The Marker has just been discovered in your setting or the setting you’re currently playing in, how fucked are things? Does your setting have the capabilities to counter a threat like the Brother Moons?
The Marker has just been discovered in your setting or the setting youre currently playing in, how fucked are things?
No. Everybody with even vaguely mystical senses starts screaming.
>ERP setting
They're hungry.
They're cumming.
(number larger than one) vaginas
>imagine
maybe hop dimensions, but otherwise nah
fuck
They have a spaceship and a lot of nukes, so I'd assume so
>Does your setting have the capabilities to counter a threat like the Brother Moons?
Yes. Not just speculatively yes. Affirmatively yes.
Don't get me wrong, they wouldn't just be able to casually kill such a thing. But they are there. Keep in mind that you're dealing with a world with literal magic and real gods. There exists things that could kill it.
And that's before we factor in the outer beings, who could and would just devour a necromoon if they could reach into reality enough to grab it.
This. My setting's heroes are dealing with an existential threat that would eat the Brother Moons like Skittles, and they're actually able to hold it at bay.
DG
>my party of operatives make contact in t=6 hours
>marker is taken into institute custody in t=18 hours
CoC
>the investigators battle through the maze of the catacombs
>the marker is blown/shot up (whatever the gm thinks of at the time)
>2/5 dead, my guy wounded and insane
homeboy's custom system/setting
>marker makes zombies and vamps and wights
>we blast them with swords, witchcraft and holy light
>marker is destroyed by the heavens
>adventurers probably retire
>tfw Im playing a deathbound/undeath cleric and im immune to mind altering effects.
I essentially hard counter the marker but I am probably fucked if a convergence event starts.
Isaac of Clarke
Isaac wasnt immune to the marker though. I think only lexine and possibly ellie were immune to the marker's effects.
Yes, easily. The Marker is instantly turned into a discarded baddragon dildo and all it summons is slutty bimbos.
The Brother Moons open up shop, it's obviously a brothel specialized in anal.
>Age of Sigmar: Soulbound
Nagash is gonna kill it for being a pretender to his throne.
Even if he doesn’t, this wouldn’t be the first moon the Skaven has destroyed.
I put it in my asshole.
They're experienced with dealing with freaky undead abominations, but my players can't even keep themselves from going mad normally. There's no way in hell they'd be able to deal with that shit. There are so many other power struggles going on in the setting that this is just another thing on the list that isn't going to be addressed until an independent actor steps in, and even then there isn't a great chance of anyone wising up to what's going on until it's too late.
Single marker isn't that bad, limited area madness and zombie infestation but it can't converge on its own, someone needs to create new ones for that.
Gotta pass some willpower saves but anyone can blow it up. Any telepathy protection helps and robots are immune, drones too if controller is far enough.
I'm not sure anyone would genuinely notice the difference.
The Warhammer Fantasy Pygmies take turns jacking off on the Marker before smashing it apart and eating it. They then go to war with the Dark Elves and gangrape Morathi.
can anons here explain how their settings would be able to survive the markers? Lore seems to have it be the kind of artifact that helps speedrun development of a civilization to pump up numbers large enough to induce a full blown societal-schizo-breakdown followed by a painful zombie outbreak. Followed by invasion by planet sized eaters
Just feels like its purposely made to be a cosmic apex predator
you blast it with a shit ton of magic or use a specific form of magic developed solely for dealing with large amounts of bio-organic matter and tissue gathered in one mass. probably a virus or bacteria that would eat through the moons while rapidly multiplying.
right, that makes sense with dealing with fodder necromorphs, but the fact the markers are basically radiating memetic hazards that purposely fucks with big brain caster like wizards, and the fact people worship said rocks (in a hamfisted scientology sorta way), plus the moons are a hivemind, so killing one would basically tell the others to adapt to said tactics. The only way I can see a setting beat the markers is basically pulling an exodus and GTFO of any place that even has one of these, or go full 40k inquisition and kill anyone who has knowledge, let alone even thinks of building such things
which is not even a win condition, thats just pic related
send several lobotomized soldiers on a suicide mission to crash into each moon and release the bacteria/virus into each of them. they won't feel compelled by emotions to betray each and they can use their human logic skills to easily navigate and avoid any obstacles. them moons would either be sent running or they would all die.
can diseases even do anything to necromorphs, let alone brethren moons? Its rather counterintuitive, I mean no one thinks of making a lich sick for example
the thing is how can their organic matter be dead but moving at the same time? its gotta be alive somehow. I think the Bretheren Moons are just flesh elementals that can meld and craft flesh to their will. the necros are more a "dead" human, and a living necro. otherwise how could they even die when you shoot them and blow them up? they'd be invincible otherwise.
>otherwise how could they even die when you shoot them and blow them up? they'd be invincible otherwise.
in dead space lore they don't even die, in the game issac has to dismember their limbs to have them stop chasing him around and even then if given enough time, the influence of the marker plus the increasing pile of dead body mass makes it easier for those fuckers to get back up. They are practically invincible, and the only way to 'win' is either power through the hordes of undead to get to the marker to throw it into the void of space to be someone's else problem, or destroy it as its about to enter convergence, which is a two-fold battle both in mind and body as it will try to fry you mentally.
Its why even in dead space the markers and brethren moons won, issac could only hard carry so much
All Necromorphs are essentially biomass being crudely puppeted by the Marker signal. Nothing short of total annihilation down to constituent particles can actually "kill" them. Even what Isaac does by chopping off limbs is nothing more than delaying action since it merely causes the Necromorph in question to 'shut down' until it can acquire the means to fulfill its primary objective again.
Can't you just burn them?
You'd need to completely carbonize the flesh down to ashes and leave nothing behind.
The markers wouldn't even really be a threat in 40k. The only reason they managed to be one in Xead Space is because resources were tight enough that the marker put a massive dent in the human population already struggling to sustain itself.
In 40k, the markers will shit on some random planet, maybe a few, and the broader imperium won't give much of a shit.
Doesn't help the marker that "random eldritch xenos artifacts" is literally what the ordo xenos is there to tackle.
Oh, look, another dude that believes the Imperium Of Mankind, the empire in name only that is consistently falling apart into a collection of pseudo-feudal balkanized planet-states, could handle yet another malignant bio-mass consuming threat that can make more combatants the more casualties there are. In the setting where meat-grinder and cannon fodder are considered workable strategies in any theatre. Sure. "Hurr, the Xeno-quisitors will catch it", sure thing, SCP
with how 40k numbers work, an outbreak in a single hive world, could have enough biomass to spawn several brethren moons, provided they influence the population to build multiple markers
You must be fun at the rare few parties people still invite you to
Any RKV (the basic strategic armament) will deal with a Brother Moon
lure them into a black hole, supernova, or a giant star with gravitational pull that cannot be escaped by something so massive
Nah my setting would probably be fucked. One of the two main factions is basically just the sovereign colonies except way less advanced tech wise
My setting can in fact kill the brother moons.
The brotherhood of perpetual acceleration has been accelerating a railgun since time immemorial, with the goal of shooting the apocalypse when it eventually arises.
The apocalypse obliging and being something that can physically be shot, like a moon, is just their dream come true.
What happens if they miss? More importantly, which motherfucker gets selected to shoot?
>what happens if they miss
A great deal of sorrow.
>who gets to be selected
While I've not structured this in any greater detail than as a background setting, I like to think that the guy waiting by the large switch at all times is a much vaunted position, probably held by the guy one tier below highest on the totem pole.
Can't have the bossman on the switch at all times, he's only one man.
>A great deal of sorrow.
I can't imagine the pressure. The brotherhood's theology sounds rad as hell. Hopefully they get to shoot and hit something with the railgun in the end of days.
Better make sure you hit with it, it's not like there's another.
>The brotherhood of perpetual acceleration has been accelerating a railgun since time immemorial, with the goal of shooting the apocalypse when it eventually arises.
this is the coolest thing I've read on /tg/ in a while
Currently playing Darktide.
This probably wouldn’t even register as abnormal. Just one more thing distracting from the defense against Tyranids.
A Marker in an underhive would be fun to fight tbh. People just think its some standard mutant rebellion/uprising but they lose control of the situatuion as it gets worse. Lower levels sealed off so all the necromorphs go dormant, hibernating/waiting
RegoMentem a circle around it against mind control.
PerdoCorpus to annihilate necromorphs
EZ
Maybe TerramRego and chuck it a regio
Just another corruption spewing relic of Symbaroum. My party has some stuff that can protect then long enough to destroy it though
There is a sufficient amount of god-like beings and civilisations experienced with similar threats, that they could probably take care of the Markers. Although it could be very difficult if those get the big magical think-tank org. which thrives on secrecy to begin with.
The Brother Moons on the other hand I don't think they could. There are three magi-tech war sattelites, worshipped as gods, in orbit which could probably kill one of them. But if multiple ones come at the same time later, they probably wouldn't be able to handle that without player intervention.
As a DM i just mąkę it dissapear. Suck cock you impotent time waster
I guess everyone would have a really tough time of it and even though planet killers are plentiful, killing a bunch of evil planets is going to be a shitshow. Several Big Named Character Deaths. Regular Deaths in the quintillions. I'd imagine they could squeeze ten old EU novels out of the scenario.
Considering the nature of my setting, yes and no. Assuming the markers/brother moons are "in" the main playable dimension, that dimension may have some problems trying to destroy/fight it on their own. However, the world population wouldn't be sufficient, but the biomass might be.
Then there's the issue of the interdimensional gods, some of whom have sufficient power to delete the nature of the markers from existence, or remove them to a dimension/realm in which they are neutered by the nature of said realm.
Then there's the issue of one "god" who would be extremely interested in the markers and likely would take one to his realm for study. But, the world he resides on in his realm has no biomass, so he'd be "safe", and given that his goals/abilities are similar in nature to the markers... Well, if not defeated by the heroes/other gods, the main dimension is screwed.
>nooo my eldritch horror videogamerino isn't being taken seriously!
>nooo the power level of your campaign can't be higher than my favourite heckin gritty survival horror!
>take my space dildo seriously it makes very SCARY zombies okay?
Everything you like was a mistake.
>The Marker
The what?
The source of all the spooky things in the franchise dead space. There’s a bunch of them. They’re near indestructible objects that emit ideas and concepts to drive populations insane and cause havoc and create cults that worship it to protect it while it slowly snowballs the biomass of a civilization into a literal sentient moon monster, which then shits out more markers, etc.
I had to check what that even is. Turns out it's some shooter. Oh wow, I wondner what next. Halo threads?
Only if we're talking about marathon too.
Don't tell me about the halo, tell me about the wrknkakotr or however you spell it
The setting isn't at a tech level capable of producing Red Markers--or even noticing the apparent infinite energy output of the Black Marker--so it's just a local necromantic event. And they're more than capable of dealing with those. And the Brother Moons would be a hell of a question mark, since the setting exists as a single planet and its local celestial bodies in a series of concentric spheres of firmament. There's nowhere for them to come from.
>billions of years years, millions of species across billions of lighyears
>not a single one managed to invent an assault rifle before they got fermi paradox'd
>they don't know about the USM Valor
It always spins me out that Dario Argento is (1) alive and (2) had substantial input into the story of Dead Space
Been a while since I had time to GM, but the last game I ran ended with them pursuing personal power with enough of a myopic focus to ignore the impending end of the world until they had finished winning a wizard's war. after they wrapped that up they got duped into killing a greater deity, accellerating the end of the world, then murdered the god that tricked them, and created a demiplane out of the residual magic of the end of reality when they were the last living(with the exception of the lich) things in existence.
In all likelihood, they will ignore the threat until it encroaches on their personal goals, at which point rocket tag will commence, and they'll fuck up the setting far worse than the moons
how do you guys think this would fare in a setting like forgotten realms or Golarion? 50/50 on it being another apocalyptic threat that some generic evil faction #465 would try to use for their own ends if you ask me.
Probably Vecna/acererak/random BBEG lich's wetdream, unless some DM contrives that the marker overrides their influence on undead, and makes them thralls, but that would depend on the DM
>Does your setting have the capabilities to counter a threat like the Brother Moons?
My setting has pretty active gods, including two that qualify as capital-G actually omnipotent Gods, so, yeah. Thing's will be fine.