My scum was an ex-male prostitute and Slaanesh cultist turned Imperial Spy; redeemed by an Interrogator who was killed in the second act of our campaign - we were hunting down the cult who killed him, following the lead of a widowed countess whose husband was embroiled in the plot, somehow. If you needed a line of bs woven, he was the person to turn to. He had an Arbiter Senioris convinces that he was the head of an acolyte group, had cultists believing he was a member, had the countess convinced he was an Imperial Interrogator ... foppish, clever, quick with his tongue, but his fingers were only a smidge behind - but not much of a combatant. He was a blast of a character to play.



In the campaign I was running, the party had started out as members of a convict army. They started their second adventure with 42 NPC companions, whom I showed no mercy in battle and got whittled away one by one throughout the course of the game; it became so they would not call an npc by his given name until he proved himself in their group - for everyone they gave a name to before that, got killed. It was a bit of a shame, a few very cool characters died in the course of that adventure - an effort to root out an army of Dwarven Tech Heretics - and when they finally succeeded they were rewarded by being traded off to a Penitent ship (which was actually a recruitment ship for an Inquisitor). Things went bad, however, and they ended up criminals on a vacation world, dealing with the local corruption ... it was there that the game fell apart when a couple players decided it was all too dark for them. (And to think I'd put them there because of previous complaints about them not having enough freedom - so I was giving them a great deal of it, enough to hang themselves, certainly, but that would have been up to them. I miss that game.)



I, unfortunately, have a player - one of my core group - who professes to loving dark games, but in truth, whenever we play one, he gets angsty and whines. Currently we're playing something more heroic, instead.