Well, that is a relief. I would hate to see the scene where Paul was in Hades trying to figure out what happened.
Paul's stated numerous times that Sivana wants "every country" to pardon him but Paul expects him to be satisfied with most.
Generally work to improve the place. At the moment he's still setting up the systems he needs in order to function effectively.
In theory. In practice, no.
Become corrupted by Chaos all but immediately.
He didn't drain Daemons, you can tell from the fact that his ring didn't sprout tentacles and bite off his finger.
And a break to see what P'aul's up to, I see. Not doubt staying busy in the dark future.
And even in the Tau Empire, bureaucrats are obstructive. Figures. Still, a good protocol concerning Warpy stuff.
Well, I suspect at least one leader is about to get plenty of the latter.
The population is dense all right. 'Church of Divine Unity'... Clearly a Chaos cult. But hey, humans will follow anything shiny, if it has enough skulls and fire. Imperials are easy to please like that.
I'm honestly amazed there aren't natural outbreaks of daemons as it is. I shudder at the thought of how many undetected and unprotected psykers and sensitives are running around now.
...A master of understatement, I see. Must be Water Caste.
Heh, able to make puns and blame it on bad translations. Such a handy trick. I see there's no hard feelings between them after the whole 'pretend to be a daemon' bit he used to wake Kais up.
I'm guessing a human-fitted version of Fire Warrior armour, with proper boots instead of hoof-sleeves. Not like the cheap stuff they'd give Gue'vesa auxiliaries... You know, humans.
His squad is seeing combat, evidently. And supported by a stealth team or battlesuit, from the sound of those weapons. The former is standard kit for the light stealth armour, with the latter as a squad specialist weapon. Think plasma gatling gun and nuclear heat ray respectively, for the 40k virgins.
I wonder, is he in a standard squad, close assault Breacher team or scouting Pathfinder unit... Heck, with his experience, he could qualify as a Fireblade, a field lieutenant...
Oh, bugger. The Great Seductor has taken an interest in this world it seems. Because of OL, I wonder?
Plenty of Warpyness for the Ring to nom down on, at least.
Looks like the civilian leadership has cottoned on that he's needed. And the Psychic Phase just finished, with the enemy sorcerers casting buffs powers.
Safe. On a Warhammer 40,000 Battlefield. Quite the oxymoron there.
Ah, good, I see he's had to get that down damn fast. Desperation is the mother of cleverness, after all.
Ah, the 'suck it and see if it kills you' approach. I wonder how the Sorcerers will react when you drop an effective null-zone on them?
Amusing that the Fire Caste gal or guy thinks they're in charge of him. I can't help but think of him as equivalent to a superhero now... Imagine if or when his existence becomes public, unlikely as that will be.
And until then, he's a flying Lord of War with the ultimate in multi-function devices. Gods, can you imagine his tabletop stats?
Air support has arrived. And unlike most flying soldiers, this one is not skeet.
Sounds like the Chaos player splurged on Spawn kits. I remember doing that back when Apocalypse first came out with bundle packs. Picked up twelve spawn, and they're still in my collection today. In need of repainting, but still there.
Buff spells. That won't last long before P'aul's Ring. Probably giving an Invulnerable Saving throw, Toughness bonus or Initiative bonus...
Evidently the power goes bone deep. I doubt there's enough of their minds left to register the pain, beyond that animalistic response, though.
Yeah, might be a bit awkward to make mental contact with a Daemonette. It probably looks like Pornhub on random in there as it is.
Ah, Tau Pulse weapons. Safe, stable plasma weapons, mass-produced and used by the basic infantry. Better than the Imperial stuff, which is prone to backfiring because of a hideous dearth of safety procedures and overclocking...
As one hell of a Special Character choice. I take it the overall government is still working out just what to do with him... Unsurprising, given their lack of experience with truly outstanding individuals...
I hear you.
I still enjoy these updates though. I like puzzling things out to learn what I can from the context, and then just ignore the bits that I don't care about (such as names). I don't know how Mr Zoat keeps all those, for all the different versions of Paul, straight in his head.
Actually Tau plasma weapons are less effective then Imperium Plasma weapons by a significant margin across all metrics from range to damage.
The Church of Divine Unity is the local tau's tame Ecclesiarchy-lite church. The local Slaanesh-worshippers are The Cult of the Miracle.
Human auxiliaries either get locally produced flak armour, or back in... 4th? The Imperial Guard Codex that introduced doctrines, I think they were shown having the same carapace armour as the tau.
They're an XV15 Stealth Team. Kais lacks the leadership expereince to be a Fireblade.
Oh, it is now, but information propogates slowly in the 41st millennium.
No, those were Posessed.
Those are the Tau's battlesuit-mounted Plasma Rifles, not their handheld Pulse Rifles.
Thank you, corrected.
Oh, pulse rifles are plasma-based too. There was this whole thing in 5th edition about what weapons a Plasma Syphon worked on, and they were on the list. Have you ever wondered what a BS1 Tau army looks like?
I can explain any parts you don't understand if you like?
There... Probably are things in 40K that could kill him. Telepathic attacks and daemonic possession are the obvious ones.
That didn't work because he has no brain. Just being sentient goo.
Every demonic thing that opposed him fell to the almighty cookie beam.
