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"That was an Employer but not at full strength, we should move before the Tech-lord sends guards and that Employer returns. It may not be at full power but it's imune to our attacks, only pyschic blasts and other warp powers will harm it."

Hunter raises his Sniper and loads it, before moving in the direction off the turret manufacturing lines.

The two snipers hang back from Hunter's advance, they move with him but keep their distance.

"What do you think about this guy, Bel'?" Ludias whispers over the private vox, continuously on alert.

"He has not killed us yet, so that is something. I understand an astartes armor is a mark of honor, it seems he no longer wishes to associate himself with his chaotic brethren, I'm not saying I trust him but at least he is not lying."

The two continue for a few minutes with no hostiles and Ludias speaks again.

"He addressed you earlier, said something about voices, what did he mean?" there was a silence between the two for a few moments and then a small sigh from Beltayn.

"Earlier, that black thing that nearly sunk us into the fire spoke into my mind." He said tight lipped. Ludias looked at Beltayn quickly before putting his eyes back on watch.

"What did it say?" He asked objectively.

"He spoke of doom, your doom to be exact..." Beltayn said lowly, breaking off as he spoke, looking for the right words. "More trickery from the mouths of daemons, scare tactics, nothing more, pay no mind to their workings."

Beltayn's mood had darkened and he remained silent afterwards except for one sentence as the three moved on.

"To the void with this hole, if we ever get out of here I swear I'll burn it to the ground myself." He spits.

Than we start planning i suggest you hack in their systems and leave a gap between their turret defences showing that they are repaired while they aren't. Thats how we are able to get past that one. Than the walls is it able for you to change their patrol lines? So that you can make a gap in which we can slip past while you disabled all security systems. Of course this wasnt to disrespect you because i know you are a high level hacker or else you werent allowed to leave the trainorium"

(Trainorium >.<

Ludias chuckles,
"You and me both Bel', you and me both."

Ludias' mind is racing, trying to piece together everything that had happened. Something diddnt fit but he wasnt quite sure what it was yet. He remembered the... suited? daemon... It had soken of the empoyers also. And this new... ally, had spoken of anouther ally in orbit with reinforcements. Decideding to get some information he raises his voice slightly.

"So... Hunter? was it? You mentioned potential reinforcements... Im wondering when those would be available?"

OOC: I am assuming you guys are Eldar, I think, so I hope this is right...

IC:

Kais had been listening to this conversation the whole time, and had already strapped himself into a Hammerhead while listening, with Mont'yr, his ever faithful friend, and other Fire Warriors, including his personal bodyguard, beside him.

"I never knew Hunter was so good at making friends," Mont'yr chuckled.

"Well," Kais answered, donning his Fire Warrior helmet. "He certainly has his ways"

The pilot called back to them.

"Okay, I will take you right on top of the fortress, and all the other Hammerheads will be right beside us. "This Chaos fortress will fall easily with all or troops. I hear we even have a few Piranhas and battlesuits being deployed."

"Hunter," Kais addressed, contacting the marine. "Reinforcements are on the way."

Bel' is eldar,
Im excomunicae tratoris human
whos not chaosy
just rogue

"Yes Shas'O but this fortress has the defensive capabilities of an armoured fleet and has Anti-aircraft guns positioned everywhere, we should disable some of the inner systems first. Wouldn't some off you're Dark Eldar allies be able to assist you?"

Hunter shakes his head;

"We'll need to cause some damage to the fortress ourselves and I have an idea, disable the turret manufacture facility."

"Mistress the main turret AI will be somewhere in the fortress and I simply cannot hack a turret, there are too many."

Then infiltrate with your rats. And about that bullet they fired do you have any info or whatever?

"Nothing, the animals will take time to get past the Sentries and Patrols which are constantly on the move."

"Fine. We can infiltrate the fortress and take down their defenses from the inside," Kais said disappointingly. "Hunter, it will be your job to make it easy for us to get inside. And contact the Dark Eldar. I need to talk to them. I wonder why there would only be one ship."

(Whoa, Dark Eldar allied with Tau? This is gonna get weird...)

"Yes Shas'O, It will be done. I'll prepare stealth and Drone teams to deploy but remember we have limited troops Shas'O"

Hunter revives the message and looks over at the Snipers;

"We have allies but... It will take awhile."

Ludias was getting impatient with the astartes, He knew that there was something going on in that mans helmet but he diddnt know what it was. He considered briefly hacking into their comms channel but decided to let him talk in private. A sort of good faith present. Its not like they would have been able to detect his prescence even if he did. The benifits of a life spent hacking anonymously secretly and quietly into almost every communications channel in the sol sector. He had even heard a brief communication from an outpost world to terra's high command. Now that had led to an interesting mark.

Ludias' frustration did not simply stem from the lethargy of the astartes' conversation. But also from the building they were in. The thing was almost sapping his patience like one could draw water from a well. Every time something happened anouther huge chunk of it dissapeared. He shook his head slowly as if to dissagree with someone, but in reality he was scanning the room with an old trick by looking out of the corners of his eyes at the room. This tactic seemed sufficient in the past to detect warp sorcery. The things that were at the edge of ones vision but not quiet visable. However in this case he found nothing. And here the room did its work. And his frustration grows...

"We should move, the deeper we go into the Turret manufacture the quicker we can escape the guards. They're coming and in large numbers and it will be difficult to find us in the manufacturing area, Tech marines and Servitors don't like the others in their homes."

Ludias shrugs and draws his pistols witha slight jerk, clearly annoyed at something. He doesnt even speak to Bel' as the trio move off and this sends warning bells of in Beltayns head. Storm was always very forthcoming with his thoughts to his friend and this new silece was troubling. A snipers wost enemy was emotion, and frustration led to impatience, impatience to inproffessionality and inproffessionality lead to death. Bel' could see how the doom of his friend may come about and he decided to step in. The next thing Ludias knew he was up against a wall with one of Beltayns knifes at his throat. Ludias looked into the Eldars eyes and saw the worry Bel' had there and realised what the building had done to him. He fought it, he fought hard and managed to shake of the grip of the place. It was subtle, he admitted that it was more subtle than anyone could really notice, he must have done somthing different that would have alerted his friend.

The mental struggle continued and Ludias slowly won. Throwing of the opressive wieght of the place he felt free and light and almost... happy? Hed never been happy on the job before, another thing to change. He nodded once at Bel' who took his knife away, and instead replaced it with his hand on Ludias' shoulder. The Eldar letting the human search his eyes to see the trust and worry there. Ludias nodded again to Bel' before whispering over the vox.
"This place nearly had me Bel'... Dont let that happen ok? I dont want to end up dead on the floor of this misbegotten fortress."

"He'll betray you...you...will...cause this...he'll destroy you...you can...stop this...save him...from him from...his rage."

The sinister voice echos through both the Snipers heads trying to confuse and daze each of them, each thinking and imagining the foul actions their partner may be planning.

Ludias chuckled. Bel' wouldnt kill him. Bel' was about as ready to kill or betray Ludias now as he was at the start of thier relationship, which is to say, nought.
"Ignore him my friend, he doesnt know what hes talking about. More to the point hes trying to poison us against one anouther. He saw Bel's head nod once but was shocked when the Eldar lashed out at him. However as he leaned backwards avoiding the blade he saw Beltayns eye wink lasily at him. And Ludias caught the hint, playing along.

Ducking backwards and drawing his knife simoultaneously the man flicked it up to block one of Bel's strikes and grinned, the two sparred frequently and Ludais saw the series of moves Bel' was going through. A simple set that Ludais could easily avoid or block without working to hard. But all in all very convincing. The two battled for a time before Ludias began to see shapes appearing on all sides and it was his turn to give Bel' a singnal. Altering the course of his body instead of blocking or dodging Beltayns newest attack he stepped right into it. And caught Bel's arm. The Eldar immediatly caught on and used Ludias as a springboard to launch himself backwards into the press of Daemons and grab one before they fled. The Daemon was lithe and tall but not altogether strong and Beltayn was more than capable of holding it still. Ludias walked forwards calmly signalliing to hunter to stay back for a moment.
"Daemon... who do you serve?"

(Arrgh, ninja'd by Blood and Marta, consider it retroactive to Blood's last post... )

Beltayn watched his friend as he moved on, Hunter was a way ahead and simply watched without emotion as the two shortened the distance between them. He nodded once to them and turned to continue on as if nothing had happened, he had probably seen the like before, Beltayn surmised.

The two snipers went back to scanning the shadows for threats, Beltayn was sure that Ludias did not hold his action against him, such a step was similar to a slap across the face or a blow to the gut, it was a physical reminder, a focus point, and right now, the two could not be distracted by their surroundings and expect to live. Besides, Beltayn could feel it, he was sure Ludias could too, this place, the entire Eye of terror, was not natural, it lied, it clouded judgements, the air itself wanted to kill them both. Finally Beltayn spoke from behind his hood, his piercing blue eyes shining with a fire of determination his people held.

"The superstitions of the Mon' Keigh hold that the denizens of the warp are horrid to behold and in no way subtle. While this is true, it is also true that the same beings are crafty, patient, stealthy, neither you nor I was prepared for their unseen attacks." He said into his vox in a whisper. "I will not allow you to fall to such tricks, but you must promise to do the same for me." At this last statement, Beltayn looked into Ludias' eyes in his trademark gaze that would turn lesser beings to stone. Ludias gave him a single nod which Beltayn returned.

"Good, this is the risk we took coming here, Ludias, we may be safe from our pursuers, but we now fight a war on two fronts. As a young ranger I was always taught that as long as you are aware of your enemy, you cannot lose, defeat comes from the enemy unseen, unnoticed, or ignored."

It was at this point that Hunter spoke. "You speak truly, that is why it would be best for all of us to escape this forge swiftly."

Without another word, the three snipers make all haste to exit the area before they are detected or assailed by any other unseen forces.

Nice post

EDIT

I sometimes think that because of the posting quality that runs through these threads we forget to give cridit where due so Im now going to thank all the people who have been on these three treads for the quality length and general epicness of these RP's and im proud and honoured to be typing alongside you all

And special thanks and commendations to WARORK Reaper Nocturne and of course Shas
you guys have been here for all of it and Im proud to have been playing alongside you

May the games continue

Edit

The Snipers come to the exit and observe a terrible site, masses of Sentry guns are being replaced with advanced and modern models which are being transported across the fortress while Raptors fly overhead searching for intruders in the fort.

"You know this... Ok for want of a better word. Thing?"
Ludias levels his pistols at the Daemons chest. A perfectly calm steady hold and with his ammunition not even THIS daemon would survive the hits.

"Not my time."

Syrath dissipates in a cloud of black and thick smoke leaving the Assassin and Hunter annoyed

OOC: Dawwww shucks, Marta...

IC: Beltayn is about to shoot the daemon before it disappears, he grunts audibly in frustration...

"Of all the beings in existence, daemons are by far the most annoying."

As Ludias moves past him and continues on, he speaks.

"Oh really, I was under the impression you were most annoyed by greenskins..."

"They are a close second." Beltayn admits to the chuckling of Ludias.

The three have no choice but to continue on until they come to the courtyard where the sentry guns are. A shadow falls over them as Raptors fly overhead. Beltayn immediately takes a knee and tracks a raptor with his scope, a few seconds later, he fires a single powerful dart which strikes a raptor's jump pack, exploding it and sending it screaming, careening into a sentry turret deployer and destroying it as well.

"That should hold their attentions but not for long, we must hurry!" Beltayn says, his eyes scanning for a route. The three set off and use their skills to remain unseen as they move...

Thanks Marta and we'll continue this for awhile, it's not even chapter 1

Than we wait or do you have another plan?

I know, I just thought I would say it anyway.
Ludias looked at hunter with raised brows,
"We can at least demolish this facility."

He sets about flicking small round pills into corners of the building targetting key poins such as girders or ammo points. The small pills adhered to whatever they hit and would explode when the right frequency was broadcast.

"They will just re-build it my friend, the Iron Warriors have truly created a living fortress. Notice that glimmer in the turrets vision center, that's a real living and thinking Daemon that lives within the fortress and it heals when its hurt and sends its natural defenses to defend itself and destroy the virus inside it, were the virus and its angry. We need to find its heart and break it."

Hunter nods to Ludias and Bel before sniping a Chaos Space Marine on patrol and causing him to madly fire his missile launcher madly in pain at close range, causing Chaos and confusion amongst the Chaos marines and Cultists around him. He takes another shot at a Chaos marine with a grenade launcher and explosions consume the patrol within seconds...


"No Mam, we'll have to wait until we have a plan, wait I'm reading multiple signals. At least 20-30 mutants and Cultists carrying heavy weaponry and automatic weaponry and approaching fast, we should prepare for a defense imminently and beat them off!"

"These Dem-pills arnt exactly dormant Hunter, we should keep moving"
Ludias sprints forwards and leaps his two feet leaving the ground and buncing beneath him as he travels through the air. He land in a crouch on the walkway some 3 metres up, his suit giving him the enhanced stregth needed to make the jump. He rolls forwards avoiding a salvo of bolter round and stands swiveling his fingers pulling on the triggers of his pistols in a fast rhythm. The marines fall dead with leaks of fluids coming out of bullet wounds in their chests.

He glances to see Bel' fighting in his own style and Hunter laying about with his powersword and gins. the walkway now his he draws his sniper rifle out and starts picking of the Marines on the upper and lower catwalks giving his friend and hunter much needed cover fire.

"Reload."

Hunter takes time to reload his sniper while they give cover fire allowing the others once he has reloaded to do the same and picks off several advancing Chaos marines carrying Bolters and Bolt Pistols, forcing them into cover while he throws frag grenades towards them.

"We need to move and get into a new positron, they're are air ducts not too far from here and we can escape."

The three Snipers begin to move towards a set of air-ducts while taking pot-shots at several Chaos marines.

"Escape? Why would we ecape? Weve just begun. Move out from the entrance, and get up here with me, Im going to torch the floor."

When the two had managed to get up there with Ludias he threw a handful of the Dem-Pills onto the floor below and then whistled sharply. Beolw them a carpet of fire erupted that covered the ground with a sticky white powder that burned ferociously. It burned so fast that ammunitiondiddnt have time to explode it just melted with sharp popping sounds as the accelerant when off. Menawhile the Marines on the floor were being incinerated by the flames and even astartes armour couldnt save them from the horrible flames.