History Fanfic / TheGuyWhoCriedGrendel

* AscendedFanon: Grendel eventually got a mention in canon materials. %%{{invoked}}

The transcript can be found [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Guy_Who_Cried_Grendel here]].

* BadassBookworm: Grendel is an adept, which is a scholarly class. He still managed to CurbStomp threats ''seriously'' out of his SuperWeight.

* OneHundredPercentAdorationRating: Grendel on the planets he's saved.
* {{Acrofatic}} Grendel was overweight and physically incapable (his Agility starts at 24 - on a scale of 1-99), yet still pulled of some incredible moves.

* CriticalFailure: As per ''Dark Heresy'' rules, they can happen. One of the more notable is when, after Grendel bluffs some pirates into fleeing, the cleric tries to talk the ship's crew into giving them a reward. He rolls a 100 (''Dark Heresy'' skill roles are rolled on [=D100=], lower rolls better) and proceeds to insult the crap out of them while making the request. The crew promptly informs them that they should probably stay in their miserably poor rooms if they want to finish the trip in one piece.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Two party members die in the encounter with the Charnel Daemon that sets the story off - an Assassin and a Scum. Their players replace them with the above-mentioned pompous, racist Cleric and a KnifeNut Assassin respectively.

* {{Acrofatic}} Grendel was overweight and physically incapable, yet still pulled of some incredible moves.

* BloodKnight: Benedicta, as she serves Khorne, the god [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]].

* CurbStompBattle: Grendel keeps dishing them out.

* ToughActToFollow: The narrator mentions that Grendel's player was afraid of playing Grendel again after killing the Charnel Daemon, fearing that there was ''no way'' he was going to top that. Well, let's just say he shouldn't have worried.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Two party members die in the encounter with the Charnel Daemon that sets the story off- an Assassin and a Scum.

* KnifeNut: Grendel traded in his staff for a knife prior to the story's beginning, for flavor purposes. He still wasn't very ''good'' with it, but that didn't stop him from one-shotting Daemons with some lucky rolls.

* AscendedFanon: Grendel eventually got a mention in canon materials.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The party is a group of Inquisition accolytes consisting of an arbitrator, a self-deprecating psyker, a standoffish tech-priest, a pompous, racist cleric, and an unassuming librarian who somehow manages to curbstomp major daemons with a small knife.

* [[DemonicPossession Daemonic Possession]]: An Inquisitor they party looks for at one point gets possessed by a Tzeentchian Daemon.

In a ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'' campaign, a low-level party (barely level 2) got the job of investigating Khornate cultists on the planet Ambulon. They screw up trying to find the cult, and get to it in the middle of a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemon]] SummoningRitual. A massive bloodbath ensues, killing two [=PCs=] in the process. And Khorne doesn't care ''where'' the blood flows from, only that it ''flows'', so he's quite happy with this. So happy, in fact, that he sends a [[EldritchAbomination Charnel Daemon]] there in response to the summoning. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops]].

The Adept (scholar) of the party, one Castus Grendel, gets the first action after the daemon appears. He is overweight, physically incapable, and only armed with a knife, so he has no real chance to defeat the daemon. He decides to attack it anyway as a HeroicSacrifice so that perhaps some of his party members can get away and call down an Exterminatus. He charges it, strikes with his knife- and hits. The players laugh and joke about how cool it would be if he actually ''killed'' it- and then he crits his damage rolls. And keeps getting criticals. The result?

* InLoveWithTheMark: Benedicta's original job was to infiltrate the party to either kill Grendel or protect him from non-Khornate caused deaths. Well, that's what the job was before Grendel saved her life and caused her to fall for him.

In a ''[[TabletopGame/WarhammerFortyThousand Dark Heresy]]'' campaign, a low-level party (barely level 2) got the job of investigating Khornate cultists on the planet Ambulon. They screw up trying to find the cult, and get to it in the middle of a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemon]] SummoningRitual. A massive bloodbath ensues, killing two [=PCs=] in the process. And Khorne doesn't care ''where'' the blood flows from, only that it ''flows'', so he's quite happy with this. So happy, in fact, that he sends a [[EldritchAbomination Charnel Daemon]] there in response to the summoning. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops]].

In a ''[[TabletopGame/WarhammerFortyThousand Dark Heresy]]'' campaign, a low-level party (barely level 2) got the job of investigating Khornate cultists on the planet Ambulon. They screw up trying to find the cult, and get to it in the middle of a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemon]] SummoningRitual. A massive bloodbath ensues, killing two PCs in the process. And Khorne doesn't care ''where'' the blood flows from, only that it ''flows'', so he's quite happy with this. So happy, in fact, that he sends a [[EldritchAbomination Charnel Daemon]] there in response to the summoning. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Whoops]].