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OOC: Lord of Change's character is a regular human (I think he is a Stormtrooper Major now).

IC:
I iz liek the Star Serpent!
"Your Task is simple Tau!"

"You must slay the remaining servants of the Vanquished Daemon known as Syrath the Immortal! No trace of his blight can remain... They are located near the Eye of Terror... "

Sorry, is it too late to join?

"Of course."

"Now," Kais said to the council. "For the glory of the Tau Empire, I must return to the Eye of Terror with an entire army of Fire Warriors at my side, and we must vanquish all that remains of Syraths broken order. I ask you, oh reverent ones, for the permission to undergo this task."

Durza wrote:Sorry, is it too late to join?

I'd be happy for you to join, just post a profile

"Yes!"

The Ethereal stands and brings up his staff;

"We shall drive these mongrels back, then crush them and remove this filth from the site of the Tau Empire. No Warrior of Syrath may remain standing, they will be purged. They have chosen the path of defiance and evil, foul scum worth nothing! Come Shas, the Serpent of Good will rain supreme."

(OOC) Excellent, the Emperors Children were just in the RPG

The forces of Slannesh had been pushed back, but only slightly. Even with their dedication the Word Bearers never had fully pushed them back, Argylle looked down on the ant like Inquisitions forces. Ants, scum, nothing more. Another Raptor flew beside him and began to take aim;

"My lord, World Eaters approach from the south. At least 160 Berzerkers are moving quickly and will over take the Imperials quickly, what are our orders?"

"I will assemble the Warriors straight away O holy one," Kais said, before exiting the chambers with a bow, and calling for Mont'yr to help him.

"What is it Kais?" he aksed serenely.

"I need help. I'm assembling an army."

Helmian takes the strange object and looks it over, (how big is this thing?) He calls an aide over.
"Have this taken to my dropship, then return immediatly."
"Yes sah"
Gausse calls up the rest of his retinue who appear to have been helping the outside forces prepare.
"We are about to force our way deeper into the catacombs, are you with me?"
"SAH YES SAH"

A chuckle sounded from deep inside the Chaos Lord's ancient armour as he raised his power sword like a baton. Across the battlefield, previously drab landscape erupted into a clash of bright colours and the symphony of death began.
"Now we take the fight to them," Argyle laughed. He knew that any communications were currently being disrupted by warp melodies. There would be no warning.

(Around the size of a human torso)

Chapter 1: Hallow Ones


The Troops begin to move deeper into the temple, the place is utterly foul and every wall is completely covered in Chaos Runes and Foul leering Daemonic faces and other evil things. The Storm Troopers begin to find the remains of the Emperors Children, many of whom have been split in half by a sword of some form, blood covers the walls and floors as the Storm Troopers enter a sacrificial chamber a Word Bearer Apostle stands. He swings his mace towards the Inquisitor Helmian and roars a praise to Chaos, he explodes allowing Daemonic creatures to from from his broken flesh but that is not all. The Walls covered in Cultists remains begin to twist until new, silver, skeletal Daemons form from them who roar and snarl at the group before advancing........


Screaming Warriors of Khorne stopped as the Emperors Children tore into them like a bird of prey, as they slammed into the warriors of crimson they found themselves almost unopposed. Sonic blasts crushed the organs and bones of the Berzerkers reducing them to paste within their armour and leaving them broken apart....

In Character:

"This is the End of the Beginning... the broken... the strong... the traitors... the loyal... " A creature of abnormal form mused, "Events have been set in motion that should ensure my return to glory!"

OOC:
I am a C'tan Shard!
I also decided to make up a summary of Character Ranks since the Prologue.

Tyranic Marta: Angelus Umbra -Chaos Lord

Gathering Storm: Star Serpent - C'tan Shard

WARORK93: Edric Thade - Colonel Commissar (Member of Gausse's retinue)- - - - - - Out of Action

Shas'Ui T'au Kais: Shas'O Kais - Shas'O (Commander)

Lord of Change: Victorus Elixan - Colonel (Member of Gausse's retinue)- - - - - - - - - Out of Action

ineptus astartes: Demogorgon - Chaos Lord (Night Lords; Raptor)

Durza: Argylle - Chaos Lord (Emperors Children; Raptor)

I don't believe WARORKS going to be back soon, Marta is currently controlling his character.

Hmmm, interesting GS...

... can I have another post please?

And I wish WARORK was still in...

"You shall be rewarded further for your loyalty Kais... as my Emmisary, you need to be strong enough to dispose of all who stand in your way... " the creature's words ominously echoed within the Tau's mind.

Suddenly then Shas'O felt a surge of immense power coursed through his veins. His senses sharpened, his pulse quickened and he could perceive the vastness of reality which flooded into his thoughts. He brought himself to the observation deck and gazed in new found wonderment at the stars. They seemed so much more real and important. He could also sense that his ship was moving unnaturally fast now, as the stars melted into a blur... And he knew that the Eye of Terror lay dead ahead...
I am a C'tan Shard! A Glorious Murderous piece of a Star God!

he shall be back, he shall be back

(BIC)
Helmian levels his sword forwards and starts blink clicking runes on his hud giving his orders to the rest of the troops. They fan out behind him in a large ^ with Helmian at the point and a group of heavy weapons crews in the middle. And so the fight begins...

(Sorry for this appaling post...)

OOC: Don't matter Tyranic, just look at mine...



IC:

Kais walked out of his quarters, and sauntered allong to the bridge, his newfound power still soaring throughout his very blood. He arrived, walking through the doors which had just slid open, and letting them then slide closed, as he walked inside, and came up to the control panel.

"Pilots," he said commandingly. "The Eye of Terror is close, keep on going until we get there, and scan for hostiles."

The Tau fleet arrived at the foul portal, a storm of purple and blue swirling energy surrounded by Imperial and Chaos Craft in constant battle leaving the Tau heavily exposed but not under attack. Passing through a series of smaller rips in reality the Tau fleet arrived at the planet, Hecrion. The Tau had willfully surrendered to a new force, and embraced it with great zeal. Hundreds of Tau warriors prepared to deploy and march on the forces of Syrath the immortal.


But a deep more foul voice spoke, even the other dark foulness of other sentient beings shook in fear, something utterly evil and wrong.......

Fouls all of you.......all of you.......

Your worlds......will become ash.......and fire......

Evil.......doom......is all I.......that I spread.......weakness is all that you seek.....

Shattered gods......broken dreams........pointless honor and self deceit....

Nothing more......and I speak these words.......for it means nothing......it does nothing to help you in the coming storm of searing fire.........

Come.....I wish to watch this......it amuses me.....I love the petty waring of mortals......

The Daemons hissed and roared, they began to splinter into ash and fire. Nothing but fire remained, the psychic screams had reduced every one of the Daemonic beings in the room to ash.

OOC:

Are the Daemons that have been destroyed Syrath's?

Argyll screamed in anger as the daemons so recently summoned to him burst apart in eldritch flames. Even the daemon bound to his sword seemed to feel the blast which had disintegrated their hard work and blood sacrifices. Swearing oaths of vengeance in the twisted tongue of a cult he had sacrificed millenia ago, he left the temple.

Music, he thought. Music will make it all better. Immersing himself in the battle, he felt the joy of murder again. Who could remain angry with such spot to be had? Laughing manically, he took to the air.

(No, I'll let you guess Evil grins)

What was that?

The Daemon within the blade could still speak, but it was weak and in pain. Its own brethren had been reduced to ash in seconds even in the presence of the pure warp energy, the dark metals of Slannesh had let it survived. The Emperors Children had escaped with few causalities and the Inquisition was to focused on this temple, interesting that such haters of the servants of Chaos had focused such attention away from them.

"Quickly," Kais said fast. "Put us down on the planet as fast as you can, and let the Imperials and Chaos have thier quarrrel. We will take no part in it. Do not engage. Just put us down."

He turns to see Mont'yr loyally awaiting his orders.

"Mont'yr, come, we must prepare the warriors."

Tau armies quickly established an invasion fleet, but a ship of the Imperiums Inquisition along with several other smaller craft. Each craft a mighty work of both art and man power lay before the Tau fleet ready to open fire on them, the Tau the same;

"Crush them."

{Inquisitor tau aircraft have entered our airspace, several capital ships and many smaller craft, what are your orders.}
Helmian thinks for a second before speakign, first to his men and then into the vox
"Fall back out of here, fall back brothers!!"

{Do not engage them, unless they fire on you, the Xenos are not to be attacked!!! I will be there momentarily}

"Momentarilly? We have a bigger problem, and we have yet to find the key. If that Chaos Lord has taken that device we may have already lost."

Greystone seems worried at the other Inquisitiors orders.....

"Then by all means reclaim it, but think of this, if those tau engage us then we will have two fronts to fight on, and we do not have the fire power to deal with the Tau and the Chaos, not to mention if we appear weak then the pirates would tear us to shreds also. No we must deal with this new threat immediatly, I cannot risk our position being comprimised because of the twitchyness of xenos trigger fingers."

"Crush the Imperials?" Kais asks with slight hesitation. "They are not proving to be a threat to us, so we should just set down on the planet now. With all due respect."

"YOU DARE!?"

Shas grabs his head, his pain is intense and forces him to the ground, he wails as the grip tightens;

"You will obey, order the fleet to engage the Imperials and remove the threat now. Or I will devour your feeble mind, that Daemon would of reduced you to nothing long ago if not for me! Now do as I command."



"Fine, but I warn you. There are many dangers here, many a danger. Vic, come with me."

Greystone and Vic along with several troopers who move towards the inner areas of the catacombs....

OOC:

No offense Reaper but thats not what I think GS's character would respond like that...

... maybe we should let him respond?

OK, we'll wait.

Helmian gently clasps Vic's shoulder before he heads in. and whispers over a private channel.
"You are now my eyes and ears down there captain, make me proud. And you have the authority to judge wether Greystone is making heretical orders.... but before you act on them if you have time, vox me, if you do not have time, then do what you think is in the heart of the Emperor, I may be some time. Do not fail me captain"
With one gentle squeeze Helmian is of moving swiftly over the ground and back to his personal stormraven, which has been brought close to the entrance arch of the artifact. He steps into the dropship with the remainder of his retinue and the ship heads up into the airspace towards the atmospheric tau craft.

Helmian opens a vox channel to them immediatly
{This is High Inquisitor Lord Helmian Gausse of the Emperors most Holy Inquisition, I am prepared to offer you the Inquisition's protection to be on this planet Tau, and I am of the mind to offer an Alliance. But first, state your business so that I may determine whether you are potential friend or leathal foe.}