ShoggySeldom 73 Posted December 16, 2014 (edited) Hi folks, I'm popping in here on my holidays to share a story about bravery, incompetence, and detpacks. This is, at heart, a campaign write-up, but it has grown over the months into something a little bigger than anyone expected. I'm hoping you guys enjoy it as much as the folks on reddit and tg. This has become a rather long story and due to this forum's image limits (and my inability to find the spoiler tags) I'm going to have to link off-site. The entire story is split into screencapped chapters hosted on imgur below (with the original thread links too, if you'd prefer), but it can also all be found in a nice, clean, slightly more polished, google-hosted html file here: http://www.theallguardsmenparty.com/ The Adventures of the All Guardsmen Party Prologue: Natural Selection Based Character Creation Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/33660810/ Album Link: http://i.imgur.com/L2ASKOM Part 2: Guardsmen and Pilgrims Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/34095013/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/XwoY7 Part 3: Dude Where's My Psyker? Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/34333783/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/Tkqjm Part 4: What's in the Box? Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/34660239/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/0aGN5 Part 5: Nubby's Girlfriend Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/34985468/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/puNBl Part 6: Heretic Purging Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/35461504/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/HxVMi Part 7: Discount Spaceship Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/35923989/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/Eyiep Part 8: Good Soldiers, Bad Educators Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/36338781/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/thn81 Part 9: The Interplanetary Man of Mystery Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/37339037/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/URsER Part 10: The Greater Good Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/38181397/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/5uUpI Part 11: The Xenotech HeresyAlbum Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/phJ5W/Original Thread Links:http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/39165875 http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/39185203 Part 12: Tyranid Acquisition ExpertsAlbum Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/iVHrS/Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40747009 Interlude: Dewarp Album Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/c0kerRl/ Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/42204030 Part 13: Tyranid Delivery Experts Album Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/fzCzz/ Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43288004 Part 13.5: Tyranid Delivery Experts Part 2 Album Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/wGzlU Original Thread Links: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43990923/ http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/44027113/ Part 14: The [REDACTED] Conspiracy (NEW SITE!) http://www.theallguardsmenparty.com/redacted.html Original Thread Links: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/46575971 http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/46600041 http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/46864402 Image Thing http://imgur.com/gallery/25MD7/ Part 15.1: The "Stealth" Mission http://www.theallguardsmenparty.com/secret.html Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/50535024/ I'm rather new on the forum, so if I should move this somewhere else please tell me. Otherwise I'm happy to talk or answer questions and would love to hear any literary criticism. Edited December 5, 2016 by ShoggySeldom 5 Nihilius Quint, Alex Cube, Cogniczar and 2 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex Cube 5 Posted December 17, 2014 Actually posts like this should be moved to Fan Fiction but because of its pure awesomeness I'd vote it to stay where it is. Great read, looking forward seeing part 9! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted December 17, 2014 Glad you liked it, the next chapter will be after the holidays. Probably the 9th or 10th. 1 filliman reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Artoo 29 Posted December 21, 2014 I've been following Tthe All Guardsmen Party on reddit for the last few posts. It's awesome! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
felismachina 98 Posted December 22, 2014 I read some of this and i wondered how did it look from chain of command side? Did the guardsman was still part of imperial guard and just borrowed by inquisitor or was they treated like acolytes? Another thing which ruleset you were using for this campaing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted December 22, 2014 We were treated like acolytes, as far as the Inquisition was concerned we no longer had any affiliation with the guard. Of course from our perspective Sarge was in charge of the squad and initially we operated on the assumption that all the other acolytes outranked us. Nowadays unless we're put directly under someone's command or they're a full Inquisitor we just assume they're dangerously incompetent and take any orders they give as a sort of suggestion, possibly one made by a drunk. The ruleset we use is DH 1st edition, with a bunch of stuff taken from OW and a fair number of house rules. It's a shame 2e wasn't out when we started. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
felismachina 98 Posted December 22, 2014 I plan to do something simillar. We started our only war campaing (which i GM) with players being only guardsman. After lots of adventures they are now pretty much powerfull individuals. I planed to transition them into more dark heresy style game but i encoutered one problem. Players still want to be part of the guard they just want more "special ops" instead of frontline fighting. While it worked for most of the time now they are in such spot only inquisitor involvement will make sense. Still i strugle how to merge DH and OW so players can have more versatile missions while being part of the guard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) If there's still interest here's the next chapter: Part 9: The Interplanetary Man of Mystery Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisn...chive/37339037/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/a/URsER Of course it's in the HTML version too: https://googledrive....mdFWXM/agp.html Edited February 21, 2015 by ShoggySeldom 2 Nihilius Quint and Alex Cube reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nihilius Quint 2 Posted January 14, 2015 I've been following the AGP for some time now, and I have to say, it is really great stuff. Thanks Shoggy! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted January 14, 2015 Glad you like it, knowing people are having fun reading these makes all the writing time worth it. 1 filliman reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KJDavid 194 Posted January 14, 2015 It was a great read. Very exciting and funny. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrotherDapper 0 Posted January 19, 2015 ......I just spent the last 4 days reading the whole story from Chapter 1 to 9...... Nubby Nubbs is my favorite. Shoggy, your party's sessions are the things dreams are made of. I sir, am totes MaGoats jelly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raknorn 5 Posted January 24, 2015 Is there more coming? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted January 24, 2015 Yep, on either the 31st or 7th, depending on how much time I get to write next week. 1 Cogniczar reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raknorn 5 Posted January 24, 2015 Oh man am I excited. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted February 21, 2015 A little later than I'd intended, but here's the latest chapter: Part 10: The Greater Good HTML Link: https://googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/agp.html Original Thread Link: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/38181397/ Album Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/5uUpI 1 Cogniczar reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted April 7, 2015 New chapter is up and it's a stupidly long one this time. Worlds are searched, tech priests cause problems, we thoroughly annoy someone, and we get involved is a battle that's far too big for our comfort. Part 11: The Xenotech Heresy HTML Link: https://googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/agp.html Album Link: http://imgur.com/gallery/phJ5W/ Original Thread Links: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/39165875 http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/39185203 1 Nihilius Quint reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted June 22, 2015 Is anyone here interested in reading more chapters of this series? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alex Cube 5 Posted July 20, 2015 Is anyone here interested in reading more chapters of this series? This shouldn't be the only place You ask that question, for I am sure that somewhere on /tg/ there are tons of people eager to hear what happend next to the team of "unlikely acolytes", but personally I can only say "yes, please" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted July 21, 2015 Oh, I'm still writing, it's just a matter of figuring out if I should bother reposting it here. There's been another chapter since I asked that, you can find it in the HTML: https://googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/agp.html or there are links to the original threads in the wiki: http://1d4chan.org/wiki/All_Guardsmen_Party 1 Alex Cube reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted August 31, 2015 I've returned from the mountains and writing has resumed! Here's a short interlude from between where the last chapter left off and where the next chapter starts! Now, this started as an intro piece, but it became far too large, so I split it off. As a result, the writing style is a bit different from usual, and significantly more raw party dialogue has been left in. So I'd like to apologize in advance if the language gets a little crude, it's Aimy's fault. The All Guardsmen Party Interlude: Dewarp HTML: https://googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/dewarp.html SupTG Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/42204030/ Silly Image Thing: http://imgur.com/gallery/c0kerRl/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SgtSmackface 11 Posted October 6, 2015 Hey shogster any ETA on next? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted October 6, 2015 I'm stuck in the desert this weekend, and dislike posting on weekdays, so probably next weekend. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SgtSmackface 11 Posted October 6, 2015 Sounds good I'll be sure to check back here when I miss the post for the everyeth time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShoggySeldom 73 Posted October 26, 2015 Gee, I sure do suck at getting things done in a reasonable amount of time... Oh well, better late than never I guess. Anyway, here's the next chapter of the All Guardsmen Party, (Or at least part of it, no Tyranids are actually delivered in this portion, but I intend to catch up by this weekend or next) In this chapter a Station is visited, Sarge is inquisitorial, NPCs are suprisingly useful, a black marketeer is contacted, Doc does scary things, a heroic speech is made, and vengeance is promised. The All Guardsmen Party: Tyranid Delivery Experts HTML: https://googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/deliver.html SupTG Archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43288004/ Silly Image Thing: http://imgur.com/gallery/fzCzz/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites