#rogue trader banter

[cawyden-gaming]

I really need to take Ulfar with me more often... I found out that there is some dialog between Heinrix and Ulfar in Abelard's quest in act 4 that I missed before:

Now I want to know more, Heinrix... seriously, I would love to play as Heinrix in a game where we would go on missions alone or with the other acolytes.

Still, my favorite banter between them is this one - I simply love Heinrix's humor:

Video with the voice banter:

[primarchslut]

rogue trader banters — 15/?

HEINRIX 🠶 ABELARD / IDIRA

+ bonus audios since i love love love this interaction

[cybershock24601]

Switching between playing Veilguard and Rogue Trader is so funny because the companion relationships are so drastically different

Veilguard: we may have had our differences but i have come to value you and what you bring to our found family :)

Rogue Trader: runs the gambit from "respectful but with an undercurrent of what-in-the-God-Emperor's-name-is wrong-with-you" to

[zecarnevilcat]

I'm so mad the banter seemed buggy during my playthrough, I almost got none :( I'm laughing my ass off listening to this however. Is... is Abelard referring to *that* specific interaction in Commoragh?! X'D

I always had Abelard and Heinrix in my team, these two can't stop picking at each other

[gautiersylvain]

oh that's peepaw

[rosykims]

hes such a girls girl <3

[roguelioness]

Xinara: Can we get the sun back Heinrix: is she for real

[primarchslut]

rogue trader banters — 11/?

PASQAL 🠶 MARAZHAI

[themagnificentmags]

I made a spreadsheet with the text transcriptions of the party banter in Rogue Trader!

If you make a copy of the file, you can use the columns on the far right to filter to banters featuring specific characters.

The banters are in the same order as the source videos (linked in the "raw" tabs) so if you want to listen to them that's where to find it!

[cawyden-gaming]

Rogue Trader - Party Banter

Unfortunately, party banter in the game is kind of broken - it hardly triggers and I had several cases where the timing/trigger was bad as I had already clicked on an exit or other item what then interrupted the banter. There is also banter for events that haven't happened (yet) or with companions not even present (or recruited).

But there is quite a lot banter in voiced and unvoiced form in the game.

For the voiced banter there are two videos online that you can find here:

Part 1

Part 2

I have gone through the videos and banters and wrote down the timestamps and dialog that features Heinrix (as speaker or if companions speak about him).

You can find it here. (-> opens excel in google drive)

Please keep in mind that I am not a native speaker and while I used the help of (generated) subtitles there were words that I did not really understand (especially with Ulfar). I added a ? in these cases.

Still, it should give you an overview about the (voiced) banter available and where to jump to in the video if you want to listen to it.

There is of course the unvoiced banter too, but that is not featured here.

There is a lot of romance related banter in video 1 and more act/main story related ones in video 2.

There is also a mentioning of absent Achilleas, a master of ceremonies with memory issues, Abelard scolding Heinrix for being interested in the RT, sassy Heinrix everywhere...

Some examples:

Party banter video 2 - time 00:08:09

Ulfar: *growling at Heinrix*

Heinrix:

Thank you, my Lord Ulfar. I'm in good health and I hope you are as well. I am pleased that we are starting to get along.

Party banter video 2 - time 00:41:40

Marazhai:

My mere presence makes you shake with rage – I do not even have to do anything to you... delightful.

Heinrix:

Yes, I … you... damn it! I'm so angry, I can't even speak! Enough! I'll deal with you later.

(-> the VA is evenf more incredible here, you can hear him shaking)

Regarding Heinrix in Commoragh / healing:

Party banter video 2 - time 00:24:32

Heinrix:

Lady Cassia, there is no need to look at me like that. I assure you, I am perfectly fine.

Cassia:

Do I not deserve the truth from you even in this place master van Calox? I can see the flashes of scarlet that accompany your every movement.

Party banter video 2 - time 00:35:12

Jae:

Why are you limping like that? Haven't you healed yourself?

Heinrix:

It is a long process. I could try to hide my infirmity I suppose, but I'm not as accomplished an actor as you are, Shereen

Party banter video 2 - time 00:35:25

Idirah:

Those crazy screams in the lab the whole time I was there, that was you, wasn't it iceman? How did you survive that?

Heinrix:

My fervent desire to boil a few hundred xenos in their skin on my way out of here, proved stronger than death.

So, while he says he healed himself and is fine, he really isn't...

[chronurgy]

Ohhhh yrliet girl you fucked up. You fucked up real bad.

Yrliet seemed to take Malakai's "I will take all the help I can get to escape" as forgiveness but I really, really don't think it was. Especially after being psychically tortured (and resisting through sheer willpower), Malakai has more or less shut down the part of their brain that feels. This is also partially a response to the torture worm that makes you see things. They beat all the checks by pointing out inconsistencies in the scene, so that's what they're devoting everything they have toward (and what they were taught to do to resist warp corruption) - know what is real and what is not. There isn't much room for other things right now. They need to get out and they will. They will do whatever they need to do to get out and consign any considerations of what happens after that to the future. Right now they are putting everything they have towards staying sane via clinging to a single, tiny shred of hope that might promise escape. The only question is if and how they'll process what happened during this time. Will it give them enough time for the fires of their anger to calm down and their usual nature to reassert itself, or will it push them further over the edge? And the thing is, Malakai is pretty forgiving. Malakai wants to see the best in people. But she just dropped them into their own personal ptsd nightmare and I don't know that there's any coming back from that under these circumstances. For a couple reasons.

First, she made a really stupid decision and then lied to their face, which they take as a challenge to their authority. Malakai is well aware that they're a psyker and only a distant relative of theodora, and therefore their authority and right to ascend as rogue trader is on.... Perhaps somewhat shakier ground than they would like. Especially after they were more or less threatened by the lord inquisitor (thanks for the heads up, heinrix. It probably did help). So they are very aware that they need to strengthen their authority as much as possible, and use it wisely. This actually caused a number of conflicts between them and Jae, who they saw as challenging them/overstepping, and lead to some cooling of that relationship. Heinrix has also been on the receiving end of that type of displeasure in some cases, though his authority via the inquisition does allow him some level of..... Imposition. Heinrix warning Malakai that the lord inquisitor was coming and that there was no real threat almost certainly saved that relationship from a similar cooling. But anyway, yrliet made a bad decision (trusting the drukhari?? Girl) which is somewhat forgivable, and then lied about how she knew (challenging them, using them, not forgivable). That means that their relationship is at an end, the only question is what kind of end. Because Malakai absolutely cannot trust yrliet now, because they see her as a poor decision-maker who can't even acknowledge that flaw (or so desperate that she will risk anyone and anything to get what she wants, which amounts to the same thing). Malakai cannot give her any other assistance because of this, so it's time for them to part ways.

It's how things actually played out that makes me wonder exactly what that parting of ways will look like. In most circumstances, I think Malakai would be willing to provide her with any resources she required, then drop her off at a location of her choosing. A polite but firm goodbye. But Malakai has already been under a lot of stress as they try to manage their new protectorate and try to decide between doing what they feel is right and what they were taught is right and then watching both of those options blow up in their face. Being threatened by the lord inquisitor didn't help matters either. And they had sort of started to make their peace with their choices, to regain some faith in their ability to choose what they believe is right, and then yrliet came in and, in some sense, proved all those people who said they were a fool to trust a xenos right. She sold them out. And maybe that isn't a super fair assessment of the situation, but Malakai has been dropped into their own personal ptsd hell and they're struggling to cope. They're backed into a corner and they're about to start swinging. They're not particularly angry or vengeful, but everyone has their limits and this just might be theirs. It really depends on how the rest of the act goes, but I think there's a real chance they'll execute her, especially if things get worse.

Apparently if you don't take yrliet into your retinue, Achilleas Scalander is the one who betrays you (I looked it up). He explains that he broke during torture. I've seen people call this motivation far more compelling, and I agree! That is absolutely something Malakai could forgive, interestingly enough.

[gingerfan24]

*Sometime after talking to Atillius Quint on Janus and getting the second Administratum seal*

Ana: *to Jae* “Once we get done with all this business, I’m having that servitorization order either destroyed or so bogged down in Administratum groxshit that it never gets here.”

Heinrix: “Provided of course we also do not get bogged down in similar Administratum groxshit ourselves.”

[gautiersylvain]

haha interrogator, you are banging my lord captain

[clea-dessendre]

former commissar ammabel, who thought her days of having to inspire baby soldiers were behind her, listening to her entire retinue of accomplished fighters say their farewells and bemoan their early deaths when the fight against aurora hadn't even started

[von-valancius]

have you figured out winterscale yet.... im struggling too

okay. so. bad news

after a lot of trial and error and going into the discord AND downloading toybox: i don't think you're meant to be able to recruit him in an iconoclast playthrough.

i have no idea what those "here's how you recruit the 3 secret companions!" articles are on about and at this point i'm pretty sure they're straight up lying. and narrative wise i think it makes sense too when you progress and see what he's like after but yea.

it's a shame. i was kinda looking forward to it

[absolxguardian]

There's a side conversation between two NPCs in the sewers in Rogue Trader to this effect:

"Well at least we're getting more corpse starch"

"Oh is it made out of rat corpses."

"Oh no...not that at all"

Corpse grinder cult is giving out free BBQ on Necromunda, just don't ask where the meat comes from

I think if you find yourself unable to intuit where the Corpse Grinder Cult sources their meat, frankly you deserve the resultant Kuru