Warhammer 40k Horror: The Watcher in the Rain

I cant believe Shy used slaanesh Magic to turn Bricky into just a Little Short stack

Bricky: "Just a little guy!" Shy: turns Bricky into big booba smol gretchin All I can say is that Destiny lost this debate.

Shy was beyond done having her "little guy" title being used in vain

The fact that shy's face changes to an overly smug face makes it even better she knows what she did

everyone is a little guy. DK is a little adeptcus cat guy, Shy is a little cherub guy, and Bricky is a little gretchin guy.

Remember kinder, the God Emperor punishes all treason, eventually. Also Smug Shy is best Shy.

This much power, to transform Bricky into a shortstack in a moment… it can only be the work of Shy Marbo

I like how the scariest thing that is depicted in this story isn't the asshole inquisitor or the warp demon or the mass murdering gal. Its working an office job. It also shows just how broken the Imperium's system is that paperwork mistakes ( or sabotaged on purpose) that lead to billions of deaths are not noticed or they were noticed but there so common they were not seen as bad enough to look into it.

This book shows that, while chaos may be creepy, humanity has the potential to be worse. The watcher was just being edgy, the interrogator butchered his own mom. The administratum bitch killed billions and the guardsmen are literally eating people. This is good world building

Fun fact: One of the planets hit with cannibalism they reference is Verghast (I believe it's spelled like that). In one of the Gaunts Ghosts novels, Guardsman survivors from Verghast do more cannibalism on another planet, causing a wave of sickness through the camp that Gaunt discovers and deals with.

Shy's power is growing. Much like Bricky's moobs.

One of the reasons I liked the book was something the cultists said, “the watchers rain will drown the sins of the world”. The horrible people were the main characters, the watcher served to drag their sins and guilt up to the surface, plus both the twist endings were amazing. One of my most favorite audio dramas/books that I have ever heard.

Are we sure Shy isn’t a daemon of Tzeentch? With all the mischief and transformations she gets up to, she’s at the very least gotten his attention.

The actual watcher in the Rain is honestly an interesting Warp Creature Like the Adept says it's basically a mirror that shows you as you really are. But when you think about it that in of itself isn't evil. Let's remember the first guy who saw it, the guy who was proud how efficient and successful his department was. He didn't go crazy. I think the reason was because he was a good person. A bit of dick but honestly a good guy. When his Servitor was trashed he didn't think about the PDF trooper being killed, enslaved or anything like that. Just charged for the amount of cash needed to reimburse him. When he saw the watcher and thought it was a person he wanted someone to go there even though it was just a random person.  But because everyone left on the world were scumbags (including the main characters) of course they would be so negatively effected.

This book sounds great, as for the potential controversy bricky was worried about, i actually prefer that it's not a chaos story, i find that that's where the horror should come from, not inherently from the supernatural cause we as fans sort of know too much about chaos already so there's not as much shock value. But the horror of the mundane and the horror of humanity is something that can be the scariest thing in Warhammer Like in ciaphas cain there's a moment played for laughs where cain says something like "i thought i was going a bit siggy" and amberley in her footnotes is like "Cain is referencing blah blah sigma, a planet containing a well known hospital for guardsman whose minds have been broken, coincidentally the solar system also has the biggest servitor factory in the segmentum" like it's funny in the context of the story, but it's just one of those "holy shit" imperium moments

To torture his mother and not give a crap that investigator had to have drunk a lot of forget me juice.

One of the things I liked most about the book was how the interrogator talked about not just the torture/murder of his mother but how he was pressed immediately into doing another after another. It’s a way of desensitization that applies to people committing real world atrocities, once it becomes routine it loses the impact the act has

Oh boy, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension!

At first the scribe just seemed to have a strong enough will to resist the warp phenomena that she appeared to have unfortunately stumbled into, while the inquisitors guilt was to much for him to ignore. It makes for an impactful realisation, when it is revealed, that her sins were just so terrible, she was unable to bear the consequences of them staring her in the face.

I guess the real Watchers in the Rain were the friends we made along the way.