Hello everyone, and welcome to the final Gift, a warm of forty thousand
only war campaign. In a moment, we are going to be joining our
squad, but before we do, sing as there are a lot of people
who probably don't have too much information on the war forty thousand universe, and
the specifics of our regiment and squad will go over them very quickly. So
it is the forty first millennium. For more than one hundred centuries, the
Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the golden throne of Earth. He is
the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a
million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is now a rotting
carcass, writhing invisibly with power from the dark age of technology. He is
the carrying lord of the vast imperium of man, for whom a thousand souls
are sacrificed every day so that he men never truly die. Yet, even
in his death of state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battle
fleets cross the demonic confessed miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant
stars, greatest Amongst his soldiers are the Adeptis Sostratees, the Space Marines.
Their comrades in arms are Legion, the Imperial God, and countless planetary defense
forces, along with the evil of vigilant inquisition and tech priests of the Adeptus
Mechanicus, to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they
are barely enough to hold off the ever present threat to humanity from aliens,
heretics, mutants, and far far worse. To be a soldier in such
times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the
cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. And these are the tales of those times.
Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten,
never to be relearned. Forget the promises of progress and understanding, for
in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst
the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of
thirst in gods. So now for the regiment that we are going to be
joining, the soldiers of the Regiment of the Tastorian Ultimus, for Delhi from
the worlds of the Tastorian System in the galaxy. These soldiers drop into battle
using graph shoots similar to jetpaks, and purge all heresy as they march each
world they are designated to. Their motto is death is the currency of war,
and we spend it well. And they are tasked with the job of
purging worlds lost to the Imperium. Often the crunch of their boots are over
the dead of former imperial worlds, soldiers and civilians unwise enough to let themselves
fall from the grace of the Emperor. Because when your world falls to evil,
the final gift the Imperium can give you is a quick and clean death.
So we are going to join our squad sitting in a Valkyrie Transport,
the Valkyrie Transport being a advanced aircraft used for troop transport and bombing or gun
running. It's quiet and for now we are going to focus on the new
member to the squad, a trooper by the name of Shane Hawk. He's
a little nervous, fiddling with his cognomen tags very similar to dog tags,
and looking around. As he looks around, he sees his lieutenant, Lieutenant
Rascian, a bit younger than he was expecting, very clean shaven, very
prim proper looking, staring straight ahead, waiting for the green light to jump
out of the airplane and grabs shoot down to the surface. It's not quite
time yet. He looks over across from his lieutenant and sees a sergeant Sergeant
Keith, a bit older than he was expecting, grizzled and actually one of
the more welcoming members of the squad. When the sergeant asked him if he
was proud to have sound signed up, he said yes, and that made
his sergeant laugh. Sorry, Sergeant Keith, would you like to expand a
little bits on what we see when we look at him? Sergeant Keith.
Yeah, he's a sort of HE'SUS fiber. You can see it on his
face. He's always looking around, looking around the corners as much as he
can. He's not a bad man by any chance. You know what he
he listens to people. His outfit. He's wearing pretty basic, nothing too
special about except he's got this one pauldron's got some bits on it. It's
not exactly regulation, I guess you could say, but he's artial to it.
Other than that, he's the sort of man his attention. That's why
he's made it this far. Hawk stopped fadling geez very such. Hawk rips
his eyes off the sergeant nervously and looks over to a fellow trooper, possibly
a little bit older than the sergeant. His name is Trooper Lenk, the
longest serving in the squad. He's been around as long as anyone else can
remember. Also clean shaven, but with very white hair underneath his helmet.
Actually, when Hawk tried to speak to him, he showed no interest in
him and did not talk to him. So Hawk is a little nervous of
him and has no idea what to make of him. Moving immediately past him,
Hawk looks over to a quiet, serious looking individual who makes him a
little bit nervous. Recon A Sineus. He's also heard him being referred to
as Ace quite grim faced, very serious, ah but professional, unfortunately with
slightly creepy vibes. Since the first time that Asinius's jet black eyes registered the
new recruit, it felt like he was sizing him up or trying to figure
out if he was worth killing. Asinius, would you like to expand a
little on your character, Well, Asinius loves to kill, but only in
killing things that are gorgeous, beautiful, symmetric nescon to a lines. When
heads go snap and things pop, it's almost like I hear violence playing in
my head. Then all the grim goes away, everything turns to light.
It's just me and the artistry there is. Do you hear it? Yes,
But if it's not beautiful, I want nothing to do with it,
nothing at all. It's disgusting, not worth by bullets. The violence disappeared,
the bullets are not counted, and all everything just disperses in thin air.
And I have no interests. I don't even care if if the captain
himself says, go kill it, let's just get to read it or burn
it. But blow it up or burn it up either way. What are
you looking at? Do you want to be next? Sorry? Just looks
away, looks down, desperately, searches the inside of the Valkyrie for somebody
else to focus on, and looks over, catches the eye of specialist Rita
possible actually quite friendly enough, A bit off maybe, but chatty and welcoming.
Always has a smile, especially compared to the rest of the squad.
A bit intimidating physically, but did offer to get him anything he needs,
Just ask and have something to trade. Sorry, Rita, you think this
is bad? You look a little grain mate. No, just first time
dropping, that's all you ever been on a drug? Oh it's your first
time, first time. Yeah, it's his first time. Everyone. Oh
it's very special. Hi. Yah, you've ever got any food on you?
Just? My rations rations were kind just standard, uh, regimental rations.
I was given them when I when I signed up, they give you
the rat, No, were they supposed you will? Okay? And he
looks over to someone who is uncomfortable for him, actually sitting right next to
him, And that is the heavy of the squad. Via von valkez Hawk
is used to people who worship, who are religious, and expressions of faith
for the emperor are commonplace. But von Valkis is off putting, to say
the least. Her faith and deal is plainful to see, and seeing her
slightly unfocused eyes starring past you while she is praying is worrying, to say
the least. When he asked the lieutenant what type of soldier she was,
the lieutenant simply said, you'll find out, grimly er. Yeah, would
you like to explain more what we see of sure as a soldier? Listen,
don't talk to me. I don't give a fuck. You want to
be a lead puppet, Go ahead and ask. I'll make your dreams come
true. Talk shit about the emperor. You won't wake up. That's it.
I'm big. I like to kill. I like to kill messy.
I don't really give a shit. That's about it. A's over there,
Oh god, crime a river? Was that enough? Sorry? Should I
keep going? No? That's fine, Thank you. Hi, I don't
cry. It's just war, bitch, sash is. Yeah, no artistry,
no innovation, no uniqueness, just but it spray everywhere. Why are
we here with her? M and uh? The other trooper, the older
one find He looks up and looks over at the rest of the squad and
says, come on now, everyone, don't scare the newbie. Yeah.
I wouldn't drinking of it. It'll be dead soon enough anyway. Mm hmm.
Now that's interestingly correct stat without the gray bears and sorry sage. Yeah,
and now we're going to go back in time slightly two weeks in fact,
a trench on the outskirts of Hive Tertius planet scuth ourians fall artillery from
the hive flowing over your heads at the enemy, and the enemy artillery flying
back towards you, keeping your head down from the trench, occasionally popping up
to light up the indistinct enemies and the smoke grimm through no man's land.
Been here for a few days, exchanging sporadic fire, expecting a charge at
any moment. Occasional grenade flies over. Curtsey of Specialist possible it was all
right, occasionally slamming her heavy bolt down on top of the trench to let
out a huge burst of gunfire, and even occasionally, from his spot a
little ways back and a little ways up, a shot rings out as Ace
takes another headshot. Shot man excellent, I know, isn't it? This
is something about the pop that gets me ralder? And then the artillery from
both sides starts peter out, and the Lieutenant looks over to Sergeant Keith and
says, Sergeant, be prepared to repel assaults. I got it, he
says, old pistol cracks his neck slightly. Everybody, we're gonna need to
focus hard, and they come, you take them out. You do not
stop, you understand, Sarge? Yes, such, yes, of course
that such? Yeah, well yea is it? What I should you?
How? Use of friends? Gin. Yeah, yeah, how do you
feel? I want the friendsy gen do it right? Four ace. As
you're purveying the battlefield, you see and all of you will hear a quick
short shot cheer and then an increase of small arms fire as the enemy jump
up over the trench and start running to your position with heavy weapons covering them
from winds, multiple bullet efforts. So hit top along the side of the
trench as they charge towards you. All right, here we go, Here
we go. Everybody, we're down range. See ace. I want to
see so many of those heads pop, one at a time, over and
over. You make it. Pray language absolutely pretty is what I do,
not if I get to them first, bitch? Yeah all right, all
right, all right, yeah you can both do it. Just focus over
on the left, all right, focus over there, all right, all
right, blow those up? Alright, alright, just just licks one of
the grenades a little bit and perhaps it in the grenade launcher and starts going
to work. Okay, there are multiple groups running towards you, but with
your weapon especially, you can lob it over so you don't need to expose
yourself. What are we firing? Uh, parents, we'll thought she was
firing a Frensisian grenade, but it's actually just a regular It's just a frag
grenade. Yeah. So yeah. The couple of pops pop pop, and
the grenades go flying over the trench and land in the middle of these charging
kind of swarm mass of indistinct human figures, and the explosions just rip them
apart, like big damage. Lots of them being thrown to the ground,
some of them getting back up, some limping, some not moving. Hi,
Ice didn't know rebels could fly. Well that was good because now I
have like a good bit in my eyesight that I only want five shots and
make them count maybe the leaders, and then you can mow them down.
Just don't touch mine. I would like to mow his down a favor,
right the first thing I do, Ah, I challenge you, Oh,
minimal three per shot? You line them up shots, you said, a
challenge, fine, fire per shot. I don't know that one's right there.
Okay, you see that line over there, that's mine. Okay.
They followed just like puppies one two as they perfectly four these shots and the
fire. The shot goes straight through the first one, the second one,
both ones falling down as they go the third one, the fourth one,
their bullet impacts and he goes down on his knees. Well, god,
you see that. You mow him down as you shall say that. It's
hardest to say that. It's beauty, and that is what to be called
ecstasy. Literally, no one else gives a fuck, you know that,
right assis you? Everyone cares? Okay, sure, I'd like to mow
down as many motherfuckers as possible. Please. Oh yeah, you have your
heavy bolt. Swing it round and slam it on top of the trench,
exposing yourself very slightly, which doesn't matter because you depress the trigger and it
explodes, just curving through the enemy like ciphing through them, taking them down
as they desperately try to get out of your line of fire. Now that's
fucking art. Ace. This something else, and I don't know how to
describe it. Maybe abstract, maybe it could be art. No, no,
you're not there yet. You won't understand that work. Nonetheless, is
a slight pause in the assault as the wounded try and pick themselves back up
and head back towards the trench. The waves coming from the trench line cease,
and the heavy weapons fire coming towards you, picks up, hitting the
hitting the trench, whizzing by your heads. All of you essentially duck down
and keep your heads down down below the trench for a second. Hm.
It's more light. Then with a few accompanying pops, some great some smoke
grenadeser thrown fizzing out to the middle of the no man's land, obscuring your
view, providing cover for the next set of charging troops, which I'm sure
will come momentarily. All Right, that was good, that was really good.
They're coming again. You all know it. We don't got a good
vision right now. I need some options, all right, they're liking Maybe
go for eat scout call out, okay, all right, that's good.
All right, could lie down a couple of mines, sir, Yes,
maybe you should come with me. Okay, all right? Trooper, so
all right, I want you to go right behind parsible. Okay, you
keep any cover fire for her, You keep an eye out, and she's
doing this all right, Well, your sorts belcus, Yeah, all right,
you're gonna go in the opposite direction of ace. You're gonna keep your
eyes out. You're gonna be the fucking wall bitch. You mow down anything
pops its head up. You got it, I got it, baby,
Yeah, all right, stop waiting around? All right. Ace shoots off
kind of like almost like blazing speed, and goes far right right and right
next to him. Uh dim? Are there any like weapons of war that
are just strewn on the battlefield here? Is there any mechanical stuff on the
the There's there's last guns, a few frod grenades, nothing particularly of interest.
Quite ways further down there is a last cannon, but it's intended for
anti tank use, and there is someone manning it, so you'd have to
kick them off first. Bodies though, lots of bodies there, lots of
bodies. Okay, as we go, I'm just gonna pull a few of
the grenade pins and just leave them where they are while we're going. Okay,
so you keep up. I'm gonna put some distance between us. You
can set and I can look for you right behind you. Don't tell me
you're having one of your moments, minitar and posits all you're definitely having one
of your moments, all right, Then keep up and then gets in position
like like steps past you, rita like pauses for a second, looks that
says, come on, possible before I can keep up, so can you,
And then just like ducks down and keeps heading. Parsival tries to pull
one of his grenade pins too, but miss it. Yeah, there's a
group of them coming up three east and like nine behind them. If you
set your minds up just right, you there, Newby, you may be
able to lure them in. We shall we use them as bait. It
might be beautiful already loading minds into the nubi's hands, just like excellent,
just that. Why the one of the Post news with you is Trooper Link.
He's the veteran. The h Newby hasn't joined you yet. OK.
Right, you're gonna take these minds. You're gonna put them chest underneath the
bodies over there, so they're harder to say, well you are. What's
the likelihood of them going off? He yes, you'll be fine, All
right, I've got your back. Fine, you're fine. Hey, you
need to do something when you see them coming. You can see where they're
putting down the minds, right, you think you can take out some legs
right before they get their full impact impact of the body right on top of
those other bodies down there. See if we can blow some of them fuckers
up, just take their legs out right before they get there. Who was
that too? As Yeah, that's two a yeah their legs, Yeah,
their legs. But that makes them half that there's not half, that's it's
three fourths of a bot. That doesn't work for me. What if I
just shoot the mines and blow everything up? Length looks over at the Rita,
rolls his eyes and just proceeds, like to slowly creep out into the
Roman's land. You see, the legs are quite bony, the contours correct,
that's fine. No, no, no, that that's fine, just
to make it sho no no, no, no no no no if no,
no, no, look that's fine. Those minds are under they're hidden.
You're sure you can hit them? You sure you got that ability?
You know these special bullets of mine? All right? Yes, these can
These are my babies, right, Okay, So this is what I challenge
you to. But I have someone to ritual. First. I would like
to let you know about three and a half. Yes, that's fine before,
but I'm challenging such. If someone's gone to step on a mind,
you don't shoot the mind. You only shoot it if they're crowding around it,
but they're gonna miss. It's always shoot them in the head, you
know, that way the body is all right, Go for the minds first,
Yes, of course, excellent. Are you ready? And Rita have
finished like just sliding these minds under under cover of the quite generous amount of
smoke. Luckily it has helped you venture out into no man's lands a little
bit as well. And the kind of left side of your flank has got
about four or five fairly high explosive mindes just peeking out from under a few
bodies. Can can while everyone is distracted, can Rita just just sort of
kneel down and sort of patting some of the bodies to see if there's anything
in them, you know? Yeah? Yeah, in general, a lot
of the equipment is inferior to yours. You've got some auto guns certainly,
but I'm looking for things like like low sticks or just rations. Yeah.
The as you as you kind of like quickly go through a couple of bodies,
there's these kind of like low quality wrap ACKs and and like a couple
of things and and bits of you know, basic very low quality steel jewelry.
Even one dude with a with a gold tooth. Yoick, yeah,
quick, quick smashing grub mm hmm. Wipe it off, ye still good,
use it lighter mm hmm. Now length, do not get in the
way. Right when I take my shots, I don't see anything with the
target right your ees ritual? Oh make sure I hit the shot. Was
that an insult? Did you just insult me? I was just that dialect?
Well, then you just gonna look at him with a stern looking two,
three, four, maybe five rituals. You're there? You set up?
Are you set up? Yeah? I am right all right. The
first thing you see, you let me know, and then you start a
student? Will do? I set up? And you hear me sort of
quietly say, expirits in the machine, reward my faith. You feel the
power gained from faith in the Emperor. Fill you with hardy zeal, ready
to low down your enemies and those of the Emperor. I'm your gardener.
There is thirty seconds, maybe a minute, where there's just sporadic gun far
exchange, until another yell and another set of shadows leap off from the trench
and run towards your position abreast, this time not in lines, trying not
to group too closely together. Possibly they've learned. Possibly they're hoping that spreading
out all lessen the damage done by grenades and heavy weapons fire. Well,
I shoot them anyway and try to get as many as I can. Oh
yeah, and you do. The heavy bolta opens up, kicks up dirt
all around them like as you just kind of like pivot along down the line
of them. It doesn't really matter that some of the bullets miss, because
you still hit people. The explosive shells like ripping arms, and people fled
all over the places. They get knocked over, knocked down, and knocked
back, but still the line comes fifty meters away from the hidden mines forteen
thirty twenty until an explosion at the very end as one of them steps on
one of the mines, flinging bodies everywhere. How many bodies, Oh hard
to tell with all the spoke, but a good ten maybe just randed up
to Team chocolped in for me. Saj I got it, I got it.
I didn't even get to shoot them. They were dumb enough to step
on them. They were almost damn enough to step on the mice. That's
right, that's right. I was hoping that there would be more intelligence amongst
these What are they going to do? I don't know. I brought up
my babies, held in, saved them for later. As the remnants of
the attack foters against the mixture of mines and heavy weapons fire, the enemy
falls back one more time, and the lieutenant strides over to Sogeant Keith and
says, Sergeant, Yeah, l T. We're pushing them out of that
trench. We are going in two minutes. The man, I got it,
I got it all. Everybody, we're going over and we're going in.
Get yourself ready. What do you mean, Oh, we're gonna push
right up their throats? Did you just say, bubble Beth? You know
what? Yeah, I'll take one, and maybe we can be a little
bit more goddamn efficient than he's over here. Maybe we can, you know,
I I am all efficient. It should be my name. Actually,
it takes you ten fucking minutes to line up a shot, Jesus Christ,
because there's there's an importance here. You don't want to rupture the left lobe.
That's the artistician one. Yes, artistic as long as they're as long
as they're preparing themselves as they're sort of arguing, I'm just sitting back and
watching up and checking all the grenades. I could be messy, just choose
not to because we have you here. Could we get do you have any
smoke grenades left? Could we get a bit of cover as we go over?
Good? You want? You want to smoke? Here? You want
it? There? You want it? How long you want to smoke?
For? What color you want it? Any colors really fine, But just
as long as it's out in between us and the baby blue. Mm hmm,
let's go with blue blue baby blues. Okay, so such, how
long we got in it? Maybe two? About the mine? All right,
I'm ready? Yeah, all right. Sarge pulls out his uh,
his gun and his uh chainsword and uh. He looks at everybody and says,
stay close at first. If you gotta spread out, do it,
pay attention, and don't fucking die, And then he immediately crawls up and
starts going Yeah, Trooper, Link essentially flowers right up behind you. Yeah,
I'm following. Uh. Ace puts on his uh his cloak, Yeah,
stays in the ducks down, and tries to stay in every shot a
possible while follow Do you want to essentially like follow the same routeop, But
then take a little dink so you can kind of cover, because they're kind
of like a snake almost. He's just like shooting or a cat, shooting
to the shadows and just covering people's movements and being observant and paying attention to
the enemy's movements. Why he doesn't I'm walking in full fucking range of everything.
I'm just walking with my back bolt like yeah, I give yeah,
no one try shooting me. Have fun. If you want to fire it,
you will need to stop and basically, like because it's a heavy weapon,
you'll need to like stop and like plant your legs to give it a
proper good old squeeze. Okay, uh, rita A couple of following up
on the back, just checking bodies along the road, seeing if there's anything
valuable, just on them obvious, trying not to take too much time.
Okay, cool, cool, So I find anything, oh uh, nothing
particularly easy to carry. A few stubbers, a couple of grenades, and
just regular frag couple of cases of ammunition for stubber guns. Okay. Soge
as you go, yep, to begin with pretty quick going, you know,
like snaking from covered cover, moving forward. The rest of the trench
line is coming with you. It's not a crazy, loud, cheery charge
like the enemy did. This is professionals pushing forward, trying to take a
trench. Yeah. As you keep pushing forward, you get through the smoke
and the gunshots start to become a little more concentrated, whistling over your head,
hitting the cover in front of you as you kind of snake around eight
as they are going you drop behind cover to the right of them, and
you see a heavy weapon turning to like open up in their general direction.
There's something big, something disgusting being plointed at us. Shall I aim on
side? Cover yourselves and he's looking through the scope to get a read on
everything. Yeah, it's it's like it's like a big heavy stubber gun,
got this big kind of magazine that gets smashed into the top of it.
And it's similar to Rita to sorry to Valcus's weapon, but a little bit
lighter, not quite as as expensive and fancys. The gun is just like
I think your gun is big. I think I found bigger, like waving
down the weapon towards like the smoke where the the troops are coming out of.
Who's got a fucking bigger gun all right over there, and you know
what, it may even look better than yours. Oh and he smirks because
he wants to get on her skin, so he destroys him. Don't listen
to him, baby. Uh. If you like vera heavy von Valcus,
you can you can lay down some cover fire, or you can just kind
of like go with the Yeah, I'd like to lay down some cover fire
for sure. I just stopped walking and just unload casually, just stop slinging
the weapon around at your feet and open up and just kind of like spray
the front of the trage as the rest of them move forward. A little
bit of return fire does come from the heavy weapon, but it is sporadic
because he has to keep keep keep his head down. He does, however,
hack a few of the soldiers are pushing forward to the left, to
the right. A few bullets whiz past your head, but the Emperor protects
you. No one hits you. I'm not going to fucking die. And
then oh, yeah, go ahead. I was just gonna say, you're
in grenade range now, like throwing grenade if you want to throw before you
go into the trench. But basically, the more dead before you jump into
the trench, the less you have to kill, that's perfect. So,
yeah, you got some you gotta a prisen form. Oh I got a
prison. Yeah right here. Parsonal takes one of the grenades, the friends
in grenades, and she thinks it's an explosive one and just LANs it in
and waits for the explosion. Grenades flies hawks and lands right in the middle
of the trench where a big huddle of troopers are lined up like firing and
and trying to stop this wave of Imperial guardsmen of your regiment pushing towards them.
The grenade just goes and a huge, strangely greeny red mist just envelops
the area, and you realize you fired a Friends of Gender grenade. This
is your own concoction. Essentially, you took the basics of a hallucinogen grenade
and infused it with friends on another drug that tends to send people a little
bit insane. So what happens and what you will take in as you're essentially
laying down covering fire, moving from cover to cover, getting closer to this
section of the trench you're about to take is in one second, they go
from confused and dazed and inhaling this smoke to ripping each other apart, get
swung around and shoot each other in those heads. The stabbing and and and
shooting and even a granade. There's an explosion as someone pulls a grenade off
someone else and it just like rips apart this area after a couple of seconds
to loan like a different parts of the trench. Having killed everyone else there,
just jump up and run out the trench straight at you, guys barely
firing their weapons like a couple of bullets maybe wildly fired in the air.
Rider has a knife, the big bowie knife out and it gets close enough
Riata ducks and just he comes for you and with his knife out and he
just like goes straight for the biddle of your face. At the last second,
you just duck very slightly and the knife goes just really close to him,
just knife to meet you, and I think probably blows the head off
when he does that. Oh yeah, flat just well, I didn't know
if you can handle it or that he chose went Hey, you know,
it was gorgeous and amazing in which you did in the trench. He was
very artistic. He was you know, I'm impressed something. Valcus there,
Ravon Volcus. As you are watching, the last one is running towards you,
just kind of like big kind of combat knife in his hand, screaming,
uh, death to the false Emperor. Yeah, I just buire a
full load into my making a lead puppet. You make him a thin red
mist. As you swing your heavy bolt around and squeeze the tr it just
explodes out towards him. And by the time the smokers cleared, there's a
couple of boots left on the ground. Filthy heretic. I think. After
seeing those two kid ticking out, Sarge stands up following probably assesses the whole
area, walks over to the trench and looks for anyone still alive at all.
Ripped apart, doesn't matter, and if they move even a little bit
blink, he shoots them right in the forehead. And he just keeps doing
that. Yeah you you like, you like look around the trench as everyone
else is kind of pouring over the trench. There's melelet fighting on the left
to the right. Luckily, the your edemy's kind of ripped themselves apart.
There's not much left in this trench, just kind of bodies lying around until
suddenly one of them jerks up and goes straight for your face, like just
hands crazed, like drool coming from his face, just screaming. But just
I just odd up him does yeah, swings around, Yeah, don't have
time for it. And then click bang just yeah. He goes right back
down, falls over limp. Sorry do that sometimes? All right. I
didn't exactly expect you to be throwing that one, but that's all right.
Just keep the knife, get close. You know, Rita's gonna just duck
down to the bodies and get real close and stab them in the chest cavities
while she's trying to get in their pockets. Yeah, and mm hmmm,
true trooper Trooper Link jumps down into the trench as well. He goes back
by his back sling, gets a knife out and just like pulls one of
these troopers up to his face and they're just in the neck. Ye.
Do I find anything in any of this path? Yeah, there's a there's
a noise. Actually, one of the looking he may have been a sergeant,
possibly maybe a lieutenant. It's got this really nice little bag of recalf
and like a pouch of of low six just in his breast ball. How
many six? It's like a little case six right, And the trooper link
looks back at you, Sage and says, I think we took the train
of Sage's fucking right. We did. Now we just have to stop them
taking a back and take the next one and they're not gonna take it back.
And you're absolutely right. So let's make sure we clear this fucking thing
out and let's get situated because we're gonna be doing this again, right you
are, Sage. And as you are setting up clearing the bodies, occasional
shots ring out as a trooper is an enemy trooper is slightly less dead than
it looked like, managed to clear the trench, and the lieutenant stumps up
behind you, foot on top of the trench, looking down and says,
we have new orders, troopers. We're moving out off planet, going somewhere
else. What tims car, We're not done here at all. We're done
here. We're done here. We're done here. Sergeant see to it and
then got it? I got it, Eltie, I got it, turns
away. He probably hears me go all right, listen, what does he
mean by leaving? Sorry, we're gonna have a new job. Don't know
what it is yet, it doesn't matter. We got orders we're gonna follow
one. Is it involve killing, of course it does. Okay, then
well you think we've got five minutes, Just five minutes is not Go ahead
and look on the ground, Jesus, just get your shit together, all
right in the transport. You sucked, and the next two week consists of
you deassing, getting your gear together, getting off the front line, and
jumping on transport to a frigate waiting for you above orbit, eventually bringing you
to the planet you're currently on. With no words so far of what your
mission is. You find yourselves in the Valkyrie, quiet waiting for the green
lights to jump out of the Valkyrie, grab shoot down to the floor,
and find out what the fuck you're doing here the new recruits Trooper Hawk,
still a little nervous kind of trying not to look at anyone at this point,
occasionally sneaks a glance at Specialist pars Evil because possible, because she's been
nice to him once, just in his own heads worrying about who he's been
assigned to and what he may have gone himself into. So you don't have
a rat. Then you got the you got the nutrie and bars? Yes,
yes, and he like he like goes through his gear and holds one
up, like, yeah, you're like low sticks it was it was never
really one of my but sure, yeah. Are they're real nice? Yeah?
Yeah? Do you want I'll try to how many lets sticks you want
for that nutrient? Two? Two? Well? All bit right now?
Pin over personal head gets out of the new trio bar and and hands like
like exchanges it with the only small up at once. All right, you
ten green? Maybe die? Really I didn't know that, and he like
puts the it is in his pocket. At this point very quickly, I'm
just going to describe the uniform, the uniform of your regiment, uh,
the Ultimus, the Tastorian Ultimus for Deli regiments. You are all in full
black flack with gold trimmings. Covers your chest, your shoulders, your elbows,
the lower part of your stomach, knees, legs, and heavy boots.
Underneath these is fatigues in a low crimson and a reasonably heavy trench coat
can be worn cannot be worn depending on the temperature and weather of the planet
you're currently designated to. On this one, it's reasonably cold not a terrible
idea to be wearing it. Additionally to that, you have full storm trooper
helmets. They have a visor which emits a low red glow, and the
face plate of the helmet has a grinning skeleton death Rictus on the front of
it, the idea behind which is to dehumanize you to those you are currently
fighting. Additionally, you're all outfitted with your regular gear arm for vera warbitch
von Valkez. You have your backpack with your ammunition, your heavy bolt,
and a reasonable amount of bicep. Thank you. For Sergeant Keith, you
have your bold pistol. You have your chainsword, they've never failed you before.
For Specialist Rita Parsival got a grenade launcher. You've got grenades. You
have your frag grenades, your flash grenades, and also the friends agens,
which you have been warned to tell people when you fire them in the future.
Oh, of course they're just you know, the label simes the other
so it's a little hard to keep them a perhat for one of them is
deconstructed slightly and when people think people aren't looking at she's just for recon to
kale ace A Sineus, you have your sniper rifle. You have your cameola
line cloak that helps you blend into the background when you're out by yourself doing
a little recon, doing a little investigating. You also have your bullets.
I don't know how carefully you store them. I assume it is with care
and respect in a little pouch rather than fine cloth shined perfection. Additionally,
Trooper Lenk and Trooper Hawk have hot shot lads guns. Because your regiment are
very elite, they get the best gear, They get priority with supplies because
they do a pretty important but grimy job. The only thing you can expect
really coming into this new planet to a special mission is some form of purging.
It's what you always end up doing. Hard fighting, but hard rewards
and trooper length. The veteran looks up. It is usually pretty quiet,
but every now and then he will engage individually or in general, and he
says, sir, and he bets on what we're doing here, Probably purgeing,
Yeah, urgent for a good person. I mean, I feel like
if we were purging, the rest of the regiment would have come with us,
right an, the rest of the regiment, Mate, we got a
war beach, nice and me and you too. Yeah, absolutely not untrue,
although personally, whenever war bitches around, I like to be behind looking
forward. M Oh, that's a shame. I'm sorry. From up front.
We all remember what happened to the lieutenant? Oh what happened to him?
Nothing? Nothing at all. No, I'm interested. It sounds like
a good story. Well, the lieutenant before this one, you remember him,
right, used to get a bit too far forward. M hm hm
rings a bell. It's not important, ended up just like all your other
ones. Hate on a dirty canvas. Mhm. Efficiency is efficiency. I
don't have time for pretty pictures. It's fine. I could be the brush,
you can be the royal and whatever else to get the job done.
At least, focus hits the target when ordered and doesn't refuse if the sons
in the wrong position. You know, I am thinking that I just discovered
that I had a new one added to my collection. Really, Yes,
I might need you to call out targets for me next time, and I'll
be behind you that time. Well, I trust you to hit the target
you want to, of course, absolutely every time, never miss. Well,
I mean there was that one time reading there already looking at the Adam
at the trooper, just trying to see if there's anything valuable on him,
just to file that away for later. Are we gonna keep chit chatting or
are we gonna go kill some fucking rats? Well? I am quite bothering.
I mean, we don't know truly what we're doing. Oh but it's
not the first time we've been somewhere without a target. We'll get one.
They'll give it to us, perhaps perhaps not mhm. Twists, it's always
fun with twists. Yeah. Well, yeah, I'm not super comfortable with
this one going in not knowing what we're doing. Okay, there, even
he's not comfortable. What does that say for you? But he's a little
bitch. Pick up his big boy pants and shut the all right, all
right, all right, all right, why do we need to know?
Just point us where we need to shoot, where we need to go purge
mm hmm. With my scouting, we won't be put into it. Okay,
So listen, I'm confident in each one of your abilities as you you
are in your own abilities. Can we agree on that? Obsol Yes,
good. They tell us what to do, we're gonna do it. That's
of our ability and we're not gonna die. Does that sound like a plan,
Yes, Oka, Yes, all right, then that's what we're gonna
do. Maybe we'll get a little bit more information about specifically. The only
thing I care about is we're gonna get in there, we're gonna do whatever
the fuck we're supposed to do, and we're gonna get out in one piece.
I like the sound of that. All right, We're gonna leave a
wide trial and destruction in our WI like yeah, yeah, And link settles
down a bit, goes quiet again. There's a good ten plus minutes of
minor activity. I imagine you check your gear, make sure your harnesses are
strapped on right for the grab shoots. Finally, the lieutenant comes out of
the pilot area, closes the door. Well, beach target a quiet,
right, quiet, specialist, were about to John, sergeant, we have
the green light. Get them ready, I got it elt all right,
everybody, you know what to do. It's not your first fucking time,
get ready, mm hmmm, it's his first time? Right. Yeah.
There's like a in the towards the back of the How can you be honest
with me right now? Now? I read your file. You've done jumps
before, right, yes, sir, I have. I've done. Drums,
and you're not dead, all right, not that such, just getting
it out before we jump so it doesn't land on any of you. Sage.
Oh that's that's very kind. But you do you think about who's gonna
have to clean this ship up in here, not that suge, It will
be you. Just believe in the Emperor and all will be fine. Yeah,
pray, praise the Emperor. That's right, say it again. Praise
the Emperor one more time, louder this time. Praise the Emperor. Yeah,
you got it, boy, reader, you're looking over that one.
Oh, gladly, you and me, we're gonna be best buds, all
right, stick with me, you'll be fine probably perhaps all right, everyone
line up, had to jump, sir. You'll stand up, line out
by the doors, Sage. There's a button you can slam to open them
up. The lieutenant standing on the other sides with the couple of you lined
up there as well. Lieutenant pushes a hand to his ear for a second.
Green light. Let's go smash doors, slams open, wind whipping through,
and the lieutenant goes, go, go go, and you will jump,
air whipping through your face, the ground slowly climbing up beneath you.
Even at this height, you're about level with the top spire of the hive
that is currently comes into vision. It is a big beast. It is
just a man sort of buildings and domes, and it's a big city that
spires all the way up to the clouds. Oh ay sis like out the
cup over there, like talking on those things all in my ear loudly.
As you get about halfway down, hits about that time for you to engage
your grab shoots. The jets at the back of them fire up and slowly
slow you down in a vertical position, essentially stabilizing you as you drift slowly
down towards the ground. This isn't no parachuting. It keeps you stable.
It's easy, and you land softly on your feet in an open field a
good ten minute walk maybe from the hive. Very close group around you together.
As you land, you see minimal activity, a few convoys of troops
being driven out down a road off into the distance. Closer towards the hive,
you see a bit of an almost shanty town of like hastily constructed domiciles.
Looks like there's people waiting to get into the hive. As you land,
the lieutenant walks up to you, Sergeant and says, Sergeant, make
sure they're all here. Gather them up together, and we'll head towards the
hive. We need to rendezvous with command, yes, sir, and then
I do that, okay, as routine as it always is. Yep,
you'll landed safely, even a trooper hawk. And my guess would be is
that even here where there's it's quite far away from the front lines, you
would still move in formation. Correct, Yeah, imagine, So I mean
it means yeah, I was just gonna say, the biggest thing that we'd
be doing as we'd be moving forward is I'd probably have Ace's eyes out constantly.
We'd probably stop a little bit every now and then just because of the
dangerous situation that we're in. But if it doesn't feel like we need to
post up anywhere, then yeah, we're just moving in formation, okay.
Yeah. And the route to the hive is pretty open. It's mostly planes
land. There's occasional like little clumpings of housing that seem to be abandoned or
you know, maybe hastily constructed, and as you go, Ace at the
front keeping an eye out probably war bitch. Afterwards, just in case of
ambush, you can bring that big gun to their then, Sergeant, Lieutenant
two troopers, I imagine the specialist part of Possible would bring up the room.
Yeah, absolutely what. I asked you to have some smoke grenade just
in case, Just in case we need to put down a little bit of
cover for us. Serge. You know, I keep it thing loaded.
Wait, I hear something it from holds spreads out to the side, knees.
Let's see smacking sound of some sort loud. Oh are you what is?
It's always had that thing in her mouth. You know my hearing is
sensitive. Well, I like to keep my mouth busy. Why are you
so close to my head? Then it's like you do it on purpose?
Just all that. What do you call it? Some gum? I love
some gum. Okay, I'm going to go a little bit more distant away
from you and make sure our route is clear. You see how openness is
only I can track us here. Give me a moment and I'll see what
I can find and I'll wave you on. Is that okay, sergeant?
Oh yeah, yeah, you get out there chewing gum. Just as a
note for you, retool the gum is pretty tame, but it does have
a slight kind of stimulant kick to it, just kind of like shakes your
head a bit, wakes you up, keeps you a bit more alert and
a little bit more paranoid. I don't know if Rita wouldn't even notice.
It's very possible. Frida's got a lot of stuff going on. I don't
know if the gum is gonna make a difference. Might just be a slight
tingling sensation of your tongue for a second, like gums are numbs. Just
got the trip. That's about it, So ace you move forward, give
a quick once over peak peek behind a couple of buildings. Everything seems clear.
There is evidence of tracks moving away from this location. However, they
aren't the tracks of something that would have heavy weapons on them, you know
that type of thing. It is looks like civilians moving, very light,
minimal threat cattle on it is, And it's all you're supposed to be waiting
back there. I know, I know you're going to try this gum.
You want some, No, I just keep your mind here. We've talked
about this many times. We're not back home. We have means of surviving
here, we don't need to do that. Here all for me, then
this all for you. So since it was mentioned as a quick little extra
law note for those people watching, the Tastorian Ultimus for Delhi and other Tastorian
regiments draw from two specific worlds in the system of Tastoria, that is Tastoria
four and Tastoria two. Tastoria four is an imperial world, very simple.
They worship the Emperor, they praise his existence. Tastoria two is a penal
world, and the denizens of that penal world are sentenced to a number instead
of years. The number they are sentenced to is the number of hills they
need to gain in service to the Emperor in the Imperial Guard before they are
freed, So instead of a number of year sentence, they get a number
of kill sentence. Both specialist Rita Possible and recon A sineus are from that
penal world. Therefore, very likely they have numbers to hit. Now these
tracks here you see, Well, I told you I was going to treat
I teach you how to read these the tricks. Of course, got all
the tricks and blowing everything up, making this very noticeable verse. But this
is cattle, you know, like looks like people, you know, those
unimportant ones that herd together without knowing their surroundings. Not beautiful at all,
stuff that you could possibly, I don't know, blow up if they happen
to get in the way. But only when they get in the way,
you see. Oh yeah, I wouldn't dream of it otherwise you think,
I am. I know who you are, and that's why I'm warning you.
H But now looks like our way is clear, and that's what bothers
mee what's the difference between our numbers? A kind mate? What's the difference
my? What like? Three four hundred? Only because I want you to
be just curious. That's all somewhere around there, but we're not who's counting
at the moment. No, no, not me certainly, you know.
I'm you'd actually be able to kill that amount of people, you know,
like if you just stop circle jerk in yourself. I like my job,
all right, all right, everyone settled down? Ace Sorry wake situations sir.
Yes, they're they're small tracks here simple I mean civilians. It's a
professional word for it here. But that's what bothers me. It's too quiet
to open. Do not worry. We are headed towards a friendly life city
to rendezvous with the commander of the PDF. Sergeant, all right, gather
them up, let's make double time, and we'll be there as soon as
we can. That a lieutenant. So the sarage has been sitting back and
listening to this because everyone's still doing their job and paying attention. But he
knows they got to get shipped out, you know, because what they're gonna
go into is gonna be rough. So at this point he probably hears a
little bit of bickering between him, just just a little bit as he trying
and get in yeah. And then and then he's like, all right,
we're gonna be making double time. Okay, get your ship ready, we're
gonna go ace. Yes, sir, stay in front, absolutely, and
he does pick up the pace. As you move closer and closer to the
high city, it really looms above you. It is a spire of urban
smush. Basically, it's hard to tell sometimes which is intentional building, which
is like unfinished building, and which is just like a bit of ruined hive
that's been left to decay and fall apart. As you get closer, you
see the civilians the front. There's a big qu waiting to get in the
hive. Possibilities include them running away from something or just migrating towards an urban
center. I'm sure which, But as you make your way there, just
push away past your equipment. Your gear basically singles you out as something important
not to be messed with, and they make way for you instantly. The
troopers, if you can call them that, slovenly uniforms, not really in
control of the crowd standing there, give you the sign of the Equila immediately
on seeing you. I like, I do that right back at them.
But there's a there's a little bit of a almost annoyance in my eye,
and I just and I keep going. Yeah, you will pass them.
They don't challenge it. As you head into the big gates, the big
kind of pathway, things get a lot more urban, things get a lot
more built up, and it's actually quite empty. It seems like possibly there's
a curfew or a lockdown of some kind, keeping people in their houses for
the majority of the time. And within within maybe five minutes, a slightly
more professional looking soldier walks up to you in your direction and like notes you,
Sergeant Keith, and then looks past you. To the lieutenant and says,
lieutenant, sir, we've been expecting you. The governor is where to
debrief you and filly in and the lieutenant says, very well, trooper,
take us there, very well. So this way spins around, starts walking
and you will follow, and I think that is where we are going to
take a break. So walking through the hive, random adjutant taking you to
see the commander of the PDF. Now, PDF are the planetary defense forces
for a specific planet. The difference between them and the Imperial god the Astromilitarum
is quite significant. Depending on the planet. They can be pretty untrained,
pretty well bad at their jobs. It doesn't mean that all Imperial guards would
or even Astates space Marines disrespect them. But I imagine when you come across
the more disorganized, less trained PDF, it's kind of a bit of a
snail. In this instance, you are taken deeper into the hive, closer
to the center. As you go there is more signs of PDF patrols.
It looks like they're doing their best to keep a lid on something. When
you finally get to the headquarters, it is a very large, very bulky
building kind of in a little square by itself. There is in gun emplacements
fortified quite heavily with these like plastical bunkers, you know, big las canons
and even auto canons, reasonably impressive even a couple of crimeerrors. So at
least this section is reasonably well equipped. What they talk Once you get here,
The adjutant turns to the lieutenant and says, if you will leave your
troops here, I'll bring you to see the governor, And lieutenant nods,
turns around says sergeant, I'll be back as soon as possible with our mission.
For now, take five or ten, just don't steal too much,
and then walks off. Was that permission he gave us? Permission? Oh
no, that wasn't smart. Sounded like permission to make I'm pretty sure that
was permission, I think out. I'm sorry, I listening. What little
permission would you like? Oh no, no, no, no, just
take him innute? All right? Oh yourself, sit down, and if
you fucking feel like it, because canna have some of that gun. Oh
yeah, there you go, Trooper length of the veteran takes his takes his
helbt off like kind of disconnects the faceplate, puts faceplate to the side takes
this Helbert off got this kind of like quite long shaggy white hair, goes
with his slightly older, wrinkled face, SLINKs his hot shot lass gun to
the side, kind of around his back, and just kind of leans against
one of the trucks that's sitting there, starts whistling low, just kind of
looking around a little bit disdainfully at the PDF activity around. Is there anything
with him? Each that conscious that there's a there's a few, there's a
few trucks, but you are you are out in the open, you know.
It's kind of like trucks like right there ready to be picked up.
There's patrols coming in going out, and troopers like on God kind of making
sure on slips in and mhm all right, sarge, do you know where
we're here? And I couldn't guess at it if I wanted to. We're
gonna find out soon enough though. If the eli's getting some sort of briefing
on it. How old is this ship? And then he pulls us out
and throws it, did you give me one of those like fucking onesie pad
forever runs behind? They never go bad, they do, alright, that's
fine. And then you're gonna tell me that they go bad. It's gum
pops it in her mouth. No, no, it gets saturate, you
know, I don't. I don't want to talk about it. And then
he goes and he sits down next to Hawk wherever Hawk is. If he
is sitting down, I mean, if he's standing, that's fine. He's
kind of nervously standing like just out there, like looking around trying to figure
out, you know, the layer of the land as it were. Yeah.
I think he probably goes over there and gets near him and then sits
down and says, I want to sit down, take a minute, It's
all right, Oh right, you ask Suge and he like kind of looks
around for somewhere to sit and there's just pretty much the floor and then like
it just sits out of got his knees up, kind of arms around.
So so far so good, right, such, Yeah, nothing happened,
So yeah, i'd say, so far, so good. There's like a
there's a very small kind of snort from your right where a true the link
is and he's like, I mean, come on, Sage, both of
you and I know what's going down here, right, h Look, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna speculate, all right, I mean the civilians,
I know, end of the hive. Yeah, I know, I know,
I know, I know. And if it is what I think it
is, you know how hard that's gonna be. So just let's just wait,
all right. But I'm telling you can can can Parsival make eye contact
with any of the low paid people just kind of yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, you can emotion for one of them to just yeah
towards the crow and uh what of them like notches his body and kind of
peels off. It's your name, Chris, Chris, Chris, Yeah,
Chris. I'm technically speaking PDF troop of Gris. But Gris is all right.
You didn't call me puzzle. You like gum gum. It's you chew
it, it's got, It makes you numb, gives you a little pip,
you know what I mean. I don't know. Maybe it's real nice.
Well how much you Chris? I got a big water gum here?
Can you tell me anything that's uh you know something about the situation here that
the higher rubs just probably aren't gonna say hand over well or information? Do
you hear it? Well, let's see how it takes first, Well,
it's got most of its flavor. Just it's got most of its flavor.
It may taste crap, and then in which case I don't want to trade.
Right, fine, you can have a taste of it. She feels
up a tiny little bit. It's very stringy and difficult. Yeah, kind
of like you can taste it, but there's a lot of trucks. That's
Oh, I can'd of tingle a little bit. No, it's right,
you're getting numb. You get numb in your gums, all right. So
you didn't hear this from me, right, But it seems like there's some
very strong fighting happening up on the front line. Like I've heard a couple
of my buddies came back, you know, minus and I minus an arm,
minus a leg type thing, and that was just one of them,
and they said that we ain't losing, but we ain't winning. You know
what are we find? Oh, well, you know, it's just uh,
just rebel small minor rebel elements. That's what the brass told us.
It's just rebels. Then it tweets now in yeah yeah, and he like
splits it in half gives the other half to his buddy. And they both
pop it in and start doing is going to pull out a low stick and
just hand it to the trooper. Oh you mean, well, oh,
there's more to it. There's more to it. Some of my buddies say
that they've seen says that they've seen some of those those fisheads are the blue
ones, you know, the xenos in but in with the rebels, like
kind of uh strategizing and that and and giving them, you know, guidelines.
And they've even seen a few of those fancy fucking laser things that they
got big post rifles. Yeah, well, good week, Chris, thank
you. Here will they come here become you won't there? Go? And
and the low stick? Oh no, this might have become twists? Come
on, that was great, Like, you know, you're not gonna hear
that anywhere else. All right, fine, even lost just one, though,
you have to split it with your mate. Cheers, right, picks
out another low stick and hands it over to the the brizzled trooper that came
with us. Yeah, yeah, did you have tower? Did I?
It was? Yeah, it's not twists. I had cult like proper full
on colt. You know, alright, fine, here you go, cheers,
cheer So what's the word rita, what we'll be up against? Is
this just oh, it's the sixty fish people tow mm hmmm with the feet.
Yeah. And are we dealing with just contingents of towel or as some
of the planet joined in as well, rebels mostly, I think rebels sea
sargel. Yeah, this planet is going down the ship. I am my
board just the same. I doubt that's what our mission's going to be though.
Well maybe wow pink, miss blue, miss make no difference to me,
just exterminated. Well, it's old job. Okay. How long do
you think he's going to be in there? I don't know. Yeah,
it doesn't I don't know. I mean, honestly, it matters how many
It depends on the questions he's going to be asking with whatever the fuck they're
throwing at him and the LT there. He's probably a little while, but
that's all right. You'll get the information we need, come back out to
us, all right, and sorry, a little time passes you hang out.
Essentially, you have already sack time. You don't have enough time to
sleep, and you know, in general, you'll be told when it's you
know, when you've got enough time to sleep. But you can sit down,
stretch your legs, take a little bit of a rest, eat some
rations, smoke a low stick, maybe even have time to brew up some
recaff, grease the gun, m little cloth, wipe it down, reciting
some litanies to appease the machine spirit, to remain blessed by the Emperor.
When you were back on the frigate, when you're being transported over here,
you did manage to get hold of a member of the Ministum, the religious
section of the Imperium, he blessed you, He held a ceremony, blessed
your gun, and even very kindly, actually really got a member of the
Mechanicus to give a quick once over on your weapon and make sure that it's
all appeased. The machine spirit is happy, and the gun itself is ready
for war. Beautiful, Come boys, give me the wheelies. So what
goes through your mind when you're cleaning your gun with all your words that you
use, How does that help you on the battlefield. I've always wandered,
never asked. It's too afraid, desk. You're all up tight about stuff
all the time. I make you afraid to ask. No, I just
don't want to ruin the moment on the battlefield, have your mind all twisted
up and you forget to not click your little gun there as you spin around
in circles. Stand to me, well, what do you think of when
you clean your gun? Oh? Well, there's a lot here, so
you know, I have to count every bullet there is, shign them to
perfection, align the barrels, make sure there's nothing catching on the side.
But I don't. It's a ritual of sorts, but not a ritual such
as you go through. You speak these lines, and I'm very interested in
knowing what they mean and what they do for you. Well, when I'm
cleaning my gun, I'm thinking about how I'm cleaning the universe by using it.
So, oh well, that's quite simple. I'm a simple gal,
understood. What do you get from your rituals? Well, you see,
when one takes care of their tools, it always works for you. You
don't have to think too much on it. It's point aim. Make sure
that the target is worthy enough, and then fool the trigger and send them
to bliss as fast as possible, as painless as possible. Professionally, the
job gets done. We do things the same way. You and I Oh,
if you think about it, yeah, both giving a type of bliss
Sorge, how do you clean your blade carefully? I'm just fucking good,
wasn't it. Yes, I goud got that one. I don't think he
did there. So when your age there, George, to give you everyone
a lil insight into the Imperium, the Imperial creed, and the religion surrounding
the Emperor. Have a little quote quickly for from someone in the adeptist Ministorum.
When people forget their duty, they are no longer human and become something
less than beasts. They have no place in the bosom of humanity nor in
the heart of the Emperor. Let them die and be forgotten from the prime
edicts of the Holy Synod of the Adeptus Ministorum, the priests of the Imperium.
Gives you a little insight and how everyone feels about traitors and heretics.
And after a little while, the Lieutenant comes back out. I think you
know what it's. It's a little bit out of left field, but how
about we have our first role for the show. Could everyone roll me a
scrutiny please, But sarge, you will get a plus ten to this role.
So while they're rolling away. So if you click the if you go
to the core section, scroll down and you will see close to the bottom
scrutiny. Don't make up with security. There'll be a number. No,
I get it. I'm good. Yes, it was the matter of fact
thing. Sorry, no problem. So the way rolling works in only war
you have your characteristics for example, strength, agility. In this instance,
you have perception. You then have skills things like athletics, dodge, parry,
etc. Scrutiny rolls off perception and allows you to see small things,
whether it be visually or emotionally. You can pick up whether someone's lying to
you, or you can spot a tiny movement in the distance. Your target
is based on your stat You roll a D one hundred, and you have
to get below what your target is. So the high your stats are,
the more of a likelihood of success you have. Specialist Possible rolled a sixteen
with a target of forty three degrees of success. Very nice, Sergeant keif
rod in eighty seven with a target of fifty four four degrees of failure.
Now, failure doesn't necessarily mean that you fail. It can do sometimes it
just means that whatever you're doing you don't do as well as you're hoping to.
So. For example, Sergeant keif you're distracted by the new recruit,
you're trying to eat him into the squad, make sure he doesn't die instantly.
Essentially, you're not really paying attention to the lieutenant, whereas someone like
Specialist Possible got a bit of a knack for people and always a little bit
inquisitive the other roles war bitch, you had a target of forty four roll
a fifty five, two degrees of failure. Honestly, who cares about the
lieutenant? Fuck him? And Ace, I'm not too high all literally.
And Ace you had a target of sixty year old of fifty two. Yeah,
one degree of success. So what I tell Rita? Now you'll gain
a smaller insight into how the lieutenant is. Rita. The lieutenant is less
sure. The last time you saw him like this was in combat. Whenever
he's in combat, you see him being a little hesitant. He tends to
lean on the sergeant a bit more. He's not a terrible leader, He's
not as good a combat leader. The sarge is better than him in combat
for sure. And you see as he walks out and Ace, you'ously a
bit of this in his stance too. He's not confident, and he might
be a little bit worried, but he walks out and he holds his hand
up to the sarge. Sergeant, we have received our orders, all right,
Gather everyone around and I'll tell the troops what we're gonna do. Alright,
all right, And then Serge goes around and starts, I'm really yelling
at everybody, but just sort of being pretty voice. Yeah, come on,
get up, let's go stop doing that, Let's do it. Come
on, all right, all right. New recruit jumps up, wanders over
older veteran hawk. Sorry, not hawk, it's the old isn't it?
Lank like kind of shoulders is las gone? Wanders over, and as the
lieutenant looks around and says, all right, take a knee, just takes
his helmet, puts it beneath him, sits on his helmet. Yep,
everyone, I imagine we all just sort of get down, get ready,
Yeah, all right. Sorry. I had a decent inkling of the mission.
It was given us to us outside of the regiment's top priority, and
from what I understand, comes from even higher than the Astromilitarum command. I
imagine a couple of you may have some idea of what that means. We
have a high priority target extraction. It is personnel and package. That means
that we locate personnel, we locate package, and we get them offworld as
quick as possible. We need to locate them and we need to secure them.
Any questions so far, Ace just looks at rider leg stairs at her,
and the stairs back. I'll get a question, Yes, specialist,
are we going in the under high For now it doesn't look likely. We
are heading out of this hive and through towards the front lines where they're currently
engaging the rebels. From what the governor has told me, the lines are
very stable and we should be able to find and the person we're looking for
quite quickly. We are looking for a captain named Lissarc. He is in
charge of the front lines and he was the last person assigned to our VIP,
so he will have an idea of where the VIP was last seen.
Now, from what I've been told, it is a clear travel to the
front lines. We should encounter no difficulties, but there is a limit on
supplies and transports. We will have a truck for half of the way,
but then we are going to have to go on foot. Question. Yes,
specialist the VIP. We're bringing him back alive. Yet we are bringing
him and the package back intact. Yes, m you can walk here on
his own. I'm not carrying him. We do not have a current status
of the VIP. Well, we had it by the time we get there.
Do you still want him or do we just keep him? Priority is
the package? But it now I won't trigger discipline possible. Uh huh.
I don't want our VIP cut down before we secure them. M hm m
hmm. Something funny as I can. He just asked her not to mow
something down. I just thought that was sorry forgive me who what's it?
We will be traveling by truck. It should take us about thirty minutes.
Then we will dismount and go on foot for another couple of hours, at
which point we should reach the front line. We will locate Captain Littock and
find out whether VIP was lost seen head directly there, gather him and head
back and evacuate the plant with him. Sorry, just a question here.
So we're walking, We're walking with the VIP all the way back. It
is down to us to return as best we can once the VIP has been
located. If it becomes necessary, we will even hijack or common deer a
vehicle if we need to question. Yes, specialist, Sorry, maybe I
missed it. More a lot of gum right now? What does this pickage
look like? Unclear? The VIP will have it with him? Is it
big little put in pocket? I was not told right, pockety is do
we know who the VIP is? We do not. Each one of these
questions, each one that is asked them and then yeah, And every time
that answer comes out, Sergeant's face is just and you feel the burning gaze
of Trooper Link like burying into the side of your head as he's like,
ah ha, I told you right. H m hmm, sorry, what
are you girls? Rules and an engagement. From what I can tell,
this planet is in a slight dire situation. There is minor talk of evacuation
of the IPS and planetary command, so quicker would be better than slower,
let's just say, And he like considers it for a second eve after even
after we get off this planet, the regiment might be called back here soon.
Mm hm, that's all I can say. What a lovely afternoon.
Yeah, this is a surprise, say the lease. It's not our usual
assignment. But why us if I may ask our jobs of what we do
well is what's escorting. Our speciality is operating within the chaos of a falling
planet. Mm hmm. And we are considered to be the more elite of
the forces available in the region. Maybe let's act like it as well.
Yes, of course, all right, grab your gear and he like pats
the side of a truck just to the left of him. Mount up and
let's go find this urp. As I walk by him, I curtsy.
He very intentionally is like staring forwards, and you see like a little twitch
of his eye, like I saw that. But it's I'm lieutenant if I
see it properly. As Ace walks by like her more every day. One
one thing that you will all be aware of the lieutenant is that he has
a bit of a stickler for the rules. He is a bit prim and
proper. A lot of the times, there's been instances for all of you
where he has very very intentionally not seen something. For example, part of
all there's been times when you've like he's walked across a battlefield like eyes ahead
as you're like ripping you know, bangles of dead soldiers and things like that,
just like if it's not true. It's like if if I can't see
it, there's nothing to punish. And yeah, but all right, I
think it's where everything's getting situated. If anyone's nearby, someone might here Sarge
pretty quietly say baby sitting, you know, and then he's just going to
keep getting stuff situated, telling people they should go, what they should do,
checking everybody watching them. That's about it. A couple of times your
eye wonders to troop a link, there's this kind of like it's kind of
like the ship could get bad quick. Yeah. Yeah, you've all been
on planets that have fallen or are falling, you know how anne and chaotic
and crazy it can get. Sorry, the prospect of possibly having to find
them, babysit, some random baby noble vip idiots and bring them out of
a war zone and get them off a planet that's collapsing is not your ideal
mission really, although you can understand where you're picked for it. Nice,
nice, nice, What I got an idea? You want to make a
bit? Okay, just me and you are right now and else it looks
over all right, what's the Bit's a bit? I think the VIP is
one of them sixty fish people and he's a defector. Mm hmm. But
you're not a bit, You're LOSTI I got a nutrient bar, a whole
one, even even baffed it up. What the hell did you get a
nutrient bar from? It's a smile, little secret, a little secret.
You want, you want it? You want? All right? Fine?
Fine? Mm hmm? What are you call? And he like sniffs and
pulls up the side of his tactical uniform and pulled back his cloak and shows
like these two mink condition grenades that he ciphon off the field that he didn't
tell anybody about. Yeah, well, I suppose it's you know, up
to snuffer and the whole nutrient bar, the whole one. And I'm not
talking about half eaten or nibbled heaven, even nibbled good as well as he's
walking past length leans in and so as two packs of low sticks, says
that it's the sun of some noble on terror. Oh what makes you so
shot at two picks? Mate? What else would they be calling us?
And yeah, gotta be someone important, I say, is someone that you
both do not expect, and we're all in for a surprise. You've seen
him eluting in I so under his eye twitch and it's not like it usually
does. What you're on. I'll take that bet. We'll see I guess
what are you going to return? It's just you're you're betting the two picks.
Yeah, and he like he goes into his pocket and pulls out two
packs of low sticks. Just right, fine spread. If you're well joining
in, you you want in on the bit, then well, bitch you
in. What do you got? I've got some gum. I want a
gum. Sure, what do you think it is? Huh, it's a
good question. I think it's dead already. So my bet is that whoever
they are doesn't matter because they're nobody now. It's almost certainly did already.
But what do you think it is? You know his twist. Here's a
very quick question for four of you to get the mentality of you as soldiers.
You have a mission, it's a shitty mission, and there's a high
possibility of your target, let's call them a target for now being dead already
and there being no way to find the package either. So it's kind of
a crack mission all round. Does it matter to you guys individually collectively or
is it just we have a mission, let's do it. I want those
grenades. M I think to as it matters a lot in the back of
his head. He doesn't like it just because he signed up to do a
thing and this is not the thing, you know, so he's bothering him.
It's not clean. It's very dirty and messy. I don't like it.
I don't like it at all. You know how we do things.
Yeah, well professional the in we're out without a trace. This has already
got fingerprints all over it. I think that I don't really care either way,
as long as yeah, I mean, as long as my time isn't
wasted. And that's the thing that sucks is that my time's probably wasted.
So I'm a little bit annoyed. It's inefficient. Yeah, there are heretics
and rebels around to killer. Well, then then it's a holiday. I'm
on vacation for me. It was a Tuesday. M Trooper Hawk also like
leans in trying to like add his at his his his two cents and says,
what what if it's one of the Emperor's angels and astates. Maybe maybe
we're here to help anastaates studies. Yeah, you never know. I think
Sergeant's probably just pretty pissed off and disappointed that this is what they're gonna be
doing. Yeah, and just he knows shit's gonna go sideways. So he
is just like on high alert right now, just even before going in,
he's just thinking about all they don't know, and and it's gonna probably try
and dig for anything as they're going forward, not around everyone else. He's
probably gonna poke at the LT, knowing that the LT would have probably asked
a shitload of questions and know what he would actually know. Didn't think he'll
probably give up too much, but he's gonna do it anyway when he gets
a chance. Yeah. So you when you guys all jump on the truck,
I imagine you want to position yourself kind of either opposite or next to
the LT a little bit. Ways. Yeah, so Ace is gonna be
like staring him down like hardcore, but not like in an angry fast.
He's just getting a read, you know, like a stone cold look.
You know when it trucks moving, his bump and his eyes are just fixated
on him. Yeah, just trying to root out the secret as it were.
Okay, so you all jump into the back of this open truck.
It kicks into girl starts heading down through the hive towards the exit. As
you go, there are some things you see. How you feel about them
is really down to you. But you do see civilians being ruffed up,
being moved along, if they're a little bit slow, if they're a little
bit talking back, they get a butt of a gun across their face or
kicked to move quicker. It's not something you haven't seen before. Of course,
this type of thing happens in emergency situations, and the imperium is not
a nice place. My thoughts is, and feel free to confirm that none
of you really care. No, no, it's fit alive. Man.
Yeah. There is a moment when Trooper Hawk like sees a somebody and get
the butt of a gun against their face and he like half stands up and
it's immediately grabbed by link and just pulled back down in this kind of like
and he just kind of looks over at the rest of you is like fucking
rookies. Yeah, I think Ace Lean's and he's gonna be like, you
know that we do so much more worse, don't you? And he going
leans back. You can't worry about everything that you see around here, and
just your job. It's staying alive. Hawk looks for a second like he's
going to say something and then just shuts his mouth because Ace is the one
talking to him, is like, I know, and just kind of like
look looks down, tries not to look. It's not horrific, it's not
the worst. But you Then as you get to the big gateway that leads
out into the open fields and stretch of roads that's going to take you towards
the front line, there's a gaggle of civilians kind of pressed around, wanting
to get in the PDF for holding them back. Occasionally there are gunshots as
they fire into the air to scatter the crowds. The second that you drive
up, there is a parting as they all desperately try to get out of
the way. Is the truck shoots past them, straight out into the open
planes going down the road. For the next thirty minutes, you are in
this truck, empty fields, not much to see, if anything, an
occasional truck heading in the other direction. If you peek over it, you
can see, you know, a few stretchers, bloody bandages covering troops being
brought back from the front line. Not that many. But that doesn't mean
there are many casualties. It just means there's not many people being brought back.
Oh warbitch, yeah parts of Oh I can't remember. You in on
the bit, Yeah, I'm in on the bet for some gum guys.
Dad, all right, you got gum? Well, what's your What do
you think it is? H the Emperor himself? Oh, come on,
maybe you're gonna find him. It would be I'll put you down for the
Emperor's come mm hmm inch ruh come uh. Trooper hawk Lake kind of leads
over towards the sergeant says, set they called rcy be the Emperor. K
oh oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no
no, that's ridiculous. Snow, it could be I had a big day,
now, wouldn't it. Maybe that's a little bit more faith in us
than I think anyone's ever gonna put. But I'm glad you guys think really
that highly of yourself. If you clean me boots spit shine sped. The
lieutenant looks to his left, where he's having joined the conversation slightly, but
not taking his eyes off the lieutenant. Like the lieutenant like looks over kind
of has a moment of staring with Ace, but then drops his eyes and
kind of averts his gaze and looks off, like, you know, like
tries to do it casually, but if you get that feeling of like lack
of confidence again, which just fuels whatever it is that's going on inside his
head. Yeah, he's kind of like turns his head a little bit and
peeks his eye around and like squints, I guess, and just keeps his
eyes on him. In his head, he's saying a whole bunch of one
thing I imagine Ace is definitely thinking at this point is that the lieutenant would
definitely not have lost it on your planet, well where you were imprisoned.
Mm hmm yep, yep. Just taking it all in, making notes and
then, uh, I think when when the lieutenant turns away, like Ace
will take a small moment and look towards the sergeant and lock eyes with him
and then just go yeah, probably just nod just that I'm just and then
he'll will avert his eyes back to the lieutenant and start looking for like shiftiness
and body uncomfortable, like he's starting to look at all the details. Yeah,
yeah, twitches and fingers. You're just just gonna I'm gonna nudge the
lieutenant, or not the lieutenant, but the trooper the green horn right there,
and why check it out. The wail race is neutral habited like a
spider if if you don't mind me asking, is he right now? Now?
Oh? Okay, what I need like points up war Bitch. He's
like, don't fuck with war bitch, don't fuck about man. No,
no, no, no no, and like link link like leans forward and
goes into kind of a conspirator puddle with you both. He says, a
couple of years back, war Bitch was on the front line with us and
a Greenhorn took a blast to the knee, might have survived, but mysteriously
died in the night and his body disappeared. Now, of course none of
us think that Warbitch hate him, but supplies will Low at the time,
who knows. And he kind of like gives this really evil grin at light
at a hawk and then a really slight like sly wink at u eta,
I'm on his own cannibalism might and hawks like hawks like enraptured, kind of
like really and then kind of like looks over at war just like shot us
slightly. This cud of keeps you warm in the trenches. How far away
are we search? I don't know. I'll check and then I gotta do
that. Driver says about ten minutes and then it'll be time to disembark.
Oh ten minutes out. Our time is flying all right? Okay, Parsival.
Oh bitch, you ever thought how fun it would be if you dropped
one of those crazy grenades here like among us, and which one of us
would come out on top? Oh? You think you've met it all the
time. I've done it a couple of times. But it just don't go
off all the time, you know. Ah, if we're gonna be bad,
my money's on the sage. I put my money one point. I
put a mine under the greenhorn seat in the veilkory didn't even notice. Didn't
go off neither. Isn't that a bad thing? Wait? What, m
there's a mine onto my seat. If your ship doesn't go off when you
need it to, I mean talked about this, you blow them up after
the mission, not before after. Well, yes, if you don't pass,
if you're missing a limb. You become not artistic, not well,
let's just say you're not efficient. And he looks at aboucuz so we have
to get rid of you. And nobody does it better than Reta. The
Hawk like has his last gun kind of you know, like stood up on
the seat and then kind of rest against the shoulder, just like puts it
around it slightly, like gripping it a bit tighter, like looking around a
little bit nervously ext But he was only a shot grenade wouldn't have even feelt
it really, not fally armor. It's just a little buzz, you know.
Keep your keep it tight. Uh Sorrge just listening to all of this,
and he's probably looking over at Hawk every now and then, just trying
to gauge his reaction, trying to find the point where he's about to maybe
not that he's gonna lose his shit necessarily, but make sure that you know
he doesn't hit that point where he's not gonna be effective, but he's gonna
let it go for a while. A little bit of fear, you found,
tends to help survivability. They're less likely to do well, let's face
it, they're less likely to do war bitch stuff, you know, charge
forward, guns blazing. Yeah. People, they're essentially saying, don't get
shot or you're gonna get eaten. And he's like, all right, don't
get shot. So it's really great. It's good advice. Also, incidentally,
sage, if you're wanting to talk to the lieutenant before you get off
the truck, you've got a few minutes left. I would have I would
have poked at him and leaned over and said, anyway, you got it
any more anything at all. I mean, we don't know where we're going,
not necessarily, we don't know what we're looking for. I mean,
this is ridiculous, just very real, but very quiet to him. I
know, sergeants if it helps, and maybe it will. I was given
a token to speed or process through the planet, and he goes into his
jacket, pulls out something like keeping it mostly hidden, and then like flashes
it to you've very quickly. I am going to give a scrutiny role for
Ace only because Ace is the one who's really it is that's cool soul right
now. So that'll be a scrutiny with a plus twenty please two degrees of
success. It's enough to get a good impression of what is flashed. So,
Soge and Ace, what you see is essentially like a badge. It
is heavy metal in laid on essentially leather. It is an eye with a
skull in it. The eye is red and in laid And both of you
will know exactly where that is from if you would like me to tell you,
because you're not sure I can. Yeah, yes, have helped audience
as well, let's do it. That is an inquisitorial seal. It is
something to denote operative or member of the inquisition. It has only given out
to inquisitors or to their agents when they are given a mission. Okay,
So I think this is the equivalent of getting getting a mission from the suit
from like the Shadow CIA the secrets, you know, like a secret organization
within a secret organization. Kind of shit. Okay, So I think at
this point, because I imagine, you know, I'll very much be aware
of that and everything that entails with some degree, I'd probably look over at
Ace, looking at his face to see if he caught it, and I
imagine he if he sees me, he's gonna give me an indication that he
saw it. Yeah, it'll slightly, uh like something like yeah, okay,
so I think think as soon as Serge sees that, he's going to
nod slowly at at ace, but then look at the others almost like a
let him know, and you can sort of thing. I mean, he's
like and then and then just sort of leans back. That's it doesn't talk
to the LT anymore, and the LT like slips it back at his pocket,
and as he's just staring kind of like off and away, says very
slightly so you can just about hear him, so you understand, I understand.
A few minutes past, the truck rattles and eventually pulls up other side
of the road. The driver leans out and says, all right, this
is where you get off finally. Oh fucking hell. In the distance,
you can see small flashes on the horizon and very light womphs of what is
probably artillery. The front line is still a ways away, but you're getting
closer. And the lieutenant says, all right, Sergeant, formation, just
because we're behind the line of battle. Mm hm, doesn't mean we shouldn't
be cautious. You're absolutely right, all right, everybody, let's get in
line. Mm hmm. Just loaded up, but gonna walk a little bit
to the side of the group so that she can see minds if they're planet
in the in the road. Okay, so you take your position. I'm
gonna go on a front and then do a scout thing. So for a
open field, which is essentially what you're going to be walking through for a
while, a line formation is more common than a column formation. However,
seeing as you have a record, a record let's let's call it trooper,
it is very useful to have him up front and ahead of the others.
If you're looking out for minds as well, then passible would be a very
good choice to accompany. Ace's right there with your mate. Like old times.
It's essentially what you'll be doing is you'll be a lieutenant sergeant in the
center, spread out in a line like that, and then a good kind
of like a good maybe like fifty to one hundred meets in front of you
will be recorded and possible basically fanning the area, just making sure everything is
clear. Ahead of the main squad. I'd probably Paul Hawke next to me.
He'd probably looked wild up enough at that. Yeah, so I'm gonna
have him next to me. I'm probably gonna be giving him little bits of
advice, pointing some stuff out, talking about the two in front and what
they're doing, and just sort of trying to get him focused on what's going
on around him and trying to get him into the mindset all right, and
he's trying to learn from you. He's like keeping an eye on what you're
doing, like how you're stepping everything like that, Like it is very apparent
that he's been through the training, but as you're very aware, depending especially
depending on your sergeant, like who's training you. Training doesn't necessarily equate to
experience. Yeah, okay, hit a little close to over there tonight,
that's okay, So of anyway, Yeah, so yeah, as we go
forward, and probably I have there's small call outs every now and then,
checking in with everybody. I don't think at this point. It's not that
I'm not it's not that I'm not expecting anything to happen, but it's more
like every step I'm getting probably a little more tense. I don't know if
I'm letting anyone see it, Yeah, but I'm definitely making they probably noticed
that I'd be asking for different bits of information a little bit more frequently the
longer we go forward, just a little bit more wired, a little bit
more like ready to jump into action if and it's appropriate because sogegn Keith did
not go where to he is where he is now, which is essentially a
reasonably old man in the army by just being like, ah, you know,
it'll be fine, We'll just walk. So I'm going to ask for
an awareness role from Ace and from Rita. Please, Ace, please give
me a plus ten on that role, and Rita you can take a plus
twenty good roles. Ace three degrees of success and Rita one degree of success
by one. With your expertise and explosives, you do notice at the same
time, essentially, Rita, you notice the telltale signs of dirt having been
dug up and replaced. You're heading towards a minefield. Ace, you spot
them mounds, that very infinitesimal bump in the grass that employs a mind.
The additional thing I'll give you, Rita, because it is your speciality,
is that these are anti tank and not anti personnel minds, so you are
safe to walk through them. Even if you stand on them, they won't
go off. Well ah, such, yeah, go ahead, Your minds
up ahead and look like anti tank. Yeah, that makes sense where they
feel like this should support a troop without green on maybe mm hmm, all
right, keep your eyes out of what we're going for, all right.
And then yeah, probably relays a bit to everybody says try not to step
on them. Sometimes there's shit, oh, we should be okay, and
then and then like, as we're going, he's just probably saying stuff like
that. You can communicate the positions of them as you move forward as well.
Yeah, so a little bit of weaving, not too much avoiding of
minds needing to be done. It is a fairly widespread It looks like it's
a wide minefield. It looks essentially like it's kind of the military equivalent of
Gandalf going you may not pass, you shall not pass. You know.
It's just like no one gets past this point if you're in a tank.
And probably the reason why you couldn't go any further by truck, the likelihood
is the PDF drop these here. As you're walking. Another twenty minutes go
by, you're mostly out of the minefield. You do spot, incidentally,
a burnt out husk of a chimera. Doesn't appear to be any troops in
or around it, but the chimera itself has been probably last couple of days,
hit by an anti tank mine and essentially abandoned. It's burnt out.
Possibility is to stop it being used. If the enemy pushed this far or
happen upon it, they may have detonated the ammunition packs inside to essentially completely
disable it and make it not worth scamaging or anything. As you're leaving the
minefield, could everyone please roll me awareness? Are there any manifiers? No,
just straight up awareness. I will say at this point you do have
two fay points each if you wish to reroll, They refill at the end
of every session, So yeah, I'll definitely reroll and feel free to mark
off a fate point for now and just do another role, same same role,
same everything. Just to inform people who don't know the system. Fate
points are designed to highlight individuals touched by fate for whatever reason. When you
roll badly or if you want to reroll something that you've failed in, you
can utilize a reroll point a fate point to reroll to give it another shot,
like cancel out the bad role, given another go in only war in
general, they are also used to burn. You can completely get rid of
a fate point to survive a mortal kill. You know, if you're killed
or are going to be kill you can kind of cancel it out Berna fet
points. In this campaign, you cannot do that. If you're killed,
you're killed. Let's have a look here we have Sergeant Keith. You Rude
a success one degree. We also as expected, really Ace two degrees of
success. This is quite a long weir wait, so it makes sense that
only the more vigilant and maybe paranoid notice this off on the horizon, not
in the direction you're heading, kind of to the side of fair ways,
look far enough to be on the horizon for you. You see indistinct figures
looks like a squad moving through the field in a patrol formation. Can I
tell if they're on what side they are or no? They're silhouettes more unlikely
for now. Yeah, you'd need to get closer. Signs. Mm hmmm,
do you see what I see? Did you want to like hold up
the yeah? Yeah, so I think as soon as he starts saying something,
I'm probably yeah yeah. The same second you notice it, Ace's hand
has gone up and everyone stops and knees, goes down on the knee.
Old you get any details from there? Do you see to get a little
bit closer to to see what side they're actually on? But it looks like
itmost like a squad of some sort? All right, all right, sixy
fish people. I couldn't tell just at I can't see the details from here,
and you know it bugs me that I can't see the details. I
just curious by all right, all right, and move up a little bit.
Okay, as soon as you get anything, let me know, Well,
do he does what he's told? Question? Are you going to carry
on on your current destination or are you going to move towards the other patrol?
So investigate What what I would have probably requested him to is get close
enough to get any information to a point if he gets a certain amount of
distance away, I would have said, stop, that's too far. You're
holding position and sending ace to recon the situation. Yeah, just close enough,
because I imagine with what he has for distance and everything, and considering
how folks I know him to be, he'll get he should get something enough
before he's too close to be really recognized, and relay it back and if
he doesn't, I'll just say, all right, come on back. Okay,
yes, you break off from the squad, start moving forward, going
to bushes, going to little bumps in the in the fields, like anywhere.
I was going to ask you wrap the cloak around you it. Yeah,
he wants to become a part of the environment in situ. Those of
you you would have seen this before, but to describe it for everyone else,
you see essentially what is behind ace. When you look at him,
his cloak shifts and molds to the environment around him, so he looks at
the very most like a haze. Okay, you can see bits of him
depending on how much he's covered, but for the most part, it is
very hard to recognize him, which is why as he steals forward and tries
to get a good view of this patrol, he will rob itself. And
he will do it with a plus thirty as well. Oh my god,
Jesus, one degree of success. Sorry, you managed to gain a lot
of ground on them. They are walking away from your destination, not parallel,
but you know they're not coming that closer towards you, so it takes
a good few minutes. You position yourself by a essentially a part of the
road that kind of lumps up from the field and it's a bit raised site
down your scope, but just it slightly get the focus in. They don't
look like the PDF troopers that you saw. No sexy fish people, No
sexy fish people. They are all human. They are geared up with weapons.
You have not met the rebels on this planet. You don't know what
they look like. The best I can tell you is that they don't look
like the PDF troopers you have met that were the loyalists. Essentially is down
to your judgment. No, we don't know if they we don't have friends
and uh it takes that information back and yes, as you are just about
two turn you see a twitch from the one in the lead and a sudden
florry of movement as they take position facing the direction of your squad. It's
enough for you to realize that they have noticed the squad and they're taking a
battle formation. Yeah, so Ace, you don't really see this often,
but he kind of not loses his composure, but it's more of like a
I slipped type thing, and it really bugs him and at this point he
is going as fast as he can back to the group. Like not worrying
about I mean, he has his cloak up and everything, but he is
scurrying. Yeah, it's gone. Okay, Uh, the sergeant. You'll
notice as well, like some florry of movement that kind of peaks your danger
sense, and they will start kind of like moving more directly towards you.
They're still a good fair ways away, but it's enough for you to think
that they've probably noticed you from what I can see. Does it does it
feel like I correct something real quick possible instead of going back, because I
don't think he would have done that. You would have liked for the record,
Okay, Yeah, he would have taken out something out of his mini
pockets and caught the sun and just glimmered it their way towards the sarge because
he knew the Sarge was watching him. Okay, so you'll get Yeah,
they like glimmer light. Okay. I think what I would probably do is
if they're moving, If they're if I can tell that they're moving towards us
even a little bit, then the first thing I would do is assess if
there's any reason to move away, or or if I know that engagement is
coming and there's no way around it, so I'd be trying to assess that.
So in the current situation you're in, and this is for you as
well, Ace, Ace hasn't been noticed a you know enough to know that
they're heading towards the squad, not towards you. You are a good few
hundred meters forward against a road with a kind of like a hump kind of
to the side. Essentially, if the squad moves forward and the patrol that
has noticed them moves forward like this, you would kind of be around this
this bit over here, so kind of flanking slightly. If you want to
stay where you are, that's perfectly fine, Sarge. You have minimal cover
going in any direction, and if you were to move away, depending on
how well trained they are and how their stamina is and how long they been
marching for, right, there's a possibility they'll either keep up or you could
present yourself as better targets, you know, staying standing up and on the
move. Yeah. Well, yeah, because my my concern is if whether
or not. Yeah, my concern is that I probably all right, So
if if I see this with that much information, and I'm gonna tell everybody
probably to post up best they can yeah, and just be I'm probably gonna
be talking to to Ace telling him if he if he thinks he can get
back without being seen, that's great. If he doesn't and he thinks he
can get to any sort of flank, do that first, because if shit
goes sideways, he's gonna be able to take out a lot and they're not
going to see it at first. Yeah, we can cause enough chaos,
So yeah, I'm probably alling stuff out and there I'm probably doing that very
aggressively, so that and not like angrily, but I'm telling people to go
a certain amount of distance away in a certain way, knowing that they're seeing
us, you know, like almost trying to show an aggressive act as we
fan out and we start to post up as they start walking towards us so
they can see it. Okay, and you are all trained soldiers, you've
done this many many times. So the second massage gives the word everyone aside
the rookie has a little hesitation. He's not as on it as the rest
of you. But war, which you essentially move forward, slam the the
well. I'm not slam because you treat it with respect, but you post
up with the heavy bolta tripods aiming down, ready to let loose. Excuse
me, rita similar thing, get behind a little bit of like a little
romp of land, you know, like decent cover, grenade launcher out,
ready to essentially love grenades. They're not close enough yet. The only people
who really would be in range at all? What would be war? Bitch?
You can take shots, but there's it would be a difficult shots.
They're quite far away still, and Ace, you have essentially a bead on
them enough to take a reasonable shot. I'd say, everyone posts up,
goes quiet and wait now, Ace, I'm gonna ask for a scrutiny role.
Just flat yep, stun it. You may reroll if you like.
You have one more favorite, I have two? Didn't? Oh you didn't,
then you have to earlier. Mm hmmm, screat to me. Don't
do this to me, Give it to me. Okay, I'm a reroll
again because it's important already? Does this game hate me? All right?
Bless it, mister Lucus. Here it goes. Okay, it was meant
to be. It's honestly meant to be. You can't tell, possibly because
they've mixed up as they moved. You can't tell who the leader is if
you're taking a shot, you're going to be shooting in sense of like priority
targets, fairly blind as the as the as the patrol moves up, they
paused just out of optimal fire range. Essentially, they take up positions around
defensible position, you know, like similar to you little bumps and you know,
little divots in the line stuff that will give them some cover. And
you hear them shout out. You don't know what that word means. Nope.
Basically what Ace does is he has this cloak over him, he lays
down, and he gets a better aim on it, because that to him
was like I'm probably having taken shot. So he just loads the both loads,
cocks back his sniper rifle, and just gets ready and he looks towards
one of the soldiers yep, and he looks. He doesn't look but it
do we have ear pieces or anything of that nature? Yeah, yeah,
okay, So he's just gonna say, on your really slightly sarge feels like
a coded challenge, you know, you reply with the code word to identify
yourself as friends. So I recognize the word as what that should be,
but I have no idea what it is myself. Yeah, you know enough
militarily to know that that's a coded challenge, but you don't know the word
itself. It's not it's not an imperium Gothic word. Okay, So that's
that's enough. That is enough for me. If I know that these people
are posting up and they're saying shit and I don't know it, that's enough.
So I think the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to
how defensible is Ace from his position? Like if he takes someone out,
how much are they going to notice him? They'll notice the shots, but
they won't necessarily notice where it's from. And he is he is a good
distance away, so even if they do notice, A, you'll be able
to cover him decently and B he'll have a good grace period before when they
can get into position to return for right. Okay, So I think at
this point I'm gonna tell him that we're gonna fire first. So yes,
we're gonna find in a minute, okay. And when we do that,
I need you to look at a couple of targets, anything heavy, anything
long range, and try and aim for the people in the back, because
if we do enough, it may not notice as you're picking them off.
All right, excellent, all right, you hear you hear Trooper lank Mutter
in the Comms Stable frontlines, my ass, let's lay him off, sage,
right, all right. I think the first thing I'm gonna do is
how much range you got right now? And it rains, you won't suh.
I just need to know. If you can't get there, that's fine,
but I need to know it's just stayed around. I think it would
be a port shot. You can't guarantee your heads, definitely guarantee it such.
Which way is wind blowing? Ah? That's right, it is the
wind blowing their way any chance? Yeah, not really much winds. It's
pretty You need to indeed this such. You need a good sprint to get
closer. Mm hm. The range you've got currently, the only effective fire
would be from war bitch and from ace currently. But yeah, that's an
option. See that's what I was saying. Actually it's putting down smoke grenades.
But I don't want to do that first because that helps him out too.
All right, all right, malchus, Yeah, I'm gonna need you
to start focusing on the right flink, okay, and just directly, don't
spray focus right there, okay it it doesn't matter if you kill him.
They just need to start taking damage, all right. That's what I do
best. All right, And you're gonna you're gonna pay attention because we're gonna
start moving forward, all right. You see some people start stepping down the
line getting forward, that's when you swing ace. When you hear that gunfire,
that's when you start taking them out. Pausible, We're gonna rush and
you get some shit ready all right, and then I'll probably tell hawk you
know, stick close, blink, do what he does, and then ready,
ready, ready, you hear that challenge again, bring out over the
loud da that I'm like, now, okay, uh what bits you open
up? Yes, right side of the enemy just starts getting peppered with heavy
gunfire at the exact same moment ace you're taking a short on one. Yeah,
he's going for their recon. If possible, he's gotta beat on him.
So he's gonna shoot in the back of the recon to give him a
disadvantage on long distance fire. Okay. So as the heavy gunfire opens,
a loud retort is heard from the side as they sings down his sight and
squeezes the trigger head perfectly in that center. And next week we'll find out
how we do. I love our squad so great, Oh my god,
so it was fun also into it. Thank you all four of you for
being brilliant Astro Militarum troopers. This is a fun. Please, let's let's
have a little bit of of a go around everyone and who you are and
where we can find you, because I mean everyone in the chat is gonna
want to find you after that performance. Come on, now, you tell
us who goes first. Oh damn, I have to choose, you know
what, Let's go with war Bitch first. Titular character. Hello, I'm
Myrtles. I played warm pitch for you today via Falcas and uh, this
is super fun, what a joy. Thanks for having me. You can
find me ice stream on Twitch my days Wednesday and Fridays, and lately I've
just been playing some like Crusader Kings and which Are And actually I got a
puppy, so if you're interested in puppy cam, it's a lot of just
me hanging out with my puppy because that's all I have been able to do
for since we got him. Catter. So yeah, anyway, thank you
so much. Bye, thank you burgles, and welcome to forty K.
Let's go on over to our resident forty K somebody who has played forty K
before, to Nictine and also Rita Pausible, the only one who I have
to pause to say that. I always say Ferstival or Parvesal. Hi.
Everyone. My name is Nicotine and I do a lot of role play.
I've actually done shows here on the table story before, and I stream on
Twitch every single day at twitch dot tv slash Nicotine. That's n I K
A C I N E. And you can find me on Twitter at nicotine
Prime. Coming up, okay, next up, we're going to go to
an artist artiste, uh, the purveyor of I was gonna say pain,
but it's already pain because it's usually painless. But Ace, and also thank
you hello, Hi play Ace. What a cool name. It was hard
for me to say. It's like tekel Asinius Kyle Aus. I love it.
I love it. Yeah, you can this technique with no you know
you just a que. You can find me on Twitch too much and on
Twitter at Technique tv, just at a T and V on att a Q.
I was always interested in Willhammer forty k. Uh, this is a
great way to get into it, into it. I was looking for books.
There's a lot to get into. But once I get through all my
D and D forgotten realms, I'm going into that and I'm really excited because
there's so much involved with it. So thank you for having me. Hope
you guys enjoyed his artist pleasure in shooting and it was a pleasure of being
here for you guys today, and thank you shot in the cast. Welcome
to forty K. Finally the highest in the hierarchy of our players we have
soge also does Sergeant Keith Aaron. Hey, Hi everybody. My name is
Aaron Black and I'm a I'm a writer and you can find me over on
Twitter at Aaron B. Wrights. But yeah, if I could just say
one like I was saying, you know, it isn't great introduction to forty
K. A lot of little things. You do a great job of explaining
these things as we go forward, because it is very new for me,
so little things. And Nikki, you you've thrown stuff out there, thank
god, you know, because you're you're you know, you're trying to pick
up stuff. You want to make sure that you've got that, you know,
like, oh yeah, absolutely got that. You do such a good
job of that, so I really appreciate it. Everybody here, you're beautiful.
This was amazing, absolutely amazing. Thank you. And obviously there's myself,
sheep dog. I run the wandering in. If you want to find
me, do a little legwork, do it yourself. Thanks watching everyone.
Hope you enjoyed the first episode of the Final Gift and we will see you
next week, same time, same place, in the hell of War