[DW] The Desolation of Innocence (RPG IC Thread)

[Mazer Rackham]

Genestealers 3 & 4:

Luthais pounds forward, massive shoulders smashing the Genestealers aside, broken bodies tumbling down a gullet in the deck, chewed open by acid. The abyss peers up at the Storm Warden in silence.

Genstealers 3 & 4 are removed from Play.

Arcturion [ ] (Initiative Order Suspended)

Edited July 27, 2022 by Mazer Rackham

[Mazer Rackham]

Nergüi:

Spoiler

Actions:

Recover Geneseed: Int 43

D100: 76 (FP Re-roll) = 85.

Unfortunately the Geneseed of the fallen Deathwatch warrior is ruined beyond retrieval. The foul xenos have robbed the Deathwatch, and this dead hero's Chapter, of his legacy. There is nothing he can do but his duty for the dead, and he offers the soul of the Marine benediction in his own tongue.

Philemon [ ]

[Lysimachus]

Philemon snarled an epithet at the newly emerging purestrains, but nevertheless moved carefully away. He might sound like a Black Templar at times, but he fully understood Saint Guilliman's wise words about the value of a fighting withdrawal when it was required.

 

Best to make the prospect of following as unpleasant as possible for the xenos, however.

 

Free Action: Sustain Lead by Example.
Half Move 4m west.
Half: Single shot HF at GS1 and 2. No BS Test.
(Cleanse and Purify and Cleansing Flame mean all Ag rolls to avoid effects are at -20 and successful Tests must be rerolled).
Dam 1d10+12 +2(MC) +2(Mighty Shot) Pen6. No cover.
Assuming failed Dodges…
1: 6+16 = 22, Pen6
2: 9+16 = 25, Pen6
HF at 6/10 shots used.
(Forgot to include this before… over half way empty, then will need 2 Rounds clear to reload…)

 

He checked his augurs. Nergui was moving from one of their fallen brethren to another, but beyond him more alien creatures had appeared and the rest of Regent had engaged them. Even more blips showed on his scans behind the closed door and inside the walls.

 

+++Brother-Chaplain, our time is limited. We must move on, or risk adding to our genetic losses rather than mitigating them.+++

 

Edited March 9, 2023 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

Genestealer 1:

Spoiler

Dodge Flammenwerfer:

AG 40 + 10 = 50 - 20 = 30

D100: 001 (!), 070(!)

In an impossible feat of climbing, the Purestrain runs up the wall, grasping the struts and fan blades, to cleave to the ceiling, albeit now on fire.

It topples to the deck, disappearing into the flames.

Genestealer 2:

Spoiler

AG 40 + 10 = 50 -20 = 30

D100: 030(!), 009.

The second bestial brute hesitates, and your twin hearts beat with hatred and the yearning for it's death, but seemingly in spite - it lives still, and powers itself to pounce upon you.

EDIT: Ammo Count Philemon (Lysi)

Spoiler

HF is now down to 04/10, that's right bud (I'm counting the other way )

EDIT: Ammo Count Korvaan (MG)

Spoiler

Storm Bolter is down to 20/60. Fired ((SAB x 5 (RoF 4 x 2 Storm)) = 40. No Shot Selector, so only a single magazine on board.

Ammo count for Nergüi is irrelevant, since he has a Shot Selector and therefore 180 Bolt Rounds! He can afford to spray and pray! (Ha, Chaplain pun).

 

Edited July 27, 2022 by Mazer Rackham

[Necronaut]

By the Emperor, the Hulk was fairly lousy with xenos, and yet he could not seem to find any to lay his gauntleted hands upon! Snarling in disgust at his inability to deal with the near-constant menace, Arcturion turned around and thudded past Nergüi, revving his chainfist menacingly at the blocked bulkhead. He could both see the heat signatures of the foul monsters beyond the barred threshold and feel their vile minds as they lay in wait in the dark chamber beyond. The fallen and defiled forms of his brothers in the Long Watch further fanned the fires of hatred and spite in his breast.

His mind clouded somewhat by the effects of the blood-frenzy of his forefathers, Arcturion raised his powered gauntlet and crashed its chain-driven blades into the portal.

 

Arcturion attacks a door (at least the blighter will sit still!).

Full Action: Charge Attack vs. closed door adjacent to deceased DW Astartes

WS77 + 20 (Berserk Charge) = 97

Charge Attack: 1d100 56

56: success with 4 DoS

 

Chainfist Damage: 2d10+18E, Pen 10, Tearing, Unwieldy (see char sheet for full maths)

Hit: Chainfist Damage: 2#1d10 8 6

Tearing: Tearing + Flesh Render: 2#1d10 1 3

8 + 6 (2d10) + 18 = 32 damage, Pen 10

Edited July 29, 2022 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

Arcturion:

The barrier between you and the prey buckles, but it holds firm. Like any prey, mortal or not, you can tell it is wounded and will soon be no safety to the meat and minds inside. You sense them through your mental faculty, through the auspex.

Door:

Spoiler

This door is not unlike many your chainfist has already cleaved. However, unlike the door in the crusher room, this one is not angled and buttressed to deflect objects back into the arms of a pulverising unit. This is a sturdy, defensive structure, with solid bulk designed to resist attack. Perhaps a control room worth protecting?

All attacks automatically hit from now.

You assess the door to have AP 32, and from the gash you've torn in it, know it's metallurgy. SP 30.

Damage: 32 Pen 10 = 10 SP

Door: 20/30

Edited July 28, 2022 by Mazer Rackham

[Mazer Rackham]

ROUND SEVEN

As the team spreads apart, your enemies take advantage.

Doors suddenly hiss open, or slam shut, isolating the Storm Warden, who can hear the chitter and growl of several beings below, well out of auspex range, but near enough to make a warrior's heart beat.

Worse, Arcturion's wish is granted, he is presented with a horde of Hybrids toting autoguns, a missile launcher, and a plasmagun!

In the vent corridor, the partner to the fried abomination launches at Philemon, a coiled spring unravelling, all claws and teeth...

And the Stealers take their chance, slowly, sinuously dropping out of the fan opening behind Korvaan, to attack him!

COMBAT MAP:

Spoiler

+ Initiative Order +

Spoiler

Blip = 21 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Half Action:  Move

Half Action: Operate

Genstealer 2 (PS) = 25 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Charge Philemon: WS 65 + 10 = 75

D100: 85 MISS.

Genstealer 5 (PS) = 23 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Half Action Move/Half Action Standard Attack:

WS 65

D100: 30 HIT, (Head)

Dam: 1D10 + 12 Pen 5 (Pen 10, Razor Sharp) = No Damage

Genestealer 6 (PS) = 20 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Half Action Move/Half Action Standard Attack:

WS 65

D100: 44 HIT, (Body -3 AP Acid Damage)

Dam: 1D10 + 12 Pen 5 (Pen 10, Razor Sharp) = 6 Wounds

Korvaan = 16 (21/21) (4/4) [ ]

Hybrid Horde G (WS) = 14 (30/30) [x]

Spoiler

Actions: 3 x SAB 2 x Arcturion 1 x Nergüi

BS: 35 + 10 (Range) + 10 (SAB) = 55

A1 D100: 54 PASS, 1 Hit (Body)

A2 D100: 48 PASS, 1 Hit (Right Leg -1 AP Acid Dam)

Dam: 1D10 (3D10 Mag) + 3 (Dam) Pen 0 = (Body) No Damage, (Leg) No Damage.

N1 D100: 89 MISS

Missile Launcher (Arcturion)

BS 35 + 10 (Range) = 45

D100: 15, HIT. (Body)

Damage: 3D10 + 10 Pen 8 = 9 Wounds

Plasma Gun - Maximal (Nergüi)

BS 35 + 10 (Range) + 10 (SAB) = 55

D100: 39 PASS, 1 DoS, 1 Hit (Left Leg)

Damage: 2D10 + 12 Pen 12 = 12 Wounds

Luthais = 13 (26/26) (LBE) (3/3) [ ]

Arcturion = 13 (20/20) (LBE) (2/3) [ ]

Nergüi = 12 (26/26) (2/3) [ ]

Philemon = 10 (23/23) (LBE) (3/4) [ ]

Squad Cohesion 4/15

Waiting for Brothers...

Korvaan [ ]

GM Note: There was a lot of stuff to do, so it's all spoilered in the Initiative Order as it was easier. When you start reacting, it will space out again. Also to note, the Horde has acted before Korvaan, since he's otherwise busy.

Edited July 28, 2022 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

The door in front of Korvaan suddenly slammed shut, locking Luthais in. Then Korvaan was attacked by a pair of Genestealers from behind. Only one of their attacks made any purchase, but it was resisted by the Terminatus Crux. 

 

 

PR: 35. D100 = 31, Pass

 

Your opponents are a 0 whilst you are a 1, thought Korvaan. Besides Luthais can rage through that door and kill them.

Korvaan disengaged from the Genestealer's and backed up the corridor, leaving a gap wide enough for the Watch-Sergeant to pass.

 

 

Full Action: Disengage - move 4 squares back up he corridor

Edited July 29, 2022 by Machine God
Remembered Power Field

[A.T.]

More tricks, more delays. Was it to buy time to amass a true force or simply to buy time for escape.

Either way the only answer was to meet the xenos with death, Luthais slammed against the interior door seeking to pry it away - while durable it had little to offer compared to the reinforced bulkheads the killteam was expected to breach and would pose no lasting obstacle to his wrath.

Strength check to breach the door: 18 (vs 130 = 14 DoS)

[Necronaut]

No sooner had he started to tear into the sealed bulkhead with his silver-plated chainfist, than the great steel door grated open and he was greeted by a gibbering horde of xenos hybrids, each more disgusting than the last. The roar of autogun fire assailed him and the rounds from the assorted small arms wielded by the hybrids peppered his armor to little effect, followed by a brilliant flash and a cloud of smoke. An instant later a high-explosive detonated against his war-plate’s cuirass, but the thick ceramite held true and the Lamenter leaned into the blast, powering himself forward through the debris cloud as a nimbus of power formed around his hooded helm. He crashed into their ranks and lay about them with brutal cleaving strikes, hewing numerous hybrids apart with his fiery longsword. Doombringer reaped a grim harvest and Arcturion roared incoherently at them as he commenced with the holy slaughter.

 

 

TDA Invulnerability Test vs. Missile Launcher

TDA 35

TDA Invulnerability: 1d100 22

22: success

No wounds suffered from (krak) missile

 

Now tactically it would be significantly more prudent to hose this horde down with mind bullets (would it, really?), but Arcturion is under the effects of Frenzy so let’s RIP AND TEAR!

 

Full Action: Charge Attack vs. Horde G/H

WS77 + 20 (Berserk Charge) +5 (Exceptional) +30 (Horde Size) + 10 (Frenzy) + 8 (LBE) = 150

Charge Attack: 1d100 67

67: success with 8 DoS (4 add’l hits)

5 hits total vs. Horde

 

Doombringer’s Damage (Exceptional Force Sword): 1d10+21R, Pen 7, Exceptional, Balanced, Special (Force) (Please refer to char sheet for total damage calculation, particularly under the effects of Frenzy)

Charge Damage d10 Rolls (Bulk): 4#1d10 4 8 1 1

Charge Damage d10 Rolls: 1d10 5

Hit 1: 4 (d10) + 21 = 25 damage, Pen 7

Hit 2: 8 (d10) + 21 = 29 damage, Pen 7

Hit 3: 1 (d10) + 21 = 22 damage, Pen 7

Hit 4: 1 (d10) + 21 = 22 damage, Pen 7

Hit 5: 5 (d10) + 21 = 26 damage, Pen 7 (forgot to tack on LBE, oops!)

5 magnitude damage from melee attacks (assuming 22 damage @ Pen 7 will kill a member of the horde outright)

 

Opposed Willpower Test (Force Weapon)

WP60 + 5 (Psychic Hood) + 10 (Frenzy) + 8 (LBE) + 25 (5xPR5) = 108

Force Weapon Focus Test: 1d100 23

23: success with 8 DoS

If Opposed Willpower Fails, 5 additional magnitude damage (PR5)

 

Up to 10 magnitude damage total

 

Trying out the above rules per the running conversation in the OOC thread.

Edited July 29, 2022 by Necronaut

[Mazer Rackham]

Korvaan:

The aliens thrash as you step back, weaving just enough to prevent them gaining further purchase.

Luthais:

With a mighty squeal and crunching of internal gears, the door separating you from the enemy is forced back into the recess from whence it sprang, but the deformation of the metal obstacle jams it. Thankfully, there is enough room for you to pass through, and bestial faces glower at you in the half-light of the corridor beyond.

Arcturion:

You commit to battle totally, fighting the foe on their spiritual level, as corrupt as that is (perhaps an Opposed Roll leaves a foul taste in your mind), as well as their physical forms. You feel their resistance to your sword and your will, a bright light surrounded by oily, misshapen, black smoke-burning lanterns.

Spoiler

Opposed Roll: 2 DoS = 3 Mag Dam (+ Weapon Mag Dam) = 8 Mag Dam total.

Not bad at all. Works well. We will proceed as per OOC.

Nergüi [ ]

Tro hasn't said anything otherwise, so I'll autopilot him for now.

Spoiler

Half Action: Move to TDA 3

Half Action: Recover Geneseed

D100: 30 (Both Geneseed Recovered)

Singing the lament of his ancestors, and praying for the spirits of fallen warriors long gone to aid him, the White Wolf Chaplain steps lithely to his next duty, and takes advantage of the fury around him to shield his sacred work. His solemn prayers give focus, and his bloody blades cut genhanced flesh with skill and confidence. The legacy of another kinsman is recovered whole.

Philemon [ ] 

Edited July 29, 2022 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

Korvaan guarded Nergui whilst he conducted his sacred duty. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 16, 2023 by Machine God
Wrong thread edit

[Mazer Rackham]

Yes. (Although I think you're in the wrong thread?) 

Just OOC Green it. 

Philemon [ ]

Edited July 29, 2022 by Mazer Rackham
Clarity.

[Lysimachus]

The Genestealer leapt over the torrent of flame, avoiding it by less than a hair's breadth… but the escape had taken every part of its will and focus. The singed creature half fell forward, vicious talons still outstretched, but it was a feeble, distracted attempt at attack. Philemon calmly stepped aside, allowing the flailing claws to strike only air, even he raised Vindicta Dei.

These beasts had held him back from joining the rest of the squad for too long already.

 

Free Action: Sustain Lead by Example.
Full Action: All-Out Attack, spend 1 FP to activate Killing Strike.
WS56 +5(Exceptional) +10(Hatred) +10(Hunter of Aliens) +8(LbE) +20(AOA) = 109, Roll: 53, Hit with 5DoS!
Attack cannot be Dodged or Parried.
Dam 1d10+13 Pen8 Felling(1)
Dam: 10!(1d10) +13 +1(Exceptional) +2(HoA) +6(RF) = 32 at Pen8.
Dead, I should hope? 

 

The headless corpse stumbled forward, momentum carrying it on, pumping its foul alien lifeblood out across the deck. Then it finally crashed down and Philemon turned, eager to see what Arcturion's foes were protecting.

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by Lysimachus

[Mazer Rackham]

Philemon:

Evoking his frustration into a killing urge, the Emperor's Blade puts his own edge to use, ending the blasphemer with a sturdy swing, the edge of the axe thumping down into the deck with enough force, he has to yank it free.

+ STAND BY, STAND BY.+

[Mazer Rackham]

ROUND EIGHT

The xenos die around you, but as much as you might cut them down, they show no fear, nor cower in the face of your august presence.

COMBAT MAP:

Spoiler

+ Initiative Order +

Spoiler

Blip = 21 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Half Action: Operate

Half Act-

~ Arcturion...why do you torture usss? Why not lay down your sword...isn't it heavy? Like your burdens, the deaths of your kin at the hands of the Tyrant?  Why not join that which you cherish?  Give yourself to the glory of our flesssh..? Our Brood will love you... ~

- Compel. (Opposed WP) = 4 DoS

Genstealer 5 (PS) = 23 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Full Action: Run

Genestealer 6 (PS) = 20 (20/20) [x]

Spoiler

Full Action: Run

Korvaan = 16 (21/21) (4/4) [ ]

Hybrid Horde G (WS) = 14 (22/30) [x]

Spoiler

Actions:

All Out Attack: Arcturion

WS: 35 + 20 = 55

D100: 030 HIT, DoS Irrelevant (Head)

Dam: 1D10 (2D10 Mag) + 6 (weapons/claws/teeth and SB) Pen 3 = 3 Wounds

Luthais = 13 (26/26) (LBE) (3/3) [ ]

Arcturion = 13 (20/20) (LBE) (2/3) [ ]

Nergüi = 12 (26/26) (2/3) [ ]

Philemon = 10 (23/23) (LBE) (2/4) [ ]

Squad Cohesion 4/15

Arcturion:

You hardly hear the door slam shut behind you, but the shadowy figure next to you is unmissable, despite how he might try to hide himself. Your second sight picks him from the background, but still, all you can see is a cloaked humanoid, an impression of pale, purplish flesh. But his eyes...those you can discern...they threaten to pull you into darkness and hungry teeth. All your Battle Brothers can see is broken, jagged lines across the vox-link.

The blow to your head is the last thing they get with any clarity.

You are fighting on two fronts. The Shadow of the Warp renders the light of the Astronomicon and the guidance of the Emperor dim. All WP tests are Hard (-20).

Waiting for Brothers...

Korvaan [ ]

Edited July 29, 2022 by Mazer Rackham

[Machine God]

+Chaplain Nergui carry on with your sacred task whilst I attend to the door. We shall soon have it open+

Korvaan moved over to the door, he readied his Omnissian Power Axe and interfaced with the door. 

 

Int 40 +10 (Talented Tech Use) +10 (Omnissian Power Axe) +20 (Exceptional Augur Array) +8 (Lead By Example) -10 (Difficult) = 78. Result: 11, Pass 6DoS

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Korvaan:

The machine bends to your will, a mechanism unassailable by normal tech-scriveners and toolwirights opens to the adept of the true flesh.

Yet as you enter, you see Arcturion, assailed on all sides by the horrific miscreants - a great slew of them, and a deep darkness, a terrible presence your augurs do not detect, but the weaker meat inside your steel and iron bones does. The Lamenter fights, but it as though his limbs constrict with great chains, weighting his blows and fatiguing his strikes.

For now, the enemy is brutally obvious, and in need of a good slaughtering.

Good enough.

Luthais [ ]

[A.T.]

There is little room to move, and even less sign of the enemy as Luthais emerges into the corridor, though the sound of scuttling and scraping of claws is heard from the vents beyond. He takes up a defensive position, holding the junction against attack.

Delay - to strike at anything that might pop out of the vents, the access point behind him, or moving up from the southern entrance

[Mazer Rackham]

Luthais:

Delay (Half Action) - ok, cool - might come in handy!

Arcturion [ ]

[Necronaut]

 

TDA Invulnerability Test vs Horde G melee attacks

TDA 35

TDA Invulnerability: 1d100 19

19: success

 

Opposed Willpower Test vs Compel

WP60 - 20 (hard) + 10 (Frenzy) + 8 (LBE) + 10 (Resistance: Psychic Powers) = 68

Opposed Willpower: 1d100 90

90: failure with 3 DoF

Rerolling via Strong Minded...

Opposed Willpower: 1d100 22

22: success with 4 DoS

Arcturion resists the effects of Compel...

 

Half Action: Standard Attack #1 (Force Sword) vs Horde G

WS 77 + 10 (Frenzy) + 5 (Exceptional) + 8 (LBE) + 0 (Multi-Attack: OHBD) = 100

Standard Attack: 1d100 37

37: success with 6 DoS (3 bonus hits)

Doombringer's Damage (Force Sword): 1d10+21R, Pen 7, Balanced, Exceptional, Special (Force Weapon)

4 magnitude damage @ minimum damage rolls

Per previous round, I believe Arcturion wounds on minimum damage rolls with the above profile, so let's move onto the opposed WP test...

Free Action: Force Weapon (Opposed WP test)

WP60 - 20 (Hard) + 10 (Frenzy) + 8 (LBE) + 5 (Psychic Hood) + 10 (Xenos Psychology) + 25 (PR5x5) = 98

Force Weapon Focus Test: 1d100 1

01: success with 9 DoS

(Up to) 5 (PR) additional magnitude damage (I left off the bonus from Xenos Psychology last time, oops. Let it ride.).

 

Half Action: Standard Attack #2 (Chainfist) vs Horde G

WS 77 + 10 (Frenzy) + 8 (LBE) + 0 (Multi-Attack: OHBD) = 95

Standard Attack: 1d100 70

70: success with 2 DoS (1 bonus hit)

Chainfist Damage: 2d10+18E, Pen 10, Tearing, Unwieldy, Power Field

I can roll for damage if you like, but considering Arcturion has Flesh Render on top of Tearing, a minimum damage roll per hit of 20 @ Pen 10 is highly unlikely (would need to roll 1s on both Weapon D10s and both Tearing D10s, or, put differently, encounter a statistically insignificant event).

2 magnitude damage + 1 (Power Weapon) = 3 additional magnitude damage

7 magnitude damage total from both weapon attacks (Multi-Attack), plus up to 5 more from Force Weapon.

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2022 by Necronaut
maths

[Mazer Rackham]

Arcturion:

The Lamenter mowed down the filth before him, hacking cleanly with the blade before turning the unfortunate sinners beneath his gaze into meaty woodchips.

Mag Dam = 10 (Inc opposed roll etc)

Nergüi [ ]

[Necronaut]

Sorry to double-post like this; I pasted in my spoilered attack actions and forgot to insert a placeholder text line. I can't seem to edit in a line of plain text now and the spoiler refuses to budge. The B&C staff are likely still working out the kinks. If anyone knows a work-around, please DM me.

 

Arcturion was a Lamenter, and an Epistolary at that. He would not be so easily cowed by the mental assault of some pitiful xenos psyker. His mind was a fortress, forged from adamantium in the fires of hate by the Emperor's light, tempered in an ocean of rage and blood. He was the keeper of the secret flame, of the Will of Sanguinius. Despite the psychic miasma pervading the area, his iron will bludgeoned the invading presence back from his consciousness. He responded in kind, both verbally and telepathically; his presence was a battering ram as compared to the twisted hybrid psyker.

+YOUR PITIFUL PSYCHIC TRICKS WILL AVAIL YOU NOTHING, XENOS! I WILL SLAUGHTER YOUR BRETHREN AND CAST YOUR CARCASSES DOWN INTO THE ABYSS!+

Despite the immense bulk of his terminator plate and his berserk state, Arcturion was still a superlative swordsman and hand-to-hand combatant, and he wove and tore his way through the xenos ranks with transcendent fluidity. Bright flashes of psychic fire accompanied the mighty cleaving blows of his burning longsword, and his chainfist reduced anything it contacted into meaty viscera.

 +FOR SANGUINIUS! FOR THE EMPEROR! I AM DEATH!+

 

Arcturion forces his will upon the xenos psyker in turn, assaulting its (his?) disgusting mind with a telepathic message:

Free Action: (Pushed) Short-range Telepathy (Opposed Willpower)

WP60 - 20 (Hard) + 5 (Psychic Hood) + 8 (LBE) + 10 (Xenos Psychology) + 10 (Frenzy) + 40 (5xPR8) = 113

Opposed Willpower (Telepathy): 1d100 36

36: success with 7 DoS

Automatic Psychic Phenomena: Bloody Tears (Rite of Sanctioning)

YOUR PITIFUL PSYCHIC TRICKS WILL AVAIL YOU NOTHING, XENOS! I WILL SLAUGHTER YOUR BRETHREN AND CAST YOUR CARCASSES DOWN INTO THE ABYSS!

Edited July 30, 2022 by Necronaut
Bloody spoilers & formatting

[Trokair]

+++Brother-Chaplain, our time is limited. We must move on, or risk adding to our genetic losses rather than mitigating them.+++

The first fallen brother had been beyond recovery, and Nergüi hoped that the geneseed was truly lost to the damage of the denizen instead of that terrible fate of having been stolen by the hulks inhabitants.

+Acknowledged, I am with the last of the fallen and can then form part of the rearguard.+

The flare of the Rosarius field and the glare of plasma ammunition alerted him to the danger he was in crouched over the fallen, but the emperor protects.  Moving on to the last fallen brother he passed Korvann moving the other way and registered the others intent to aid the now trapped Arcturion, he would join them as soon as he could, but first another last rite.

Spoiler

Move to fallen marine 2
Recover Geneseed, Int 43
D100: 35, Pass

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Arcturion (Take 2)  :

The Magus is lashed by your mind as he would be cleaved by Cardovan's mighty war flail, making him recoil so hard he flies backwards and lies prone, but in the harrowed lands of the psychic plane, you feel the contaminated alien-human wretch funnel your power, and the roar flushes into a tidal whirlpool, draining away into an abyss.

Your sanctioning strains, even though the facets of your armour begin to weep, it..is different.

Previous expulsions of your righteous hatred were uncoloured by your frenzied state, but this time - something gives. A layer of ferrocrete cracking without warning, a protective barrier, perhaps the veil, rends. It is sudden, but yet such a quiet thing - for mortals. For you though...

Arcturion/Necro Only:

Spoiler

Talent: Mirror Darkly Activates.

A portal in reality opens. A long gallery door stretching into nowhere, nothingness, yet the edges are as clear to you as the sword in your hand, the purpose in your heart. It is a black glass pane, that ripples with power from beyond. Behind the glass is a shadow, but it drips with blood, runnels of it, buckets of gore and slime, provoking your thirst, the need for the wine of life to pass into your gullet - endlessly. You know the hunger of the Tyranids, but the thirst of the Great Angel is...something more.

The figure reaches out a hand, black wings unfolding, hulking round its shoulders.

~Arcturion~

~The Bleeding Heart~

~Come. Father awaits.~

The voice is familiar, but the figure runs in your mind's eye, like water washing colour from a portrait. Your hearts stop, and the physical plane disappears to leave a flat, blank space with impenetrable darkness, a darkness with odd stars, a burning sash of crimson-hell light, and the twin suns of a place...a place where brother killed each other.

You will now roll an Opposed WP against your OWN stats (so two rolls, one for 'you' and one for 'your other you').

If you fail, you are Stunned for 1 Turn per DoF on your roll. You may not use Strong Minded to Reroll. Your TDA does not compensate for the Stun, as this is psychic means.

The Magus bucks and spasms, black blood spurting from every orifice, as the bones and chitinous skull cracks, and the body is wrenched into a mangled mess, held together only in a twisted sack by its robes.

Nergüi:

The sincere duty completed, you retrieve the soul of another fallen from the decks of this blasphemous place, freeing their sprits to find the way to the Emperor, and home.

Edited July 30, 2022 by Mazer Rackham