Evervigilant 46

<Vigilant_GM> IT IS THE 41ST MILLENNIUM...
* Velam uses the flat of his boot to nudge the door open, what he sees inside inspires him to pull the one photon-flash grenade from his kit, pull the pin and toss it at the buggers around the podium.
<Vigilant_GM> Half of the cultist standing over the oval table cry in pain and surprise as they are blinded by the flash.
* Tony moves up though the door up close to the Cultists and fires his Launcher into the group
<Vigilant_GM> The grenade arches over the shoulder of one of the robed forms, and lands on the table, a rolling bounce its wooden surface the last thing the cultists ever hear. Between the fragmentation of the grenade proper, and the splinters of the now destroyed wooden table, their flesh rips as easily as the rags that once covered their bodies.
* Nitrous draws his sniper rifle and shoots a guard
<Vigilant_GM> Two of the traitor guardsmen fall back towards cover, firing uselessly at the Throne Agents.
* Reclaimator_Almarax steps up to the two closest mournful guards and proceeds to turn them into bloody stains on the wall with one swift swing.
* Thesse charges one of the heretical Mournful Guard, but misses.
<Vigilant_GM> In a split second, reality itself alters in appearance. An unnatural darkness fills your surroundings. For Nitrous, Almarax, and Sister Thesse, however, the experience is significantly worse as they experience a brief, but horrific glimpse of the shadow of the Warp, filled with the damned souls within.
<Velam> "Avert your eyes!"
* Nitrous screams
<Vigilant_GM> When the light of reality sets in once more, the remaining mounrful guardsmen appear lost with madness. One paces back and forth, grabbing at his arms, the other licking the the feet of the saintly statue.
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<Vigilant_GM> The Inheritors at the end of the room, however, have disappeared.
<Velam> "Damnation. What now?"
* Baird draws his pistols and delivers the Emperor's Mercy unto the traitor guards.
* Reclaimator_Almarax stares at the the bloody stains he created mindlessly.
* Tony seeing they are turning tell and running, runs up to the door the Heretics were guarding and is ready to breach it
<Vigilant_GM> For a short instant, the ground beneath your feet seems to shake, dust falling from the catacomb ceiling.
* Reclaimator_Almarax regains his senses and follows into the main room
<Nitrous> "That was fucking Shite."
<Tony> +We need to move Baird, They already got a head start on us.+
<Baird> +There's clearly some warp bullshit going on Tony, prep a special grenade for them.+ Baird stacks up on the door with the others.
<Tony> +Got it, we are about ready to breach on my end+
* Tony as he loads a Psy Out Grenade into his launcher
* Velam takes the rear of the breaching line.
* Nitrous get's in position for breaching
* Thesse joins the breaching line.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> +Found something, will put it aside for now to investigate later+
<Baird> +Just be careful not to touch it. Who knows what kind of taint is infecting things down here.+
* Reclaimator_Almarax picks up the fragments of a red stone near the table using his robe to avoid touching the stone directly.
* Reclaimator_Almarax stacks up.
* Nitrous shows tony a thumbs up
<Tony> "3.2.1 Breach!"
* Nitrous breaches
<Vigilant_GM> As soon as the door opens, an impossible gust of wind blows upward from the depths of the catacombs.
<Vigilant_GM> Darkness fills the downwinding steps. Darkness, and cold.
<Baird> +Reclaimator. Nitrous. Take point. Tony and Velam will be in the middle and myself and the Sister will bring up the rear.+
* Reclaimator_Almarax cautiously advances with Nitrous.
<Velam> +Ah yes, very good. Huddle close now.+ He orders to his two servoskulls who obey his command, ready to serve should it prove necessary.
<Vigilant_GM> The howling wind picks up once more with dreadful force.
* Tony leaps up and does a search for anything
<Vigilant_GM> The descend ends in an empty hall. There is one door on every side, save for the entrance you use to reach it.
* Baird grunts as the powerful gust knocks him prone. He takes a few moments to regain his bearings and climbs back to his feet.
<Vigilant_GM> A single light source stands in the middle, a tall torch burning bright.
* Tony switches out his Lil Friend for his new weapon
* Nitrous loads a silver stake into has condemnor
* Nitrous then goes back to his rifle
<Vigilant_GM> The rough-hewn rock and piles of bones of the catacombs give way to walls of smooth black ridges down here.
* Nitrous tries to look for tacks with the help of Tony and Velam
<Nitrous> "For some reason no tracks."
<Velam> "What do you mean?"
<Nitrous> "As I said no tracks somehow."
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Do we want to make a 1 in 3 chance?, theres potential this stone was neccessary for whatever they wanted to do and we have already disrupted whatever they were doing."
<Velam> "Rax, let me borrow you for a moment." The savant says before he approaches the Tech-Priest, he explains that Rax will use Velam's auspex installed in his own servoskull to compare the composition of the stone in the wall to the sample of the destroyed artifact that Rax is carrying.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Interesting idea, one momment."
* Reclaimator_Almarax spends a momment configuring the servoskull extracts a fragment of the stone from the fabric using his utility mechandrite and carfully manipulates it into the servoskulls scanner, it takes a momment then, following pre proprammed instructions floats off to scan the walls of the room.
<Vigilant_GM> The auspex identifies the composition of the two stones as identical to a margin of accuracy of 98.7% Perhaps more obvious to the Throne Agents, however, is that as soon as the dark fragment is revealed from the Reclaimator's robes, it begins to vibrate softly, a low hum that subtlely fills the otherwise silent hall.
* Reclaimator_Almarax starts approching each door in turn noticing the vibrations varying
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "I get the most ressonance from this door."
<Velam> "Ahhhh yes, very logical deduction Rax." Velam nods with a pleased smile.
* Reclaimator_Almarax signals to the left door.
* Reclaimator_Almarax returns the stone fragment to his robe with the others.
<Velam> "I think we have our next direction, my friends."
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Might I suggest we 'Stack up' as you say"
<Baird> "It's a lead at least. Let's do this."
<Vigilant_GM> I cannot allow that.
<Vigilant_GM> An etheral voice, from within your own thoughts. Disturbing, invasive.
* Reclaimator_Almarax heads towards the blank.
* Nitrous heads towards Tony
<Tony> "This is new, Something wrong?"
* Velam tastes a little bile as his mind is invaded by a foreign voice. He starts to back his way towards Tony.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Make an educated guess."
<Velam> "There is a foul voice...in the air."
<Nitrous> "Telepathy."
<Tony> "Oh right that exists.."
* Baird moves closer to Tony.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Let us stack up... as a group."
<Baird> "Fuck that."
* Thesse walks towards Tony.
<Thesse> "There's something foul here."
* Reclaimator_Almarax pokes the tip of the optical mechandrite flush with a gap in the door.
* Reclaimator_Almarax whispers "Don't see anything"
* Reclaimator_Almarax whispers "And for clarity, I mean the concept of nothing"
* Reclaimator_Almarax steps out of the way noticing Baird's frustrated approch, leaving his mechandrite looking in.
<Baird> Baird sighs heavily. "I've got an idea." He passes Tony the molotov cocktail. "Throw it in Tony."
<Tony> "Oh.. alright"
<Vigilant_GM> As soon as the lit projectile passes through the frame, it seemingly disappears. No flame, no form, no sound.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Nothing...."
<Nitrous> "...."
<Velam> "Nothing? Hmmmm most perturbatory."
<Nitrous> "What the fuck?"
<Baird> "Well. Unless anyone has any other ideas Tony is going to step through. If this is warp-nonsense he should be able to affect it."
* Velam snaps his fingers. "Hold that thought, Baird."
<Baird> "You have an idea Velam?"
<Velam> "Rax follow me, if you would sir!" He has the tech-priest follow him to the unnatural torch. "Pick it up if you can, and bring it to this unnatural nothingness."
* Reclaimator_Almarax blinks.... "Ah......"
<Velam> "Yes, I feel quite the fool my friend. But perhaps this will work."
* Reclaimator_Almarax hoists the torch in his manipulator arm. "Somebody open the door please."
* Velam unhosters his plasma pistol. "Careful Rax."
<Vigilant_GM> A psychic shriek emanates from the torch. Its flames engulf Almarax.
<Velam> "Tony! Tony!"
<Vigilant_GM> Death unto the trespassers! You break the ancient pact!
<Velam> "Get. Out. Of. My. Mind."
* Reclaimator_Almarax Drops the torch and collapses to the floor burning in strange warp fire.
* Tony runs over to touch
<Tony> "Maybe I should use it..."
* Reclaimator_Almarax rolls attempting to put himself out.
* Tony helps him out put out the fire
<Baird> "Someone try using the water from the ration packs!"
* Nitrous starts oopening ration packs
* Thesse runs up to the Techpriest and tries to help.
* Velam is unsure how he can help, he starts to help try to put the fire out manually as his mind races for answers.
* Thesse starts using her water rations.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "01100011 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110010 01110100"
<Reclaimator_Almarax> +Status... report..., fighting capability near zero.+
<Vigilant_GM> With the fire out, the damage on Almarax becomes clear to all.
<Velam> "I think I've read of this, the torch has....it has a minor daemon within. Tony, I think the null-field you naturally make will be enough to neutralize and use it. I should have askled you first. Emperor damn my eyes. It's on you if you wish to attemmpt this."
<Tony> "Wonderful... everyone is having a stressful time today."
* Tony braces himself ready and attempts to try and deal with the torch
* Velam retrieves the medicae kit from Karpath and does his best to fix the damage he caused with his half-baked plan.
* Nitrous get's water packs ready
<Vigilant_GM> The daemon-torch curses the parriah, however its voice seems distant, ineffective. And certainly inaudible to Tony. The flames remain lit, yet tame.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Aid appreciated"
* Reclaimator_Almarax retreats from the vicinity of the torch.
* Nitrous wipes his brow
<Velam> "I really do apologize, this could have been avoided, Rax. I hope you'll forgive me, Emperor forgive me." He starts praying softly to himself.
<Tony> "Talking Torches, Pitch Darkness, Psykers everywhere, this is my day."
<Baird> "The star of the show. Seems you're leading the way. Take point with Nitrous."
<Tony> "Sister stay close incase our mutual friend tries anything."
* Reclaimator_Almarax removes mask revealing charred skin, "It is not my place but the Omnissiah's to forgive"
* Reclaimator_Almarax replaces mask.
<Thesse> "Talking torches and our Techpriest was set on fire. This day is just...Hmm, I'll be there, Tony."
* Thesse stays close to Tony.
<Vigilant_GM> As the torchlight closes in on the open door, the features of the catacombs ahead are revealed. They are strangely pristine. A perfection of construction on the oily black stone, something impossible to achieve without the greatest technology, or perhaps assistance of a different kind. The tunnel descends in a wide spiral, some 10 meters ahead are visible before the curvature takes
<Vigilant_GM> over.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "This wasn't created with any ancient technology I'm aware of."
<Tony> "The fact this place looks like the small artefacts back on Desoleum, is disturbing.."
<Vigilant_GM> As the Throne Agents descend further into the catacombs through these ebon tunnels, they pass by the occasional statue, depicting strangely vague forms. Some humanoids, some are bizarre patterns of xenos runes projecting from the walls.
<Velam> "Fascinating!" The savant is instantly out of his slump as he starts mumbling to himself and recording all he sees with his eyes, making mental notes.
<Vigilant_GM> The entire descent is filled with a deep sense of wrongness. Up ahead, the tunnel opens up into a large chamber, lit by sputtering torchlight suffused with an unnatural glow. Well more than fourty robed figures chant in an unholy tongue around a vast pool of liquid. The fluid seethes and twists with unnatural energies, tis viscous purple waves flecked with countless tiny points of
<Vigilant_GM> light. As their profane words echo throughoug the chamber, the flickering light casts brief shadows of inhuman faces on the chamber walls and the waters churn, almost spilling over the edges of the pool before coming back down with a soul-shaking crash.
<Baird> "Stay strong in the face of this heresy!"
<Velam> God-Emperor above, he thinks to himself.
* Thesse screams "PURGE THE UNCLEAN!"
<Tony> "Oh Frak!"
* Reclaimator_Almarax focuses on the voices of his companions to maintain his strength.
* Nitrous aims his rifle at a face
<Vigilant_GM> The chants continue, your screams ignored by the cultists. Warp energy snaps from the pool of liquid against the walls.
<Velam> "Suffer not the heretic." Velam intones, a little out of character, but inspired by Sister Thesse.
<Vigilant_GM> Leading this ritual atop a platform is a man in gorgeous ceremonial robes inlaid with optic-dazzling unholy symbols, blasphemous icons, and profane texts. Arch-Rector Carolus Renthear has fallen low indeed.
<Baird> "Fire at will! Let none survive!"
* Velam is somehow able to get the first shot off, a large bolt of plasma arches towards the arch-rector, but misses as he somehow dodges it.
* Nitrous fires his condemnor into the arch-rector
* Nitrous then quickly switches to his sniper rifle
* Tony aims and arcs a shot with his launcher and shoots it at the Arch Rector as a smoke surrounds him
<Tony> +Keep him in the smoke+
<Vigilant_GM> The Arch-Rector takes the opportunity to jump from his platform, and begins to run, cultists and smoke obstructing a clear view to see where he is going.
<Vigilant_GM> The chanting grows again, the liquid bubbling and spitting.
<Vigilant_GM> The walls and ceiling of the chamber begin to weep with blood, as the ground violently shakes with the screams of two of the cultists caught in the growing cloud of smoke.
<Vigilant_GM> Nearly a third of the cultists lose their footing as the ground protests.
<Velam> "Oh shite." Velam exclaims as he falls on his ass.
* Thesse falls over.
<Vigilant_GM> As the chanting reaches a fevered pitch, the man in ornate robes screams out a final entreaty, breaking from the unholy tongue into Gothic: "Izumat, we impore you! Awake!" The pool of Warp-tainted liquid surges once again, splashing over the edges and onto several cultists, who perish in hideous agony as their forms horribly twist and mutate.
<Vigilant_GM> From within the writhing, purple liquid, reality tears open with a sound like a thousand voices screaming just beyond your perception. The waters crash down, slowly ebbing back into the circle. From the pool, a billowing figure of inky shadow emerges, its face a dread visage of burning with twin points of violet fire. In a voice that should not be, the thing speaks: "I return."
<Vigilant_GM> I return
<Nitrous> "Fuck."
* Reclaimator_Almarax twitches slightly looking at the flames in its eyes.
<Velam> "Oh no."
* Baird raises two of his pistols firing at the figure. The plasma bolt streaks by the form narrowly missing, but the shells from the ripper hit home appearing to deal some damage to the form.
* Thesse gets up, moves towards to Rax, and starts shouts at the cultists.
<Velam> +I know how to banish this thing. But first, we must destroy it's corporeal form. Then I can attempt to banish it.+
<Velam> +Quickly! He is growing in size, my comrades!+
* Nitrous fires a round into the creature and screams "Reload, silver stakes on right hip."
* Tony moves up as he fires his Crossbow shooting it to high
<Vigilant_GM> The pool then grips, like tentacles, at the cultists around him, swallowing them into the mass. The life energies of the corpses, and the amulets and other offerings, disolve with flashes of unholy light, until Izumat, the dread lord of ancient Thaur, arises in full form.
<Vigilant_GM> "You..." the daemon says, shaking the chamber with his voice.
<Vigilant_GM> "You have come to attend my ascension. How loyal; after destroying my prison on that dreadful port, you observe my inevitable rise to power."
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "You guys did what?"
<Nitrous> "Previos battle."
<Vigilant_GM> "For your service, today you live," he says turning around and consuming another cultist with warp lightning.
<Velam> "Back on Desoleum, we destroyed it's previous vessel. These heretics brought him back." Velam shakes in rage and fear.
<Vigilant_GM> After seeing his lord, Ranthear makes his exit, climbing the stairs on the other side of the chamber. As he opens the doors, you can hear the chants of the crowds above.
* Baird quickdraws his Sacristan and fires a salvo from both weapons. A hail of ripper rounds and bolts smash into the entity.
* Thesse and Almarax take a defensive position bracing themselves against the daemon's fury.
<Baird> "We provide no willing service to you daemon!"
* Velam manages to get a shot to the head. The most perfect shot Velam has ever achieved.
* Nitrous fires a shot into the head
* Tony seeing he is getting bigger and angry, he retreats back to the party firing his Crossbow at the Daemon
<Vigilant_GM> Raising its claws in the air, the remnants of the pool, the Blood of Izumat is consumed, as are the remaining cultists, as though inhaled. At this moment, while exhaling, a focused beam of warp energy flies at Tony. With a growl of contempt, the daemon rises into the air.
<Tony> "Emperor Damn, Bullshit!"
<Nitrous> "IT'S ALWAYS BULLSHIT!!!!"
<Vigilant_GM> "Despair, for all you have sacrificed is too little, too late. Observe, for my power is finally ready to be reclaimed - here, in the darkness, and above where my pawn will drag the countless souls into my grasp with the chains of their own faith. Rejoise, for you shall hear this world's death cry as only I have heard it, echoing across the aeons."
* Tony as he tries to evade the warp energy
<Baird> Baird draws his other bolt pistol and once more fires a hail of rounds at the disgusting filth in front of him, the bolts find a weakness in the creature and separate it's leg from it's body in a showy explosion.
<Baird> "Look upon this creature comrades. It can be wounded. It can be killed!"
<Nitrous> "Trying!"
* Reclaimator_Almarax as soon as the blood pool evaporates the frustration at being unable to act boils over and his human emotions takeover. Almarax charges up the platform and leaps off hammer overhead bringing it down on the demons right arm.
<Vigilant_GM> The thunder hammer slams with brutal force, the daemon's unnatural flesh giving way, it's boke snapping, and ripping through to be exposed. Izumat, Suvfaeras, cries out in a terrible roar.
* Thesse screams at the Daemon.
* Thesse charges up the platform.
* Velam pulls his laspistol as he waits for the plasma to cool, and fires two bolts up at the Daemon.
* Nitrous fires another round into the head
* Tony Panicking he levels and aims his crossbow and fires at the Daemon once again
<Vigilant_GM> Just Death responds. The lambs to the slaughter. Fires above, void below.
<Vigilant_GM> Mordecai, this time.
<Velam> +Compatriots! Our master is putting his vessel in orbit. I've surmised that he's going to bombard our exact position if we do not succeed. Emperor help us all.+
<Nitrous> +Understood.+
<Baird> +Then for the sake of the pilgrims above and our own lives we must succeed!+
* Baird fires off a few quick shots before reloading his plasma pistol.
* Thesse steadies herself and swings her thunder hammer at the daemon.
<Vigilant_GM> Izumat falls to the ground with a loud, organic thump.
* Reclaimator_Almarax calmer now, swings 4 times at the demon.
* Nitrous fires a shot into the prone daemon
* Tony Continues to open fire with his Crossbow, at the smacked around Daemon
* Velam fires another bolt of plasma, adding his fire to killing the daemon.
<Vigilant_GM> Izumat flaps his wings once, bringing him back on his feet. He turns to Sister Thesse, and calls on her to serve him. To be another pawn.
<Tony> "I got one shot left.. Holy Emperor this is worse then the Zombies!"
<Velam> "Of course this is! It's Daemon!" He yells.
* Baird fires his pistols once more, either to no affect or subject to the creatures acrobatics.
<Baird> "Thesse snap out of it! The Daemon fogs your mind!"
* Thesse charges techpriest and screams nonsense.
* Reclaimator_Almarax Swings wildly at the demon but misses entirely, while also being missed by Thesse
<Tony> "Come to Desoleum, it would be a good way to earn good thrones, I was expecting damned Gangers, instead I get this Bullshit!"
* Tony fires his final shot not aiming and then drops his Crossbow and kicks up his Lil Friend into his hands
<Vigilant_GM> "Thaur's army will grow. Lord to all, God to all."
* Nitrous fires his bolter
<Vigilant_GM> A beam of energy blasts towards Almarax, who manages to dodge out of the way.
<Vigilant_GM> Suddenly, Suvfaeras begins to regenerate his leg. "The sheep are bled," he says as he looks up.
<Tony> "Shit, shit, shit keep firing!"
<Baird> "Bring it down, bring it down, bring it down!"
<Tony> "Old Man! Do the thing! Hurry!"
* Reclaimator_Almarax uses an opening created by Baird stepping up on its regenerating leg to reach his head swinging four times each crushing the head into the neck sending waves of energy through its body, the fourth of which eviserates the remains of the head and ignites the demons body as it collapses.
<Vigilant_GM> Izumat's body begins to glow bright purple.
* Thesse shakes her head and says "...Where Am I?"
* Reclaimator_Almarax backs away bringing Thesse with him.
<Reclaimator_Almarax> "Not the time, loremaster your time is now"
* Nitrous groans
<Nitrous> "What was I doing?"
<Thesse> "My head is hurting."
<Baird> "Velam quickly send this beast back from whence it came!"
* Reclaimator_Almarax stands by at a safe distance but ready to start hitting the corpse at any sign of regeneration.
* Nitrous stands away and maintans aim with his condemnor
<Tony> "Baird do you guys got this?"
<Baird> "That depends on Velam's success."
<Velam> "I need something that helped bind it to the material world." Velam says to the rest of the team.
* Tony he walks up to Velam and hands him a A Black Beaded Necklace.
<Baird> "The Arch-Rector has a skull with him. I am certain it was what he used for the ritual. It appears he took it with him."
<Vigilant_GM> The body of Suvfaeras then takes on a bright, luminescent orange glow, it's temperature radiating out like hot coals.
<Tony> "After everything I doubt I am seeing my Sister again after all this."
<Tony> "Do what you must Velam.."
<Vigilant_GM> As the temperature rises, the body bloats.
<Velam> Velam takes the necklace and wraps it around his left hand.
<Velam> "We need that if we are to banish this thing!"
* Reclaimator_Almarax backs up
<Baird> "Tony. Nitrous. After the Arch-Rector, quickly!"
* Nitrous nods and starts running
<Vigilant_GM> Interrogator. The priests gather, at the top of the tomb. They encant in ancient tongues and entice the crowd to join.
<Baird> "We need that skull if Velam is to finish this!"
* Velam backs up a bit as well, but prepares for the ritual of banishment in the mean time.
* Tony runs out
* Reclaimator_Almarax Shoots at the bloating corpse in paranoia.
<Tony> "You and me Nitrous! lets catch this bastard!"
<Vigilant_GM> The body explodes in a wave of heat, atomizing utterly; the particles rushing out through the opening from which the Arch-Rector escaped as though pulled by a powerful current of wind.
* Baird thinks at Mordecai. Is the Arch-Rector in sight?
<Nitrous> "Keeping pace with you."
<Vigilant_GM> Yes, Interrogator.
* Reclaimator_Almarax chases after it.
<Baird> "Everyone after it!"
* Velam runs after the rest of them. +Destroy the anchor! Whatever that damned heretic priest! Destroy it!+
<Baird> The Aquila Lander is to exterminate the Arch-Lector as thoroughly as possible. He has the entity's anchor point on his person and it must be destroyed now!
<Vigilant_GM> The access used by the heretic Renthear, is a much more direct path to the surface. Soon, you can hear the roaring crowd above.
<Vigilant_GM> Pilot Gants wishes a confirmation on your order to fire upon the Arch-Rector.
<Vigilant_GM> As you emerge into the open, comms open up.
<Baird> Confirmed damnit!
<Tony> "Can you knock cripple him!" We need to slow him down."
<Vigilant_GM> +Interrogator, this is Gant. The witch tells me you want me to fire on the gathered priests. Please confirm, I don't trust this witch.+
<Baird> +Gant kill the Arch-Lector damnit!+
<Vigilant_GM> +Yes, sir.+
<Vigilant_GM> The shrieks of distant aquila engines takes the crowd by surprise once more. You spot the lander maneuver into an angle of attack.
<Tony> "There he is!"
<Tony> "I will continue to chase take the shot!"
<Vigilant_GM> Short puffs of smoke materialize on the Aquila's nose, as the figures atop the tomb are annihilated against heavy fire. A second later, the rythmic boom-boom-boom-boom reaches your ears.
* Tony he makes a beeline to try anc catch up with him
<Vigilant_GM> The crowd panics.
* Nitrous with Tony's assistance and under orders fires a round at the xeno skull
<Vigilant_GM> Nitrous destroys the skull despite the panicking crowd, destroying it with a single shot. Even in this moment of triumpth, he feels something pull at his soul, tearing away a part of it as the xenos relic and its unnatural power slips back into the Immaterium.
* Nitrous takes a knee "That did not feel good."
* Velam ties around his other hand his own momento, an old ribbon from his first assignment scroll as a youth. He finishes just as the Nintrous destroys the skull.
* Nitrous get's back up and rejoins the group
<Velam> Velam raises his hands in the sign of the aquila. As if on cue, Thesse's servo-skull moves to work in enhancing his voice. Vellam then bellows the rite of banishment.
<Velam> "In nomine Sancte Gordius! Virtute imperatorum omnium carissima! Ad quos eieci te Suvfaeras! Computruerunt jumenta in stamine Sit tibi, daemon, pariunt!"
<Baird> "Is it done Velam?!"
<Vigilant_GM> Warp flame consumes the shards of the xeno skull, burning brighter than the sun itself. The screams of a hundred souls ring out as it forever leaves the material world.
<Vigilant_GM> +Interrogator, you need to hear this.+
* Velam collpases, feeling drained but alive and victorious. +It is done, my friends.+
<Baird> +Patch it through to my vox-caster.+
<Vigilant_GM> ++In the name of His Holy Ordos, I consign these souls to damnation, that humanity may live another day.++ Inquisitor Mortem is transmitting to the planetary authorities.
* Nitrous helping tony out secures the area.
<Baird> Baird nods. ++Divine Intercession this is Interrogator Baird on encrypted channel do you receive?++
<Vigilant_GM> There is a pause in the planetary transmission.
<Vigilant_GM> ++Come in, Interrogator. Have you evacuated?++
<Baird> ++Planetary bombardment is not necessary. Entity has been dealt with. Requesting additional forces on site to secure the area.++
* Nitrous grabs the grav-chute quickly and rejoins the group
* Tony rejoins the party
<Velam> "Well, that was an adventure."
<Vigilant_GM> ++I will descend myself. Ready your cell.++
<Baird> ++Yes sir.++
* Tony pulls out a pack of lho sticks and removes his helmet and puts it to the side, then pulls out a light and lights it as he offers a stick to everyone
* Nitrous takes one
<Baird> +Aquila land on site and members of Throne Cell Cordius-Primus assemble at the lander.+
* Reclaimator_Almarax removes his mask allowing himself the slight human confort of the cool air on his scorched face.
<Nitrous> +Understood.+
* Nitrous follows orders
* Tony taking a puff to take the edge off follows along mostly trying to calm his nerves
* Thesse uses a loud Haider Servo Skull to instruct the crowd. She asks them to remain calm and to clear a landing zone.
<Vigilant_GM> Moments later, a flight of interceptors flies overhead.
<Vigilant_GM> Shortly after, a dark gun-cutter descends.
* Reclaimator_Almarax assembles with the cell.
* Nitrous stands at attention
* Thesse meets up with the group and waits.
<Vigilant_GM> Dispersing the crowd, it lands on the only open area available, on the grounds at the base of the saint's tomb.
<Vigilant_GM> Men in dark and crimson armor pour out, followed by Inquisitor Mortem.
* Velam lines up with the cell, next to Baird.
* Nitrous salutes the inquisitor
<Vigilant_GM> The Inquisitor ascends the stairs to your position. Storm troopers flanking him to either side.
<Vigilant_GM> "Unsubtle," he comments, looking at the blasts caused by the autocannon fire, and the gore that was once Renthear and his priests.
<Vigilant_GM> "Who were they?" he asks, eyes fixed on Baird.
<Baird> "Sometimes it is called for. Better blasts from autocannon fire than a planetary bombardment."
<Baird> "The Arch-Lector of this world. They were apart of a cult called the Inheritors. Focused on the revival of their "god" Izumat the Arisen."
<Vigilant_GM> "What of the daemon?"
<Baird> "The autocannon fire and Purge Agent Nitrous destroyed the anchor point after we defeated it's physical form below. Once the anchor point was taken care of Velam performed a Rite of Banishment and sent the foul thing back to where it came from."
<Vigilant_GM> Mortem nods to Velam upon hearing this.
* Velam makes the sign of the aquila again and bows.
<Vigilant_GM> "You will determine who shares responsibility for these events, Interrogator. Oversight resulting in the festering of cults to the point of Daemonic incurstion will not be tolerated. You will give me the names."
<Vigilant_GM> "Starting with Pyre."
<Baird> "Aside from those you know of. I don't believe Pyre to be complicit.. He is however narrow sighted and I believe that is why these cults festered beneath his nose. Too concerned about the traditions of his planet and less about the well being of it. The Arch-Lector was certainly the primary instigator and from our understanding he had near enough power to Lord Pyre's own. Especially since Pyre was too concerned with funerary rites."
<Baird> "We do know that the cult has infected not only the Eulogous Askelline but the Mournful Guard and I am uncertain if all of them were disposed of so I do recommend a more thorough investigation of the organizations."
<Vigilant_GM> "You will educate Pyre on his duties to the Imperium at large. Introduce reform into his order. To the contrary, the Eulogus Askelline and subservient Mournful Guard will be subject to purgation."
<Baird> "Yes sir."
<Vigilant_GM> "I will remain in system until I am satisfied the warp rift menace is gone. Thaur is your purview, Thomas."