Deathwatch - Acheros Salient IC

[DrK]

As the two corrupted servitors detect and zero in the marines the kill team advances swiftly down the metal access corridor, Baldir and Elyas leading the way with buzzing chain blade and razor sharp ceremonial blades in hand. The lead servitor raises its arm and a massive gout of black flame rolls a full 20m down the corridor engulfing all the marines save that of Ragnir who had remained still trying to draw upon his storm powers (but sadly in the confines of the hull the nature of the towering ship had dampened his ability to summon his powers).

Spoiler: Flamer

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Catches all the marines who advanced (so likely all expect Ragnir) (2d10)[7][9](16)+4 Pen 4
- Ag test to avoid the flames
- if Hit second Ag test of catch fire (if on Fire 1d10 dam (ignore armour) and 1 fatigue / round, + WP test or have to put out flames)
- If damaged Toxic, T+10 test or additional (1d10)[7] damage

The second servitor, seeing Elyas racing towards him lets out a strange metallic howl of battle rage and scuttles on strangely insectile mettalic legs to engage the marine, razor sharp claws with crackling powered edges and blood stained tips reaching out to punch into his chest.

Spoiler: Servitor Charge

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Charging Elyas
(1d100)[28] TN 54 damage (1d10+8)[14] PEN 4
-- Elyas may parrry or dodge as he see's fit

[Bphill561]

Korbin thinks this was not how his sneaking was suppose to go. He will have to review the tape later to figure out what went wrong.

Spoiler: Please don't burn

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Agi is 61

Roll one to avoid (1d100)[78]

Fate point if needed to avoid attack (second roll) (1d100)[97]

Roll two to not burn if needed (1d100)[2]

Toughness roll if needed (40, unnatural lowers difficulty by 1 stage so 50) (1d100)[72]

EDIT: This game hates me...

[UselessBlob]

Spoiler: Don't get dead rolls

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Roll to avoid flamer TN 44 (1d100)[83]
Roll to not burn TN 44 (1d100)[29]
Roll to resist Toxin TN 50 (1d100)[42] & reroll (1d100)[10]
Parry TN 51 (1d100)[20]

[Deadguy]

Kheres Sheet Kheres, Iron Hands Techmarine Player: Deadguy

As Kheres moved forward, the tainted flames washed over his armor. The gel-like fuel attempting to stick to the plating and burn it's way through the Emperor-gifted defenses. He moved stoically through the peril to bring his mighty servo-arm to bear against the foul creature that dared meld itself with machine as he had. His was a dual-blessed union between the Emperor's genes and the Machine's steel. He'd not let such an abomination stand before him.

Spoiler: OOC: Checks

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✥ Ag vs flame TN 40 (1d100)[18]
✥ Ag vs catch fire TN 40 (1d100)[45]
✥ T vs toxic TN 70 (1d100)[32] || reroll (if needed) (1d100)[93]

✥ WS TN 41 (+10 charge) (1d100)[28]
✥ Damage (2d10)[17]+14 Pen 10

[Haval]

Baldr snarled as he sees the unnatural looking fire coming towards him but isn't quite able to get out of the way in time. He'll veer to the left to take the fire on his side but will otherwise barrel through the fire to kill the thing for it's temerity. As he gets closer he'll thumb the activation rune on his chainsword to chop the thing that had attacked him in half.

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20 pen 4. Soak 16. So 8 wounds. No toxin damage and not on fire

Full Action - Charge the one with the Flamer
Reaction - Parry if needed

vs. WS 50 (+10 Signature Wargear Master) (+10 Charge) (+10 Outnumbering) (+10 Double Team)
(1d100)[32]

Any damage (1d10+3, Pen 3, Tearing, Balanced) + 10 for StrB
(1d10+3)[7] or (1d10+3)[10]
So 20 damage pen 3 on the left arm

Any RF
(1d100)[39]
(1d10)[3]

Parry if needed
vs. WS 50
(1d100)[23]

Wounds: 12/20
Fate: 3

[BananaPhone]

Ragnir

Ragnir gritted his teeth beneath his helmet, a wave of irritation washing over him as he re-focused and re-channelled the wrath of the Emperor once more.

ooc:

Spoiler

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Action: Casting - Smite: (1d100)[61] vs TN 87
Damage: (4d10)[27] against both Servitors (as they're next to each other), PR 4.

[UselessBlob]

Spoiler: Feint

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TN 41 (1d100)[9]

Spoiler: Attack

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TN 51 (1d100)[68]
Damage (1d10)[7] +13 Pen 2

[DrK]

Even as the toxic fire washes over the marines, armour hissing and some of the superhuman warriors gritting teeth against the heat its soon apparent that the servants of the Dark Gods are no match for battle hardened Deathwatch marines. There is a crackle of lightning as arcs of psychic lightning reverberate between the creatures leaving cogs hissing and exposed flesh sizzling like cooking meat. The creatures do not have much longer live as one is dismbembered by the servo arm that crushes its entire upper body and seconds later the second is sliced into multiple pieces by whirling chainswords.

As the sound of crackling flames dies down all of you can hear a maddened feral angry scream echoing through the decks. THe savage inhuman wailing of hate and horror sounding like its coming from down below in the depths of the ship. Beside you the transport tubes are broken, the doors of one peeled out of their frame but the metallic rungs up the tube of the emergency ladder are easily accessible should you wish to ascend towards your goal or descend to investigate the snarling and screaming sounds,

[Deadguy]

Kheres Sheet Kheres, Iron Hands Techmarine Player: Deadguy

The servo-arm reached down to retrieve the flamer, crushing it into a twisted heap of steel to prevent any other servitors from utilizing the tainted weapon.

"The data core is priority one." He didn't even look down toward the ladder leading toward the screaming, instead intent on ascending upward.

Spoiler: OOC: Checks

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✥ None

[UselessBlob]

Elyas confirms Kheres' statement with a nod. We go up. Keep your ears open, though. Just because we ignore the noise does not mean whatever is making it will ignore us."

[Haval]

Baldr stops to listen to the scream to judge how far away it was and whether it might be coming closer. 'It makes that noise as soon as we put down the servitors. Did those things have a handler?'

[TheNotoriousSMP]

"I find myself agreeing with Elyas," Zeruel comments as he follows Kheres up the ladder, "No doubt whatever is making that noise is not finished with us just yet."

[BananaPhone]

Ragnir

The talons of lightning rescinded from Ragnir's image as the scent of ozone and charred flesh filled the corridor.

"Two fewer enemies of man..." the Rune Priest uttered to himself, as he turned to consort with the others for scaling their current obstacle.

Nodding once in agreement to the conclusion, Ragnir brought up the rear and started to ascend the ladder in the wake of his brothers.

[DrK]

The kill team scrambles up the transport tube, servo powered armour and their own inhuman power making light work of the 20 or so storeys of scrambling. Reaching the levels you want, the baroque architecture changes. Thick marble inlaid with gold and heavy decorations covers the walls and even in the darkness, illuminated only by the glowing eyes of the armour its magnificence is impressive.

Here and there a glow lamp flickers, discarded prayer scrolls litter the floor and at the end of the corridor is a huge mausoleum with saints of the mechanicus towering above you. At the end of the hall, on the far side is a huge metallic double doorway. Massive doors sealed shut and made from ceramite. To either side of the door, hanging from the ceilings are long tendrils, semi sentient mechandrites with huge weapons on the end. That the mechandrites and machine spirits guarding the door are active is evidenced by the half dozen dead bloated corspes with crude clothing and chaos symbols

[UselessBlob]

Elyas is relieved to see the doors still sealed. "Excellent, the enemy has failed to breach the chamber. Kheres, can you disable the mechadendrites from here?"

[Haval]

Baldr will choose to bring up the rear just in case something was actually following them.

Spoiler

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Awareness
vs. Per 48 (Awareness +10) (+20 Auto Senses & Heightened Senses)
(1d100)[56]

[Bphill561]

Korbin's First-Aid checks in Transport

Spoiler: Fix the Booboo

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Medicae 81 + 40 Equipment

On Korbin who has 15 damage (1d100)[20]
On Baldr who has 7 damage (1d100)[33]

Heal amount is 14 points on success

Is anyone else feeling crispy?

[Deadguy]

Kheres Sheet Kheres, Iron Hands Techmarine Player: Deadguy

"Hrmm..." Kheres jaw was set hard as he took in the situation. On the one hand, he was grateful that Adeptus Mechanicus defenses had held against the traitors. On the other, he now had to figure out how to pass them himself. Time is of the essence.

First, he looked for any sort of control panel placed in the hall they had entered. The techpriests would be required to perform ritual maintenance on these doors and mechandrites. Barring an actual conduit directly to the machine spirits, he tried to recall any hymns or intonements that would put the sentient machines at ease and allow them to pass.

Spoiler: OOC: Checks

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✥ Security TN 80 (1d100)[46]
✥ Tech Use TN 100 (unnatural x2) (1d100)[44]
✥ Forbidden Lore: Adeptus Mechanicus TN 90 (unnatural x2) (1d100)[76]

[Haval]

Baldr is more concerned with the damage to the wolf pelt covering his armour but will thank Korbin for his assistance.

[TheNotoriousSMP]

Zeruel positions himself beside Baldr, one gauntleted hand gripping his chainsword as he readies himself should any of their foes arrive while Kheres is working.

[DrK]

The Ravenguard pauses, foam skin and auto sutures sprayed onto the wounds as the repair cement applied afterwards fixes up the gashes in the armour that the fire and attacks from the servitors had caused. Even as he patches up his superhuman bretheren he can see the techmarine working hard.

Spoiler: @Healing

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How is it 14 damage healed? I thought you healed your Int bonus in damage, so 7?

By the far side of the room Kheres pulled a panel off the wall, the priceless marble facade smashing on the ground as he pulled out the wires and optical switches beneath. The smell of smoke and machine oil wafting out of the open panel. Communing with the defensive machine spirit he could feel its resitsance but as he soothed the spirit he offered the appropriate command codes.

The entire Kill team saw the autoguns slowly lowering and the mechandrites go limp and retract as the door opens a fraction with a soft hiss of of escaping air, a great bank of dark incences leaking out from where the armoured doors had opening a crack. Within you can make out a large chamber, the far side completely walled by polarised armourglass, but the just behidn the door is a line of heavy barricades made up of crates, spares cogitator banks and half a dozen heavily armed red cowled skitarii ducked behind with their phased plasma rifles and mechandrite stabilised weapons systems raised. Behind them shrouded in the red robes of the mechanicus and carrying the cog axe of authority is an impressive looking mechanicus priest



It looks with its cybernetic eyes on its solid metallic head. "IDENTIFY IMMEDIATE +++ 6.7 SECONDS TO COMPLY ++++ LETHAL FORCE WILL EMPLOY IF NEGATIVE ++++ it blares out towards you from its inbuild vox casters.

[Deadguy]

Kheres Sheet Kheres, Iron Hands Techmarine Player: Deadguy

The tech-marine didn't seem startled or disturbed the the demands of the priest. It was to be expected that they would have made their final stand within these sacred halls. With no helm to hide his own cybernetics, he held out the mechanical hand as a symbol of non-aggression. His words were a garbled feedback of computer speak when he addressed the demands.

Techna-Lingua: "Iron Hand+++Mechanicus Cerebral Implant+++Serial Number: M841Y6M700732+++Mission: Retrieval of Data Core"

Spoiler: OOC: Checks

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✥ Good Reputation - Adeptus Mechanicus

[Haval]

It looks with its cybernetic eyes on its solid metallic head. "IDENTIFY IMMEDIATE +++ 6.7 SECONDS TO COMPLY ++++ LETHAL FORCE WILL EMPLOY IF NEGATIVE ++++ it blares out towards you from its inbuild vox casters.

'Aye, and if you know what we are you'll know you'd need lot of lethal force to take all of us. So settle down and tell us about what happened here since the ship went down?'

[BananaPhone]

Ragnir


Ragnir had kept a watch on the surroundings as the tech-marine got to work. To be honest, he never liked ships, or more specifically, machines. The techies may talk of a machine spirit, but to Ragnir's senses and mind one needed flesh to have a soul. These metal hulks had no more a soul than a rock or a waterfall. At least the latter might smell nicer than this place, if Ragnir's keen nose had anything to say about it.

When Kheres finally got the door open, Ragnir maintained his vigilance as the huge armorsteel portal opened to reveal the equally observant and even more defensive tech-priest within - his words backed up by the dozens of high-tech weapons his followers were pointing in the Astarte's direction.

Best not intervene, Ragnir counselled himself silently. Kheres had enough bionics he might as well have joined them, so perhaps it was wiser to let him speak.

[DrK]

The mechanicus appears to relax as Kheres releases a binary response to its demand. The skitarri stand down, weapons lowering to a neutral position as they maintain a watchful posture on the entry chamber. The mechanicus looks at the Marines and gestures with the long sinuous mechandrites to bid them enter.

++ IDENTIFICATION ACCEPTED ++ it finally says. ++ DESIGNATION OMICRON 878, LATHES CLUSTER. MASTER OF THE COGITATOR ++ as it beckons you into the cogitator bank you can see the central cogitator is massive, the size of a small cathedral surrounded by half a dozen antechambers containing all manner of support functions, fans and data banks. There are not many survivors, maybe 4 "aware" tech priests, hulking creatures more machine than man in their red robes with a dozen or so skitarii and a further three dozen mindless servitors.

The priest sees the door sealed behind you and turns to face you all. ++ COGITATOR MUST PRESERVE. MACHINE SPIRIT IS ALL< OMNISAHH BE PRAISED > MISSION PARAMETERS? ++ The last clearly a question.

[UselessBlob]

Elyas takes the question. "Our mission is twofold. We must secure the data core before Chaos can defile it with their touch, and we must rescue the Navis Nobilite before they rip all of the knowledge from her mind. Our time is quite limited, so you must direct us to the core quickly."

[Haval]

Baldr will add to that, 'There was something loud down on the lower decks when we came up here. What of the enemy has you seen since the crash?'

[BananaPhone]

Ragnir


"Do you know anything of the coven of witches that is supposed to be in this area?"

[DrK]

The mechincus priest looks around, it seems to be considering before it very slowly nods. +++ POSITION INDEFENSIBLE. SHIP NOT RECOVERABLE. MACHINE SPIRIT MUST LIVE ON +++. A mechandrite reaches out, almost stroking one of the cogitator stacks. Then it cracks one of the metallic tentacles like a whip. +++ PREPARATIONS TO COMMENCE FOR EVACUATION. 53 HOURS REQUIRED TO BLESS TRANSPORT MODULE FOR MACHINE SPIRIT+++

At the mention of the beast in the bowels of the ship there is a shudder from the tech priest, and you can see even servitors freeze as the mental electro shock causes them glitch. +++ ABBERANT FORM. CORRUPT CODE, FUSION MADE FLESH+++ The priest shakes its metallic head, gears grinding loud. +++ TERMINAL DANGER LEVEL IN QUADRANT 626+++. Its shakes his heds at the question of the coven, pointing at the bank of monitors now dormant that would have been either internal or external augers.

[Deadguy]

Kheres Sheet Kheres, Iron Hands Techmarine Player: Deadguy

The Iron Hand rubbed his temple with the black mechanical thumb. The others could see the diodes within his pupils flashing as the internal cogitator processed the situation, very similar to the massive banks that stood before them.

Closing his eyes, he spoke as if walking through a process. "In order to stabilize the data core, the preparations must be made. The time table the priest gives is accurate. Our options are limited. Clear the sub-levels of corruption and fortify the defenses here. Move out to retrieve the Navis and destroy the coven while the Mechanicus continue preparations. Fall back to this location once those objectives are met, to both secure the primary and because it is the most advantageous position for a defensive stance while waiting for extraction..."

Kheres looked to his brothers to see if they agreed with his assessment.

Spoiler: OOC: Checks

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✥ Logic TN 70 - Unnatural (x2) (1d100)[86]
✥ Forbidden Lore: Adeptus Mechanicus - Unnatural (x2) (1d100)[41]
✥ Tactics: Defensive Doctrine - Unnatural (x2) (1d100)[39]