INQ28 The calling

Were an unlikely group Guiller Capetillo thought to himself as he looked at the four others stood before him, news had just come to him this morning about events on Fentis in the Gravis Sector.

Capetillo brief's the team

How many times has he asked this lot to give there all & then some over the years in the name of the Emperor of Mankind? & given it they had freely with little thought of themselves & now he must ask again for each of them to risk their lives on a distance planet that they had most likely never heard of.

Gnut was the first one of them he befriend, that was long ago when he was a member of Inquisitor Del Torres warband, of coarse Gnut had his own legs in those days but his left arm had already been fitted with the lacerator, Capetillo  knew that the big Ogryn would go right through the Eye of Terror if he ask him to & would never question why.

Gnut

The Drill Abbot Augustine Greek had been next to cross his path, this was a short while after the explosion that had claimed the live of Inquisitor Del Torres & the rest of the warband & Gnut his two legs, it was only my ability to throw a psychic shield around myself that had save me Capetillo thought.

Greek

It sadden Capetillo to think that the Warlock Shang Tsung was still at large putting to use his evil powers for those that where willing to pay, some day I'll bring the Emperor's justice down on his head, with the help these brave souls & their was not doubting the Drill Abbot's bravery a former priest in the Imperial Guard, Greek had then taken a post in an Abbey training up & coming priest in the ways of warfare before deciding he wanted to fight the enemy within & had sought Capetillo (who had just become an Inquisitor) saying that while in prayer he'd been told to do so.

Rouxinal had been the next to join if you could call it that, as do servitors really have a choice in such things ? & yet Capetillo believed that at some level Rouxinal did, it was when chasing a dangerous foe  across a junkyard that Capetillo had come across him, Rouxinal was apart of the automated system.
Just as it seemed his foe would escape Rouxinal had picked up a shovel & knocked the assailant out cold with one blow.

Rouxinal

Capetillo had located the owner of the yard & informed him how the Inquisition would be grateful if he'd be willing to turn over what was know to him as servitor F2H93, F2H93 had seemed to have what was unusual for a servitor a mind of his own & had insisted from the start that he be called Rouxinal, & it was this ability to think for himself as well as been able to do all the things that servitors where programmed to do that had since made Rouxinal a vital member of the force.

Last but by no means least was Bror von Blixen-Finecke a man from a privileged back round & who's deadeye shot with his hunting rifle was a tool in his box that Capetillo could now not do with out.
It had been on Ragidell IV that Capetillo had come to meet von Blixen-Finecke who was there for the hunting season, been of a wealthy family von Blixen- Finecke had spent his days travelling from world to world hunting the most dangerous animals & playing games of chance but was bored with life & wanted something more.

Von Blixen-Finecke

While out on the balcony in a hotel (that Capetillo happened to be staying in at the same time & who's room was next to von Blixen-Finecke) von Blixen-Finecke attention had been drawn to an incident that was taking place over 500 yards down the street (507.5 to be precise von Blixen-Finecke would tell you) a man had bust into the street holding a gun to a women's head followed by what looked like the local law enforcers, now to von Blixen-Finecke way of thinking no act of violence towards a lady was except-able & so it was that quick as a flash he want inside grabbed his rifle retuned to the balcony took a steady aim & put a bullet through the left eye or the gunman.

Hearing the boom of the rifle Capetillo rushed out on to the blacony & seen von Blixen-Finecke with the rifle in his hands ordered him to put in down in the name of the Inquisition, been bored but not stupid von Blixen-Finecke did has asked before telling Capetillo what had just happened on the street & that he'd just put a bullet in the left eye of the man now lying dead on the ground, somehow Capetillo knew this was the truth & thinking to himself that that was a shot that a member of the Adeptus Astartes would be hard push to make, asked him if he might have a talk with him about putting his skill to a greater use.  

& what of myself ? I've had an interesting journey from when I was a small boy in the hive slums of Orterous Minor, where my  psychic ability brought me to the attention of Inquisitor Del Torres, the Inquisitor had spared me from the black ships & had instead taken me under his stewardship given my life a direction, Del Torres had been everything to Capetillo & he missed him sourly even to this day.

Inquisitor Capetillo

My friends I've received word from the conclave this morning said Capetillo there is some kind of an uprising on the planet of  Fentis in the  Gravis Sector, not so unusual in its self, but this time it is believed by some in the higher places of the Ordo Hereticus that there is something more sinister a foot & we've been charged with investigating events there, we are to make ready for departure by days end & should arrive by the last days of this month, of what monsters & madmen awaits us I've no idea but it is the Emperors will that we should go forth to serve his justest.

Designer note, with me heading down to Warpcon in a couple of weeks to take part in an INQ28 campaign, I was asked would I do a little writhe up on my warband & why they might be on Fentis,
I didn't want to just writhe a little history about each member like von Blixen-Finecke been upper classed & a hunter, so I decided to do it by having Capetillo have a little flash back of how he came upon each of them before once again asking them to risk their life's & so how his warband came to be, this will give the GM a bit of a feel for my warband & give him an idea of how they might go about things.

Would an Inquisitor have such thoughts ? I think some would, while all would be single mined in what needs to be done in the name of the Emperor, as after all they are only human & there would be as many different type's of inquisitors as their would be anything else, at the heart of the game Inquisitor is story telling & that is what I tried to do above give the warband a little bit of history, for all the faults there might be in the game of Inquisitor there is no other GW game that captures the grim dark like Inquisitor, & I'm really looking forward to playing INQ28 again at the end of the month & who know maybe beyond that.

Well that's it from me as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment it would be most welcome.

  
    

How to mud huts

I've done a lot of stuff since I started Tricol but haven't done to many how to's, which is bad on my behalf as if you dear reader are going to go to the effort of coming here then the least I can do is if I make something is to show you how I did it, then if it something you like you can go & try it yourself.

So today I've mud hut's for you, as I push on with the pulp alley perilous island campaign I know that the beastmen natives are going to need a place to live & I thought to myself what better then some mud huts, as after all in every pulp setting their are natives of some kind or another & there's always plenty of mud right ?

For the hut I used  a paper plant cup these are ideal as their already textured 

Make a base I used some cork for mine & done it so that the hut will sit on it but you could do it with the base inside it

I then cut about 20mm off the bottom of the cup, you could cut a bit more off if you wanted or nothing at all.

using pre-mixed tile adhesive I put it on the bottom of the cup 

& stuck the cup to the base

I then covered the surface of the base with the adhesive 

When the  adhesive was dry i painted the base GW ushabti bone & the hut rhinox hide

I then dry-brushed the hut with a mix of 2 parts bone & 1part hide 

this was followed buy a couple of dry bush coats of the bone

The base got a coat of dark tone quickshade & when that was dry I started putting the straw on for the roof, I use wood glue to fix the straw on

when doing the straw leave it long & you can trim it off when the glue sets

Make two little holes with a tooth-pick about 30mm apart at the hight you want the door cover to hang from, brake the pick in half & glue it in place leave them long for now 

For the door cover I used a wetwipe you know the things that people use these days to clean the likes of counter tops & tables around the house, you'll have to leave it to dry for a few hours as they come moist

I spayed the sheet red when it had dried & when that was dry cut a piece the size i wanted & painted a few dark green strips, but what ever the colour is is up to yourself

You next need to glue the cover to a tooth-pick make sure it long enough to go right around the pick & then glue the pick to the two sticking out of the wall

Trim off the picks & if you want add a little smoke coming from the roof

I gave the roof & the bottom of the hut a wash of  GW agrax earthshade I also did around where the picks go into the walls & the picks themselves  & that it, a little mud hut that's cheap & easy to make

The finished hut with two more that are at different stages, there's two reason I do them at different times, one is because I like to get one finished to see if it will work before putting to much effort into the others & two is you can be working on one when your waiting on something on the other to dry.  

I hope you found the post useful & if you'd like to comment it would be most welcome, well that's it for this post as ever my thanks for dropping in :-)

Tricol, The jungle trail, a Pulp Alley AAR

Although speech with the native beastman was impossible Panama Jack & his crew manage to work out from his actions & a crude drawing he made in the sand that the best way to head inland was to follow the river.

The Severed Head lot where by this point no where to be seen on the beach & Jack reckoned they must have already headed off to start exploring this strange island, or maybe they just wanted to get as far away from that terror that had tried to tear Adele apart as they could.

It didn't take long before the jungle became very dense & the light faded to a twilight, the temperature also seemed to be rising & the air became very moist, it wasn't long before each one of them was covered in swathe & a feeling of been watched fell upon the crew, so much so that after a while Jack whispered to Lucinda to lead the crew on while he hide in the among undergrowth to see if he could spot anyone following them.

About ten minutes later he heard shooting & leaving his hiding place started running as to catch up with his crew, up ahead confusing had broken out, what had happened was this, the natives who seemed to appear & then disappear at will had started playing tricks on the crew & also on the Severed Head lot who happened to be on the other side of the river.

Having last seen the Hermes crew in the company of one of these natives on the beach the folks of the Severed Head assumed that they where now in league with them & had started to fire at both the natives & the Hermes crew who then of coarse started firing back but in the poor light it was impossible to see to far ahead.

I think we should try & catch some of these trouble makers Numbers said to Adele as I don't think their really up to much harm & from what I can see in this poor light they seem to be given the other lot as hard a time as us, so if we could catch one or two maybe they could lead us through this jungle into the heart of the island where the page you retrieved from the boat says we should go.

Try & catch them they may be able to help us Adele called out, it was at this point that Jack caught up with the crew & hearing what Adele had called out ordered his crew to do the same, after all a good idea was a good idea no matter who came up with it first.

Jack then decided to try & cross the river to see if he could talk to one of the others about maybe instead of trying to kill each other every chance they got to try & work together in the hope of finding the Tech-priest & then finding away off this island.

After awhile the natives seemed to grow tired of what ever game it was they where playing on these new people to their land & started allowing themselves to be caught, but for all that time Jack had no luck with his plan & when he did catch up with Maggie he had to knock her on her back & make a run for it, as she had no other thought other then to try to remove his head from his shoulders what a fearsome women Jack thought to himself as he got away.

Designers note, the above story is just my way of moving things forward but the game as it always does has an effect on that story, as in the reason for Jake going into hiding was own to the fact that Paddy when he rolled on the events table got the one where a random member of his league didn't start until turn two.
The mission been played out was the jungle trail & in hind sight adding the river while cool for the story had a not so good effect on the game, with it been extremely perilous & with line of sight down to 12" it keep the two teams apart & free to chase after the natives with little danger, but that been said it was still a fun game with both teams ending up with two minor plot points each.

Below are all the pictures of the game, so I'll finish up with my thanks & a well done to Paddy on coming back from 2-0 down & as always my thanks to you for dropping in & if you'd like to leave a comment I be very grateful.