Aste. You are staring down the scope of your sniper rifle waiting for that
moment when the gunfire starts, and the second it does, you squeeze the
trigger and a shot goes off. Please roll me with your sniper rifle to
hit. It is short range, it is single shot, which is standard,
and it is full aim because you've been holding to aime zero mativirus right,
yes, okay, so that is seven degrees of success. Yeah,
so please roll me damage because they don't get to dodge, because this is
an ambush essentially, what is Oh so I do the plus four four plus.
That's the lowest it goes, I mean the higher it goes, and
that's what I do, right, yeah, all right, okay, So
that is fifteen damage with pen three. But because your sniper rifle is accurate,
you get plus D tens based on your degrees of success. Every two
degrees of success you get a plus D ten. You get two max.
So it is two extra D tens of damage. Please roll me two more
detens. I could do two no R two D two yeah, space,
that is an additional seven damage on top of the fifteen you do just from
your basics like rifle to give you an idea. A regular of human will
generally have anywhere from nine to twelve wounds. With penetration of three, you're
going to go through the majority of their armor. Essentially, this is very,
very overkill. You didn't really have a chance to pick anyone out when
you were aiming, so it's going to be essentially one of them is going
to take the hit. And as you're staring the gunfire starts. You squeeze,
aiming at one of them, and it just takes them straight through the
neck, like instantly killing them, and they are down. There's a moment
of kind of all of them freeze, and then a couple of them start
shouting. One of them looks over in your direction even let's see very quickly
if they can figure out where you are. I am under the cloak as
well, right you are. But this will this role will be for essentially
how well they can five degrees of failure. Not very well at all.
As you like see them down your scope as you're preparing to take another shot,
you see them like looking but not even really in your direction, and
the bullets are kicking up dust a dirt around them, making it harder for
them to kind of you know, really tell where the shot came from,
even by noise because it's already gotten noisy. So moving on, if we
could get a hit roll, Yeah, a hit roll from war bitch please,
because you are suppressing fire for the rest of the squad to move up,
I believe. Okay, okay, is that correct? That's damage.
It's the one that says hit Yeah, okay, Sorry. If this goes
ahead, this will be a jam on your weapon. Essentially, you're going
to have to take a turn to unjam it, so you can be ready.
You do have faate points, you have two of them, so if
you'd like to reroll, this would be a good moment to use a faite
point. How rare are fate points you have for the whole for the whole
session? Another one back at the end, yeah, just today, at
the end of every session they come back. Okay, awesome, then yes,
I would like to reroll. Okay, you use one fate points,
yeah, give it, give it another shot as it will thank you.
Well. Okay, sorry, okay, Yeah, you're used to the kick
of your gun, but it doesn't mean you're as accurate with it. You
don't miss, but your suppressive fire is not as effective as you might like.
You're not managing to keep up with the bursts, keeping the head down.
There are opportunities for them to fire back. Uh. So with those
two things done, the lieutenant is adding to the fire, and both of
the recruit both both the newer crew and the veteran which are Lenk and Hawk,
are basically standing by with Rita and Sergeant Keith ready to move when he
gives the order. Sergeant Keith, essentially you're behind little divots in the in
the earth. A few stray bullets have returned. Fire have come back,
but it's it's not super concentrated, and both Ace and Warbitch have opened up
and kind of got their heads down, got them panicking a little bit,
all right as all, Yeah, it's sad. Put down a little smoke
for us right away, Keevil, Can I they do that? Yeah?
Yeah, So for the smoke. Essentially, you'll have your intended targets,
which I imagine is part way between yourselves and the enemy. So you can
kind of move forward, get into range, maybe get behind some cover,
and then get some concentrated fired down on the enemy position. It will rely
on your ballistic skill, so you're going to be firing in the grenade.
Essentially, it may scatter a little bit. We'll see how it goes.
So if you roll me a let's call it ballistic skill with a plus twenty
because it's not very far. It's not another hundred, is it? Oho?
Okay, Yeah, goes exactly where you want. It doesn't even bounce
when it hits the ground. It just kind of plants itself exactly where you
wanted. Immediately, smoke flares up and the training expands. What this means
is, essentially you have a decent layer of smoke in between yourselves and the
enemy. However, it's not in such a position where war bitch on your
right or Ace on your left is obscured, so they can continue with the
fire. Okay. So if okay, so, if if Valcus has eyeson
to some degree and Ace has eyes on to some degree, right, they
can they can see what they're doing. They can see what they're doing.
Okay, mm hmm, all right, Ace, Falcus, I need you
to listen up. All right. We're gonna push up with the smoke down,
all right, but we don't have eyes, which means we're gonna rely
on you. Okay, I need you to communicate with each other and pop
back and forth. Okay, Ace, I need you to dance with Falcus.
You shoot, shoot Falcus. I need you to take their attention off
of us. We need to move forward a little bit while we have the
smoke. Can you do it? I can do that, or kill them
all you're cold? Do a little both dance? Can you keep up?
You go off my lead or I go off yours. But your lead is
normally consisting of running down in the middle. I'll stay to be your left
all right, Okay? Sorry? Uh? Do you want to move the
remainding squad who haven't gone yet, essentially forward towards the smoke. You're not
gonna get all the way, but you will be able to get into a
range with your guns, so you have decent firing options. Yeah. The
goal is we're gonna be moving up everybody. Well, I'm gonna allow on
you to blow the shit out of them, but it's gonna be a blind
shot because I need you to do it for the smoke stops. Can you
do it? Eye saj right away? I have a question, so if
it's okay to interject, Oh, yeah, I don't have to move.
I just have to shoot. What if I distract, well, you move
up. That's essentially what your dancing is gonna be. I just need them
to not pay attention forward long enough for us to get close enough that we
can open fire when the smoke's gone. Well I should blow him blow him
away now or Lina, I want to get a little close before he blow
him away. Eight bab. So with you all moving up, the two
others will follow you as well. Uh, Rita and sarge, could you
both give me an athletics with a plus twenty? Please? All right,
let's have a look, Rita, seven degrees Oh no, that's the that's
the ballistics goal. Okay, yes, one degree of success for the sergeant,
seven degrees of success for length, and two degrees of success for hawk.
So they are keeping up with you basically on both sides. Rita,
can I get an athletics plus twenty? Oh sure, just so it's a
different table. Oh no, okay, three degrees of failure. You do
have your favorite ones if you want to use them, but it's essentially what
this means is that you will need a few extra seconds to get in position.
You're not gonna have a chance to aim when you fire, it's fine,
you will be there with the rest of them. It's fine. Okay,
what a lot of frings age in right now. So with that,
you have essentially surged forward behind the cover of smoke to the point where you're
going to have much better time firing upon the enemy at the At the bank,
you can do a round of firing, but it won't be aimed because
you essentially have used most of your turn running up there. And then you
can get some basically unaimed shots off if you like. And I would say
rita for you. It takes you a bit too long to get up there,
essentially, so you'll have to right behind you said, fine, you'll
get here. I think i'd probably order anyone around me to hold their fire
for a little bit. I don't give our opposition away yet. Yeah,
you are. With the mix of suppressing fire, the sniper shots coming from
the side and the smoke, you aren't really taking any fire because they're not
sure where you are. So instead we'll move first up. Can we get
another suppressive fire from war bitch? Please? Yes, sir, thank you?
Great. It's pretty wild. It's not enough to keep their heads down,
so the panic that hit them on being opened up on, especially from
the sniper shot has kind of lost their has left their system, and they're
returning fire towards your direction. Essentially, there's going to be a couple of
that is, there are a couple of shots head your way. Should I
be worried? Probably not. So that is six degrees of failure and one
degree of failure. Their targets are pretty low, so the return fire essentially
pings around you, not even really whizzing past your head. They're very misplaced
and not the best of shots. Eight. Please, as you're looking through
your scope, could you give me a scrutiny role take a plus twenty twenty
A scrutiny, calm scrutiny. Scrutiny is that's twenty. I don't have to
put the blast right, I can just put to twenty, just twenty.
Yeah, cool, there you go. Okay, sorry. You observe two
things as you are lining up your next shot. You observe the most forward
one, the one who essentially shouted the challenge in a strange dialect or language
that you didn't recognize, shake himself out of things first, and essentially turn
to the rest of the enemy troopers which there are three now because you took
one of them out and start shouting, and they kind of they also shake
themselves out, and they start returning fire towards war. Which the other thing
is. The one at the back is shouted at by the the one who
got control of himself first with six degrees of success. Actually I can say
he's probably an NCO at the very least, maybe an office er. So
he's the one in charge, and he shouts at him, and the guy
kind of reaches behind himself. You notice a pretty big kind of backpack on
him. Again, six degrees of success is very very good guess would be
as a radio some form of communications. And he pulls out like a kind
of receiver transceiver type looking thing, ready to shout into it. You have
a shot. You can line up on either of them or one of the
which one which one is the receiver, the one in the leader of the
one behind him, the one behind him towards that guy sad, Yeah,
he's one sent in in front, anxiety trickling, not too anxious, calling
orders, preventing other anxiety hisself in straightening of the back. Seems that this
one is in charge, but there's another problem. One bullet. Two targets.
One has something on his back, a tranceiver of some sort, maybe
a communication device to call him backup your call. One bullet. Mm hmm,
all right, take out the radio. I ace plants his sniper rifle
and then shifts a little to the right behind and as the the enemy picks
his hand up the call. He's like artistically challenged inside of this area would
be to insert the bullet through the device through the head, because more anxiety
for the officer that is calling the shots. They're giving us a little bit
more time. Well, bitch, are you ready to dance? And he
lines up? Don't stop dancing, don't stop dancing. Please roll me a
ballistic skill the same as before, except for you take minus ten to that
role because it is no longer an ambush. Okay, so so it'll it'll
be negative tin right, yes, three degrees of success. Okay, as
they still don't know where you are. However, they're not sure where the
shots coming from. They have no anti's essentially just static about you know,
his hands going up to shout down on his radio. You do hit because
he can't dodge. So please roll me a damage again. Fire it takes
a sprit with an extra d turn of damage for accurate m hmoof Okay,
So you swivel, you aim, you squeeze, and there's just a slight
pause to wait for him. So his hand is right in front of his
face, and you squeeze the shot. It barrels across the open area and
goes straight through his hand, goes straight through the device and pings him straight
in the cheek and just collapses instantly. It is like sweet violent strings to
being plucked one by one. Target down, sage call the next more,
bitch, is your turn? Take a lead? Okay, pretty picture boy?
What can I say? I like it? Okay? Sorry? With
their radio man down. You have three left essentially in a line in front
of you, Sergeant. The smoke is still there. If you want to
push past the smoke, you can. Otherwise it may take a You're essentially
going to be firing with some minuses because you're not saying exactly what you're aiming
at. You have a general gist of where they are. Mm hmmm.
It's part of Ale up to its yet yes and this time yeah all right,
yeah, all right, part of them you are. You've got a
general idea. Where these these people are. It's okay. Even if you
aim a little behind them, you can blow them up. Imagine exactly where
they are. Just stilet in real quick. All right, we are you
gonna shoot at them? What would you like? I got friends a gin,
I've got fragranides. You want a little friends gen? What's the wind
like? D no, no, no, no, no, no yeah.
Let let's not do that with us getting close like this. Now,
go ahead and do it. Do a frag for now, right, fragmentation
out? Okay, that will be a ballistic skill with a thin with a
plus thirty. It looks the fight point, so you have a reroll if
you'd like. However, it is not a critical fail. Ninety six and
above is a critical fail. Really wouldn't want to fire with the freak rename?
That is fair kind of just one fight point. Try again? Who
six degrees for the success So the only person who will see this because essentially,
oh actually two people will see this, well a bit chance because you're
it is obscured by the smoke. What happens is Rita aims, adjusts,
and fires over the smoke. The frag grenade swings and lands and hits the
helmet of one of the guys behind a thing, which causes it to flip
and spin and land in between two of them, one of them being the
leader, one of them being the one who's helmet landed on. Please roll
me a damage for your frag granades. Oh, region, you need to
be able to figure out who they are. The image for the fragrantides,
yes, right like that. Yes it is not only a crit it is
also a one as well. So could you know who they are? We
just need to pick up the teeth lighter, you know, for the feelings
when you roll a ten, that is a rocheoter fury a. There are
two ways you can do just theory. One is a crypt. One is
you are so inspired your faith and the Emperor is so strong you essentially go
a bit ott. So I'll give you what choice for if not for grenades,
It's very true. I'll give you the choice rita of either essentially doing
critical damage and taking both of them out, or another shot if you'd like
to go for that third guy who's left, Ah, sage, what do
you think I could get the other one? Maybe? Why not? All
right? Grene it grenade out? Please gonna be the same shots going for
that third one. Yeah, yeah, I'll give him a chance, but
honestly, I don't think he's going to be able to you will be a
real damage. Let's see if he manages to get it out of the way
and came right in the eye. Uh so please roll me a damage twelve
damage? Okay, so ace uh war bitch as well. Actually what you
see is a one grenade sail over hit spin Land, and just as it's
exploding, the other grenade flies over the smoke lands in the little divot right
whether the final trooper is lying just about just aiming down his sight over the
divot and he's like aiming over towards the war bitch, He's like, I've
got you now, and the grenade just straight in front of him, and
he hasn't just about enough time to say oh and cay for mind isy,
greand night. And as quickly as it started, the fire flight fover.
I'm here to report that there's nothing left of the scene thanks to Rita.
You're welcome anytime. Really would you like for me to report back? So,
Hordro, stay on the outskirts, keep an eye out for now.
Actually the same thing for you belcus keep an eye out, staying under cover.
We're gonna push forward a little bit and take a look at the scene,
and then I'll go head back out after that, and then I think,
I don't know how how obscuring the smoke is still, but probably start
walking towards it, listening, listening for a sympathetic detonation from any other,
you know, explosive things that may have been on them, going slow enough
that if they do, I'm not gonna get hit or any of us are
gonna get hit by it. But after I don't know, a couple seconds,
I'll probably pick up the pace and get to their position and then try
and sess while sargs walking can ace survey the land in front of him through
scope to make sure he doesn't walk on any mounds. There was sharp knol
and grenades going off, and may have I don't know, triggered anything else
from exploding or getting ready to absolutely so, the direction that the enemy came
from is kind of parallel to the sounds of combat you're hearing off in the
distance, which means that most likely they cut through the lines and then started
walking in parallel along the rear of the lines as far as you can tell,
seems to just be this one patrol. However, the fact that they
used the radio means that there's possibility they could have called in support of some
kind. In terms of around you, you've see no signs of any other
activity and you are out of the minefield, so it should be fine.
It's like you have clear water, sage and team. I'll keep an eye
out from the side. Do be careful. They did have a radio,
no telling if they used it before or after, or where they had it
open while screaming while their bodies got blown the bits it's on the scream all
right, Well, that's a good job, everybody, good job. We'll
just be vigilant. Yeah. The everyone kind of relaxes, picks themselves up,
and, uh, pick some things from the bodies maybe, I mean
the hawk length head with the sergeant towards the bodies. I'm assuming Rita does
as well. You're just gonna right behind them insight really as as they're going.
The lieutenant kind of picks himself up, does himself off, looks over
at war bitch and says, so, good job from Valcus. I didn't
fucking do anything. You kept their heads down long enough for us to assault
the position. Save your pity for the week, and I'm gonna start like
picking up my gun to see if, like what's going on, if something
jammed or something like that machine spirit probably plus twenty scruit and you please okay,
uh, for those of you walking up towards the corpses, they are
all dead. Unfortunately, when you take a combination of RITA and ACE assaulting
a position, you end up with no survivors. Explosions and headshots tend to
do that to people. Why can we say, we professionals a look that
is four degrees of success. Yeah, you essentially kind of jimmy the belt
loop out of your heavy bolt and just kind of give it a once over.
We put it in your hand. You can like run through it,
and there's one bullet, one bullet that's near the front that you can feel
as adult. It's just not gonna work for you. So you I'm gonna
slip that out and yeah, essentially, the next the next critical failure which
would result in the jam will not be a jam. Awesome, so it'll
still be a failure, but it won't be a jam. Okay, cool.
Sorry, the troopers. From what you can tell you know. Actually,
let's have from Rita and from the sage. Could I have a command
role please? This will do for what we're checking up on here. Just
a straight no modifiers, Yeah, okay, one degree of failure it's a
good role. Oh and four degrees of success. So, Sergeant Keith,
you take a quick once over of the let's call him the commander of the
squad. Very clearly a corporal, you can see from the insignia. Additional
onto that a little bit weird. Usually squads, even small patrol squads like
this, are led by, in your experience, probably a lieutenant, maybe
a sergeant. Sorry. Additionally, as Rita make sure that all of their
gear is intact, and maybe slips a couple of things into the pocket.
They're not well supplied. They have a couple of magazines of ammunition each and
no grenades. Is it only human? Reminds No, the sexy blue people.
No sexy blue people. I'd probably walk over to the lieutenant, or
if he comes up to me while I'm looking either way, i'd probably i'd
note on that and be like that's a corporal right there? See that?
Right? So I'm thinking either they've been hit with something and they're doing with
what they got, or they're spreading and looking for something. What do you
think? I agree, And it is worrying. That's given the fact that
we are headed to the front lines. We encountered them before we reached the
front lines. Yeah, all right, I don't want to take it slow.
Maybe we should, but I'm afraid we're going to run across more of
these little patrols. So whatever we got to do, bust ass. Is
it the time to do it? I think I think it's worthwhile lost.
Moving on before anyone comes to invest the gates the small combat we had here,
right, all right, all right, everybody, it's a gear ready.
We're gonna go to find in the in the few bandaliers of ammunition for
auto guns. Ammunition? What are guns working? The auto guns are working
here two signs. I mean, technically there's four auto guns. You won't
be able to carry all of them yourself. They are essentially assault rifles.
Oh I'll leave them. Yeah, they are significantly inferior to the entirety of
the rest of your weapons. So you know, oh, any teeth,
they have teeth, alienable teeth already A right, not not very well looked
after kind of you know, all right, a few missing, a few
brown ones blood? Why of a grenade? There was? Sorry? Are
you leaving Ace out essentially on points of or you are you calling everyone in
to essentially we get back in formation. Yeah, I'm pulling everyone in.
I may have Ace do some some forward scouting every every now and then as
we go forward, but I think we'll probably get together. I will relate
to them the possibility that there's a lot more patrols out there and there we
shouldn't be seeing this, so extra vigilance, and then yeah, just get
our self situated and then move as fast as we can, all right.
In that case, just yeah, everyone please roll me and athletics just take
a take a plus take a plus twenty. It's not super difficult. It's
just how quickly you gather your gear and are ready to be off. I
love that my athletics are always a little too close. Yeah, but you
know there's a lot of running, did I sad? Yeah, it's it
doesn't take a long time for everyone to get ready. But Ace and war
Bitch are ready very quickly and essentially raring to go. H Sarge takes you
a little bit longer. But and Rita, you might want to stop consuming
your own goods as it were. It's clearly having an effect on your stamina.
It's just nutrient pass go man, you know what for this? I
mean, even though I am slow moving and everything, I think I probably
would have gone over as Hawk just to gauge him, you know, see
see if he's got a wild look behind his eye, or if he's steady
or whatnot. Yeah, he's some he looks a bit disappointed. Okay,
all right, And because he was on your left and uh and Length was
on your right, you'll know that he did actually, yeah, he charged
with you and and with Reta and and Length, but he didn't far as
gone even because the smoke and everything. So it is his first combat and
he didn't do anything essentially, Okay, So yeah, I think at this
point I probably I probably pat him on the back and be like, don't
where are you get to warm up your gun? Eventually? Just stay focused?
Yes, suge uh, I was hoping. I was hoping, I,
you know, make a good showing of myself first time out. You
lived. That's the best showing you can ever do. So so you made
no dinner tonight. First it's not good. It is. It's our rule,
soge well, I don't know everybody. Is that a rule? Well,
if we died, eat his meat, right, flesh is flesh.
I don't know. I'll tell you what. Maybe you can make it up
to them. Since you didn't fire a gun, you ask them later.
I'm sure they gave you something to do. Oh that means I get to
command someone finally, and Ace of smiles and walks up through it and says,
you know, Natrin bars It very nice these times, isn't it.
I guess you were correct with who we were supposed to get right? Or
are we still owning a bet? Do you still have faith in your fish
people? Or I'm sighing? Is it? I think it's a defector And
I'm pretty sure it's related to the blue fish people. You know? All
right, Okay, keep your face. What do we have eating for?
Well, I said someone we don't expect. Well, it's so broad that
we ain't we're not going to expect anyone, really, you dan, mate,
you accepted the deal? The deal? Is it? Kind of coy
smiles? Yeah, you were. If you're going to command him, you
know you could hear him. Hold up a thing for like target practice.
You know, then I can do that thing we talked about me blind folding
myself and seeing if my shot is just as good by hearing you hold the
mirror too, if you want to do the big wards one. You know
that sounds glorious, and they're just saying it's just as long enough loudness you
can hear it. And essentially I'm assuming that you as you start moving off
towards the front line, these are conversations that are happening. I will add
as well that as you're moving off, a trooper link does pass right next
to you, Sodeern Keith, And what's the most worrying thing that's happened today?
His ace is gonna have come on over someone. Yeah, that's all
right. I think it's gonna be a little bit of fun. I would
also move myself next to Falcus as we're moving, just very casually, but
she'd know I'd be coming over to her. You couldn't feel the like small
like bubbling simmering pot of anger. Oh, you know, you didn't have
much of a view over what she was doing. But I think she's pissed
that she didn't hear anything. Yeah, and I think I would know that
because she would. I'd imagine Falcus would have a completely different attitude. She'd
be talking a little bit more, she'd be throwing jabs left and right.
She's been so quiet, so I think I'd go I'd be walking next to
her, but I wouldn't say anything. I just walked. Yeah, and
that's it. Okay, moving keeps going as you go. And I'm not
going to require a role for this, because to miss it would be essentially
impossible for someone with Ace's skills. Eight. Eventually you come across tracks.
They are tire tracks. They are tread tracks. A tank or troop transport
of some kind. In this instance, I'll ask you to roll me a
scrutiny. See if you can figure out what exactly they are. Okay,
oh, look at there, scrutiny. Sorry, with the plus done,
I was gonna cool, all right. Three degrees of success, Yes,
they appear to be. Three degrees of success is pretty good, are they?
It appears to be an Unlaidenchrimera achmera is a troop transport with reasonably heavy
weaponry on it as well. Essentially, it doubles as a lighter salt vehicle.
And true, true carrier, and it appears to be going as you're
heading straight to the front line, it appears to have veered off towards the
left and be going on a kind of like a left and left of yeah,
trajectory towards our way, towards Oh look at that, oh bitch,
reader, Yeah, you see these tracks here? Odd? Mm hmm.
You know what that is? Is it? You're like, you're gonna sneel
me. No, you know that's a camera and it's going towards I feel
a bad But after the side, sarge, I'm pretty sure you can come
up with an idea of what's happening here. I got a few. But
what are you thinking? Well, they're veering off. It's quite odd,
not very artistic straight lines. There's more my play, but this curvature here.
Something happened or a last minute decision. Maybe one of them called out
to them. Maybe it has what we're looking for. Oh maybe well they're
going for a flank. I think at this point, after he's doing all
this and he's saying stuff, I think, I'm I'm I'm turning my my
brain towards it as hard as I can, Like I'm really trying to figure
out why the fuck it would be doing this. Okay, but it doesn't
give a ship. Maybe it hurt a sound, maybe it wants to fuck
something over there. All valid points like okay, mis uh for for usage.
Again, you don't really need a role here. This is something you've
been doing for a long time, and you can posit theories easily enough.
The most likely ones being is that it is a friendly troop carrier carrying troops
to the front who had to divert to a certain point for unknown reasons.
Or it's an enemy troop carrier that's been moving behind your lines or your allies
lines, dropping off thing people like the squad who you just encountered for essentially
disruption missions. All right, I think with those possibilities, I I know
what I would want to do, considering what the mission is. But I'm
going to go to the lieutenant and I'm pushing information over even the stupid shit
that they were saying, which is amazing. I don't know, and then
go fox them. I don't know, but I'd be talking to him and
saying, I mean, essentially we can push in the direction we're supposed to
go. This could have something to do with it. This could take us
off course. It's one of those things where it's a crap shooting. I'm
not really comfortable following it. But you might have more information than I have.
I think, given the recent revelation of possibly the front lines being in
more dire states than we were expecting, we should avoid any possible complications.
The mission comes first, that's right, that's fine, as long as that's
not a part of it. And then after that I would relay some stuff
to them, ask case to keep an eye out for anything similar, any
and probably with the assumption that there's just we have no fucking idea what we're
walking in it too, so it's it's yeah, And he'll say keep an
eye out for what's in front of us, oh what's behind us? And
they'll kind of like glance over his shoulder. M yeah, you know it's
everywhere all right? Partible, Yeah, I have a new beat. Can
I change my bet? You know how you never made a bit? You
can change it now. I suppose, well, you what you put in
some gum and you didn't say what for? So I have gum here written
Dan, that's what's it. My BET's on hawk If it's on Hawk.
Yeah, like what a little beauty bird? No, oh, you mean
we're gonna find the if we creep the newbie? Is his name not Hat,
His name's Hawk. Wait a minute, are you're talking Yeah, if
talking about who's going to god down first? Are you guys talking about what
we're gonna find? Because talking about who we would get a fine faith in
amazing. There's no way that we'd be betting on who goes down first,
because it's very obviously going to be Hawk. Yeah, I mean we don't
know it. Sorry, Hawk, No, I'm just saying he's the bad
guy, you know. Oh, he's going to be trying. He was
looking at well from a distance, it looked like he was about to ship
his band to be At the same time, Hawks like a little ways off,
like maybe not in a shop, but you're not one hundred plent short
like looking out seeming like he's tried to be like kind of vigilance, and
I'm not trying to be quiet. I'm not speaking in hushes. He probably
heard you as likely all right, love you Hawk? Oh yeah, we
love you. Oh Uh, You're gonna be fine, mate, thank you.
Just watch yourself, Hawk, You're gonna be fine, they're weary.
We got you. I'm receiving some mixed messages. Yeah, you're fine,
you keep going, row you off. Definitely definitely going down first year again
the night a bit for that one. As you're talking and et cetera.
I have made the assumption that you're moving. The one thing I need,
Sarge, is do you want to head straight or do you want to veer
a little bit of ways from the It depends on how dramatic it turned.
If if it's almost a ninety degrees forty five, yeah we'd veer away.
Yeah, we would absolutely just be like, no fucking way, and we
would try and go around. But if we were moving, if we were
moving off in a different direction than we had originally planned, then I would
have I would have a probably a little bit further out than normal, just
to keep his eyes out because I wouldn't be as comfortable and a love a
sew big your Essentially you're keeping an eye on where you're headed, but you're
probably so like just in case every dome, they'd have it a little bit
of a one behind us. Yeah, he's uh, he's got his cloak
up and uh. The what he said to the serge was more so for
just between them. Lieutenant. Yeah, so yeah he is. He has
his cloak up and he knows what it does, so he is being very,
very overcautious. Yeah, he's just watching everywhere. He can't like amer
case. Uh, little time passes maybe ten minutes or so, a good
amount of kind of I think it will probably not be double time, but
kind of like an advanced h you know, march quick march. Let's say,
as you're going through, uh, please give me an awareness. You
may take plus twenty on this one. Okay, oh my god, don't
bring up the JavaScript. Okay, here we go. Wow, okay,
little we will we will pass by the additional scrutiny to figure out what you
see in more detail, because with six degrees of awareness, a sixth area
of successful awareness, you're gonna pretty much have a downpat. So you're getting
close to the front line now, still a little ways away, but the
sounds of battle are getting closer. You can see the flashes now in the
distance, and you see starts off as kind of it's starting to get a
bit darker. It's not yet even like, you know, anywhere close to
twilight, but the sun's starting to go down and you see a few shadows,
kind of bunching of shadows, essentially walking across an open field a fair
distance away from you. My assumption is you'll do the standard hand up knee
and then just scoping to check out what you're looking at. And I can
tell you that this time you recognize the uniform. It is the same as
the pda F troopers who you mets back of the HQ. Okay, hold
and a six A look. Also hold your fire weapons down. This looks
familiar. Did you have troopers uniforms identifiable? We might have found where we're
looking for. Sage orders proceed or fall back with you M M H.
Wouldn't fall back, but only a little bit, and just sort of keep
it on our flank as we're moving forward, just in case. I'll stay
under cover. Look us up. I'll let you know if there's any dangers
to worry about, and this time I won't pull the trigger first. I'll
let you ask questions. All right, Well, you know, I trust
your judgment, and then I think with that, we get up and keep
going after his signal to pause, and I think, considering, I think
Sarge is probably not wary of the people in front of them. But yeah,
you know the uniforms or uniforms and you can get him off of corpses.
So he's he's going forward, but in good faith, just aware as
you're going forward, are you take anyone with you? Or are you gonna
go setler? So I think that I would be probably walking. I'd be
walking ahead of everyone else. I would have relayed everything to them, just
to be mindful of what we're going into. But again it's that idea that
you know, if I if I take a bullet, they're going to react,
and I know they'll react hard. So I'm just gonna start going forward
in front. Okay, uh, as you MC note, yes, Ace
will have is uh since he's under clothes, he'll be laying down a gun
ready just in case. And not only is he watching in front, he's
watching behind as well. Okay, as you move forward, there comes a
point when you're very obviously noticed and an immediate like alertness like that as you
see them moving, that already kind of moving information is clearly like a patrol
of some kind. And when they see you, there's kind of a little
spreading out. A couple of them go down on the knee. There's a
preparedness and a challenge is shouted over, which is essentially who goes there?
So I would just respond, you know, this is Sergeant Keith. We're
here on a mission and open y'all can help us out. There's kind of
a very hesitant pause and then a right, we'll meet halfway. My men
will cover me, yours can cover you. That's good, and the figure
like steps forward and you can see him now. He's in very basic PDF
fatigues. He has a sergeant's insignia on his shoulder, and when he gets
to you, he kind of stops a little outside of like what I would
essentially say is mele range, but it's essentially arms range, so you know
you're not going to be able to immediately slash him down, and like shoulders
his weapon, you know, in a in a very kind of like my
weapon is pointed at the ground, but it could very quickly be pointed at
you kind of stance right, and he says, Sergeant Lorak, Planetaried Force.
So I I do. I do call outs, but I think I'm
I'm studying this guy's face as as I go through my own spiel. I'm
looking at him and I'm looking for any sign of recognition for who and what
we are m h. And if what he says looks like he's been honest
about it, Olay, got my eyes on him as hard as I can.
In that case, for going forwards, please roll me a scrutiny,
and seeing as you are the same rank, I'll give you a plus ten
because sergeants understand sergeants, all right. Of course, if it was a
lieutenant or higher, I would give them minus ten because officers don't understand sergeants
and can't tell when they're lying. Okay, so two degrees of faidal.
What this means essentially is you still may be able to pick up things,
but they may not be bright. Ok. You're not gonna get nothing from
him, but yeah, the legitimacy of what you get is calling question for
you fair enough. So since I'm I'm probably on an even foot in I
just be like, all right, sergeant, I'll tell you what we're looking
for something who something's I don't know if you know anything about that. We
met a little resistance back there that we didn't expect. Now I don't know
what's going on with the line here, but it seems like there's gaps in
it. You know what that's all about? First off, do you have
a low stick? I radio back to Arzebal. Yeah, uh, yes,
such, I'm gonna need something from you. You think you can come
forward? Don't? Uh? Putting all of her drugs back in here is
such? Trant's up. Sorry, that's all right, Just just take a
breath. That's all right, I'm sorry, fine, fine, alright,
all right. Anyway, anyway, Sorrgy, I think maybe you and arswel
Hill could do a little little business. You ask you the question, but
I'm gonna tell you right now, this is our decision, and I'm just
gonna sort of step to the side and just see what happens. Do you
buy any chance? Have a lostic on you supplies? Unfortunately? Low well
uh part looks back at the sergeant for like you Well, for a sergeant,
of course I do. I've got a better half of one ride here,
could even do your better. I've got some got an ammunition bandolier for
an auto gun. You guys got auto guns? Yeah, they've got lask's
never mind keeping it. I've got a red pick too, You got red
picks? Be willing to try it we did, although for now we are
scavenging what we can. I got a red pick right here. It's quite
nice, really pretty fresh, not even any mold on it. Eat.
I don't have that much to trade. It's all right, it's never mind.
Guess anything. It's probably bad anyway, just a low stick, would
you know? I got a I got a small little bit of silver jewelry.
It could be kind of nice, yeah, sparkling fair special samone bacame.
It's pretty genuine. I thing maybe another time, all right, all
right, dumb, never mind, never mind, He thank you, gives
them a whole a whole of stick. Wow. Nice, and he lights
it up and kind of relaxes a little bit and looks at your sage.
Uh, if you don't mind. The first question is you are not wearing
the uniform of our planetary defense forces. Therefore I assume you are mark plaining.
I think you can understand who and what we are some degree. And
these narrows his eyes. All he's trying to do is see how much information
this guy might have for any purpose, for any reason. My first thought
was reinforcements. However, that's might be a little bit mhm. Then second
thought some sort of special assignment. Mm hmm, Well, however I can
help kay m m all right, Well, we need a little intel as
we're moving forward here. I don't know if the line's broken or what,
but trying to avoid as many engagements as possible. The other thing is is
we're we're looking for something. I'm sure you can understand, such that the
sort of thing we're looking for I couldn't tell you, of course, which
means I need an area where things like that might be sort of things we
don't really talk about. Just because it was last episode, you're currently searching
for a captain captain LESSAQ who is on the front line somewhere right, So
I would I go ahead and say that right out because the priority of what
this person was and just how very secretive the lieutenant was being. Well,
the captain you're looking for is the last known person to have been in contact
with the VIP with this individual, So I think that, yeah, I
guess for that information, i'd probably just pass that along. We're looking for
a captain sorry, what was the name again, Let's sack, Yes,
let's sky in, let's suck. So yeah, yeah, we're looking for
a captain a captain of the sock you and having to know him or where
he might be located. Yes, Captain Lesarq was recently promoted to overall commander
of the front lines. If you head straight towards the front lines, jump
in the trench, take a left, eventually you'll hit his bunker. All
right, all right, well you've been really helpful. Appreciate that the front
lines are under a small amount of strain. I don't suppose you've seen any
signs of enemy vehicle activity. Yeah, what we did, so I'm amera,
Well, this is an assumption, you understand, but a little ways
back and we probably would have been marking distances, so I would have I
tell him it's like, a little ways back, we saw something some tracks.
My guy picked it up so that they sort of changed direction all of
a sudden, and then I'd sort of be, you know, trying to
say, you know, probably head off and roughly that direction, give him
basically triangulation so he can kind of cut them off. Yeah, thank you.
That will mean we will get our job done. Quicker ah. Apologies
for cutting our meeting short, but we have a tank to hunt. Yeah.
Well, I wish you good luck and yourself keep your head down.
Once you get to the front line. All right, good advice. Probably
walk over to uh and I don't know, I pat her on the shoulder
like yeah, like that was perfect. Then head on back to everybody else
is gonna tenderly touch this on the the The sergeant moves his squad out like
kind of gives you a slight wide berth still, and you can see that
one of them has this kind of like rocket launch trip kind of slung on
their shoulder, and another one has what looks like a grenade launcher, a
different type to what you have rita not quite as nice in your opinion,
But all right, So we'd probably head as quickly as we could to the
trenches to hop bin, bring that left, and head over to where at
wherever that bunker is. I'd relay everything to the lieutenant during all the all
of this, same sort of orders for everybody else. Keep their eyes out
as we're moving forward. Good job, sergeant, carry on right, keep
going, Okay, you keep moving forward. As you get closer and closer,
you can see you can hear the thumps of explosions and possibly artillery.
Oh as you get closer, you know what, let's have an awareness from
everyone. It'll be minus ten. But I'm still laying down watching everything.
So well, the squads moved off, so you can have jumped up and
okay, well if that's the case, then Ace will come back, will
come out last, and I guess walk past the troop that they were talking
to and he kind of just like waves his arm and all you see is
a hand. I guess, pop out of it. He'll just keep walking
under the cloak a little bit of a yeah, a little bit yeah,
yeah, right, you're right, Oh yeah, fun, it's a little
walking today in it. You need to yeah, do a little bit more
running there, all right? He said, awareness negative ten. Yes you
I did it, but it didn't go is it? So? Sometimes okay,
so Ace, you can definitely hear what sounds like artillery, but it's
not as regimented, it's not as organized enough to be artillery. You think
possibly it may be something else, you know, possibly grenades, but again
doesn't really fit the bill, Sarge with your three degrees of success in a
roll of a five, these are actually most likely tank cannon shots. It
implies that they are using it in substitution. Again, from the sounds of
it, not very well for suppressive artillery, which implies there's not that much
artillery going on here. Yeah, I wouldn't be too worried about it.
I'd probably look to see if anyone is concerned. I doubt anyone really is
outside of park, but I think as we're moving forward, I just if
anyone, you know, like their ears up, and I'm just don't worry
about it, and then keep going, Okay, this is just kind of
listening to it like classical music, and he's just like, it is not
very artful at all. It is. Yeah, he is like disgusted as
much amateurish at best. And as you get closer, you start to see
flashes in the distance and the sounds of battle come into focus, heavy weapons,
grenades, the occasional tank blast or tank cannon shot. It appears that
there is an assault happening along the line. As you move without us as
you move up, you get you can essentially get yourself to a position where
you are within what is essentially some cover and foliage, some rocks, boulders,
et cetera, a fair ways away from the fight, but with a
good view over it. You can see the muzzle flashes from the trench line
and past as very disorganized, almost in skirmish formation, you know, they're
very spread apart. And what it appears to be is a half hearted attempt
at an assault. Sarge, please roll me a command with a plus ten.
Okay, wonder, great failure. Sorry. Essentially, what this looks
like to you is someone said charge, and that is it. The way
that the enemy is fighting is very much we were told to attack, so
we're attacking. That doesn't mean we have the forces to attack. So essentially
they charge forward, they find positions where they can fire from, they exchange
fire, and then they retreat. It doesn't look like a concerted attack effort,
all right, And you're far enough a way to not get involved with
this if you want. However, if you want, you can, you
know, charge to the trench line, set up and just add to the
fire if you like. Hmm, well, we're trying to find this captain,
right, We're trying to stay on task as much as possible. So
no, I check with the lieutenant, but I wouldn't touch this. I'd
let them whoever the hell's in charge over there, I wouldn't. I don't
want to talk to them, you know. Let's get pissed off at him,
like, what the fuck are you doing other than that? Yeah?
No, stay away from it. I agree, sogeant, let the attack
peter out and then we'll join the trench. All right, all right,
everybody, let's uh, let's post up for a little bit. Take a
minute, take a knee. I need two people to keep sort of a
watch around us for now. Everybody else. Immediately Hawk's hand goes up,
so and then he sees he sees four volcus. As I go up,
He's like, all right, you two, it's perfect. That's great.
Uh, not giving him a chance to put his hand down. All right,
you two, you know what to do? Uh? Well, actually
I don't know. Hawk. If you know what to Valcus, make sure
you tell him what to do. Oh, I will excellent. This is
gonna a great show from the sidelines. I'm gonna punch Hawk in the arm,
like pretty hard. It will be fun. Yes, I hear some
stories. Is really your sating dominis m? Don't have a choice. No,
no, then be a little bit more enthused. Thanks okay, And
very hesitantly and looking like suddenly he needs to go to the loo, Hawk
walks onto essentially like a observation point with von Valcz additionally link Literally the second
you say you know, take an ee, he immediately sits down on his
helmet. Uh, you know, just starts going over his gear and kind
of zoning out to making taking five lieutenant a little bit restless, kind of
pasty up and down. But you know, nothing, nothing too bad,
he does it. Yes, how old are you? Uh? Twenty twenty?
Well? Yes, why did you want to join serve the Emperor?
That's right, good answer. You know what I was doing when I was
your age, learning to use that heavy BOLTA though I was at least shooting
something. You want to pick up the pace, newbie, I fully intend
next time to fire my weapon and hit something as well. Good because I
have been known for missing my target a couple of times. So wait,
looking at me, look out there right, doesn't seem to be going very
well, does it? What he points out at the troops fighting and dying
the fight, I mean, I guess it depends on how you define well
winning, m How do you define winning? Listen, if you get out
alive, then you've won. I guess if you've killed more than everyone else,
you've also kind of won. And especially if you kill someone, you
know, you definitely won, so maybe it's going super well, right.
I kind of thought if you get given an order to attack and like push
the enemy out of the trench and you do that, then that's kind of
a win, isn't it. Is that what you're looking for? Ohp pretty
clean wins? Is that where you joined up? Feel good about yourself?
Mean little clean little underwear with your initials sound in them. Regardless as that,
maybe I still think that I can contribute to the squad and help us
achieve our objectives. If that's okay? Are you asking my permission? Less
number one hunk? There you go, don't ask anyone's permission. Just do
your job, do it better than anyone else, be the one who knows
how to do it better than anyone else. And don't let me catch you
pissing your pants and smoke again? Oh right, why are you looking at
me? Look out there? Right Jesus? So before we carry on during
the five oh, anyone else have anything they need to say to anyone or
any conversations that happen, or is it kind of just a bit a bit
more of a professional silence where everyone's going over their gear and just like,
yeah, kind of I could I could see I could see Ace doing his
figure nails, just making sure that, you know, they're pristine. To
the sounds of like people fighting and dying just over the ridge. Yeah,
I pretty much got a knife and digging in there. And but besides on
a lieutenant he can't stand that deal. Okay, so he's just over there
like h m hm okay and looking away. No, no, you're fine.
You you want to bully that, you want to bully the kid a
bit more to you? Okay, what's going to do? But there's no
point. Sorry, sorry, about maybe five minutes probably a little bit over
five minutes, but who's counting? Pass and the fire dies down a little
bit. The larger shots there appeared to be a couple of mortars as well
on both sides. It's pretty light for it's pretty light for a front line.
You've been on much much heavier fire in front lines, but it is
what it is. Kind of continue occasional shots ring out from both trench lines
as people just you know, try the lock. But the fighting has died
down and the trench is now well not clear there are people in it,
but and the lieutenant kind of listens for a second, things seem a bit
more quiet, looks at you, sergeant, and says, seems clear enough
to start searching for that captain. Mm hmmm, yeah, I agree.
All right, everybody, let's get ready to go. Yes, such will
be deleted like jobs are. But runs back to the squad. That boy
makes me tie just watching him. I don't really say that to anyone specifically,
I just say it out like if anyone hears that, they hear it.
Yeah, and then I think whatever I think. As we're as we're
getting sort of situated, I'm keeping an ear out. I'm still looking around
as well, but I think that I'm I'm trying to get a feel for
how everyone's doing after after the day. You know, we've been moving a
lot, We've we've gone along a pretty good distance, We've had a fight.
So I'm just trying to get a feel of how no any fatigue,
anything, anything that could cause us an issue in the next however long it
takes for us to go to where we need to and what we're about to
do. Yeah, just doing a quick read from what you can see,
I would say that reader's not super happy about all the marching and all the
you know, trekking over stuff. But at the end of the day,
poor and sweet, yeah, but still going in here cooking egg on me.
The recruits and link the veteran. Veteran looks fine. He's not as
young as he used to be, but he's got to nasty. And the
younger recruits is it seems eager, a little concerned, but so is anyone
who talks to Warbitch more than five minutes. Lieutenant seems a little bit nervous,
a little bit jumpy, But around combat he's always a bit like that.
And I would say, correct me if I'm wrong, for both of
you, but I would say war Bitch seems a little frustrated, which is
always good if you're about to go into combat, but bad if you're having
some downtime. And Ace seems a mixture of content and a little bit dreamy.
But then when his shooting goes off without a hitch, he's always like
that. Let the violins play, you see, Warbitch art was made today.
I can show you a little bit about yourself and maybe you'll have something
in common. Do you want to have something in common with me? And
he opens his eyes like, oh, this is gonna be good. He
leans in. What is it? What's what you asked if I wanted to
have something in common with you? Now? What is that? Well?
It certainly fucking is an art. Oh this fucking you don't. You don't
hear it because these these squads I have don't have no idea what the fuck
they're doing. But when my shots go off, the symphony plays. So
I will say I was off for Mark. I was trying to shatter a
draw boom because it was at his right side of his face, and I
slipped it hit the neck. That's gonna just eat you up for the rest
of your life, isn't it? Absolutely until I correct that mistake. So
what do we have in common? I'm interested in enlightening me killing shit off
about it. I'd imagine we have our different you know, processes, but
the end of the day, we end up with the same result. Wouldn't
you agree? Oh? Yes, I would agree. They're not moving.
We are. We've gotten here long enough today to be there so far.
And he looks over a hawk. As long as they're not babysitting for long?
Yeah, face, how generous are you feeling at the moment? M
He hit his shots. He's having a conversation war bitch, but there's no
bickering or nothing, so I guess he's kind of on a high. There
are all moments during the heat of battle when you could generously compare the ratatat
tat of war Bitch's heavy bolters, something akin to drums, not important necessarily
to the orchestra, but excuse me, not important to the orchestra. Want
to watch them out there. But here's the deal. Let me explain.
You know, your percussion of your boat right fuller, whatever you call it,
is delightful, d moist. You see, the original orchestration goes through
and the crowd is pleased. But what brings it all together are the drums,
the percussion of it all. And I believe if you lean more into
that in sync up with August, you hit your shots even more artistically and
we can dive into ecstasy together. Don't like you said that, Gotta be
honest. Didn't like you said that, but sure, yeah, I will
know what is wrong with it? It's odd? Yeah, yes, you
got to any kind of smiles and looks at her, and he says,
take it as a compliment. You know, they don't come very often,
but I am starting to like your style. I think I can match something
with it if you can't. You mentioned dancing earlier, a soup with a
sway. Yeah, all right, you got yourself a deal. I'll try
to shoot more percussive, yes, precisely, and talking as you walk.
You get to the edge of the trench. It's about shoulder height. It's
not particularly impressive, but it does afford a decent amount of cover. You
do also notice not to put too fin a point on it. Bodies,
some in the bottom of the trench, some at the back. There are
also troopers PDF troopers up and down. They don't pay much attention to you,
aside from just to note your advance, and once you jump in you
get a few strange looks, but essentially it's above their pay grades. They
are quite drawn out bags under the eyes, look stressed and kind of like
I'll give this to usage, and you imagine that lieutenant may pick up on
it as we well. They look like people who've been in combat for too
long, and they kind of don't really give much of a shit anymore.
Yeah right, I think I probably wouldn't pay them any mine, because if
they're at this point. Then they're just on the rails. I guess I'm
gonna get any good conversation out of them. I'm gonna get any really good
information or anything other than like, where is this? Give me a quick
answer, and then just move on. So I think if we're going to
go ahead and get into that, how how big is this s trench?
By the way, that's about five people wide? Okay, all right,
in a shoulder height deep? So five people okay, So yeah, I
think we're as squad done. I'm going to Yeah, I'm we'll get everybody
in there and start moving through. Actually, I think I will take it
slow or partial for her to look through stuff, but also to give her
a breather and just be like, you know, you know, check check
that one too, you know, and I'm just checking it and just got
to check it real, just for a minute on the ground. No,
yeah, go ahead. No one seems to care too much that you're checking
their buddies' bodies. But I will tell you they've all been picked clean,
which is fine, feelings or anything found, feelings nothing. Quite a few
of them have had their boots and socks taken. Yeah, and don't forget
to check under that one right there are you looking under and all around?
I'll add as well, as you're walking through the trench line, you assuming
you're taking the left, because that's the directions the sergiant gave you. As
you're walking, like, there are multiple times where you have where you see
like a trooper kind of like leaning with his back, kind of sitting down
with his back against the trench, you know, facing the enemy with his
like his gun kind of slung on his shoulder, and you're not one hundred
percent sure if they're alive or dead. They're not moving and they're just kind
of like slumped. It has that vibe to it. Yeah, Yeah,
I'd probably be looking for people with wild eyes as well, because those are
those are the dangerous ones in these situations. So anyone that is off,
I'd probably just I would look at everybody else and then NodD at him.
I'd imagine they'd know anyway, just to step around, pay attention. And
yeah, I will say, discipline seems to be holding a very least.
There's a certain fatalistic or disinterested vibe. But what we would do is as
you finally come to a semi collapsed bunker with a couple of PDF troopers outside.
We will take a break, thank the ebrah in the trench line,
a few shots being exchanged up and down the line, not much occasional swamp
of a mortar, but for the most part, and this area does have
more troops. They seem a little bit more with it, but that's just
possibly because they're most likely right next to their commander. Two guards on the
front of bunker essentially clock you stepping up a little bit, kind of like
prepared, but seeing as you're walking along the trench line, not a whole
load of much. I am assuming that you want to approach them, Yeah,
I think probably the I probably had the lieutenant right next to me,
and I'm letting him be in charge in the situation. If we're getting ready
to see a captain, then I'm letting him take that. Yes, So
the lieutenant steps forward and he says, oh thing, Yeah, there he
is, Lieutenant and Irasian of the Ultimates for delhi Astorian Regiment, here to
see captain the sock and one of the gods. Kind of notes the name
you would you would all have a decent idea of the name carries some significant
to the worlds around here you have visited a couple of them, and those
worlds no longer have anyone really on them, so you know like they're trained,
they're professional. But there is a flash of like uh ship, and
the Lutai says, oh, I have come from speaking with Governor Stengelt.
He is kindly sent me to see the captain. And there's a second of
hesitation, at which point essentially both of the guards on the door look at
each other for a second, give that look of this is both above our
pay grade and also above our rank, and step by. And lieutenant gives
a sign of the aquila, nods and steps in. Pauses as he's stepping
through, and says, sergeant, if you wish to accompany me, you
may the rest of you. Please don't cause any trouble and take five.
Yeah, I follow, Okay, Sorry, you walk in with the lieutenant.
It is not nice in him, but it's nicer than the rest of
what you've seen of the outside. Here there is a strategy table for want
of a better word, it has a vague map with hastily drawn and redrawn
lines, and there is a captain by himself sitting behind a desk that's missing
a leg and is essentially propped up by a couple of like bits of rubble,
and he looks up and says, oh, greetings, sign of who
does the sign of the equilor lieutenant sergeant you're not sorry? And he stands
up and walks over, holds out his hand to lieutenant, shakes the lieutenant's
hand, nods that you sorry. I was expecting someone else. You're not
a reinforcements, are you? No? No, when we're our reinforcements.
We're here on a very specific, specific mission. And I think at this
point, I don't know if the lieutenant speaks up or not, but I'd
say, you know, Ultimus for daily and we're we're in a hurry.
You're not here on regimental business though, No, And the lieutenant also cheps
in and says, no, no, we're special assignments. I had a
word with Governor stern Out and he pointed us in your direction, as you
had lost contact with our objective A a man who is was on deployment on
this planet, special mission. It's like maybe a second, maybe two,
and then a look of recognition and the captain, yes, yes, I
was assumed. I was assigned to him for six months until we lost Major
Jeric a couple of weeks ago, so ran out of Major. Unfortunately.
Oh, now we've got his captains and I'm in charge of the entire front
line. Unfortunately. Oh, this is your your hand to workout here with
the up and up and running over and whatnot. I've done what I can.
It's every means fine. Every now and then we get in order to
attack. I send out the words and they attack. Mm hmmmm. And
you know, like you can see that he's there's no shame there. It's
just the knowledge and he's in a bad place. Yeah, he's not happy
about it. But the orders or orders kind of thing. Well, if
you like, lieutenant, I can point out and he kind of points towards
the MAPP. I can point out the last known location of your objective.
I'm afraid I haven't stayed in contact. I left some of my previous assignment.
My men are with him, so they should still be there. He
was adamant about not pulling out. And he walks over. There's like a
big long trench line and there's multiple like cuts through it, which kind of
designates you know, broken line or enemy breakthroughs and et cetera. And in
the opposite direction from which you came all the way along at the end of
the line is a big kind of round, circular structure that is designated as
Hive ASTERID And he says, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad
news, but you're objective. I hope you don't mind your own use code
names or anything. He is a man named Amorus. He is on the
north eastern side of the hive in a bunker, holding out against enemy attack.
Unfortunately for you, that is the other side of the hive from where
we are now. Mm hmm, all right, how much you intel you
got for the area? I'll take you anything you got some. And he
looks at the return and says, take a look at the map, figure
out where you're going and how you're going to get there, and I'll fill
your sergeant in on the technical tactical details. And then he like leads you
away a little bit and sits down or like like at his desk. There's
a you know, a couple of chairs there which you can pull up as
well reach it, reaches into his pocket, pulls out this little kind of
hip flasky looking thing, paws it in and hands hands over a glass to
tear. It's amasek, not high quality, but amatek is essentially a fermented
wine type thing. Alcohol in forty k I think, I take it,
and I take a sip, and I take it, I grab it and
I sort of just look at him, take a sip, just sort of
nod at him, no real reaction to what I'm drinking. Just probably happy
to have it, honestly. So yeah, I'll just I'll do that and
then I'll just sort of sit and wait for him to talk. You can
probably get to the Hive before nightfall. My advice would be to get into
the hive, find a burned out building that is unoccupied, and bunk down
for the night. All right, it's good enough advice. The Hive city
is mostly unoccupied. In the early stages of the war, it was mostly
bombed out. There are still structures and pathways leading through it, but tanks
can't get through, and anything larger than a squad is going to have a
difficult time. Unfortunately, some of the civilians, and they're armed. Their
enemy squads dotted all over the Hive, as well as friendly squads which are
less friendly. Now, all right, I get it, I get it.
All right, so it's a shit situation, all right, Yes,
all right? Well, how much time we got the nightfall? I don't
know if I've been keeping track. I imagine I would be, but i'd
probably say this outwardly. Yeah, probably about two hours? All right?
Anything else you can give me something I would like to ask of you?
When you came here, the lieutenant mentioned you met the governor, which means
you were at the headquarters. Were there any signs of mobilization sending in reinforcements?
So, remembering back to that, I do remember that there were some
pockets of people, But yeah, I didn't see anything like that, did
I at all? Yeah? M hm, nope, nothing. I think
you're like his shoulders slump a bit and his head kind of slumps. But
it's more like, yeah, pretty much figured. I mean, the best
thing I can say is hold out for as long as you can, you
know, redirect where you can hold up positions. I mean, looking at
that map over there, you're losing spots one after the other. So we
don't have enough men or ammunition anymore to hold all of the line. I
have to patch up the best places I can. Yeah, I understand that.
Yeah, it's a waiting game at this point. I'm sorry. In
this situation, I mean, I don't have to go into a broken city
and find one person in a haystack of angry needles. Yeah, that's true.
I envy you right now, that's true. All right, sorry,
three days, three days? I would say, if your objective is to
retrieve amorous, pull them out, and well the rest isn't really important.
We'll probably be able to hold for three more days any longer, and any
retreats will be a route, and we all not happens when you route.
All right, Well, that's actually pretty generous, considering what that map looks
like. So I really appreciate that. Three days. Okay, well we'll
do it. I'd wish you good luck, but I don't think it's going
to help you. Then we have the Emperor with us, and my men
are made of sterner stuff than it may seem. That's fair enough. I
mean I took a look at him on the way in. They were Oh,
some still had that look that they could get out there and fight.
They still charge when the order to charge is given, which given the circumstances,
is a small miracle. Yeah, all right, LT you need to
look at anything else over there before we because we're gonna have to round up
and get going if we're gonna get there and before that sunsets. Right you
are, sergeant no, I have a very basic idea. He like walks
over and shows you. He's basically like drawn out. Actually it's quite it's
quite nice detailed map of the essential way you need to go, and a
few details on the on the high city as well. It's not super intricate,
but all right, all right, I probably assess as much as I
can any little bits of information. I don't know how much I'm gonna get
and then and then probably well, thank you, captain. Ah, hope
to be seen you again. Actually same And if you see any sergeants,
do you send them my way. I need to do another round of promotions.
We lost five more lieutenants today, all right, I'll make sure to
do that. Thank you, Sergeant l T. Yes, Captain, we
wish you the best of luck in your endeavors and wish we could stay to
assist you. Unfortunately, Ah and this captains like switched off at this point
where it's just like but the lieutenant carries on and wish that you the best
of valor in combat and like kind of stiffly gives this sign of the Equila
turns and walks walks out. I'm not at the captain, and the follow
you walk back out, leaving a slightly despondent captain. You know, he's
made of stern enough stuff, you think, But there's a difference between knowing
that you're not going to get reinforcements and having someone confirmed that you're not getting
reinforcements. Sorry whom, Yeah, well back out, Trooper Link, Trooper,
hawk, war Witch, ace, Rita, all standing around. Yeah.
One thing you'll notice is that the gods seem a little bit deflated.
It's possible that they had a like, you know, stand off with some
of your troops and lost. It's kind of hard to be intimidating, especially
in the face of well, you know, your troops. I don't know.
I'd probably come out and just look at them, see if they're in
good spirits or maybe not good spirits, but maybe jovial from a little I
don't know, word sparring or whatever the hell they were dealing with these guards.
If they look like they're in good spirits, then to some degree,
especially with the guards looking deflated. I'd probably give them probably a slight smile
and a nod and be like, all right, we got ourselves a time
limit now that we didn't have one before. But this area is falling.
There's not much they can do. We know there's no extra help coming for
him here, So we're gonna be going in that direction. There's a hive.
It's going to be difficult. It's not even the right word for it.
So you can insert whatever definition you want for that, y'all A ready,
we always are? Where are we going? Sergeant? Sorry a little
bit too keen? Yeah, I so I point in literally the opposite direction
that we came, Like, we're going that way. It's getting darker,
but you can see because it's massive, you can see that. Well,
it's not as massive anymore, but you can see kind of a vague outline
in the in the kind of like slowly heading towards twilight of the planet.
We'll waste of someone. Actually, right, we're going now? Huh are
we heading out? Now? Yeah? We're gonna head on. Now,
We're gonna see how much distance we can make before that for the night comes
and we're gonna have to go through this thing pretty much to the other side,
So I don't have to tell you how difficult that's gonna be. Hm,
great, I don't know. I think it'll be a little bit of
fun, right hell yeah, sure, all right? Well Dodge, yeah,
compared to what they're facing here, how we're looking What do you mean
you're talking about, like how much resistance we're going to be getting or how
fast this place is going to fall? Yes, h we're on uneven ground
right now. Anyone here is so going forward. We just got to watch
a step. The Emperor will take care of us, don't worry. You
just tell me if you need to level it, Sage, all right,
I will right it. Sergeant. I think if we're going to get there
before nightfalls, we should head out right, You are, Ltre, You
are all right? Everybody, let's go okay, and you start heading back
and down the trench line. Now there are no attacks by either side,
most likely because it's starting to get dark and non particularly fancies fighting in the
dark. So for the next a little bit over an hour you tread through
trench lines. It is muddy, bloody bodies. Probably an occasional wiz as
a bullet flies over the top of a trench. But it's pretty boring.
Uh, just as a sidebar because it was asked and I'm not sure how
the sergeant will react to it. Do you keep an eye out for sergeants?
Nope, I think going forward, I'm not going to put anybody else
in a ship situation that will not It's just it's killing people at this point,
and if that captain survives a few extra sergeants, it's not gonna help.
So no, I don't say a damn thing going forward. You probably
put eyes on a couple of you know, chevrons where you're like, oh,
a sergeant and then you're like, I'm not putting I'm not sending him
to get promoted for a bullet Nope, nope. I'm wondering though, if
the the LT recognizes because how he would even care? The the LT.
You don't see him recognize, but he he knows ranks for your regiment for
the most part. The difference between like a specialist or a recorn a troopers
probably yeah, he has to know the person. He's like, oh,
yes, recorn like ace, you know that, that type of thing.
Okay, yeah, but he wouldn't recognize insignias. You wouldn't care as much
because that's interesting too, because he seems really hands off. All right,
Yeah, so if he's not paying attention or saying anything, then yeah,
there's no way I would. It's any of those people that are dead's that's
fair. So you carry on free, see, because you've got a lot
of time. If you want to talk to anyone about anything, you have
the time. I don't feel like you have to, because squelching through a
trench not saying anything is pretty much part of course, especially in this trench,
is really depressing. Actually, I think that. Yeah, all right,
everybody, we got a little bit of time before we get there,
So why don't we play ourselves a little game? All right? Games?
I like games. All right, Right, we're gonna start off with numbers.
Hark, you're not going to be playing one. Sorry, no you're
not, jeez yah one. Yeah, I was going. No, I
don't know. These are these are goals, I guess you could say.
And I'm really curious for each one of you. I think we all have
an idea of the tally of the people we killed, right, I know,
I keep count I count my bullets. I don't count the kills.
Wait, we keep carrying body cans. Nope, nope, nope, not
exactly. Well we're doing it's sort of guessing how many people you think you're
gonna be able to take out before you're taken out. Now you take the
number you should know, and that's okay. Ace you take for you will
change a little bit. Not a bullet you think you're gonna get through before
you can't shoot anymore. Oh well, that would depend on me not wanting
to shoot anymore. You see. I think if I am seen and I'm
not the one dealing the death sentence, yea, and my time will come.
It is boring as that answer. Maybe I am. That's one to
be in the front of battle, So double digits, thousands, maybe fifty
thousand, I would guess more from you. I was being all right,
one hundred thousand. Oh that's more like it. I think this question depends
on like, hey, you want to kill sergeant? Yeah? I mean
really have close picked together? Are they? And like in what sort of
way? You know you want them killing each other? You want them you
know, just dying a star in a hunger or frankmans howyashin' Now you you
you throw that gas into them, you take out one hundred people that those
are yours? You know that you count that? Right? How much here
do they have to breathe? You know, if it's like a little bit
here, then you can get a lot farther with one friendsigen Grinde. So
I think partival is gonna win. To be honest, is it going off
in avoid ship because if it's avoid ship out, you know, and Trooper
Length leans forward and says, I'm two hundred and forty seven over my target.
Well, look at you, what's the target? It's one. Well,
I guess I'm asking this question because it's always good to think about that.
Goals. You know, you said goals. I think we all have
our own goals, right Ace. Those kills are got to be clean for
you, absolutely affection as my girl, sure, you know impossible, funny
enough. Yours have got to be precise too, Like I know, you
can do a lot of damage in an area, but you you've got to
hit an area to maximize. It's really the psychology of it, Sage.
You know, you get you get a frenzies in granade in a bunch of
I don't know, greenhorn recruits, and it's not gonna do as much as
if there was all twists or something. You know, big guns, great
big dhaka, you know, throw a fringing in there. It's like we
wes for its self, speaks for its self. That's fine, and velchez
with what I've seen you can do. And at this point I think Keith
is looking at her after the gun jams and everything else, They're just sort
of looking at it and being like, I see you mow people down,
and then you do the next line and the next line and the next line.
It's not precise. It's a job done. I guess for all of
you, I'm just wondering how far you think you can go? How many
people do you think you can kill before someone gets you. I know it's
a hard question to ask. But with Hawk over here, and I'm eyeing
Hawk, who has not fired as gun like, he doesn't really know what
it's like, you know, not just to take a live, but to
take handfuls of lives, truckloads, you know what I'm saying for him over
there, he has no idea the situations you've been in, what you've had
to deal with, what you've seen, and what we're going into right now.
That's something that is going to be beyond hell for him and Hawk.
If you don't break, I'll be surprised over breaks. Yeah, all right,
you can say that all day. But you see how they how they're
talking about this, how they're able to sort of focus on what they're trying
to do, who they're how they're gonna do it. You know, they're
not worried about that necessarily glory of it all that. They're just they're just
looking at how they're gonna get it done. And you need to pay attention
to that because when you get in there, you're gonna have to do the
same thing. You have to get it done. Now. For me,
I'm just happy if I kill one more before I die, Just one more
mhmm. Yeah, that's interesting, but it does make sense, like a
really important one, like maybe a baby. I don't know that really,
it doesn't matter, you know, it's just just one more squeeze in that
trigger. You know what? What's that? What if it's hot? I'm
portrays if looking over at Hawk? All right too, Hi, I'm got
a question for you. You know you're sound it mikes when a rebel is
gusping for his laced breath. But it even comes because it's just fringsiing in
his lungs and he's going crazy. You know that sound? No, E,
Then you're not a threat, not yet to us anyway, but you
will you hang out here long enough. I wasn't really looking to become a
threat. Yeah you are. You're going to be a threat. Mit,
we all are to you. M hmm, and Trooper Link leans forward and
says, in that case, if we're deciding numbers, then my number is
going to be one more than U. Sage. All right, I like
a challenge. You're not going to win it, but I like the challenge.
We'll see. Gonna just nudge nudge, warm bitch. Were supposed to
be picking low numbers? Or did I lose? No? No, I
think they're just trying to be I don't know, some kind of humble,
spiritual you know. Definitely, No, but you definitely you'll probably get to
like five hundred k probably it's yeah, but have you seen your work?
It's beautiful? Oh nice? I like it again. Thanks, I'll show
it to you more sometimes if you want to. Yah, you know,
I like that. Oh. As you're walking, probably like a little bit
of silence and some more trudging, uh, Sarge length still walking next to
you, and just very subtly leans over and kind of whispers, it's Sorge.
You know. They say there's a bullet out there with your name on
it, right, Yeah, Hurican war bitch has fired so many bullets.
She's probably fired that bullet herself, hasn't she. Oh no, that's it
I think at that. Sorry, just goes quiet for a second. Maybe
do you think it's gonna be a bullet for you? A grenade, a
knife to the back of the front. What do you think it's gonna be
for you? Wow, we're going into oven combat, right, Sorry?
Something close combat? Maybe a knife, shotgun, possibly lost to the chest.
You know what people never think about just just fire, just fire that's
going out by fire, slow, stuck burn. You never think about that.
You think you're gonna get shot and it's just gonna be quick. You
know you're gonna get stabbed, you bleed out, that's pretty fast. No
one thinks about fire. Well, Ourzebell thinks about a little bit too me,
You know, Sergeant. It turns out most people who die by fire,
it's not the flames accuse you at all. To smoke and trying to
get out a little tiny spaces and being picked like like rents. You know,
you're always going to give it a skate plane, except for when you
fire one of your incentry grenades up over on tok Yea. Then it's just
you know, and it's just the fire that kills them. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, no fun in smoke. Our much close are we
now? I'm just sort of pulling that out, just getting everybody's you know,
to look forward and just sort of change their focus on everything else.
Getting close, you know, yeah, oh, getting close another twenty minutes,
maybe fifteen. It's hard to tell because you know, map wasn't amazing
to begin with. It's kind of a rough estimate. But keep trudging.
And also this far to the edge, the sounds of gunfire like it's not
as much it's not as active down this end of the trench, and you
actually get occasional like womps and like a little staccata of gunfire coming from the
direction you're headed as opposed to from your left, which as you get closer
you see more and more, even though it's getting darker, you see more
and more the rubble of the hive city. It's this big mound of like
plasteel and concrete and you know, bits of building and all right, everybody,
we're getting close. Yes, yes, we don't really know what we're
going into. Right, so when we get close, start scouting out for
some high places you can look right, none too far away from us,
minders, So just just look for anything that looks like a little bird's nest
you can get up into fast enough just to get a little surveyed the area.
Right, We'll do. It's hard, we'll do, all right,
Yeah, keep going, Okay, Eventually you get towards the end of the
trench and what you see is essentially the trench just stops being a you know,
a big divot in the ground and kind of like gros up until little
hump. There is a problem, sage. There is a good one hundred
meters maybe two hundred meters of open ground between the end of the trench and
the beginning of the hive city, enough for there to be covering few to
make your way into the city. Which what I can give you just even
just using Ace's eyes essentially, sorry to use your Isace, is there are
maybe in two hundred meters maybe two significant bits of rubble that can maybe have
two people maybe three people behind it. There's a few minor bits which will
cover some of your body if but essentially you're gonna have to run across to
get in there. It's about how you want to do it. Uh,
all right, So essentially I imagine you want to have a little sit down
in powow to basically be like, all right, this is ship. What
are we gonna do? Yeah, that's that's pretty much it, all right.
Sure there's not as many people around too. Yeah, all right,
everybody get in close. Let's figure some ship out. Mm hmm. There's
too much ground. Mm hmm. It's not gonna be easy. OSI will
no offense, but well no fence, and I don't say anything else to
that line. I think we're gonna have to do. We're gonna have to
do a little running jump. Can't be all of us at once. The
problem is is we're gonna have to get a few of us out there doing
suppressive fire and then leapfrogging each other to some degree. Mm hmm. The
problem is is that, and I need your opinions on this. Do we
send the fast first or the slow first? What are you thinking? Mm
hmmm. I have a thought suge. We send two people out first,
well bitch an ace waro. Bitch goes halfway. Suppressive file covers us as
we go with the first run. Shouldn't be too much of a danger because
they're not expecting anyone to be so stupid. Ace can go first, go
all the way to the end and give that little bit of extra cover File,
although he might get shot at once they realize where he is. If
you have to see me first, true, well, I can get shot,
so I'm willing. I mean, you might get shot if they notice
you. Remember it's protecting me. What do you think, Emperor? That's
a fair point. All right? All right, hark, do you want
to fire your gun a little bit? Guess such? All right, I'm
gonna need you to go about ten meters back, keep your calms open.
Okay. If I say shoot, you start shooting in whatever direction that any
gunfire is coming from, because if they notice Ace, I want you to
be a distraction and don't get yourself shot. All right, are you a
such? Should someone walk them through how to use that thing? Actually that's
a good idea. You go ahead and do that, and then yeah,
I run my troups. But okay, all right, Ace, I'm not
expecting you really to be seen, but you know, shit happens you've been
there. Yeah, all right, he puts his cloak on. I'm trying
to be as fast and silent as possible, and if I can't do that,
then it'll be a good distraction as for as long as I can.
Yeah, which is great. As soon as you get to your position,
you less know. Ocus I agree actually that uh, you're going to be
heading out there. Get about halfway and as much you can set up,
be ready, then we're gonna start going. I sorry, pars of what
can I help you carry? Anything? Just I got it. It's fine,
all right, all right, it's gonna be legal. Old wheezy over
there hardly got anything on me at all. Such, I know, I
know you're fine, You're fine. All right, let's go ahead and get
this stuff going. LT when I started going, just stick right next to
me, all right, Yes, all right. He's a little bit ball
of nerves wound up a bit, but that'll help the running, probably,
I hope. So I'm worried about my athletics honestly, but we'll see what
happens. Oh yeah, so y m hmmm, you're going first, and
you're going quietly with the assistant of your Camella line cloak, which essentially blends
itself to the surroundings. You not only get plus twenty from the Camelia line
cloak, but you also get plus ten because it's getting dark, SORR plus
thirty stealth, please radio and good luck, and there we go two degrees
of success. You slip out the back of the trench and essentially not even
really going properly down into a crawl or anything more of like a crouched run.
You just slip right across the field. Even people in the trench can't
really see you. Maybe a shimmer as you leave, but once you're out
in there nothing, it's too dark. Takes you a couple of minutes,
pausing once maybe twice behind cover, and then you're on the other side.
You see a few alleyways that will leader you into the city. You don't
need them yet unless you'd like to try and climb into one of these very
rubbly, rickedy buildings. But it sort of footing to get up to just
look through the scope to make sure that everybody gets across. You'll try.
You can maybe scale, you can get a semi elevated position on some rubble
enough for a decent shot. Hmm, yeah, uh yeah, that's what
he'll do. And he'll just kind of keep his scope on the team just
to make sure that they're crossing at a good speed, and if there's any
immediate threats, he'll at least distract shall I take it as shall I take
it as red? Then that he will be essentially on the look out for
anything of high threats that might hit someone once they've been seen kind of thing.
Yeah, if someone stumbles or makes a noise or if something drops,
he'll be able to either take the shot, but he won't see it this
time around. He doesn't want to cause too much of ruckus, so he'll
probably shoot into a direction that a divert attention more than go for a kill.
Okay, sacrificing his odds nice unfortunately, but he keeps that to himself
because he's trying not to vomit in his mouth at this point. Okay,
So next up is full of vocus. Yeah, you've gone halfway. Yeah
all right, so uh soge question, Yeah, are they covering war,
bitch or are they a lot? Are they essentially holding until fire is opened?
Yeah, now there, So we're we're not we're not telegraphing, you
know, like what we're doing. Yeah, I expect that if fire starts
to happen towards War Bitch, she'll stop, she'll drop, she'll do what
she needs to do. I'm expecting Ace to immediately open fire in anything he
sees. Same thing with Hawk. If I hear any gun fire, I'll
just relay back to him start shooting now, just to divert their attention long
enough for her to get up and to get to cover. In that case,
my question for war Bitch is are you going speed or are you going
to try and not be seen? Essentially, this is athletics or stealth athletic.
Okay in that case, because you have the element of surprise on your
side and you're going halfway, please roll me and athletics with plus twenty Oh
hell yeah, sorry, you run. You get to the to the first
kind of big bit of rubble. It's a bit above head height, but
there some side bits which you can essentially get your gun on to give you
a little bit of stability when you fire. There's no indication from the trench
line, the enemy trench line that you've been noticed. Great and everyone will
pick up on that. Awesome. All right, all right, so Belcus,
you post up, you get ready. You're on fire and you have
to And then I think I look over at Link and Parsivle say now I
need you guys to go, and when you do, I need you to
go stealthily. After looking at Parsible, I think, go stealthily, take
your time, take your way across. Okay, they got you covered,
and uh oh say where you are for now? An lt. We're gonna
wait our turn, and then I'm gonna step back again. All right,
you're ready to get shot? Oh me, Now I'm not the one getting
shot that we could be on it. You want to be what you mean
you're lost? Yeah, all right, well I'll be more lostick. It's
your low stick that I'm not gonna get shot and you are all right?
In that case, I'll bet that I'm not gonna get shot and you are.
You're all nine right, Parson will slowly pulling out our bull pistol,
just keeping it back one second, okay before we go. It doesn't count
if you shoot me, all right, yeah, yeah, I wouldn't dream
of it. Yeah, no, no of course, right you ready?
Always, let's go. That is a stealth plus ten please, oh,
just plus ten? Sorry, sorry, Trooper Grail. Link has critically failed
his stealth with eight degrees of failure. Sucks, mate. In this instance,
I'm going to offer you a choice here, Rita. Yeah, Either
there will be a role for awareness from the enemy soldiers to see if they
notice, and it's going to have a big bonus because he critically failed,
or they're going to become aware of you guys, but they're only going to
shoot at him, which will give you a chance to get to the midpoint
in the chance for a low stick and a chance for a low stick.
It is essentially, if you go for the role awareness role, then they
might shoot at either of you. If you go for the immediate clock con
on, then they'll just shoot at him. What if I shoot them,
you wouldn't know who's like. I'm just kidding. It would have been nice.
Could have got me low stick anyway? Uh will ship, Yes,
I'm I'm just gonna feed him with the wolves in eh. Sorry mate?
Okay, So as you're going across, you are faster than Link. You
move easier. He's quite old now and he's been around a long time.
Unfortunately that penal corny mate, Yeah, uh so you hear, you hear
just as you get to the big piece of rubble with with war bitch behind
it shouting, scurrying of activity on the other side in the other trench and
they are open fire. Oh sorry, but I'm fine, you are fine,
all right? So week what is sad? And that's gonna be good?
That canna be good at all? All right? As he ducks and
dodge, tries to weave their bullets like flying, kicking up the dirt all
around him. In the midst of this, one trooper on the other side
gets a bead on him, and okay, and he manages with his long,
long corned instincts to essentially serpentine to dodge, to weave in such a
way that none of the bullets actually end up hitting him. He kind of
crashes against the side of you, Rita, and like out of breath.
You know, there's probably like a bullet hole through one of through the fatigues
that his leg. You know, it just didn't hit him, just went
through the He can't he can't do with you like you see the howl are
in your pain, like my clothes is not me oh sor it's splitting highers
Mite. Sarge might be typed to deep radios over Sarge might be tied tour
far. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. Parkstart firing, Ace,
You you do what you do, find a good spot. I guess
how would you spray back and forth, back and forth? You're springing.
So how this is going to work is every time you make a run,
you are going we are going to have roles for people who are in position
to essentially suppression, help with suppression. The majority of it will be warbitch
and Ace. Ace. The problem you're going to have is the more you
fire, the more likely they are to figure out where you are. For
you, war bitch, it's essentially going to be when you fire, you're
going to make yourself slightly a bit of a target. So there's always possibility
that instead of the people running, they're going to fire at you. Question,
I have yes, Ace. Notice as the situation is not the best.
It's dark, and though he has equipment, it's you can't see clearly
what he does, so it's not awful for him. So he doesn't care
to kill anyone, Okay, but he wants to assist war Bitch. So
he's like, hey, Vuchiz, Yeah, remember talk about Dancy. Yeah,
well you be the feat in the action, and I'll be your eyes.
And uh, he's just gonna take his equipment and use it as an
assist for her and hopefully he helps her on her rose versus shooting. In
that case, to your left, look up. When we do the rungs,
you can roll a scrutiny or an awareness. Yes, if you succeed,
then war Bitch, you will have plus twenty to you're shooting on top
of your other bonuses. Sick and the thing is unfortunately Rita and all.
Sorry for mister Link. There's only space enough here for three people max.
So you're gonna have to make another run. Well, we're gonna go back
out. Can't just kick and making us pay. There's there's no space pick
Link out. So we got to go back out then to get to the
safety of the rubble in the high faces. So Lenk looks at you and
says, still chance free for us to get shot? You ready? Always
are they roughly halfway? Is this rubble halfway ish? Close off to halfway?
Yeah? Okay, all right, so this will be an athletics and
considering that you're already on fire, we'll give it a plus ten. Wow,
he really, he really really wants to give you that that low stick
apparently. All right, so let's get let's get a scrutiny from ace.
See if if war bitch gets a bonus ninety nine in a row from him?
What is that? And this is naked right? Zero? Yes,
get ready, get ready, valgus here we go to your left. Okay,
Falcus, Yeah, roll your ballistics please with a plus forty? Okay,
what's forty? As you just cockback the hammer, pull down the trigger,
it doesn't matter if you hit anyone, really, because the plan is
to keep their heads down while your mates run holy and that is what we
call the waltz before come in your direction. So there are a lot of
there are a decent amount of enemy troopers in the trench. When you pull
down on the trigger, you're not aiming to hit anyone, but anything you
hit is what you aim at, right, Yeah, So there are a
lot of heads that disappear from the trench line when you open up and when
you is firing less come back up, I would give like you don't really
care too much. I don't think as long as you're killing people, but
I would say a good six or seven people just lost their faces. What
is the total of people that have do we know how many people total?
Like seven out of probably out of about fifty to sixty. Oh okay,
it will have a bit of a divot in the fire that's laid against you.
So this will now be an athletics with plus twenty for both rita and
for trooper length due to the just ridiculous amount of cover and where All right,
go, okay, all right, good, So Lenk is going to
get one shot on him because there is an obscene amount of fire being bandied
back back and forth less from the from the troopers. But okay, does
he say anything? Is he real sneaky about it? Well? Yeah,
that misses so very very spread out fire. There's no real You get the
impression considering the amount of heavy bolt of fire currently just being slammed into their
position on the trench that probably a lot of them may even be firing into
the air to make it seem like they're firing, but they they're not sticking.
They just saw like their buddies heads get blown off by a crazy mini
gun type thing. Zealous cels is that I think you're looking for the word
perfect. But okay, a perfect perska with a mini gun and with a
little bits of tripping and scurrying, both Rita and Trooper Link make it to
the other side, and Trooper Link radio is back and says, all right,
Sage, we're here next sep mm hmmm, all right, get up
here, stop firing your gun. That's just like what more shops And then
yes, sus alright, alright, this is turned a little sad way.
So what I want to do is I want you. You're gonna run with
Lieutenant all right, and you're gonna be putting down your own fire next to
him. You're gonna stand on the side of him that the gunfire is coming
from you understand, Yes, such you match pace, all right? Ring
up the roar in a minute, and then I pretty much I guess I'm
paying attention to the best time to go, And as soon as it feels
right, I'll say, now, can I get a scrutiny from Ace please?
Absolutely. At the moment he's just humming his own tunes. Alright,
Oh well, I have fain points and I want to use them because I
want to use them every day in time. Right, all right, that's
more like it. Okay, woll bitch a ballistic skill please with a plus
twenty oh sorry plus forty right side of you turn counter clockwise. Yeah,
same thing, just ripping across of kicking up the another couple of heads explode,
the screaming, the shouting. This is where you belong, standing with
a big ass on with explosive bullets faring at heretics and rebels. Eat,
my dear, that's drums, you mean each your drums and just purely because
I'm curious, Ace, are you humming along to the drum beat of the
machine gun? He's yeah, exactly, He's just like and then he stops
and he's like waiting, and he's just like going with the beat of the
bullyfire. It's almost rhythmic because he knows he's in his zone. All right
again, So Trooper Hawk will run okay, he made it, Cheeks.
That feels so perfect for him, just on the edge of success. And
the lieutenants will run Yep, no real problems as they're going across like obviously
occasional shot fired kind of in haste and without aiming like kicks up dirt near
them, but you know, not even close enough for them really to be
too worried, although I'm sure the lieutenant is worried, and Trooper Hawk will
brag about how he almost got shot. They reached warbitch, who is just
releasing the trigger spent showcasings just all over the place at this point, goes
back, reels out another long reel of bullets and just slams it into the
garden, cocks it back, and it's time for them to go again.
Ready to lay it uncovering file. All right, scrutiny please ace and and
I lose my world twenty there, agin there, and don't hould away from
the beat. This is good. You're in your element. What witch plus
forty ballistic skill? See how many more heads you can explode? Look at
my consetti. Hell yeah, she's destroying you. Not as many this time,
but still a whole load, like every time the heads go down as
you essentially and can I take a little bit of artistic license here? I
feel like you started off like kind of sideways against the rubble. At this
point you're just leg splayed straight out in the open fully like hit firing and
just like turning and just like actually yeah, like actually shouting at them and
like taunting them at this point because they're just not a threat because you keep
their heads down so well, I'm cackling maniacly, maybe a little bit of
get some, get some yeah, beat my dick, all right, Uh,
the man Dave getting decent roles from this, to be honest, So
they should make it. But when you say that, you're always worried that
they weren't. Yeah. No, again, the return fire is not significant
enough to really worry them as they kind of go from cover cover as best
they can, small bits of rubble whatever is their occasional pings from just a
bullet hitting something by accident. Essentially at this point, nothing's really aimed aside
from war Bitch's heavy bolt, and they are through. They clatter through into
the group, keep their heads down. Essentially, they're now just they're watching,
waiting for the sergeant. Okay, m M all right. He So,
I'm gonna need you to change up what you're doing a little bit work
with parsiars. I need you to pay attention, drop something every now and
then as a distraction. Balcus, you hold down cover fire until I get
to you. Ick up your shit. We're gonna run again. Okay,
got it? And what do you going for me? All right? Oh
you're gonna love this. You have a good bit of them coming up to
your right side slowly. They think that they're slick, but I see them
vertical degrees in distns night. Oh yeah, you see them. Oh,
just let it roll. These idiots are just splaying right in front of you,
trying to flank someone that's just non tactical but very proficient with grenais as.
You just blow the fire forty five degrees from your location. Oh I
am thirty to your blase. Show them what kind of art explosives can give.
Read the canvas, hice, Hey, ice, how many uh?
How many does it take to paint a barn? Hopefully a lot as you
can throw it. The number that it takes to paint the side of the
side of a hive city walls seven, which is the number that we're trying
to flank down the side of this hive city wall. The grenade you fired
the lands directly in the center of them, and after the explosion and the
smoke clears, all that is really left is just an impressionist painting. In
red, invaluable teeth and lots of low sticks. Yeah, I mean if
you want to go grab them, you can go. Maybe it'll be I'll
just say abstract with an accent. That's odd. And he's just like literally
in in the like orgasmic's flavor. Now, yeah, he is in lost
in the performance. It's just like because he just saw like war bits go
him and now parsibles blew it up and he's just like, you know,
on on the edge of fainting that but like you know, pleasuring, soge
like, oh yeah, that will be a plus thirty athletics please r These
these are the bonuses you're getting for you, for the guys, because it's
just yep, you spring across, like you see to the sides as you're
running, you see the looping grenade as it hits and splats, and you
get to the to the midway point essentially where the rubble is and where war
bitches who's still just fear just planted just kind of like laying down fire all
along the the line. Yeah, putting I'm putting my hand gesture. She'd
she'd know, putting my hand on her shoulder a couple of times for her
to stop and then to pull back in the cover. Oh what I do
that? M all right, We're gonna be running together, right, but
I want you on this side of me. And I'm putting her away from
the fire because I'm gonna be using my pistol as shitty as it's gonna be
at this range with no real view of what's going on. So I'm going
to turn in and gun in with her. Considering the ridiculous performance we've just
seen from one certain warrior princess, let's save which is what I saw her
called war bitch. Yeah, please narrate for me and sage. You can
go along with this as you like. But essentially warb which is going to
essentially sidestep all the way along while firing. Yeah, god, it's just
essentially like and just like foot like quite dainty actually like foot over foot for
the round foot, foot over foot. If she does this, I'm putting
my gun away and I'm just walking behind her, yeap, just saundering behind
her as she goes. I'm just making guttural noises while this is happening.
By the way, Yeah, and like like every now and then a head
pops up and you snap around and bang, and the head just explodes.
Yeah, and in your vision, Ace, every single head exploding, every
single trooper hit is like an explosion of lights, like fireworks. Yeah.
Yeah, every time he's turned into a conductor. Like in his head,
he's wearing like the nicest forty k whatever splendid outfit that you can see.
His gun became a gigantic long you know, stick, I guess, I
don't know what you call him. He is just conducting this whole battle in
his head. And uh, this is the most elevated moment he's ever had
in in his military life at the moment, and there are literal divots like
this deep in the trench where your repetitive fire war bitch has dugout like huge
just chunks of the trench and there's there's barely any fire coming back. At
this point, you could probably stop firing and just walk, But why would
you. I'm landscaping. What can I say? Yeah? So artful.
And then you both get to the end of the walk because let's face it,
if you wanted, you could probably take that fucking trench by yourself.
They're pussies, so wait, can I though? No, you have a
mission. I think if you. I mean, it's down to you.
If you want to take a run at it, you can. As if
she started, yeah, I don't think she's got a wire in her eyes.
I would probably have my hand on her shoulder and just probably watching her.
I don't think I'm necessarily gonna stop her if she runs at it,
but I'm I'm sort of suggesting that we shouldn't go that way right now?
Yeah? Are they with ace now or are they still coming? Everyone?
Everybody? Oh, it's just runs up the vaucus and he never showed any
emotion whatsoever to anybody. He hugs it, and he's and and then he
grabbed He looks at read and grabs him, pulls him tight, and he's
like, was it as good for you as it was for me? I
don't think so. It was good. Yeah, I mean yeah, it
was great. I mean, thank you for the assistant longer it was.
Do you understand what I mean by the symphony? Did you hear it?
It was glorious? It was the sky was lit like it was daytime.
Yes. Then he started. Then he shuts up and he looks around.
He looks like hawking hawks, probably like staring at him. He's just like
next time. You got to promise me the next time you do it messy
like I do the art version. You know, yes, after that display,
perhaps now you know that's the best you'll get out of it. Yeah,
that's quite impressive, actually, Yeah, And so you slip into the
alleyways, go very slightly into the hive city. What about what about the
lieutenant or whoever I was running with? What about Blank? Like you were
right? Did you get ventilated at all? No, Leg's fine, Lank.
You didn't get shot, not at all, not once. Not even
his trouser took a bullet hole. It's it s all right. I just
wanted to make sure, you know, make sure you're all right looking at
thank you? Right, and the city is quite You realize that you're going
to have to traverse through ruined streets, possibly infested with hostiles all over,
but for now you find a quiet building which isn't completely bombed out, and
you settle down for the night, and we will finish there for today.
Awesome. Sorry, let let us talk about everyone quickly. We will start
off with I believe we all would agree, is the star of today's show,
which is War Bitch, and also Myrgles who started off with a maybe
a production of Stomp and very quickly ended up as a found just Eat My
dig the musical Hello, I'm Myrtles, eat my Dick. Thank you so
much for having me. I played Warbage for you today. You can find
me on Twitch if you want. Please, there you go. Next stop,
the Strategic Command, the military Genius. That is the sergeant. Thank
you. I mean I could do the lieutenant if you like, but we
know he's just that guy. All right. My name is Aaron Black.
I'm a writer. Wrote a book called Firewall Down. If you want to
know more about that, you can find me over on Twitter at Aaron B.
Wright's. Okay, next stop, we will go to our Sniper,
our recoron ace and also, Hello, I played uh how or gas big
man. I was just kidding. It's always fun to live at your anime.
Yeah yeah, yeah, uh they live out your uh your your anime,
creeper if you were ever won. He's so fun to play. He's
completely nothing I would ever make in my whole entire life of tt RPG,
but sheep Dog makes the story allowable for me to be able to venture in
and Brad in the back just handling the production. Absolutely just that's odd.
So I had a really good time. If you I try to be on
table story as much as possible, harass every d MGM here and tell me
put on shows Brad whack, oh yeah everybody. But yeah, uh,
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Okay, and I am going to leave you with a final thought,
which is yet again, I do not give you a proper UPTO. See later