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Kraggan didn't ask for the Earth, just traded his starting gear for a Fallen Magos Power Axe.

I can confirm all Acquisitions were done correctly. Normal BC Game TPK's: Players: 'I cast fireball!' GM: 'You roll perils and get a bloodthirster.' OR; Players: ' I have connived and betrayed you all! Mwahahah!' Also Other Players: 'No, me! Mwahahah!' My BC Game TPK's: Players: 'Please sir, can we have some more (stuffs)?' GM: 'So you have chosen death....'

I believe I did my acquisitions correctly (IB = 3: ML, kraks, frags), but regardless I would quite like to cycle through a few different heavy weapons as they become available. I'm the meantime I don't mind too much have a single shot.

Well, the magazine rack was obviously just lying around, until an Executioner came in... and thought *hmm, I could make a trophy rack out of this...* Maybe IC< you glance at Hagga's bold display and think 'hmm, familiar, but I can't place it...'

Single ML with Extended Magazine (adds 25% shots but specifies round up) would take you from Clip 1 to 2. Then taking the Shot Selector would allow 3 Clips, bringing you up to 6 missiles before needing a reload, and freely able to choose between Frag and Krak (and maybe later something more rare)? Which is honestly where it should have been in the first place... Edit: Did he have any spare levels on the starting Acquisition of the ML to add any Upgrades? Edit edit: Actually, ML is only Rare, and you would get +10 for the Single Item, so I think you probably could include both of those Upgrades?

The Proteus ML has a clip of 5 going by the model, so let's just say I lost the magazine and manually feed each missile into the chamber

Xerxes: +Dredge acknowledges. Compliance underway.+ GM: We will assume that Xerxes and his cabal manage to extricate themselves from Brimstone successfully.

Technically a single barrel boom tube is also a viable device for a shot selector - left or right hand? ;)

If you want some real tech heresy - a twin linked missile launcher has a clip size of 2 and is therefore a valid target for the fire selector upgrade... :p

Xerxes: An invisible fire, a path of ash where once stood mighty edifices and heat without source the harbinger of its approach. Power unlike any other but to reach out was to burn. His previous conclusions were proven true for the Tyrant had indeed left them to this fate, so rich a prize as the ore would not have been so quickly abandoned and so many of the mutants not overlooked by the hunting parties. Haggas failure at the control station one more hint that a more distant hand guided these events for where else would a bomb of such complexity have been crafted in this forsaken and primative outpost. A thought crossed his mind that this might not simply be the work of the xenos but of abominable intelligence, the feeling of familiarity far more terrifying than any meaningless alien script. But record must be attempted, "Give me your comm beads", it was perhaps fortunate that he had not yet converted his underlings to servitors and he could only hope that the rest had lingered long enough at the forge to obey his final instructions. A command from his console spread out across the system as he withdrew, ++Abandon+Withdraw+Collect+Isolate+Quarantine+Flee++. Scorched earth protocol from the days of the Martian wars to evacuate material assets under threat of subversion, burn comms and excape by choice of by force... some part of Xerxes almost hoped that such a task would fail for scraps of this code-poison were an anathema to the craft, but they could not run forever. Fixed frequency, high band conversion, Xerxes quickly spliced beads into the control rooms auditory interface as speakers lit up with binaric cant and things far worse. "Remove me from this place, to the hangar now. Clear the path". Even as he moved away his work continued locking the signal to his datapad, audio only without interpretation or analysis, a wall against the fire. "Xerxes to Dredge, isolate comms, intrusion threat extremis". One bridge from this island in the void and the flames would consume it as readily as any other.

Well looking at the Chaos Havocs as were, the ML always looked like it had a jury-rigged magazine, (as did some of the Marine ones) and the Soundstrike is actually only single-shot, fed by a ready magazine/w loading arm on the backpack. This is something we can look at, but would be either that or a jump pack, when the opportunity comes.

Crux'As: GM: Cheers, no problem, play to continue no negative impacts.

Crux'as Infamy Test Target - 29 Roll - 54 Result = Fail, 2 DoF

Crux'As: GM: Please make an Infamy Test, and post your result below.

Crux'as The smile widened, breathe coming faster as the touch of the Gods faded away. "Not at all. That was...exquisite."

Have you been listening to your 90s bad rap mixtape over the last few days? Seriously though, I'd definitely call that an oversight on the part of the FFG people. After all, the basic Astartes ML in Deathwatch CRB was Clip 1, but in the Errata it had Clip 8 (which looks about right to me, 4 Frags and 4 Kraks?) and that's just the regular launcher (without the big backpack supply with the little servo arm thingy). Ah well, just as well Varne has Rapid Reload, otherwise it would only be able to fire every other Round!

Crux'As: A Sorcerer obviously arrives exactly when he is supposed to. +Stand close.+ He raises and bangs his staff three times by three. The butt of his psy-focus makes hammer on anvil, and at the entrance to the passageway, the shade-shrouded menace with three arms and three guns levels all bores at you and this huge mystic, loosing off a crackling burst of irradiated, armour-piercing shells. Reality becomes thick, heavy. Blood tastes in your mouth, and light absolves reason as everything slides into molten existence, replaced by yellow upside rich level best intrigue. A banana-wrist fellowship reacts greenly with suitcases where the eye welches on frigid tempest. Durable purple waif props a damp tirade on peppercorn reach. Voice want opened by spoon fabrication underbelly. Runic stars pass judgement kaleidoscope. Solid deck under legs tremble with leather skull. And you materialise in the shuttle bay antechamber. And fall three feet to the ground. Cyrandras Raskash is a little less graceful as he drops to the deck in a sack of armoured bricks. +Apologies. Forgot to carry the two.+

Crux'as The Smiler looked upon the form of the Astartes pysker. With footsteps and fire chasing his hells, the ever-present smile crooked. "Gladly will I follow your lead my friend. The Path is winding and full of twists. Show me the way." Let the Weaver of Paths guide us.

Well, we'll just have to see... There are no Legion variants, it's a one-hit wonder. Like Vanilla Ice.

How long will it take us to get to the pick-up location? Is 8 mins enough to kill the brute and still get out? I know structured Rounds are literally a few seconds long, so one or two probably won't matter either way... Hagga won't want to leave the beast unslain, but he's not far enough along Khorne's path that he'll stay and die just to get the kill - at that point Dornian practicality would win out! Edit: side point, but is that really right that ML get 1 shot before needing to be reloaded?? I get it for the basic single tube launchers that Guard teams might use (like in the weapon description), but Astartes versions clearly have autoloaders/larger clips?

No, you're watching the outer layers being eroded, a desert wind sandblasting a pyramid. It is nowhere near you at the moment. EDIT: Just to clarify the intensity - it is utterly inexorable. Your defences will not hold out long against it.

Varne: The Corsair replies in his usual cool demeanour. You can tell he's running because of the cadence-thump of vox distortion matching footfall, the reply terse because he has little to say, as opposed to a lack of breath. +I estimate eight minutes, Doom Eagle.+ GM: I'm slotting this into Baraduk and Ukie's run towards Sapik so the timing all falls appropriately across the split party.

For clarity - has the outside force reached Xerxes defenses or is he observing the initial fall of the closer/lesser systems?

Varne Eyeing up the monstrous form assailing the northern door, Varne slipped a krak missile into the firing tube. The wave of hybrids surged forth, crashing against the reinforced ceramite of the marine's form. He leaned into the attack, weathering the claws and improvised mining weapons scraping across his armour. As his right hand grasped the carrying handle of the missile launcher, his left tucked behind his back and unhooked the bolter from its seat. Bringing the weapon to bear, the auxiliary plates lining his palm locked into grooves and stabilised the firearm. The first bolt slammed through the face of a snarling hybrid with a laspistol, ejecting from the back of its malformed skull and detonating centre-mass of another screaming maggot. Simultaneously, one of the myriad monstrous forms threw itself against Varne's forearm in desperation, knocking the bolter two inches wide and causing the rest of his salvo to slam into a nearby buttress. His thoughts crawled back to watching the Inquisitor's ship leaving him and his brothers on the outpost that had fallen to the Hrud. With a hopeful tone, like that of a mummer setting up for a snappy punchline, he called into the narrow-band vox frequency. + Huntsmaster, how much time do we have?+ The rumble of Varne's wry chuckle at the irony of facing the same death again echoed across the shared vox-channel in anticipation.