towerofanimus | First Bolt Shell: Legion of One

Characters: Garviel and you
Setting: Multiple floors
Format: Prose
Summary: Garviel wanders the tower doing various things including kicking butt
Warnings: Anything is possible including a heck of a lot of violence. Definitely descriptions of blood and war.

Floor Fifty-Six:

A huge armored figure is wandering the strange hospital ward, as if seeking something he has forgotten. He calls a name every now and then.
"Ferrus? Samus? Aqua? Nikolai? Arturia?"

Nothing but silence greets him. Lights flicker as he moves from room to room, a grey ghost of a battle that was fought in this very tower, and on a thousand other worlds as well. And yet... there is something plaintive in the sounds of the names he calls out in this place.

Floor Sixty-Seven (NIGHT)
The strange twining staircase has become a veritable waterfall of gore, blood and ichor slicking the steps from iron to light in all hues as the sound of battle crashes higher up. It would appear Cerberus set upon a band of orcs at night, or the band set on him, and he decided to single-handedly re-enact the battle of Ullanor. He holds one aloft, just over the edge of the stairs, his armor scarred by their cleavers and bows, then casts it down, smashing it into a pulpy, broken mass onto the stairs itself. His armored chest heaves, and he turns, growling in an almost-feral manner as he continues his ascent. Dare you approach?

Floor Twenty-Five: The grey knight stands vigil in the meadow, his massive form suggesting a grim sentinel in an otherwise beautiful place. He appears to be... shocked by it. Completely at a loss of what to do in a place of undespoiled natural beauty which has not been touched by war.

Floor Fifteen: A pale-skinned man one size too large to be human appears to be working dents out of a breastplate using the tools available in the workshop, hammering away at them in a less then adept manner. It would seem he has only enough skill to effect the most basic repairs on his own armor. Care to offer him some advice?

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[He doesn't want to seem knowledgeable so he doesn't even ask what that is.]

What you really need is anti-psyker weapons. Some basic experimentation [Thanks Jurgen] shows that they're somewhat psychic and if you can block that, they have issues temporarily.

I wouldn't even know where to start with those. We don't use psykers since Nikaea.

Uh...what?

I'd hate to beg to differ but the Imperial Guard uses sanctioned psykers and you Astartes have your fancy Librarian psykers. So I'd have to beg to differ.

That doesn't make any sense. The Emperor declared the Librarians to be forbidden to practice at Nikaea. I can understand that the Imperial Army isn't bound by the Edict but.... no, not in a few years.

You might want to spread that little tidbit to your Astartes battle brothers I nor they have heard anything about that.

Hm, strange.

...

Though, of late, the edict has been loosened. I've known at least one Ultramarine released from the edict under extreme circumstances.

[ That got him exiled from the Legion but no need to tell Cain that. ]

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Ah yes, the Ultramarines. They're quite popular where I'm from. Tell me, have you heard of the Reclaimers?

No. Are they an Army Regiment?

They're Astartes but they do have a pretty good reputation among Valhallans.

I haven't heard of them, no. I wonder which Legion they are from.

I think that was the name of it.

[ Garviel looks puzzled again, and goes quiet. He knows something is amiss but he can't ask about it, almost like he doesn't want to ask. So he decides to change the subject. ]

Any idea on how to procure some effective wargear?

No idea whatsoever.

But I do have extensive experience in jury rigging things so if you promise not to tell the techpriests, I could have a looksee at what you're peeking at.

Go right ahead. None here to yell at us about blasphemy.

[ He steps aside and lets Cain look at the beat up armor. ]

[Giving it a peek but...

...oh boy, that's a lot of...SOMETHING. Truck engines were a lot more basic than this.]

On second thought, I'd rather not break anything.

Thanks anyway. [ Loken says, smiling slightly at Cain. ]

In this case it is the sentiment that counts. Would that we had a techpriest or a techmarine.

But if wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Wishes happen to be Orks though. You never know when they're going to inconveniently pop up.

[ Loken makes a face and then smiles a bit. ]

My assumption tends to be everywhere, for orks. Have you ever heard of Ullanor?

Ullanor, Ullanor...

[He never really paid attention in classes at the schola but it rang a small bell.]

Ah, right. Something like the biggest fight the Imperium has seen since that large spat on Armageddon. Now that I think about it, if it's compared to that, it must have been fairly...large.

It was the largest battle of the Crusade, up until that point. I was there. It was... impressive. We were in the speartip, as Horus led us against the Emperor of their petty little ork empire.

Hahahaha.

[Patting Garviel on the back! Thankfully, he's tall enough to reach without seeming awkward.]

That was a good one. I didn't know you Astartes had such a grim sense of humor.

I made a joke?

Well, yes. Because we all know that anyone who served with Horus and is still alive will either be shot for being a traitor or is worshiping Abaddon's heretical rear end right now.

He only turned his back on the Emperor about a year ago, by my reckoning. What does Abaddon have to do with anything, aside from me being unable to kill him.

[ He sounds a little sore about that one. ]

One year? Try about ten thousand of those one years. Because we all know the story here. Horus goes to fight the Emperor, Sanguinius manages to knock a weakspot in his armor but dies in the process, and the Emperor kills the traitor using the advantage the Angel gave him.

Then Abaddon runs away with the traitors and for ten thousand years, has been leading Crusades against the Emperor's own.

This story gets pounded in your head in the Commissariat.

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