Nathan runs back to the door and attempts to open it.
Low is good, 98 is BAD. Roll again.
Brother Malakai looks around to see if there's anything that can be toppled onto the seated Psyker
"What's powering the field?"
The Bridge doesn't appear to contain any element that would easily topple.
The rest would require a difficult Logic/Tech Use check...
Brother Malakai attempts to lop the head off the nearest "zombie"
Initiative: 1d10+4=9
Attack WS [4]5 1d100=31
DMG: 1d10+6=16, 1d10+6=16
Malakai wracks his brain thinking of how to deactivate the Psyker's shield
Scholar (occult): 1d100=10 (nice)
Ah, no. This is a blast door protecting the bridge, at your current rate of penetration, it would take you another 8 or so rounds, possibly less if more people help....
As Brother Malakai takes out the first corpse, leaving a decapitated heap on the floor, Dominik concentrates more on tech, than aiming. Unfortunately, nothing comes to him, the low levels of power coming fromt he cables still attached to the throne would do nothing, even if you could get them into contact with the psyker.
The other corpses still keep coming (I think there are another couple of people to act, and the corpses got really low init...)
Brother Malakai looks at Dominus likes he's insane, nothing the corpses between himself and the door...
Malakai moves to lop another head off a zombie as he makes his way back to the door. But stumbles as another grab s at his ankle, fouling Malakai's attack!
Those of you who make the awareness check, notice some floor level air vents, they would be big enough to get a man out of, and probably less well sealed than the doors.
The things are getting closer, slowly, two of the group finally getting to Brother Malaki and Lorayne, they attack with all vigour of new recruits, hitting both opponents. .
"Hey look!" Sarvus points at the panel, "A way out!"
OK so I took 3 dmg, what does the armor stop? all of it? none of it?
It goes like this... The "PEN" reduces your armour value, so if you have Armour 2, and the weapon has armour 2, your armour counts as 0 for this shot.
Then, you take the damage, and take your remaining armour value away from it, then take the 10's component of your toughness away from that, and anything left over, is the wounds taken....
Quite the complicated system....
"Hey look!" Sarvus points at the panel, "A way out!"
OK so I took 3 dmg, what does the armor stop? all of it? none of it?
It goes like this... The "PEN" reduces your armour value, so if you have Armour 2, and the weapon has armour 2, your armour counts as 0 for this shot.
Then, you take the damage, and take your remaining armour value away from it, then take the 10's component of your toughness away from that, and anything left over, is the wounds taken....
Quite the complicated system....
So Pen 2 isn't that great, but Pen 6 is the armor shredder...
A few seconds looking and listening finds a vent that doesn't appear to have a spinning fan at the bottom, and another few seconds opens the hatch.
As your group moves to drop down the shaf into black oblivion, the things attacking are incapable of keeping up, their only weakness that you have seen.
The vents are not too long, and the drop is shallow, and after a short time you drop out into, well, something, whatever this room is, it's pitch black, with not so much as a rune panel in sight.
"Yeah, or maybe vent something something in from the engine core... Let me think for a second." Dominik will rustle around in his pack for his pict recorder, hoping it has a light on it. "Malakai, is it possible for you start the pilot light on your flamer without feeding it any juice? That should give us enough light to see by, I would rather not just sit here in the dark while those things wander the ship looking for us..."
"Yeah, or maybe vent something something in from the engine core... Let me think for a second." Dominik will rustle around in his pack for his pict recorder, hoping it has a light on it.
It does indeed, a small one, but enough to flash around and see another fairly technical room, cables and conduits everywhere. This room seems to have escaped damage.
I'll use a fate point to reroll that: 1d100=2[/ooc]
You know enough to know that there would be no way to funnel harmful fumes into the bridge from any of the normal systems, the fail-safes are just too well designed to work around in anything less than days or weeks....
As you sit with your small lights though, the ship shudders, possibly under the impact of another asteroid, or possibly as some reaction in the ships dying engines kick though the ship.
"It is not weakness to understand that we need to use the intelligence that the Emperor granted us to defeat this foul xeno device and its pawns. It would be heresy to let it survive, however. If we cannot flush it out the airlock, a last resort would be to overload the reactor core of this ship. Hopefully the Omnisiah would forgive such a crime against the machine spirit, to prevent the ship from being used by the enemies of man. Regardless, the first thing we need to do is warn the Sovereign Venture and anyone left on the guncutter, so that nothing escapes this ship."
"Overloading the reactor is absolutely last resort, else this venture has been for naught."
"Suggestions as to bait and anyone know where the nearest airlock."
"Sir, there's one main flaw with that plan. The one we need to be rid of the most is that Navigator, who's still sitting back up there! We'd need to blow a hole in the hull, probably need to reroute power away from the bridge too..."
"Well, regardless of what we decide to do, we should find a way out of this room first and back to the main deck. Those frozen corpses do not seem to wander the halls, so if we can get back to the main access corridors, maybe we can get back to the guncutter and get some det charges or something to *ahem* explosively decompress the bridge while the psyker thing is still there. Then we could still salvage the ship, we would just be slower about it because we would have to wear our void suits while on the bridge."