The 2nd mission

Apr 19, 2020 5:46 am
The warp travel aboard the Hallowed Sword as been uneventful, only long and tense as all those travel should be.
You noticed a few more kill-teams are in the vessel with you, but you do not know them.

You are told that you will reach your destination tomorrow, so it is the time for the last check ups and rituals before heading for battle.

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Apr 19, 2020 4:58 pm
Bannus keeps to himself for the entire travel, never bothering to know anything about the other kill-teams or the members of his own. His days are spent in solitary prayer, training and going through all the proper rituals to prepare himself and his equipment for action in the field.
Apr 20, 2020 9:06 am
The moment is there, you entered the Stormraven which headed swiftly toward the planet.

The interior of the Stormraven is filled with raucous sirens as the gunship’s machine spirits warn of imminent planetfall. Your squad has completed last minute armour and restraint checks and recited the prayers of orbital deployment, and now the interior bucks and shakes as the gunship hits the target world’s outer atmosphere. As the heat rises and flames lick the view port, you mouth the last lines of your prayers, surrendering yourself to the planetfall.
The next ten minutes are all sound and fury as every surface vibrates violently. The heat rises and your helmet displays inform you that you are experiencing forces that would turn a normal man to boneless pulp. But you are Space Marines, and this is what you were created to do. All too soon, the tremors subside and the flames enveloping the gunship’s exterior fade away, affording you your first glimpse of the surface of the target world.
Truly, the Great Devourer has desecrated this place. A landscape once swathed in verdant forests and fertile plains is now reduced to barren wastes, the bilious yellow-green fog of the consumption process casting all in an actinic glow. Rivers of digestive fluid snake across the violated land, while twisting capillary towers stretch up into the air. Spore chimneys disgorge thick, noxious columns of vapour, and dark flocks of airborne creatures are visible in the distance.
The time for prayers is over. Now is the time for bold deeds, for the mission is all.
OOC:
The Stormraven will need to be piloted until the landing zone his identified.
It has a front-mounted, twin linked assault cannon and four missiles controlled by the pilot.
As well as a twin-linked heavy bolters in an overhead turret.
The ship's auspex can be used to detect groups of tyranids before they can see you through the smoke.
Librarians can use psyniscience to pinpoint the origin of the signal.
There will be a check every hour until you find the zone or attract too much attention. There is a crew do fill the positions if you do not, but they are not Space Marines.
Tell your positions and happy hunting!
Apr 20, 2020 12:33 pm
Let's have each player chime in the three or four positions.
-- heavy bolters filters in the turret
-- working the Auspex
-- piloting

The librarians can focus on doing the psyniscience checks

The other for should state a preference. First, do we have anyone trained in using the auspex or piloting a gunship? The rest can take turns manning the turret.
Apr 20, 2020 12:55 pm
Mykhaal installs himself in the heavy bolter turret, ready to unleash hell on any ennemy....
OOC:
BS 59.... if anybody has a higher rating, I'll leave him the spot.
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Apr 20, 2020 5:19 pm
Bannus will work the Auspex, unless the leader orders him otherwise. He can man the bolters if needed, with piloting being the last option.
Apr 20, 2020 6:00 pm
OOC:
I think the pilot (any) skill is a rank 3 skill in the space marine advance chart, so nobody can have it. (Unless I missed it on another chart...)
Guts takes place behind the pilot, giving him some advices on where to pass to staying unseen as long as possible...
OOC:
Using the Tactics (Recon & Stealth) to aid the pilot...if I can...
Apr 20, 2020 6:02 pm
OOC:
Can somebody be a co-pilot to use some of the weapon systems ?
Apr 20, 2020 7:19 pm
OOC:
@deadpool A succesfull Tactics (Recon and stealth) will help mitigate a failed auspex test.

In this case, a co-pilot to use a front mounted weapon if need be seems reasonable.
Apr 21, 2020 6:35 am
You managed to enter the atmosphere undetected. The ship is filled with intense concentration as everybody efficiently do there assigned duties.
OOC:
Rolls needed
Awareness on the auspex to avoid encounters
Tactics( recon and stealth) as backup
Psynyscience to start pinpointing the signal
Apr 21, 2020 10:40 am
OOC:
Tactics: Recon & Stealth...result (38), sucess
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Rolls

Tactics: Recon & Stealth - (1d100)

(38) = 38

Apr 21, 2020 12:28 pm
Lucian magistrates on the warp, trying to pinpoint the strange signal they are looking for.

Rolls

Psyniscience 55 - (1d100)

(90) = 90

Apr 21, 2020 3:50 pm
Bannus does his best on the Auspex, vigilantly scanning everything
OOC:
Including a Tech Use roll to spot things not normally detectable to human senses alone, such as invisible gases, nearby bio-signs, or ambient radiation.

Rolls

Awareness (+10% for being trained plus +20% for using the device) - (1d100)

(29) = 29

Tech Use (+10% for being trained) - (1d100)

(1) = 1

Apr 23, 2020 8:16 am
The Stormraven spend 1 hour circling around successfully avoiding the masses of flying tyranids using the toxic smoke as cover.
In addition to the hordes of gargoyles, the scans shows presence of very large tyranid flyer, about 30 meters long.

THe Shadow of the Warp is strong making the signal hard to pinpoint. However, Bannus detected, barely, some energy emission east of your position before losing it.
OOC:
I'll need the same rolls again for the next hour of search
Apr 23, 2020 8:37 am
Ragnar is quiet and watching as they are circling the monsterous horde down below. He reaches out though like the other Librarian with him here and will feel for where this signal is. He's sitting in the back rather than manning the guns or the pilots chair, letting their fellow brothers do that work!

Rolls

Psyniscience (51) - (1D100)

(60) = 60

Apr 23, 2020 11:16 am
Guts continues advising the pilot on where to pass and what to avoid to stay out of the tyrannids sight...

Rolls

Tactics: Recon & Stealth (40) - (1d100)

(71) = 71

Apr 23, 2020 11:17 am
Mykhaal stays alert, waiting to be told to open fire on a target...
Apr 23, 2020 11:25 am
Encouraged by his findings, Bannus continues to scan using the Auspex

Rolls

Awareness - (1d100)

(9) = 9

Tech Use - (1d100)

(64) = 64

Apr 23, 2020 12:41 pm
Lucian continues to search out through the strange ways of the warp with Ragnar

Rolls

Psyniscience 55 - (1d100)

(41) = 41

Apr 23, 2020 5:54 pm
The next tense hour is spent making many twist and detour to avoid some of those huge tyranid that fly in very high altitude.
The auspex does not pick up the energy trace again but Brother Lucian is starting to narrow down the position.

This is slow going work, but so far everything the Emperor is watching over you.
OOC:
Another roll, another hour!
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