Capitulus Quartus: Deadtown
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Haxtes moves forward to get some cover through the dais. Then he points his flamer at the gangers and croaks: "Mechanicus Deum!" before pulling the trigger. If possible, most of his body is in cover and his optical mechadendrite looks out to help him aim. The flamer again emits a stream of burning promethium. Right after the shot, Haxtes ducks down, stows away his empty flamer and readies his hellgun again.
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Xanthia is spent, she's barely able to get to her feet, but the woman doesn't give up, not this easily. Using the dais for support she braces her pistol on the stonework that his shoulder height and fires off a round. The bolt pistol rings out so loud you don't hear the man scream as his head is blown to pieces. It explodes on contact with the bolt shell and the rest of him falls down without it.
Haxtes then moves to the corner of the dais and lights up his flamer one more time. This time the man can't avoid the scorching heat. He takes the waves of promethium all over his body and is burnt badly. Still alive he is lit on fire and flails about for a few seconds before the fire finally consumes him. His husk falls to the ground burning for another few minutes giving off an oily smoke.
Quill, the last one left, badly wounded, shouts, "How about a truce? You let me live and I'll never see you again." He drops to a crouch, his body disappearing from sight over the tosses a grenade over the stone barrier. It flies through the chamber, lands in the far vault and pops with a blinding photon flash. The light is so intense Xanthia cries out, "I'm blind! I'm blind!" It can't get much worse for the woman. Solaria's photo contacts auto correct and she suffers nothing from the flash. Haxtes various implants and half machine visuals allow him to overcome the effects through sheer toughness and the Tech Priest's vision remains.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
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"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
J.R.R. Tolkien, Council of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Haxtes sweeps his hellgun around and shoots twice, aiming for the stone pillar the man is hiding behind.
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Xanthia blinded drops down hoping to be in cover and keep from getting shot, its the best she can manage.
Then you hear a grunt, a blast of Quill's handcanon. A second later a sound of someon kicking metal and then nothing from over there but the fading sounds of a grunting echo.
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"Cover me!" Haxtes hisses and if Solaria still keeps up her overwatch, he moves straigtht to the wall, hellgun ready, and then slowly edges south along the wall, closer to Quill's position. The Techpriests optical mechadendrite is extended to 3m before him.
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Solaria keeps Quill's position covered. "Careful... Coward probably shot himself or something. Watch out for boobie traps." Still covering the pillar, Solaria says to Xan without looking. "Calm down, sister. The blindess will go away soon. We got everyone. Hold still until we can clear the room..."
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Haxtes moves forward as Xanthia recovers her eye sight. Solaria keeps her watch on the opening just in case Quill tries something stupid. The Tech Priest extends his eye around the corner and finds nothing! Quill is gone!
The search of the crypt only takes Haxtes a few seconds. On the far wall a small metal plat has been blasted open, and some torn cloak is hooked on the jagged edge. It appears Quill has blown a hole open in the rat like maze of tunnels and is crawling away through them!
The search of the crypt only takes Haxtes a few seconds. On the far wall a small metal plat has been blasted open, and some torn cloak is hooked on the jagged edge. It appears Quill has blown a hole open in the rat like maze of tunnels and is crawling away through them!
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom." - Gandalf
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"He has gone into the tunnels. I figure he has escaped." The Tech-Priest's voice is calm and emotionless. "Let us help Xanthia if we can, then see what those gangers had with them and then leave this place." Not for one second he lowers his hellgun.