a public assassination is sometimes better than a quiet one. Also, having a variety of methods at your disposal allows you to get at anyone no matter how well they protect themselves.
>>43791632
Maybe air filters would have caught it, maybe the components she could acquire didn't allow it. Maybe there was a statement to be made in having the entire assembly die several minutes after they all take their seats, while leaving everyone else in the building alive to witness it.
>>43790168
If you think logically about it, most humans, despite living in the hard world of Warhammer 40K, are probably in pretty good shape, since Dark Age of Technology space colonists would likely have received genetic enhancements akin to what the Mass Effect codex talks about being standard treatment for all colonists and military personnel. And given enough time, these enhancements would possibly become a hereditary part of the human genome.
>>43790475
>not bottoming FOR THE EMPEROR!
Oh dear lord, you just went off the heresy scale entirely!
>>43788956
>>43788943
Bolters are expensive. Flashlights are cheap.
The Emperor needs people to die in His name so he can have magic. Just not all the people.
>>43791632
maybe you don't want them to die instantly only to die from poisoning in couple of months
>>43790162
Callidus, obviously. The best socially adjusted out of the bunch, can handle combat at both close range and at medium or possibly even long range depending on what weapons they're given, and probably amazingly flexible in bed.
Sure, there'd be a chance she's just in it to assassinate me. After all, who lets an assassin go on dates? But it'd be worth the risk til she suddenly barfed a dagger in my eye.
>>43790595
>The founders of the temples were four people literally named Culexus, Callidus, Vindicare and Eversor. I think Callidus was the sister of one of the others. Everyone in their temples to this day emulate their appearance.
Everything about this sentence is wrong.
>>43792892
I named my kid "Destroyer" you've got problem with it?
>>43792736
Heh. Asurmen is so famous, other races have legends about him.
>>43792743
> Be Eldar child
> Playing in the sandbox in the playground next to your house
> Your parents see everything from the windows
> They turn away for a second
>You keep digging until you uncover a strange ghostly helmet (Irillyth)
>Parents are worried, thinking Mandrakes entered the Craftworld and kidnapped you
>Irillyth himself thinks he crossed a line this time
>>43790162
Eversor, I like excitement.
>>43789625
I didn't read that but that doesn't make sense that a Culexis assassin could even be a prostitute. They are soulless and people can't even stand their presence.
That being said, I would want to fuck a goth Culexis assassin.
>>43792946
>Looking for your keys inbetween the cushions in the couch
>Get a grip of something
>Keys?
>Nope. It's fucking Baharoth: The Cry of the Wind
>GOTTA GO FAST!
>>43792887
I mean really, how do you know your girlfriend isn't already a Callidus?
>>43793015
she told me she's not into latex
>>43793002
> Doing garden work (those plants ain't gonna get themselves kept well)
> You are cutting the bush in order to have it shaped
> The blades are hit something hard
> You look into it
>Karandras falls out and sucks ya
> The neighbours are commenting on both your disappearance and the fact that your garden looks like a piece of Catachan
>>43793051
That's what a Callidus would say
>>43790162
Vindicare. She would just lie there while I did my thing waiting for her moment to finish me off in one quick strike.
>>43793051
That's exactly what a Callidus would claim.
Besides its not latex , it's some kind of super duper future synth-fabric.
>>43793148
anybody has some fem Vindicare art?
>>43791280
I'm still upset about the third book
>>43790162
Callidus.
That bendy body mate.
>>43788411
Their "basic" form leaves them looking like a featureless mannequin. As for the suit, yes the suit morphs with them, it hasnt been made clear if they actually need to wear clothes or it morphes with them ala mystique so thats up to interpretation. As for normal lives they are probably the only members of the officio who have the closest semblance of a normal life.
>>43789835
Polymorphine is more likely to "keep" on female Culexus but there are male operatives who have succeeded the bonding.
>>43793353
They still use it to look like bondage chicks tho, as tradition.
>>43793328
not a semblance of normal life, only skills how to emulate it. It must be tragic for them to pretend being "real" people, maybe wish their lies were true but ultimetly all is just a guise.
>>43791036
That's the impression I get with Callidus assassins as well but you see them being used all the time.
>>43793413
Living weapons don't have feelings.
>>43791473
>Genderbending in my 40K? Why not?
>You will never be the 1% of male callidus shota operators with a fetish for cross dressing
>>43793328
> closest semblance of a normal life
Would imagine that since they need social skills in this case.
On the other hand if the semblance would include things like family, then better off with this since their kids would grow up in utter loneliness.
> Boy comes back home after school
> He couldn't write down that his mom is a Callidus Assassin in his homework
> Dad was mom's target, and he banged her in order for her to get close to him
> Boy comes to take part in the school fair
> The parents of the other kids are around while mom couldn't come due to the Temple Master sending her on another mission
> Boy graduates school
> Mom wasn't present at all because mission
> One day the doorbell rings
> Thinks it's mom
> It's a completely different Callidus Assassin
> Tells you mom died on the way home
Yep. Semblance of a normal life.
>>43793431
"I am not a man turned into a weapon. I am a weapon made Man."
ADB might write some silly shit from time to time, but I'll be damned if he doesn't write it awesomely.
>>43793443
Even better, you could be a busty callidus girl who loves to remain in the form of a lusty shota whenever you can.
>>43793413
They have the closest things to "feelings" that an assassin can reasonably have. Usually selfish and hypocritical feelings like self preservation and "appreciation" of whoever owns the new identity they are going to need to steal.
>Callidus infiltrates mid level Imperial bureaucracy and becomes a sleeper agent for weeks, maybe even months.
>Its short term mission objective is to be familiar with everyone who works there, possibly making friends with a few of them.
>Receives primary mission objective.
>Runs into that qt scribe girl as its stealths along the corridors.
>"Oh, its Amelia. According to my findings she works 20 hour shifts 7 days a week, spends most of her earnings buying imperial war bonds and is 100% loyal to the Imperium."
>"Oh well, I'm sure she'll be really happy to know that that her death will allow me to walk past that guarded door rather than waste 2 mins sneaking past them."
>>43788411
Goddamn that muscle tone is delicious. Imagine frying eggs on that washboard of hers.
>>43793511
Feelin bad here.
Too much feels.
>>43792308
No, they are the dude who sits on a statue for years eat moss and pigeons until a Dark Eldar pops out of a webway and instantly gets a bullet in the head.
>>43789433
If assassins can get pregnant they probably have their eggs frozen anyway to breed future servitors or heroes of the Imperium.
>>43790162
Culexis, because I'm a psyker who likes to live dangerously.
How do you know you're not a Callidus?
>>43792887
That sounds like a fair price to me
>>43793946
I can see this with Vindis, Culexi, Venenums, and Vanus.
Eversors are out of the question (unless they are strapped with steel bars and bended over).
Callidus Assassins would have more difficulties if their target is a noble and they have taken the identity of their wife to the point that being banged and giving birth is part of the operation.
>>43794200
Even the Callidus doesn't know that...until the right time strikes.
>>43789697
Do I get to bang the callidus the other 5% because if so sign me up.
>>43794364
>Callidus Assassins would have more difficulties if their target is a noble and they have taken the identity of their wife to the point that being banged and giving birth is part of the operation
Their children are also callidus and don't know it.
>>43794553
> Suddenly everyone is Callidus
Wondering how they deal with a situation when a Callidus kills a Callidus that is disguised as her target...
>>43793553
>Be Callidus
>Undergoing debriefing by Ordo Sicarius
>Inquisitor always seems to dwell on the physical details of my alternate forms
>Especially when male
>Notice that the Inquisitor loses focused when describing my temporary male genitalia as 'hefty'
>Continue to do so in future debriefings
I think we should go back to discussing Jain Zar.
>>43794715
> Discussing christmas cake
She's a christmas cake even by Eldar standards.And I like christmas cakes.
>>43788748
...right.
>>43790168
>But come on, there HAS to be a significant minority at least of Imperials who have a thing for strong, forceful women.
Catachan.
>>43794364
>Eversors are out of the question
They have moments of lucidity. You can even pump the drugs out of their system to get them somewhat human.
The novel of the board game was pretty neat, if only just to see that.
>>43794909
> Novel of the board game
By board game you mean Assassinorum Execution Force?
>>43794715
Jain Zar and Lelith Hesperax in mud wrestling match when?
>>43794927
yeah
>>43794991
Sadly didn't read it, nor got the game.I have really little dosh and no work.
>>43794752
And christmas cakes like some cream, so they can become creampies right?
http://imgur.com/xpYsyjP
>>43795011
There should still be a decent pdf online. I wasn't going to pay money on a throwaway tie-in novel.I ate mac and cheese and other choice poor student foods in order to fit the box into my budget
>>43795077
Goddammit anon...I can't have a boner at this point. Not until after New Year.
>>43795100
You lucky and diligent bastard. Now I'm jelly.
>>43794603
>he insists on personal debriefings
>wants personal demonstrations of alternate forms
>>43795077
Why guiliman? Is there a canonical thing where she says she likes him or something?
>>43795200
because smurfs
>>43791473
There was a short story that addressed that. Me'lindi is alive, her soul merged with the mind of the girl Draco made into a back up body for her. So Me'lindi is just fine, she is basically sharing the girls body.
Draco is alive as well, as a powerful psyker his soul is intact since it cannot be attacked by deamons inside the webway, he is basically a psyker ghost that spies on Me'lindi. It was hinted that he might try to find a way to regain his body.
>>43791855
Her soul wasn't erased, Me'Lindi specifically mentions that it is intact. And the rape is an important plot point, it allows for the story to continue in typical fucked up manner. Consider the following:
Draco is a body-less webway ghost observing me'lindi in her new host body last time we saw him right? What if she was pregnant? It would give his soul a place to inhabit. So Me'lindi can give birth to him (logical plot twist given all the pregnancy references and her angst at being sterile) and raise Draco as her own child who happens to be his own father. With the weird time stuff in the webway she can slow her aging so she isn't a old hag when Draco grows up enough to start boning her again.
>>43795412
god damn it draco
>>43795200
You know Taldeer killed certain vindicare in canon.
I doubt that any woman can stand against such man. Aaand smurfs should have reason for keeping eldar hybrids.
>>43795412
Sweet baby Jesus, it's the most fucked up plot in 40k and i like it.
>>43795511
The hilarious part is he has briefly met Czevak while inside the Black Library but they didn't talk. Can you imagine the sheer heresy if they started hanging out?
"Heretic! You can't use a Assassin like that!"
"Didn't you mention something about wanting to screw a Living Saint?"
"Well yeah but..."
"Got a picture of her?"
"Yeah, right here....."
"Hey Me'lindi, look at this...."
"Oh my...."
"Hey Me'lindi, think you could do Eldar Living Saint?"
"Sure thing Jaq"
"But...But..."
"It is OK Bronislaw, i know the Emperor remember? He is totally OK with this..."
>>43795728
They are both Ricks of 40k.
>>43788411
Why hasn't anyone made a comic of one of these getting raped by something slaaneshi?
>>43792527
FFG should never have tried to justify their stat changes to make marine bolters better using fluff. It's given so many people that ridiculous belief.
>>43795768
In inquisition war one of them gets tentacle raped by a psychic tentacle blob and loves it. That incident is the LEAST graphic and disturbing thing that happens.
>>43792152
I personally like to think the first stage is magnetic like like a rail gun with the rocket stage being used for flight correction / explosive force on impact
How does she put that suit on? How does she see and hear in it?
>>43796597
Very well.
>>43793912
That's hilarious to imagine.
>>43796597
>>43788556
>you will never have a Callidus waifu who pretends to be all cutesy for your sake, but is actually just a cold, emotionless monster
>but you love her regardless, which is why she loves you too, in her own cold, emotionless way
>>43797515
>you will never discover you were a Callidus waifu all along
>>43789523
That was my point
>>43789704
>>43789836
>how about a daemon/xeno hybrid made from rendered-down genetic material
Wait what
The fuck is that from?
