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At least she took one of those dicks with her...
Im beginning to think Ludias is (Regardless of how much I like him) fairly obselete here... I mean he can kill the odd marine but otherwise hes pretty much useless...

(IC) Ludias gets up, a cold fury in his eyes. From the wreckage he takes a long length of steel.

"I need some time."

Tyranic Marta wrote:At least she took one of those dicks with her...
Im beginning to think Ludias is (Regardless of how much I like him) fairly obselete here... I mean he can kill the odd marine but otherwise hes pretty much useless.

OOC: Don't you dare go dying/turning to chaos on me you rascal! Once was enough!

Tyranic Marta wrote:At least she took one of those dicks with her.

Am I the only one who sees that as slightly perverse?

:\ its a ship ineptus

Oh and dont worry Warork, Ludias is going to make himself a weapon.

Tyranic Marta wrote::\ its a ship ineptus

Oh and dont worry Warork, Ludias is going to make himself a weapon.

Yeah...that's how Marius' corruption started...

good point, but i doubt Tyranic would do the same thing twice.

Oh shush this is far more... i was going to say pure but that sounded wrong

Un chaosy

(IC)
Ludias arrays his gear out on a wide flat piece of steel form the wing, a slightly shorter pice in the middle of his tools. He takes a miniature meltagun in his hand and fires a low intensity burst at the short pice of steel. The 3 foot length heats up until its red hot, Then Ludias quickly takes a pair of tongs in one hand and a hammer in the other and begins to hit short taps on the rim of the steel smoothing it into a flat plane about 3 feet long and 6 inches wide. He then folds the stell length wise and beats it flat. Repeating this procedure several times with small bursts of his melta he removes the flaws from the tempered plasteel.

Every dozen or so hits he lathers a thick paste made from dust and a gelatonous liquid that once may have been red. All over the blade. Then folded the mixture into the PLasteel before repeating the process. After a good 30 minutes of this he slices the Plasteel into four sheets which he slowly shapes into rods. The rods are then bent around each other and pounded flat. His hammer comes down in small repeditive taps all along the length of each edge. The thick bevel slowly taking shape. The curves from the bent plasteel are filled with more of the paste giving the blade a veined look. He works solidly at the bevel for a long time with files and whet stones, perfecting the edge, And then firing it with a burst of promethium form a small toolflamer.

The edges take on a dark almost black hue with the red viens in the sword flickering as if on fire. The base of the blade is tapped into a wedge which he then set aside. He takes anouther length of steel and crafts an ornate handle, first beating the plasteel and then moulding it with concentrated shots of preomethium. The hilt of the weapon appears to be a pair of snarling wolves, their necks joining to gether to form the crossguard and the blade extending from this union. (gotta love heritage)

He takes a series of cables and power cords from the wreckage and creates an arc generator tuned to the blades length. The small box is placed into the pommel of the weapon and a circlular pommel is shaped around it. The activation rune is placed on the pommel where he is unlikely to palm it accidentaly and switch it on or off during battle. He joins the Blade and the hilt and fires them briefly slightly misjudging and having to redo some of the details on the wolves. A second try sees the weapon formed.

He flicks the rune and the weapon is covered with corusating arcs of power. The mastercrafted Powerweapon forged with a paste made of holy ceramite and the blood of a Grey knight is finished. A simple locking holster on his back is put in place and Ludias packs up his things, standing with a grim smile.

"Ok. Im ready now"

"I copy that Hunter, we see you, coming in now, hard and fast," Kais says, before ending the connection, and talking to the pilot of the Hammerhead.

"We have got to be fast, and not be seen. I hand picked you to pilot my Hammerhead, now prove to me that it was the right decision."

"Yes Shas'O, I can do that.

The Hammerhead violently lurched forward, going inhumanely fast. Just before it was about to hit the ground and crash, it dumped all of its acceleration and speed, and very slowly landed on the dusty ground.

The back opened up, and all of the Elite Fire Warrior guards filed out of the ship, and stood in a line formation, opposite of each other. Then Kais, in his modified Fire Warrior armour, standing by his friend, Mont'yr, walked out of the craft.

"Hunter, good to see you as always. Now who are our friends here?"

Ludias having just finished his weapon looks at the Tau.
"Your allies Hunter? Im pleased to meet you... shas'o. Ive had the privelige of fighting alongside Tau pathfinders in the past. It was truly an intriguing experience. I may ask what modifications you have made to that rail rifle but knowing you Tau it is identical to the time it came out of the factory. I invite you as a marksman to examine my own personal weapon."

Ludias brings the rifle over his shoulder and holds it loosly stock forwards towards the Tau

"Very interesting weapon. I assume you made all of these modifications yourself?" Kais asked, before seeing Ludias nod. "Very nice, and looks greatly powerful, I can see the care taken with the forging. I commend you on this great work. I have a personal mechanic and forger, who has modified my weapons and my armor, and I have overseen all of it. I find the art and crafting truly spectacular. Once again, I commend you. I also saw you mourning over the ship. Such devotion, through a great relationship. It must have been very strong to resist for so long against that beast."

Kais then walks away, to greet everybody else.

"Now, everybody, I have made preparations for you all to stay on my Command ship, all my Tau have been handpicked by myself, so will cause you no hassle. Now, please, if you would come aboard my ship," he says invitingly, walking back over to the Hammerhead.

Ludias nodded to Bel' his rifle had an inbuilt mechanism that if touched by one tained by chaos it would self destruct violently. it was his way of testing potential Allies and only he and his friend knew of the weapons inner mechanism. However he was sure the Tau would have spotted it if he hadnt disguised the explosive as the Slide of the weapon.

He walked forwards confidantly but he still hadnt sheathed his sword, although activated it was no more the Tau nearby couldnt help but wonder at the danger that the weapon may have represented in the hadns of another.

Beltayn is quietly impressed by the sudden appearance of the Tau gunship and the procession that follows. He watches as Ludias employs his old screening trick and the Tau pass it even if he did not know he was being tested. Beltayn smiled at that, Ludias had stealth in his blood, it was more than a practice, it was a lifestyle, he of all people knew that...

After Ludias introduced himself, Beltayn strode forwards and bowed to the Shas O' he then took his hand in a firm shake.

"I am called Beltayn Cuthalion, I am a warrior of the craftworld of Alaitoc." He said, looking into Shas' eyes with his own.

"A ranger?" The Shas said. Beltayn nodded.

"I have not been called that for many years, by my people's standards I am called a Pathfinder."

"You will have to excuse me, as the only pathfinder's I know are the ones under my command." The Shas O' said, a bit confused. Beltayn smirked a little

"This dreaded Mon Keigh language, it confuses even me who has known if for centuries from time to time." He said shaking his head. "In my people's language I am known as a 'Faron' or a hunter if that helps..."

"It may. It is nice meeting you, Beltayn of Alaitoc, I have seen your kind many times before and it is always a pleasure each time." The Shas said with a smile. Beltayn nods to him once and boards the gunship after Ludias bringing with him his rifle which he slings and his other things from the camp.

The Mutants fall apart in chunks of gore, blood and bone while others are sniped by the Caldius who keeps his distance from the attacking hordes, Oni and Lotus are left with their blades covered in the blood of many heretics while the sniper re-loads as groups of Chaos marines move forward towards the group mounted in Rhinos. As the armoured tanks begin there advance they open fire on the assassins who instantly spread out in order to avoid detection by the Iron Warriors who exit the Rhinos and begin to search for the Assassins.

The Tau Hammer Head takes off leaving the barren world’s atmosphere undisturbed by daemon or Raptor alike, they soon arrive at the Tau Command Ship where it appears a small fleet off Tau and Dark Eldar ships also have arrived through a portal which closes shortly after. As they enter the hanger Shas’O is greeted by a group of Dark Eldar warriors;

“Shas’O we have returned from the Dark City, a Daemon prince had entered it and tried to open a portal in Arcadia. His head now adorns our ship but we are ready to assist you in your fight against these Employers. We have brought with us new weaponry to deal with the Daemonic Scum and we wish to test the weaponry out.”

Talon lifts a large bundle of Dark Lances and begins to load them into a Raider while the others load a large pyramid shaped device into its main bow.

(no comments on my new sword??? >.<

Very cool sword, I am very scarred now. The Employers will have to think about this, they may even need someone to stop you.

"vindicare (not a callidus thats the bodychanger whick is infiltrating) i want turbo penetrators on those rhinos scare the hell out of them"

"You find some Daemons, by all means test them out. It is good to have you with us," Kais says to Atlas, before turning away to walk back to the bridge to see what is happening. "You may join me, if you wish," Kais says to everybody before he leaves.

Ludias stands beside Beltayn watching the retreating back of the Shas'o
"What are your thoughts on the alliance here Bel'? Dark eldar? Can we work alongside them? Can you work alongside them?"

"Yes Shas'O Tau Kais, we will track down the beasts and test our new weaponry on them."

Atlas gives orders to other Dark Eldar who begin to transport the weaponry onto other Raiders while Talon discusses tactics with the Tau officers and troops. The bridge is crowded with Tau who have to keep monitoring a stealth field keeping the Tau ships out of radar sights.

The first Rhino explodes, causing confusion amongst the Chaos marine seeker squads who begin to back away from the burnt out wreak. Another Rhino explodes sending wreckage flying everywhere panicking the Chaos marines.

"You will have to, we have a far greater threat. I know what they will do, I can still hear the voices inside my head. Foul hissing and sinister Daemonic languge, it's so painful to hear them speek. "

The Farseer steps forward with a black aura that seems to swarm around her.

Beltayn's eye dart between the Dark Eldar and the Farseer, he doesn't like this situation one bit but he speaks to Ludias after a sigh.

"It is not the best situation but it is not like we have much choice. Again, I'm not saying I will trust them but If it is for all our sakes then I will do what is necessary."

Beltayn is silent for a moment and looks at the ground, his arms folded.

"I still don't like it though."

The same Daemon in the black suit appears in the back off the hanger and draws a long blade which he uses to cut his finger and spill his blood on the floor causing the Farseer to shriek in utter pain grabbing her head and shaking it violently. Her form twisting between her Eldar and Daemon form, the suited Daemon dissipers in the blink off an eye keaving the Farseer in horrid pain.

"Niether do I old friend, niether do I"
He looks around cautiously before continueing
"Dont knife any of them just yet, hmm? We may need them and at the moment I dont think even we could fight our way out of this"

(>.< can you guys remember when syrath was a feathered snake?)

OOC: I'm getting a real G-Man vibe from these Employers...always randomly appearing, screwing everyone over, and then disappearing...

BIC: Everyone looks to the Farseer as she writhes from the assault, wondering what's going on...Beltayn, however, smells the blood and walks over to it, he squats and smells it, almost gagging at its stench.

"It reeks of warp essence, these 'employers' are becoming tiresome..." He looks at everyone watching him. "I have heard what these daemons have done and I think it is time we stop them. They have taken our family..." He said looking at the twitching Farseer. "They have taken our friends." He said, looking at Shas and Hunter. "And they have hurt in some way all of us here. I have not known their names for long but already I grow tired of their scheming and meddling. It is time someone hunt them down." Beltayn looks back to Ludias but speaks to the group.

"I'm prepared to put our differences aside to eliminate this threat, one that threatens the galaxy if I have heard correctly, what say you?"

Ludias doesnt even have to say anything, he knew his friend was right. He draws his sword smoothly and Bel' raises an eyebrow at him.
"You actually know how to use that?"
"Would I have spent the better part of an evening making it if I diddnt?"
"Fair point"
"Thankyou"
Beltayn looks at Ludias one more time amusedly before turning to the assembled races.
"What my esteemed collegue is trying to say is that hes in. Now who else is with us?"
"What my esteemed

OOC: Well, uh, Kais said he was going to the bridge, so somebody will have to go and tell him...

IC:

Kais stood on the bridge, pondering over the deaths of Mikal and Marius, how Marius was turned to Chaos, but died beside his best, true friend. He wished he could have been there.

Atlas walked out onto the bridge, towards Kais, and spoke.

"I need to talk to you about something."

"There is something on this ship, it matches you're description of Syrath. I saw it for seconds but I know it is here, we must be vigilant as it stalks the corridors and halls of the grand craft and it has mentally assaulted the Farseer. I'm deploying my guards to every major entrance and area on the ship and my Incubi Honor guards are ready to defend you and the crew here but remember, the Daemon is a sneaky one."

Atlas loads his Splinter Rifle and Nods to a passing Hunter who watches as Incubi stand guard on the bridge with great pride, even with a helm Hunter displays a very questionable trust amongst the elitist warriors of the Dark Eldar.

"Are you sure about this? With Syrath here should we not capture the beast then kill him? Find out what he wants and what is his information is about the Employers, it could help us in our war against them."


In the hanger the Farseer stops howling in pain as she is dragged into a door way by a cloaked force that is only vaguely visible, the doors shut behind it before the Tau pursuers can get near to the Daemon. The Dark Eldar move and begin to cut open the door while Ludius and Bel leave the pool off blood to investigate the attack.

A mildly amused Ludias watches the happenings with something approaching mirth. His mind already going over the events, the crude use of physical force, ineconomic use of strength. A creature far to easy to eliminate. And all that stood between himself and it was a door.

"Beltayn. Are we doing this?"

Beltayn simply nods at the question and grabs his pistol with one hand, his sabre with the other, as soon as his dark cousins finish cutting the door open he gives it a strong kick and it goes over with a loud thump. Beltayn tosses something inside and as it impacts the ground it bursts into a huge plume of smoke, filling the corridor with a layer of haze that is impenatrable for the naked, untrained eye. Beltayn rolls into the room, expecting some sort of attack and feels Ludias' presence as he also comes in, followed by the Tau fireteam and the Dark Eldar. Together, they fan out and attmpt to trap the daemon they all know is in the room. Beltayn points his pistol in front of him and holds his sabre in a defensive stance, he sweeps the corridor, coiled like a snake prepared to strike...

"Oh my prey, my prey, why do you hide?" He said mockingly as if with bravado, in a sing song voice, the tactic was subtle, by enciting the target's anger at his words he could possibly make him slip up and make an unprepared strike that would be his downfall. "Come out, come out wherever you hide and I promise you this will be swift." He says, almost enjoying the wait...