How did Perils of the warp trigger?

[Madjar]

going through the tutorial right now, first turn with Idira and she falls over unconscious after triggering perils of the warp despite being below any of the warp threshold (was at 9).
The death message also seeming popped in what looks like russian.
Was this just a nat one, or a bug?

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

This has happened to me once or twice so far. I assumed there is just a low chance whenever you use warp powers that you will completely get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over and have a bad effect trigger

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Idira is "special", because she's an unsanctioned psyker, in that she doesn't need the warp threshold to be high for bad things to happen. So, it probably wasn't a bug but rather just a "nat one". Use her at your own peril.

[talemore]

Don't push the button.

[Duke Fleed]

idira is an unsanctioner psyker so she has a higher chance of triggering bad effects anytime anywhere. This makes having her in your party very spicy. Although I feel like there should be something preventing her from doing it in the tutorial, considering how "interesting" some of the perils of the warp are.

[Madjar]

well, this is going to be an interesting play through

[talemore]

Iridia may help because now everyone are prone they gain extra dodge

[Cutlass Jack]

As an Unsanctioned Psyker gets a 5% chance for something to go wrong whenever she uses a power. But she also gets +1 to Psy power over a Sanctioned Psyker.

Your main character can become an unsanctioned Psyker if you want once you hit Exemplar level (and are not already a sanctioned Psyker). If so your psi will work like Irdira's. So be warned.

[madison]

Originally posted by Tox Flamer:

going through the tutorial right now, first turn with Idira and she falls over unconscious after triggering perils of the warp despite being below any of the warp threshold (was at 9).
The death message also seeming popped in what looks like russian.
Was this just a nat one, or a bug?

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

This has happened to me once or twice so far. I assumed there is just a low chance whenever you use warp powers that you will completely get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over and have a bad effect trigger

Idira is an Unsanctioned Psyker, which in Owlcat's adaptation of the Rogue Trader RPG rules means any use of her powers has a chance to trigger Perils of the Warp no matter the circumstances. You keep her around if you're not playing either Heretic or a Dogmatic fanatical enough to murder her at the first opportunity because she is the only one of the story based Companions statted by default to be a good sniper, she can reveal things related to story events, and she can give warnings (that last one may or may not in some circumstances prevent enemies from ambushing you in the first round of combat, I am uncertain).

[Atech]

Everyone thinks Idira is awesome psyker and your pc sucks balls as unsanctioned psyker untill some random fight against some easy enemies while just trying to give dodge buff for someone at low warp levels and she knocks herself out and spawns Bloodletter who immediately takes turn and takes down Cassia.

[UltrawideGameGuy]

Originally posted by Atech:

Everyone thinks Idira is awesome psyker and your pc sucks balls as unsanctioned psyker untill some random fight against some easy enemies while just trying to give dodge buff for someone at low warp levels and she knocks herself out and spawns Bloodletter who immediately takes turn and takes down Cassia.

Pretty quickly the things she summons are just extra exp for the party.

[madison]

Originally posted by UltrawideGameGuy:

Originally posted by Atech:

Everyone thinks Idira is awesome psyker and your pc sucks balls as unsanctioned psyker untill some random fight against some easy enemies while just trying to give dodge buff for someone at low warp levels and she knocks herself out and spawns Bloodletter who immediately takes turn and takes down Cassia.

Pretty quickly the things she summons are just extra exp for the party.

I read that you don't get exp from them.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Atech:

Everyone thinks Idira is awesome psyker and your pc sucks balls as unsanctioned psyker untill some random fight against some easy enemies while just trying to give dodge buff for someone at low warp levels and she knocks herself out and spawns Bloodletter who immediately takes turn and takes down Cassia.

Don't think of it as a horrible inconvenient monster. Think of it as summoning a present that will bring a smile to Argenta's face.

[Jon Umber]

Got here from googling because I used my very first turn ever with this character and she just dropped over dead 😅

[Egodeus]

Yeah, the problem is her being an unsanctioned psyker. There is always a chance for something bad to happen. After she "helped" my retinue by accidentally summoning a bloodletter in the middle of a fight that was difficult enough as it was, I dumped her ass on the ship, and am currently debating of just getting rid of her permanently. I don't need that kind of energy in my crew.

The only saving grace was that I had Abelard and Kibellah with me, and they 2v1'd the Bloodletter handily, while the rest of my retinue sans the unconscious Idira sniped the last enemies. Still lenghtened the fight for two rounds at least.