Roleplay thread: The Unidentified Xenos Ship

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Feb 26, 2024 9:03 pm
Me? I'm a bit, you know... Ratling looks surprised if not afraid sister talks to him, but recover fast and changes theme
well yes I prefer operating in a field, Sister Olivia Belli. But I can be just as useful inside Xenos ship. The talks about abominations did not scare me!
Feb 26, 2024 11:18 pm
Macho waited with Bigby, eager for combat, he grunts and laughs with him.

"Hahaha, I like you small man, you'll live if you stay with me." He said as he held up his large gun and pretended to fire the thing.

"What comes I'll crush."
Feb 26, 2024 11:41 pm
Tickettbror says:
"Are they? Well received, I mean." Cassia braces her Simulacrum and leans on it a little. The banner's litany scrolls and purity seals flap in the wind. "Is it not in the teachings of Saint Carmillus that the guarded mind preserves sanctity through vigilance, over all?"

Her hand settles on the cover of the sanctified record she keeps chained to her belt. To her, it is as much a safety net in battle as any of her wargear. It represents a very physical aspect of the Emperor's guidance in her life. Satisfied, she indicates the ship with a tilt of her head. "I don't mean to undermine your command, honoured sister, but our orders were to investigate and recover the scouts. I don't see them, but we are aware of the ships origin. Now, we would be more suited to eradication protocols."
"They are, Sister Cassia, unless, of course, you can provide me with a better assessment of the morphology of the land you are about to land over" comes the grizzled reply.

Then, Sister Retributor Domitia Jurgena raises an eyebrow. She furrows her brow even more so.

"I am afraid, Sister Cassia, that Saint Carmillus is not here. However, for the very reason I am not Him, I am open to suggestions" the first sentence is very clearly just a bitter joke made with bitter humour. However, the second sentence sounds truthful. As already shown with the Tech Priest, the Sister Retributor is seemingly open to questions and suggestions.

"We have investigated nothing yet, Sister, and we have recovered nothing yet, Sister. Your zealous suggestion is duly noted, but a scan can only reveal so much. My orders still stand. We shall land, coordon the ship, and extract any survivors. Then, trust me, you shall be free to face Dark Eldar raiders in glorious combat and eradicate them as easily and as perfectly as you are expected to fight in His name, crushing these foul Xenos with your sacred sword and cleansing them with your holy fire". Sister Retributor Domitia Jurgena replies, grim, and bitter.

Sister Retributor Domitia Jurgena looks down at the Pegasus, trying to gauge if there were any traces of a possible ambush set up by the wicked raiders. She knows the slippery bastards are slippery and terrifying, and the last thing she wants is to lead her team into a trap.
OOC:
should I roll perception or can I just wait for Sigma to give us the scan if we are within 50 meters?
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Feb 27, 2024 1:20 am
The Pegasus AVF sits silently Krondo’s instruments show no life forms and this simple vehicle has no monitoring equipment inside to check. If a servo skull came with the scouting party, then it is still with them.

The Drukhari vessel itself is far larger than the Thunderhawk in the bay, but Krondo was not quite able to determine its model. Just from the piece above ground it is likely to have at least twenty or more and as you approach the Xeno ship the Auspex starts to give out meaningless information. Something inside is still running and preventing detailed scans. What is noticeable to some of you, are the footprints of Imperial scouts heading directly into an open door of the ship.
OOC:

Anyone with a 6+ investigation passively notices the footprints.
Also, if you want or even feel a skill might be useful please roll it. At the very least you can accumulate wrath points…
Feb 27, 2024 8:37 am
OOC:
OK, one roll from me to check if I do it correctly.
Bigby trust his ayes more than scanners - using his rifle's optics he checks if the doors are the only entrance/exit to the ship. Any cracks in the ship during crash landing, any designed secondary exits, ventilation holes, anything. Ratling would prefer not to enter through the main doors, where scouts entered and never returned.

Rolls

Investigation - (5d6+1d6)

(62312) + (3) = 17

Feb 27, 2024 9:53 am
Krondo looked at the ship and said, "The blasphemous Xeno tech is interfering with the blessed technology of Omnissiah. I can't get any precise readings from outside. There may be a signal jammer deep in the ship. With all these footprints, it looks like the scouts entered the Xeno vessel. Sister Jurgena, it looks like in order to locate the scouts, we have to enter the heretical Xeno vessel. I am ready and able to follow you all in infiltrating the ship. How do you wish to proceed?"

Two tentacular arms come out of the back of Krondo, one carrying the galvanic carbine and the other had a combi tool on it. The large staff like Omnissian axe was carried by him in his two biological hands. This sort of augmentation helped the tech priest to quickly swap between the available armaments that he carried to the battlefield.
Feb 27, 2024 5:02 pm
Bigby:
Bigby notes at least one crack that he could fit through due to his size, but no one else could. It might be possible to make it bigger though? He's not sure.

Beyond that the only way in or out is the ominous entrance.
OOC:

Bigby's Passive tech and demolitions isn't high enough to be sure if the alternative entrance can be widened.
Feb 27, 2024 5:31 pm
"Sister Superior, on your word I'm ready to follow those tracks into the ship"

The Dominion raises her double-barrelled, .75 calibre, Storm Bolter in readiness.
Feb 27, 2024 8:55 pm
Sister Cassia visibly tenses up when Domitia makes the joke about the saint. Thankfully, she has her helmet on because her expression is one of fire. She holds her tongue, though, and waits for her ire to soften into a simmer before following them toward the ship. The idea of going in there doesn't sit well with her, as far as she cares the scouts are dead, but she isn't a combat leader. She knows her place.

"Aye. When we enter, we best be prepared." She checks the slide on her bolter, already knowing it's perfect. She maintains her weapon everyday, cleaning it with the appropriate reverence and unguents. "And let the icon of him on Terra be our guiding light."
Feb 27, 2024 11:57 pm
"There is something here that smells fishy, Sister Olivia. The way is lit and the path is clear. We only require the strength to follow it and spring what feels like a trap" Sister Retributor Domitia Jurgena notes, adamantly.

"Yes, let He guide us..." Sister Domitia Jurgena is about to add something, but stops.

"Land, pilot. I want to see what's inside that ship with my own eyes. Let us march, Sisters!".
Feb 28, 2024 11:02 am
"Aye, Sister. Let's be about His work!
Feb 28, 2024 3:30 pm
https://i.ibb.co/DW2Qrft/Drukhari-ship-interior.jpg
The room is large enough to fit the Thunderhawk in. The metallic walls seem a dull lifeless grey and a single rectangular box sits in the middle of the room. As you move in the box lights up with images of the system and its sun. A blue green planet shines and you recognize it as Violet Equinox.

Moments later the remnants of a human drop onto the table from above. It is a male, his skin is mostly flayed from his body, his limbs have been broken at odd angles and yet, somehow this man, or what's left of him, groans with pain. Then the very back wall changes from grey to a vivid scene, a tall male with trangular ears and numerous piercings in his face, stands in front of an Imperial Scout while a different Xeno behind him begins to strip the flesh from the scout's arm making the poor scout scream with pain.

In Low gothic the Xeno, on screen, speaks, "Greetings Mon-Keigh, I am speaking your disgusting language because it pleases me to let you know just how little time you have. This one behind me will be peeled and then we have four more. Can you get here in time Mon-Keigh or will you let them all suffer."

https://i.ibb.co/5jTgxYV/Hormagaunt.jpg
The vid feed cuts out and the wall goes back to grey again before you hear roars of some sort of beast. Then you see them as they smash into the room a small swarm of Hormagants. The vile Tyrannid creatures have been warped and changed by Drukhari sorcery, but the base creatures are still there and, if you don't kill them all they might spawn!
OOC:

- Resolve Test: 2DN Success allows you to act normally. If you fail, you suffer +2DN to all Tests. The penalty lasts until the end of the scene or until an ally passes a Leadership (Wil) Test of DN 2 + 2.
- There are five hormagaunts one of you gets to go first!
Feb 28, 2024 4:20 pm
Krondo is visibly shaken by the alien biology and is almost too stunned to say or do anything.


Ooc: Resolve test
Last edited February 28, 2024 4:21 pm

Rolls

Resolve test - (1d6+1d6)

(4) + (3) = 7

Feb 28, 2024 6:27 pm
Cassia plants her feet, unmoved by the situation unfolding in front of her. She's seen far worse horrors in her time, but her faith in the Emperor has always seen her through the day. So long as she remains firm in her convictions, this day will be no different. She braces herself against her simulacrum and brings her boltgun up to her eyeline.
OOC:
Rolling resolve.
Last edited February 28, 2024 6:30 pm

Rolls

Resolve (3) - (2D6+1D6)

(55) + (5) = 15

Feb 28, 2024 6:28 pm
OOC:
Here comes my resolve, but I would like to allow other players to go first - looks like I have too many questions to do the turn yet

Rolls

Resolve - (1d6)

(1) = 1

Feb 28, 2024 8:05 pm
"In defiling these scouts, they defile Our Emperor, kill them Sisters, kill them all!", Sister Olivia shouts trying to drown the horror and transmute it by faith into deadly hatred for the Xeno monsters

Rolls

Resolve test - (3d6, 1d6)

3d6 : (156) = 12

1d6 : (4) = 4

Feb 28, 2024 8:35 pm
Macho sees the creature and is completely terrified of what he sees, his training had not taught him of this (from what he can remember, which was not much), he is frozen in place.
Last edited February 28, 2024 8:42 pm

Rolls

Resolve (3) - (3d6+1d6)

(161) + (2) = 10

Feb 29, 2024 6:35 pm
"FOR THE EMPEROR!"
With a roar of exhaust Sister Sabathica Dominissa roared overhead along the ceiling, rapidly closing the distance and firing her inferno pistols into the two front hormagaunts, punching clear through them and the deck plating below them.
OOC:

Since no one acted, I'll go first I guess? Anyhow, first time in this system, hope I do this right.
Sister Sabathica dual wields inferno pistols, and as she gets into close range she fires a shot at each of the two leading hormagaunts. She has the Dual Wield talent reducing the difficulty for this.

Attack 1: 7 hits, shifting 2 exalted icons to damage. 16+3 damage, -4 AP.
Attack 2: 8 hits, shifting 2 exalted icons to damage. 16+2 damage, -4 AP.
Last edited February 29, 2024 6:56 pm

Rolls

Resolve - (3d6+1d6)

(632) + (4) = 15

Attack 1 - (9d6+1d6)

(446653235) + (4) = 42

Attack 2 - (9d6+1d6)

(264461454) + (4) = 40

Damage 1 ED (melta) - (3d6)

(346) = 13

Damage 2 ED (melta) - (3d6)

(116) = 8

Feb 29, 2024 6:51 pm
"United we stand, divided we fall. Fight shoulder to shoulder and the Emperor fights with you." Cassia bellows as she lines up a shoot.

She takes it upon herself to open fire, despite the lack of orders forthcoming. She doesn't think that her sister superior is incompetent, more than the need to give the order is unnecessary. It's clear to all of them what they should be doing. She keeps her boltgun on single shot, taking her time to aim each shot.
OOC:
Seriously!? I think I'm going to go cry. XD

That shot deals 11 damage. I'll use my shift for a glory point for the group.
Last edited February 29, 2024 6:55 pm

Rolls

Aimed Shot - (5D6+1D6)

(66431) + (5) = 25

Leadership to rally Macho - (8D6+1D6)

(12335211) + (5) = 23

ED if hit - (1D6)

(5) = 5

Feb 29, 2024 9:10 pm
"send them to hell, sisters!

Sister Olivia strides towards the hormagaunts
OOC:
attempting to get them into short range of her Storm Bolter
and then unleashes a dual salvo into the Xeno monstrosities
OOC:
two complications on the Wrath die! :-|
Last edited February 29, 2024 9:17 pm

Rolls

Attack roll #1 - (7d6, 1d6)

7d6 : (2535264) = 27

1d6 : (1) = 1

Attack roll #2 - (7d6, 1d6)

7d6 : (4341524) = 23

1d6 : (1) = 1

1 X ED (Att 1 - if relevant) - (1d6)

(3) = 3

1 X ED (Att 2 - if relevant) - (1d6)

(1) = 1

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