Fallen Angels, A Warhammer 40,000 Role Playing Game

Brother Seargeant Asmodian felt nothing as he plummetted through the oxygen starved atmosphere of the world of Skullscream. His feet smashed into the hard packed snows of the world and his entire body sunk deep to the stone beneath. A few seconds of brute force and he was clear of the snow drift and walking along the rocky ground to line up with his fellow squad members. The ten of them had been dropped from the stormraven Glorious bloodshed seconds earlier and more squads were being dropped even now. The Blood ravens had been deployed on the planet to try to crush the Skulscreamers. The legion had definitly made a dent in the Blood Ravens reslove in the last few solar weeks. Lightning fast raids from warriors not entirely in this world had the neophytes speaking of ghost armies. The warriors would arrive in small groups of 5 or 6 but those few would be capable of decimating dozens of the Blood Ravens tactical and assault marines. Strange weapons spitting new brands of death and dening even the most veteran of comfort. The entire company was on edge and the Astartes were beginning to wonder if this was the end of the chapter.

Asmodian shook his head slightly to try and rid himself of these blasphemous thoughts the Emperor protects. He looked ver his squad, and he knew they were nervous. They wernt in thier ships, in thier territory, they were on Skullscreamer turf. And none of them liked the prospect of havng to face the horrific warriors of that dammned legion. Asmodian sighed gently into his helmet. Better get moving.
"5th squad, move out!"

This text based RPG is based on the Games workshop Warhammer 40K Universe and the Blood Angels Chapter, The Tau and many copyrighted terms will remain the same, however my own homebrew legion, the Skullscreamers (Codex in my sig) will be subbed in for the Legions of Chaos in this RPG, those of you who know my style of GMing wil know that this will be a tense RP filled with as many creepy and difficult situations as I can put in. I encourage new players to participate as well.

At the moment I am only allowing members of the Tau Blood angels chapter and Skullscreamers (Chaos) to participate. I may include furthur legions and factions later in the RPG

Character Sheets as follows

Name:
Faction:
Rank: (Troops choices and fast attack choices only to begin with.)(For Skullscreamers you may also choose to be a Ghost)
Appearance/Personality:
Bio:
Equipment: (Codex only, specialist equipment will arrive later in the game)
Quote from character: (Optional)

any other info needed ask me and I will tell


NPC Commanders and Legends

Cuetemouc [Kwo-te-moke]
Skullscreamers
Skullscreamer Lord
Cuetemoc's armour has been through so many battles and trips to the Otherworld that he is no longer truly in this world. His body can shift through solid objects and terrain as if it wasnt even there. The Highly ornate Apocalyte armour a testament to his prowess on the battlefield and the pair of Bone swords a formidable combination.
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Apocalyte Armour (Aincient), Pair of Bone Swords, Skullcannon
"Drip...drip...drip... you hear that? Thats the sound of your rotten corpse dripping its lifeblood to the ground... Unless you want that to happen, I suggest you run... hard"

Shas'o Freema Ulgala
Tau
Shas'o
The Shas'o wears his crisis battle suit with pride and certainly with power. His white and grey armour blends perfectly with the snowy, rocky, landscape of Skullscream
The Tau arrived on Skullscream for much the same Reason the Blood Angels did. The Skullscreamers had worn down the Freema sept with lighting fast strikes that the Tau could not retaliate to becuase of the Skullscreamer capabilities to dissapear quickly and efficiently. The Freema sept high command had demanded a Cadre be sent to Skullscream to at least slow down the attacks.
Crisis Battle Suit, Plasma Rifle, Fusion Blaster, Stimulant Injector, Iridium Armour, Shield Drone, Marker drone, Hard Wired Blacksun filter
"Today we fight brothers, not for ourselfs, but for the Freema Sept, and for the Greater Good!!"

Brother Captain Peter
Blood Angels
Captain
The Brother Captains blood red armour has the image of a phoenix spiralling around the right thigh because of The Captain utter refusal to die. He can be brought within an inch of his life, almost to the point of death but he always comes fighting back. And his ornate mastercrafter powersword has a phoenix wing as the single crossguard.
Artificer armor, Master Crafted Powersword, Master Crafted Plasma Pistol, Jump Pack.
"Forwards brothers, forwards in the name of the Emperor, For Death, For GLORY!!!"

Name: Sam Neron
Faction: Blood Angel
Rank: Deathwatch Assault marine Sargent
Appearance/Personality: Wears a skull helmet
Bio: He never removes his helmet infront of any of his brothers. He was found on Baal Fighting a gang alone holding his own until enforcers arrived. He court the eye of the Blood angels and tested. He was given a his power armour after holding a outpost alone from a horde of orks. His assault pack was awarded after slaying a chaos lord of khorne.
Equipment: Power sword, Flamer pistol, krak grenades and power armour.
Quote from character: "I have battled traitors and xenos and they fall the same. Now you will help purge for the emperor.!"

NPC (my squad)

Brother-Paul = plasma gun
Brother-James = thunderhammer
Brother-Keith = chainsword and bolt pistol
Brother-John = power axe
Brother-Barry = twin lightning claws

Very nice character, well wait for a few more before beginning.

k lets hope more people join.

definitly
hmmm, just realised something. Your a Seargeant, that means you have a squad. You are more than welcome to detail the members of your squad and run them as NPC's under your command, If you dont Ill make generic ones ummm max 10 man squad I think (including you)

In the Mean time im going to create a couple of NPC commanders, one for each faction, and a couple of minibosses for the Skullscreamers.

k ive made my squad

Sounds good

Name: Veteran Sargent Acrodulis
Faction: Blood Angels
Rank: Foot bound Assault Marine Sargent
Appearance: Wears a Corvus pattern helm, he has shaven black hair, and his face is covered in a pattern of scars.
Bio: A vicious and uncompromising man, Acrodulis is a superstitious being and has a terrible distaste for psykers, he was gifted his trademark axe by a Sword Brethren of the Black Templars chapter while fighting together on Armageddon and forming ties of brotherhood.
Equipment: Power Axe and Combat Shield
Quote: "Thou who shalt defy the emperor will be redeemed by my blade"

Squad NPC's:
Brother Vauldus: Chainsword and boltpistol
Brother Securis: Chainsword and boltpistol
Brother Cruror: Melta Gun
Brother Megas: Chainsword and boltpistol

Welcome Brother post your sqaud.

Welcome to the fold, good to see a Superstitious guy

how many before me start everybody invite friends.

um ive RPed with two people but I prefer a minimum of three. If anouther person doesnt turn up in the next 30 min or so we will begin

Posted my squad

Let the battle start in 30 mins

can we start now please

squad looks good

Sure
Do you guys want to start close to one anouther or spread out?

close well im goin 2 bed got a party at 7am tommorow and i havent slept for 2 days. Sorry guys

Marta is it ok for me to become a tech adept of the mechanicus (legio cybernetica for example?).

Id much rather start farther if its acceptable Templar, i like a challenge, fight through xenos filth and heretical scum to meet up at our objective or some such.

Ok CVH

Ummmmmm.... Noccy Id rather something I knew a bit more about, Adeptus Mechanicus core perhaps?

And fair enough guys.

(BT)
The Stormraven settled on its landing gear as the Assault ramp slammed down. A squad of heavily Blood Angels assault Marines stormed down the ramp joining up with 3 tactical squads, the roar of bolter shells of the Blood angels was drowned out by a horrific keening followed by rapid explosions.

The Blood angels had encountered a pair of Skullscreamer Marine squads. Who had promptly hunkered down into cover and were fireing there leathal weapons through the icy mists of the Skullscream atmosphere. The Blood angels were fighting back valiantly but the enemy were difficult to spot with thier white painted ethereal armour and stealthy countenance.

Brother Seargeant Sam slammed himself down into a snowdrift next to the nearest tactical squad, using it as cover from the lethal fire of the Skullscreamers and prepared himself. His squad doing the same.
"Bring the rain brothers. Bring the rain of blood!"

The adeept mech is a second "imperium" helping the main "imperium" there are many factions in the mechanicus ranks ranging from the legio skittari to the legio titanicus. The legio cybernaticus deploys a wide range of cyborgs to crush the foe the also are supportive to the titans as they protect them from mass infantry. U wish to know more? Oh and they are masters in repairing stuff AND they have lots of knowledge for knowledge is power

(CVH)
Veteran Seargeant Acrodulis was sprinting towards a droppod, his squad on his heels. He stopped at the entrance and made sure his 4 squad mates made it inside. He reached out and slammed the door shut once he was inside and strapped himself in.

15 seconds later the Droppod exploded out of the ship and hurtled towards the planet. the descent was quick, less than 30 seconds later they felt the retro thrusters slowing them down before the Droppod made final impact. The harnesses and doors blasted open and the tactical squad sprinted out into the white of the snows and straight into a firefight. Blood angels tactical squads were already exchanging fire with entrenched marines equipped with heavy weapons. the ground around the dropsite was exploding with small arms fire and larger shells and a horrible shrieking sound from the unholy bolters of the Heretics filled the air.
Acrodulis raised his power axe towards the enemy
"For the Emperor!!!!!"

hmmm. you will be closely monitered Nocturne as to how you RP this and you may select wargear from the smurfs dex only as if you were a techmarine

OoC: From this point may we write more or do we wait for an encounter?

By al means write away, I dont do encounters what I do is play by play updates youll see, just do a post

As you wish oh mighty gm XD

Name: phi
Faction rank: battle moderati
Appearance: heavily bionic modified he is proudly saying he is 83 percent bionic. He hides it under a mechanicus robe. He has 6 arms. 2 for lifting. 2 for repairing and 2 for fighting. He has a larger kind of mechanicus axe. Some marines underestimated him and sparred with him. They almost always lost except for some. Those where draws. He is always working on his dear "pets" further more hes very quite but he will stand his ground.
Bio:raised on mars they quickely found out he had a talent with "playing" with the servitors. They placed him in cyberneticus and gave him 4 pets.
Equipement. Himmself "servo harnes" mechanicus axe. Twin linked plasma cutters and flamer. Furthermore he has his pets.
Quote: for the ommnisiah may we purge the ones who torture the machine spirits for we are them incarnate.

He has 2 servitors with melee adjustement and he has one ogryn sized dreadnought like cathapract with
2 twin linked heavy bolters (they can be switched when time comes if you are ok with this ofc)

Hmmmm I will reserve judgement on the Ogryn for the time being but apart form that hes got my ok. Do you want me to intro you or do it yourself?

Fire away. And about the ogryn cathapracts are common in the legio cyber. They fullfill the role of firsupport and protector. He i think you will love him XD

Phi calmly stepped out of the Thunderhawk, just behind Terry his Ogryn Cataphract. The snows were calm but the Adeptus Mechanicus servant could feel the screaming of the machine spirits. There was a battle somewhere nearby. He gestured to his servitors in binary and they began to shift the snow infront of him to clear him a path

OoC: Post away then i shall

Acrodulis and his men rushed from the drop pod and into the ruins of a small garage off to the enemies left flank.

"Cruor, ready with the melta gun, enemy fuel station just a few meters ahead, stay behind us while we clear a path! Vauldus, Securis, and Megas, with me, rend these heretics to pieces, make them eat your blades!"

With this Arcodulis rose his shield and charged as fast as his feet would carry him and within minutes he had smashed into a traitor, one of the traitor slaves, once a man, then chaotic filth, and now a being with a shattered body, and a pulped and unrecognizable face. His comrades jumped and screamed curses, but held their ground an fired off their lasguns. These promptly bounced off Arcofulis' corvus pattern helmet and pauldrons, while Vauldus and CO fired bolt pistols that split bones and severed limbs.

Arcodulis lept from the body of the shattered heretic and lifted his arm high above his head, smashing the adamantine head of his axe into the upper body of one of the traitors and ripped it away, with the victim falling to the ground grasping his foul blood as it poured from his body. A quick swing to the left cut the gut of another spilling entrails on the floor, the guardsman did fall but began to play with them as if they were a children's toy, all the while laughing like a maniac.

Arcodulis flipped on his vox bead "Brother Neron, we've cleared out the left flank of traitor guard send one of the tactical squads around to provide fire support, we're beginning to advance on the Skull screamers"

He removed his helm to the welcome smell of blood and smoke and the sound of the roaring motors on his companions chainswords as they carved though the enemy.

Terry it looks like have lots of work to do. Prepare for combat. Do cyclive weapon checks and send reports to me. Costla and corter prepare for warfare same command for you. Follow me.

Phi and his team started walking towards the place where the screaming of machine spirits was hardest.

hmmm. a bit of background on Skullscreamers perhaps? They are a lost chapter of choas that dissapeared into the warp at the beginning of the horus heresy. then 10,000 years later they reappeared with strange powers and a hatred of all living things, they always wear helmets and they dont have heretics in thier forces.

(noccy)
The Spirits call you to the site of the battle. You see a group of Tau exchanging fire with warriors who seem to be half in, half out of a pile of rubble.

Damn, my bad, could they have been local madmen or traitor PDF who were looking to be slave to an immortal?

i guess.... lets just not see them again aye?

anyhoo

{I hear you Brother were closing with the enemy on our front now}

The constant keeingin in the air starts up again and you feel an impact on your right pauldron and then the explosion sends razor sharp bone shards slicing around the place. One of them catches you in the ear and rips it a bit. Your body begins healing the damage but the Skullscreamers dont exactly stp shooting. A couple more squads have arrived and even as you close with them you notice that your squad members attacks dont feel the Marines even when they should have been wiped out. Gaping holes in the Skullscreamers armour are ignored as they grimly fight back with a damnning silence

Terry open fire. Keep advancing. And stay away from the tau. I dont trust them as they torture the spirits as well. But thats for later costla corter defensive stance.

Phi walked towards the tau lines still directing the symphony of fire from terry.
He send out a burst of binary: "tau as much as i dislike this i think its best if we cooperate. I am phi from the 1649th legio cybernetica. And i am here as an ally of the marines of the blood ravens. If you fire at me then feel the imperiums wrath or join us and let these heretics feel it.

Costla and corter activated their power blades and locked on targets from the tau. Just in case.

Phi saw that there was a strange pattern in the air. He couldnt lay his finger on it what it was. Well finger more his tendril like finger. But then he read a glyph and quickely he realized what it was. TERRY. He fired wildly at anything that moved in the rubble. Actually it was anything he thought that was moving.

Phi quickely activated backup and terry became normal again restarting his main driver

The Skullscreamers retreat back into the rubble and then all of a sudden a Rhino APC drives out of it. The small arms fire from the Tau and Terry bouncing of or travelling straight through its hull without damageing it.

The Turret on top of the Rhino opens fire and guns down three of the Tau who begin to retreat. One of them waves a hand at you to go with them

Phi looks at the tau a little confused. Mmmmmmm costla what does he wishes with that sign? -scratching half human voice= he wishes us to follow him sir.- aha then we do so. Terry follow me and dont lose us. Phi made his pace 20 % more efficient by adding a little speed. He followed the tau while terry was still firing.

The Rhino Kept Bareing down on them, Gouts of what appear to be melta bursts firing from the top hatch, Several of the other Tau go down as they sprint away

Arcodulis further out to the distance the chaos forces in retreat and a rhino crawling from the ruins running down xenos, and at one point a melta blast fired from the inside and atomised a fire warrior.

"Look at the Xeno scum, cowards one and all!" roared Arcoduis "Countinue the advance ignore the rhino for now, into the ruins, we can't wait for our brothers!"

The assault marines smash their way into the ruins of an old chaos monastery. So ancient that its very stones appear to have fused together.

Inside the monastery it opens out into a gargantuan chamber that descends several hundred metres down in a great spiraling staircase but the chamber is not empty bats, hundreds of thousands of bats, each about the size of a small car are flying around the place.

"Megas, flares, now." Arcodulis said with a silent hate.

The flare was lit and the bats collectively flew from the walls either deeper into the monastery or out towards the ruins.

"This place reeks of evil Sargent, i suggest we wait for the others...." Megas said, the glow the flare casting their shadows to the floor.

"WE MOVE ON. NOW" Arcodulis screamed furiously "I won't let us be deemed cowards, it smells of heresy and i haven't killed anything for a few minutes, and if there are psykers anywhere in this Emperor forsaken place, i want their heads!"

Arcodulis put on his helmet and strode purposely, deeper into the monastery, his squad mates following right behind wondering about his hate towards psykers in general, but none would dare speak, lest his zeal be turned on them.

As the squad move deeper into the monastery they feel insidious whispers inside their minds, voices speaking of things they have spent thier lives suppressing...

Sucuris sinks to his knees clutching his head...

"nooo.... get out... get out of my head you chaos Daemons... get out... no... get out... GET OUT!!!!"

His hand difts to his holstered bolt pistol and he begins drawing it to his skull

Arcodulis turns his head at the noise of power armor falling to the ground, and sees one of his men, Securis, pointing his bolt pistol towards his head.

"YOU COWARD, DON'T DO IT, YOU'RE NO BETTER THEN THE SCUM IF YOU DO IT" Roared Arcodulis like that of a battle cannon

"I t-Think i can do it...Im...im okay"

Securis has an internal battle with himself where several times Arcodulis is sure the man will give himself the Emperors Mercy.

But finally the Marine holsters his pistol with a strange jerking slam. "Lets just do this shall we?"

Name: T'el( Teh Eeel )
Faction:Eldar( Hopefully )
Rank: Exarch For Warp Spider
Appearance/Personality:He looks like a normal eldar, but fight mercilessly like a dark eldar
Bio: T'el was born on Biel Tan, but became a warp spider for the excitement
Equipment: Dual Deathspinners, Power Blades
Quote from character:" Were did I go? Im behind you. Sleep tight"

Oooops Re-read OP no eldar....Feth

The Eldar will appear at some point, you are welcome to wait or play a different race

Hmmm, I liked the Fandex, but I couldn't retain any of it( Lol)
Im going to take a look again.

good good PM me with any questions or if you want fluff on a topic

Name: Terram Ler
Faction: Skullscreamers
Rank: Ghost
Appearance/Personality:He wears rags over his armor that cloak him, giving him a faded apperance.He likes to blow things up.
Bio: He has a big gun, he Fsu with it.He traded in his pistol and CCW for a bolter, as to have more versitile fire support.
Equipment: Skull Lance, Skull Bolter
Quote from character:" Take this super-heated weapon, and say bye bye to your armor!"

Very nice

You should detail who is in your squad

Eff! Just closed exel document!
6 Others 3 have support weapons , 1 other for lighter tanks and horde( Missle) and 2 for long range fire support.

??? You could scroll down to the section on the dakka page where it has that kind of thing

so a pair of flame grenade launchers and a Skull missle launcher?

Got it
2 Have Skull Cannons
1 Has the Missle launcher
1( Me) Has the skull lance
3 others have normal Skull Bolters.

What does your rhino have? (Your squad has to have one)

:0
BOne Ammo
Ethreal Hull
Pintlemounted Skull Cannons

I changed my mind! I want two of the Flame Grenade launchers!( Read profiles!!!)

Awesome, looks like your set to go.

Tarran Growls in his throat as he watches the Tau Stealth suits slowl dissapear. The Ghosts rhino was hidden inside a hill, only the view port was sticking out and as he peered through he noticed the footprints of the Tau.

"Mark that point, get em with flames."

The ghosts slolwy open the hatch and cautiously move through the rock. Seconds later thier near etheral weapons open up unleashing a hail of shots that cover the area in explosions.

Seconds later six butchered Tau stealth suits appear on the bloodied snows.

"Thats a kill. Lets move, more targets to be found."

He grins as he sees the devilfishes come over the hill, voxing the other ghost squads in the area he does a sound of. All of the anti tank crews were in position. Time to have some fun.

nade launchers it is

Name: Monat'Nan (Meaning Lone Blade)
Faction: Tau
Rank: Shas'ui (Pathfinder)
Appearance/Personality: He is covered in scars, remarkably muscular, and slightly short for a Tau, but considering his sept that isn't surprising. Just like the rest of his sept, he is a born survivor, able to adapt rapidly to any enviroment or situation. Also like his fellow warriors, he refues to ware a helmet, prefering to rely on his own senses for survival. In a conversation, he addresses all individuals with the same level of respect and seriousness. He rarely rases his voice, and he never really has to. He can convey all emotions with the same volume, a feat which many find impressive.
Bio: Originateing from the Sept world of Bap'Cal'Da, which is famous for being the only known Tau death world. He shares many of the characteristics that his fellow warriors do. He has a supreme connection with the rest of his La'rua, all of whom have undergone the ritual of the Ta'lissera with him. He does not like to risk the lifes of his La'rua members and does his best to keep them alive, even at the risk of his own life. He does not let his devotion to his La'rua affect the way he treats others however, he simply understands that the other Shas'ui can take care of their own, so he does not have to. Monat"Nan earned his name when he was seperated from his La'rua on Bap'Cal'Da. As he moved through the jungle, his pulse carbine was smashed to bits by a rageing Bulthur. Knowing that he had to reconnect with is La'rua, he drew his bonding blade, an action that is only permitted when ones La'rua is in serious peril, and continued the search for his La'rua. After 2 weeks of searching for them in the harsh jungle, he found them dead in the nest of a Dargo. In a rage he slew the Dargo and carried its head back to his base. After explaining what had happened in the jungle, he was asgined a new La'rua, and the Ta'lissera was performed again with his new La'rua. He never forgot what had happened to his La'rua, and it is said to be the reason he has bonded so tightly to his current La'rua.
Equipment: Pulse carbine with marker light designator, bonding blade (a bonding blade serves the same purpose as the bonding knifes of other Septs, except that its blade and handle are far longer and more suited to be used in combat, it is said to resemble the Katana from ancient Terra), emp gernades, photon gernades.
Quote from character: "We have faced many foes. We have faced the savage Orks, and bested them. We have faced the mysterious Eldar and their counterparts the Dark Eldar, and bested them. We have faced the foot soldiers of the Imperium, the Imperial Guard, and bested them. We have faced the god like Astartes, both Imperial and Traitor, and bested them. We have faced the forever devouring Tyranids, and bested them. We have faced the lifeless Necrons, and bested them. But never before have we faced a foe like this. The power that these warriors bring to battle is like nothing I have ever seen, and it strikes fear into my heart, as it should to yours as well. We have not bested these foes, but by the Greater Good, we shall."

La'rua members:
Shas'la Kau'Kais: Rail rifle with target lock, emp gernades, photon gernades
Shas'la Ta'eyanden: Rail rifle with target lock, emp gernades, photon gernades
Shas'la Sri'shan: Rail rifle with target lock, emp gernades, photon gernades
Shas'la V'lor: Pulse carbine with marker light designator, emp gernades, photon gernades
Shas'la D'kierten: Pulse carbine with marker light designator, emp gernades, photon gernades

ok good, other members of your squad or do you want generic ones?

Terram Sighted in with his bone lance. He looked at the complicated sights. Range, Crosshairs, weapon drop, even kill distance. He nvere turned on the drop or kill distance, as he had learned and now they just block his vision, hell sometimes he only used the crosshairs. He amied at the Tau vehicle. "Say hello to the fisherman and his rod!" Terram sayed blowing the devilfish into a roof and bottom, killing all the pathfinders inside. The huge projectile made only a "Prrching!" as it left the Huge Launcher and one of the three reloaders( If they are out of range they help the Grenade launchers and The Lancer, as the missle launcher is easy and quick to relaod alone) quickly slid another lance in. He tapped Terram on the shoulder. One of the devil fish turned to the position.
" No enemys spotted kn the ridge sir" Said one of the pilots.
" They just ripped open Devilfish F6 though. Open fire anyway" The burst cannons opened up, but failed to do anything.
" Let 'em taste this!" One of them screamed letting Burst cannon and pulse carbines fly at the ridge.
The pulses shorted out the sights on Terrams Lance. He eyeballed the one firing the barrage and let one fly. He felt the lance launching reverberate through his core, making him smile.The devilfish pilot was smiling as his barrage tore snow of the mountain. Out of nowhere he saw a flame and before he could say feth, the devilfish was no more. The Tau caught on, most of them getting out of the tanks, thinking the AT weapons would do less if they were in cover.

"Launchers, bring down the rain." Terram said. He also signaled the rhino to open fire with its' skull cannon with bone ammo. The other groups begin unleashing and within seconds the Tau were retreating. "Cut off their exit with fire" Terram told the launchers. Out of nowhere 3 Skyrays flew over, unleashing on sqaud Zulu, and wiping them out. Terram was waiting for a reload. He got it quickly, the lance sliding and locking into place. Terram fired and clipped a skyray, causing it to spin out and crash to the ground. Sqaud Sierra( All skull cannons) opened up on one of the sky rays, and killed the drivier, causing a huge and vibrant explosion. The last one flew away before anyone could get a lock. Terram had a good day, 2 Devil fish and a skyray. The Rhino rocked. Terram looked around. He opened the hatch and manned the Skull Cannon. Nothing. Just peacful snow capped mountains. He saw a Blood Angel Storm raven, but he didn't shoot. It took a LOT of will power also, but the thing was a little to nimble, and he would have to hit it dead center, as Blood Angels were stern pilots and a clip to the tail would only be an inconvinience. They got back to Mountain HQ and shared storys. One group couldn't disembark from their rhino due to a direct shot from a rail gun. Terram wanted to kill more tanks.

Added my team members.

The Skullscreamers were patching up holes in thier armour with small shards of Shamanistic bones when an alert came through. A platoon of Broadsides had been sighted on the southern Spine. 30 full told with dozens of Fire warrior and Skyray escorts

Sorry, but I am dead tired, Will respond in the morning, night internet.

Seems good
are you taking a Devilfish? I Seem to remember that Pathfinder squads have to take one in the codex

It is true that pathfinders are supposed to take a Devilfish, but I think my team will simply leave theirs at home, seeing as it makes it very difficult to sneak around, which is what I intend to have my guys doing.

Well, I'm gong to call it a night. Sorry to leave without posting much, but I'm to tired to really thing of anything.

fair enuf laders

Sqaud Echo(The ghost sqaud) mounted the rhiho and began moving to the South Spine. He remembered his bolter, so he could at least take a couple charging tau down "Ha, charging tau" he thought to himself causing a small laugh. He added another loader to the sqaud, because the rocket isn't as simple as he thought. He was going to take down the skyrays, while the missle focused on boradsides, and Launchers just caused hell. They got to thier vantage point when a sniper beam hit a loader in the shoulder.they all dove to cover and began digging a Trench. The shot had come from below, the Tau were catching on. Terram took the chance and fired at a skyray. "Prrching!" All the Tau looked to see nothing, but see the front skyray obliterated. " I can't get any ore shots off!" Terram yelled "Launchers, hit the broad sides." He said guessing they could infer were the tau were. The Marine on the missle laucher wanted to blow up some stuff, so he turned from cover and waited 10 seconds, and just before he pulled the trigger, a sniper died, splatering brains all over his reloader. The reloader picked it up and fired at a cluster of broadsides, killing 2 or 3. "We're are in some deep shi*" Terram sighed firing another lance.

Sam and his squad leaped into the air in and plummeted to the traitors position like a red hail stone. The glowing power around Sam's sword glimmered as it crashed into the face of a skullscreamer his brain and skull scattered other is fellow traitors. The skullscreamers turned and opened fire at Sam and his squad but their armour would save them the Blood Angels from the rear closed in and opened fire to pin the skullscreamers and the Sam and his deathwatch squad leaped into close combat slashing and cutting their way through the traitors until there was non left. The Deathwatch squad continued through the blizzered to find the traitors leader.

Terry switch to my special anti armour bolts. And continue fire keep following me. In a stone cold voice terry responded. "As you wish my master. Oh and master you are to kind to me." Yes i am and now do it. With a rattling sound the ammo switches to anti armour. The torpedo like bullets start firing towards the rhino. " 23 22 21 20...... Until reload. Continue fire" phi stated. Costla move towards the tau and take one of the ammo from the body's of the tau i want to study it."

Costla rushes towards a tau body and takes a piece.

"Continue moving. We are almost there"

Any more space in this?

yer

yes 5 more spaces

(Wild)
The Tau broadsides turn and fire volleys of missles at the ridge, your sight is temporarily blindind by kicked up snow. You have to hunker down from the force of the explosions and when you can come up finally you see dozens of tau setting up firelines at the base of the ridge.

(BT)
Suddenly from all around you dozens of cracks ring out one of your men falls (your pick) with several bullet holes in his chest. More cracks ring out but you have allready dived into cover. The snipers are somewhere but you have no Idea where.

(Noccy)
All around you flames kick up after a brief group of explosions.

your ringed in with promethium flames and they are getting closer

Phi scans the targets and counts them. Then he orders full engage. Let the tau retreat. Costla follow them we will see you there. Phi walks towards terry. I am going into melee terry and you come with me. "As always master" prepare continue fire on target....... Reload.

Can i join?

yep

(Noccy)
You hear a distressed sound coming from your two servitors and you see them on fire with promethium covering them, more flame grenades imapct around you and the fire begins to cover your own body

So i write a character sheet, and a squad equipment list?

and a transport if you want one but only dedicated transports mind

You shall have it later, its 2am here and i need sleep, (school soon!)

Terram looked at the firelines. "Feth, with that many guns, they are going to blow the mountain apart. Sammiel, call in a full size attack force, the rest of you, we need to move stealthily. We need to shift to a diffrent vantage point."
Sammiel apoke up " Sir, we have 18 minutes until the forces reaches."
"Eighteen minutes? THe base is little under a kilo away" Terram said quickly.
"Snow storm" One of the men said.
"Fething Tzeentch" Terram said. He didn't believe that chaos gods could control him.
Terrams heart lept whn he heard a loudseries of pops then explosions.
The Barrage had started.

A crackle comes through the vox, anyone not in the Skullscreamer legion would swear that it was a loyalist. But to all intents and purposes the Skullscreamers were loyalists. They just diddnt agree with how the empire was run. And the image of the Emperor had been perverted beyond belief. They also believed wholeheartedly that the Emperor was Dead.

{We can provide assistance, harbingers inbound}

All around the ghosts heavy impacts could be heard Harbingers dropping from high altitude craft and plummetting to the surface only to slow down to acceptable speeds seconds before landing. They dove into cover. Plasma bolters chewing lines through the tau advances. One of the Harbingers crawled up next to Terram.
"We can get to the Broadsides but you will need to deal with the infantry. Can you do that?"

Sorry, I just lost conciousnes and will have to post in the morning
When I wake Up I will post asap.
Sorry THW

all good

Decided to finally post something, sorry about the lack of activity.

Monat'nan watched from his hidden position in the ruins. The vast majority of the Skull Screamers forces were moving to engage the Frema sept, the feint had worked perfectly. He would have to congratulate Shas'o Ulgala when he returned to base for executeing such a brilliant tactical maneuver. While the Frema sept's forces were engageing the Skull Screamers head on, a small strike force from the Bap'Cal'Da sept would be sent to wreck havoc upon the enemy's base. Ulgala really knew how to use his forces effectively, the Frema sept was well known for boasting some of the greatest firepower in the whole of the Fire Caste, where as the Bap'Cal'Da were far more suited to missions of infiltration and stealth, truely a brilliant tactician that Ulgala. The force was split up into three teams, each team was made up of two pathfinder units six strong, and one unit of 6 stealth suits. Each had its own objective. Team 1 was to move in and take the enemy's fuel depot and ammo supplies. Team 2 was to enter and take the enemy's commuinication array as well as several AA emplacements. And lastly team three, which Monat'nan was assigned to, would go deep into the enemy base and destroy some form of shield generator, which was preventing their drop ships and crisis suits from landing. Once all of the objectives were achieved, they would overwhelm the enemy base and best their foes. Monat'nan shifted his position to get a look at the main entrance to the base. Only two guards stood watch at the entrance, the Skull Screamers left few men to defend their base it seemed. He ordered his La'rua to take them out, V'lor and D'kierten fired their markers, and Kau'kais and Sri'shan followed soon after with their rail rifles. The guards were both vaporized from the shoulder up, collapsing to the ground with little more than a quiet thump. Monat'nan gave the all clear and the stealth suits began their advance towards the entrance. Once they had made it safely inside, the pathfinders made their own move into the base, they then divided up and headed out towards their objectives. Monat'nan gazed at the Skull Screamers base, it was mostly ruins, but occasionally out of the depry rose a strange structure that seemed to be constructed of bone. It was hard to tell one from the other, they seemed to be obscured by some sort of mist that seemed to appear and vanish at will. Monat'nan found the base unsettleing, and urged his team forward, lest something be hiding in that mist. The plan was going well, very well in fact, and Monat'nan was proud to be a part of it.

dont worry about it
but you cant wipe them out THAT easy

Out of the gloom come several astartes sized warriors, each holding a long wickedly curved sword and a large shield made from some sort of plymer that represented the hide of a terran Dragon. The rail rifles of the tau fired in volleys but the silent warriors caught the shots on thier shields. The shots seemed to go straight through the shields but into a plane of existance not of the norm or the warp.

Things don't go smooth! WHY DON'T THEY EVER GO SMOOTH!!!

Monat'nan was suprised to find he and his team were being attacked. The warriors seemed to had formed from the mist itself, Monat'nan had never seen such a thing before in his life, and growing up on a death world, he had seen a lot. His teams fire was doing nothing, even with the aid of the marker lights, their shots seemed to be sucked into those strange shield that the Skull Screamers carried. If they didn't act fast, they would be butchered by these seemingly invincible warriors. Monat'nan gave the order to scatter, and even though he was not in command, the order was obeyed, the Shas'vre in command knew it was the right thing to do. The Tau sprinted of into the ruins, heading in every direction they could. The idea behind the scatter order was to force the enemy to either pursue one indvidual, or to divide up and pursue them all in smaller groups. If excuted right, the Tau would lose their pursuers and regroup at a specified location. This maneuver was invented by the Bap'Cal'Da, and few other septs attempted it, none of them were able to match the quickness and natural sense of direction that the Bap'Cal'Da prided themselves on, which was nescasary to perform the maneuver. He did not enjoy giving the order, it ment that he had to seperate himself from his La'rua, a fact that did not sit well with him. But it had to be done, if it wasn't they would all die for sure, and so he ran. Monat'nan ran for a good 10 minutes before glanceing breifly back to see if he was being pursued. There were two of the warriors chaseing him, and Monat'nan was impressed by how easily they made their way through the ruins. They seemed to move straight through the rubble, totally unimpeded by it, but their gait was slow, and they could not keep up with Monat'nan for long. Still he quickened his pace so that he could lose his pursuers faster, the sooner he got back to his team the better. After another 5 minutes or so of running for is life, the Skull Screamers seemed to had given up, he ran for a good while longer just in case. Monat'nan hide inside an abondoned shack, and awaited for a signal as to where he had to go to link up with his team. Dispite the fact that he had been running for a good 15 or so minutes, Monat'nan was not tired, in fact that run had got his heart going, and he felt like he could run for at least another hour before tireing. The air inside the shack felt cold, far colder than the air outside, especialy around his feet, as if he was standing in snow. Looking down he saw a mist was gathered around his feet, the same mist that had gathered around those buildings. Monat'nan lept forward and rolled across the floor, bringing his pulse carbine up and aiming at where he had just been standing. The mist was beginning to form a shape, it looked humanoid, and very large as well. Monat'nan fired several shots of into the mist, yet all they did was move right through it and out the other side. It began to take a more difinative form, he regonized it as the shape of an Astartes, and yet it stiill barely seemed to exist at all, as if it were jus some phantom visiting from another realm. The thing took two steps forward and graped Monat'nan by the neck and hoisted him up into the air. It had remarkable strength, and its grip seemed to burn his throat as it held him. And then Monat'nan felt his energy being sucked from him, drained of his life slowly, and painfully. If it held him like this much longer he would die, he was sure of that, so he raised his carbine and fired full auto into the creatures face. Most of the shots just went through it, but some seemed to connect with something solid, and the creature relinquished its grip to clutch at its face. Monat'nan fell to the ground and imediatly rolled backwards and fired more shots into the creature, hopeing to do something to it. The thing began to fade back into mist, and was eventually gone entirely, not even the mist remained. Monat'nan was not sure of ot was dead or not, but he was not staying to find out. He removed his carbine's power pack and replaced it with a new one, then left the shack as quickly as he could. Once outside, he recieved a transmission from his team commander, telling him to meet with the rest them in an old manufacturm warehouse. He didn't need to tell him where it was, he already knew. He had seen it when he was fighting with his team, and based on the direction he had fled, and the distance he had travelled, he knew which way to go and how long it would take. He set off, but at a significantly slower pace then he would normally travel. Not only because of the snow storm that had picked up in the last few minutes, but also because of what that thing had done to him. It felt like he was missing part of himself, like something inside of him was gone and he would never get it back. Monat'nan dismissed the thought from his mind he needed to focus on getting back to his team, or else he would perish here, in these ruins.

Wow, I think perhaps I should keep it a little shorter next time, just a little though.

Name: Dante Mortimer
Faction: loyalist
Rank: Vanguard sergeant
Appearance/Personality: Old and scar ridden, he is friendly, yet unforgiving, tendencies learnt during his many years as a sergeant of the same people, seeing them evolve and imrove.
Bio: Named after the chapter master by a caring and hopeful parent, he was initiated into the blood angels as soon as he was able, showing signs that he was more special than the other boys, growing bigger and stronger than the others, he became a scout and then a assault marine. Unlike other marines he never moved on from the role as a assault marine, show exception skill and dedication with a simple Chainsword, and became a veteran after many battles, leading a squad of young and rash marines. He is still with that squad, after decades of service, each risen to the rank of veteran, and each some of the most skilled in the chapter slaying thousands of foes each.
Equipment: Bolt pistol, Chainsword, Jump pack
Quote from character: Your death is inevitable, let me show you…

(LL)
The tau have suffered losses. Some of them got ringed in by the slow but steady warriors. Something about them was just terrifying and the Tau hadnt even been able to lift a weapon against the Nigh unkillable warriors in close quarters. You reported what had happened to you and your Lau'rua look alarmed. Whoever it was, was a definite threat and had to be stopped.

Your little party is broken up when you hear the slow tread of the tireless warriors. The Lau'rua evacuates, the cant fight against such warriors. They had failed in thier mission.


*(Looking good eagle squad members then ready)

Terry fire smokescreen ammo then retreat full stride. Follow me

What sort of weapons are they allowed?

I'm in.

just gimme a sec to find the difference form all these shas'es.

With the options that you have, all you could be is either a Shas'la or a Shas'ui, Shas'ui being the higher rank of course. You'd also get to choose to be either a fire warrior or a pathfinder, or a kroot, or a vespid even (If you want to be totally useless).

thanks.

(Eagle)
anything that the squad could usually take.
If you dont have the Blood angels codex please ask one of the Blood angels RPers for help

(Ineptus)
Great to see you man, this one should turn into something good methinks

(Noccy)
Terry fires of a couple of bursts of smoke and then turns tail to follow you. The rhino that was pelting you with flame grenades suddenly opens its top hatch and two Astartes appear one holding a long tube the other fiddling with some kind of ammunition.

Terry open fire on target. He ammo. Then retreat.

The high explosive shells dont even dent the armour and some dont even seem to hit the target as they pass through the incorporeal target, however when the Astartes atop the rhino fire the munition fired from the weapon kicks up a massive drift of snow and the shockwave knocks you flat.

alright, my chemistry class is over, and my internet is back.

char in a sec.

Brother keith feel to his knee's clutching his chest his last words were

"Avenge me brothers" as the last round burst through his head. The Deathwatch let out a bloodthirsty roar at the loss of a brother, Their jump packs roared as they leaped into the air yelling and shouting curses at the snipers. They saw the heretics run they were just traitor scouts from the dark angels Sam and his squad crashed down on one of the scouts head crush it. The other scouts turned and grabbed their blades and ran at the assault squad but it was no good the deathwatch crushed organs, bone and hope. Sam grabbed a scout by the throat and lifted him

"BURN HERETIC" Sam yelled as he shuved his hand flamer it in the scouts mouth and pulled the trigger. As the scout skin light up on the floor Sam knelled next to keith and demanded some one carry his body back to the thunderhawk. 2 Blood angels lifted his body and carried it away.

Well that was weird. My data readers are going wild. Terry we need to retreat follow me. Phi starts rushing to the tau

The "Scouts" Begin to get back up, the skin of the one you burnt seeminly barely scorched. They fire anouther volley into the retreating backs of your squad but fail to kill anyone, then they simply run head first into a rock wall and dissapear.

(noccy)
You manage to retreat as the tau fire a seeker missle at the rhino, failing to damage it but distracting the gunner nonetheless. The tau greet you with caution.

Tyranic Marta wrote:The "Scouts" Begin to get back up, the skin of the one you burnt seeminly barely scorched. They fire anouther volley into the retreating backs of your squad but fail to kill anyone, then they simply run head first into a rock wall and dissapear.

Is this mine????

I greet them back with a sign of the omnissiah. Then i let costla ask one of the tau who their leader is (arent ghost marines who just cant be destroyed a little op?) "Terry i have an idea fire psyk-out ammo at the tank if they are really something psychic or incorpeal they will die by it.

(bt) yes... sorry but they arnt actually scouts, they may look like it but they are far tougher

(No they arnt op but they do have feel no pain and they should have pinned his squad to start with)

The psykout ammo manages to cause a few glances but nothing more than the rest. The tau however bring a railgun on a hammerhead to bear and that brings it down soundly

(If you have any qualms about how tough these guys are I have the fandex on my sig for a reason. These guys are tough on the table top but very expensive, thus why you only see them in small numbers)

(ok)
phi looks at the hammerhead and nods to it as a sign of thanks. (still uncomfortable because of the screams from the machine spirits (just machine sounds but he thinks it are the screams XD)) terry i want those heretics dead engage full power. coster engage with me. costla stay with the tau. phi and his team start advancing to the wreakage. continue suppresive fire.

the astartes from the wreckage get out and began to fire dozens of volleys of bolter shots in your direction one of the tau falls and Terry's heavy bolter rounds fail to take down any of the ghost like warriors

(All above ground (non Skullscreamer) players, event)

The Skullscreamers all of a sudden break cover and run, heading roughly north, the tau and astartes attempt to shoot them down but they seem to be even more ethereal than normal. Even when the assault squad of Brother Sam launches themselves at the snipers once more the Snipers seem to just fade away. Then in the darkness o fthe rapidly ending day the sound of roaring bikes can be heard...