we keep on burying our dead

[hegantha]

Characters: Amberley Vail, Ciaphas Cain, Garviel Loken, Open maybe?
Setting: All through the event, various floors.
Format: Action
Summary: Event Stuff. Amberley comes back to the tower as a C worker. Details are over here.

Cain and Garvi are going to both participate in mercy killing Amberley. If anyone wants to kill/be killed/thread with Amberely drop me a pm and we can make plans.

Warnings: Body Horror/Brainwashing, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Dismemberment/Gore, I'll add anything else that might be needed.

[ The woman that could once be called Amberley spends the whole event walking around the halls. Her body has been carved up with sinful marks that give off a weak light green glow, polluting her body and infusing it from the powers of the warp. Amberley's whole body has become so weak from the process that she's constantly using magic to move forward, walking with her body slumped back in an unsettling, inhuman angle. Her only untouched feature, her face, wears a stoic expression, but you can see her eyes darting around occasionally, widened like she's in a constant state of shock.

Sometimes, she's carrying out worker tasks. You may see her holding an organ or carrying bodies around using her newfound magic. Other times, she's walking around soundlessly, entering people's rooms and watching them while they sleep, or just patrolling. ]

Comments

[hideandhero]

[...he pulled the pistol out of its holster and pointed it at Amberley's head. As assertive as it seemed, pulling the trigger seemed....too hard.]

Do something or anything! For frak's sake, come on!

[hegantha]

[ Could he not do it? The idea fueled panic in her, though none of that could be read on her face. If only she could grab the pistol and shoot herself in the head with it...

But, as much as it kills her, she stays absolutely still. She hasn't even blinked. ]

[greyerrant]

[ Loken had been wandering the tower, already getting in fights with some of the surgically modified residents. When he sees Amberly and Cain, two loyal servants of the Imperium, and what has happened to Amberly, horror sends chills through him. Not fear, but rather revulsion that quickly kindles incandescent anger in the Knight-Errant, as he approaches Cain and Amberly during their ugly confrontation. ]

Cain, get back! [ He shouts, his voice somewhat muffled by a broken vox-unit on his power armor. one of the many little alterations that has been made to it, prior to him receiving it once more upon being awakened here. ]

[hideandhero]

[...the Astartes?

Well, Cain had to hand it to them. They really do only appear in the gravest situations. The second the Marine appeared, Cain knew what was going to happen and, honestly, he was a bit relieved. He didn't have to pull the trigger.

That would have costed him his sleep for the next year or so.

So he does what Garviel suggested, jumping back and out of the way.]

She's been possessed or something!

[As if that wasn't obvious.]

[hegantha]

[ Suddenly, Amberley's whole body begins twitching about and glowing with magic. Losing complete control, she holds up one hand, and aims a blast of energy at Garviel's head. ]

[greyerrant]

[ Loken's questioning stance becomes a snarl as the energy blast hurtles towards him, barely twitching his shoulder pauldron up as he partially turns to take a glancing blow, but the energy blast is enough to momentarily send him sprawling and sliding across the indestructible glass.

He rises a moment later, armor smoking, scarred, and bare to gunmetal from the eldritch bolt, bellowing with rage as he throws himself bodily at Amberly, hands twitching with kill-urge, clearly intent on throttling the possessed woman, or perhaps simply ripping her limb from limb. ]

[hideandhero]

[This was a very clear reminder as to why Astartes never lost fights.

The scene itself was brutal enough as is. Probably far beyond what he had seen of Necrons. Hell, Astartes even made Catachans look tame in comparison. All he could do was watch in horror.]

[hegantha]

[ Amberley, or what could once be called Amberley, stumbles back as Loken lands right on top of her. Intelligence isn't particularly strong in a malfunctioning drone, and Garvi will find that Amberley isn't nearly as strong as she should be physically as an inquisitor. If he's able to put two and two together, he'll realize that she was modified to be physically weaker just so that she'd have to use magic to move her limbs.

He might want to grab those arms though, before she gets another chance to get in a shot and blow off his face. ]

[greyerrant]

[ He indeed does grabs the arms, and begins to try to pull her apart like a rag doll, his voice whispering as he gets in close. ]


I'm sorry. I know this was done to you. Know peace. The emperor knows your name.

[hideandhero]

[He would say he can't look but, if he looks away, he would be betraying something, he's sure of it.

He never was an Emperor worshiping man but right now, he was making an Aquila with his hands and hoping for the Emperor's forgiveness.]

[hegantha]

[ It doesn't take much effort to pull Amberley apart, limb by limb. She was weak to begin with, and Loken is a seven foot man who was genetically enhanced for strength. Put these two things together, and if it weren't for all of the blood spilling out onto the floor, it might look like Garviel was simply pulling apart a paper doll.

Garvi might catch a peaceful look in her eyes, replacing her once widened eyes, before her head is ripped from her neck. ]

[greyerrant]

[ Loken stops once she dies, not violating the body further. His chest heaves once or twice, covered in an incarnadine splash, and he turns to Cain, removing his helm, a conscious act of humanization after the horrible murder he was forced to commit by necessity. Oh, how he is starting to hate Iacton Qurze's favorite phrase]

Its over now. We should go.

[hideandhero]

You're right but...

...frak. I don't think I could have pulled the trigger.

[Why he would admit that, he didn't know. Probably because it was the one person he actually cared about.]

Fancy that you suddenly showed up again.

[greyerrant]

I can't say I blame you. The first time I dealt with a possessed brother I tried to reason with him and subdue him for several hours before he.... fully became what he became.

[ He shakes his head. ]

It wasn't her fault, and it wasn't yours. It was the damnable bastards who did this to all of us. They are the ones we should hate.

[ His fists, still soaked in Amberly's blood, clench, then relax. ]
I don't know why I'm here this time. Another daemon hunt? Perhaps, but I was given no instructions this time. I've simply been exploring, up until now. I had hoped you had... found a way back for yourself and her.

[hideandhero]

That never happened. Instead, he were swamped by heretics and sympathizers after you had left.

[Well, they brought it on themselves.

But, right now, he was all for leaving the room. As much as he'd want to, there was no way he was touching or moving that body. The taint could spread and he lacked a flamethrower.]

[greyerrant]

[ Loken nods sternly as they walk away, and asks Cain. ]

What changes have there been since my brief sojourn here?

[hideandhero]

Besides what you're seeing now? I think there's been a new person put in charge. Considering what we're looking at right now, he's not exactly a winner, if you catch what I'm saying.

[greyerrant]

This reminds me of some of the things I heard Fabius Bile was doing.

Not good. Is there anything we can do to throw a spanner in the works?

[hideandhero]

Try not to die or give in to heresy?

[Yeah, he doesn't know.]

The only thing that comes to mind is hope the Emperor helps these poor souls because I sure can't.

[greyerrant]

Good starts, and good ideas. But remember, the Emperor protects. And we are his instruments. We'll have to find a way, unless the walls break open and we suddenly find the Primarchs and the Emperor himself saving our carcasses, and I don't foresee that.

[hideandhero]

You never know. I heard that Guilliman fellow has a good chance to return.

[The shit you hear when you're based in the Ultima Segmentum.]

That aside, with a laspistol and chainsword, there isn't much I could do. If I could get into Amberley's stuff, she's probably got some pretty heavy weapons in there.

[greyerrant]

You think the Lord of Ultramar and the 500 worlds would come here?

[ Temporal misunderstandings are the best kind. ]

While I'm loathe to steal wargear, that might not be a bad idea.

[hideandhero]

That what? I'm just saying he's bitten the dust but rumor has it that he'll come back at some point.

[sobsobs]

As long as we're helping others, I'm sure Amberley won't mind. Probably has a weapon that you could use somewhere.

[greyerrant]

That's news to me. Maybe it was something that Lorgar did.

[ He nods his head, and says. ]

Does she have any bolt weapons or chain blades that are in my size/

[hideandhero]

I've got the only chainblade here. I'm pretty sure she keeps the big bolter locked up but...

...it's probably like baby's first firearm to you.

[greyerrant]

Could be. We used cut-down lascarbines to train our initiates, until they're ready for bolters or sniper rifles.

[hideandhero]

I'm guessing by 'lascarbines', you don't mean the same one issued to Guardsmen.