[Black Crusade] After the End IC

[Retias]

"No beast!" Darius yells, hooking the end of the fire suppression system into his metallic carapace. "You will stay away from my reactor!" Suddenly seeming to surge with forbidden emotion the heretek spins, directing the nozzle of the system at the shadowy foe.

A blast of below freezing gases erupt, coating the creature and making sharp cracking sounds as it begins to bite into whatever armour it conceals under its shadows.

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9 damage at pen 2 dealt, and armour reduced by 2.

[Toxic Mind]

Barriel sees only red. Like the massive feline predators of Death Worlds, the fact that his prey chooses to run only further fans his desire to bring it down.

"Height will not save you, beast." he says, his voice thick with the rage of battle.

The great wings at his back unfurl, their leather membranes snapping into place. It takes only a single beat of their length to propel him into the air and at his foe, smashing into the warrior who dares to turn away from combat.

The actions of his comrades are lost to him, the red battle-rage heavy on his eyes. His care is for the beast alone.

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Half Action: Charge Half Action, Swift Attack Half Action
Hit: (1d100)[11] vs 72
Damage: (4d10)[7][10][5][7](29)+14 Total: [31] Pen 4
Damage: (4d10)[6][10][10][5](31)+14 Total: [34] Pen 4
Damage: (4d10)[10][3][9][7](29)+14 Total: [33] Pen 4
Reaction: Parry the First Attack
Parry:(1d100)[28] vs 62
If Successful, Counter Attack:
Hit: (1d100)[84] vs 42
Damage: (4d10)[10][3][4][1](18)+14 Total: Pen 4

[Ionbound]

Helena grins with delight as she tracks the target and squeezes the trigger of her meltagun twice, sending gouts of fusion-plasma at the beast, hoping to destroy it utterly.

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(1d100)[90] vs 47
(2d10+10)[21] E Damage, Pen 12

(1d100)[90] vs 47
(2d10+10)[20] E Damage, Pen 12

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[Chivy]

Reva slowed her dash before she entered the reactor room proper and took a moment to assess what was happening and turn her Auspex back on and extend her senses to see what this creature was doing. It was warpspawn, she was sure of that much and the things that thing had done in her vision caused goosebumps to crawl up her back.

"Line up, but don’t fire unless you’ve got a sure hit." the Psyker whispered distractedly to her bound demon and a flick of her hand sent the undying creature into cover where she started lining up her sniper rifle.

The Astartus was battling the creature on top of the reactor, she hesitated in what to do. A barrage of warp energy might destroy the creature, but it might also damage the reactor and most probably anger the Astartus. She was still mulling over her choices when a melta blast scorched itself across her retina.

"What are you doing?!" she whispered fiercely into her microbead, blinking the aftereffects away.
"That Warped melta will blow through the reactor easily and blow us all up or damage the…"
The implications of what a stray shot from a weapon created to burn through the armour of tanks could do to the reactor or the ducts and wirings around the room stopped her explanation in her tracks and she just yelled "STOP FIRING!" into the microbead.

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Reveka
Using internal auspex. +20 flat awareness boost and a tech use for picking up anything not normally sensed by standard human senses
Tech use +0 (int 44): tn 44 - – (1d100)[98]

Taking a half action to realy look at what is happening.
Awareness +0 (per 50) + embedded auspex +20 = tn 70 – (1d100)[41] – if made gets additional DoS because of unnatural perception 2

Psyniscience +0 (per 50) = tn50 – (1d100)[6] – if made gets additional DoS because of unnatural perception 2

Miria
Move into any cover she can find and take aim.

[Rizhail]

The battle atop the reactor is fierce and chaotic, Barriel repeatedly striking the creature as his allies pour fire upon it. Once more the Astartes finds that most of his strikes seem to find only shadow, the strange effect around the beast absorbing the force of his strikes; however, one blow manages to strike home and the beast shrieks as one of its limbs separates from its body in a rain of foul ichor. As it is reeling, the freezing spray from Darius' re-purposed fire-fighting equipment envelopes the monster's body, the shadowy void around it parting for a moment; ceramite plating and a scaly hide are visible for but a moment, their color impossible to discern under the dim emergency lighting. Helena's melta shots follow, passing near the creature's head as they scorch the ceiling; her overworked weapon groans in protest, venting smoke and steam as the metal creaks.

Though her auspex is unable to make much sense of the scene before her, Reveka's own senses prove useful: the reactor seems unharmed by the combat going on around it, the whine of the charging capacitors continuing to rise in pitch and no sign of sparks or damage to anything important. Her psyker senses are able to pick up the energies that maintain the creature's shadowy aura; it is definitely channeling the energies of the warp to protect itself. The strange power is not as bright in her warpsight as such a phenomena would normally be, as it appears to even have some dimming effect against immaterial senses, but the effect is nowhere near as potent as its protection from physical senses.

For its part, the beast is none too pleased with how the fight is progressing. With the loss of its arm, it apparently decides that discretion is the better part of valour, and attempts to make its escape. Attempts, because it loses its footing in its own spilled blood as it tries to leap to the door, managing only to make it to the floor a few meters from the reactor as it lands in a writhing, bleeding heap. It hisses in frustration as it bounds to its feet, taking a few shaky steps closer to the exit as it begins to find its stride. Reveka's minion manages to place a las shot right into the beast as it moves, but the swirling darkness absorbs the shot.

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Failed jump checks are fun!

Beasty is now 8m from the reactor and heading toward the door. It did not bother making a test to avoid being attacked while moving, so Barriel gets one free strike at it before his next turn proper.

@Ion: Don't forget that your melta has overheats; both of those shots were 1 point shy of blowing your own arm off. And now you know how the average plasma-gun guardsman feels.

[Chivy]

Even a Sororitas initiate would falter if a writhing darkness started running towards her. Reveka had the unfortunate knowledge of what the creature had done to the luckless guards in the manufactorum to reinforce the image of the barreling darkness. But instead of paralizing fear, this knowledge came with the crystal clarity that this creature had to be destroyed if they were going to inhabit the manufactorum.
Knowing what would happen if she stayed where she was, Reveka sped from the doorway, clearing a path as quickly as she could, but als setting herself up that her shots at the creature would have no chance of hitting her comrades or the delicate machinery of the reactor behind the creature. Somewhere in there she heard Miria take another shot.

She then opened herself to the warp using her fluer-de-lis which she had covered with imposibly small warpcraft sigils and signs of all the Chaos Gods to help focus the raw warpstuff. It was a manipulation she had done many times before and with practiced ease she twisted the warpstuff into what looked like lightless lightning before unleashing it, her own writhing tentacle-fingers guiding the power towards the writhing mass of darkness.

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Reveka
Doombolt: Willpower 52 + 15 (psi rating 3) + 10 (psi focus): tn 77 - (1d100)[4]
(One bolt for a success and an additional one for every two successes)
Reroll if she rolls doubles (using infamy) - (1d100)[84]
Bolt 1 - (1d10+3)[8] - AP: 8
Bolt 2 - (1d10+3)[8] - AP: 8
Bolt 3 - (1d10+3)[12] - AP: 8
Bolt 4 - (1d10+3)[13] - AP: 8 - rolling for Zealous Hatred in the ooc thread :)

Miria
Aim action: accurate weapon so +20
Shoot: BS35 + 20 (aim) + 10 (red dot): tn 65 - (1d100)[24]
damage (1d10+4)[12] AP 3
If 2 raises add (1d10)[10]
If 2 more raises add (1d10)[9] Think that totals to 31 damage ap 3

Nice! I love it when rolls come together :)

[Toxic Mind]

Barriel swipes at the beast with a backswing as it attempts to run. His wings beat again and he is off after his prey, charging directly at it. The subtleties of battle and of this combat are lost in the red haze. His chainblade has hurt the beast before, and that means it can hurt it again.

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Free Action: Standard Attack
Hit: (1d100)[89] vs 72
Damage: (4d10)[1][3][7][10](21)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4

Half Action: Charge Half Action, Swift Attack Half Action
Hit: (1d100)[74] vs 72
Damage: (4d10)[1][5][4][6](16)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4
Damage: (4d10)[1][2][10][3](16)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4
Damage: (4d10)[5][8][5][9](27)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4
Reaction: Parry the First Attack
Parry: (1d100)[99] vs 62
If Successful, Counter Attack:
Hit: (1d100)[6] vs 42
Damage: (4d10)[4][3][6][9](22)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4

[Rizhail]

Reveka's warp-powers assault the creature, passing through the beast's shroud as though it weren't even there. Her doombolts stitched their way up its back, the last wave of energy slamming into its head and sending the creature reeling. Its pained flailing prevents Barriel from landing a solid strike on the creature. In its fury, it throws out a nasty double kick with its hind legs at the marine before stumbling farther down the tunnel, a parting shot from Reveka's daemon-puppet blazing into its back through the shadows and filling the tunnel with the horrible stench of burning ichor and eliciting a howl of protest from the creature.

In the reactor chamber, the whine from the capacitors reaches a fever pitch as they near full charge.

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Creature makes a knockdown action against Barriel and a half move away.

So, for Barriel: opposed strength test!
As this is a direct opposed test and Barriel is meeting this first hand, I'll let you see the roll and what you're going up against:

(1d100)[19] - vs. 60, +2 DoS if test is successful due to unnatural strength (+4).

If it beats Barriel he'll be knocked prone, and potentially taking damage and fatigue. If Barriel wins, he stays on his feet, and if he wins by enough he could knock it down instead, cancelling its move and its turn.

[Chivy]

The Sororitas Initiate slowed her warplightning for a moment, making sure she wouldn't strike their bellowing Astartus, but instantly set in with more after the Warp Creature barreled him down. She took another few steps back, to reduce the chance the creature would strike at her if it ran past her, then unleashed more Warp Lightning at it.

Miria cursed a moment after the crack of her own weapon had been heard.

[Retias]

Darius meanwhile, ducked back towards the reactor, moving away from the fight as it headed for the corridor and working frantically at the control panels. With luck there might just be enough power for..

He connected himself again, yelling in pain as his own energy reserves were shared with the reactor, and he rapidly tapped in a sequence to close the security door of the corridor the monster was fleeing down before it could escape.

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Toughness test for luminen capacitors: (1d100)[43]

[Rizhail]

Reveka's warp powers assail the fleeing beast once more as Barriel leaps back to his feet, the Astartes immediately beginning his next charge toward his foe. The creature has other ideas, picking up speed as it flees down the maintenance corridor toward the stairs.

And rams head first into the emergency hatch that slams down at the end of the corridor, it's crash preceded by the loud *thump* of the reactor coming online. Darius slumps to the floor, his body and cybernetics feeling the aftereffects of plugging into the reactor for the second time in less than a minute. The manufactorum echoes with the sounds of the ventilation system going into full gear and the repeated thumps of breakers closing and lights powering on.

The lights in the hallway snap on last, bathing the party and their foe in bright white light, dazzling all involved. A loud sizzling noise emanates from the creature as its shadowy field burns away under the lights' glare. As the party's eyes begin to adjust to the glow, the creature can be clearly seen for the first time.

The mutant's Astartes origin is clear, the scraps of the poor bastard's power armor embedded in his Warp-twisted flesh; his legs still have the large boots (mostly) intact. The mutant's head is reptilian, and the sections of flesh that are not plated in armor are covered in blue-green scales. What were once the marine's arms have lengthened down to the floor into dexterous, clawed hands, while his neck has greatly lengthened and four tentacles have sprouted from his broadened shoulders to match it. The leftmost tentacle has a bolt pistol fused into it, the rightmost a chainsword; the inner set of tentacles have purely organic appendages that seem like mockeries of the Astartes' weaponry, a gun-like protrusion of muscle and bone on one and a section of whirling teeth and claws gracing the other.

The spawn's wounds are visible, and are just as visibly healing before the party's eyes, the burns along its neck and back slowly returning to their normal color while the chainsword wounds knit themselves shut. Only the small frostbitten section on its torso and a horrifying melta burn along its flank are unmoving.

[Chivy]

The thump followed by the lights burning off the Warpcloak brought a grim smile to the Psyker’s lips. She had been right. It had been a guess, an educated one, but it had proved correct. It would cement her usefulness at the least. She moved and positioned herself in cover inside the Reactor Room, looking down the corridor at the mutant, but held herself ready instead of blasting the beast again. His healing worried her a bit, but their own Astartus would probably have less trouble dismembering the creature now that he could see what he was striking at. Still she spoke into the comms, only one weapon had left a large mark on the mutant.
"That Melta will do little damage if you miss down that corridor."

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both Miria and Reva are moving to the sides of the Corridor and placing themselves in cover there. Miria uses her second half-action to aim and Reva holds her action for if the Mutant starts shooting or charging at her.

[Retias]

Darius slumped against the reactor, but managed to run a hand down its surface, letting the hum soothe his pain. "You live still.. It is good. We will work together, spirit, to restore this place." Groaning, he shifted position to try and peer down the corridor. "I.. may be able to secure it in the corridor, if you can occupy it for a little longer." He chirped through the vox link.

[Toxic Mind]

There is very little of Barriel left. Perhaps if circumstances were different, he might have backed away, allowed more effective weapons to take their toll. Instead, he roars across the gap, the blood boiling within him, able to finally see his prey, and sensing its fear. It wished to escape; he would not allow it. There was nothing of the Astartes it once was left, all that remained was the raw force of Chaos personified. A worthy opponent. Barriel could no more disengage than he could remove the brazen collar from around his neck.

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Half Action: Charge Half Action, Swift Attack Half Action
Hit: (1d100)[56] vs 72
Damage: (4d10)[8][10][7][7](32)+14 Total: [32] Pen 4
Damage: (4d10)[8][6][7][6](27)+14 Total: [29] Pen 4
Damage: (4d10)[4][5][7][6](22)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4
Reaction: Parry the First Attack
Parry: (1d100)[71] vs 62
If Successful, Counter Attack:
Hit: (1d100)[32] vs 42
Damage: (4d10)[5][5][6][10](26)+14 Total: [X] Pen 4

[Rizhail]

Now deprived of its unnatural aura and covered in wounds its regenerative powers have not fully healed yet, the beast finally seems truly awake and alert. The many eyes that were barely visible through its shroud glow brightly, focusing on the charging Astartes, each eye seeming to track a different part of the marine. The mutant's chainblade limbs strike out with unnatural speed, deftly deflecting the enraged Barriel's strikes before the beast's front limbs lash out, attempting to grab hold of its foe.

For their part, the others are able to find some small cover in the hallway behind panels and pylons, and not a moment too soon: eyes open up on the beast's gun limbs, and they begin to vomit bone-like spikes down the hall in the general direction of the Reveka, Helena, and the daemon-puppet. One spike buries itself in Reveka's cover, the point sticking a few millimeters out of her side of the cover, but otherwise the party avoids any direct hits for the moment.

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The beast actually landed a solid parry for once. It's action is an aimed unarmed strike leading to a grapple, which it succeeded on; Barriel has the opportunity to take a Reaction.

Reveka, Helena, and Miria are currently under suppressing fire, and need to make pinning tests at -10; one shot would have potentially hit Reveka, but cover and low rolling ate it.

[Chivy]

"Warp."
Reva ducked aside as the bone-spikes rained around her position, shielding her face with her arm.

"Miria destroy him!" She yelled, a moment later the sound of Miria’s sniper rifle being fired brought her some respite. She opened herself again to the warp and a few moments later she looked around the corner and flung her arm out, releasing dark lightning towards their enemy.

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Reveka
Doombolt: Willpower 52 + 15 (psi rating 3) + 10 (psi focus): tn 77 - (1d100)[20]
(One bolt for a success and an additional one for every two successes)
Reroll if she rolls doubles (using infamy) - (1d100)[51]
Bolt 1 - (1d10+3)[10] - AP: 8
Bolt 2 - (1d10+3)[7] - AP: 8
Bolt 3 - (1d10+3)[7] - AP: 8
Bolt 4 - (1d10+3)[5] - AP: 8
Possible Zealous Hatred rolls – 1-(1d5)[3] 2-(1d5)[3]

Miria
Aim action: accurate weapon so +20
Shoot: BS35 + 10 (Single shot) + 20 (aim) + 10 (red dot): tn 75 - (1d100)[92]
damage (1d10+4)[8] AP 3
If 2 raises add (1d10)[2]
If 2 more raises add (1d10)[10]