Inquisition: Eye of Terror: A WarHammer: 40k rp. (CLOSED, DON'T POST HERE UNLESS YOU'RE ACCEPTED.)

[Evrant-Knight]

"Yay ... we saved the officer's lounge, what about the rest of the ship?" Urd asked after not getting a response the first time.

"That's easy." Lith said as she walked up to the pair after scavenging a new lasgun and some power packs. "We fight. We clear this ship of these warp filth, section by section, or room by room if need be, but we fight." As she spoke, the surviving crew were at work turning the Officer's Lounge into a more defensible position.

"We should push out towards the bridge, and send any survivors back here." Lith remarked as she turned to Dante. "No offence Dante but I think they'd feel a little better not having a Psyker in their midst." Dante looked a little perturbed about the comment, but could see the reasoning, everyone felt uneasy when a Psyker was around, due to what could happen if something went wrong. It was a stigma that had existed for millennia, and it had no signs of going away soon; it was something he just had to accept.

"Fair enough Lith, as long as these men can steel themselves against our enemies, then they shall be safe. Also, a good suggestion sending survivors back here to a more defensive position. Should we happen to find a Medic or an Apothecary, we should direct them back here as well; so the injured can be treated." Dante remarked, slightly annoyed, but understanding. He then looked at the two women.

"Alright then, whenever you two are ready, we shall depart."

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

As soon as the wound was sealed and she was armored up again, Leoni set out once more into the breach. This time, she pushed towards the cafeteria, leaving fiery rooms and hallways in her wake. Once she arrived, Leoni came to a scene of chaos. Survivors were doing their best to ward off an onslaught of Daemons and tainted guardsmen alike and their numbers were dwindling fast. Leoni made her way to a cluster of survivors and lit aflame the hellspawn. The sight of her fighting inspired the survivors to rally, and fight harder. Swaths of hellspawn were incinerated as more came through the doorways, hearing the battle. Soon the battle turned to their favor but there were still more coming. Then the comms crackled. A distress call.

"This is a distress signal to anyone with comms on this bloody ship..."

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"There is a group of survivors in the library but we are being overrun. I repeat, we are being overrun." Fredrick said into the comms that he had taken off one of officers nearby. The library doors were streaked with the blood of the fallen but now only daemons crashed through the improvised defenses.

The heavy library shelves that was being used as a barricade were being splintered by the Daemons outside. One of the crewman screamed as he was stabbed by a Hellblade, bracing the door. Fredrick planted a few shots through the gap where the blade stabbed through, killing the Daemon behind it but there were no doubt more behind the defenses. Then one of the barricades burst open and a chaos space marine charged through, killing the two attending defenders. The marine didn't step a single pace before he was sent back into the warp thanks to Fredrick but soon more tainted ran through.

"Southwest door is breached!" Fredrick yelled from his nest. He fired and fired again at the tainted guardsmen, dropping them in a few shots but his ammunition supply was beginning to run out.

 

[Lunar Templar]

"I'll head to the Library and lend assistance there" Urd said as she picked up her Chainsword

"May the Emperor have mercy on their souls, for they will find none in me" She said after giving Dante a swat on the backside but before he was out of earshot of her.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Just before they were about to leave, the communications system crackled into life.

"This is a distress signal to anyone with comms on this bloody ship... There is a group of survivors in the library but we are being overrun. I repeat, we are being overrun." The man said, as the desperate sounds of a slowly losing battle could be heard in the background.


"I'll head to the Library and lend assistance there." Urd said as she picked up her Chainsword.

"May the Emperor have mercy on their souls, for they will find none in me." She added after giving Dante a slap on the backside, but before he was out of earshot of her. Dante gave out a chuckle, then his face formed a devious smirk, though it was difficult to notice.

'Oh you are a naughty girl Urd... this is going to be so much fun.' He thought to himself before turning to Lith.

"Do you think we should go with her, or head to another area of the ship?"

 

[Athol]

Lith was still in prayer, trying to center her thoughts for the coming battles.

[small]"Our Emperor who art in Terra,
Hallowed be thy name."[/small]
"There is a group of survivors in the library but we are being overrun. I repeat, we are being overrun."
Her eyes closed as she prayed, she frowned as the comm. cut through. She'd heard that desperate plea before...Mustafar IV, Corperal Tiber's frantic call for help that never came...

[small]"Your empire come, your will be done, on Caria as on Terra.
Give us this day our daily ammo."[/small]
"May the Emperor have mercy on their souls, for they will find none in me"
No, no mercy, we will grant them only death and ruin.

[small]"Purge us of our sins,
As we purge those who sin against us."[/small]
"Do you think we should go with her, or head to another area of the ship?"

[small]"Save us from the time of trial,
And deliver us from chaos."[/small]

Letting out a slow breath Lith stood, gathering her gear as she did. "Dante...we go where we know we are needed." Unlike how she'd been when she'd arrived back at the Mess, Lith as now calm and collected; but one look in her eyes showed a barely restrained fury.

"Lieutenant." She called to one of the ships officers, who were organizing the survivors. "Sir, once you've got a defence set here, could you send anyone you can spare along to the Library...we'll probably need the reinforcements." With that she set off after Urd.

 

[Lunar Templar]

The second Urd hit the hall she broke into a full sprint to the library. On the way she reloaded her side arm, taking pot shots at what ever stragglers she saw.

A few minutes and about a dozen dead Heretics later, she wasn't keeping track, she arrived at one of the entrances to the library to find it clogged with targets, stopped by a failing barricade, fortunately, she'd picked up a frag grenade on the way, lifted from the body of a dead IG.

She pulled the pin, tossed it and waited for the explosion around a corner. After the grenade ripped a good sized chuck out of the targets at the back Urd opened fire on the Heretics still standing, aiming only for the head and neck.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"Dante...we go where we know we are needed." Lith on the outside look cool, calm and collected; but deep down she looked as though she had a burning fury that wanted release. Dante silently nodded in agreement as she called over one of the other officers who was organizing a defence.

"Lieutenant. Sir, once you've got a defence set here, could you send anyone you can spare along to the Library...we'll probably need the reinforcements." Lith then went off after Urd. Wasting no time, Dante went off in pursuit as well, leaving the defence of the Officer's Club hopefully in the capable hands of the Lieutenant. He could see around a dozen dead Heretic bodies, their wounds so severe, he couldn't tell what they were, be they human or demon. Demons appeared from the shadows of nearby rooms, as if they were there the whole time. One by one they came after Dante, each wielding a foul blade of hate and malice.

Given the width of the corridors, his spear would not be of much use, so Dante stowed it away, and brought out his power sword and plasma pistol, and began to counter their attacks. Dante had knocked out the blade of one, and killed another with a plasma bolt. The third wore armour, so it took more work to ware down before a hole in the armour meant a psyker bolt charred its body to ash. During this, the first had recovered its blade, and Dante narrowly avoided a swing at his head but he retaliated by first removing the demons's sword arm, then its head. Dante then carried on towards Urd.

 

[mcpop9]

The ship violently shook again from something. This time, in the main hall where Lunette had first gathered them, a portal opened at the top of the platform. The floor shook as a massive foot set itself down on the floor.

Solara
The acting inquisitor made her way down to to Lunette's room. She finally made it down there and forced the door open. She found Lunette standing with the weapon acting as a walking stick. Solara sensed three conflicting forces inside the person she considered her mother. "Mother-" She began but was cut off By Lunette. "Don't say a word. We both know what dwells within me..." she said short of breath. "...but you need to get me to the main hall now... ...i remember this kind of attack, once before..." she said as Solara came to her aid and slipped under Lunette's free arm to support her.

Solara had her bolt pistol out and the duo made their way to the main hall, solara putting bolter rounds through corrupted marines heads.

When they got to the main hall, Lunette immediately recognized the foul figure standing atop it.

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This absolutly amazing picture was drawn by Torture device on deviant art. i take no credit for this.

He was standing with his right shoulder to them, the glow of the portal making it difficult to see what was on his left shoulder pad.

"Well Lunette... you're all grown up now..." The corrupted marine's voice came through his breathing apparatus, deep and raspy. You seem to have a little friend there... and she'd make an oh sooo great tribute to the warp... Not to mention a fantastic flagship for me..." he said.

"Torturer... you're still as corrupted as when you killed my master, even more so since i spot new trophies on that cursed suit of your's...." Lunette got out glaring at him. Though, she and solara began to get a bit worried when the hall began to fill up with the taint of chaos corrupted warriors

[hr]
All around the ship, any chaos warrior not engaged directly in one on one combat began retreating to the main hall of the ship.

 

[Athol]

Lith had been making here way after Urd, when the ship lurched again. All at once she say heretics begin moving in one direction and against better judgment, or sanity, she followed them. Rounding a corner into the final corridor, she saw the doors to the Main Hall, hatred and corruption where almost palpable in the air.

As she got closer and closer, she could feel her conscious and rational mind being slowly subsumed by a nervous frantic energy...she wanted to do something, she just wasn't sure what. Entering the hall Lith saw the portal, and the grotesque figure before it. The chaos horde ignored her as she made her way to the Inquisitor and her young charge.

"...I spot new trophies on that cursed suit of yours...."

Looking at Lunette and Solara she smiled a mad woman's smile, before facing Torturer...and laughed. "Death..." She tittered. "You'll find naught but death here coward." Between the stress and anger of the past while, along with a whole host of unresolved psych issues, Lithian Samius Ortona snapped.

Laughing and visibly shaking, she dropped her lasgun and pulled the chainsword from her back, clutching the grip with both hands. "Coward, coward, coward." Lith went on in a sing-song voice. "So big, so strong...so afraid. Spent all your years feeing like a god, then something happened to remind you that you are still just a man...despite all the gear, training, and enhancement...just a man. So what do you do? You go simpering to the pervert god, and let it fuck you up the ass, give up your soul, just so you can live a little bit longer."

Cocking her head to the side, she giggled like a small child. "Foolish, foolish, coward man...death will still find you. Death is patient it will wait, but it will find you...your 'god' will lose interest in you, and then POP! All your fears will come true and you'll be gone, gone for all time. Me on the other hand? I will die...I may die right here, but I know I will be reborn beyond the cares of the flesh at His side, but you in your fear for your flesh will be denied."

 

[mcpop9]

Solara saw what had happened to Lith and immediately got worried. Lunnette gave a nod and stood up under her own power, readying her weapon. Meanwhile, solara dashed over to Lith an stood infront of her, grabbing the guards woman by her shoulders and shaking her. "Listen Lith! you need to snap out of this!" Solara said, and upon see this had little to no effect on the woman, she leaned forward and kissed her.

Torturer began to make a move towards them, but found his path stopped by Inquisitor Lunette. "Your frail body couldn't stop me then, so now in a weakened state, you're not even a challenge." he said and brought his power claw down towards her.

Lunette brought her chain staff up to meet it in a block and was sent to one knee. She was straining down on one knee when she began to look up at him.


"What do you say maria, should we kill her?" He asked as Luna's eyes fell onto Sister Maria, one of her best friends at the convent. She was strung up on his left shoulder, her lower half of her body missing. She was only being kept alive by the ruinous powers of the warp.

Lunette's eyes welled up with tears. Tears of sorrow, anger and grief filled them as she let both of the forces fighting for her into herself at once. She began to glow with a pinkish purple glow as well as a golden glow. One half of her chain staff became completely golden and the other pink and flesh covered, the sharp points of the chain being reformed to look like tongues.

She pushed back with a newfound force inside of her and threw Torturer back. "YOu will not take anymore lives of those i know while i am supported by two gods..." Lunette said standing with newfound power.

Torturer charged her using his raptor thruster pack and tried to slam into her with the power claw. Lunette used her Chain staff vault over him, cutting Maria free and snagging her from him in the process. Torturer stopped and spun around to face her. How pathetic... you still care about her. Matters not. he said and motioned for a number of Deamons to charge her.

Lunette put Maria on her back and began to battle with the deamons in a flurry of spins and the whirring of the chainsaws.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Urd was cutting through the hoard of chaos tainted traitors when those she wasn't fighting directly stopped and start to leave the area. She was naturally confused, but saw to those who where holding the library first

 

[Anti-American Eagle]

Anthony saw the portal close and the remaining heretics bolt past him and his servitors towards somewhere...

It didn't matter what caused it, the bridge had to be secured. He ordered his surviving servitors to incinerate the dead while he got to work fortifying the room against more attacks.

He grabbed scrap metal from the terminals that were destroyed beyond hope and flicked on his torches and his welding apparati. He began sealing and reinforcing the entrances, he decided it would be safest if he only left two clear entrances. The two entrances he left functioning were the most inconvenient and they were lockable, which he took advantage of by locking them to the outside.

When he was done he ordered his technical servitors to begin reinforcing the doors and had a medicae servitor inspect him for wounds.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

Upon arriving at the library, Dante saw demons simply leave the room entirely, ignoring people entirely; as if something was calling them away. This had him confused, through the encounters he had with Chaos, he had never witnessed an event like this before; which since it involved Chaos, meant trouble. Dante saw Urd heading towards those who were holding the library, there were a handful of Guardsmen left standing after the assault; he silently thanked the Emperor for this.

Dante could feel a strange presence in the Warp, something that was unsettling. It was like a mixture of both light and darkness. Casting these thoughts aside, he went over to join Urd and the defenders.

"A rather fine job you have done here Guardsmen; you certainly have proven yourselves, and the Emperor would be proud. Should any of you have injuries, the Officer's Club has been turned into a fortified location, and given the fact that the demons seem to be moving off to somewhere else, it should be a safe place." He then turned to Urd.

"Urd, whenever we are done here, we should find out where those demons were heading to; it may lead us to the root of the problem."

 

[Athol]

She grinned from ear to ear, and tensed to attack as the heretic lord started to move.

"Listen Lith! You need to snap out of this!"
So much noise. Noise but no threat...

The kiss made Lith blink, her eyes refocusing on the figure in front of her. Slowly the blade of her c-sword dropped, as she caressed Solara's face with a hand. "Hello little god..." She muttered, the manic gleam starting to fade. Staring at the young psyker, tears formed in her eyes. "So much pain...hounded and assailed but never broken."

Her hand trailed across Solara's cheek and down her neck. "So young, but soo strong...to endure what would break so many others. Little one..." A flash of mauve over the young girls shoulder caught her eye. In a blink her hand snapped to the collar of Solara's armour, and gripping it firmly Lith yanked her off balance pulling her away barely in time, from the lethal slash from a Daemonette.

The creature snarled in annoyance, while Lith re-griped her blade. "Be gone whore of the pervert king!" She snapped. "Leave or I shall send you back to the warp in pieces!" "

Now, now Lithian.

" It replied. "

There's no need for that.

" Affecting a much more casual stance, it smiled. "

They could be yours you know...

" It's voice seemed to weave through Lith's fragmented, and manic mind. "

Imagine the fun you could have...the pleasures that could be yours...

"

Lith stood for a moment not saying anything, then her face twisted with rage as she spat in the Daemonette's face. "Do not test me whore!" She raged. "My faith is pure; you have nothing to offer me!" Her fury was so great that some of the heretic guard that where watching, started to move back.
"

Very well then child.

" It replied, with a nasty smile. "

I will enjoy this.

"

In a flash it attacked, at speed no normal human could match, but before it could kill Lith it was knocked back by a brilliant flash. "NO!" Came a high pitched scream as Solara stood her eyes aglow. Closing her eyes, she began to envelop Lith with her powers. As this happened Lith became surrounded by a brilliant golden glow, her eyes still on the daemon. Cocking her head to the side, she spoke. "I told you whore...you should have run."

Faster than what should've been possible, she attacked. The daemonette tried to move clear but Lith was on it, before thought could become action. Her chainsword roared as she sent it tearing through the abomination, it not even having the time to scream before it fell to ash. As it died she raised her face to the ceiling and let loose a cry of pure of fury, causing the masses of heretic guardsman who had gathered for a show to brake and run.

 

[Lunar Templar]

"A rather fine job you have done here Guardsmen; you certainly have proven yourselves, and the Emperor would be proud. Should any of you have injuries, the Officer's Club has been turned into a fortified location, and given the fact that the demons seem to be moving off to somewhere else, it should be a safe place."

Urd turned to see Dante, and smirked "What took you so long?" she said, knowing full well he wouldn't have been able to keep up with her anyway "Anyway" turning back to the Guardsmen "He's right, move to the Officers Lounge, we don't know how long this lull will last, best to take advantage of it"

"Urd, whenever we are done here, we should find out where those demons were heading to; it may lead us to the root of the problem." he said to her

"My thoughts exactly, lets go" Urd said as she headed for the entry way

 

[mcpop9]

As Lunette finished up with the daemons she was fighting, Torturer charged at her and sent her flying back with a hit of his power claw. The massive chaos marine then used his sound cannon to attack and supress her. Lunette was stunned and deafened by the blast as the Torturer began to walk towardas her.

"Lith, my Mother!" Solara screamed as lith felt it in her mind as well aas in her ears. Though, there was a new obsticle to deal with as another warp rift opened up. The entire room was filled with the rumbler of a massive engine as a chaosdreadnought stepped out of it. On his left arm was a power claw and his right arm awas a heavy calibre bolt machine gun.
"Come on you little bitches run!" it shouted charging solara. Lith, i can't move while like this! lith felt solara say inside of her head. Don't use too much warp power or you'll be fried! remember that!

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"What took you so long?" Urd asked upon Dante's arrival. Both of them knew he couldn't of kept up with her normally. "Anyway," She said, turning back towards the Guardsmen. "He's right, move to the Officers Lounge, we don't know how long this lull will last, best to take advantage of it." The pair of them both made their way to the library entrance before Dante spoke again.

"Reason for me taking a little longer than expected, was that there were some demons that ambushed me; looks like they escaped your unbridled fury. Fortunately, I removed them from the playing field." He remarked as they walked, and noticed demons heading towards the Great Hall where everyone met for the first time. Before he could act however, a voice called to him in his mind. It was ethereal in nature, and spoke to him quietly.

Come to me, Psyker born.

Dante passed this off as his mind playing tricks on him, but given that he is a Psyker, that could mean something more serious. As they reached the main hall, he could see an abomination that was a Chaos Raptor Marine with strange mechanical legs and large weapon that was firing on Lunette whilst being followed by a small group of Demonettes. It was then that he saw a large warp portal open up and out stepped a Dreadnought.

"It appears that servants of the Prince of Excess have joined this battle."

 

[Lunar Templar]

"It appears that servants of the Prince of Excess have joined this battle."

Urd frowned "Oh, fuck all kinds of duck ... a Dreadnaught" she said, more annoyed then anything else "Plan? Cause i don't think stabbing it will work so good"

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

Fredrick helped the rest of the survivors from the library as the group that helped him earlier dealt with the rest of the daemons although a large number of them left for what seemed to be the Main hall. It was a gift that he didn't question and soon he was able to get the wounded to the secure place. He hunkered down with the wounded after hearing the roars of daemons and the lurching of the ship to make sure that the tainted wouldn't come back.

"May the Emperor help us..." Fredrick whispered.

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The daemons retreated from Leoni's flame towards the Main hall and that gave Leoni the incentive to push forward once more. The cafeteria was dealt with and she instructed the survivors to head over to the bridge where she heard that it was clear of chaos.

Leoni chased after the tainted closely and eventually she arrived at the main hall where she came upon the daemons of Slaneesh. Sister Leoni's hands began to shake with righteous furry and the arrival of a chaos dreadnought did not faze her; it only made her madder. These were the sworn enemies of the God-Emperor and it was her duty to do anything in her power to slaughter his enemies, even if it meant her life. This was a prime opportunity and Leoni knew it. She charged forward and towards the dreadnought, nothing else in her mind besides the slaying of these heathens.

"DAMNED WHORES OF THE WARP!" A deamonette lunged towards Leoni only to receive a plume of fire. Even with its speed, the cleansing flame charred it to a crisp. "YOU WILL FALL!"

Leoni blanketed the dreadnought with her flames, hoping to melt the machine of the warp.

 

[Evrant-Knight]

"Oh, fuck all kinds of duck ... a Dreadnought." Urd said in an annoyed tone whilst bearing an obvious frown. "Plan? Cause I don't think stabbing it will work so good." Before Dante could respond however, he was almost knocked over by a woman wearing a mixture of cloth and armour, carrying around a Heavy Flamer, a Sister of Battle by the looks of it. Whilst he did not fall, the speed in which the woman moved definitely caused him to stagger about, using his spear to regain balance. Soon after incinerating a Daemonette, she battle sister turned her Flamer towards the Dreadnought.

"As I was about to say, if we had anything that was good against heavy armour or vehicles, I suggest using those. But seeing as though neither us has a Melta Bomb or a Krak Grenade, that kind of throws the plan out the window so to speak. We should probably clear out the surrounding Daemonettes until an opportunity to silence that foul engine of the warp presents itself. I know it isn't much of a plan, but its best I can come up with on short notice."