Adeptus Ridiculous - BIZARRE ABHUMANS & THE HORRORS OF THE SUMP | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 8, 2023

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All right, you ready? Yeah. Good. Are you from? Am I ready? Jesus Christ. Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridicom's podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis.

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Either vibe, let's go Let's go! We're on the roll All right. So, last episode was about random side xenos and for the most part predators of Katachin. And this time we are continuing this fancy fancy rogue trader book with a main focus on ab humans and the horrors of the sump. Oh, the sump. We're doing a little little something something, right? A little sumpin, something.

A little sumpin, something. Yeah, that's the joke. You know what Sump is? A worse version of a Simp? It's actually not a terrible guess. It's nowhere near what that is, but like, I can see where your mind was going, you know? Oh, nice. No, Sump is like the really low, low, low, gross dredging levels of like an undercity.

Oh, right. You watched Arcane, right? Yes, I did. They lived in the sump Way down the bottom. Oh, so the Way grimy Even for an under hive It's the grimy dirty part.

It's the bottom. It's the bottom, the sump. But anyway. So where all the dirt and grime And yeah. I'm not going to lie, we have enough content in this book for another episode after this.

There is so much stuff in here. It is insanity. How much is actually available in here. And honestly, we might just do another one because this is actually really fun. There's so much. It's insane.

Where do we even begin? I know. We begin with ab humans. Wow. Wow. Wow. What a Dean Kamen. It falls off cliff.

So we've talked a bit about ab humans before, particularly two of them, being the rattling and the old grin. But there are a lot of other ones. Oh, yeah. There are tons of more. Oh, a million. It's one of the reasons why Gene Steeler Colts

are able to so consistently keep themselves hidden is because, oh, a bunch of humans in a hive city have a third arm. That's not that weird, if I'm being honest. Yeah, and how many normal hive citizens even know about tyrannids and or Gene Steeler cults? Like, they wouldn't even know. know what to look for. They don't even know what's a threat.

No, they simply don't. They have no clue that they even, they have no clue they exist for one. And two, it's like, oh, yeah, if George is a little blue because he works in the mines. That's because he works in the crazy sump mines. Yeah. Like, oh, no, the billion person city is like, and all the toxic sludge is just going to the bottom. Like, yeah, okay, this makes sense. Yeah, I'm surprised he's only blue. That's, that's, well, he could have a third arm. True? Yeah.

So, obviously, the first major abhuman we can think about is, can you guess? Uh, no. Oh, my God. I heard you about to say Ogren. I saw it on your voice. But we've already talked about Ogren. What's there to say about Ogrens again? Nothing really.

It's just, that's the first one. If we're going to talk about it, might as well mention the ogren, you know. Okay. Fair enough. Yeah, yeah. They are, as the pompous rogue traitor puts, loyal unsophisticated souls That is a way to put it, yeah

And they are However, despite being loyal and unsophisticated They can still fall from the Emperor's light Often through the use of mind-altering substances Or combat stims and surgical implants Because ogrens are dumb They are dumb They are probably more susceptible to that stuff

Than most people because they kind of weren't all there to begin with and then we're kind of brainless to begin with. So, yeah, I can imagine. It's kind of funny, though, because ogrens and chaos ogrens are in a weird spot where an ogren might be like one of the most loyal of them all because big hat man tells him what to do and that's his job. Whereas ogrens will also fall really fast because they're very dumb. And then maybe some chaos person will be like, we also serve the emperor just in a different way. They're liars. and he's like, okay.

Oh, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Also, have we talked a lot about chaos ogrens before? No, we certainly fight some. I'm looking at the, I'm looking at the mini here, and that's actually pretty dope. It's a great new mini. Obviously, there's a plague ogrens and Dark Tide, obviously. Yeah, yeah, I know about the...

They're so gross. Well, I guess any plague chaos thing is going to be gross, because Nergel, but you... Blah, yeah. But I mean, chaos ogrens really are exactly what they sound like. They're big, dumb brutes that have gone chaos awry, and maybe mutated a little bit, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, but a mutated ogren is if they weren't, like, crazy enough to begin with,

and they weren't big enough brutes, now they're juiced up by chaos, and it's like, ah. Yeah, they, they represent a damn big threat, but they are still ogrens, you know, a couple boltgun shots of the head will pull one out. So all it takes Is not the way with anything in 40K A couple bolter rounds to the face We'll usually get the job done Usually also wow

That is a nutty Corne Ogrin there shy God damn Whoa I guess any chaos fact you can have Ogrin but wow Corgrin That is Ho

He's a big boy Yeah that is nightmare fuel That's a horror movie He's going to even look at the baghead Anywho, those are ogrens. There's also the rattlings, as we all are known and love. Rattlings. The snoipas.

The short, hairy, ludicrously high appetite scurrying guys that are also great at, I think they're good cooks, but not mistaken. And they also gamble and cheat and steal everything in sight. Ah, of course they do. They are the best sources of information about a regimen if you like, if they tell you the truth, because they just know everything and they steal everything and they know everyone often. But they are definitely not hobbits. Oh, certainly not, because GW would never, ever take another property and repurpose it for their game, right? That never happens.

No, no, no, no, no. Actually, GW is in charge the Lord of the Rings tabletop. stuff too, so it's like... Okay. Well... It's not right. They get a pass this time. Also, I don't mean to sidetrack too much, but do you think they'll have to add a halfling to Dark Tide? You think that's ever going to happen?

I think it's actually quite possible. Yeah. Because they have so many dialogue lines about the halflings. It's like, you know... Yeah. A ratlings, Rattlings. Oh, yeah, ratlings. Sorry. So, let's talk about the more unknown ab humans. One of them is basically the exact opposite.

I know the opposite, but a very big difference to the ogre. They're called a long shank. Oh. Longshank is basically like instead of beefy and wide ogrean, we just get like nine feet tall. Just slender man? Basically slender man, yeah.

Incredibly tall. And it actually quite frightening if they're heavily armored and armed, you know, just like fully decked out on gear. And so, like, that can be pretty imposing having the, the eight, nine foot tall slender man just in full flack armor with a big gun. And it also means they run at great speeds because they're long strides, but they're also, you know, they don't take cover well. Well, yeah, when you're a nine feet tall stick, it's kind of hard to take proper cover. Whoa, I was about to ask what their armor looks like Because if they're like, you know

Long, Slender Man, like the armor must look a little goofy But that looks great Also, I'm so, I'm so glad that the fan art has them With like a dagger knife thing Because it's a long shank so they can They can still shank you with their long arms And they've got the reach advantage I genuinely thought that

Of a long shank was going to be like a Wolverine thing or they have like a bone protruding from their arm. Oh, the adamantium claws. The long shake and just stab them. But no, I was wrong. Well, they got those long arms to shank you with. So they still got that vibe anyway. That's true.

They're pretty, I mean, that's basically their stick because they're long and tall. There's tall, you know, it's something too fancy. Okay. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Next one we have is the felonid. Oh, they're cat boys! Let's go!

Happy Nya Day, everyone. Buy a kitten immediately, because everyone should own one. I will admit, I find it a little humorous because I just came back from a tournament last weekend, playing my night lords, and my first opponent played Imperial Garm, and all of his guardsmen were catgirls. based based in particular they had all of these

like long colorful hair but he ran a bunch of casercin you know the special troopers and he called them the catterkin oh what a champ

did he did he beat the shit out of you no oh well that's okay still based army what a what a what a what a what a What a what. I don't even have words.

I can't even find adjectives right now. Yeah. I utilized, we have come for you a lot, which is basically like, I hold all your friends in combat and you can't shoot me. Oh, I thought you were just going to say you were really into cat girls because we have come for you and you were looking at the cat girls.

No, I made, there were very few cat girls alive by the time I was done. Oh, well. Because they ran away to morale. Anyway, yeah, catgirls. So the grog trader himself states that he has had no knowledge or personal experience of this variant, but has heard many such fanciful tales.

Some of them, one of them was actually being sold by a person looking at a traitor, which was obviously a fake, a weird grotex collection of human remains and animal hide stitched together, preserved in formaldehyde, lovely. Oh, no. However, remember Grech, the crew friend? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He insisted that felonids not only exist, but are a form of human he genuinely respects,

as he has fought against them and found them to be extremely efficient killers in the Astromilitarim regiment, lethal in the face of opposition, with a bea shield appearance, despite him not being able to really tell humans apart. Hell yeah, cat. He said that they had claws the length of his forearm,

Whoa. Which is, he immediately puts afterwards, I decided Grech is not entirely reliable source of information. I was going to say, those are some collows, like, kitty got fangs like, damn. Yeah, so they're not cat girls at all. No, they are cat monsters, mutants. They're assumed that way, or they are basically a living fur suit. Yeah, you, that's not, that's not the cat girl you want to bed. That's not the, that's the, your skull, cat girl.

That is the hack up a hairball, et cetera. I'm sure someone in our, someone's into this, but. Well, yeah, someone's into everything, but, you know. People are, someone's into this. It's the internet, right? It's the internet. After that, we have the Afriol strain. This is why we don't let the admec do anything.

Okay. So what this is is an admec alteration on the human genome entirely attempting to clone all of the great attributes of the greatest imperial heroes. Oh, no. So they are bred to be better than a guardsman in every way. They, they're faster, stronger, more intelligent, braver, all the kinds of reasons to make a human better. However, something went awry, and for some goddamn reason, Afrails have the worst luck known to man. Oh, really? It's a luck thing?

They have just been known for their absolutely terrible luck, so horrendously bad that being deployed with them often is some kind of like near death sentence. Oh, wow. So, okay, so if you're deployed with them, it's a near death. But, like, did the ad mech succeed in making them, like, super ridiculously strong? So, like, do they do well and just everybody around them suffers for it? Yeah, like, I mean, it's, yeah, they could be stronger and everything, like Shai said, but, you know, they trip and they actually shoot themselves with a lasgun or they impale themselves on a, on some piece of something or they fall in the machinery or, like, it doesn't matter they can't get to the dead battle. That's true. If they die before they get to battle, who cares how.

strong you are. Yeah. The road trader states, it is clear to me that great men were born to inspire lesser men, but attempting to merge the two through genetics is a fool's errand. Yeah, yeah. This is not the first time the ad mech have done something like this. We also

have the gland warriors. Oh, no. Glend warriors are an attempt to increase the overall combat abilities of a regular guardsman. We're talking, increased muscle, mass, pain tolerance, immunity to toxins. Trying to make, you know, a lot of the glands that the space marines have and stuff to make

them so strong. Like how do we make this into our normal soldier, you know? Yeah, like, like, what was it, Dragoff from Rocky Four? You know, where they, there's pumping him full of stuff and they've got him in the high tech facility trying to make him a super, super athlete. I have, I have not seen Rocky Four. Oh, bricky. You don't watch SpongeBob, I don't give a shit what you say.

Bricky, come on. Eh. Where he goes to Russia after Creed gets boxed to death? I have only seen the first one. Is this how you feel when I don't know SpongeBob references? A little bit, yeah. I hate it. Good.

I know your pain now. Anyway, go ahead. Go ahead, go ahead. Anywho. Yes, the gland warrior, big, tough, pretty strong. guy. However, all of their enhancements actually has a big problem with their mental health.

The rogue trader employed one on one of his explorations in the Blackstone Fortress, and the fortress is already just, you know, terrifying place. But as they went through, the Gland Warrior started to absolutely descend into a horrible, psychotic

episode of paranoia and attacked him. And if it wasn't really for Drek, he probably would have died. It was like you're having a bad trip. I guess he just like start swinging. Yeah. So I started blasting. So I just started blasting.

Good thing I had my pieces. I don't shoot so good, so I missed. Then they ran away. I only know the meme from the blasting thing because I don't actually watch it. It's all was sunny in Philadelphia. I'm, you. I know how you feel now.

I know this pain. You haven't thought of the smell, D.K. You haven't thought of the smell, you bitch? God damn it. All right. Moving on. Troth. Troth. Why does that sound so familiar? I don't know.

Actually, I thought the same thing when I heard the word troth, but like, I genuinely don't know where it's from. Hmm. Okay. Troth. Tell me about it. Well, tell me, D.K., do you know what this word means? Arborious. Arborious. It sounds like, it sounds like, uh, not, not really, no. I could get, I could take a guess, but I, no. I don't know. Tree-like. Oh, yeah, I wouldn't have been close. So a troth is actually one of a type of species of humans that have ascended to,

no, not saying it, mutated, whatever you want to go with it, on a certain planet that has been known for the excessive amount of foresty, or forest nature of it. So these humans are like tree-like. They have flesh-tuff-like oak digestive systems that can extract new. from the earth itself, and they're able to blend into their environment very well. So it's like a tree-like abhuman. I like that, actually.

That sounds cool. Skin like bark, and they can just suck up nutrients. That's cool. I actually like that a lot. That's a, uh, it's a bit of a weird one. But yeah, it's like, it's such a tree dude, basically. Yeah, like that was their attempt to, like an ent deal? Yeah, I was one of those their attempts to like bring in the tree people from fantasy and stuff.

Yeah, from like, that's another Lord of the Rings thing, but that's all fantasy in general, I guess. Is there a picture of them or is this one of those kind of lesser cared about ones where they just kind of write about it and there's no real like mini or deal with it? Lesser, lesser written ones. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So, speaking of lesser written ones, there's a couple other ones like the Neanderor, which is basically just like a really dumb Neanderthal that lives in the low level of hive cities. that regressed in intelligence because they lived down there for so long. When you said Neanderor, I was kind of hoping you were going to say it was another cat person. I know that's exactly what you were thinking.

I was like, oh boy, more cat people, anime D.K. Strikes again. Shy says I already made that joke in the Abhuman episode. Nobody cares, shy, all right? Shut up. I care because I don't want to be a part of this. Okay. Well, tell me about the next Abhuman then. The Knight Cider.

Ooh. Ooh, that's not like night apple cider that you just have a nice cup of hot apple cider at night, right? That's like a S-I-D-E-R. They sighed with the night. Oh, no, you're right. They actually have a vol from apples. Okay. Thanks, Bricky.

For a half second, you were like, wait. Did they truly? Did they, Bricky? Really, did Johnny Appleseed come along and plant these people? the James Warhammer truly make Apple people. It wouldn't surprise me if they did make Apple people. It wouldn't really surprise me either.

Anyway, the Nightsiter are people who live in a completely sunless environment that would be just completely unable to survive like humans in general for the most part, if not for some of these weird mutations that have occurred. Very often you will have areas of a planet, for example. I believe the Mordian Iron Guard have a planet like this that is known as being tidily locked. And that means one side is always light, one side is always dark.

Oh, okay. So the nightsiders, I do believe, are in a completely sunless environment or at least damn close. I'm not sure how they get their heat and everything like that and how they don't die a horrible death, but maybe it is like a,

because I'm thinking the difference between this and like Nostromo, for example. Yeah, I was going to say, these sound like people that would just love Nostromo. Though I wonder if Nistramo is, like despite always being nights, I wonder if these areas might be like pitch black.

Oh. Not sure. So we're talking like some Riddick stuff? Well, considering the fact that these knight-siders have had some, but all or a few of these mutations, echolocation for sonar navigation. So like a bat. Like a bat.

Tapital reflex, which is a reflective matter behind the surface of their eyes to let them see in total. total darkness. There is a chemical luminescence, which is blood or bodily fluids containing like glowstick shit. I'm not even. Look, you know

exactly where my mind went? I'm not going to say it. I actually don't know where your mind went. Where'd your mind go? Just don't worry about it. You ask me if they... I had to remove the following dialogue because it was way too inappropriate for YouTube. I hope you all

understand, but there was a lot of sweats and a lot of bad words. You know what's unbelievable. The fact that they can have other weird things, like oversized eyes, featureless eyes, or no eyes, or, and if you had weighted, colorless, or

transparent skin. Oh, that's actually really cool, though. All the jokes said, that's pretty cool. Also, the no eyes thing makes sense. Because, like, if they're in complete darkness, you're going to start evolving to the point where, like, oh my god, I don't need my eyes because I can't see anyway.

And you're probably going to evolve for more sort of like sonar perception, right? Well, I don't know. If they didn't have eyes, how would they see the bioluminescent skin? Well, not all of them have evolved that far yet, I guess. I don't know. Shut up, Ricky. Stop making sense. Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Good. This gracious. You. Hey, I'm just a kid. I'm just a little guy. I'm just a curious little guy. I'm not even going to stick with you on that. I'm the little guy I want right now.

This is, me make fun of D.K. episode. All right. Yeah. She, Shai says, I want to a planet.

D.K. was born because he's abhuman born without a brain. Well, that's perfect because D.K., you are exactly right now, our next abhuman, which is a sub. Oh.

That, a sub? It's just a sub? You know what I mean. I don't know what you mean. I'm a wholesome. I'm a good, wholesome Christian, boy. I don't know what you're talking about.

You sub. Damn. You absolute sub. Where the Dom's at, though. Actually, it's Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens deformum. Oh, wow. This is like horribly deformed, like, Neanderthal-level people that are often murdered by the

ministerum. I was going to say, with what I know about James Workshop and how literal their names. I was like, this is a deformed human, isn't it? Homo sapien deformus is like, oh, yeah, gee, I wonder what these are. Do you remember what the classical or classification name of the squat is? Oh, no, I don't. It's a homo sapien rotundice. Oh, that's right. They're a little rotundice. Yep. It's so silly. But, but no, the sub is basically just a horribly, horribly deformed human.

that have often been the cause of large amounts of munisorum purges. Ooh. And often because they're disgusting, but they are ironically quite zealous. Because, you know, they're very like, it's kind of like the super low inbred class. That's like only has one thing and that's, you know, faith in the emperor, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Well, that's unfortunate. So they're just horribly deformed and they just get.

picked off and genocided because of it by the Imperium? I'm sorry, I have to read what I just posted. Tweet by Bussy for Free. Oh, no, I regret letting you read this. All my grinding and casual sex has done nothing to prepare me for ranked competitive sex. I'm consistently bottom of the breeder board. Consistently bottom indeed. Sub.

Sub. Very sub. Consistently bottom. Sub. Anywho, there are two left. There is the Beastmen, which I'm not going to talk much about, because they are literally just Beastmen. They are beastmen. They are hooved, hairy beastmen.

They are very popular in Sigma, especially. Claws and fangs and fangs, all right. The whole classic. The last one is the Pelager or Pellager, P-E-L-A-G-R. I'm going to call it Pelager. They are the Homo sapiens, Oceanus. Ah, they're mur people. They are kind of mur people.

It's actually an interesting story here that's quite hilarious. Or mur folk, I guess they say, whatever. He was, the Rotrera that is, is in the innermost reaches of the Blackstone Fortress at a big lake of tar. Ooh. Most people can't traverse the depths or anything, but he ended up finding another inquisitor there by the name of Callisto at the edge of the lake. And there were large amounts of things being dredged out of the liquid. She didn't really want to explain her success or anything. until they realized that both of our fathers attended the same fencing academy.

Okay. All right. It is a quote, it is wonderful how people of class and breeding can stumble across each other, even in the most uncultured regions. Mm-hmm. Love this guy. Wow. Love them.

Wow. Yeah, what a. Anyway, after this revelation, the Inquisitor had someone come, from the lake, a 20-year-old-ish person named Bellet, who was entirely under that water, and his ancestors evolved the ability to breathe

in almost any liquid. In particular, the most striking thing about him is not his gills or scaled skin, but the musculature. The Quisitor told him to hit this young man with his sword, and he said it was like striking an armored car.

Wow. So it's like So it's like, what is, what is it from Breath of? Is it a Sidon? From what? The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the Redd-D-W the Wild. Oh, I didn't play that. Oh, actually, no, I did play that.

I played that for, like, two hours and got tired of my weapons breaking, and I stopped playing. But, but, but, oh, okay, wait, wait, wait, wait. You never saw the Sidon memes, though? Yeah, okay, no, I get it now. The Red Shark guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm good now. I got you.

I put a face to it. Okay, cool, cool, cool. But yeah, so they can... People are very horny for that. Oh, yeah. There was some lude on my timeline when that game came out, and I didn't, I didn't even have to look for it. It was just on the timeline. Just whoop-de-do.

Here it is. Side-on-going. I had to remove the following dialogue because it was way too inappropriate. But so these things can breathe in any, like even tar? Like, just as long as long as... it's a liquid they can breathe because that's that can't be nice to go swimming and tar even if you can breathe in it like that's that's yeah imagine swimming and tar and breathing it i mean it says almost any liquid and apparently they were way down there inside the inside the area and

apparently they they hit it up and they were able to drag a bunch of shit outside okay well i mean hey that's it comes in handy that's a nice thing to have come in handy. Can they also breathe just oxygen or are they like fish where they have to be in a liquid? Well, considering that he left the water, I'm assuming that they can also breathe regular air because he was out there to get smacked

by a sword. Oh, well, that's, yeah, you're right, that's true. But that's very handy. That's cool. That is about all of our ab humans right there. There's a whole thing on Eldar and green skins and stuff like that. But we're going to move right

past that and we're going to talk about The sump. The sump. The hos of the sump. The horrors of the sump. The horrors of the sump. These are things found in some of the most industrialized and polluted planets of the Imperium. The hive worlds themselves, deep, deep, deep down in the bottom dredges of a hive city. Life remains. And after thousands of years, life, likes to change. Evolution happens. Let's go. So we got quite a few things down here. The first one we're going to talk about is the classic, the Sump Croc.

Oh, is this just a grimy, dirty, mutated crocodile? You know it. It is a gigantic crocodile. Honestly, do you remember that part in Resident Evil 2 where you have to run away from the T-Virus crocodile? vaguely. I played the remake, didn't play the original one. It seems familiar. It seems very familiar, yes. It was like chasing you and you had to dodge left and right, and then if you didn't, it would each you.

The, that's, it's honestly, it looks almost identical. It is a gigantic crocodile, but it is sometimes ironically used as under hive gang pets and weapons. Ooh. is they strap some shit to it sometimes and just use it as a weapon. I mean, that's a good weapon. I mean, it's just a giant mutated crock. Like, if you can actually contain that and use it,

why not? Like, that's brutal. It is also a resemble, or it's also quite stupid, however, as one of the things when he had to deal with it, or the rogue traitor that is,

is he polished a piece of plastic steel clean until it looks like a mirror. And the sum croc attacked it. Because he thought it was something else. So like when a dog or a cat sees their reflection and they freak out and they just start going crazy at their reflection? Yeah, it started attacking the mirror, which allowed him to land a killing blow on the sum crock. Stupid crock. Yeah, it's stupid. It's a big stupid crocodile.

Big stupid, but ferocious. You don't want to mess with it. This one is kind of funky. This is the cariated. Okay. They are blue-skinned cherubs, but living, not weird lobotomized admec cherubs. These are actual weird blue-skinned cherubs with leathery-like bat wings. Oh, okay.

That sounds like a cherub from hell. I mean, yeah, this is pretty awful looking, I won't lie. It gives me, like, well, it's got a bunch of decals on it, which gives me this vibe of, like, tribal kind of tattoos. Sort of kind of. Let me send you this picture real fast. Bam-o. Yeah, these don't sound great. Oh, my God.

Yeah, they're a little weird. Oh, they're a little weird. Oh, I don't like that. I do. They're apparently, they're not really any threats. They're kind of flutter around and fly up and about. But they're mainly a major source of, what's the word I'm looking for? Hive legends, basically.

According to Hive legend, they are drawn to individuals of great potential or power and have been reputed to having psychic abilities where they can foresee success or, glory. So it's almost like a fated tale if one of these things like takes an interest in you or lands on you or something like that. Yeah. So it's actually a good

thing if you see one of these things hanging around you a lot. Apparently. Because I don't want that thing anywhere near me. I don't want it looking at me. I don't want to just imagine if that thing just came and sat on your shoulder. Like I would freak out. I'd die of a heart attack.

Try makes a great point. It's just a encrypted. Oh, yeah. It basically is a cryptid, yeah. That being said, I love this entry because it says, I would dispute these claims, however, as the one I encountered seemed uninterested in me as it passed by. Ha!

Well, guess who's not destined for greatness? He's explored a Blackstone fortress. I think he's actually done quite well for himself. Yeah, I guess. But I do find that funny that he took it as a slight, that it didn't pay attention. to him. Can't be true. It didn't care about me, and clearly I'm...

Now, I wonder, what do you think the Arachnida Mechanica could be? Oh, surely that's not some sort of robot spider. Damn, he's good. Damn, James Workshop. At it again with the just peak, peak naming. It is literally... big robot spiders. I mean, I do like robot spiders, though.

That's cool. They are either just big, like, tarantula ones or like those even large ones you see in Australia, just turned into robots by technicians and people in the under hive and used by the gangs as weapons or Intel scouting and all kinds of things. Wait, did they turn spiders into robots, or did they just make robot spiders? I believe they turned spiders.

to robots. Why would you, why wouldn't you just make like big robot spiders? Because it's easier to just take a big spider and screw its brain up with a little bit of tech than to make an entirely full techno-based spider. Okay. So what's the next thing? Um, do you want, you tired about the spider now? Well, I mean, it's, it's a, it's a lobotomized robotomized robotonized.

So yeah, cool, I guess. I mean, yeah, it's a spider. Yeah, full-on robot spires are copyrighted by the necrons. Like, should I say? Oh, that's right. They got the little scurribs. That's true. So the next one is the ash clam.

The ash clam is a clam. No. It is not made of ash. Oh, thank God. And I was like, no, GW. This is a, a weird little mollusk that is actually adapted to life at the bottom of the hive with the ability to eat basically anything that falls from above.

So it's on like the way bottom underneath grates and all kinds of things. And it just eats everything. Toxins, poisons, oil, bits and flakes of skin, meat, crumbs. It is literally the definition of a bottom. feeder. I was going to say, it sounds like a garbage disposal. Like, it sounds like you just gather up a bunch of these, you put them into a landfill and just toss them dinner and just whatever falls in there, they'll just... The interesting thing, though, is that they live incredibly long, hundreds to thousands of years long. And...

Makes sense for a mollusk that eats anything, yeah. And what's interesting also is that because they have the ability to strain the toxic particles from their food extremely well, and well, that means the meat of the ash clam is the most nutritious meal you can ever find outside of the actual Taron Palace. Wow. Well, yeah. That makes it. So do they harvest them a lot, these ash clams?

No, because they are horrendously revolting. The meat might be the most nutritious, but it is the most puke inducing. There's nothing you can do to make it palatable, like, you know, like durian, how some people just love it. a century egg or something like it. You can't just like deep fry the shit out of it. I mean, maybe. Granted, in a sense,

there's also these things that happen where it has such an incredibly strong grip that there have been tales of hivers that have gone their foot stuck in one and just starved to death because they couldn't get away. Oh, God. He got his foot, the rogue trailer got his foot caught in it, but he removed his boot from, and then gathered three more of the clams in his bag.

Because he was curious. Okay. Next is the sludge jellies. They are the gelata toxicus. These are actually kind of just simple. They are literally just jellyfish that have apparently hundreds of feet long grippers. And they will, if you are like in the lake of toxic sludge, it will sense the ripples in the water and then reach its hands out hundreds of feet until it grabs their prey. stings it to death and pulls them in.

As if it wasn't bad enough that you were in toxic sludge to begin with, and that's killing you. It's like, oh, hey, by the way, here's a giant horrendous sludge jellyfish to sting you to death and eat you. Oh, boy. It is genuinely, like, if you fell into the sludge anyway, it's already the worst thing ever, but these are just gigantic and they just grab whatever falls in. This next one is really interesting and just... awful.

The Icrotic slime. This one is so bizarre. Okay, so the acronic slime is a living slime, a living gelatinous kind of liquid ooze. But what it happens is that what happens is that there is a hiver that is a sleep. And during its sleep, it will slowly, slowly crawl its way over to them. and land on and then roll over their face. It will then release a extremely potent euphoric neurotoxin that makes it so the person sleeping will never ever want to stir.

Even if they wake up, they just won't move because they're just at like such a level of bliss. Oh, wow. That is both horrifying and, oh, I mean, I guess it's good for them because they're like in eternal bliss, but I imagine nothing good happens after that. No, the slime will then dissolve their way through the face into the skull over a period of hours, sinking into the brain, releasing its eggs so they may grow and kill the victim and then repopulate. Oh, that's awful.

I was kind of hoping this was going to be like an anime slime girl situation. It's not. DK, stop it with this. Why is this the episode that you're bringing up all of your horrid IDs? What is? Hey, Hame, everybody knows about slime girls. All right? There's nothing wrong with that.

Now, when the slime girl uh, toxin's your face and lays eggs in your brains, there's a problem. But, you know, you know, oh, God, that's awful.

Well, oh, man, that's, oh, the truly interesting detail here. The truly interesting detail here is that they says a sign of how miserable life is that sometimes souls will deliberately place this slimbing. lime on their heads, seeking the high it will induce, trusting one of their acquaintances to remove it in time.

Oh, boy, that is a big gamble. They put it on their face, get the high, and then ask their buddies to take it off. Oh, wow. But, well, doesn't, I thought you said that once they get hit with the toxin, it makes them not want to move like ever and they just kind of like go into a vegetative state or no if they um they didn't have a friend then the thing would eat their face and they would die but it would wear off eventually oh okay i thought it was one of those things that just didn't wear off and it was just like yeah you're proper fucked and there's nothing you can do about it as soon as the toxin hits you

no it's not i mean it's it puts you in that in that mode that phase that whatever yeah yeah about it okay Um, moving on, there is also the fire cat. Uh, not fire like, like burn, like pH, Y, R R. Oh, like a pyre that you would burn something on. Gotcha. Yeah, it's P-H though, so it's like fire. And also P-Y-R-E.

This is P-H-Y-R-R. Oh. Fire cat. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. Whatever. They just spelled things weird. Yeah.

Um, basically it is a giant toxic tiger. Um, these are kind of interesting. They are incredibly fast, so no one can outrun these things in general. They are ferocious, giant, enormous carnivores. Think of them like just a really big lion, basically. Ooh, those minis, though. They are pretty cool. The really fascinating thing about them is that despite having like a bite grip

that can just go right through flak armor and the like, they also have a super exotic flora on their home world. The world is called fire, P-H-Y-R-R. Ah, that's why it's a fire cat, because it's from that planet. Yeah, it's a fire cat. And so it's an absolute paradise world, beautiful, like gorgeous, untainted at whatsoever. But it basically has like catachin-level fauna. Mm-hmm.

And so it's just like, okay, it's absolutely gorgeous there, but everything will kill you. Okay, okay. So catachin 2.0 or, I don't know, 0.5, whatever. like 0.5. However, because of this, the fire cat is really resilient to things

like toxins and the like and their colors, their pelts, their skin, their hair can also be super strikingly different types of just vibrant hues

and just very pretty. Because of this toxin like resilience, which makes them often fashion accessories for flamboyant gangs of underhives. Oh, so they hunt them and collect their pelts for like cool, like furline jackets and stuff.

Assuming you can even kill one because they seem like they're pretty tough. There's a little excerpt here like a little asterisk here, which I haven't read this part of the book yet, but it specifically states during my encounters with the Drukari Archon, and I'm like, wow. Ha ha ha ha ha ha he met a Dracari Arcon and he is alive? Apparently A humi ohokidok He mentioned that combatants in the Drucari gladiatorial arena Sometimes wear fire cat pelts into battle

Having found a way to ward themselves against the ill effects of the gene toxins The pelts are prized as a status symbol and as a useful weapon Huh I mean I got to say I don't know if this is a horrible thing or not say, but like, they, like looking at the firecats, that make a sick jacket. Oh, dude, it makes such a sick jacket. That makes such a sick jacket. Actually, wait a second.

The rogue trader guy has a picture of himself, and I think he has, like a... Oh, is that thing on his, like, coat jacket thing? Is that a fire cat? Um... Is he rocking firecat belt? Oh, shit, it might be. It looks pretty close. Oh, my God.

Can you put up the... picture again in the thing? Yeah, yeah, let me see if Shai's got it. Because yeah, that would make such a sick jacket. I mean, oh, I think that's what he's wearing. That might be.

I think he might be wearing Firecat Pelt. Oh, yes, he has an heirloom pistol bears striking resemblance to dark Eldar splinter weaponry. Hmm. Wonder if he traded a little bit with them. I'll have to maybe get to that part.

in the next episode. No, he killed an dark one, obviously. Oh, the archon? Yeah, sure. He killed himself an arcon. Okay, yeah, what a prize. No big deal. Yeah, well, you know, I just killed this arcand.

No big deal. Took his pistol, you know. So there are a couple things that are a little bit more boring. There's giant rats. You know what those are? Skaven type thing or just giant rats? Giant rats. Okay.

There are spine crystals, which are just toxic crystals that grow like coral around gates and stuff sometimes turn into jewelry. There are giant spiders. Okay. Because of course there are carrion bats. Bats to eat everything, eat flesh. Eat people.

Yeah. There is something called a slop jaw. Ew. Which is a colossal bony carapace of a reptile that have no limbs, mouth, or head. And digest their food. through a thin, covered openings in their shells.

So they just, like, kind of roll on to something and go, um, oh, yeah, it's really nasty. Ew, that's gross. I hate it.

Sink into the digestive enzyme. It's not fun. I don't like that at all. I do not like the, that's a bad turtle. There is also gas fungus, which is a hallucinogenic mycotoxin, which is obvious that that is what that is. But the last one I want to talk about is the ameliosaur.

Oh, okay. This is a enormous carnivorous anthropod, much like a giant seven-foot-long centipede. Oh, God, that's horrible. Oh, no. Yes. Oh, no. It's rocks with teeth. I don't like that at all.

That is a nightmare waiting to happen. It's rocks with teeth. Yep, yep. That is Onyx from hell. It must say it looks like a Pokemon too, just more howlifying. Yeah, that is Pokemon from hell. So it has this rock-like plates around its body. It's resistant to most bladed weapons and even some Lasguns as well.

Well, yeah, it's made out of rocks. It's made out of rocks, yeah. I mean, of course you're not going to start. slash this thing to death. The weirdest part about it, though, is that it has a kind of a call. So once it seizes its victim, they will announce the meal to their pact

with this mournful, keening wail that sounds like identical to the cry of an abandoned child. Oh, no, that is sadistic. And it says, I have heard the sound echoing through outlet pipe several times, and it never fails to chill me,

which is interesting because if this pompous douche is like, yeah, that shit scares the hell out of me. That's something to be said. Oh, yeah, with all the things he's faced, and he's like, ooh, this thing sends a chill. That's like, oh, man. Also, that's so devious that, like, it catches some prey, and it's like, oh, yeah, I want more pray,

so let me let out this cry that sounds like a child in need of help. Because, of course, most people can, oh, there's a child that needs help. let's go save it and oh no it's rock serpent caterpillar doom bug thing ironically i don't know if it evolved to do that like it on purpose i don't know if it's keening whale is just identical to a child crime because it's just the soundest god awful thing makes it could be a way to to bring more people. It probably is actually, but he didn't stay in the

thing that it's like, this is evolved in order to kill more hive gangers. Yeah. Damn. That thing is horrific, though. No matter what that thing is just... Oh, God. Onyx with teeth. Oh, it's way worse than that. There's a tiny

asterisk on the bottom of the image, though, and says, one of my trade contacts, Car Ventana, claimed to have once encountered a centipede-like monster of even larger proportions, he was traveling in the calyxas sector. He referred to it as an osadex and suggested that it was nearly 70 feet long,

but that he still bested it in combat. Carvantana later cheated me at cards, however, leaving me no honorable option but to face him in a duel. No Drake, that's his house, has ever lost a duel, so Carvantana was unable to tell me any more about his Osadex

because he killed him. Because he killed him, yeah. I thought once you said he was like no honor. I was like, oh, he's like, oh, he's like, oh, yeah. And since he's an unhonorable piece of shit, I figured he was lying. I asked his aides, but they took the matter of the duel badly and were unwilling to talk. Having seen how feebly Carvintana fought in the duel, I have to say, I cannot imagine him besting even a normal sciocene competing combat.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Yep, got it. I love this guy. He's such a pompous asshole. he's so funny. I mean, it ain't bragging if you back it up. That's true.

He did kill him. He killed him. It ain't bragging if you back it up. You know that he reminds me a little bit of... Who? An adult version of God-of-War Ragnarok's Heimdoll. Oh, yes. Hind-Doll was so great.

Oh, what a good character. On that fight with him? Oh, man. Absolutely fucking loved Hymn. Heimdoll in Ragner Rock. I hated his guts so much in all the right reasons. Great villain. Great villain.

He reminds me of a grown-up Heimdahl. As grown-up as Heimdahl could be anyway. Yeah, but like Heimdahl is able to back up his statements. Oh, yeah, absolutely. He's totally able to. Yeah. He's not just shit talking. He backs it up.

He does. So that's the kind of the feeling I get with this guy. Anyway, abhumans and the horrors of the sump. The horrors of the sump. Can we make, like, this whole time, I've just been thinking, we should make, like, you know, those cult horror movie posters? We should just do, like, one of those that's just horrors of the sump and have, like, all of these abominations just coming to a theater near you.

That actually would have been the worst idea. That sounds kind of fun. Yeah, horrors from the sump. The horror, oh, the old, like, 1920s looking. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And have the, oh, no, I've already forgotten this guy's name. Drake?

Drake. Yeah, have his, have, like, an inquisitive-looking Drake in the corner and all these sumps everywhere. And, yeah. You have to do, like, the really big text, because it's like, like, how, like, pans over. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, big red text that's kind of, like, bleeding a little bit. And it's got the, um, it's got, like, the film grain effect to it.

Yes, exactly. The horrors from the sump. Horrors from the sump. Yes, starring Drake. Starring Drake, the inquisitor of the, of the imperium at the Blackstone Fortress. What horrors will he find in the depths? Ah, that'd be great. Great.

I like the old 1920s announcer people. They're always great. You'll never believe the horrors from the sump. Wait, this is actually Pin this No one's a idea Yeah We run the copyright shy

Hurry hurry it Hurry Truly we will be able to get away With copywriting a 1920s version Of GW's work Sure Hey that's the most GW move I've ever heard right

That's very true Games Workshop Soes a dentist ridiculous For making horrors of the sump Do do do do do do do do this just in Yep This just in It's ridiculous

backs off immediately We don't want to lose our jobs They say Money is too important Ha ha End the episode shy