Jak smiles to himself as he recognizes the vehicle. Though the fact that the Lord Dominastrum feels it necessary simply drives home the danger of a Red Mission.
Notch completely misses any import to the vehicle.
Loading up, he checks over his gear.
"Just in case anyone got clever notions about sabotaging our kit.", he notes out loud.
Duncan quietly readies his ripper and takes up his position for watch.
Everyone's gear seems fine, except Duncan's new armor appears to be glowing slightly.
When you run the auspex over it you discover that it's radioactive.
It's not at a lethal level and he doesn't seems to be suffering any ill effects.
The rest of the Scavengers set up camp and squads are assigned to keep watch over night.
Your assigned to the second shift.
Davien puts the strange scuttling feeling behind him, trying to ignore it for now, and gets into his new skin suit and leans back, sitting still. Every so often, he will check the area with Psyniscience.
Notch looks surprised and notes out loud:
"Huh! Duncan's armour is radioactive. Not a lethal level but high enough."
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"So, who wants to set up wire and cans?"
Krevlor shakes his head. "I'd end up waking everyone up. I'm going to find a good spot to cover people with my new longlas, it's got solid reach."
You sense the presence of minds out in the dark but you can't tell where they are.
You can tell that they are getting closer and that their minds aren't quiet human
You see the shapes of riding Ants appear at the tree line. Dark figure move in the darkness
In a hushed tone, Notch shoves the others awake.
"Five of them, setting up a damn mortar and there's a four-armed mutant behind them!"
Hearing Notch's warning Krevlor squints at the figures. He couldn't make out such detail but he had to trust Notch on that. They were within his new weapons reach.
Notch's words reach ears...
Dunc will start charging towards where he has been told the enemy, bellowing "DIS WAY!!!" the whole way.
Jak sighs and follows in Dunc's wake, "Hostiles identified, engaging."
"The ogryn's out of the Chimera now..." Krevlor mumbles to himself and fires at the silhouette. He could have sworn he heard a cry of pain but it was hard to be sure.
Krvlors shot hits one of the figures in the leg, the sharp beam of light illuminating misshapen figures.
The las light also reveals another, entirely alien figure at the back of the group. Pale skinned and four armed, it stare at you with a predatory gaze.
Reeling with shock, Notch will not move forward. His hands fumble for the Lucius-pattern lasgun that Krev gave him, and he whips off a shot.
As Jak starts to run after Dunc, the horror of the creature revealed in the las fire is so overpowering that he finds himself unable to move as his mind tries to process what he saw.
Knowing not the concept a fear, Duncan runs headlong into battle. Ripper at the ready to take on all opponents.
The attack burns the target’s foot, charring the flesh and emitting a foul aroma. The target must make a
Challenging (+0) or lose the foot. On a success, the target reduces his movement by 1/2
(rounding up) until he receives medical attention. In addition, the target suffers 2 levels of Fatigue.
figure1=-6 fatigue 3
The figures quickly load the motor and fire off a rounds into the center of the camp bouncing it off the Metal wagon.
The wagon appears undamaged by the explosion but the tents surrounding it are ripped apart. Screams fill the night.
The other dark shapes fire their las pistols at you but none hit.
The four armed shape moves behind a tree, seeking deeper shadow.
Krevlor shakes as the creature slinks behind the tree... was it a mutant, a xenos, a demon? Was it coming for him in the darkness now for revenge. His eyes darted everywhere around him.
Notch fires at the nearest foe!
Jak's highly ordered mind soon catalogs the creature, though he is still rattled by its appearance. With a chittering sound he calls for his ant, determined to catch up to Dunc and support him.
Davien is able to rally 3 Scavengers to the fight.
They get one their Ants and go after Jak
Notch's shot hits one of them in the head, setting it's body on fire. It runs to wards you before collapsing dead.
3 of the figures climb onto their mounts while firing their las pistols. All shots miss their mark. The motor continues firing into the center of camp with the rounds hitting the back of the tanks armour, sending chunks flying off it.
The four armed figure continues to badly hide behind a tree
Duncan continues running forward with his Ant trailing him.
Order:
Davien
Notch
Jak
Duncan
Krevlor
Dark figures
Krevlor's eyes dart around for a few moments before he starts to regain his composure.
Davien mounts his ant and follows after the others after rallying what he can.
"You want some too!? Eat lasbolt!", Notch shouts, emboldened by his last shot as he fires again. Though this time with less success.
As Jak nears Dunc he shouts to the Ogryn, "Mount your ant, Dunc, it is faster than you are!" He then levels his hunting lance and charges into the enemies.
Duncan hears the command from his compatriot and leaps into action. He turns and mounts his trusty ant before racing into combat with bot Vals in tow.
The other 3 Scavangers attack the motor team and the mounted figures with their hunting lances
head explodes
Fail
is prone
Still on mount
Attacks
Jak and the 3 Scavengers crash into the group.
All 3 scavenger lances connect killing the motor figure, an Ant (sending it's rider flying) and knocking and Ant down.
Jak's blow is dodge at the last second and the four armed creature responds with a flurry of blows against his Ant
Notch's las shot goes wide and Duncan and Davien approach the group
The metal wagon rumbles into life and drives towards the melee
Duncan pushes his ant forward to join the fray.
After witnessing the carnage wrought by the 4 armed creature Davien calls upon the powers within him, glowing with the power, he unleashes a torrent of flames upon the 4 armed figure, seeking to burn it to a crisp. Afterwards he urges his ant away from the creature if it is still standing.
davien moves closer, but no closer to the 4 armed creature than ~60m.
What was he doing, they were all dealing with the monsters, he needed to get up there! "Diane, mount up!" Krevlor called out to her as he jumped onto the back of his ant and urged it towards the fray.
Jak notes the ease with which the creature dodged his lance and assesses the incoming attacks. With the speed of thought only available to those blessed by the Great Machine Jak calculates that his chances of avoiding the strikes are almost non-existent. Rather than try to save the ant his servo-arm snaps out with crushing power at the four-armed monster.
As Jak's counter attack lands his mount is ripped to pieces beneath him, sending him flying and soaking the ground with blood.
Jak's servo arm connects with a satisfying impact but doesn't cause any permanent damage
"Forward!", Notch yells as he sees the need to charge. He drives his ant forward while drawing his hunting lance, and charges the *thing* that downed Jaks' mount.
Botting Jak to get up and throw a Krak grenade at the 4 armed creature
Fail
Well that was a whole lot of nothing
The Hulking 4 armed figure dodges Jak's grenade but slips in the pool of blood from the dead Ant and falls on it's face. It leaps up straight away but the momentum of it's charge is broken
The Scavengers and Mutants continue to fight but neither side gains any advantage
The rest of the squad ride to Jak's aid.
The heavy las fire spits from the Chimera's main turret but all shots miss.
Figure 2= 8 fatigue 1
Figure 3 = fine Ant at 7
4 arms=Prone
Krevlor slowed only to ready his hunting lance, lowering it knowing soon he would charge.
Davien calls upon the powers within him, glowing with the power, he unleashes a torrent of flames upon the 4 armed figure, seeking to burn it to a crisp before it does to his companions what it did to the ant.
Dunc howls and lets loose with a volley of rounds as he comes within a few meters of his multi-limbed target, holding down the trigger until the limiter kicks in.
Full auto,Half action aim, Point blank, scatter(Assuming we are using the errata rules), hulking. would be more successes than I have rounds in that shot. Body, Arm, Head, Arm, Body, Body.
The impact crushes flesh and bone. The target drops whatever was held in that hand, and must make a
Challenging (+0) Toughness Test or suffer 1d10 WS and 1d10 BS Damage.
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Hella
Yes
He's unconsious
Notch blows off the 4 armed creatures left leg and Davien burns off it's right. It passes out from the pain thoroughly defeated.
It is at this point that Duncan full autos into it reducing it's body to messy pulp.
One of the mutants is bitten by the Scavangers Ant and collapses unconscious.
The last fight on for a few more minutes before being killed.
"That fracking showed them!", whoops Notch.
He then gets to the all-important task of the scavenger: looting the dead.
Domonic is currently ordering patrols into the forest.
You see the last mutant being put into the Chimera and driven into the main camp. The Motor is being packed up with it.
These Mutants look like the description you heard from the tech tribes
The long claws of that creature could be turned into swords or axes.
Krevlor does his best to tend to Jak's injuries but they are a bit exotic for him, still it should be enough to prevent them getting infected. "Anyone's ant need tending to now I've seen to Jak?"
Davien glances around. Not me, I'm good. what was that thing anyway? it... eviscerated that one ant.
Enduring the medical treatment with no complaint, Jak nods his gratitude to Krevlor when he finishes.
For a moment, Jak looks at the ruin of his mount before turning to walk back to camp.