40K/Inquisitor RPG. The Line of Damnation.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-12-08 10:58pm

Adivan cursed as he felt two of the supporting stormtroopers die. Such things were inevitable he knew, and to die in service to the Emperor was by far the best way to go... but, all things considered, he preferred living for the Emperor.

As he felt his pistols' ammo tanks run dry, he gave a small smile. They had worked just as the Lord Inquisitor had promised; no overheat worries, barely any need for recharge or heat venting, and better ammo capacity. Returning them to their holsters, he snatched the new energy blade from his belt, ignited it, and ran for the surviving Chaos troopers.

As he emerged from the heart of the Blind cloud, a hail of las-fire enveloped him, but he came on. Most of it had missed in any case, and that which did not achieved little more than a few scorch marks on his chestplate. Before the enemy could react, he was among them, slashing apart heads, limbs and whole bodies. He gave a brief laugh as one of the corrupted soldiers let fly at him with a full-auto burst; a step back, and the shots vapourised two of the trooper's fellows. That one didn't live to regret his mistake; a flick of Adivan's wrist, and his head rolled across the ground.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-12-08 11:02pm

Xerxes pried a brand-new lasrifle out of an armoury locker, admiring it's fine grip. He had never seen anything like this in the precinct armoury. It was buffed to a shine, and had finely inlaid inscriptions on it's hilt, marking it as a blessed weapon.
He recited the inscriptions to himself in the tongue of his homeworld's clerical tongue, then reverently placed it in his holster. He voxed his squad. "Duran here, Sir."
"Whats our status, Corporal?"
"Loaded up, sir. Trooper Mkoll picked up a fine looking missile launcher, and the rest of us have grabbed lasrifles and plasma guns."
"Copy that. Meet me up in the meeting room."

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-08 11:05pm

The Path troopers near Adivan scattered, scared of the odd, glowing blade he held. Then, suddenly, the Blademaster leapt from the shadows and engaged Adivan in combat, his Power Sword resisting the energy blade.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-08 11:07pm

"The forward elements are engaged..." Prius mused briefly. "Novum, Ristani. Moving elements to flank on the left."

The Rifles began making their way through the tangled manufactorum that stood along the left side of the front...

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-08 11:12pm

"Ristani, Novum. Watch out for a counterattack on your right flank. Looks like a squad of Stormtroopers with Flamers."

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-08 11:17pm

Trooper Yinnan stared at the twisting rune on the machine. "Hey sarge, look at this..." he said, feeling compelled to reach out and touch it. His squad leader pivoted, spotting what the trooper was doing.

"No!" he yelled as Yinnan's hand brushed the rune, triggering a blast of sorcerous energy that engulfed half the squad. As if on cue, the stormtroopers struck, their flamers inflicting horrid damage on the rest of the platoon in the confined space.

"Engaging now, Novum," Prius answered. The manufactorum was a key piece of terrain in this area, and if they could hold it, they could deny the enemy access to the surface sectors.

Which would lead to a brutal fight as they retreated into the underhive, but there was little to be done for that.

Among positions occupied by the other troops, runes snapped to radiant life, drawing the weak-minded toward them...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-08 11:23pm

Cait ran out the building and activated his webkey.

since the mon-keigh did not seem willing to share transport with others, and he had seen the unfortunate losses in people who could have helped in the fight against the great enemy.

With a sudden howl the Tau, and Kroot saw the modified Vyper burst through the fabric of space and time. The Jester jumped into the cockpit. Jump on board, there's plenty of room for you all.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-08 11:26pm

Gix felt powers stir the Warp. Enticing waves drawing there victims towards a deadly rendevous. "Hethor, sharp right! Take us to the manufactorium"

"The Guard have already-"

"It's a trap. And don't touch anything, no matter how tempting!"

Unaware that he was too late, Jolan Gix triggered his vox on Guard standard frequencies. "This is Inquisitor Gix. You are walking into a trap. Do not touch anything with Chaos Marks! Repeat! Do not touch anything with Chaos Marks! We are coming to assist!"

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-12-08 11:32pm

Throne of Earth, he's fast! Adivan thought, as he parried what must have been the tenth attempt at a killing blow in as many seconds. He had barely had time to block them all, let alone make any attempt at striking back, and only his precognition had saved him from joining the dismembered Path troopers on the ground. Now, even that seemed to be failing him; everything was narrowing down to the next few heartbeats, the future beyond that blurred into incomprehensibility. The Inquisitor didn't know how long he last against this... thing. He could dimly hear the sounds of lasfire and screams, and something warm brushed past his leg, but it barely registered. He couldn't afford the distraction.

There. Adivan saw it a hearbeat before it happened. The foe's blade slipped slightly in his hand, and left an opening. Adivan took it without hesitation, and suddenly it was the Blademaster who was on the defensive, scrambling back and desperately fending off the blurring yellow energy blade. As he swung, Adivan risked a quick glance over his enemy's shoulder; there was a wall there, not five metres away. A few more steps, and this abomination would be trapped.

As though it had read his mind, the Blademaster gave a snarl, and lunged at him. Shifting it's power sword to a one-handed grip, it pulled an ornate dagger with the other. Adivan could feel the taint of Chaos emanating from it, and he didn't want to imagine what it might do if it struck him. He gave ground before the Blademaster; four step, five, six. As the Chaos assassin attempted a complicated feint, he slashed down at the dagger with all his strength. The Blademaster yanked his hand away at the last possible second, and a blow that should have severed it's hand at the wrist merely sliced half it's fingers. It leapt back and howled with pain and rage as the dagger clattered to the ground, and Adivan felt something else echo the scream.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-08 11:35pm

The dagger leapt back into it's scabbard of it's own accord. The Blademaster ran towards the wall and backflipped off of it, twirling around as it landed behind Adivan, power sword arcing down..

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-08 11:37pm

"Damnation," Prius snarled, lining up a shot with his laspistol at a trooper heading for one of the runes. The man's head exploded as the bolt lanced through it. "DO NOT TOUCH THE RUNES!" he bellowed again. "Bakker, get the regiment into a defensive dispersal. We'll hold the ground we've already taken here."

The attack was completely stalled, and the heretics had reinforcements coming in a steady flow, threatening to push the Rifles out of the massive complex altogether.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-08 11:39pm

The Path Stormtroopers were coming from behind Prius, too. He felt a sickly touch on his mind, and the troopers around him suddenly started firing at things that weren't there. He saw a dissolute-looking man raising his hand at them.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-08 11:42pm

The Venom craft was ladened with Firewarriors and Kroot, as iheaded to the fight the mdified Vyper's Shuriken cannons were loaded wit bio-wexplosivce ammo.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-12-08 11:46pm

Adivan swore as he spun, barely deflecting a blow that would have split him from head to groin. He was beginning to tire, and he knew that, while the power armour's drug supplies could increase his endurance, they too would run out, and then he would be finished. He had to take this thing down before that, but how? Over a minute of mortal combat had not harmed it at all beyond some severed fingers, and it seemed hardly fazed by that. As he stepped back before it's renewed onslaught, he wracked his brain for some other way of destroy this thing. A number came to mind, but most required him to get far enough to actually draw another weapon.

He lifted an eyebrow as another idea hit him. Hmmm... that might work. Risking a brief reduction in his concentration on the battle at hand, he reached out with his TK, and plucked a handful of frag grenades from his supply. Yanking away the pins, he let them drop to the ground around him, and then dived backwards, rolling to his feet five metres away as the grenades detonated.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-08 11:49pm

Two Chaos troopers were blown to pieces as their torsos were vaporized by Hethor's volley. The veteran dodged to the side behind a piece of machinery as navy boys filled the air with autoshotguns blasts. The troopers moved into cover as Severa and Jolan added plasma volleys to the hail of fire.

Hethor jumped up with his recharged weapon. He blew away a chunch of fire and Chaos soldier with the plasma gun. He dropped the weapon, letting it swing on the assault sling. A las blasts showered the area with light as it was scattered by the conversion field. With bolt pistol and plasma pistol, Hethor slew, covering the advance of the navy boys. At close range their shotguns mangled flesh and armour. The chaotics fell back against the Hethor's onslaught.

Bolt pistol in one hand, power sword in the other, Hethor lead the advance deeper into the manufactorium.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-08 11:50pm

And at once the flanking force becomes outflanked. He dived to the side as the man raised his hand, skidding on the ground as he snapped off a series of shots with his laspistol in an effort to divert him from whatever foul works he was attempting.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-08 11:52pm

The Blademaster tried to leap away from the blast, but didn't quite make it. Shrapnel, fire and the shockwave threw it to the ground. It sliced the legs off of a trooper who came too close, and quickly dropped the power sword and drove the Daemonic Dagger into the hapless trooper. He shrivelled as his bodily fluids were sucked out of him and channeled into the Blademaster, who jumped back to it's feet, healed, though now naked since it's armour was blown off.

GeneralTacticus · Post by **GeneralTacticus** » 2004-12-08 11:58pm

That was all the opening Adivan required. Leaving the energy blade in his left hand, he pulled the upgraded meltagun from his shoulder, levelled it at the recovering abomination, and fired it one-handed. Even the stormtroopers had to turn away as the ravening energy blast swept by.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-09 12:04am

The Blademaster shrieked and tried to leap out of the way, but didn't quite make it. Half of it was incinerated insantly, and the other half lay meweling in a broken heap on the ground. With its last breath it threw the Dagger to a nearby Path trooper, and the Path force in the area swiftly retreated into the shadows.

The Psyker absorbed the las bolts Prius directed at him with a thought. Hrm.. Immune to deception. He clenched his fist, and Prius's comrades turned and opened fire on him. It wasn't hard to make their hatred of the Commissar reach bursting point. They weren't very accurate, however, and at least half of them continued firing at nothing.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-09 12:09am

A cluster of cultists died or were broken as their sargent exploded in a shower of bone and flesh, unfortunatly these were followers of the currupt and corpelent one. The virus ladened shrapnel was just assisting the minions mission and spreading the rot.

What you want me to cease fire?
I oh we are fighting the minions of the pestilant one.

Great, Then it's fire, and nuclear guns..

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-09 12:15am

Trust no one. If you do your job properly, you will be hated by the weak minds around you.

Bolts scorched and scored his armor, and one shot flared past his head, sizzling away his ear. Prius rolled behind cover, drawing the plasma pistol and snapping off a shot, disintegrating a headquarters lieutenant who was lining up another blast with his lasrifle. Prius wasn't even aware of the wound to his head, so focused was he on personal survival. The plasma pistol hummed softly as it recharged, at which point he rose to his knees and lined the psyker up in his sights, snapping off a shot as more las blasts spattered his immediate vicinity.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-09 12:19am

The Psyker exploded in a swirl of warp-energy, taking out most of those in the immediate area. The remaining fit Path troopers retreated, and would shortly be fighting Gix's troopers. The wounded got up onto their feet and charged at the remaining explosive icons, determined to serve their God to the last.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-09 12:22am

Kill the Commissar.

That sounded like a good idea to Hethor. There was some fighting ahead. The impulse to kill the commissar seemed to be directing him. . . .

Jolan Gix felt the psychic wave wash over him and his people. With a surge of effort he smashed it away.

Hethor felt the urge abate, at least to normal levels. He forced two traitors into cover with bolt pistol blasts while the navy boys chucked in grenades. He continued to advance, ready to scythe down all that oppossed him.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-09 12:25am

Prius was busy lining up his next shot at one of the befuddled Guardsmen when he noticed they were no longer evincing any interest in his immediate demise. He let out a huff of air, relieved that at least he wouldn't meet his demise at the hands of his own weak-minded allies.

It was then that he noticed he was pretty badly scorched up. Looking down at his armor, he saw blood trickling from a variety of different wounds. But if not for the armor, he would be quite dead right now, instead of simply in a great deal of pain. Gix's words came back to him as he holstered his pistol and levered himself upright.

The Emperor endures, and so must we.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-09 12:25am

More Path trooper surged in from the sides of Gix's advancing column, supported by Assault Weapons troopers. A spearhead team of Stormtroopers headed for Gix's command squad.

Just as Prius was dusting himself off, the wounded Path troopers set off the remaining explosive icons.