Apocalypse (Game Thread : Closed, Dead)

[Lunar Templar]

Urd grinned as the Dread backed her up, but that grin shattered into a look of shock when he said he fought along side the original Space Wolves, a look that ended up drawing a giggle from Sister Agiline, though that was reigned in quickly.

"You fought along side the orginal Space Wolves?" She said, sound more like she was trying to get her head around it, but soon enough, the damn broke as it where, and she made a sound that could only be called a 'squee of delight', not the kinda thing you expect to hear from a warrior who's slain demons in they're own back yard. "Did you met Lord Russ? What was he like? What about Bulveye and the 13th Company? Did you get to met Lord Bjorn The Fell-Hand before he was entombed ... OWW ..." Urd's line of rapid fire questioning was cut off by the Sister twisting Urd's cheek.

"Please exercise some restraint in the presence of an Ancient such as our Lord." Agiline said as Urd rubbed her cheek "Oh like your not dieing to know if he ever had a chance to met, or even see The Emperor" The sister simply cleared her throat "Though so" Urd said as she turned back to the Captain "My apologies for my outburst Captain, and in answer to your question, yes, the first battle of The Fang, changed much, but the reason for our lack for presence on the battle field till later was a matter of training, It took less time to get sisters out to aid the Wolf Priests then it did to get sisters ready for battle. Though these days they don't have to look as hard for worth candidates like they did back at our founding." Urd said, now composed again, though clearly still wanting to ask more questions.

 

[Athol]

Lith

Lith smiled at the sight of Solara blushing. "I don't think I'll ever get tired of that." She said. "And I still have so much to teach you." Flashing the Sisters her lopsided wolfish grin, she winked at the Sister who'd blushed earlier. "If you are going to flows us about, you may as well take notes, it'll make life back at your Convent more....fun."

When the Marine voiced his...issues...with his meal, Lith simply rolled her eyes. Bet all three of them creamed their armours at the mere THOUGHT of assisting that armour plated asshole.

"Anyways, I want to listen to Mr. Momaru here. He seems interesting enough to listen to some of his stories."

Lith replied with a hrumph and said nothing more, turning her attention back to her food.

[hr]

Egerion

"No apologise needed Lt." Egerion replied with a rumbling chuckle. "You are actually much more restrained than some of your 'Brothers' have been in the past; but to answer your questions, no I only saw Lord Russ a couple of time during battles and we never exchanged words, and I never encountered the Thirteenth before my accident. As for Bjorn...a fine man to have at your side in a fight, and a nightmare to the unlucky fool who next draws his wrath...off the field though, he was surly and unpleasant man."

Turning his attention to Sister Agiline, he watched as she seemed to try and shrink into her armour. "As for your unasked question, yes I have heard the Emperor speak....once or twice."

 

[sage42]

The Sister's rose and took their seats again. Lord Momaru doesn't seem as....lenient as Lord Egerion. It would be best if we avoided conflict with these two. Helena thought looking over the Witch and her companion again. At least the Witch was showing some signs of sense. Maybe there was hope for her after all.

"I lack the necessary dexterity to eat these... 'Mashed potatoes' that they serve here because of my armor. I require you to feed me. I need to keep my strength up, We're not limitless as any of the old stories describe us." He spoke to Sister Mara, new to the squad, and from the look of her armor, fresh from apprenticeship. A high honor for her indeed. Shame she all but fell out of her seat as she scrambled to do as she was told.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Cut to- After the relay is repaired and Arcor has read the Archangel data[hr]

Arcor grimaced as the data came in, a few data relays were still connecting through orbit. Drisania had been leveled, something that brought him tears, he hoped his grandchildren got out in time. Xeno Spores have been sighted falling on Drimanin. More Ork tribes joining into the greater Waagh.

Today was bad, tomorrow could only get worse.

He walked over to a nearby station and sent a message through the bases broadcast system.
"This is Arcor, I am requesting that all Officers and Astartes as well as the Inquisitor and her personnel assemble in the garage bay."
He paused.
"Everyone else, clear out of it."

He motioned at his men and the enginseer to follow him, before marching there.
He found a table to stand at, and placed his rifle on it before waiting for the others to arrive.

 

[mcpop9]

Momaru walked into the room with Sister Mara on his pauldron. her hair was a bit messy and a few pieces of armor weren't in the exact proper place, but she looked respectable. "What did you call us here for Skitarii?" he said, folding his arms, the girl being fine on his shoulder.

Short bit afterwards, Sana walked into the room as well.

[hr]
Shortly after this, solara walked into the room, however, walked wasn't really a good way to describe it. She was happily leaning on Lith, seeming a bit tired out, hair out of order and her face blushing hard. However, she stood up straight and put on a serious face, approaching the table, only holding lith's hand now. Ofcourse, the two sisters would follow suit after them. "Yes, what is it you requested us to be here for?"

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"This is Arcor, I am requesting that all Officers and Astartes as well as the Inquisitor and her personnel assemble in the garage bay." Spoke the Skitarri through the intercom system that had been connected to the entire base. This had the effect of waking up Dante, who was sleeping in a room that the group had been shown to several hours earlier. He turned his head and saw that Urd was asleep next to him, her arm draped across his chest wearing a rather simple looking outfit. Dante distinctly remembered that she wasn't with him when he went to sleep, must have entered the room whilst he was.

"Wakey wakey Urd, time to get up, it appears as though we've been summoned to a meeting." Dante said with a grin on his face as he got up from the large camp bed, wearing everything but his signature coat which he hung up when he arrived at the room. After gathering up his gear, Dante went back to check on Urd who was just starting to stir.

"Come on up you come. Don't want to be late, this meeting sounds pretty important." He mentioned as he helped to pull Urd off the bed; of course this had the side effect due to her enhanced muscular build, Urd literally fell into his arms, it taking most of his strength and stamina not to fall over. Helping her gather everything, the pair set off towards the garage bay.

Of course, as with every member of Solara's retinue to see if they hadn't been tainted, both Dante and Urd were followed by an armed escort of Sisters. He had a chance to talk to them earlier, albeit a brief one; the raven haired lady with a Adeptus Sororitas tattoo on her right cheek was named Nyx, the lady with the auburn hair was Josephine, next came Maria who was blonde with short pixie cut hair, and finally there was Agiline who was following Urd, she had shoulder length fiery coloured hair.

On their arrival, Dante could see that Arcor was standing at the end of a square shaped table opposite the entrance to the room, with Momaru and another Sister of Battle who happened to be sitting on his right pauldron standing at the right of the room. Solara and Lithian were standing opposite the Skitarri.

"Apologies if we're late everyone, haven't had time to explore this place, may have gotten lost a little bit."

 

[sage42]

Helena walked into the room not long after Solara. Both her and Sister Unis had gotten little sleep, though Helena noticed probably more than Sister Mara. She glared at Sister Mara still perched on Lord Momaru's shoulder. Mara didn't meet her gaze, her face going red. After the meeting Helena would be having words with her Sister, especially after she had not reported to her bunk after her shift on guard duty was over.

She nodded to the others of her squad ho had made it to the room, they at least had followed orders. Helena and Unis took up position behind the Witch and her lover. She would have told Mara the same, but once again her caution of Lord Momaru stayed her tongue. Oh yes Words would be had with Sister Mara later.

 

[Athol]

Lith

Last Night

After acquiring some assistance to help them from their respective armour; Lith stole Solara away to some unused officer's quarters, and made her pay...repeatedly, for making the Cadian woman worry. Eventually the two gave it a rest, and started to doze off. Just before she fell asleep, Lith looked over at Sister Mara, who was currently trying to monitor them without actually looking at them. "So...learn anything interesting?" She said, falling asleep before the Sister could even think of an answer.

Earlier

"This is Arcor, I am requesting that all Officers and Astartes as well as the Inquisitor and her personnel assemble in the garage bay."

The noise tore through her sleep, like a Baneblade through a brick wall. "Oh you can just fuck right off..." She muttered, but it was no use; decades of instinct and training meant she was up and at least somewhat alert right way. Sliding out from under Solara, Lith began moving about the room, gathering up their clothing form where it'd been discarded. "Hey, can you vox down the hall and get our armour ready?" She said to Sister Unis, who currently was minding them. "I'll work on rousing the Inquisitor."

Dropping the clothes on the bed, she poked the lump of covers that was Solara Draco. "C'mon lump...like it or not we got shit to do." She said, while getting dressed. The only response from the bed was some mumbled protest, and the covers pulling in more around the figure underneath. Lith rolled her eyes, and pick up Solara's clothes and placed them nearby; then with one fluid motion she reached out and snatched the covers free, revealing a naked...and now wide awake...Solara.

Now

It never fails... She thought to herself, as she propped up the shaky Inquisitor. Unsurprisingly, their little playful game of 'grab ass' on the way to get suited up, had gotten a little...out of hand. Now here she was, holding up Solara while her nerves recovered; while at the same time still tingling all over herself. The girl's got magic hands...and magic fingers!

Entering the bay, she spotted the dishevelled looking Sister...riding on the Marine's shoulder. "Ain't that the damnedest thing..." She said quietly. When Sister Mara looked over at them, Lith flashed her a smile and a knowing look.

"Yes, what is it you requested us to be here for?"

"Yeah." She yawned, running a gauntleted hand through her short hair. "You interrupted a good dream."

[hr]

Egerion

"This is Arcor, I am requesting that all Officers and Astartes as well as the Inquisitor and her personnel assemble in the garage bay."

The signal roused Egerion from his slumber/recollections. Being already in the garage, he felt there was no need to announce himself, other than by the sounds of his systems starting up again. Upon seen Sgt. Momaru enter, with a Sister on his shoulder no less, the great war machine chuckled quietly now himself.

Opening a secure vox channel to the Terminator, the amusement was plain in his voice. "Well Brother it seems you found a way to keep yourself occupied...though I must ask. Can the poor girl walk, or is she going to be bow-legged for awhile?" During his younger days as a Marine, Egerion was never one to lack for 'companionship' on the time they found themselves on suitable planets...those women who were up to the challenge generally regretted it in the morning...though some regretted it much sooner.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Earliyer

The revaluation that this Dread had been in the presence of the Emperor left Urd and the sister speech less for a few moments, and after a short discussion between the two decided to was best to have every one gathered before asking him to impart the Emperors words on them.

With time to kill, Urd, followed by Agiline sought new clothing so she could get out of her armor, easy to work on if no one's in it after all. After finding something to wear, Urd returned to find Dante had moved else where, though a quick call on the Vox found him having relocated to a room more suitable for the nap he was trying to take earlier.

After arriving in the room, she, with some difficulty removed her armor, the sisters not offering to help, and Urd not asking due to not really wanting them around at all let alone touching her stuff, and with nothing really to do for the time being, she climbed under the sheet with Dante and joined him for a bit of actual sleep after putting the clothing she'd found on.


Now-sh

Urd awoke to the sound of the meeting announcement, though promptly tried to go back to sleep, only to have Dante force the issue by literally pulling her up out of bed, "Fine, Fine, I'll get up"she said as Dante seemed to have trouble holding her up, having fallen onto him as he pulled her up. Urd sat her self back down and put the boots she'd grabbed along with the clothing on, as she did she noticed the sisters still there, clearly not done stalking them. The group eventually arrived at the garage in question, having gone to a different one first due to not specifying which one was meant.

When they arrived Sister Agiline as well as the others grouped back up with Sister Helena and Agiline gave a quick report on Urd's order to Helena, figuring it was important the squad leader know, and having not seen her since they broke off into watch groups.

Urd on the other hand, just stayed near Dante, since Lith and Solara looked predictably disheveled, the the surprise was the Sister sitting on the Terminator, looking to be in a similar state.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Arcor watched as the people entered, as they asked him why they had been summoned he decided what he was going to say, a burning pain lit up his mind as he began to speak.

"I apologize for interrupting your rests, but I felt it would be best to inform you of the situation facing you all." He paused. "There is a series of satellites in orbit. Each is a piece of an incredibly complex weapons system, known as Archangel." He paused. "Archangel is going to drop an unknown amount of NCC type chemical weapons onto this planet in a few hours, several of the designations I recognize as nerve gases used against a hiver uprising from a few years back." He paused. "A minute after the canisters have been dropped, an energy weapon I am unfamiliar with on the satellites is going to fire. I wasn't able to locate a target list as it was apparently classified beyond my level of authority, so it is possible that we are going to be hit. Due to the conditions I have been made aware of, it is possible that some form of deadmans switch has been set off." He paused. "Any questions?"

 

[sage42]

Helenas eyes went wide. Her mouth fell open along with every Sister's in the room. Mara actually held on to Lord Mamoru's shoulder tighter to keep from falling. May the Emperor have mercy.....they did it. We're losing, they've ordered the exterminatus. But who's the target? She thought. Her eye's flicked around the room. First the witch, then each of her companions. Such a large group fresh out of warp, and no word from the recovery party. Or perhaps the greenskins have gained the upper hand. Or the genestealers. Her mind raced. They had to either get off planet...or start praying. "Just one Skitarri; when do we leave?" She asked aloud, not daring to take her eye's off the Skitarri.

 

[mcpop9]

"Why are we still here?" Solara immediately brought up the thing that bothered her. Her mind began to race, running all over the possibilities. "I... if i'm given about an hour of concentration, i might be able to save us... i just need a ship to stay in one location in orbit and i need blueprints of the ship... I can tear a hole in the warp and spit us out into the cargo hold of a ship... i don't know what it will do to my body, but i'm willing to make any sacrifice to get us off this world." Solara said, dead serious. "We can use Titania as a shield of sorts. the solitaires have ways of working in the warp beyond human comprehension." she added.

[hr]

Ru was going to respond to egerion. "By the emperor, if one consensus around this table is right, we need to get off this rock before we're all exertminatus'd." He commented, his head racing to think of something that might work.

"I don't think i can repair a valkyrie in time to get us off the planet." Sana threw in.

 

[Athol]

Lith

"Fan-fucking-tastic!" She swore, as the Skitarii briefed them on the situation.

"I... if I'm given about an hour of concentration, I might be able to save us... I just need a ship to stay in one location in orbit and I need blueprints of the ship... I can tear a hole in the warp and spit us out into the cargo hold of a ship... I don't know what it will do to my body, but I'm willing to make any sacrifice to get us off this world."

"I'm sorry love, but that's not going to work." She said softly, freeing her hand from Solara's, and resting it on a shoulder. "I'm not saying you can't...hell I've seen you do some damned impressive things, but you wouldn?t be saving us.? Almost idly she ran an armoured finger along Solara's neck. "Just think Lara...if a Warp Portal appeared in the cargo bay of a ship, what do think they'd do? Ask for proper Ident? No, they'd blow the doors and space us before we could get a word out...and anyone still standing would get cut down. Better to kill it than actually look into the situation...it's that same thinking that put us all on the Light."

[hr]

Egerion

"By the Emperor, if one consensus around this table is right, we need to get off this rock before we're all Exertminatus'd."

"Indeed Brother." He replied, after a moment. "If I am to die so be it, but I would rather die on my own terms."

"I don't think I can repair a Valkyrie in time to get us off the planet."

"Even if you could little one, unfortunately it would not help. A craft that small would never carry me or Sgt. Momaru, let alone all the souls in this base; even if it did fly, an unauthorized launch from a zone that has been out of contact for so long would be shot down long before it reached the safety of a ship." He rumbled, when suddenly a thought struck him.

"Field Tribune!" He said, directing his attention to Arcor. "Since you have more up to date information on what we face, can I assume that you have a signal to the Fleet? If so, I will need you to patch me in. The Justice and Glory, the Inquisitorial Black Ship that brought me here, will still be in orbit. If I can make contact, I can order the complement of Thunderhawks down for pickup...if one craft can carry thirty Marines, we should be able to save most of the people still inside this base."

"Plus..." He added, looking to Sister Helena and Solara. "Since the Justice and Glory is an Inquisitorial vessel, we can settle the status of Inquisitor Draco."

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd just sighed as she listed to the report of how bad things where getting. Them the Dreadnaught said they should call for picking up from his ship, an Inquisitional ship. Urd couldn't stop her self "Oh, so our option are, wait and die, or, get evacuated, and likely be executed by people who probably had there minds made up about us before they sent the Sisters after us, despite none of us actually being tainted. Yeah, awesome options there..."

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Arcor listened to the others and realized that they were beginning to panic.

"Sister, apologies, but there aren't any spaceports that I know of in running distance that we'd reach before the firing begins."

"Inquisitor, thank you for the offer but your companion is most likely correct, and even if I knew of a ship to contact for that I don't think we'd reach them in time."

"Ancient, I'm sorry but I'm only pulling outside data sporadically through the anomalies, most of what I've given has been pulled from off-site databanks and logged entries from relays. I don't think they'd receive anything you send them."

"Archangel has been sitting over the heads of my people, being readied for use for over a millenia. I've been taught as well as most of the people born here to survive the expected results and fight in whatever's left. It probably isn't intended to be used as an exterminatus."

"A base like this exists in every sector for the threefold purpose of establishing a data grid, shielding the population, and keeping our land held. We should survive an indirect hit from the satellites, the gas should take all of a day to deteriorate from the air and otherwise should be beaten with a closed system respirator and flesh coverings."

"What I suggest is that we seal the vents, put on some respirators, break open the keep, and either wait it out or atleast wait until the satellites are done firing."

"If any of you want to try to outrun this, I won't stop you, but I do insist you take a respirator and a map."

 

[mcpop9]

"So we're just going to sit here and pray that the satelites don't hit us directly?" Solara said, getting angry now. She never could understand the mechanicus an rather hated parts of it for stupid decisions. "I don't get you damn nut heads. Nine out of the ten planets i visit have some ancient doomsday weapon sitting in orbit or on the ground. What's worse is that none of you even know what half of the fucking technology you're working with is." she complained then took a deep breath.

"This all sounds like a giant nurgle ritual to me. I can't tell you how many times i've had to clean up after a techrpiest tinkering around with something had managed to accidentally summon the powers of chaos..." she said, venting some steam. Then the girl crossed her arms, closing her eyes and taking another deep breath. "How do you know that the chemical compounds will react in the manner you described if they've been sitting around for a millenia and that it won't just kill us all. IF we don't get hit." she asked.

[hr]

Momaru sat quietly and listened, going through his head. He knew He, Egerion and sana would probably be fine if the base managed to leak, but the rest of the group wouldn't share the same properties as them.

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Arcor sighed and spoke with increasing intensity.

"They're manned. The chemicals are routinely checked and updated from what I remember during my chem training. If something is wrong it's replaced. And honestly the reason we build so many weapons of this caliber is so that when we need them we can use them instead of sitting with our thumbs up our asses panicking that we're being overrun by goddamned everything. The shit that's going to hit us is at the least going to give us some tactical breathing room to reinforce our positions and rearm while the shit that's murdering my people fucking chokes."

He paused and went back to his original tone.

"If something goes wrong, it goes wrong, we deal with it if it happens."

A member of his squad, Rain, spoke "We aren't hereteks, we don't deal with daemons."

 

[Outcast107]

Last Night

When ever went to bed, Vym was wide awak standing guard. Making sure nothing would get in to slaughter his friends he has made. If anyone was going to slaughter them it would be him and him alone. Twitching as he patrol around the area. Making sure nothing was out of the ordinary.

Now

When everyone awoke from their slumber Vym was still up and running. Never even resting for a moment due to the chemicals going through his body. Growing restless while waiting for something to fight. He seen them all heading into a room to talk about something but it matter little to him as he hates talking. Talking solves nothing, only his claws and his weapons solve anything. Holding back his laughter as he goes back on patrol duty.

 

[mcpop9]

Solara tried to calm herself. "I understand what you're saying, but the weapons are never advancements in personal weapons or things to help the planetary defense forces, they're always worst case scenario things. Anyways, i'm not saying you are hereteks, i'm just commenting from experience and previous... times. It can happen with the even best intentions in mind is all i'm saying." she commented closing her eyes

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd just sighed and shook her head "Oh yes, cause we need MORE planet killing weapons, cause, we don't have those in spades or anything." Her tone annoyed and sarcastic at the same time "Seriously, My suit shouldn't be the testing grounds for making Plasma Energy stable. That should have been stabilized along time ago."