Monthly Archives: February 2012

Adeptus Mechanicus Priest.

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I recently moved our Dark Heresy game to the blog front page. One reason is to provide more awesome content and another is to push my agenda of all these things I do are part of a greater narrative and it’s all art.

A third reason is I’m planning to model the characters and npcs from our game and maybe use them in a different skirmish minis game (Inquisimunda).
How’s that for over lap.

One of the npcs is a Dark Mechanicus Heretek who is basically a twisted robot with a daemonic frog in a bowl for a head.

That should be so much fun, which is surely the goal at the end the day, and the beginning of the day for that matter.
I feel I’ve moved into a sublime zone… where I’m only working on what ever my muse is holding between her tits at the time. Otherwise, I’m not doing it. I’m not forcing myself to be creative any more… to make things for the sake of “doing stuff”. That just makes my mind sour.

So far it seems to be working.

Dark Heresy: Online 001

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Long shadows dance across the vast storage chamber as blueish witch light arcs between the outstretched fingers of the two psykers. Patches of frost crackle across the stained rockcrete floor. Kron leans back and his eyes close as the light grows and envelopes him. The raw red savagery of his wounds, slowly recede into unbroken pale flesh. Silas arm embraces Kron as he drops back into unconsciousness.

Prose, moaning, crawls feebly towards the glow, muttering prayers to the Emperor.

The light fades and winks out.

Prose collapses with a sigh like a punctured steam line.

Damaged servos whine and squeal as Lucius rises slowly to his feet. His robes are a scorched, fluid soaked mess and he smells strongly of burnt plastics.

He throws out an arm pointing the cracked lens of his battered lamp pack at the huge double doors at the north end of the chamber. The cog and skull symbol of the Mechanicus priesthood is centered in the beam.

“There-in lies the generatorium, meatbag!” His voice is filled with scratched static as it booms from his vox grill. “Pray thee, lead us boldly into its holy spaces, oh courageous flesh sack.”

Lazerus and Stig scowl at his display. Lazerus flashes hand signals to Stig and they spread out to check the other two egress points into this storage chamber. Curtis eyes shift with distrust at Kron and Sila as she falls in behind Lazerus.

Stig stalks slowly between the dark stacks of stolen cargo, his lamp beam exposing imperial aquilas and shipping numbers and branded into a variety of alien woods. He shines his light around a corner and standing starkly in its glare is a young man, naked as on his 1st birthday. The man squints into the light. He covers his eyes with a upraised hand and his goods with the other.

Check out more Dark Heresy Action here.

Dark Heresy: Online

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Four years ago I decided to run a Dark Heresy game here in the Goblin Mini Mart Forums. I scribbled up a notebook full of notes for an entire adventure series full of dark intrigues, fiery action sequences, all served dripping with shivering chaos madness. I have been in love with RPGs since I was a wee lad and I felt like I had been waiting for a game like Dark Heresy all my life. It combines all the great games of my youth, Dungeons and Dragons, Rogue Trader 40k, and Call of Cthulhu, into something very rich and immersive. When I first laid hands on the original Black Library copy, I knew I had to find a way to run it. I also thought it would be a great way to exercise my amateur writing skills and keep me in the groove, so to speak.

I put out a call for players and three daring souls stepped up to the task. Originally the game would update every Sunday and Wednesday, but as time has gone on that has changed from almost everyday to once a month or less and back again. Four years and several hundreds of posts later we have quite the story on our hands, a woeful tale, filled with action, danger, heresy and death.

The format and slow style of the game seems to turn some people off, but to those with patience it is a juggernaut of game, slowly chugging along and always rewarding. Even though our game has been hidden away in a little used forum at the end of the internets, I know more people are reading the game posts than just the players and I, the stats show it in the high numbers of views.

Why am I mentioning this here, now? I’ve decided to start posting the ever unfolding tale to the front page of the blog here at Goblin Mini Mart as it happens. Partially because I’m exceptionally proud of the story we’re telling and I’d like to share it with anyone who has interest in angry Orks, Dark Mechanicus, Traitor Witches, Chaos Servitors Hive Cities, Inquisitors, Grots, Underhive shanty towns and the stead fast servants of the Imperium of Man. Secondly I’ve become increasingly drawn to the works of the INQ28 and Inquisimunda communities. The fusion of narrative, game characters and converted miniatures is really inspiring. I’ve been planning warbands, building models and working out back stories for them. Then I realized I already have a trove of it available to plunder and share.

So here it is. As always, thanks for reading and comments are greatly appreciated.

This is a link to the beginning of it all.


This is a link to the most current post.

Much thanks to ImperialServant, Guardsman001, LeroyPutty, johngoblin, and most recently truck-de-monster for all their contributions to the whole.

Death Squads: Prisoner Exchange 2012 WIP

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Renegade Ghus seems to be a resourceful scavenger. He started out with the elite archeo-tech rifle and now he has found himself a serviceable haz-mat respirator rig. He traded in his space marine scout knife for a more sinister looking storm vermin dagger as it suits his servant of chaos image better. The beast man arm in the fore ground was a second choice, but I’ve since decided against it. I’m still contemplating lengthening his legs. It seems like more trouble than it’s worth right now. I think he might find himself a hat too. Something a bit outlandish to show off his personal style. We’ll see about that.

Death Squads: Prisoner Exchange 2012 WIP

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It’s that time again. The Death Squads forum is running their annual Prisoner Exchange Program. Basically you build an awesome mini and send it off to another random participant and you receive a custom converted mini from somebody else. The whole thing is great fun and really builds the community.

Last year I built this little guy. Kurtz, the chaos renegade. He lives in Brazil now.

This year I really wanted to do one of the hired guns. The Rogue Psyker, Apostate Preacher, or a Chaos Gun Servitor would be really fun to build. These are so open ended conceptually you can really let the imagination run free. I have built or painted any figures in a long time. This project has me really excited so I went down to the shop and dove right in. I just grabbed up what was laying around and built this little guy. He is Kurtz’s brother. His name is Ghus. He is a renegade obviously built along the same plan as ole Kurtz.

I still intend to build one of the other hired guns. I might with any time and luck build them all and some one might get an entire mercenary retinue for their game.

I’ve put more work into Ghus since I took these photos this morning. I augmented his gas mask with some heavier hard ware and I’m planning on reworking his lower legs and feet I believe. We’ll see what happens.

Thanks for reading.