40K/Inquisitor RPG. The Line of Damnation.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-06-17 09:12am

Pater strategically retreated behind Gorks' massive shield and started picking targets off with his Psycannon, narrowly avoiding being bisected by one of the hellhounds. He heard the Saint scream and blasted the warp-beast assaulting her in its gut, wishing he had more cannon fodder, or perhaps some Terminator armour.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-06-18 07:46pm

Talstrem's Nemesis blade cut the hound chewing on Lena's leg. A wave of telekinetic force knocked the hounds over as Varian charged in. The inquisitor was charged with psychic force, his abilities augmented to a superhuman level. He was a whirlwind of carnage and cared nothing for risk. Behind him, Nathan swung hs Nemesis blade in a lethal arc while Lena fired bolt rounds into the killer pack.

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Ristani was not surprised that his melta gun had failed to slay the infernal monstrosity. What chance did they have against it? None. But the Emperor was stronger than any mere man and his power was everywhere. They could not win, but the Emperor could. If they gave themselves over to him entirely. "The Emperor!" Ristani roared and the sound reveberated throughout the cathedral.

The Adraxians joined him. "THE EMPEROR!" A silvery light haloed the commissar as he drew upon the warp and it's power wrapped intself around him and envigorated him. A hail of weapon fire struck the daemonic machine and slew cultists as Ristani drew his relic chainsword and charged.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-06-18 08:06pm

Pater swung his force staff into one beast's head, firing enough warp energy through it to reduce it to droplets of sticky rain and bowling over the creatures behind it.

One of the beasts had latched on to Gorks' thunderhammer. After several seconds trying to shake it off Gork settled for shoving the hammer down it's throat and rather messily pushing its internal organs through its' sphincter.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-06-22 02:10pm

Pater plugged three of the beasts in the head in quick succession, but a fourth jumped on him before he could react. Why was he so slow? No time to worry about it now, as more beasts quickly fell on the downed Inquisitor...

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-06-23 05:58pm

Nathan telekinetically flung the murderous chaos hound off Pater and split it in two with his Force Sword. Gix was firing precise burst into the mass, blasting off limbs and splattering visceria all over the floor and wall. But it was Varian and the beastmen who were doing the damage. The slew fiercely and mercilessly. In less than a minute, they stood soaked in blood and gore over the slain bodies of the chaos creatures.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-06-23 08:42pm

Pater scrambled to his feet and fired a precise shot through one of the creature's heads, and threw compacted it against a second with a wave of his staff. Gork continued to smashy things with a reserved zest. Pater decapitated another creature and ducked behind Gorks' reassuring bulk, to reassess the situation. Dulled reflexes, full body ache... He decided that on this plague-pit of a planet it was better to be safe than sorry. He grabbed a syringe full of blessed Medicae serum off his belt and jabbed it into his neck.

Fire burst down his throat and into his lungs, and he dropped like a stone.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-06-27 07:27pm

Nathan caught Pater before he fell. "Easy there," he said as he reached for an injector in his belt. "This should pick you up," as he fired stimulants into Pater's bloodstream.

"Still with us Jolan?"

"Yes," the inquisitor responded. "It's still building. Lena, lead us."

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Whether is was luck, skill, or psychic force the spray of fire failed to touch Prius Ristani. The commissar ducked under a spiked metal limb and swung the his chainsword at the beast. The silvery glowing master work blade sliced through power cables and tore a gear out of the possessed monstrosity.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-06-27 07:48pm

Pater had no doubt that Nathan meant well, but firing him full of stimmies on top of the Holy Serum wasn't helping much. The fire spread through his whole body and blinding pain shot through his real eye, as whatever daemonic virus he'd picked up on the plague-ridden world fried his optic nerves. He leaned against a wall and retched, hacking up filmy green-grey goo that was most likely better out than in.

He coughed a few more times for good measure and then stood up on shakey legs. "Right," he muttered, leaning on his staff heavily. He was blind in his organic eye and dribbling blood from his nose, but he pushed such elemental distractions from his mind and willed himself to go on. "What's next?"

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-06-27 07:55pm

"We hope Lena can find the right path to the ritual before they finish whatever they are doing," responded Nathan. "And hopefully before our rearguard gets overwhelmed. Imperial troops are probably making a full out assault as we speak. I'm sure whatever the magi are up to will be very bad for them." Talstrem cracked a smile. "And it will probably be worse for us."

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-06-27 08:04pm

"I can't wait." Pater said in a tone which left it open for interpretation as sarcastic or literal. His stride got a little more measured and he unholstered his Psycannon once more, the hydraulics hissing faintly.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-07-02 12:03am

The door shattered as Lena kicked it in. A great room lay revealed before them. The first half contained icons of saints and heros, now defiled with shit, blood, and other less identifiable substances. A line of eight filthy monks formed a semi-circle as they chanted in an obscene tongue. Behind them was huge and grotesque magus who bore the marks of favor of his monstrous god. Behind him was a shifting cloud of darkness. From it emerged the diseased and emaciated forms of the Plaguebearers of Nurgle. They clutched rusty blades of ghastly potency and sprung forward.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-07-05 06:00pm

The creatures seemed cowed by Lena's prescence, and reluctant to strike her. No one else, unfortunately, had such a blessing. For her part, thoughts of how she used to open doors before the Inquisition showed up were banished by the consuming task of destroying the demons.

Her skin, and that of the nearby psykers, tingled with power, and crawled with revusion at the same time. They were near now, very near. "Push forward!" she shouted through the helmet.

A thunderclap echoed from the other end of the nave, and another shout replied, "Send these foul beasts back to the Hell they come from!" Lasfire of Stormtroopers and the bolter rounds of the remaining Iron Men shot out as, at last, Vonrilyental deigned to join the assault force. He himself had a more effective weapon, procured from an armoury somewhere, a psycannon, its blessed bolter rounds striking true and deeply with every pull of the trigger, staggering, wounding, or destroying the foul creatures as they approached.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-07-05 06:18pm

Prius Ristani rolled away from the gigantic killing machine. It ponderously swung an arm at him, sundering the floor tiles in a shower of debris. An Adraxian raised his grenade launcher and fired. The Krak grenade flew true, striking the already ravaged join. With a shriek the hellish war machine fell, shacking the room. He rolled away and unslung his melta.

The abomination withstood the blast of hellish head, although several exposed cables melted into nothing. Ristani switched back to his chainsword and struck again, this time at an elbow join. Armour buckled, cables and motivators were severed, and fluids sprayed over him.

The creature flailed out with its damaged limb. It was impossible to parry. Ristani dodged. Not far enough. The limb struck him and cracked his carapace armour. The colonel-commissar was sent sprawling.

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Plasma flashed from Gix's pistol, blasting one of the Plaguebearers to vapour and ash in a single incandescent volley. He was tired, so damned tired. But he could not quit. The plasma pistol would need to recharge. With his other hand he raised his bolt pistol and fired.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-05 06:22pm

Pater fired his Psycannon at the closest daemon as he swung his Staff into a single-handed fighting stance. "Nice of him to show up." He commented to noone in particular.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-07-06 02:30pm

The cathedral shook from its roots, and the entire hive shook with it as an earthquake tore down spires and and landing pads and tunnels. A yawning chasm opened in the floor, and the distant ceiling was rent asunder, windows shivered into thousands of pieces, the many new entrances flooding the desecrated cathedral with the dust of both industrial waste and the dust and blood-vapour of the grand battles ouside.

The creature Prius fought sagged for a moment, as if whatever foulness controlled it was termporarily interruped. Lena let out a shriek of inhuman rage, and staggered back a few paces.

For his part, the Magus let out a cackle of glee, his task done. He could feel the final traces of his mortality being eaten away by the manyfold diseases he carried, but didn't allow it to distract him from gazing rapturously at the heart of the circle, where something blasphemously alive stirred inside the very rock, pulsing with unspeakable and undefinieable energies.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-06 03:41pm

Pater staggered from the psychic backblast. "Throne!" Things had just gotten much, much worse. He recovered and, with a wave of his staff, hurled a large piece of fallen masonry into his foes.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-07-06 04:19pm

The quakes threw Ristani back on his knees. Debris fell around him as chunks of the ceiling came down and defaces statues topled and shattered. Pain shot through Ristani's body as his broken ribs grated. No matter. His pain was nothing compared to the Emperor's. The arm joint of the war machine was exposed and the daemonic thing was frozen. Prius raised the silvery glowing chain sword and struck.

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Varian rushed the daemons. He howled as one stroke of his blade cut a Plaguebearer in half at the hips. It fell apart, dissolving into a pool of foulness. Another came at him from his flank, its rusty blade scoring his armour but failing to find his flesh. Talstrem hacked that one down with his Nemesis blade and they both wheeled to seek new foes.

Frag grenades flew across the chamber and few among the cultists with sharp cracks as they burst, showering the cultists with deadly shrapne. Gix's bolt pistol fired, a hail of shells heading towards the Magus.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-06 04:45pm

Pater hefted the chunk of masonry, satisfyingly slick with blood, and rammed another set of opponents into the wall. He then swung his staff in a quick left-to-right motion, blasting the cultists and daemons in front of him to the floor and giving him a clear shot at the rotting Magus. He raised his Psycannon and fired it on full-auto. I'll bet this bastard has some sort of impenetrable shield, he thought to himself. God-Emperor, I'm getting cynical.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-07-07 02:11am

Impetigo's chest exploded into a fountain of gore and unspeakable mucus, and he staggered back, dropping to his knees as his spine, or what passed for it, disappeared out of his back.

Should have seen that one coming, really... his oxygen deprived brain, again, if it could be called that, thought, and he promptly fell face down on the floor, quite, quite dead, and shortly thereafter both dead and filled with frag grenade shrapnel..

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-07-07 02:34am

The bolt pistol almost slipped from Gix's graps. A voice in his head babbled. He died. Rape it all, he actually died. His voice said something else. "KILL THEM ALL! THE EMPEROR IS WITH US!"

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-07 06:13am

Pater allowed himself a lopsided smile, which quickly turned into a frown. It's never that easy. Never. Then he saw it. "The bastard summoned something!" He gestured to the circle.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-07-07 12:07pm

The cultists, confused and shocked by the loss of their leader, panicked for vital moments, until at last, one of them shouted for the... rather uninventive tactic of 'summon more demons' which, to be fair, was what they were best at. The remaining servants of the 'unsepakable carrion lord,' cowered and drew back with the defeat of their summoner, some even turning on heretic cultists nearby as the pact that bound them to the will of the ex-sorcerer was ended.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-07 12:16pm

While the others capitalised on the confusion spreading through the Chaos ranks, Pater ran over to the Summoning circle and extended his thoughts. Had they been in time?

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-07-07 12:36pm

The warp spawned mind that waited, pulling itself together in the centre of the circle was beyond words in its sheer power.

So, obviously not. A dull exlosion shook through the ruined hall from the far end, as the creature that Ristani and his compatiots fought finally decided to die, though not from the wounds inflicted by the commissar, but from the bonds that held the demon within it bound to the mortal plane being severed by some unforseen effect of the summoned Demon Prince.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-07 01:09pm

Pater's cautious mental probe merely brushed the edge of the Daemon Prince's mind, but even so it was forcibly catapulted back into his body. He staggered back a few feet in shock. "We need the Saint here!" he roared.