(Mr. Tenure, M.T.): Is there any warhammer lore you would like to hear about?
In exchange i would like you to tell me about cyberpunk lore.
(M.T.): My first request is Trauma Team.
(Professor, Prof.): Oh! I don't even know where to begin with Warhammer. lol I'll absolutely take a look though!
(M.T.): Might I suggest a couple of starting points?
(Prof.): Absolutely!
(M.T.): I think i might be able to narrow it down.
(M.T.): I am going to ask a series of questions, you answer with your gut.
(M.T.): Chaos, space marines, or xenos?
(Prof.): Give me chaos.
(M.T.): Gods, chaos spacemarines, or warp?
(Prof.): Gods.
(M.T.): Korne, Nugle, Slaanesh, or tzeeche?
(Prof.): Slaanesh sounds familiar!
(M.T.): How about just with gods and then I will focus on slaanesh first.
(Prof.): I'm sold.
(M.T.): The big 4 warp gods/entities are, as listed above, Slaanesh, Nugle, Tzeeche, and korne.
(M.T.): That doesn't mean there aren't minor warp gods, these are just the biggest in play of the "eternal" game.
(M.T.): The eternal game is an eternal struggle between the top/current top gods.
(M.T.): If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
This professor would like to teach fluidly.
(Prof.): I will let you know. lol
(M.T.): Starting with a brief, pun intended, on Slaanesh to be followed up upon later.
Slenesh, 100% sure i spelt wrong, is the warp entity of excess.
(M.T.): Slanesh has several moniker but the best to know for now is "the prince of delights, goddess of pleasures.
(M.T.): Nurgle, is the god of Entropy. Grandpa Nurgle.
(M.T.): Korne is the god of blood. He doesn't care were or how but as long as the blood flows.
(M.T.): Tzeeche warp god of Magick, and change. The twister of fate.
(M.T.): So on to the main discussion of Slanesh?
(M.T.): Also I would ask you to tell me when you are tapping out for the night.
(Prof.): I'm just waiting to offer Trauma Team. lol
(Prof.): Continue!
(M.T.): Oh, that may be a while.
Mine is much shorter, shall I?
(M.T.): Make sure to annotate where I left off, I will struggle to remember.
Of course, of course.
(M.T.): When your ready.
(Prof.): Game wise, Trauma Team has a subscription plan where your character can be extracted from a critical situation. It requires a Biomonitor that summons Trauma when your character gets critically injured.
In Cyberpunk 2020, Trauma Team International is a subscription-based armed ambulance service that will rescue clients from anywhere. They're often a fire team dropped in via AV and they'll engage anyone that tries to stop them from extracting their client. Considered a "neutral" corp, they have one of the highest public approval ratings of the mega corps besides Biotechnica.In Cyberpunk Red, Trauma Team North America is the diminished version of International, wrecked by the 4th Corporate War and rebuilding. They still provide the same services from Trauma Team Tower in Watson.
Trauma Team is in a rivalry with REO Meatwagon, a "budget" ambulance service that preys on the poor. Tends to rack up medical bills and then harvest organs when their customers can't pay. They try to "beat" Trauma Team to the scene to provide help to people in panic. They do not have the same firepower as Trauma Team.Major lore points include Edgerunners; David’s mother works for REO Meatwagon and Maine demolishes a Trauma Team when he goes cyberpsycho. 2077 has a prequel comic about a Trauma Team and in 2077 itself they feature in the tutorial mission where you rescue Sandra Dorset from scavvers by clearing them out and unblocking her Biomonitor so it can contact Trauma.
(M.T.): Ok.....was that off your head or a copy paste?
(Prof.): I was writing when you were. lol
(Prof.): I am extremely efficient.
(M.T.): Fuck, it read like a copy paste from a wiki
(Prof.): But yeah, all off the top otherwise. lol I love me some Cyberpunk.
(M.T.): I see, a critical difference in information, collation.
(Prof.): They also have cameos throughout Night City when you're exploring and they briefly appear when the heist at Konpeki Plaza goes south.
(M.T.): I wanted your from the heart off the cuff lore dump, and I got a wiki. Lmao
(M.T.): It just means our teaching methods will be different.
(M.T.): I teach a fluid course on my current hyper fixation like a professor who's had tenured for years, your teaching method will be college professor seeking tenure.
(M.T.): I feel your a black coffee, whiskey straight, kinda guy.
(Prof.): And you wouldn't be wrong!
(Prof.): If we were both the same, it would hardly be engaging.
(M.T.): But that was very informative, thank you for the lesson. As I lean back in my overstuffed desk chair, wearing grease stained sweats.
(Prof.): And my best is pressed with a tie bought yesterday.
(M.T.): Ready to return to my lesson, or would you prefer some more enlightening banter?
(Prof.): Slaanesh, was it? I got the god bod background.
(M.T.): My best is a three piece suit.
Use to have a tailored one.
But oh I got fat.
(Prof.): Isn't that always the case?
(M.T.): Slaanesh, the goddess and prince of exxcess.
(Prof.): Ah yes! It sounds this god has... both parts?
(M.T.): Yes.
Consider me eager. Go on.
(M.T.): I will most likely refer to them as them, but any identity is conceivable.
(Prof.): Gender is fluid. I don't concern myself with constructs!
(M.T.): Agreed.
(M.T.): Slaanesh was created millions of years ago, when the Eldari, space elves, reached such exces of existence Slaanesh was birthed as punishment, and their old gods eaten and dispersed among the other big 4.
Slaanesh eats the souls of the Eldari, there are many splinter factions.But any excess grants the power.
(M.T.): The warp is a pure energy mirror of our universe, and all universe. So any thought strong enough to show up in the warp gives energy to the warp.
So for Slaanesh it's any excess. Gluttony, sex, drugs, depravity.They revel in and seek to devoure all Eldari souls.
(Prof.): Sounds just like desserts.
(M.T.): To be blessed by Slaanesh, would grant anything from a second tounge to taste food so much better, to it feels like eternal ejaculations every time you fart.
(M.T.): I will have to call the lesson for the night. I am a little high and having difficulty remembering alot about slaanesh.
(M.T.): Not my Chaos god, so not well versed.
(Prof.): That's a-ok! Did I answer enough about Trauma Team?
(M.T.): For now.
(M.T.): I am interested in more cool lore stuff, so let's start with all the cool lore you have on Adam smasher.
(M.T.): But not now, tomorrow.
(M.T.): Good night Professor.
(Prof.): Done deal! Good night, Mr Tenure!
(M.T.): Would you mind if I posted this last conversation on Tumblr, i want to ask and see if we can get some fun art of Professor and Mr. Tenure.
(Prof.): I'm all for it!
(M.T.): Cool
(A conversation between myself and a life long friend. Hoping for art of the two. If I could draw what I see in my head I would)
