Angels and Redeemers 1

CawklesGM	The fated day has come. Gruelling hours of affixing your holy rainment, santifying your armaments, and swearing mighty oaths have steeled your hearts and put fire in your bellies. The elevatus groans as it goes through the motion it has repeated time and time again for milennia, ferrying your kill team down into the torpedo bay of the Strike Cruiser "Huntsman's Shadow". The cathedral-like
	CawklesGM	bay falls into utter silence as your team sweeps into view, the frenzied teams of serfs pausing so that they might glance at the Emperor's angels. They fall to their knees in a display of obsequious devotion, silent prayers on their lips as you pass. Statues of your predecessors, built into the walls, stare lifelessly as you pass. Their ageless gaze steels you, puts the weight of history
	CawklesGM	behind you; You can't help but feel that a new era is dawning, each step you take putting you closer to this far off place. As you make your way into the cathedral-like launch bay, you see the massive boarding torpedo laying open and ready inside the torpedo tube. A titanic, halberd bearing black armored giant stands near it. His power-armored gaze regards you.
	CawklesGM	"Brothers," He says in greeting. YOu can almost hear the grin stretch across his face. "Are you ready to go to war?"
	CawklesGM	Keeper Leonus always had a jocular bent to him. Unbecoming of an Astartes to be sure, but those Blood Angels tend to avoid the humorless and unrefined stereotypes that seems to haunt many space marine traditions.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Always", Herbert replies dryly.
	Squire_Axel	nods silently
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"War?" Gaelin chuckles and motions down the tube towards the exit. "I call hunting Eldar Sport!"
	Squire_Axel	nods respectfully at Gaelin's armor
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	soft laughter.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	rests his hands on his personal ceremonial sword. Point on the ground, hands on pommel, he bows his head.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Ave Imperator Dominae Sanctus..." he begins, in a low voice.
	Squire_Axel	follows along quietly with his master
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"sed Divinae Institutione formatti. Protegem, cempar suggitem requiescat et salvae Terra et Kleistus..."
	Brother_Priad	salutes the keeper by slamming his gauntleted fist into his chest. "When there are Xenos about, at all times. It is a shame their darker cousins are not about. I could go for purging some Primuls."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"...Siccut et nos Kaiser von Salen formatti sempra. Imperator Rex im Terra nos Preatoris Celsetae perpetuum bellum Xenos ex per furorae Teutonicorum..."
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	makes the sign of the Aquila.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"...Für dein ist das Reich, und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit im Ewigkeit..."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Dominatus."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Looks to the rest of the Squad, "Brothers, Mind if I speak a few words?"
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Dominatus"
	Squire_Axel	"Dominatus."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	raises his head
	Brother_Priad	"Speak, brother." Priad folds his arms waiting.
	Invictus	stands there listening.
	Squire_Axel	whispers to Herbert "Must we deal with this...Ultra Marine?"
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Gaelin steps ahead of everyone and turns to look at the squad. He speaks loudly, proudly, and with Air of Authority. "Today we charge into the bowels of the hedonistic and waste of space that is the Eldar. We fight for the fallen, not only of our fellow Astartes, but of the men and women of the Imperium who have given their lives in battle of this Cruiser and its crew. Those onboard that vessel have wrong t
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	he Emperor in more ways than one, and every Xeno we slay brings that honor back to our people. For the Emperor we fight today, For the Emperor we will bring honor to ourselves and our Chapters."
	CawklesGM	The Keeper raps his halberd against the deckplate. The sound thunders throughout the cavernous bay, causing several serfs to leap into activity. They mutter their final tech-rties, beseeching the machine spirits to rouse themselves. You hear a faint susurrus, the prayers of lesser men. Keeper Leonus cranes his neck, listening to the younger warrior address his brothers.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	[Tel. Herbert and Mikael] "We should leave him for now."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"How... inspiring."
	Brother_Priad	"Ave Imperator, Frater." Priad nods.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	sheathes his sword.
	Squire_Axel	remains silent
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	[Tel. Herbert] "Indeed."
	Invictus	remains quiet
	CawklesGM	"Hear Hear!" The older warrior says, a deep rumbling laugh slipping out of his vox-grills. Even the serfs seemed inspired, their determined looks lending vim and vigor into ministrations. A screeching, hellish klaxon resound, ripping through the entire weapons bay. "Right on time! It looks like Nova Nox is about to cross our trajectory. Come, brothers, don't dally; there is much blood that
	CawklesGM	needs to be liberated from Eldar bodies."
	Brother_Priad	"And so we begin our Undertaking." He says to himself. Priad boards the boarding torpedo and straps himself in.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Gaelin goes to the torpedo and locks himself into the one closes to the nose
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"And now, my apprentice, we are tested against the Sworn Foe, bringing the fight with us to this remote corner of the Galaxy."
	CawklesGM	Leonus taps the torpedo with the tip of his halberd. "The Purgation ordinance device is already onboard. Remember, the device must be detonated in the weapons bay! May you fly with the wings of Sanguinius, brothers! Grace of Him be with you!"
	Invictus	board the torpedo, "Welp, into the fray we must go."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	nods, and makes his way to his position.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"By fathers strength, Marines, We will return victorious"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Father..." he growls with disdain.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"This is going to be either very painful or fun. Possibly both."
	CawklesGM	As soon as Kill team is boarded, the loading shuts close. The entire crew compartment temporarily swims in darkness, until serried ranks of stab lights bathe the compartment in soft red let. The entire torpedo groans and rumbles violently.
	CawklesGM	++LAUNCH. T-MINUS 20. REMEMBER: FEAR IS THE POISON THAT SLAYS THE MIGHTY++
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Fear is our friend."
	Brother_Priad	"There is no fear, only hate for the Alien." Priad solemnly intones.
	CawklesGM	The small control panel towards the nose of the torpedo hums into life, its flickering green screen loading up the machine-spirit that will auto-guide the torpedo on its journey.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Nescimus timor Sed num tibi"
	CawklesGM	There is a violent shunt forward, the torpedo going into the prepartory firing chamber.
	CawklesGM	++T-MINUS 10++
	CawklesGM	++5++
	Invictus	"Thoughts who defied the Emperor shall pay for it with there lives."
	CawklesGM	++4++
	CawklesGM	++3++
	CawklesGM	++2++
	CawklesGM	++1++
	CawklesGM	Your entire world becomes a blur, the torpedo accelerating from zero to seven hundred. The deafening roar of the engine would have blown your ear drums to pieces if you were a mere mortal. The Gs themselves would have turned your bones into jelly if you weren't so righteously clad in power armor, but these thoughts have no chance to cross your mind as the torpedo rapdily exits the tube into
	CawklesGM	open void
	CawklesGM	The instant feeling of weightlessness is jarring. You float uncomfortably in your harness.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Yeeeehaaaaa!" He yells, enjoying the rush a little /too/ much.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Cum autem venerit Xenos evolvas?!+, Herbert begins loudly over the sounds roaring around him.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Nos cum Sancto igne purggare.+
	CawklesGM	The Control panel indicates that your torpedo is rapdily accelerating, the lack of friction sending it faster and faster towards its target. If only there were view ports; the sight would have been breathtaking. it does not take long for there to be a soft pitter patter on the hull of your torpedo; micro meteors, or incoming fire? Who knows...
	Brother_Priad	checks over his equipment silently as they are hurtled towards the enemy ship.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Facietis opus Sanctum Suum?!+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Advenimus alis ferri.+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Dominatus!"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Dominatus!+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	checks his nails and realizes he is wearing armor.
	CawklesGM	As the minutes bleed away you are reminded of the vastness of the void. Your senses almost lull into relaxation until you hear a loud screech, then crash. The torpedo shunts violently, and all indicators flash red as the klaxon screeching begins.
	Squire_Axel	+Dominatus!+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Whoever collects the most Knife-Ears today gets the Barking Toad head trophy in my quarters."
	CawklesGM	+++WARNING WARNING WARNING INCOMING FIRE; SACRED PATH DISRUPTED. PATHING DISRUPTED. REMEMBER: FEAR IS THE POISON OF THE MIGHT+++
	CawklesGM	Another thud, and crash. Judging from the sound of it, you are taking interception fire from the front; looks like the Nova Nox spotted you!
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Infernal creatures..."
	Brother_Priad	detaches himself from his harness and activates the magnetized soles of his boots and moves towards the command console of the torpedo.
	CawklesGM	A small fire creeps its way underneath the floorplates, quickly quenched by the rapdily decaying atmosphere of the torpedo. Sparks and other signs of the machine-spirit's displeasure scream and cuss into your suit's autosenses.
	Brother_Priad	+I will solve the problem as swiftly as possible.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	detaches his harness.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Squire!+
	Squire_Axel	+Yes master?+
	CawklesGM	+++IMPACT IMMINENT, WARNING, IMPACT IMMINENT. STEEL THYSELF, SPACE MARINES. YOU SHALL SOON BE UPON YOUR ENEMIES+++
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	secures himself back into the harness +Damn these unclean beasts!+
	Brother_Priad	takes the warning at face-value and straps himself back in.
	Squire_Axel	+We shall seek vengeance most holy.+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Soon, my brothers. The slaughter will begin.+
	CawklesGM	There is a loud, low whine, then silence. Well, not silence, but rather the silence brought upon by adrenaline and intensity. Even the formidable training of Astartes cannot prepare you for the sudden rush of sensation that accompanies plowing through a ship's hull at the speed of a bullet. The rumbling, the roaring, the shaking, it all discombulates your senses so badly that you almost seem
	CawklesGM	to not notice when it's all over.
	CawklesGM	There is damning silence afterwards. The entire torpedo is leaning downwards to the left, and the purgation ordiance device slides down inbetween the aisles and down into the bowl of the noise. it looks like your torpedo has plowed into the roof of a chamber!
	Squire_Axel	+Master, any plans?+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Gets whip-lashed and breaks his nose on the inside of his helmet, stunned and makes a high-gothic swear.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Use the chain+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	tosses his squire the chain.
	Squire_Axel	+Understood.+
	=-=	Squire_Axel has changed the topic to “Space Marine Jim”
	CawklesGM	Squire Axel, with the help of his brothers, adroitly attaches the chain to the dangerously positioned. Just in time, too, for the nose of the torpedo blows open to reveal what's below...
	CawklesGM	You are smack in the middle of a chamber 100 meters long, two raised parallel walkways running the entire length of the chamber in the center. At the far end, to the left, is a pulsating capillary of red gems gleams with anti-grav energy (no doubt their foul version of an elevatus...). These things, however, are secondary what your first register: Dozens of eldar, hiding behind wraithbone
	CawklesGM	plates, arranged so that they can protect the grav lift. The fear and shock in their eyes seems to indicate that they weren't expecting the angels of death to enter through the roof. They do not hesitate, howver, and instantly turn their weapons towards your boarding torpedo. The brightly colored corsairs open fire!
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	releases his harness and falls. Mikael gets shot in the left leg.
	CawklesGM	The shadow spectre continue to open fire, hitting the vulnerable space marines
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Takes the pot shot to the face, Increasing the amount of Gothic slurs.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Screaming highly racist Eldar slurs
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	screams "FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUK" as he is falling.
	CawklesGM	The panicked eldar throng fails to hit anything, their fear getting the best of them as they try to reorganize and fight off the space marine kill team.
	Squire_Axel	releases his harness and launches himself at the nearest Shadow Spectre. His jumpack roars into actions while he bellows a warcry
	Squire_Axel	dives at the Shadow.With all his fury he punches the drill through its heretical head, roaring while he does so
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	releases his harness, allowing himself to fall, before activating his jump pack, the engraving "Facietis opus Sanctum Suum" shining on the pack's golden trim, launching himself towards the dreaded Eldar foe.
	CawklesGM	The Spectre did not expect any of astartes to be prepared; His lithe, slight form can only tense up as his entire skull is mulched into a mixture of brain, blood, and wraithbone. The pure, unearthly white of his rainment stains with red as it plumets to the floor, impacting with a wet thud.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	charges into the Specter, chainsword roaring in hand. He strikes the stunned foe twice, turning him into a mess of blood and gore.
	Invictus	grabs his bolter, aims and opens fire on the Eldar bellow killing six of them.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	releases the fury of Smite against the Eldar and screams "DIE XENOS SCUM!". Mikael lands on top of one of them.
	Brother_Priad	While the vicious fighting goes on below Priad grabs one of the handles settled in along the wall and hits the release on his harness. With it off, he dextrously climbs down to the Storm Warden and checks his vitals, noting that he is currently stunned. Using his Narthecium he shoots a dose of stimm into the marine using one of the input slots in the gorget. He then taps the marines helmet...
	Brother_Priad	...to get his attention, noting the marine is now at full attention, with that Priad nods and climbs over to where the ordinance is currently chained.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Once the stimm is applied, Takes full attention to the situation around him, And the anger that swells in his belly from the group of Eldar right below him. Immediately de-magging his Bolter from his hip, he starts unloading in full force at the horde, Screaming.
	CawklesGM	The blood slicked the floor of the chamber is littered with bodies of the dead and dying. The remaining corsairs, shaken and afraid, flee pell mell to the capillary grav lift. Several manage to leap in, spirited up and down the shaft by aetheric currents. Some, injured and afraid, can't run that quickly...
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Pursue, my apprentice! Take a prisoner!+
	Squire_Axel	launches into a bloody fury, murdering any stragglers and grabbing one by the throat
	CawklesGM	The torpedo, its listing becoming more frequent, begins to slip out of the hole...
	Squire_Axel	begins to drag the eldar to his master
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	runs away from the torpedo.
	CawklesGM	It crashes to the floor with a thud, nose first. It stays upright for a moment before drunkenly collapsing to the floor, wobbling to and fro.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Once the Eldar flee from his range, he mag-locks it to his armor, and looks over at Priad, Then the ordinance. "+Brother, Strap in!+"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert unsheathes his ornate personal sword.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Anyone still alive?+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Unstraps himself from the wall, and gets up, cementing his helmet quickly and running over to the ordinance, Checking to make sure it didn't get armed in the drop.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"+Relatively+"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Break its arms, Squire."
	Squire_Axel	slowly twists its arms until they snap
	Invictus	unstraps from his harness, +Same+, he then exits.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"KNEEL!"
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	joins his brothers.
	CawklesGM	The captured eldar woman thrashes violently as the space marine drags her towards his kill team, her bright pink rainment stained with the blood of now deceased comrade. The feral look that must exist underneath her helmet contorts into one of agony as its arms are painfully wrenched into ways that are not natural.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Squire. Secure a corpse spike on my jump pack."
	Squire_Axel	rips the helmet off the eldar
	Brother_Priad	"Gaelin, let me see to your wounds brother."
	Squire_Axel	nods and retrieves the corpse spike, then hands it to Herbert
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Ferro cadat falsa divinitate imperatoris."
	CawklesGM	It collapses to floor, feebly trying to support its weight with its arms but crumbling to floor in pain. Bits of bone rip through its soft flesh, spilling to the floor.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Looks over to Priad and nods, removing the helmet after saying the proper prayers. His Blue woad, Blonde Mohawk, and amazing beard poof out of the helmet.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	lifts the eldar by its hair.
	CawklesGM	The eldar is beautiful by human standards, its hair a particularly vibrant shade of yellow. She has the face of a maiden, but its beauty is now twisted by fear, pain, and hate. Through tear filled eyes she looks up at her killers as she is lifted from the floor.
	CawklesGM	"Ae'dreth Eldar, mon'keigh!"
	Invictus	walks over to Gaelin and Priad, "How is he?"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	backhands the insolent creature.
	CawklesGM	She spits onto Herbert's helmet.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"You shouldn't have done that" and starts to laugh.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	extends his sword out for his Squire to hold.
	CawklesGM	She tries to bat Herbert with her tiny arms, but their current twisted state means that they can only twitch with impotence. Her tears come in rivers now, her imimnent death paralyzing her with powerful emotions.
	Squire_Axel	takes it carefully from him
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"He is fine, Invictus, though the wound I took to my face may leave me a nice story to tell."
	CawklesGM	She screeches, in abominable low gothic: "You die today, human! You die!"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	One hand anchors the feeble creature on the floor, the other grabs the top of its skull.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	He begins to pull the two apart.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Slowly.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	starts laughing menacingly.
	Squire_Axel	glares on in silence
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Invictus, set up a parameter with Mikael, get our defenses together until we move out." Looks over to the display, shakes his head and chuckles lowly. "After they have their fun, ofcourse."
	CawklesGM	Her flesh parts too easily. Piece by piece the neck frees itself from the body. The vocal cords are first to rip, forcing the woman to scream silently as the rest of her head is wrenched off in a welt of blood and bone.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Nescimus timor. Sed num tibi"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert holds the head out, "On the spike, boy."
	Squire_Axel	takes it and plants it on the spike
	Squire_Axel	returns the sword to Herbert
	CawklesGM	Her now headless corpse sinks to the floor. You can hear groans and terrified cries from the eldar who are still in the process of dying.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Butcher them."
	Squire_Axel	methodically executes the remaining wounded
	CawklesGM	++Leonus to Kill Team Drago, come in. How fair your quest, brothers? Well, I Hope?"++
	Invictus	"Understood Sir" Invictus head over to Mikael.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	is admiring the new decoration.
	Squire_Axel	returns to Herbert and asks "Shall I scout ahead?"
	Invictus	"Mikael, Gaelin wants us to set up a parameter."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	++Leonus this is Drago. Landing Secured, minor wounds sustained but the Eldar are in retreat from us. Mission critical elements are currently still oprational. We will gain control of the situation and move out to the target shortly.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	looks at the Ultramarine in contempt. After a short period of silence, he says "Okay."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	holds his hand up. "No. Keep watch."
	Squire_Axel	stands near the closest entrance, waiting for any threat
	Invictus	nods to Mikael and begins to set up the parameter
	CawklesGM	++Ho ho, excellent Brother Gaelin! I shall leave you to your holy work then, brother. Try not to get too much blood on your suit; Don't wwant to overwork those poor serfs too much! Leonus out.++
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	assists Invictus.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Chuckles to Leonus's words and looks over to Herbert and Axel. Waving them over. "Brothers, get the Ordinance from our glorious void-vessel. Get it ready for transportation.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Squire. Retrieve the device... and my chain."
	Squire_Axel	looks to Herbert, looking for orders
	Squire_Axel	nods and retrieves the chain and begins to drag the bomb
	Squire_Axel	drags the Ordinance into the open, then present the chain to Herbert
	Brother_Priad	notes the broken nose and superficial burns and charred skin along the head and gets to work. He resets the nose quite easily and slaps on a small nose brace. He then cleans the charred flesh and sprays it with an anti-bacterial compound.
	Brother_Priad	"You took some superficial damage, I'm sure the new scars will add to your current good looks, though your nose isn't any worse than it was before."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Touches his nose then nods at Priad. "Excellent work." Then gets his helmet, and says the proper prayers and he begins to reattach it to his armor.
	Invictus	looks to Mikael, "Well you three seem to have so fun over there."
	Brother_Priad	+Is anyone else injured?+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Negative+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+I'm limping a bit.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Silence, you fool+
	Invictus	+I'm good.+
	Brother_Priad	walks over to Mikael and views his vitals.
	CawklesGM	Veins of red begin to appear in the wall, floor, and ceiling, and glittering gems push themselves to the surface. The gems begin to flesh, and a low unearthly dirge begins to vibrate the air around you. Looks like the ship is now on full alert, no doubt preparing to repel your team.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	gives a low laugh
	Brother_Priad	after examining Mikael he sets to work on his leg. He cleans the wound and seals it with some plas-flesh foam. "That should do it for your leg. Make sure you seal the armor's hole."
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Understood." He uses the cement to repair the hole.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Brothers, To me, We move together. Bolters out, fire at anything that moves."
	Invictus	moves over to Gaelin with his heavy bolter at the ready.
	Squire_Axel	+Master, shall I move the objective?+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	holds his chainsword in one hand, and his bolt pistol in the other.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Do so+ he nods.
	Squire_Axel	moves to the Ordinance and begins to move it
	Brother_Priad	takes the other side of the Ordinance and helps the Knight-Brother move it.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Lets move!"
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	switches to his bolt pistol in his left hand.
	CawklesGM	The capillary grav-lift, its shimmering bio-construct surface glowing, seems to pulse and turn red as you approach. Thre is only two directions: UP or down. You glance behind you and see that at the other end of the chamber there is an armored wraithbone bulkhead.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Leads the group on the Down path of the grav-lift
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Eyes open, Brother Mikael+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Understood, Brother Herbert.+
	CawklesGM	An odd sucking sensation envelops you as the grav lift sends you flying down the capillary. You are jostled around badly as you flit from capillary to capillary.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Brothers to arms!+
	Brother_Priad	+What ails your Brother?+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Someone is controlling the lift.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Someone?...+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Eldar witchery.+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+A vile Xenos...+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Some/thing/+
	CawklesGM	It's like being inside the veins of great beast, each transfer station sending you spinning onto a different capillary path. Eventually you are spit into a chamber aping that of the one you crashed into, yet this one is silent and completely unblemished. No defenses are set up, but the bulkhead across from you is open, inviting...
	Squire_Axel	+I do not like this.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Scout ahead+
	Squire_Axel	releases the Ordinance and moves begins to move outside the capillary slowly and methodically
	Invictus	+Its too quiet, there must be an ambush set up here.+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Agreed Brother Herbert, Keep Vigilant Axel. Invictus and Mikael, Keep eyes on all shadows. Priad and Herbert, keep eyes on Axel+
	Brother_Priad	tabs the selector, switching the ammunition to Kraken rounds.
	Invictus	keeps watch, looking for any movement.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"I hate this feeling. The walls feels like they are shifting. Doors opening and closing."
	Squire_Axel	+This is far too quiet, the /things/ are hiding from us, expect an ambush.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert begins to move forward.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Move out Squad, Follow Axel's wake. If it moves, sunder it from life.+ Gets Beside Priad and begins to help move the Ordinance.
	Invictus	follows
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	follows Brother Herbert.
	Brother_Priad	continues to drag the ordinance along.
	Squire_Axel	+We are being led on a specific path, I could try and pierce one of these doors to throw them off.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert launches himself forward, Jump Pack firing - catching up to his apprentice.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+We move, act, and think as a Squad. Any objection to the Axels plan, Marines?+
	Squire_Axel	+Greetings Master.+
	Invictus	+If it throws them off then I have no objection+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Than choose a portcullis and take it down.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Brother Mikael... come forth+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	steps forward and prepares the Augur.
	Brother_Priad	sets up an overwatch, scanning around the room for any surprises.
	CawklesGM	As you stalk foward, you see that the open bulkhead leads to a maze of hallways. The delicate, organic curves fill your heart with digust; such architecture is the height of heresy! Neverthless, you can't help but notice that most of the bulkheads are closed. Looks like the eldar are funnelling you into a specific direction...
	Squire_Axel	+I expect they will attack when they realize we are not going along with their plan."
	Invictus	sets up defence
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Drill through+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	starts drilling.
	Squire_Axel	begins his work on the wall
	CawklesGM	Several minutes later, an astares sized hole is drilled into the bulkhead. Beyond, you see quarters with dimmed lights ; it looks like an opn chamber, but any details beyond that are too difficult to discern.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+It pains me to say this, but if we see the Xenoes, try to wound one, not kill. We have to get our bearings.+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+We will force the information out of them.+
	Brother_Priad	+Agreed.+
	CawklesGM	++Leonus to Drago: The Nova Nox have just engaged Eriynes. You have precious little time now, brothers. Go, with haste! Leonus out.++
	CawklesGM	The room appears to be some form of leisure chamber. Several pillows and hookah like things lay about, no doubt the entertianment for sinful indolent xenos. One such creature lays upon a pillow, in a barely conscious drug induced stupor.
	CawklesGM	They oung eldar man would no doubt be punished for his laxity...if he survives his encounter with the kill team.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert enters the room, his length of chain in hand.
	CawklesGM	The eldar stirs, looking over to the approaching kill team. A demented laugh burbles from his lips.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	switches his bolt pistol to his Aquilæ: Lamina.
	CawklesGM	"Mon'Keigh, eh? The fade leaf strikes a strange chord in my mind. Do you understand my gothic, little monkey?" Another laugh.
	CawklesGM	"Tell me, strange mind-phantom, can you sing me a spritely tune? I feel bad vibrations 'pon this vessel."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert strikes the creature with his chain, as if a whip.
	Invictus	enters the room
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"SILENCE, XENOS SCUM!"
	CawklesGM	He yelps in pain, maladroitly rolling from his relaxed position and nursing his wound. He swears in his foul tongue. His eyes seem to indicate he still has a very poor grasp of where he is.
	Brother_Priad	"Brother Gaelin, I'm going to ingest a piece of this filthy xenos to learn our location and where our objectives lie. Is this acceptable?"
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Hah, It speaks to us Brothers." Looks to Priad. "Accepted." Looks to Herbert and Mikael. "Restrain the Xenoes, once we get the information we need, you can do to it as you wish."
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	stabs the Eldar's leg pinning it.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	wraps the chain around its body.
	CawklesGM	oddly enough, the eldar doesn't seem to notice the leg wound. Only a distant and fey chuckle indicates that he is conscious at all.
	Brother_Priad	strides forward, unsheathing his combat-knife until he is close to the Eldar. He then bends down and slices a piece of flesh from the xenos' face. He then stand up, unclasps his helm and ingests the piece of vile flesh.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Unsheathes his Claymore, and stands tall with the Claymore infront of him, as if he was a statue, and glares super seriously through his helmet.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	removes the sword from the Eldar and says "The fuck?"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	The links are tight around the xeno's neck. Herbert attaches the other end of the chain back to his waist.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"The vices of lesser Chapters..."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Brother Herbert, if you'll indulge me, I wish to have the Eldar speak to me.+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"That's vile... eating the flesh of a tainted animal."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	yanks the chain, bringing the weak body forward.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Suit yourself."
	Brother_Priad	"It is necessary, Brothers, we lack information, and I seek to gain it. Wouldn't be first time."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Looks down at the Eldar, making sure his armor is in full display of it. "Gaze upon my Suit. Do these names sing in your mind?"
	Squire_Axel	guards the outside of the room
	Invictus	guards the enterence
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	Brother_Priad	"I know the ships layout, we are actually near our objective. We must enter the path they give us. There will be a door we will drill to lead to our objective." Priad then dons his helmet, it hisses as it reseals itself.
	CawklesGM	The end weakly shakes his head. "Haven't you killed enough of us, you brute? Leave me to my suffereing!"
	Squire_Axel	+Shall I scout ahead more?+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+No. Remain near.+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	[Tel. Herbert] "Kill it."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"It is my prisoner to do with as I please."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	He leans down and gets closer to the Xenoes. "Your kind seemed to never kill enough of us. For every brother that has fallen to the Eldar, I must return the favor." Stands up straight and looks at Herbert, nodding before getting his bolter back out. "Lets get ready to move, Priad is on point, I'll need help with the Oridinance."
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	[Tel. Herbert] "It is... revolting. How much longer do we have to tolerate it?"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert proceeds to the objective, following Priad's lead.
	Invictus	follows Priad
	Brother_Priad	Priad leads the squad down the maze.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	follows Herbert's pet with a drill to its head.
	Squire_Axel	helps Gaelin with the Ordinance
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	switches his off-hand sword to his bolt pistol.
	Brother_Priad	+This silence is troubling.+
	CawklesGM	Drilling through another bulkhead, you finally make it to your desination. The hallway hugs the very edge of ship, the thin skin of wraithbone being the only thing between you and the void. The hallway is littered with debris and burning wraithbone, with several dead bodies laying about. Judging by the condition of the walls, it looks like the Imperial Navy detachment has given the vessel
	CawklesGM	quite a pounding. At the far end of this 220m hallyway is heavy bulkhead door. Beyond it is the power generators for the pulsar lance batteries. You are nearly there!
	Brother_Priad	+Beyond this bulkhead is our objective.+ Priad says simply, motioning to it.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Double time it marines.+
	CawklesGM	You hear a commotion coming from behind you, from around the bend of the hallway that you came from. There is frenzied speaking in eldar tongue. Looks like the xenos have decided to spring their counter attack by sandwiching you between them the bulkhead door!
	Invictus	+Behind us, they are coming.+
	Squire_Axel	moves up to the front, preparing a charge
	Brother_Priad	+Let them come, they will wash upon us like the sea upon a stone!+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Mikael, on that door, Invictus and Priad, set up a firing line. Herbert and Axel, Charge when they are insight.+
	Invictus	set up to fire.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	says angrily "I want to spill some blood."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+But of course+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	begins work on the bulkhead door.
	Brother_Priad	+Affirmative, Brother Gaelin.+ Priad moves up and and goes into overwatch, covering the the hallway towards the bend.
	Squire_Axel	+Ready when you are Master.+
	CawklesGM	The eldar force swing around the bend: A bedraggled horde of eldar corsairs, anger in their eyes and weapons in their hands, march forward to take you down. At their head is a tall, hearty and hale specimen of eldarkind, a dark haired eldar man in an ostentatious yellow uniform wiht a sweeping black cloak. He raises his chainsabre at the kill team. His ace in the hole lumbers behind the force,
	CawklesGM	barely fitting in the spacious hallway: A pair of eldar contructs bearing crackling weapons bring up the rear, their methodical movement bringing them forward slowly. Wraithguard!
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+We need that door open Mikael, I have no doubt we can hold the horde off indefinitely, but the Eriynes can not. Speed is of the essence+
	Squire_Axel	+Targets Master?+
	CawklesGM	The Eldar captain's hoarse laughter bounces down the hallway. "[In a bit of a bind now, hm, mon'keigh?]" He shouts in impeccable high gothic. "[If you throw your weapons down now I'll let you live.]
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+Slice their throats for me, my brothers.+
	Brother_Priad	"You think of yourself too highly, xenos scum, I've hunted your darker cousins for decades!"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"INSOLENT LIFE-FORM! YOU WILL BE BUTCHERED!"
	Invictus	opens fire with his heavy-bolter on one of the Wraithguard, killing it.
	Brother_Priad	Priad fires into the huge crowd of Eldar corsairs, reaping a mighty toll on them. "For Ithaka! For the Emperor!"
	Squire_Axel	fires for effect and misses
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	moves to the front of the formation, the Eldar in front of him. The Knight picks up the prisoner, and impales him into another of his spikes.
	CawklesGM	It seems the captain doesn't have tight a hold on his troops as he believes. Several cut and run in the face of this intimidating display!
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	slowly drills through the door.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	+FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT DRILL! Where's a techpriest when you need them?+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+The Big one is mine!+ Unloads his bolter at Thadienne, Triple tap burst. Two in the chest, third to the head misses.
	CawklesGM	Captain Elaresh Thadienne buckles underneatht he incoming fire, taking several hits. he grimaces in pain, but still resolutely marches forward.
	CawklesGM	The shaken horde fire wildly, but can hit nothing. They march forward, trying to get better shots lined up.
	CawklesGM	Elaresh Thadienne, like an avenging ghost, flits foward and strikes at Axel. Only his deft parry stops his murderous intent.
	Invictus	opens fire on the other Wraithguard, ripping it to pieces "For the Emperor!"
	CawklesGM	Under Invictus' hail of fire, the remaining wraithguard ceases to tangibly exist. In its wake, there is a burning cloud of sapphire smoke.
	Brother_Priad	fires another devastating burst of bolter fire into the horde of corsairs. Cursing them mentally as he fires.
	CawklesGM	The remaining corsairs cannot stand before the rigtheous fury of the Angels of Death. not even the presence of their captain can steel their hearts. They screech and flee, pell mell.
	Brother_Priad	"Not even your darker brethren were this weak! Flee Xenos scum, I shall hunt you later!"
	CawklesGM	The captain, enraged, fruitlessly fights on. He swings inbetween swears, nicking Axel with his blade.
	Squire_Axel	"HOW DARE YOU."
	CawklesGM	"You will not break me so easily! You'll have to kill me first, mon'keigh! I curse you! I CURSE YOU ALL!"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"YOUR WORLD IS FINISHED!" Herbert roars.
	CawklesGM	The strike knocks the wind out of the captain. he collapses to the floor, terrified, angery, impotent. The fight in him has been thoroughly crushed and stabbed out.
	Squire_Axel	+May I?+
	CawklesGM	The Vessel rocks slightly. The groans of the dead and dying add to the low rumble of fire being exchanged by the mighty vessels. You hear the sound of collapsing masonry; it seems Brother Mikael has gotten through the bulkhead
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Using his ceremonial sword, Herbert scalps the captain.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	He gives the skin to his apprentice.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+This is Kill Team Drago, Come in Leonus.+ Puts away his bolter and attempts to contact Leonus
	CawklesGM	You see your objective beyond the hole: Crackling ranks of energy conducting crystals. Lightning and humming energy leap across the room, pulsing every time the rumbling pulsars discharge.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Secure the room brothers, Lets get this bomb planted."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	He beheads the xenos, and mounts its skull where the lesser one once stood, replacing it. A better trophy.
	Squire_Axel	stows the eldar scalp away
	CawklesGM	+Leonus. Erinyes is reporting minor damage, Brother Gaelin. Get done with it; if that ship goes down this sector will ose its governor. I don't think I need to explain why that may be bad, hm?++
	Invictus	moves to the room that Mikael opened up.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert follows the killteam.
	Squire_Axel	follows Herbert
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+We have reached the objective. Eldar Captain is deceased. We are about to give the Xenoes scum their+ Takes a moment and with a chuckle says the next word +Peace offering. Prepare the thunderhawk for extraction+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"I missed all the fun."
	Brother_Priad	follows the rest of the squad, covering the rear as they enter the opened up chamber.
	CawklesGM	Leonus returns the chuckle. ++It's in the void now, brother.++
	Squire_Axel	is enraged by the chink in his power armour
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Roger. Drago Out+
	Squire_Axel	smashes his drill into the nearest wall
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Calm yourself. You got your revenge."
	CawklesGM	In the chamber, you see a figure hunched, hiding behind one of the power generators...
	Squire_Axel	strides forward and grabs the thing
	CawklesGM	A young eldar corsair, in a gaudy worksuit, squirms in your grasp.
	Invictus	readies and aims his heavy bolter
	Squire_Axel	throws him across the room
	CawklesGM	"Aie-D! Die MON'KEIGH!"
	CawklesGM	Thank the Emperor for your perception; the eldar blows apart into ragged hunks of meat, the plasma grenade in his fist detonating into a violent blue explosion.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Quick reflexes Brother, Good work."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Foolish boy."
	Squire_Axel	remains silent and continues
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Pushes the Ordinance into theroom. "Kill Team, We need to prepare our exit. Find a hole or make one. The rest of us work together to get this bomb secured."
	Brother_Priad	"You should exercise more caution, Brother Axel."
	Invictus	holters his weapon
	Squire_Axel	begins to secure the bomb
	Invictus	"We could punch a hole in the wall with the Melta Bomb to make our exit."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"Do it quickly, we not have much time once the ordinance is set to explode."
	Brother_Priad	"We can use the melta-bomb to create an exit back in the hallway full of xenos corpses, Brother Gaelin. What Invictus just said, yes."
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Agreed."
	Squire_Axel	stiffens in remembrance, returns to the Xeno Captain and loots him
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Starts setting up the bomb. +Get that Melta set up, someone.+
	Squire_Axel	snaps the blade over his knee and smashes the pistols
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	Herbert walks to his Squire.
	Invictus	+Will Do+ Invictus returns to the hall to set up the Melta Bomb.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	He unholsters his hand flamer.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	follows Herbert.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	He sets fire to the corpse and broken equipment.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Nos cum Sancto igne purggare."
	Squire_Axel	+This cloak is strange, should we take it?+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Let it burn, boy."
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Do as you wish."
	Squire_Axel	+I apologize for my earlier actions.+
	Invictus	finishes setting up the Metla Bomb.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	[Tel. Axel] "At least you didn't get shot in the leg."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Our objective is to take anything that can help fight the Xenoes further. Take it and let the Tech-Priest contemplate its heresy.+
	Invictus	+Melta Bomb is in place.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Your anger is a weapon, my apprentice. But as your blade, it is best used by one in control of it."
	Brother_Priad	"It might be a tad late for that, Brother."
	Squire_Axel	nods
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+The xeno technology has been destroyed. Study the pile of ash if you please.+
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	+Then you can explain to Keeper Leonus why we failed to gather the requested items. Time to regroup and prepare for extraction team. We pray to the Emperor that the void isnt harsh to us.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+I have nothing to explain on the matter. The Heresy has been purged.+
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	[Tel. Herbert and Axel] "I despise that man. Talking to us like children."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	[Teutonic Cant] "Lesser Chapters produce lesser leaders, Brother."
	CawklesGM	Moments later, you hear the air hiss....and then boom. The melta bomb turns from a metal device into boiling hot sunstuff in a microsecond, blowing a neato little hole in the hull. There is a thunderous sucking sound for a moment as the ship is exposed to open void, but quickly quiets down as the shield plugs the hole. Your exit has been created.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	smiles and looks at the Ultramarine. He says [Teutonic Cant] "Imagine him as a leader."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Impossible."
	Invictus	approaches Gaelin, "Our exit is ready."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	nods at Invictus and taps his shoulder comradely +Brothers, we make leave of this coffin.+ Charges out of the hole at full speed.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Well, the party is over. I hope the Xenos love our parting gift."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Then let us leave.+
	Squire_Axel	follows Herbert
	Invictus	follow Gaelin out through the hole.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	follows his brothers.
	Brother_Priad	takes a full run and dives into the void, as if he was diving into the oceans of Ithaka.
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	Squire_Axel	follows herbert's example
	CawklesGM	The view outside is breathtaking. You see the ship is lazily hanging over an endless field of ice rings, spinning with them around the bloated green form of Drossit IV. Gazing into the sheer enormity of the void is always a humbling experience, but seeing ones size compared to that of a gas giant that is millions of years old is particularly poignant. As you peacefully drift through the void,
	CawklesGM	you see the streaking forms of macro canon shells, each the size of a small habblock, splash against the prow of the ship. This silent space opera before you fills you with pride; not even the ancient eldar can deny the power of the Imperium of Man.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Imperator Dominae+
	Brother_Priad	+Ave Imperator, Frater.+
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	+Ave+ Herbert replies in agreement
	CawklesGM	Your helmet's display indicates that the nuke has 2 mintues left on the timer. Just in time, the thunderhawk noiselessly floats by, archeotech grav-beams grabbing your forms and scooping them into its hull. You catch one glimpse of the eldar cruiser as it is ripped apart by your ordinance device, splintering like a tree under bolter fire. The parts, now free, go their own way.
	CawklesGM	The vac-seal of the thunderhawk seals with a hiss. Leonus comes in over the vox.
	Knight-Brother_Mikael	"Carnes vero et Xenoni sordibus expurget."
	CawklesGM	++Well done, brothers, well done! Flawlessly executed; I expected nothing less. But your work is not yet done. During the operation, I was in constant communication with the Sector governor. This fellow, Judoc Amichai, has told me the nature of his business, why he was crossing this dead sector with such stealth.++
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Listens to the vox channel intently.
	Brother_Priad	does a post-mission check on his equipment, noting everything is where it should be.
	CawklesGM	++I shall be forward with you, brothers: his business perturbs me greatly. Which shocks me, for the business of mortal men tends to be mundane in the extreme and quite quite boring. His business is now our business. You are to be returned to the Huntsman's Shadow forthwit for debrief, meditation, prayer, and rearmament. It is time you have a better picture of what is occuring in this benighted
	CawklesGM	part of the Emperor's realm. Leonus out.++
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Looks around at the rest of the Kill Team. "It seems we are going to be working together for quite a while."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Only in Death does Duty End..."
	Brother_Priad	Priad takes his helmet off and regards the rest of the kill-team. "That went rather well for our first mission together, brothers."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"You do the Knight-Order proud," Herbert says to his fellow Chapter members.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Takes his helmet off too and walks up to Invictus and Priad, giving both of them a pat on the shoulder. Looks to Invictus first. "Your aim is impeccable, Brother." And then Priad. "Your quick thinking was invaluable."
	Invictus	"Thank you brother, I look forward to working together still."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Turns to look at the Knights, before approaching them. He stands tall as he look Herbert in the faceplate. "Brother." He goes to address Herbert specifically.
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"Speak your mind."
	Brother_Priad	nods at Gailen.
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"You Knights may not see the same as others." Takes a moment to look at Mikael and Axel aswell. "And I sense conflict, but we are all brothers of the Watch, I welcome you fully. May our battles together be glorious"
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	"We are brothers only in our hatred of the Xenos."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	Chuckles. "Welcome to the Watch, Knights."
	Knight-Brother_Herbert	removes his helmet. "We serve at the discretion of Grand Master Bruno on Kleistus. Our 'brotherhood' extends as far as his will permits. And for that period of time, I guarantee the naught but dutiful service from the Knight-Order."
	Battle-Brother_Gaelin_MacBaer	"I extend an invite to the Feast of Victory." Nods to them and turns, heading to stow his gear, before sighing under his breath. "Doubt they'll even show."