#rt spoilers

[lordcaptains]

so when kibelleh, second spinner of the bloodspun web, sacrifices crew members in the depths of the voidship, she's 'serving the lord captain' and 'protecting the rogue trader'

BUT WHEN I, MARAZHAI, -

[blighted-elf]

Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader - Favourite Ending Sliders

[fandom-geek]

don't you love it when the rogue trader and pasqual get a new toy and immediately start acting like cooing idiots over the probably heretical technology

[s1ithers]

rt posting // finished ch3. love the torture elves, hysterical 10/10. obsessed with how the game pits altruism against your responsibility to your people against the culture around your character. do something good & compassionate by player standards/treasonous in-universe, get absolutely kicked in the teeth for it, and have your companions call you to account afterwards... exactly what i want from an rpg, thank you

like i'm sure it has another way to get you through the plot if you don't agree to help Y, but i was thinking while doing it, hm. this is an action i am taking with videogame protagonist-like disregard for consequences bc i personally want to, despite how hard it would be for my char to justify, even if /she/ personally wants to! & then to just eat shit for the rest of the chapter. v satisfying. love a game that doesn't let you tramp all over its internal consistency to be a hero. love a world that pushes back <3

almost wonder if i got some sort of bug with the romance being weirdly (not) integrated? with H going from v sweet to Mad as Hell. (and like thank god they voiced that bit in case the text didn't fully convey how blisteringly he despises you for this lmao x_x christ alive. the VAs are gr8). but honestly only needed like one or two lines of transition bc it's a great conflict. what if your existence was only excused by your purpose & your purpose was fighting one enemy but the one person who treats you as more than that keeps falling for that enemy's lures. what a knife in the heart. bc the dismissal of your function is a dismissal of YOU but at the same time....you've already bitten the hook of that same mercy, haven't u :3

honestly would've liked a chance to say sorry i got us all trapped in the torment nexus. bc it's ultimately my responsibility right, yrliet doesn't command this vessel. i'm gleaning that admitting that to the group might be a somewhat uh avant-garde leadership style for these ppl but twould be nice to say it to ur lover what with the torture n all

reconciliation scene could be so good bc like what if we were two people with something tender & fragile growing between us. but also a traitor to humanity & an agent of the inquisition. but also a psyker who laid powers on the absolute ruler of the sector etc etc

and perhaps some dialogue option wherein you ask /why?/ and i could say it was out of friendship with a xenos. absolute super mega heresy. handing you the weapon to destroy me to prove my sincerity but like. like. the power play of knowing you won't use it.

could be sexy.

(but then ofc power play is the only language we speak, so maybe what i really want is to trust you. it's about the plausible deniability it's about the misdirection)

anyway. forcing me into a public judgment of my other not-lover in a way that also functions as a proxy trial for my own failings in That Whole Situation, both undermining my authority & creating the chance to shore it back up IF i give the rest of the crew their pound of flesh (realigning the emperor's chosen with the path of righteousness & oh so conveniently, with him over her), an hour after we /finally/ tore each other's clothes off is sooo. fun n flirty. peak shit. because as we know! the most important element of a healthy ship is trust :)

[iamaweretoad]

What did Vanth think of his versions from alternate timelines? Did any of them sound appealing to him? Does he regret he didn't end up more like some of them?

this one was fun to think about! Thank you! 💜

This part got me really curious about what sort of variation there is for different routes! The three alts that Vanth got were Cursed (full heretic murder hobo), Pious (full dogmatic with a devotional suffering kink) and Glorious (the version where all the officers got killed so he had to learn and face everything on his own and just became like the worst version of himself without tipping into either extreme).

Oh boy. Vanth has already had some issues with his grip on/perception of reality since getting back from Commorragh, so being in a place where the fabric of reality is literally tearing/converging definitely fucked with his head a little.

None of those realities were really appealing to him, though. Cursed and Pious were just so wildly antithetical to who he is at his core, albeit in different ways, and Glorious was basically his nightmare self.

They were all objectively much more successful than he was, but the cost was WAY too high and the prize was just... more of what he already had and didn't want? Plus from what I could tell, in all 3 alternate versions some or all of the retinue are dead/gone. So not only would he be gaining even more alienating and dehumanizing levels of power, he would be losing the one good thing he's gotten out of this whole mess, which is the people.

The squad seemed to agree XD

[saintdri]

Greywaren print I did for the owlcrate box. Happy release day!

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Super quick doodle because the flags from Matthieu Cousin's post made me think things.

[roosterbirds]

CAMP CAMP: With Friends Like These (x)

[boomer-dangs]

WHY IS HE A GIRLBOSS

[blighted-elf]

Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader - Epitaph To Walk Bravely First into Darkness

[atlitudes]

welcome to watch mojo top 10 moments that will definitely not be important mhmm no sir not significant at all for the future

[faderiftss]

"I just wanna say that I realize the choices that I made, which might have led to Tucker returning as the Meta, that may have upset some of you. Especially the ones that Tucker is going to violently murder."

[s1ithers]

the rogue trader and hawke sittin on the back porch, drinking a beer

[iamaweretoad]

I see you are nearing the end of act2 of RT! Which two companions were at Vanth's side during the ceremony on Dargonus? Bonus points for saying why them?

How did Vanth handle the...difficult conversation in his office after the celebration was over? :D

Yes! I just finished it last night. Man some of those scenes were intense. And I was pleasantly surprised that it was all social interactions rather than a boss fight.

Vanth chose Abelard and Idira. The OG squad and the two people he trusts the most. He wanted to make it clear, publicly and explicitly, that Idira is a core, valued member of the retinue. He also wanted to support House Werserian politically and show that he valued the people who are actually doing the work to keep the protectorate functioning over the 'old rich' noble houses whose problem solving skills seem to consist of hiding in their bunkers or causing even more problems.

WOOF. Well. He got the white ring, so.... Not great? 😂 Thinly veiled hostility from both sides with Heinrix in the middle being intensely uncomfortable. It became clear pretty quickly that this was just the Inquisitor playing with his food; a display of power to remind Vanth, on the day that he should have felt most secure, that that security (and the security of everyone he cared about) was entirely dependent on his cooperation with and utility to the Inquisition. It also removed the only thing he considered a real benefit to being trapped in the RT role which was that it was the safest he was ever going to be from the thing he feared the most -- and now that thing is breathing down his neck and is far more likely to happen as RT than it was when he was a mid tier smuggler with zero protections. The ceremony had already heightened the sense of being trapped/caged, and the conversation with the inquisitor made it worse by several orders of magnitude. He's not taking it well. XD

But Heinrix got to stick around, so.... silver lining? Very messy, doomed by the narrative silver lining?

[drabbles-of-writing]

I mean this as kindly as possible but this is the most main character energy I’ve ever seen in my entire life

[nervousbelieverstarfish]

I made them duet