"Hmm, an extra rifle, or on communications? Where do you want me sergeant."
"Sarge, this looks like a deathtrap, if we get caught in that tunnel with Orks we're all dead. Something big in the background, can't make anything out though."
I got 'nades Thud offers.
Combead vox: "Don't forget they had 3 orgryns of their own. I'd suggest voxing them to fall back out of the tunnel on your side so you can give them fire support without going in."
"Good initiative, Private. Last I remember, I was trying to get ya down to the ground and roll you around to put the flames out..."
And she takes the injector from Leni"But, say, these aren't addictive, right?"
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"Well, 'Phix, since whatever's in there is holding up three ogryns and, if I recall correctly, the Commissars Witch, I'd very much prefer you be here with us when s*!* hits the proverbial fan. Thud, keep those 'nades handy. Yes, Ashora, I see that but we don't got much choice in the matter. I'd rather not get court martialed for abandoning the Commissar if we get out of this. So, everyone, get in position around the tunnel. Ashora, find a good vantage point. Let's try and get them to come to us."
And she'll vox the Commissars squad "Commissar Yeta, this is sergeant Marbray, we're in position around the tunnel you're in, make a break for it and come to us for supporting fire!"
Back to the squad:"I really hope its not a Nob or Cybork..." and Faye gets into cover near the rear of the squad since shes pretty beat up and wants a good view of how they're positioned.
Thud rotates his grenade harness so that his five krak grenades are in front. Four regular frags and two xenos grenades also dangle menacingly. That xenos wasn't the only scary thing in these trenches, and Thud was about to prove it.
The same slow and weak voice answers via the vox as before. "Ogryns ... out of ... control. Shield ... will not ... hold for ... much ... longer. Four ... Hostiles. Melee with ... Ogryns. On ... trying to .."
Suddenly the voice stops for a moment of utter silence, the clashing of weapons, the roars and the even your own breath seem to stop for tho moment of perfect and utter silence.
Then the world seem to rip open with a cataclysmic force, the reality shatters and the world before your eyes is suddenly made of colors, forms and things you cannot even begin to describe or understand. Your ears ring with the mad mourning of a billion billion souls and the horrible faces and features of demons circle every one of you.
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Today, is REALLY not my day... thought Faye as the explosion of pure warp energy cascaded forth and washed over her. She has failed herself once already today and she would not do so again. As the sights, sounds and smells inundate her senses, she grits her teeth and holds firm waiting for the moment to pass and when it finally does, she breathes a sigh of relief.
"EVERYONE STATUS REPORT NOW!" and Faye will look around and take stock of how her squaddies are dealing with being subjected to pure chaos.
Eyes wide with horror, somehow Ashora is able to hold her ground. This isn't real, this can't be real, this is some kind of trick. "Ashora here. Malchior's okay too...what...what IS that?!"
Still trying to follow her sergeant's instructions, the guardswoman falls back a few meters and clambers up the side of the trenchline, hunting for an angle that would still let her aim into the tunnel mouth.
=2 DoF
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Celephix' eyes widen in fear momentarily before she starts to chant a litany for the machine spirits to calm her nerves. As Sergeant Marbray calls for a status update.
"Synapses flared but now responding to commands Sergeant."
Beside the infernal noise of the warp phenomena, those of you who stayed sharp hear inhuman howling coming from the tunnel. Your goggles show you that the melee broke apart, only one of the combatants still standing, the others seem to have collapsed, one seems to roll around on the ground, beating himself with his fists.
The phenomena stays present and you are not sure if it will pass anytime soon.
Thud stands paralyzed, frozen by the existential terror tearing across his mind.
At Faye before she leaves for the group:
"Not more or less addictive than any other medical drug. And it has some nasty side effects that will talk you out of being addicted really soon. Besides you're not getting any doses from me for anything other than it being f$~@ing necessary so good luck with getting addicted on that."
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Leni notices a tuck at her mind but she is too occupied with getting into armor while walking Aubray through the steps of caring for the incapacitated troopers to let it get to her.
Seeing the Orgyn freeze in terror at the warp energy explosion, she tries to snap him out of it as he is, quite literally, their biggest hitter but the fear that the warp has instilled in him is too potent.
Most of the squad seems to be able to ignore the nearly unprotected look into the horror of the warp, but they have not much time to think about it anyway, as several huge creatures burst out of the tunnel, seemingly eager to get away from the source of the unnatural phenomena as quick as possible.
Two of them are Ork Kommandos, just as those you have fought before, two are badly bloodied Ogryns with a look of pure terror on their faces. They send fists flying, pull back those before them and kick at those behind - all just to get away faster.
From within the tunnel, you can hear the mad, crude laughter of another Ork, followed by a noisy barrage of shots aimed at the back of the running.
But even at this close distance, the Ork is not able to hit anything with the barrage of solid slugs from his weapon, and the shots hit the floor and ceiling of the tunnel rather than the fleeing Ogryns - or his comrades.
As the madly cackling creature fires upon the fleeing orks and ogryn, Ashora took note of the muzzle flashes. Some sort of pistol weapon, I think. Putting the center mass...there. Though the darkness hindered her aim despite the photovisor, she was able to pick out enough detail to feel confident in her shot.
"Opening fire!"
Thud seems not to see the approaching danger. The warp is to much for his simple mind. It grabs hold and refuses to let go.
"THUD! BY THE EMPEROR YOU WILL SNAP OUT OF YOUR STUPOR AND YOU WILL PERFORM YOUR DUTIES IN THE NAME OF THE IMPERIUM OR I SWEAR TO THE THRONE THAT DEATH WILL BE THE LEAST OF YOUR CONCERNS!" Faye bellows over the vox and towards Thud in another attempt to snap him out.
*sad trombone*
Sarge's shouting finally makes it past the Void-Music in Thud's head and he is pulled by his ears back to reality. He shakes his head and mutters something in Ogryn (which notch can't translate directly) before reporting, I'm back Sarge! I'm back!
"GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK SPECIALIST THUD! NOW GET TO KILLIN' WE'VE GOT GREENSKINS COMMIN'!"She bellows back just to make sure he really is.
Thud braces against the wall of the tunnel entrance and opens up with his Shredder on full auto.
Celephix raises her rifle and readies to fire at whatever is coming...
Ashora takes an educated-guess shot into the hail of fire coming from the tunnel from her elevated position. In her goggles, she can see the enemy falling, a bright-yellow spot in its left leg.
Anyone looking into the tunnel will notice that the giant, heat-blob disappeared - but you are not exactly sure if thats because of all that warp stuff going on, since your goggles seem to show you heat signatures in empty space from time to time ...
After a thorogh shouting, Thud'dr is snapped out of it and is confronted by the sight of a two Kommandos and two of his kind mere meters in front of him.
In the back, Leni finally slaps on the last part of her flak armor with the help of her comrade. Every CO would hit her with a stick on a check, but it will do its job (mostly) for now.
Celephix readies her rifle
BS 36
brace +5
Point blank +30
Half aim +10
Cohort fire+5
Single shot +10
= target of 96, meaning I hit!
[Dice=Damage: impact, 2 pen]1d10+8+2
And I just realized I've been calling my gun a Shredder when it's actually a Ripper
Finally in armor and seeing the pile of figures stumble out of the tunnel Leni takes a look which shapes are the orks while dropping down on her knee and pulling her preysense googles on, ready to brace the lasgun on her knees and fire the next moment(round)
Seeing Thud get his rear into gear, Faye'll take aim and shoot one of the fleeing Kommandos.
The group is somewhat surprised by the sudden appearance of the solid blobb of Orks and Ogryn that rush towards them in animistic fear from the warp effects around them.
Only Thud'dr is pragmatic enough to score a quick hit at point blank range, against the closest Ork, the force of the bullets stopping the momentum of the Ork and throws him to the ground with a noticeable chunk of leg missing.
A quick shot of Faye goes wide into the tunnel, Leni drops to a firing stance, taking aim for a well placed shot.
-->I spend 16 charges of your charge pack here, with 4 overcharged shots, each spending 4 charges
Seeing the second Ork is not stopped by anyone and standing directly in his stampede-path, Celephix's logical mind switches to overdrive mode, taking careful aim at the monster and unleashing a perfectly aimed barrage at the closing enemy. She scores 4 hits within a blink of an eye on the charging brute, and even the monstrous, alien physique of the Ork gives way under that onslaught and it collapses to the ground, his left leg a smoldering mass of burned flesh and scarred bones. It is not entirely clear if the Ork is dead, but it is obviously out of fighting spirit for some time.
But with the disabling of the Orks, the danger is not over.
You still face two out-of-their-mind-panicked Ogryns!
They try their very best to overrun anyone on their path - which is not to be taken lightly. Getting tackled and overrun by a 200-400kg creature running at it's top speed is NOT fun.
You have several options to prevent that, but you have to decide what to do in a split second. What will you do?
Leni drops her lasgun and grabs the injector at her side instead
"Oh for f#!%s sake this was NOT why I had this prepared. Why do my patients always try to f**%ing kill me? M+@~*!~%&@!%s"
taking only a moment to contemplate the crazyness of what she is about to do she uses her crouched position as a sort of runners start and counter-charges the the first orgrynn coming her way and tries to hit it with the Tranq filled injector she always carries with her before probably being thrown aside.
Hit them: +20
Charge: +20
Size category larger: +10?
Unaware: +30?
Easy to hit because she just has to put it against them, not put any power in?
Probably going to cap at +60 there ~
Leni charges the first Orgrynn coming down the trench, trying to hit it with a dose from her injector but is thrown aside before she can get the injection in.
Thud steps in front of his brothers and holds out his hands. He thunders something in ogryn and braces for impact.
While Thud'dr catches the shoulder of the first Ogryn, stopping the thunderous charge of his brother after taking several steps back, the second Ogryn breaks through the line of the group, throws Leni out of his way with a deafening roar and a flick of its giant hands, now threaten to do the same to the Sergeant and Celephix.
Thud holds the other ogryn there. He manages to catch his eye and starts talking quickly (for an Ogryn). Notch explains that he's reciting a poem of sorts about home and life on the Ogryn home world. Ogryn poetry is very hard to translate, so he doesn't try. He just lets you know that, in a half dozen lines 24 different words that all translate to "snow" have been used.
Whatever Thud'dr is actually telling the other Ogryn, it seems to work and the big'un is slowly calming down, his eyes quit darting around like a squirrel on crac and after another moment he drops to the ground, completely exhausted from the mental and physical strain.
The Ogryn has a few critical injuries and on top of it has suffered a decent mental trauma.
As the chaos unfolds below in the trench Malchior mutters, "You know, I'm extremely grateful that our job keeps us out of the front line."
"Shut up and keep your eyes on that tunnel, we're still missing our Commissar and there's at least one witch in there." Despite her harsh tone, Ashora can't quite keep the tremor from her voice.
Leni turns onto her back in the snow she got thrown into. Looking into the stary ski and feeling the cool snow against the burns under her armor she taps her combead. "I'm so f!+$ing done with today. For the next 5 minutes you guys are bringing the patients to me."
With that she embraces the feeling of just having been crushed into mush with a flick from a walking steamroller and lets her arm flop down. After a moments thought she starts moving her arms up and down a little, actually making a small snow angel where she fell.
vs Str 44-20= 24 for 2 DoS.
Faye, sick and tired of all the shenanigans happening and hooped up on, what she believes is, pure adrenaline, squares her shoulders, turns to one side and leans into the incoming Ogryn tackle and whispers to herself "The Emperor Protects..."