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"pleased to meet you romulus
If you wouldnt mind joining the orgryns as vanguard?
Which direction do you want to go?"

"I would be glad to join them. We have history, the ogryns and I, they are feirce fighters and this is good. The main Space Marine fortifications are here (he gives coordinates). I recomend constructing a temporary base nearby until full scale fortifications can be built, the guard has the support of the wolves of fenris on this planet and i will aid you in any way i can."

Evaelc wrote:Evaelc asks what the hell would I still be doing around the base and why would I be there so I pick c) after brooding over his horrifying defeat. He is conscience of the events that are happening around but oblivious except for his occasional movement. His time would come for now his force would grow and soon the project would be finished...
In the meantime these petty events could wait.

You were their because I highly dought that you would want to miss out on such a big fight, and you would hardly just be walking round in the middle of nowhere.
You now stand in place moping and bleeding??

Shas'ui T'au Kais wrote:I tell my squad to attack them with long range weapons, so basically snipe them with rail rifles.

you give the order to begin long range fire on the orks and nids.

some orks start to run around in circles screaming and flailing around. they are easily taken out
slightly more kunnin orks run into the cover of the trees and dive to the ground to avoid the shots

one of the carnifixs goes down and the nids turn to look at the direction of the fire and call to murderfix for instruction almost unphased.

nids get free action on both fronts.

(point of intrest nids dont have emotions of any kind, even the synapse creatures, so there would be no "brooding")

IoM guys wrote:"pleased to meet you romulus
If you wouldn’t mind joining the orgryns as vanguard?
Which direction do you want to go?

"I would be glad to join them. We have history, the ogryns and I, they are fierce fighters and this is good. The main Space Marine fortifications are here (he gives coordinates). I recommend constructing a temporary base nearby until full scale fortifications can be built, the guard has the support of the wolves of fenris on this planet and I will aid you in any way I can."

the conversation continues. scouts that had been sent ahead to locate safe routes around the enemy are confused when you ask them if the had seen any fortifiable area they had seen. the report the condition of the surrounding area in these directions.

1. go north to a swampy area.
2. going east would take you to a plain.
3. west is a heavily occupied tau base.
4. south will take you back to your old base
5. You are currently in a less dense forest area that would sustain fortifications.

Tyranic Marta wrote:(point of interest nids don’t have emotions of any kind, even the synapse creatures, so there would be no "brooding")

if a person wants their character to express emotion, they express emotion. all sc are considered to be more human than the normal example of the race.

(okyday)

(which direction to SW main fortifications?)

Tyranic Marta wrote:(okyday)

(which direction to SW main fortifications?)

SW will take you into a nid fest.

stick with the four directions.

(Okyday well its not up to me anyhoo im just helping as a defensive personal, remember im lone wolf i carry almost zip authority.)

(ic) "our best chance is to set up here for the mean while and make this place as well defended as possible, ill call for reinforcements in a day or two once we have set up. ill do a circuit and report back in an hour." He salutes the guardsman and with bloodmaw lopes of into the surrounding terrain.

Tyranic Marta wrote:(Okyday well its not up to me anyhoo im just helping as a defensive personal, remember im lone wolf i carry almost zip authority.)

(ic) "our best chance is to set up here for the mean while and make this place as well defended as possible, ill call for reinforcements in a day or two once we have set up. ill do a circuit and report back in an hour." He salutes the guardsman and with bloodmaw lopes of into the surrounding terrain.

In which direction?

erm doing a circuit about 500m in radius starting at the western point and moving clockwise

ooooook you keep doing that, im not currently dumping in a plot event yet.

okyday

"we will fortify this position sir!"
"anything that come within a mile of here will have more sniper shots in them than they can count"

"very good, carry on, i will be back soon"

SCREW IT I'll rip out ma other arm and make me look badass. I'll then get me to regrow them after a couple of days.

So whats my options Ledabot ol' buddy ol' pal?

Time passes.

the old IoM base is compleatly eaten by the nids giving them a nice new barran area.

Eleavcs arms grows back. yay!

The guard chaps go a bit overboard with the high morale and build a nice big BIG base. it even has a landing platform. woop!

Martas guy has now been walking for days and is now falls asleep in a bed.

when he wakes up he can have a free action. as can every one else.

Because our only chaos player is gone, :O they are still stagment.

Tau guys secsessfuly kill off the carnifixes. muderfix is quite annonyed about this.
Kais can do one of these.
1. yell and shoot at muderfix.
2. spead squad to outflank muderfix.
3. run!

because no oe else knows were any one else is, sept tau. scouts are recomended.

Upon awakening Romulus walks calmly around the base inspecting everything that the guardsmen have accomplished, after realising that this is a more suitable base of operations than his own because of the proximity to the other races, he quickly familiarizes himself with the layout, after this he sits down at his cot, and begins to polish and clean his armour and weapons, taking several long miniutes to clean every last speck of grime of them, exiting the tent he whistles in a low base that spreads across the ground in all directions in a long throbbing note, in the distance the unmistakable shape of bloodmaw lopes across the ground, a quick teleport sends him sprawling into Romulus's arms, they greet each othe as old friends do and head to the command bunker for an update and the request of the guardsmens aid in an assault against the Tyranids,

"They are weakened, now is the time to strike, they have suffered a grim defeat at the hands of the Chaos filth, and now that our enemies are fighting amongst each other, we can bring the might of the Allfather down upon them and send them scurrying back to the vile pits that spawned them!!!, what say you?"

An intense swarm of rippers extends around the Tyranid base gathering biomass. though for what it is hard to tell. Gargoyles watch the ground and Gaunts patrol the area that has been stripped. Bar'goth heads back to base to check how it is coming along.

The Murderfex is startled by a hail of sniper fire that sweeps over his position. The already wounded carnifexes at his side are mowed down, rounds tearing into their faces, chests, and other vital points. Using it's massive talons to block it's 'face' , the incoming fire patters off with little damage incurred. The Murderfex sprints away, into the forest where sniper fire will be obscured. There may be greenskins, yes, but those creatures fight with honour & savagery.. Not the cowardice of fragile beings who rely on firepower and machines to compensate for the weakness of their flesh. The Murderfex scoffs as it retreats, denied the pleasure of killing it's assailants.

Mukkin'About wrote:The Murderfex is startled by a hail of sniper fire that sweeps over his position. The already wounded carnifexes at his side are mowed down, rounds tearing into their faces, chests, and other vital points. Using its massive talons to block its ‘face’, the incoming fire patters off with little damage incurred. The Murderfex sprints away, into the forest where sniper fire will be obscured. There may be green skins, yes, but those creatures fight with honour & savagery... Not the cowardice of fragile beings that rely on firepower and machines to compensate for the weakness of their flesh. The Murderfex scoffs as it retreats, denied the pleasure of killing its assailants.

running of into the forest you come to what appears to be a high wall. Apon blowing it up and walking through it, you find a strange portal like structure in the centre of a courtyard.

yay! nids found an inactive webway portal.

Since you have no idea how they thing works, you best leave it alone.
you hear sounds of yelling behind you two tau piranhas fly above you and begin to circle back towards you. you are still being pursued.

sorry Kais but I had to keep the plot going

Your options are.

1. start trying to activate the portal. it could be the only way out!
2. make a heroic last stand agenst the tau forces.
3. hide behind the wall. ambush!
4. dig underground.
5. own idea within reason.

I’m going to let you call for backup through the hive mind regardless. if you live long enough, you get help.


Kias and other tau in pursuit get a free action as to how to deal with muderfix. within reason of course.

Bar’ Goth makes it back to base without excitement. a few gaunts pass you as you are in a striped area. you have a free action.

IoM guys.

You are free to formulate a strategy to assault any of the forces bar tau and chaos. tau base needs locating and chaos is immune. remember your ships in orbit. they have been sitting their all game and done nothing.

update n space.

IoM: ships are slacking off. they hold control over your current area (from space).
Nids: you blew yourselves up when you rammed chaos remember.
Tau: Somehow haven’t started to fight with the IoM yet. need to take out our drive off the IoM ships to do something.
Chaos: scuttled.
Orks: don’t pretend that rocks count as ships. they can’t shoot if they wanted to.

both the tau and IoM fleets are of the exact same potential. (if someone says tau kill IoM or visa versa, they will start Idiot wars)

BTW

we need more people. Please find some.

The Murderfex uses it's synapse relay to pour psychic energy into the webway portal's activation runes. Engagement information from Eldar encounters remind it that the Eldar use these portals to escape. And it knows that there's no way out of this conflict bar this portal. Using it's flesh hooks to engage it to the portal , it pours all of it's psychic capacity into reactivating the portal. If it is successful, it plans to enter the webway and discover where it leads.. Anywhere seems more viable than being blown to pieces by the oncoming Tau.

Hmmm need I say?

"Surround it and shoot it with all you got!"

I will take out my lovely rail rifle, and attempt to blow its head off with my sniping skills, yay!

"All imperial ships Destroy any other ships you come into contact with"

"recon squad 2 follow that carnifex and take it down if possible"

The giant black sphere that swallowed the Fortress of the Raven had finally collapsed. It seemed that the Forces of Chaos have disappeared once again. Where? Only the Gods could know.

Out of character undivided wrote:
Welcome back Ledabot!
If you're wondering about the thing I wrote above,(It's quite sub-par compared to my other stuff) I'm just trying to justify my upcoming absence. I'll be away for the holidays so I won't be able to RP. I'll try to login now and then but don't expect much at all from me this month until the first week of January.

Bar'goth personally oversees the project but while their another devous scheme comes to mind. Suddenly he feels the murderfex trying to draw on the power of the warp. Investigating through the hive mind he sees the situation and immediately send his own physic powers through to help the murderfex. "Help will soon be on the way"

undivided wrote:The giant black sphere that swallowed the Fortress of the Raven had finally collapsed. It seemed that the Forces of Chaos have disappeared once again. Where? Only the Gods could know.

Out of character undivided wrote:
Welcome back Ledabot!
If you're wondering about the thing I wrote above,(It's quite sub-par compared to my other stuff) I'm just trying to justify my upcoming absence. I'll be away for the holidays so I won't be able to RP. I'll try to login now and then but don't expect much at all from me this month until the first week of January.

I’m going away to. I will still have a laptop still though. Might be a bit slow.

Vulkan_He'stan wrote:"All imperial ships Destroy any other ships you come into contact with"
"recon squad 2 follow that carnifex and take it down if possible"

The commander on your com wakes up. "Burr, Vhat! of course we vill destroy any ships ve see."

the recon squad looks at you like your crazy. theirs no canifix near you base?
you can head out into the wilderness to find a nid if you want. the others are battling far to the south-west of you.

"The Murderfex uses its synapse relay to pour psychic energy into the webway portal's activation runes. Engagement information from Elder encounters remind it that the Elder use these portals to escape. And it knows that there's no way out of this conflict bar this portal. Using its flesh hooks to engage it to the portal , it pours all of its psychic capacity into reactivating the portal. If it is successful, it plans to enter the webway and discover where it leads.. Anywhere seems more viable than being blown to pieces by the oncoming Tau."

the portal begins to glow green, and then begins to go red. The gate must require some kind of key to activate! you can hear the wince of engines as the piranha’s fire at you. you turn to see a shot fired from the end of a rail rifle somehow rickshaws off you mighty armour.
behind the rifle is several tau and you can here more on the other side of the wall.
you then hear the terrible battle call of nid s further in the forest.

1. charge into combat, num num num!
2. attempt to rip through the physic seal on the portal.
3. RUN!

reinforcements will arrive based on a random number generator.

becaue kais just shot shot muderfix in the face, he and muderfix considered to be in a dual situation were specal gm-ing rules are applyed.

Bar'goth adds all of his psychic power to the murderfexes so that he has the best chance of breaking through. "Get out of there", he says through the hive mind. "less valuables will take care of the situation, use the portal"

GM says using the portal is baced on the results of a dice roll. how long do you want to flail at it before defending yourself?