40K/Inquisitor RPG. The Line of Damnation.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 02:38am

Hellgun spent, Prius gripped the barrel and swung it like a baseball bat, connecting with the grenade and launching it back the way it came.

After all that calming talk, he watched the inquisitors go nuts and decided it seemed like a perfectly reasonable response. Discarding the useless hellgun, he drew his powersword and kicked off the wall toward the marines...

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 02:42am

Pater cannoned in to the reeling Marine, pushing him off balance. This was suicidal, but they were all dead anyway.

Better to go out with a bang than a whimper.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 02:44am

As he exited Lilith's range, he felt his powers returning with a rush, a sense of godlike invinicibility rising over him as he lashed out mentally at the nearest marine, while raising his energy sword to strike, screaming incoherently at the top of his lungs.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 02:48am

The CSM groped at Pater, but he was too fast. He grabbed onto one of it's backpack nozzles, swung around behind it, and jammed his Staff into it's neck. He screamed something in an eldritch tongue and the Marine's blood flash-heated to boiling point.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 02:50am

Across the room a traitor legionaire did not see his end coming. He was frozen in place as the commissar closed. A sweep of Prius's power sword decapitated him just as he began to recover. His comrade shook his head and began to focus as his battle brothers died.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 02:53am

In the normal course of things, Prius was not a strong psyker with regards to mental offensives, but he had focused his everything into one vicious attack that had overwhelmed his target...

But left him with precious little reserves as his decapitation swing set him to spinning helplessly in the room... lashing out with his boot, he kicked the marine's corpse, at least aiming himself toward a wall that he could use to regain control...

He knew it wouldn't be enough, though. He could see the other marine regaining focus, and knew that he would die before he reached the wall...

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 02:53am

Pater used the giant's steaming corpse as a shield while he poured Bolter fire (Borrowed from the dead Marine) into the remaining one.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 02:59am

Training and instinct took over. Ordinary bolter rounds posed a threat, but close quarters against a mere human was not a thing to be feared. The marine launched a hail of fire against Pater, blasting chunks out of his battle brother's armour, before his conscious mind placed a power weapon as a priority above a bolter. By then the colonel-commissar was too close to shot and close combat had begun.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 03:03am

Prius kicked out with his foot, boot clamping on the marine's bolter-bearing arm and giving him the leverage for a massive overhand swing toward his head...

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 03:05am

The human was too slow. The marine punched him away and drew his short sword sized chain knife.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 03:08am

The body of the Marine that Pater was hanging onto was still rotating; Wiat for it and..
He mentally triggered the Corpse's boosters and the remaining marine was hit full-on by his compatriot's body.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 03:09am

The force of the blow declamped Prius' boot and shattered his knee... he banged into the wall and lashed out with his blade, bracing with one hand as he stabbed straight at the chaos marine.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 03:16am

The marine staggered and swayed as he was struck with his battle brother's body. The momentary distraction proved costly, opening up to Prius's lunge. The blade punched through his armour effortlessly and ruptured a lung before the marine could pull away. The deadly warrior ignored the wound and feinted, looking for an opening. It was annoying to be at a disadvantage of both reach and weapon quality, but the puny human's wounds meant that this would be over momentarily and then the power blade would be his.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 03:19am

Pater, still clinging on to the corpse, pulled out his lasgun, palced it to the Marine's neck, and fired.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 03:20am

His scrabbling fingers found purchase on the wall as he hacked away desperately with his other hand, no form or artistry to it. His schola swordsmanship instructor would kick his ass from one end of the academy to another if he were to witness this display, and a plea of extenuating circumstances held little weight in the commissariat.

Results did weight heavily, though, and a lunatic insanely swinging a blade that could cut through nearly any manmade material was a daunting target to approach indeed...

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 03:23am

The traitor twisted at the last moment, causing the gun to shift. It merely scored armour, blasting out a chunk. The marine grabbed and crushed the lasgun barrel with his fist as he lunged at the inquisitor with his chain knife.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 03:25am

Just as the marine lunged, Prius stabbed forward. His blade punctured the marine, though he couldn't say where, as a sudden spray of blood erupted from the chainsword severing his arm above the elbow.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 03:26am

Pater blocked the chainsword using his robotic hand.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 03:27am

The powerblade punched all the way throught the traitor legionaire, destroying his primary heart. He reflexively severed the forearm of his attacker and turned back towards the inquisitor.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-12-14 03:29am

Adivan's energy blade came down in a blurred arc, slashing through the vacuum fastert than the eye could follow. The Inquisitor felt it strike the Chaos Lord's neck, shear through the remanants of his enemy's wards, and slice through skin, flesh and bone like butter.

He blinked. His target wasn't there any more. Not dead, not disintegrated, just... gone. At the very last instant, some power had reached out and snatched him away, leaving behind a severed arm and a hissing, hating Daemon-sword.

And the dead. There were a lot of them. A glance showed Adivan that only two Stormtroopers remained, both severely injured; one of the technicians had been reduced to a red mist covering half the surfaces in the room, while the other had been hurled against a wall ahrd enough to break most of his bones. Captain Fortis was apparently stil alive, though more badly wounded; the medic tending him had been between him and Mortragor, and absorbed most of the blast. His skeleton was now embedded in the wall.

Must get medical attention for them, the infirmary is... that way. Still, one thing to take care of before I go... Wearily, Adivan stretched out his hand, and his faithful combi-weapon floated over to him. The flick of a switched primed the meltagun, and he aimed carefully at the floating Daemon Sword. He pulled the trigger, and a bolt of incandescent energy hotter than star leapt from the muzzle and caught the blasphemous artefact head on. Something distant and inhuman screamed, and Adivan's auto-senses temporarily cut out as the flash overwhelmed them. A hearbeat later, they were back, and he could see again.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 03:29am

Pater pulled his staff from the corpse and raised it in a defensive posture, psy energy crackling on it.

Elsewhere: The PsyKing summoned the arm and Daemon sword moments before they were incinerated and grafted them back on to Mortragor's body.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 03:31am

Prius watched his arm drift away with glassy disbelief as the suit sealed off and his system went to work trying to heal the trauma. His hand unclenched from the grab rail and he drifted aimlessly, a helpless spectator.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-14 03:33am

The traitor lunged, his chain knife grinding against Pater's staff as his free hand reached foreward to seize and crush.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-14 03:34am

Pater parried and snarled. "I have defeated two of your kind today. Do your worst; It is nothing compared to the Emperor's Wrath."

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-14 03:36am

"Pater," he whispered over the vox. "My sword..."

Prius' energy blade drifted through the air in lazy arcs, slicing through a piece of passing debris that hardly altered its momentum at all...