So last episode, the squad managed to traverse the Ruined Hive and finally come
into contact with their VIP whose thorn. Amorus is a member an agent of
the Inquisition, and made a very impressive appearance by punching a tank, ripping
it open, jumping inside, and murdering everyone inside of it. After rendezvouis
with Amorus, they have started back on their trek along the ruined Hive city
and the intention is to leave to head back somewhere where they can contact Act
of Planets and get an extraction of the planet before everything goes to shit.
However, as we all remember at the end of last episode, there was
a shot which even Ace wasn't able to notice before it happened. So we're
going to go straight off onto that, so we will. That is eight
degrees of success. There is no dodge because it is an ambush and none
of you have time to react. Ace, you're just half a second too
late turning around after you've seen the glint of a snipers to shout sniper.
You say it in the same second that the shot echoes around the Hive city
and one of you goes down in the middle of this insanity I'm essentially going
to ask for all of you to do. What I'm gonna say is a
reaction, like what are you doing in that instance when you hear the shouts
of sniper, when you hear the shot, there's not enough time to react.
Mm hmm. It actually depends. So what's the surrounding right now,
like how old is it or how it's reasonably open that most of the buildings
are kind of destroyed to a certain degree, but there's robble everywhere. You're
essentially walking down the sides of a of a road, same as usual.
Okay, So I think in this situation, Lieutenant Keep is going to go
scare it now, okay, and just let everybody trust them that they're going
to go to whatever cover they can find as fast as possible. All right.
Uh in that case, could everyone please roll me even either an acrobatics
or an athletics given the situation, Take a plus ten because obviously everyone's gonna
be suddenly jumping into action. Okay. Three degrees of success. One degree
of success for advice Danna Ace, that's a critical success. Uh Amrus that
is a critical failure, and well witch, that's almost the credible success.
So five degree, you may reroll if you like amorus you do have.
I think you have three fait points. I do believe, so yeah,
yes, I don't ty to try that. Okay, I'll be down to
two now slightly better. That's bad, I haven't had my tea yet.
Well, in this instance, considering the ace got a critical success, I'm
going to give you an additional thing you can do. Like essentially, because
you saw it, because you reacted, and because you reacted so quickly,
you can not only react probably the fastest, but if you want to do
something else, if you want to get to a position where you can try
and figure out where the shot came from, or if you want to drag
someone with you, someone who maybe critical failed and is being a bit slow
comparatively, you can do either of those things. The question I guess is
what's your priority? That's for you, guys. Oh, I'm sorry,
I thought that was I thought you're talking to. Inquisitor is pissed. He's
super pissed. He's more upset the fact that he didn't notice it in time.
He's even more upset that a shot came blazing past his face. His
reaction is uh, He's super focused on the target. With the additional crit
I can actually tell you who got hit. Oh okay, it was the
veteran Lenk and he got hit like right deep in his lower waist by his
hip. He essentially as you move, he is falling backwards with like there's
not much of a there's not much blood. It appears to be more of
a chart things go through. Okay, yeah, it's doesn't. It's not
that he doesn't care about link. He's more pissed off that he allowed something
to happen. And I want him to swiftly dart into a position to take
a return fire, which essentially will push cover for them to scatter, and
hopefully he it's the target or makes the target move orange. In that case,
can I please get an awareness minus ten and a scrutiny minus twenty?
Okay? The awenness is to see where in which direction the shot came from
based on what you heard, and the scrutiny will be to pick it out.
Okay, So four degrees of failure, all right, I'm a re
roll. That very acceptable. Okay, that's better than four. And what
was the other one? Scrutiny? Yes, twenty minus ten on scrutiny.
Okay, four degrees of success. Okay, So ace as you move towards
the direction you think the shot came in, you kind of scramble up the
rubble very quickly. Everyone else is reacting there. They're getting to cover as
the as the lieutenant shouts, they're moving away out of the line of fire.
Hawk's falling over, Sorry, lenks falling over. Hawk is standing there
a little bit dumbfounded because you know he's not expecting this thing like you guys
are. And you post up, you put your scope up, you kind
of go down the bar, go down the scope and see what you can
see. You can see three or four different possible positions where a sniper would
like to be shooting from. In this direction. There's one very big tower.
There's a couple of like buildings that are slightly ruined but still quite tall.
Gives you a good position and look and you you scan for each of
them. You don't see anything. You're not sure which one it came from
until you see like a flurry of movement and you see on that big long
tower, it's a good like five hundred meters away minimum. You see through
one of the windows like a shifting of like a like a shifting of movement
of color, and you realize that whoever has fired from that position is relocating
somewhere else, and you have essentially one opportunity, probably to hit them through
the window as they're going down, because they're only coming into view as they
run past the window running downstairs. All right, So what Ace is gonna
do. He's gonna turn off his calm to zone in and completely focused sets,
no distractions, nothing. He's literally just zeroing into where you can hear
a pin drops essentially, and he looks down his scope, but he's just
like counting seconds as trying to lead the shot because he knows the distance is
there and he has to drop his bullet. He's like there and he'll take
the shot. Okay, So this will be a ballistic skill you'll have.
So I've got to figure out your moterfiers or this shot here, you'll have
a plus thirty hall of fame and then distance and difficulty of shots. It's
a very difficult shot. So it's gonna be a long range Yes, it's
long range ship And then wait a minute, so if you do your ballistic
skill, you can put in minus thirty I've done the balistic skill. Where
is that my weapons? Yeah, it's at the top of your character sheets.
You can click on the little black bar that says BS got it.
Okay, so it's minus thirty. You have plus thirty, but it's also
minus sixty just because of the difficulty of the shots. If you're feeling like
you can always hold off shooting, still think I don't want to do something,
Okay, I want to place a shot that I think they're going to
go to eventually herd them in a different direction they're going in. Essentially,
if they're going to keep running forward, they may get hit, but if
it turns them around, it gives me a better angle on where they are,
so inessentially hurting them. Yeah. Instead of instead of the difficult shot
when you see them appear, you'd like to aim a shot to essentially like
stare them at the window, throw them off, yah, throw them off?
Okay okay, yeah, yeah, so we'll go with the ballistic skill
flat ballistic skill, no modifiers, three degrees of success. Okay, Yeah,
you aimed at the site. You are kind of calculating the speed of
what you think they're running and when they're going to roundabout be at the be
at the window. So when you fire that shot, it flies through the
air, It hits the side, goes straight through the wall, and you
see as there's a flash of movement by the window right next to where you
put your shot. It pauses for a second and you can see like the
side of some battle armor, essentially like the shoulder part of the body.
You can't see ahead. It's a perfect shot. But going off this roll,
if you want to, you can very quickly take an dollar shot and
hit them automatically. Yeah, it's not going to be a hitch injured not
to kill right, Yes, essentially from their distance. Okay, yeah,
I definitely want to do that. So do I use my weapon this time
or do I use a please roll me a damage? Okay? Damage with
what is this range? Long range? Extremely extreme range long The range doesn't
matter too much, okay, yeah, so you can just hit the damage.
What's d O S? You got three ds, so you to add
a ten one D ten to the damage when you when you roll. Okay,
so when it has a drop down, just use the one yes,
yes, okay, cool, okay, okay, thirteen damage pen three the
through your Scott sniperscope. You see the the this kind of armored side of
the body take like a perfect center hit in the chest, maybe shoulder like
it's it's a great shot, but you didn't have much presenting to to give
you like a you know, a kill shot or anything. But you see
them. You see the back of the you see the back of the the
wall like splattered with blood. From this distance, you're already sure of the
color, but it doesn't look red. And you see the the body jerk
and move and essentially fall down like below the lip of this this window.
And that's it. Yeah, so essentially it's just like it's not but you're
not taking any more shots today. And he's like and he finally turns,
has gone back on. He's like, Lieutenants, yea, I found our
pursuer. I have dealt with him. He's not dead. If you want
to go forward and tor to him for his life's worth, we can.
Other than that, he should not be taking any more shots out of him.
I believe I have disabled him, but I don't know what we're dealing
with. Whatever fluid came out of his body did not look red at least
human. All right, Well, good job hawk, go patch up a
new holding Scott. Everybody else, yes, sir, everybody else group up
over here, and I'm gonna point over the biggest cover area I can,
uh, and I'm gonna run over to thorn and just have a gun out
and I'll essentially be between him and wherever that shooter is. Yeah, and
just sort of motion in this way, not really talking. Just be sure
to keep your head down. There's no telling if there's more than one.
There is quite a few different locations that they can actually take their shots.
And I fear that we are in the open with him, all right,
I think he's been shot, sir, No fucking do you have? I
think at this point I rolled its like for sake, O thought, you
know. I'm I'm telling how to go over and essentially switch places with me,
and I'm running over to take a look at Link. Link is essentially
like sat up against the rubble. He has a hole in his hip,
like a big chunk out of the side of like the side of his kind
of hip kind of area. There's not much bloods it appears to have quarterized.
Essentially, I'm probably like some form of highly heated projectile. Okay,
And he's kind of like semi conscious ish, just a bit out of it.
I would hump him with a stimulant immediately of any sort, just to
get him up and moving. Okay, give me a are you helping him
walk or you just stemming him up and getting I'm stemming him and expect him
to get his ass up and go with me. So yeah, as he
as as you kind of like jammer, give me a give me a plus
thirty medicaid just to see what the fuck happens. That sounds good, nice
role. Yeah, so you you you locate a vein almost miraculously. What's
your what's your original talg It was a ten? Oh yeah, you find
thing? Jam a stem into him kind of shakes him awake, ye,
Sodge, lieutenant, mm hmm. Fuck yeah, you get a shot all
right before. That's actually the first time you're fucking kidding me. Never been
shot, never been wounded. Well I can't say that anymore. Let's go
yeah, alright, Sodge. And he like tries to get up and you
hear like a crack and a creak and essentially his left leg like buckles under
him. For Fox, going off your medicaid? I can give you a
decent amount of intelligence. The shot that hit him basically obliterated or just disintegrated
his hip joint. I don't think I'm walking on this sorge at least.
Yeah, no, No, it's right, all right, can you hop
I'll try? All right, I'm gonna I am gonna get on the other
side of him, and I'm gonna steady him, and I'm going to move
him as fast as I can over to where everybody else is, trying to
keep an eye out as much as possible. But yeah, I actually have
I have link in front of me to where the sniper shot is because at
this point, like I'm trying to help him out, but I'm like,
everyone's gonna get shot. It's not gonna be me because this guy's very you
know, down, So I'm helping him over It makes sense m hm.
And essentially Ace takes his sniper rifle down, comes back down to join,
and everyone gathers kind of at the side of the road where the rubble is
blocking where the sniper shot came from. So you have a decent amount of
cover here. It's unlikely that anyone's unless you there's like a gap in the
rubble or something. But that's not really too much of a concern. All
right, all right, A couple of things. Uh, how much can
you see of this of this guy? Could you see any yes, communication,
no emblems, just shoulder arm which I took my shot. I did
heard him in a different election, trying to make him stand up fully.
I was thinking about taking the killed shot. But oh that was smart.
That was that was the smart move. Any communication equipment that you could see,
I mean probably not, but anything. It was more of a silhouette,
and I took this shot more than actually seeing anything. I do say
that there was a building and there could be more. There's four locations and
in front of us that are dangerous. Did someone get hit? He knew
he heard something, but he doesn't know the details. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, we'll deal with it. Well, all right, I'm concerned,
sir. If those were professionals, Lank would be dead, not injured.
It's a little bit disturbing that he's got shot down there in any vital area,
unless they're trying to aim for the stomach. But why I aim there?
If they were aiming at our package excuse me, importance, then why
isn't he dead? No, that's that's a. It's not a bad assessment
as possible. As you're talking as, could you please roll me a uh,
scholastic law tacticurer imperialists with a plus thirty. Yeah, I'll just see
where is that. So for those of you who don't know, some of
you have a common law war. It's a fairly standard thing for an imperial
guardsman to have. Tactica Imperialists is for the officers and for people who go
to school for war, someone like an inquisitor has. So if you look
there, it is at least scholastic antico and it's a plus thirty in the
modifying underful thirty nine five degrees of success. Very nice. So, as
they're talking, Amarus, you've been in this sector for a while, you've
experienced the tactics of the towel and the rebels. This is a fairly standard
procedure for lone snipers to slow down targets. There's no point in a kill
shot because they'll just leave the person. In this instance, it's essentially like
shooting off a foot a leg. Slows everyone down and it gives time for
a response team to come in and mop up the remains. Wonderful, this
is their tactic. I've been doing this for a very long time. I
just want to slow you, and I don't care about killing. Rather than
just maiming. We'll leave the weak ones you normally anyway, that's their heart.
Unartistic, disgusting and slubly. It's very brutish. I'm not going to
be able to walk. Are you trying to tell us something? Would you
like that? Because it's take care of you or them? Yeah, I'll
give you an option. You want to be taken out? Do you want
to sit here and maybe take something out before they get you? We got
what a little bit of time till sundown. We're gonna have to post up
for the night. Anyway, get me there, load me up with some
gear. Uh, Rita can put the building into self destruct mode, essentially
blow up. I'll make a whole load of record racket, draw them to
me, and go out with a bang. Rita, you've got enough explosives
to see me off. M hm, yes, I'm guessing that. Yes,
yeah, all right, Hark you're on link duty. Yes, sir,
what's that mean? You wanted to carry him? He wants you to
kill him with no no no no no no no no no no no,
no, no, any sleep will be the best way to go, and
just be quickly. I'm gonna look around and see. I'm trying to gauge
a distance between a place I think we can get to that will be defend
defendable to some degree. Okay, it's got to be defendable. I need
it to have multiple exits. It needs to be far enough away from this
place, but also close enough because link is fucked. So I'm looking for
anything that fits that bill, something I know Ace can post up, you
know, Valcuz. Yeah, I'm I'm assessing as much as I can.
Okay, Okay, So it is a scrutiny to find this. However,
you do have supportinates, so you could always send one of them off to
do it as well if you prefer. I'm gonna thrive and see if there's
anything that is Yeah, so take a look. So flat scrutiny, flat
sprit, yeast correct failure. You look around. There's a few possible places,
but honestly, it's getting dark and your eyes on what they used to
be. It's been a stressful day such which which building uh sales maybe yeah,
well, all right, I'm gonna need to of you. Hey,
can you pull it back to our position. I'm gonna need your help and
let's see parsible. I need you to go with him. You will such
tenant? Yeah, you know, because three eyes are better than two.
Mm hmm. Let's see what you're down there? All right, Rita,
I'm assuming you want to make a blockbuster, so to speak. Yes,
I can't wait. All right, I'll lead the way, find you as
a kid squad. That way, I'll cover you while you would you do
best? Nobody said which one do? We just do them? All?
What? Well, let's not discuss it and it'll lessen your find clinics on
which ones you don't want? Not this beyonding? You know what about all
of them? We're not going to be here me. Why not? Let's
discuss it over here, so no one stops. Okay, So Ace and
Rita are moving forward and in a kind of recon scouting looking for a building
typeway. Yes, in that case, both of you, please rob me
a scrutiny, just a flat scrutiny, and I will assume the rest of
the group. The squad will be moving, but at a slower pace because
they have to allow for the links. I'm gonna roll the face because I
want to find one. Okay, I gotta get used to using these things.
You using it? Mmmm, well, all right, that sucks.
I mean it is a failure. But all that means is that you don't
find the perfect building. You find a building like they're they're everywhere. This
one might use a faith point. Actually, he's gonna ah, that's the
worst. It's well, I can't find a building. Then I guess we
have to take them all. Yes, exactly, I think we should do
all of them. He said he wanted to go out with a bank.
It is a perfect way to send it years old. You are also staying
there for the night, kind of like posting up. So essentially what I
can give you is the positioning isn't amazing for a for the night. Essentially,
it's on the corner of a crossroads. It has multiple entries and exits,
so if it is assaulted, you'll be able to leave it pretty easily.
But if he's having a last stand and looking to draw people in,
it's going to be a little bit rough. It's kind of exposed. Other
options are out there if you want to keep looking. But it's starting to
get dark, and you know, it's it's it's useful for you for the
night because it's got good views seeing anyone coming. It's kind of between you
two, whether you want to report back and say we found one or if
you want to have another like Lucky Loo. No, you've please your selection,
or do you want to look warm you see some load bearing strats there.
We could take him out and then maybe just post up against a wall
or something. Mm hmm. So you're happy with your selection? With you,
I'm always happy. Look at me, I happy? I am,
yes, yes, yes, Then this is your canvas. I'm just a
tool for now. So this is where you want to set up. I'll
cover you and then we can report back to the lieutenant. That's why he
will just cover, just be your look out under his cloak while she does.
Are you going to set up the explosives now? Yeah? Absolutely?
Okay in that case, uh, I'm trying to We're going to be sleeping
on the explosives. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm okay with that. That's
read lieutenant. Can you hear me? Yeah? I got you. So
I'm gonna win this building? Mm hmm. You want to blow it?
No? No, no, no, no, no no no we're gonna
we're gonna get there. We're gonna we gotta sleep there, We're gonna get
well, you are gonna blow it, but well, Link's gonna blow it.
I just need you to make sure that it's gonna come down. It's
coming in such lietenant one. Why you never but I just want to win,
you know, Oh yeah, no, no, no, we're gonna
get through the night. We're gonna get up and we're gonna leave. We're
gonna leave Link behind. He's gonna do cause enough racket for them to come
in after him. He's gonna blow it while he's inside. Oh, give
like the I think all right, right, well you wanted to come down
in sei of itself like bang up a gast o the building, take it
the road where you wanted to come down it, yeah, and not get
towards another building a preference. Yeah, you choose up it down wherever your
ot sage like a bang. All right, the closest building, right,
do you fool? Okay, uh, retail, please give me a tech
use for the plus thirty. Oh no, that's fell use fait point.
That is understandable. Wow, what the guys just throw roll another ninety six.
Okay, all right, that's the Reader's almost just lost a couple of
players, so everyone died the end, Yeah, just destroyed the entire home
that he comes crumbling down on you. I mean, technically it's a successful
mission. We're off and it failed successfully. Literally nothing left with them.
So you've set it up so that the building will explode and not only take
out everyone inside it, but also the building will shift and kind of cover
the road and bring down the building on the other side, basically causing a
huge amount of rubble on this crossroads, which is gonna make it hard to
traverse and get through. Okay, yeah, as uh as Reata is doing
that, the rest of the squad a little bit slowly manages to shop.
You're giving the position, and that means that you manage to get into the
building, set up essentially fairly vigilant watch and settle down with length kind of
like kind of like propped up against the side of some rubble. His hips
still giving him some difficulties obviously, and this is where you're going to be
spending the evening until morning when you can move out again. So with that
in mind, obviously you'll probably want watches again, you have time to uh,
you'll probably I imagine you probably have something to eat and then set up
watches and get some get some sack time. So start off with everyone essentially
sitting around another little fire and whatever rations you have, you will have enough
rations. It's it's yeah. Uh. And while you are all sat around
there, Link kind of swings his pack around, uh, kind of starts
diving into it and pulls out a bottle of Amasek, which is essentially alcoholic
beverage wine, and says, I've been saving this and I'll figure I kind
of deserve to drink some of it. So if anyone would like a glass,
please me, I would, yes, please, I'll take a glass,
little buddy or pal mm and pours out some glasses f anyone who would
like a drink and and for me drink fine. I need to watch all
of you inns enjoy the night, all right, and just kind of downs
the massive gulp of it starts pouring out again and kind of like looks around
and says, so last night with the squad, yeah, mm hmm,
well mm hmmm, let me ask you Link. Yeah, remember we were
talking a little while back about those those numbers that we were hoping to hit
right, all right, hopefully Tom have a little bit more under your belt,
but I'm gonna have more than you after this. Yeah. I wasn't
gonna bring that up. But that's fine. I know it's not the way
you would want to go out. Well, it's gonna be bigger than most.
I think even if we had a choice, none of us here,
you know, the package excluded. I don't know him would really particularly have
a choice. Way to go out, you know, way to go out.
It's like the lieutenant, when you go out, you go out.
It's it is what it is. All right. You're telling me that no
one else has has a well they want to go out? I do,
but I want to hear yours. No I don't want to go back.
No, no, you go first? Now, all right, A big
star act of fucking pancakes. All right, I'm just enjoying those pancakes.
Silence in the room, and then sniper shot to the head. Oh.
I thought he was going to say heart attack. I was going to be
honest. Yeah, that was that's well, Now what you mentioned it Choking
on the pancakes could actually be kind of fun. Yeah, with a slight
chance of survival, to live to tell the tale. I don't want no
tales to tell. All right, Well, Hugh, Lieutenant, I think
if I go out, I'd like it to be close and personal. I
think there's anything worse than getting shot and just dying instantly. I want I
want to fight for it. So you disagree with wool bitch sniper shot.
Oh I'm not disagreed, and I'm just oh no, I am yeah,
No, I wouldn't go that way at all. It's really more about the
pancakes though. I think you guys are like focusing. I am glossing over
the pancakes. Yeah, I'm just wondering where you're eating pancakes and there's a
sniper posted up looking at you? Where isn't there a sniper? Look at
what just happened to us? Look at link? Thank you? Always a
sniper? All right? Fair enough? Anybody else? I mean literally,
we have one with us. I mean there's always a and I'm a professional.
You would have been dead if I showed you. Thank you Ace.
That's very wouldn't want you to suffer? Yeah? Are you holding bullets for
all of us? I've always had to be bullet for each one. Of
us, because you're special to me. Like my bullets. We should have
been up a beating breakfast. I make the pancakes and then you plug them
when we're done. Ace. Have you made a bullet for me? Do?
I mean? Well, yes, but there was a bolt pistol bullet
because I realized that you would be around a lot longer than you have.
You wore dog you, But now that you are here, I could make
a special modification for you. I think that's sweets. Actually, let me
see what I have. Just keep talking. Okay, it's gonna be good.
A guy in me hit sometimes. What's I scot in his pockets?
Even now? All right, hark, you gotta you gotta where you want
to go out? I just I just want to be able to have served
the emperors as well. No no, no, no bullshit, No no,
no, no, no, nope, nope, no bullshit good answer,
No no, no, no, you can serve. You're still gonna
die. How are you going to die? I mean holding the line against
an enemy charge like going down? So you you haven't thought about this,
not all just joined up. So sir, the day I that should be
in the back of your mind because it will happen. Okay, you've got
no control over it, so all you can do is hope. Look at
me. I'll just showing the fucking hip. That's it. My watch,
body is gone. Who's gonna watch with me? Yeah? No it want
to go out? If you want to stay with me, you're perfectly welcome.
Focus with a bang, hand what's yours? Perfect way, perfect way
out hand I was talking to Yeah, hey, hand fire fire Keith relation.
Oh I like that, talking about make sure that that was around me
burned too. That would be the ideal. Mm hmmm. The inquisition everyone
at the very end. I can have a certain flavor, a certain smell
to it, you know. And barbecue and pancakes. I think you're cooking
pancakes wrong. Excuse the of me. What was that? Oh no,
nothing, if you want to if you want to set your pancakes and foil
being my fucking guest, that's how you make pancakes, make pancakes, So
you're making them wrong, apparently, Oh host to laugh. Oh, lieutenant,
does that mean because I'm about to die, I don't have to go
and watch tonight? Oh yeah, you know you're If you want to watch,
you can get him and now you're not. Yeah, yeah, no,
you you do what you will. Actually you got something good to eat
instead of the bullshit we're usually shoveling down anything. I mean, at this
point, I just need you coherent enough to hit a button. That's it.
Yeah, I near button. Don't worry, all right, I have
some bread and I'll give him ship. Oh much obliged. He's serving the
emperor with his death as the least I can do, right, Grab a
couple of slices of bread and toss it to you. Lieutenant Keys is actually
really impressed with Amherst right now now, like expected a completely different person.
Not showing it, but yeah, in the back of his mind, he's
like that. That's an interesting thing to touch on for everyone, For Amorus
and for the squad, how do you feel about each other so far?
Like Amross, you've you've seed it off of the squad to get a vibe
of them. They're probably not what you expected. No, far less professional,
less professional, but quite skilled. They have done the job so far
that I can at least respect. But you just call us not professional.
Oh, he used, will start making another bullet. I do believe that
was an internal he would not be upset with that nurse and regardless for the
for the squad, I mean, the trince was interesting, punching a tank,
ripping the top of Like, I guess the babe thing you're possibly thinking
is that length was wrong. It wasn't some coddled noble child. Turns out
it's some dude with a power fist, a very capable person. Yeah,
mm hmm. Actually that is interesting. The the difference between I guess I
know for for for me, or what keep would be expecting was probably not
exactly this. Yeah. I think, yeah, that sort of coddled somebody
that needed to be protected all the time. Because that's still the way he's
thinking is, you know, get in front of him, make sure you
got eyes on him. And I don't think it's going to change. But
I think in the back of his head he understand and that he's actually useful.
He's not just he was the last man standing in a bunker. Yeah,
h h m hm. He doesn't really, he doesn't really, he's
not impressed because to him it was horrible, like the way he just like
barbarically ripped off the all that he was just like oh oh oh god,
Like he's just just like no, but he is happy that he doesn't have
to babysit too much. So he's just kind of like, hmm, well
worth protecting someone. We'll see and that's pretty much it. Okay, how
about Voucus and possible and he thoughts of the acquisition. I like him.
I like his uh love for the Emperor m pretty much makes him like one
of the best people here. So he's got a big hand. It's very
impressive slam. Everyone in the squad is bigger marbles, a little bigger marbles.
And when you toss a little bigger marbles from the you know, from
standing up, don't go very far. You toss them off a cliff and
they spread out like chaos. Rita thrives on chaos. A new guy.
He's tossing in marbles from a spire. Okay, just waiting for Rita to
get possessed by a deep Do you know it hasn't already happened. That's very
true. All right, So we got we got to watch is situated.
Let's do essentially the same thing as last time. But Yeahvalcus, you're alone
without depending on whether you're having the VIP stand watch too, no without Okay,
in that case there is one left over, Yeah, I would.
I would put myself in with Valcus for that one, and then I'd probably
tell Hawk, like it'll be split enough so that I can sleep, and
then I'll get up with Hawk two. Okay, So I kind of like
bookends, like first and last Shifty. I have a question if I was
to create something, what would I roll? It depends what you're creating.
If it's something makeshift, probably survival. If it's something more tech based,
it would be tech youse. If it was tech based, oh, techys,
let's say so fat, Okay, what are you looking to create?
Okay, let's just keep that to myself until morning, Google mate. I
don't know. So is there any before we go off on to shifts?
If what shifts, is there any other conversations that happen. Essentially, Hawk
is a little bit nervous. He's never had to stand watch with Lieutenant before,
and uh Lenk is getting a little bit not like not out of his
gore drunk, but just like a little bit drunk. You know, he's
staying here tomorrow and going out in it with a bang hopefully, so if
he makes it through the night, isn't he bleeding? Out. It was
mostly quarterized, but it so hawk. Yes, yes, you want to
make sure that you watch over lank because if he dies, you have to
press the button. You do, understand, right, right of course?
Yes, don't don't drink too much like that's it's kind of like vague mumbling
and like swearing over in the corner. But he's not gonna die because he's
not bleeding or anything. So he's just he just can't walk, right,
sure, such, he's a lieutenant. He's not gonna die, right,
I mean, like right now? Well, I mean whoever knows. Okay,
there could be more snipers out there. There could be someone brave enough
to just walk up here. I mean, let's be real, a child
took the other one out? Was what can happen to him in the middle
of the night if you slip and he dies. Let's just say you will
get feel promoted too. And he's kind of turns around and sets on his
post. Okay, that's fine. I'll just a good question, who becomes
lieutenant if lieutenant dies? Yes, a fair question. Lieutenant, who is
your next in command? Mmmm? Well it would have been link mm hmm.
Thank it's not the green boy. I don't know. I'll tell you
what he's possible, Malcus. Why don't y'all talk about this amongst yourself?
Y'all figure it out. Oh have you seen me giving a command to someone?
I just get frustrated and end up shooting him. I'd be a great
leader and should be me macus a lot. Shut the fuck up. Yes,
okay, you see the conviction in her voice just immediately made me want
to jump. What jump to her? To do whatever she wants me to
do? Oh? Really, anything, I wouldn't go there far. The
excitement in my face shows how much I am ready to do whatever you want,
remembering excitement. Yes, as if you want, you have the authority
to feel promote as when you like, corporal, Sergeant, if you like
to elevate von Vocis or any of the rest of them, you can you
can do that. So just heads up on that. I got to know,
speaking openly about this, I would Lieutenant that single reasonable to you?
Fair? Yeah, I think Falcus, keep them in line if that happens.
Absolutely, I'll enjoy your feeling. And Sergeant, do I have the
car use sergeant? Now? Oh? You absolutely Arcus, Sergeant, hold
on, did you just make me sergeant. I did the reasoning. Here
is the very you're going to have to jump up to lieutenant, so I
might as well skip a few just easier that. Why, let's paperwork,
l congratulations, Soge, the Emperor shines love, thank you and never most
welcome. Glorify him in your work. I will, Okay, we have
a lieutenant, we have sogeant from Focus also sogeant Warwitch. Let's see how
that goes. And I'm just going to assume, but also you can weigh
in with this. I feel like As and Rita really don't mind, like
I know they suggested her, but being sergeant, being trooper, being you
know whatever, essentially just is it accurate? So you just enjoy killing people
pretty much. I mean, it's just a tittle. It's it's extra paperwork
and oversight and all evil chicking your work over your shoulder, not for me,
meetings, lying to your room, a simple creature. Okay. In
that case, I believe that the watches will be sergeant and lieutenant first,
Rita and Ace second, and then Hawk and Lieutenant final. In this instance,
I will say, Ace, you've been up for quite a while and
it's been a stressful couple of days. You're gonna have to get some restless
time. So if you want to sit up staring at the lieutenant or then
you guys suspiciously okay, cool, he's out and he tries to be a
hardcore like I'm on my watch and I'll do what I will and it falls
off mumbling story asleep, Ye sleep, sweet chains. So let's do my
litanies. Will be off over there in that corner. Let me undisturbed and
till I finished. You may if you wait. Okay, So before the
watch starts, uh thorn, amorous and fearful focus, you take a moment
of time to go through your litanies, to praise the emperor, to show
proper worshship before the emperor. If you have anything, any prayers you'd like
to recite, any conversations you'd like to have. You are by yourselves in
repose, kneeling and contemplating. I am a man prone to weakness, but
I am a guardsman where a weakness is death. I will crush my awakness
with the weight of my pride. He's breathing a little heavy as he kneels.
I am a woman prone to weakness, but I am a guardsman.
Where weakness is death. I will crush my weakness with the weight of my
pride. So little pause, as you think, are over those lines.
I have unwakness that I don't mind sharing, and it is that of the
damn low sticks and a mild addiction. Before joining the inquisition, I could
not shake it. Mm hmm. I only have a few left our way
till the morning. But it's good to make a confession, sister, any
weaknesses of yours? I think I like pancakes too much. Brother, leaning
upon an earthly thing is indeed a weakness, yes, but confessing it is
good. How long have you served the emperor? M hm, my apologies.
I did not need to speak over you. Oh no, of course,
inquisitor inquisitorial agents. I am not an inquisitor, forgive me. It's
all right. I just it's a goal. I'm not there yet. I
can see you getting there soon. Once I deliver this package, I think
I will be able to. I'm assuming you won't be telling us what the
package is. No, you must not look at it, for there would
be extreme heresy. Yes, of course, But how long have you served
the Emperor? I'm curious? Well, do you mean how long have I
served the Emperor in my heart, my whole life. I leave the answer
to you. M hm. I leave the answer to you then my whole
life. I'm doing exactly what I was born to do, and that is
to serve the Emperor. A good answer, perhaps a bit canned, but
I see that there is truth there. Nonetheless, thank you. And you
ask if you're a squad, I worry for as do. I don't worry
if they do anything out of order, I'll make sure that they don't take
another breath in the Emperor's light again. One can all I can ask.
I should let you sleep. Thank you, sister. I will digest that.
That's what the increastoral agent stands up, heads off, and you go
and join former sergeant now lieutenant for first watch. Staring out the window windows,
you hear mostly silent, occasional like dropping over rubble, small sounds off
in the distance, but nothing nearby. Nothing to worry about currently, Hey,
lieutenant. Mm hmm, yeah, yes, Sorge, ha ha.
I can't fucking believe that he did that. Man, Yeah, that's a
feel. I'm gonna be a fucking terrible sergeant. Some mistake, well,
I'll be honest. Most sergeants are big fuck up. You're gonna do better
than most of them. Well, you know, it's a learn on the
job sort of thing, and I don't think you're gonna have that much of
an issue with it. Thanks sergeant. Lieutenant. Oh, you know,
it happens. You see people call, let me seeing people go, and
like I was saying earlier, going out like this is not It's not the
worst way you could do it. I think he'd rather be on his feet
fighting. But yeah, of course, yeah, you make your peace with
it. You know, it could happen at any point, you never know.
Just such a shame really started to like link. Well that's the first
problem. Yeah, I don't do that. You cannot do that. As
as Sarge liking people, yep, oh, you can tolerate people. That's
as far as it goes. Okay, I will say that I almost like
him too. I praise m. Do you just want to be a sergeant?
You know what? I don't know. I don't rank is something that
some people try to go after, But all it is is just a bunch
of assholes trying to be the top asshole. You get put into a position
and you're supposed to do a job and you're supposed to tell people what to
do, and it's expected of you to know what to do at the right
time. You're gonna get it right half the time. If you're lucky,
you're gonna lose people. It's gonna be on you. It's not something that
anybody should be trying to go after ever, but some people are better at
it. Some people are almost born to do it. So me, it
was not something I wanted to do, but I like it. I like
being sergeant. I like the word itself to sergeant. It's nice, simple,
everybody gets it. I'm gonna miss that fuck being the lieutenant. God,
I think you're maybe the first asshole I ever met who wasn't really an
asshole. Well that's bullshit, but I appreciate that. Listen, I'm buttering
you up now that i'm your sergeant. You know. Yeah, you're gonna
shoot me when I sleep. Take a lieutenant for yourself. Oh. I
thought about it for a quick second, but I think it would be too
messy and then i'd have to deal with uh VIP freaking the fuck out.
Yeah, you'd have to deal with Ace. I think he'd be upset,
you think so, Yeah, it won't be pretty enough for him. What
if I did it real pretty? Oh, that's that's fine. Then I
don't even know what the fuck real pretty is for him, you know what.
I don't either, But I believe him when he says that it is
pretty because his aim is so specific. I've actually and I'm meant to ask
him this. It just never had the opportunity. He goes for the head
every time. But I wonder if he chooses a different spot each time,
because I know he can do it. You know, does he look for
the ear one time? Maybe a nostril just when the head goes back a
little bit, you know, like yeah, at the bottomy, Yeah,
calling the shot just enough, you know, watching for the head because he'll
do it. He watches movements. Parsival, on the other hand, gonna
love Parsival. You want to talk pretty pictures? Mm, well, I
tell you what, I'll make you a bet. I'm willing to bet that
on her watch, she's going to go through Links. Shit, he's not
gonna know. He's passed out right now. Oh yeah, he's definitely gonna
do that. Yeah. Yeah, it's Link's fault for falling asleep on the
job. Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, fuck him, he doesn't
he Please roll me, both of you and awareness with a plus twenty you
mean that we're actually supposed to be on watch while we're having this riveting conversation.
Oh yeah, yeah, I can see you both sitting on the edge
of a window like looking out. Sorry, did you say minus twenty plus
twenty? Please? Plus twenty? All right, Well that's more than I
was thinking you're going to get. But some people roll well, soge from
focus. In a break in the converse, you hear the distinct sounds of
long distance moving essentially people picking their way through the rubble a long way away.
It sounds like it's in the vicinity of where that first sniper shot came
from, so way back over there, near that tower thing that Ace was
talking about. A little bit later, maybe like an hour, getting close
to the end of your shift, you hear, and with that role,
you'll have a much better idea of exactly where it's coming from. Above you
like forwards and above it's on the floor above you. You hear the staccato
of gunfire for a hot second, maybe a couple of like very muffled warmps,
like explosions lasts maybe fifteen minutes and then dies out. Do you hear
that? Mm hmm. Considering where we are, I would have tried to
have probably had a couple different exits out of here, even if they all
went to like a similar Starewell, oh yeah, i'd be And I imagine
we would have looked over the floor a fair amount before we did any of
this. So, with the noises that are being heard above us, how
much of a threat does it feel like, like, floor by floor,
they're just sporadic people fighting. Yeah, most likely the sound is because it's
so quiet out here for the most part. The sound is coming through the
little hole that you guys saw earlier, and just kind of like, yeah,
it's only the fact that Volcas was specifically very aware that they were able
to figure out the direction it was in and where it was exactly. Otherwise
they would just been like random, come for sure, all right? So
I think that maybe we would just sort of maybe pay attention to it,
almost almost for fun, just to hear what was going on, you know,
maybe like making comments like I wasn't a kill shot. There's no fun
yet see here? Do you hear that? Yeah? I can't name I
can give you this as well. One focus. There's no heavy weaponry,
nothing, nothing like your heavy vault. It's all kind of like small arms
for okay, it's just spitting up there, Lieutenant. It's not even rain.
Oh no, no, it's petty. So it's fun, though too
bad we can't see a little bit of it. Enter into show. Yeah,
I get something to do something, and then finally your watch is over.
Not much of interest happened. You can pass over the intel to the
next two that there's some people moving a long way away. There's a bit
of a fire fight, but nothing new. Yeah, okay, so I
think we would wake up as impartial and yeah, relay all that sort of
stuff. Yes, yes, yes, what do you mean morning? I
was up the whole time. I was just resting my eyes. You know,
sometimes the scope does things. Well, that's weird. I've never seen
drool while you're awake. But I don't drool. That's very disgusting and not
worth mentioning. I drew all the time, low and lip battle froth yep,
may come from all of those things sticks you constantly. It's probably the
sky, I think maybe. Ye. All right, well, how was
the watch? That's fine? Serge over there. Yeah, I heard some
noise in that direction from where the real yeah, where we originally got hit,
So I keep he buys out as much as you can, but it's
a ways off. And then there's some fighting going on in that direction,
or there was. It wasn't much. I wouldn't expect to hear too much
more. Maybe someone who got get another couple of shots off from someone else's
playing dead. But outside of that, I think it's gonna be a pretty
boring watch. So mm hmmm, I'm gonna go get some sleep, all
right, m hm, good night, good night, h sergeant. Okay,
ie ie, Yeah, What in the fact is a pancake? I
have no idea, trying to think about it all night, dreamed about it.
What the fuck is a pancake? Well, I can guess. Is
it something that you eat? Mm hmm, yes, well I don't know.
It sounds like something that there's you know, hoidy toyy people would eat.
All right, Yeah, maybe we'll discover it one day now that we
have a sergeant, maybe we'll enjoy pancakes. When when you were on Tastoria
to the Penal World serving out your sentence, the gang used to get together
and fry up some like vermon you know, rats, et cetera. So
essentially, you know, you kind of pack together everything. You could grind
it all up like fry it up, and then that's, you know,
your rat cake. So it's very possible. It's similar to a rat ake
flip one. Maybe it doesn't make sense because you can't make it out of
pans, but you know, would you tribe some red jerky? Yeah,
and then sprinkle it on top of what with the pankakes a little bit of
crunch? H yeah, hairs out first. Last time you tried to do
anything, you left a lot in instead of taking out. So hey,
I will stay away from there for now. Yeah. So I guess the
most pertinent question before you jump on watch Brito, you do you steal from
your comrade who's dying tomorrow? Ah? Does it cross your mind? Do
you do it? It does cross my mind? Hi, guys, mm
hmm. You want to just keep watching for a moment? What do you
plan on doing? Rita? Just just trust me, trust you? Uh?
Ace kind of just like smiles and looks in the direction where they said
they saw a noise. readA is just gonna walk over then, and uh,
Neil Dan requiet right over his head, right in front of his face.
Hi, Hi yeah, hi mm yeah pancakes. Whoa, whoa whoa
Yeah yeah, yes, Rita's very good. Yeah, I'm gonna sit you
with the dead Man switch tomorrow. You know what that is is? That
is that where I die and I explode basically if you let go of it
right right right. The thing is, it's kind of expensive, and I
was wondering, you know, since I'm not gonna need a whole lot of
things anymore. I just, you know, got anything equipment or treasures.
You wake me up to ask if you can steal my ship? Read Yeah,
but look that didn Man switch. You know you always did mean switch
was saving it. I'm having a nice drunk slumber take away over the fuck
you want. I won't need it tomorrow, thanks like you. Okay,
that's it is disgusting. Stop it. I felt. Uh, it's not
part of my dying wish. That's fine, hey, waite, more thing,
one more thing? You don't want some friends of Ginnmara? Do you
have the do you have the friends? Age and the like the frenzy bit
without the hallucines. I never really cared for seeing things that aren't really there.
I got some obscurer you want obscure? Fu? Yeah, I give
it, all right, it's just a little voe. So I'm hanging on
with but I'll hand it off to you to morrow, all right, so
we know where it's he go. I think I'm a fucking cloud. Let's
do this, all right, thanks, and don't wait me up again?
All right? Can I sleep tired by? Reader's going to pick through the
whole big all the all the standard ships. There's a obviously he's going to
keep his hotshot less gone so you can shoot people probably, But aside from
that, he's got some grenades, frag gredades, smoke grenades, he's got
ammunition for his las goon. Uh, and then all the rations and uniform
and extra you know, mess kit and everything all right, misquipe times too,
grooming cute times too. Has he got a bolt pistol? Yes,
yes he does. Let's take some of these rams rights two frank gride smoke
ride and h only like clean clothes underwear? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, take one of those two and where right I story about
it? Either? Ye? Did you pick and clean already like a vault.
He's still alive. He's not picking some one. It's requisitioning. Mike.
You're right, you ask for permission. This time you're getting. I
just wanted to make sure you know he's taking care of sentimentally and the lasing.
Oh, I understand that he's like a he's like a door the old
man. Yeah, I've been working on myself that I'll hand him in the
morning. I'm not the one for emotions, but it won't matter. They'll
die along with him. The sad thing is what if no one comes and
he's just sitting there holding your switch for as long as he can. What
if he can even get away and live a life. Yeah, it's always
fun to think about. Yeah, got messed up? Yeah? Oh well,
so did you wire the whole block? Yeah? Yeah, it's all
It's all wired, even a little bit of underground, you know, like
I sink how found it while I was in the building. Why everything,
it's gonna come down a little bit over the street there, knock up against
a building. It's gonna be right, trap them underground and leaving them to
the frenzy of your little gus. Are you applying that as well? Oh?
Oh, Artsy, your learning? I like it. Who's an interesting
question. How do both of you feel about the loss of somebody's beat at
the squad for longer than you have mm hm, there is no heart emotion,
but he is part of the crew. I'm just assuming they had the
group, had times together past this, before this, so it's more to
a like losing one of his bullets. Yeah, which obviously sounds a little
bit callous, but like we've seen it already with the lieutenants. You guys
are soldiers. You do this all the time. People die and more than
needs though where we're from, right, it's it's respectful if you don't just
repurpose your things because it's just gonna go to waste. You know, he's
lived a lot longer than anybody we know, you know. Yeah, Yeah,
it's more of a good thing than bad the way he's going out job
as a soldier, Yeah, completing his job. And I imagine it's something
that you both probably came to the real life. You're not the realization,
but came to terms with a while ago. Is you're in war all the
time, so sooner or later you're going to get got knowing a lot of
people like Lang before, you know, when you get to that eye.
G You're lucky. One is mostly decay kidding. He's practically fun. He's
only got one hole in him. True. I think at this time I
used to look at Rita and h take in what she said and goes hm
hmm. And then he'll slip into his spot and pull out a really beautifully
sculpted like this is one of his his kill shots, like something that he
would do to take out someone really really high up in rank. And he's
like he kind of like beautifully scripted his name in it, and uh,
he's gonna walk up and he's gonna go put it into like a maybe if
he has like does he have any pockets on his vest or oh yeah,
yeah yeah, he'll probably put it in a pocket that's very uncomfortable so he'll
see it. He's like, I'm not a one to give speeches or shed
tears for anyone, but here's one of us. I'll remind him in the
morning, checks and barking before he completes his mission. Don't tell anyone about
this. I don't want them getting all touchy none nice time, And as
time passes a little bit, please roll me both of you and awareness this
time of the plus thirty yr rita, I spine with my little eye.
So interestingly, possibly because you've been concentrating on the art of the bullet rita,
you hear this first, which is a low hum mechanical hum, slowly
coming closer. Essentially, Uh, it's quite light and you know, slowly
approaching. This building has windows which have either been covered if they're facing the
streets or anything like that. You've got like little slats you can look through,
so you don't really need to hide yourselves, but if you want,
I mean, and then he kind of like focuses in and he puts his
cloak on immediately and shimmers. Okay, yeah, Ace pretty much disappears from
your register for your eyes read it's gonna go into the miskit a little mirror
and just kind of howld it up, try and see you through the mirror.
Reader hand signals from now on like we were back at him, no
speaking that means okay, so reata as you kind of like push the mirror
out and just take a look down towards the direction it's coming. You see
like very low light spot spotlight beams essentially headed down towards the crossroads where you're
at kind of hovering about second story height. I'm not going to require a
role on this one. It essentially seems to be a scout drone of some
type, like a mechanical hover probably piloted by someone further away, just kind
of looking for signs of people, most likely right. Ah, you can
carry on talking to each other. Essentially, you're using hand signals to talk
to each other as we go on. Now over there, why you everybody
up? Lead him now to shut the hell up, because he's a dry
one. I will go where the drone is well off to the side and
see what I see in the distance eighteen four quietly, and in the off
we will take a break there. There is a drone outside having no bit
of a search, you have no reason to believe that it will particularly pick
up your presence. But you're going to go and wake everyone up and essentially
tell them that there is a drone and to stay quiet. So Ace,
you're heading off, give me a stealth role with a plus forty please,
As Aces essentially heading up to get eyes on, that's six series of success.
Very nice. As Ace is going to up to get eyes on and
kind of scan the horizon. I imagine the rest of you are all woken
up quietly with a kind of finger to the lips and a very quick,
hushed explanation as what's going on time Ace. It essentially goes down towards the
crossroads, stops at the crossroads, turns and starts heading away from the crossroads.
Down essentially at the crossroads. The way you're going is pretty much to
the to the left as you are looking at the crossroads, it's going up,
so it's kind of going at a right angle to the direction you're going
tomorrow, and very slowly with a hum like hmm, it just keeps going
down that way. I don't think you've had a whole load of experience with
the towel, correct like in previous campaigns. Aside from this one, you've
mostly dealt with heretics, rebellions, secessionists, basically wiping out planets that need
to be wiped out. Honestly, you haven't had much too much of a
of a challenge when it comes to enemy snipers because for the most part,
they're untrained, they're not specialists. They're just given a rifle and told to
shoot things further away than usual. This guy, though, you shot him
and now not a few hours later, you know, half a day later,
he's searching for you again with a drone. So he's still out there
and he is looking. I think what's going through his head right now is
he's like, I gave you a chance, now you're still here without He
doesn't want to disrespect his lieutenant again, Yeah, because it was pretty disrespectful
for him to go off and just do what he wanted to do and turn
off calms. Uh. This time he turns on his calm and he's just
like, lieutenant, are you awake? M? So he flips his calm.
Sergeant Valkis, are you awake? Mm hmmm. Yeah. Situation updates.
Drone has been spotted. I believe it's our fan service across the way.
He didn't take my warning shot too seriously, so that does mean that
we may be in trouble again. The drone is scouting away that we might
be going. So, what are your orders? Since the lieutenant is not
in a situation where he can give me orders, I guess you're next thing
command. What would you like for me to do? Drones on its way
up? I did, and it's moving up towards away from us, but
in the area where we will be going. I'm sure to give you,
like a location you can give. It's going off in the direction of that
opening you passed on the way hill. You're not really going past it,
but you know gont proved difficulty later. It's going past the opening that we
passed to earlier. It looks like he's searching for remains of his job before,
not expecting it's to not be there soon. I guess my question is
how bad is it if we take the drone out and then they know that
we're you know what, take the drone out? Are you sure is that
in order? Okay, against his better judgment, he does what she says,
he goes for it. Ace. Let me just check that you have
the skill you should have it, but please roll me a common law war
with a plus ten A common law on the right. You'll see a common
law in your skills. You'll see yes, yes, yes, yes,
m which one is it? War? War? Please with a plus ten
mm hmm. Okay. So obviously, when you take the shot, your
sniper rifle isn't silenced, which means if you're going to take the shot,
if you were in this situation by yourself sniping, you would take the shot,
you would relocate and see who came to the position of the noise.
Mm hm. So you have a couple of options here. I'm not gonna
give you like deep detail because obviously it's a failure, but you get enough
to have a few thoughts and you can expand on them yourself. There's possibility
that the drone will come back. This way could be a good way to
deal with a threat and also draw people in for the dead man's switch.
The other option is if you go to it, if you essentially use the
rest of the night, go to a different location where you think the drone
may be post up and take a shot, people will be drawn to there
instead. Or you can maybe tail the drone to give you some thoughts on
how to deal with it. So I think Ace new knows in his better
judgment there if he takes the drone out, he's not only going to draw
them to their location, it gives them signs of someone being alive from the
group that they were targeting. So he's like, she told me to take
the drone now, but she didn't tell me how to do it, yep.
So he looks for the in between. He's definitely gonna relocate. He's
under the concealment of his cloak, which is good for him but bad for
them. And he relocates to a location where he wants to change his angle
where he shoots, but he wants to also have some what's called basically the
sound of the bullet to ricochet, right, so somewhere with echo, especially
with like your buildings around it, and it's going to like smash the sound
all over the place right to where the target has to check the city where
it came from and or if they're under fire, so to confuse them.
And if they show themselves, then maybe he could take a shot of not
at least divert them enough for everyone to move out. Now. So question,
I used to staying on comms, Okay, so people can with you
through comms right right, Yes, because he's not taking a steel shot on
someone that he can't find at this point, doesn't need to concentrate that much.
He just needs to communicate the second he does it. But he will
go for go for taking out that drone, but he's gonna wait until the
drone crosses the right area for as much sound re riberation as possible. Okay,
So you slip out of the window Land. If you want to roll
another stealth you can, sure, but I'll go off the one you have
rolled. If you will go with the ones, I'm under the cloak.
If I wasn't in the close, You're You're essentially still doing the same thing
that role. But if you want to try and get better, you can
do better things with better successes. Basically, okay, we could try,
all right? Is it just flat? I believe it was a plus forty
yeah, yeah, okay, okay, it's still a good role. You
drop from the window where you have been keeping a watch like land without a
sound, and then very quickly shoot across the crossroads in the direction of where
the drone has been going. Do you want to go up through the rubble,
which will be a bit slower but more cover, or do you want
to go along the road towards the drone? Definitely the rule the more about
it. Okay, sound typically bounces, so I definitely want to do that.
So without disturbing any of the rubble, you essentially quickly ascend up the
rubble down the other side through these like burned out buildings and like through doorways
through windows, basically trying to keep yourself with enough cover as possible until a
good five to ten minutes. And I'm going to assume here that you have
essentially relaid what you're doing to the squad. So there, Uh, he'll
do it once he gets there. Okay, so for the rest of the
squad, just so you know, you haven't heard back from Ace yet.
I don't know whether you want to check it or not. Either way,
you take a good ten minutes, get some decent distance away from the place
where everyone's hold up, and you see it what is essentially a completely burned
out building. No roof, like, the walls are still up. They're
partially like propped up by other buildings and things like that. It doesn't offer
you a good sniping spot, but if anything is drawn here, you can
reposition to get a good shot on the location. So if you fire relocate,
you might be able to draw in either people searching for you or possible
be a sniper, especially if you take out his drawing Yeah, okay,
yeah, he's going to go where you make the most noise. Take the
drone out, then relocate and change his angle to an angle that the sniper
would not predict Yeah, instead of a head on shot, he wants to
go from a flank position. Okay. In that case, could you please
roll me a an awareness with a plus twenty and a common law war with
a plus ten. Okay that war? Nice awareness? Oh nice war too.
Okay, Sorry, before we get started, I'm going to miss his
back, but I'm going to turn calms to us single line to Valkus sage.
Yeah, you asked me earlier in the week of the day, I
should say two, do something messy. All. I am going to assume
that you trust my judgment that I will do your order of taking out this
drone. But it is going to be not as artistic as I like,
does discount as my debt to you to do something messy more than great.
Prepare yourselves for relocation on it that he cuts calms and goes along with it.
And we'll assume as Ace is doing this that essentially the squad is getting
packed up, getting ready to move. It's not the end of the day,
it's not the end of the night. But you all got some shot
on and just please tell Lank once we leave the air to check his front
left pocket, there's something of importance in there and then he cuts off Combs
again and proceeds. So Ace, you set up in a little while.
You think the drone is going to head back, and then you'll engage your
plan with your common law war and your awareness roll. You have spotted a
very unlikely tower that has a very thin line like through an alleyway shot,
but it's going to be the least expected position for a snipe shot to come
through. What he wants to do is he wants to take out the drone
under cloak, but when he sees or if he sees the shooter, he's
gonna take his cloak or folded back in plane views so that person could see
him like like like almost lock eyes with them down the score. Yeah,
okay, that's his messiness, all right, okay almost if you set up
fuck you, yes, and you set up ready to take that shot.
And we'll come back to Ace in a little bit. So the rest of
the squad time to get up, time to get prepared. Hawks ship shook,
shaken, awake. Lenk comes kind of groggily to his senses. What's
what's going on? M Sorry, we have to relocate. There's a drone.
Ace is going to take it out, but it's gonna probably let everyone
know where we are, so we're gonna relocate earlier than expected. Death.
All right, let's do this ria. I believe there was mention of it.
Will pick me up, just a regular normal love stick, singular love
stick. Oh, probably really doesn't matter anymore. But I'm sorry, I'm
not sure what your official title is, so I'll just call you sir.
And he looks over at you amorous, and he says, I don't suppose
there's any chance or the child of a noble who was protected and coddled and
is getting evacuated because of family toys. I was considering giving you last rites,
but after that question, I'm not entirely sure. On now. Now,
I was not cuddled. I earned my place ship. Well, I
guess I lost the ball. Actually, I've got a question for you.
Uh, you're not some kind of tird e fector yeah, you're secretly like
some bluefish people. By any chance, I just shoot a glance to the
lieutenant. Never mind, never mind. Literally the only thing I do is
just like, do you know any do I know? Any how? Sorry,
it's fun. I believe hayste was the idea here. We need to
leave. Yes, sorry, you're going to take point on this one.
All right, all right, this is all your car okay, all right,
I mean unless someone wants to, you know, worship slid sh right
in front of the inquisitory elagent or something. Okay, cool, we're gonna
leave, so pack up yet moving okay? All right? As you gather
your gear, get ready to move length kind of like it manages the start
himself up and faces you. Amorus first gives the sign of the Aquilo.
May I die in glory for the Emperor. May you die and glory.
May the Emperor give you strength to carry out the deed. Your duty is
almost done. Thank you, sir, and I wish you the best of
luck with your mission. Sir, thank you, And he looks lieutenant sarge.
There's a pleasure serving with you. Yeah, no, it was a
pleasure. And thanks for calling me sage or do you that disorder of this
late? Yeah? No, I appreciate. I appreciate that. Have fun.
See you on the other side. And if I see you first and
other sarge, Yeah, have a good one. Yeah, sleep well man,
and right this way you come with me? Yeah, no, I
figure the way you're talking to the to the VIP. You're gonna be joining
me next. I'll see you in a minute. Well, coming with you,
sit you up and everything. Oh oh yeah yeah, dead man switching
all that all right? With the normal love stick? Yeah, well I
may not have got that now. Sorry, it's got me all night before
you come on, come on, come on, cann this all right?
All right, So soon as you light this thing up, you're gonna take
a deep breathing and hold it all right, as long as you can.
Yeah, probably be sitting down, and as soon is your hand opens,
it's gonna be a big beam, all right, So down light this thing
until you're ready, right, and you're like sits down. His back is
essentially against a quite high piece of rubble and he's facing the entry ways.
Got his last God by his side. All right, give me the dead
man switch, all right? Keep your face tailed on it. Well,
I just flick it all right you yeah, yeah, well I guess this
is it. I have a you have a good one. Yeah, you
wanna you want to hear your last words or something? Oh fuck it,
let's go all right? Anything else you want anything else I can get you
here. Be a nutrient bar, a little whine of a red cake.
Oh, do me one favor. Yeah, try and let try and get
Hawk through this mission at least. Oh, he'll be fine. He'll be
fine, I think so. But got him. It would be kind of
embarrassing for him to die in his first mission. He's embarrassing himself quite enough
already. Yeah, alright, alright, well have a good one possible.
You two might came here just kinda here on your forehead. Okay, it's
all right. I only feel the heave of it. Yeah, it hurts
worse than the hold of my stomach. Yeah. Oh and fine, get
up, shoulder your gear, and head out. And as you step out
the door down the street, start heading. I'm assuming everyone's just you're kind
of heading to the exit of here the matter where the front line is,
and onwards to the hive. As you probably go about five ten minutes,
there is a loud gunshot and we will switch over to ACE. I would
like to reveal the bullet that I made. Oh yes, that bullet had
a fringes, fringes and tip on it. Okay, this is the ultimate
fuck you bullet. He doesn't care for it. He hates it, He
hates the cloud. He hates what it does to people. But this guy,
he wants to put him down, and hopefully he has teammates that come
his way, and yeah, hopefully they feed on him or whatever they do.
He doesn't care. So you're in the open area with the loss of
the echo. You're set up by kind of facing the street behind some rubble
comedy line cloak on top of you. The only thing visible is the sniper
barrel pointing out and you hear that hum returning in your direction. Seems to
actually be flying over the buildings, kind of heading kind of back ish to
where you came a bit more of a sideways direction. It's a bit more
parallel than directly straight back to where you came from. And you have a
shot. It's ballistic skill. You've been preparing for it. It's an ambush.
You have plus fifty on this shot. It's close by. Hell yeah,
one shot straight through the drones little kind of camera monitor that it has
instant shot. It goes straight down and you immediately relocate. Yep, he's
going darts over still under his cloak. Is to see what is possible,
and you head down towards the towards the alleyway through the alleyway up the building
as quick as you can, and within three four minutes you are posted up,
eye down the scope, not moving, just waiting that little slit of
alley way illuminating the position you fired from, and you wait loads of special
bullet. He doesn't smile, He holds his breath in intervals as he counts
and lines up the chat. But the more still he's trying to have like
the best aim pass. Okay, yeah, it's ten minutes, fifteen minutes,
no sign of anything, and then suddenly a little flash of color as
you see this armored figure looks like it's kind of wearing a full armor.
You can't see its face. It's got like a couple of a couple of
kind of vision circles, the best way I can describe it. And slung
over their shoulder is this huge rifle, like almost almost longer than they are.
I don't think you know what this rifle is, but it's very clearly
like a sniper rifle. And he just comes into your vision as you're sighting
down, and he's very hesitant, going very slowly, very aware, and
you see him like crouch down to the drone and like move it to the
side and then look left, look right, trying to figure out where the
sniper who shot this drone may have gone. Yep, he loads and he
creaks back to his sniper rifle and he just says, briefly, he's like
he didn't He names each bullet special bullet, and it's just like is as
fun the embarrassment of not being professional or artistic, and his eyes get big.
He has orchestra in his head and he takes that lad. It's not
like a type thing. He kind of takes like a breath out as he
pulls the trigger and just squeezes on that tracker. Okay, please give me
a This will be a short range, it'll be a standard shot flame and
with ambush you'll be plus twenty on top of that as well, like to
roll the hit right? Yes, if you like the cool way you're shooting,
it'll be minus twenty as well, So just be if I like the
way, if you want to cool your shots like head you place, you
did say go messy. He was gonna go messy at this angle. Do
I have the height advantage? Yes? He wants to shoot this shot down
through between the collar bone and the shoulder socket, angering down like from the
yep right there, and he wants it to hit the heart and explode the
heart and the gas to come out every hole possible. Okay, so that
will be a with the modifiers that I said, a straight shot, okay,
no modifier, go modified, no modified. Okay. Oh please roll
me a damage with two D ten additional damage on top of that for your
accurate I'm guessing that's a two dash three. It's a drop there. Oh
was literated? Oh lordie. He takes his shot, He takes off his
cloak and everything. He just stands out and the look that he has isn't
the same ace. It's not like calm and composed. It is the switch
his flipped. He is completely psychotic, wide eye just if you can get
super animated. It's just like super wide eyed, biggest grinned. And he's
behind him, yeah, and he's like biting down his lip to where he
starts bleeding, like this is this is like what landed him in his home
planet and why people don't and he like pauses for a second and this kind
of like armored head like snap round suddenly like some sixth sense warned it.
And as it's like swinging the sliper rifle. He squeezed the trigger and with
no way to stop it, he goes straight in between the crack down into
the heart and explodes the heart, and slowly as the body falls, small
little wisps of like greeny yellow smoke just start coming out of the gaps in
the armor and start slowly filling up this area with no wind. Anyone who
comes to investigate those shots are going to have a bad time because there is
a low level of friends to gen just drifting in this area. And with
that, he kind of just opens his arms and doesn't speak anything. It's
just everything's playing in his head and he kind of grabs his face and you
see this like gigglings, like trying to contain it, and he just pulls
it and he's and then he'll just say something like I don't seen, and
he'll pick up his cloak and I'll just slowly because he's if there was any
kind of high that you could ever think of, that's him right now.
But he's just taking it in silently as he comes back and turns his calm
on, and he with's shaking and his voices like such such, yes,
I have done more, and you can never ask where the scene of destruction
messiness created the most abstract, beautiful, everlasting tranquility. And he cuts off
his calm without her responding, and walks and slowly walks back, and so
a little bit of time passes, and for the sake of everyone watching who
isn't part of the squad, a good thirty minutes, maybe twenty five minutes
after this this duel happens, a large contingent, probably about twenty to thirty
people finally managed to find their way to the area that this cow pathfinder was
sniped from. Immediately, on seeing it, rushed towards it to get grab
his gear, to grab his stuff, and without being too graphic, they
tear each other apart because the friends and turns them just that little bit insane.
However, that is lost on the squad who. A little bit later,
you're making good progress headed down the roadway, and eventually, after about
thirty minutes or so, Ace re joins you. I would say, you've
got maybe another hour, maybe thirty minutes ish, depending on how quickly you
go, until you get to the edge, back to the front line,
and Ace you essentially appear. I would I would imagine Ace kind of walks
out in front of you both lately and you know, like uncloaks, yeah,
and just completely mad himself. Yes, just takes position up up at
the vanguard of the recrunning. Mm hmmm, all right, lieutenant, let's
just say there is no longer a problem. Well we need to hurry.
Yeah, all right, Well we got an earlier start than I expected,
but Sergeant wasn't necessarily a bad idea, so let's keep going, all right.
And then I think, yeah, I just sort of I don't know
if we're really so we don't have link anymore. Yeah, I don't.
Okay, So I don't dislike Amory's because I would have put Hawk with him
to protect him. But I'm not going to do that. I'm actually gonna
go I think I'll go over to uh and balcuz, you know, close
enough to be like, all right, you need to give Hawk some actual
direction, all right, because he's a little bit of an idiot. He's
gonna be alright as long as he stays alive, but just put them where
it needs to be. And then I think I I'm going to actually go
up next to Amorous and just be on guard, not really talking to him
necessarily just sort of because I mean, honestly, the lieutenant. It was
his place, so that's where he's at. Yeah, and I hate it.
Yeah, okay, yes, uh, Sautry, I want you stick
with Parsival. Yes, yeah, you got that. Keep an eye out,
make sure she's safe. I it's safe as in not getting hurt,
or safe as in not blowing us up. Uh, not getting hurt is
right, and goes over and joins kind of in step with Rita. Ah,
hell yeah, yeah, be good. So I just sent me over
to help out if you need any help, assistance, help to ruffle in
here. It's it's it's it's fine. Horrible helmet. How you smell free
instagen? No, I don't know what it smells like, though, to
be fair, it smells like this. Not just kidding. And then there's
a very low which explosion a ways back from where you came. He goes
to the emperor. They did anyone tell him the check his front palk?
What did you figure? Wait one? Yeah, oh well it's the effort
that matters. And he kind of just uh silently turns his head and keeps
walking. Yeah, we just gotta pull out the little he's a metal head
of a pocket and just buy it on it or try and try and pind
it. So I imagine everyone turns around. Oh yeah, explosion happens,
just a second pause, moving on. I don't think I know, I
wouldn't say anything. I'd probably just stand there for a minute. All right,
we're wasting time, and then turning on. There's a minute hesitation from
Hawk, who essentially is it as used to just moving on as the rest
of you. I think you'd probably notice that retail. Yeah, hi,
Hawk, Yes, give it a joke. Okay. How many guardsmen does
it take to paint a barn? Depends on him in and you throw at
him. You get it? Just throwing guards me it right? Okay,
sorry, I was thinking paint with like a oh although I guess if if
the swarge was doing it, then it just take one because you know,
got a LOLd of bullets. Huh huh huh. Yeah. What do you
call a rebel? He's just got run over by a crime era. I
don't know, Crunchy, h Has that happened much? Is that I threw
a man and in front of a chimera once? Ooh what happened? He
went to crunch it was a very accurate description. H was this ah is
there is particular reason why he threw him? Was he one of one of
ours or someone else? Mam, just a mild heresy yep, stimpy at
early? Rita, rita. How do I know if I'm doing like mild
heresy because I don't already want to. It's a pretty good bit that that
if you if you gamble or drink, oh you have fun, or if
you you know, don't take care of your equipment or forget to tie you
buckle your places. You know, if you, you know, forget get
pretty much anything at all, they can elap me. You know you're wearing
your seal right, yes, yes, ah you sure, yeah, you
gotta keep being a care of your things. Are you gonna do it here?
See? Also, please can I thank you? I just read that's
all stuff that you do. Ah, okay, And if you do anyone,
I'll cure you. Right No, I mean I wouldn't tell anyone.
I'm just I'm just saying, you know, you gotta be careful like you
don't want to get thrown in front of a crime eraror right sorry, sorry,
don't don't steal mind thinks anymore and keep walking, so you are essentially
walking through the hive. I can tell you at this point you are getting
close to the edge. There's a good thirty minutes walk, but you can
see the hole you entered in from the rubble that essentially like blocks, a
lot of it. The sounds of battle are getting closer, as you can
still hear the frontline. Who knows what state is in, but apparently it's
still at least partially there, and there is a little time if anyone would
like to have any conversations or get get anything said. I guess before you
head back, one thing I can tell you and you'll you will essentially be
able to pick this up, is that there's some like noise and remnants of
habitation in this high city. There's some people still alive. They're all back
behind you the explosions and all the gas and stuff. At this point,
just about to exit the high city, there's no sign of life over this
way. Li Tenant, I did have a note on my person is a
package. It is why I'm heading off the world. It is restricted.
No one is to look at it, as I understood. Yeah, absolutely
not going to happen. State secrets and are of that sort of thing.
I understand, thank you, something happens to you which we're not going to
let happen, but you understand, blow it up, understood, and we
cannot have it. All right, that's all. That's all right. How
long have you been on this planet? Oh? At least three cycles?
I think it's been a while. All right. Well, I'm not gonna
ask any questions. I'm not supposed to, but that's fine. I'd tell
you if it wasn't allowed. That's fair. I just whatever you're doing here,
I assume it's got to be worth it to some degree. But that
is a shithole. It's a shithole, so trying to connect those two things.
Not all shi holes that way on the surface. All right, Okay,
I can understand that. Okay, Well, this place doesn't have very
long left in it. I know you know that. I'm aware. That's
why we're leaving. I do hope you know exterminatus, but it may be
necessary, that is what it is. I imagine they're going to put us
back down on the ground after we get you out of here. But I
think, I mean, I've been in some shitholes and this is it's not
the worst, but it's up there, it's gotten the worst of the last
cycle. For I'm sure. Yeah, well, we saw the line coming
in and I just losing ground left and right. It would be ours once
they that. I will give you, Lieutenant and Amorus. You'll be aware
of this yourself, but it's not something you consider particularly important. There seems
to be nothing of strategic value to this world. So it's a sort of
what it's like out there. I mean, as out there's plenty of places
are, but not like a good outpost necessarily or anything like that. It's
on the edge of the war. There was no indication that the Tao We're
going to pay any interest to this place. The fact that they helped raise
up a rebellion here is weird, I guess. But then again, who
understands what Xenos do? Yeah, okay, it's not like super bizarre.
It's just a little kinky, just enough out of the ordinary to be recognized.
It's just well, yeah, I also imagine knowing that, especially after
that about the package and if he dies destroy it. I think I don't
think the lieutenant would really understand exactly why, of course, because that's not
his job. But I think he understands there's enough going on that's it's a
big enough issue that for his own duty to service that he's determined to get
him out of there. Yeah. So yeah, all right, Well i'll
tell you what. Uh, we got a little bit of time until well
get to the line, and I know what it looked like before, so
heads up. But I'm sure you understand. If that captain is still alive,
I'll be surprised. It might get it might get a little think I
was trying to get out of here. So we're going to get you out
of here. I am pretty bad, darn not all right? And then
yeah, it just keeps walking after a little bit of hawk Uh kind of
leans closer to Rita and says, Rita, is is there something wrong with
Ace? He looks like he looks like the soergeant looks when she's praying.
Now he's just his face mate, kind of like glazed eyes, and he
looks like that. He's thinking, Yeah, you see a snipe before,
like a seven right before it's gonna You know, okay, I haven't get
you hunt. You know, you gotta zone in. Okay, you can
learn a thing or two. Practice you practice. You let me see it.
Let me see your thinking face. You're gonna do a murder pace?
Eh yeah, yeah, I don't eyebrass, I think you know? Yeah,
here it is. I'm terrified already. Does the trip require medical attention?
No? Thank you, So I'm fine. We don't already have a
medical either. I can pet you up right, got any more buildings to
blow up? It was a joke, ha ha ha ha, I've got
excited. I was just picking ones out, you know, a ace you
do it all right? Yes, I'm doing fine. I wish you were
all there to see the look on their face when that bullet went through,
had a most disturbing angle. That's all okay? Cool? Great? You
know there's something about having a heart explode and then never mind any kind of
slight smiles and just looks away and keeps walking. It's a born killer mite,
you see you it's not he's killing you think so. I have found
my gun now, very good. I'm might have hit someone, I think
where. Maybe we'll get you to kill someone soon. I'm not sure what
my first like confirmed killed to be. You know, m h like someone
is easy. Everyone dreams a bit at their first time, right, we
all addicted to tell stories a bit and are in it came fire, like,
oh my first time was this, and listen to aware of it.
It's awkward and messy and wet and you're always it's way too early. Okay,
oh yeah, actually was right. My first kill my gun went off.
I wasn't even holding it. It's technically mine, but it's not going
to happen the way I think. Okay, I just I just hope,
I just hope. I could you know you're an impressive kill, Like,
just try, I'll do my best, ye and if it doesn't apen,
down't beat yourself up a bit? Right, Maybe maybe I already killed someone
just firing blindly in the dark. You don't want to count that because you'll
never know, and that'll bother you later on. Lieutenant mm hmm, and
he looks over at the amorous uh per permission to speak, So I'm not,
sir, commander, you may speak, thank you, So hopefully this
isn't too uh cheeky, sir. But I was just wondering what it's like
working for the Inquisition, because you hear stories every now and then, but
no one who says that they work for the Inquisition, every ever, ever
actually work for the Inquisition, you know, it's like stories. Well,
it really depends on your job and capacity within the Inquisition. M Sometimes you
might be out assessing a planet, a colony, seeing what the people are
thinking. Perhaps you're investigating a particular lead into some Zeno threat, seeing if
there's any infiltration, infiltrating yourself, any number of things. Really, Yes,
sir, he just helping motivate the squads. Yes, so is that
what you're doing here, sir? Investigating the zenos? Fousy enough infiltration?
It's classified, but I'll happily say yes to get your mind off of it.
Yes, sir, He like turns back to Rita, who kind of
like hunches over it. I spoke to an inquisitor and he didn't kill me.
Good job. Here, your wheel done? You like I could charge
a trench line? Yeah, probably, I believe in. Yeah. So,
as the final minutes, the sound of battle coming closer, you finally
get to what I would call the edge of the Hive city. There is
roblin the way. There is essentially a block covering the actual activity outside.
As you remember, there's a bit of rubble, there's a bit of open
ground to the trench line. My question now is is this is the this
is an exit. There is a possibility if you kind of go around the
edge, you may find another way out of the Hive City, not next
to the trench and to this fight. You don't know, like it could
take a while to find it could be immediately, you know, right there.
My question is is how let's say you basically take a knee before you
get to the outer part of the Hive City and you have a quick power.
How as to what you want to do here? Do you want to
get involved with the trench? Do you want to get into the trench,
travel down it for a while, you know, kind of move out and
move away from it, Like what's the h All right, let's go over
options. We can go forward, get back into the trench, traveling for
a while, find a spot that we can hop out, go back to
where we need to and go round hope hoping we can find something that'll get
us going in that same direction. Well, that's a little iffy, and
if we if it doesn't pan out, we're just gonna have to double back
and go into the trench. Anyway, what do y'all think wakes for me?
I'll follow your leap m all right, all right, uh is this
the is this the same place that we came from before, like the exact
same Okay, so there's still that open little bit of feel to get over
to the to the trench flight. All right? Well, is the the
spaces like we had gone through, the little bits of cover they still there?
Oh yeah, all right, what he's around it? But fucking right?
All right, fresh ones, I mean you've already hit like a day
or two. All right, all right, Well we're gonna do this again.
But he's our priority. He's got to get across before anybody else,
all right, which means sarge, we're gonna need you to do the same
thing. We're gonna get you out there. Ace. You think you can
get a position to cause a little bit of ship, Yes, of course,
Okay, you know what parts of them? Yes, sir? Can
you put down some smoke about well, I know I know you can do
that, but can you put it down closer to the trench line. We'll
just we'll minimize some of their their view. And we know the trench line
is there, we know what we're going into. We can deal with it.
If we can't see very well, it's fine, So if you can
do how is the wind currently outside? Uh it is very lightly raining with
a just a small breeze. Our best fun. Yeah, I can do
that. All right, that'll be good. All right, let's see here,
Amris. I am going to have you go after Rita. It's or
not sorry about that. Actually, Valcus. When Falcus gets about halfway,
hosts up like you did last time, so you can put down some suppressive
fire. Amrich, You're gonna run first. Hawk. You're gonna be right
in front of him, yes, sir. But when I say in front
of him, I mean beside him. So if anyone's gonna get shot,
it's gonna be you. You do your duty, yes, sir. All
right on my left, I can defend myself from the right. Oh look
at that hawk. Alright, alright, fair enough talk you in one die
all right. Uh, I'll bring up the rear. So that means that
after you two get across uh cars, you're gonna go. Okay, Ace,
I'm gonna wait for you to come back down after that, and then
I'm gonna be following right behind you. But I will not be seen,
sir. You ware, Oh, I know it may be a good thing.
Yeah, let's make it fun. All right, we're ready to do
this, Yes, yes, all right, right, sergeant or bitch,
get your gear ready on it. Okay, all right, just give me
the word sage, let me know and if let him fly. Yeah,
I don't want you oh actually, yeah, all right. I want you
to put down that smoke first and as soon as it pops, because that's
when you run. It's gonna help with the distraction a little bit, along
with Ace's shots. So okay, that'll be good. So Ace, when
you're a posted up, let me know when you have any eyes on,
let me know. Ay, Ace is all all right? So Ace,
you tape position, Yes, in the rubble, I'm see me. You're
not going to the trench line because that won't give you a good view.
You can see as you kind of like clamber up and you get on top.
You've got your cameleo line cloak like. This position, once it's revealed,
will be a bullet magnet. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.
You've got a lot of hardcover around you, and you can always slip back
down below it if needed. So it's going to be a useful way to
draw fire. If it's too concentrated on the people moving. And I believe
Von Valcus is the other one who is charging across to take a position in
the middle. Yes, sir, okay, So you guys have all done
this before. You did very well last time. So Valcus, when you're
ready, yep, going, yes, okay, So Von Valcus, you
charge out across towards that middle pillar. As you go, immediately the fire
from the trench line starts to starts to intensify, and bullets are like kicking
up around your feet as you go. Ace if you want to, you
know, do anything at the same time as von Valciz goes the smoke rita
fight over yep, exactly means that the bullets that are whizzing through past you
are a lot more wild. You know, they're not aimed at you,
but some do kick up dirt around you, and you manage to run to
the centerpiece where you were last time. What's that I'm gonna post up and
start shooting. Okay, you get that same position you had last time.
Smack down the heavy bolt, ram the trigger and just start unloading. Sage.
Sorry, Lieutenant uh Valcaz has started doing nothing as soon as she starts
firing. I'm going to tell Amorus and Hawk to go just yeah and let
them go. And while they are I'm taking part shots just for the just
to create as much attraction as I can. Yeah, okay, okay,
And some of the shots are coming in your direction as well, but it's
very vague. It's not really aimed. It's just a few pings off some
rubble and that type of thing. Amorus running with Hawk, just are you
here's a question. Are you going to the center to stop? Are you
going to go all the way to the to the trench line? Oh?
All the way? Okay? Sorry, Now both running. Occasional wizzards like
bullets flip over your heads and to kick up the dirt around your feet.
And you get to that halfway point you see you see like the shaking biceps
of of von Valchez, the sergeant as she is just laying down heavy bolt
to fire, doesn't even look at you as you like whip past her,
keep going past the keep going past the big bit of rubble and straight on
towards this trench line where you see like it's quite it's a little bit misty
and there's raining and a little obscure vision. You see like a few figures
in the trench as you essentially jump down by the like lost few bullets kind
of following you and just just kicking up dirt on the top of the trench.
As Hawk jumps in, he like slips and falls on his arse and
you land next to him. Straight in front of you, there's like a
gaping soldier like his mouth like gaping open, like and you realize, because
you've been fighting them, this is someone on the other side. And it's
kind of like a good five feet away from you. As he's like frozen
looking at you, and then starts to swing his gun around towards you.
I'd like to take that gun and give it back to him. You step
forwards and as his gun swings around, you grab it with the power fist,
power it up and just fry it and look to Hawk. Yeah,
first kill away to you, Yes, sir, And he jumps up and
like fumbles with his rifle for a second. The guy who you just fried
his rifle with your hand kind of like turns and starts to run, and
then Hawk a couple of shots straight in the back and he goes down the
rest of the trench line appears to be clear. Like going ahead of you,
I just put my fist up past the trench to signal that we're there
and made it safe. Okay, all right, perfect, all right?
Your turn right? Run you're going? Are you just? Are you gonna
focus on running or you're gonna lay down any grenades, any any fire as
you go? Like, what's the I think? Isn't running? Just gonna
click on the coms my partner ie, I need a distance an angle?
Oh? What distance? And angle? Oh? He s looks down and
do I need to roll awareness? Okay, let's see here forty five degree
angle and about fifty yards or so yards for five dac and father. As
Rita is running essentially like spins very slightly at the waist and just aims up
with the grenade, order flips a grenade and eight. As the grenade is
flying over, you have like a perfect bead on it as it goes.
Rita is is this a friends with cormon? Uh? Nice? Just a
fraighting? I think just a rack. We can fifty to fifty eight,
I mean sure like it if raoul one deep two? Yeah, it's okay
with the wind being how it is and the positioning of the troopers, like
when it when it lands, it's obviously going to explode and do that type
of thing. If it explodes in mid air, it's going to cover a
bigger area. While this is going, he kind of notices it coming up.
He's like, Lieutenant, how good is you are holding your breath?
I can hold my breath. As soon as he says I yeah, it's
chat Bang and the friends Jingerdad just explodes in the air above you all and
just starts to like mostly head down towards the enemy trench line, but some
of it does seep to kind of like the no man's land that starts to
settle. I'm reading you jump and land in the trench line, you see
Amorus and hawk Hawk is like looking excited and kind of wired up. He's
like against the trench line, firing at nothing. Like he's not really adding
much to the me scorn yet. Oh sorry, okay, So I think
I think the lieutenantcy and this is gonna be like, oh fuck, all
right, Ace, you got a minute and a half to get to me,
and I'm just gonna hold my breath. I'm fucking waiting for him.
Yeah, it's gonna be running towards this. The lieutenants, like you do
realize it was a joke. You should have your mask right ace you like
slide down the rubble like little bits of like cutting your legs very slightly.
But it's time is of the essence, and you go and you join the
lieutenant. You both want to go across. Okay, heads down essentially bobbing
and weaving. Bullets flying across. You can still see von Valciz just laying
down fire von valcus As as they're getting close to you. You see actually
on the edge of the enemy trench line. A few of them kind of
like jump up in kind of like a semi charge, and obviously you're just
kind of like laying out if you'd like to. Yeah, you're gonna lay
down the hammer, yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So just like you like
grab grab the top of your heavy bolter. It's got like a nice little
handle there. You just kind of readjust and just let loose and the bullets
like ping ping, ping ping along the ground up towards them, like hits
one of them in the chest. Their legs go flying as they like get
knocked back by this explosion. A couple of the other ones like take hits
and full slap slap, like right back into the trench line. The others,
you know, kind of slip and slide on the wet floor and like
dive back into the trench line as they're like, you what, we don't
need to charge, not right now, We'll wait for a bit, baby,
Ace and lieutenant, you keep going heads down. You get to the
other side of the trench line, jump in von Valcz. Everyone's through.
All right, I'm gonna start walking forward and meeting up with them, okay,
towards the trench line, like the friendly trench line. Yeah, I'm
going to where they are, yeah, said walking forward. I was like,
no, no, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna yeah, okay, so
yeah, you you start walking the other way. Every time a head starts
to pop up, it is either hit by your sheer hail of bullets or
sniped as Ace is now on the trench line like the little peak of ahead,
and that's enough to take out a temple. And after after like ten
fifteen seconds of a few of them trying to return fire, the fire they
have been trying to put on just kind of peters out and they're keeping their
heads down and form valcuz you're essentially walk over to the trench line and then
just hop in. Okay, that was good. Did you enjoy a little
escapade? Yeah? Did you even breathe in some of that? A guess
that was flirting about it. I don't think someone like you would even be
effect seeing that you're on you're high already. What's their guess? You feel
a little viscular right ere? Yeah? I could just bring somebody's snak with
my thighs. Should we sarge? Lieutenant? Are we going? Are we
going to head to where the captain was? Now? Well, we're gonna
start going in that direction, but I don't know if we have to go
all the way. And really, Emmerson, you want to go see if
the captain still up and about? I mean, we're making okay time,
we've got to get you out of here, but it's your choice. Front
line still seems to be holding, but there's a lot less people along the
line. M hmm, I'll deferred here, judgment, you've ran less already,
all right, Well, fuck them. We're gonna get about halfway to
where we came in. We're gonna hop out, We're gonna go in the
opposite direction, okay, God for me. As you walk down the trench
line, you see less signs of corporals, sergeants, no lieutenants, no
captains. Mostly it's troopers holding on in skin of the teeth. A lot
of them don't even notice you. They're essentially just focusing on laying down foyer
when necessary, or staring straight ahead at the other side of the trenches there
sat down in it. Could I please get for anyone who has it a
common law war? What just one person? Anyone who has it? It
works, amorous, nice, roll right on the money, Thank you right
exactly when I need them? Where would I find that? I'm so sorry?
Right of your skills? It says linguistics, common law, scholastic law
for thank you so much. Anyone else would like to roll it? O
W let's see, oh ship down? Well, I mean ace like.
All that means is that you are lost in your orchestra. Man like you
out who cares about how the war's going? Your war's going awesome? Yeah?
So for and also it's the same for war bitch. You know,
she pops some fools. Now she's just walking up. It might be a
sergeant, but still just wandering around the trench with everyone else for Amorus and
for the lieutenant. Uh, you guess a couple of hours and the enemy
is going to break through this trench line. They're putting too much pressure on
the troops here are doing their best, but they don't have enough men,
they don't have enough leadership anymore. It's possible the captain's dead. So you
get about halfway jump out the trench line at a nice little kind of like
covered area, so you can kind of slip out and head back, and
as the sounds of the front line fade slowly as you move further and further
away for it, walking down an open field very vaguely, maybe you can
see the outline of the hive city you're headed to in the distance. We're
going to end there for today, Haered Hooks still alive. Well done.
Everyone got his first kill. Yeah, and it was a good kill.
That was a pretty good kill. But you know what, when Amress gave
him that kill, I almost made an oar face, like, ah,
can you imagine he's like dead already? Kittens to kill just kick it a
little twitch. Was really good. That was a really like dan. That
was a good moment. To do. That was so good and that's our
baby, very good inquisitorial agent. Yeah, doing what I can? Should
we should we do outros and whatnot? I believe I have to lead these.
Let's uh, let's start with you know what, he was a starterday.
Let's start with Ace also technically hello. I'm to call Sinius aka Technique
aka Frank, play a lot of faces on table story and enjoy every bit
of it. Gonna be sad when my faces failed to show itself on table
and gyms. I have to plug myself every time. No, I love
I love it. I'm I'm an actor first, and it's great to be
to bring so many characters alive and have so many different dms. It's interesting
you get attached to having one for so long, but when you started like
going to other ones and seeing different styles and being able to have different cast
members, it becomes more of a special moment than anything. So thank you
for having me first of all, and uh yes, thanks for the compliments
on outfit. I tendn't to go all out. I even bought an outfit
for something that was a podcast. Nobody will see it. You can find
me on Twitch, do TV, slash Technique. I'll be playing lots of
Low Start coming up on the eighth, but at the moment we're just dabbing
in some Pokemon and screaming because that game is scary for some reason, the
one that just came out. Or you can follow me on Twitter at Technique
tv where you find out everything that I'm doing outside and inside Twitch. Thank
you for having me again, and it's been an absolute pleasure. And dude,
that's like, that was awesome. Thanks is all. I always wanted
to play a sniper and never got a chance. Let's move on over to
someone who needs no wig. I need no wig. Hi, It's true.
I did get that wig and then liked it so much that I made
it permanent. So yeah, it was a good time. What am I?
I'm right, I'm myrgles. You can find me onto it. I'm
actually I have exciting news, and that is well for some it's exciting news.
I did a charity event last year and one of the things that we
attained the highest goal was a full extended edition Lord of the Rings marathon with
my community, and uh, we didn't get a chance to do it,
but tomorrow we're doing it. So if you want enjoy and watch the entire
trilogy of Lord of the Rings on a whitch watch already, then come on
by the noon German time that we're starting with Fellowship, so that's what we'll
be doing tomorrow. I'm also costplaying Arwin anyway, that's it, Thank you
so much. Hey, Next up, let's go with our resident inquisitorial Agent
Thorn amorous and also done. Hello, I was amrous for the day when
what was that when you crushed that rifle? It was so cool. I
had to make sure that he couldn't fight back so our little our little green
guy could get a kill, possibly his first, and I got to be
there for it, so I stole it from all of you. You're very
welcome, no fucking clue. Yeah, oh boy, but absolutely love this.
I love learning more about forty k through this show, specifically because it
is not my knowledge wheelhouse. So it's been it's been very nice. But
yeah, I'm a domestic Dan. You can find me on this channel semi
regularly as well throughout the times, depending on what's going on. And uh
yeah, I do all sorts of things like making rings and food and playing
games and also doing all of this. I do I don't have a brand
at anymore after this long, it's just what do I feel like doing.
It doesn't matter anymore. I'm just gonna do it as long as it's domestic
exactly. That is me you're finding then, also possibly the largest heretic in
the in the outfits, definitely. And as an Hi, everybody, my
name is Nicotine. I do a lot of role play variety simulation stuff on
my own channel, let's switch dot TV slash Nicotine and I K A T
I N E. Where stream daily. I'm also on Twitter at Nicotine Prime
and you can find some cool pictures there of me. Alrighty, finally the
man who was sarge but it's now lieutenant and we all keep messing it up.
But is it on purpose? Is it in character? Or are we
just doing it? Lieutenant Keith as Aaron, I can tell you just from
experience, whenever you know I would go up and rank, it always happens,
like people can't help it. They get used to that routine of calling
you something, so there's always, for like a week or two, that
awkward them saying it wrong, and then it's like do I correct myself or
maybe they didn't catch it? You hear it, and you're not gonna call
You shouldn't call anyone out like an asshole. So it happened. So that
was actually really great the whole time. Lieutenant, it's wonderful. It's because
it's so accurate. My name is Aaron Black. I'm a writer. I
wrote a book called Firewall Down. It's a cyberpunk detective mystery. And if
you want to know more about that, you can find me over on Twitter
at Aaron B. Wrights. Okay, and there's only so long. Myself,
sheep dog can can delay doing a proper outro, so I mean,
I do it today. But Brad cottis