Recent content by Random berk

OOC: I think I'm just going to have to RP passively, not expect to accomplish all that much, and hope that I can spare thought for semi-regular posts when the current panic and madness hopefully yields positive results and a calmer lifestyle. With the fight having come to nothing and the...

Ahriman had cursed himself as Nina struck before he could react in any way, shocked as he was by the appearances of the portals. Now however, he readied himself to assist in controlling the situation. While Zevrisya approached Dala, Ahriman planted the haft of his staff, and brushed aside his...

Ahriman jolted as he saw the portal. While the others could see its opening, he could feel what was behind it. A passage through the Great Ocean. It was different from any other mode of travel through the Warp that he had encountered before, such as the Eldar Webway or the Gellar Fields of the...

Ahriman planted his feet as they rounded the corner, rumbling to a halt as his armoured boots ground into the concrete. With the kind of attacks being thrown around he had anticipated a dangerously violent fight to the death, but the combatants hardly looked like the murderous sort. He stopped...

"Very well." Ahriman replied. "I will match your speed then, there is no sense overdoing the charge, and expending energy before the fight. Be ready though, we are getting close." While running, he had been holding his hequa staff across his chest like the sculpted lid of an Egyptian...

Ahriman did glance briefly at Zevrisya as they ran, impressed by her physical condition. He may not have been pushing himself to the limit, but even so, there were few mortals who could keep up with an Astartes, let alone do so with so little apparent exertion. He was about to question her on...

Shortly after Faa took to the skies, Ahriman settled into listening to the conversation between Lambda and Zevrisya. He briefly watched Lambda during this time, noticing with mild interest the faint mechanical noises, inaudible to human ears, that suggested non-organic components internally...

Ahriman smiled and raised his left hand, palm out in a placating gesture. "I spoke in jest, there was no accusation. You will find the Great Ocean to be breathtaking. Be wary though. It is not something to be looked on lightly, or unprepared. I will talk you through it when the time comes."...

Ahriman smirked. "Do not be quick to judge me a liar, Zevrisya. Many of the Thousand Sons Legion could travel in the Warp via what we call our Body of Light. If you have some psychic potential, then I can take you with me so that you might see the Warp with your own eyes if you wish."

Ahriman chuckled briefly at the inquisitive Scath. Despite it's bestial and alien appearance, the creature had a childlike curiosity that Ahriman could not help but like. "In truth, I have only very recently come to properly understand such things. Daemons are denizens of the Great Ocean, or...

"For every warrior, there is a foe somewhere in the galaxy who can best him." Ahriman cautioned the Scath. "That is a lesson best learned early. The more mindful one is of it, the longer he can put off meeting that foe. Or better yet, he can ensure that the meeting is under circumstances that...

Daemons again... "That is something. I've encountered alien usurpers of myriad shapes and creeds that held sway over a great many human worlds, and we left them in no doubt as to the error of their ways. In almost 200 years of war among the stars however, I do not think I have met an alien...

"As in, sent to deal with one of these dragons?" Ahriman asked, intrigued by the notion. "Do you mean that the creatures grant humans authority, even over some of their own kind?"

"That is one way to look at it. You might also argue that it was their fault for losing." Ahriman replied somewhat disdainfully at the notion that anyone could speak so favourably of their own subjugation by another species. "Perhaps they did not belong there. I do not know your planet and its...

"That... sounds like a fair bargain." Ahriman agreed. For the sake of building a rapport with these two that they might ease his accumulation of useful knowledge in the world, he thought it best not to inform Faa that under Imperial rule, both Faa and Zevrisya would be anything but better off...