jbeil

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

Super, I'll have to wait and see since uni is kicking my butt.

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

@jbeil You know what, your post has something that mine definitively lacks: combat psalms. Then again, since Alexa's typically quiet when she doesn't need to talk... either way, I appreciate that detail as something I forgot was important to the SoB.

@BCTheEntity

To be honest, you've got James Swallow to thank for that. Those books really are top-notch, get them if you can!

And...well, the weapon is praise enough for the Emperor. Destroying His enemies is all the worship He needs!

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

The order came, and Lisbeth began to sing.

"A spiritu dominatus,
Domine, libra nos!"

Standing bolt-upright, Lisbeth pulled back the bolt from her weapon and Permanence joined in song. Spraying the fire across the ranks of the Guard, two mass-reactive rounds found their homes in the chest of a corporal who burst into a sea of flesh from the waist up, falling back onto a grim-faced sergeant who shoved the corpse away and started firing back with an old-looking pistol. Lisbeth rolled aside under the las-blasts behind a column, reloading her bolter and leaning out to spit out another burst of fire.

"From the lightning and the tempest, our Emperor, deliver us." The words of the Fede Imperialis brought a calm serenity to Lisbeth's mind, and a relaxed fluidity to her movements. Lean, aim, pull trigger, retract. This was what she was born to do. Again she rolled out to her left, behind a vehicle hull pockmarked with las-blasts, and she touched her hand to the fleur-des-lis about her neck, and roared the next line of the Fede Imperialis "From plague, deceit, temptation and war, Our Emperor, deliver us," Lisbeth sang, as she rushed out from the shelter with her sarissa levelled at the nearest target.

She fell upon the surprised guardsman's flank, piercing the thin layers of flak before he could even turn around to register the short power-armoured woman piling into his side. The point of the sarissa tore through both lungs and his right ventricle, bursting each as the rest of the heavy, spiked blade followed through. Kicking the betrayer off the end of her weapon, Lisbeth's hand went to her belt, tearing a pair of frag grenades away as she spun back behind cover. A few las-bolts glanced off her pauldrons, scorching the sign of the Ordo Hereticus before the fragmentation grenades burst, spraying shrapnel in all directions. A dozen men went down screaming, and to her own detriment Lisbeth allowed to gaze to hang on the site of the explosion so long that a small piece of that very shrapnel buried in her cheekbone, sending her reeling behind a pillar as she let her bolter hang by the strap. Singing while she pulled at the wound, she ground her teeth together and ripped out the hot metal, pain radiating across her skull. "From the sssssssssCOURge of the KraaAken,
Our Emperor, deliver ussSSS!"

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

Okay, so it turns out that university is harder than I remembered - I'll be around this weekend so I should have one done then, and if you're lucky I may even have it done sometime today!

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

<Snipped quote by Andreyich>

Run into the compound with your horde of screaming fanatics?

@Jbcool

Naked fanatics for extra style points.

I'll try and get a post done today - I bought the Sisters of Battle omnibus last saturday and I'm in the mood for purging!

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

Who are we waiting for now?

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

Not a terribly exciting post, but it got us another twenty metres or so ahead!

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

Are you prepared to die for me?

“Aye, Inquisitor.” There was no need for further discussion or prevarication; she reloaded Permanence and quietly breathed a prayer commending her soul to the Emperor's mercy, and without another word she was gone.

Are you prepared to die for me?

At full sprint, she ran towards the great wall of the compound, pressing herself against the grey rockcrete. She moved along the edge of the edifice, sarissa leading the way through the hot, smoke-heavy air as she peered around the corner of a large buttress. Across a loading bay, a heavy gate was open, two crossed blades embossed around the middle where the two doors met. Further along the wall, an almost-empty motorpool lay unguarded, with only a pair of soldiers sharing a joke beside a burning barrel, their hands oustretched for warmth – and importantly, their attention away from the party of the faithful approaching step-by-step.

Are you prepared to kill for me?

“Wait for my signal,” whispered Lisbeth, taking two more short steps toward the gate. She peered over into the rear entrance, eyes darting from point to point. In the shadows, behind a stack of barrels in a pool of oil, out of sight – the perfect place to hide and plan the next move. She was all set to go when the voice gave an order she did not expect.

Kill them. Lisbeth found herself levelling Permanence at the two guards, her finger stroking the trigger. It would be easy – two bursts and both would be dead before they even heard the gunshot. It would be the simplest of things to do – and so little to do in return for the Emperor's eternal grace and love.

Kill them. She hesitated. The Inquisitor, the instrument of His will, had made it clear that this was to be a quiet entry. But He was countermanding the order, and now Lisbeth was faced with two mutually exclusive commands. This was not her place – her role was to obey, not to decide which orders she liked. She breathed out of her nostrils, emptying her lungs, and curled her finger around-

BrrrrrrrkkkkKKHHHAAAOOOOOOSH

To the east, a huge explosion rocked the hive, and the two guards ducked behind one of the trucks, out of sight. The decision, it seemed, had been made for her. Las-bolts and gunfire rattled through the hot, metallic air, and unable to complete one set of orders, Lisbeth settled for the other. “Quickly, follow.” Sprinting, she dashed half the way to the waste barrels and slid across the garage floor, tracking her robe through the oil and muck as she went. She looked back over her shoulder and waved the stragglers over, mumbling a faint “my apologies,” though to whom she was unsure.

Are you prepared to die for me?

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

I should be able to post tomorrow afternoon, GMT.

Warhammer 40k: Enemy Without, Enemy Within - an 'Ecclesiarchal' RP [Mature][High Casual/Low Advanced]

Still working on it - sorry for the delay.