Monday, March 18, 2013

Guns. Ammo. Donuts, and me.

I was perusing Hasslefree miniatures' Modern Adventurers series the other day, I was wondering what you would do with all of the seemingly random minis it contained (other than to just live on the shelf).  Then I saw this mini, his name is 'Tony (b)' and the light went off: They're RPG minis.


Reversed baseball cap, aviator sunglasses, short pants, over sized pistols and too much ammo, and he's over weight to boot, lol. Amused, his story just kind of wrote itself. Here it is:

Guns. Ammo. Donuts, and me. 
That's all that's needed to maintain the Emperor's peace.

That fine 'treatise' on Imperial Law (Look out Ravenor!) was penned by the none-to-imaginative Tony, a former denizen of the almost lawless society of Gunmetal City on Scintilla. Once employed in the 'loss prevention' department of one of the citiy's many foundries, Tony came to the attention of the Inquisition when one of their secure and capture raids went awry. The quarry, known as [CLASSIED] entered the foundry of Tony's employment in an attempt to elude capture. However [CLASSIFIED] was discovered soon thereafter, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, and drowning in his own blood. Meanwhile Tony was rooting thru his pockets searching for stolen 'product'.

Tony was taken in for questioning in regards to his sudden involvement in the incident. Mainly in an attempt to salvage something from the debacle. [CLASSIFIED] was the best (and now very dead) lead in a now ruined 3 year investigation of a guns-for-heretics smuggling operation. Tony's simple minded devotion to his duty (as it gave him even more of a justification to shoot people than that of the average Metallican) lead to the obvious conclusion that he shot [CLASSIFIED] well before asking any questions.

Nominally one of Gunmetal City's 'Regulators' (what passes for local law enforcement), Tony was little more than an employed Thug/Gunslinger. However, in light of the failed operation, the Inquisition suddenly had a few openings into their roster and Tony was hired to offer him the chance to 'repent for his failure to the Inquisition.'  His new team however isn't so sure that its either Tony's simple minded outlook on his 'guilt' or the license to kill people outside of Gunmetal City that won him over to their cause. No, they (rightly) believe that it's the Inquisition's access to a seemingly endless supply of all of the deep fried, sugar glazed and jelly filled confections that Scintilla has to offer. Needless to say, it doesn't take an Inquisitor to notice Tony's ever expanding waistline...

lol, as you can tell, I miss playing Dark Heresy. We need to fix that Neverness and Red Bird...

7 comments:

Mordian7th said...

Excellent! I always enjoy perusing the Hasslefree minis site, there's all sorts of fun inspiration to be taken from their miniatures.

I dig the backstory - got a hankering to play some 40k:RP m'self!

neverness said...

Agreed. My Fridays are free again. Let's make it happen!!! I want to finsh the last campaign, but if not, I really want to run an Arbite themed campaign next, dealing with some grim ideas I have for some underhive romps. :)

Hive Angel said...

I would like to give it a go. I am lacking the rulebook though. Never could justify it. :(

Da Masta Cheef said...

@Modian: Thanks!

@Neverness: Sounds good! This Friday is out (Hive Angel's fault) though. I'd say start a new one as I'm sure the Navy vaporized us by now (which is about all I recall of the old campaign).

@Hive Angel: I might have a PDF of it, will check.

neverness said...

I am cool with starting fresh. This Friday is too soon regardless. We can plan for next week and figure out who is going to play with us as well.

Kushial said...

Wish I was a lot closer and I'd consider joining you for the RP. Getting off work and then up there to play just doesn't work out time wise though.

And with that description of Tony's background, all I can think of now is 80s movies a la 40K. Like a DE archon in a cowboy hat in a souped up black venom with a gold thunderbird painted on it blocking for a raider loaded down with recaf for the next Hive City over.

Da Masta Cheef said...

Kushial, all that Archon needs is a Mullet & you're good to go!