rolled 3, 12 = 15

Say something witty, preferably with regard to an inquiry as to what you drank the previous night.

>>17870860

Bump. The beginnings are always slow.

>>17870860
You are doing it right.

>>17870905
If supporting another poster, please roll separately.

All of my posts with roleplaying or decisionmaking will contain a Chaos-themed image.

rolled 4, 17 = 21

>>17870860
I'm just gonna go ahead and agree with this, Maybe something about slaaneshi whores.

rolled 2, 15 = 17

>>17870860
>not actually giving the witty remark
'By the ruinous powers... was that Space Wolf blood we were drinking last night?'

rolled 6, 6 = 12

Skulls for the skull throne

rolled 14, 20 = 34

>>17870947

Thrones for the Throne Throne!

Realize our sins and repent in the name of the God Emperor.

rolled 14, 16 = 30

Try to stand. If I can't stand, shout as loud as possible.

rolled 11, 14 = 25

I don't understand how the rolling in this works. At all.

>>17870860
>>17870905
>>17870924
>>17870944
>>17870970

You grunt and the pain and the pounding in your skull subsides a little.

"By the Gods, whatever I drank was so not worth it."

Your armor isn't still responding, although as your hearing returns, there is a faint crackle from the vox.

Your memory is blurry, but you start to remember things from your past.

>What is your God? Nurgle, Khorne, Slaanesh, Tzeentch or Undivided only.

rolled 2, 17 = 19

Slaanesh! The only winning awnser!

>>17871013
Why can't we pick Malal?

rolled 14, 2 = 16

>>17871013
Undivided, obviously. One serves all the gods no matter what he may think. Death is a change from life, is it now? Do Khornate warriors not strive for perfection in the art of killing? Does bloodshed for Slaanesh not sate the god of war?

rolled 18, 11 = 29

>>17871031
>Death is a change from life, is it now
Should be
>is it not

>>17871027
Him and Zuvassin are too random for me to write script for effectively.

rolled 15, 17 = 32

Undivided so we can get favor from all of them

undivided
vecause bashing skulls in while yelling JUST AS PLANNED is how we roll

>>17871070
Afterwards, we rape everyone and give Chaos AIDS.

>>17871070
Remember to roll or your post don't count. dice+2d20 in the email field

>>17871082
Nurgle beat you to it.

Necoho is best god.

rolled 2, 11 = 13

>>17871093
It's pretty obvious Undivided is the popular choice. Considering how small this quest thread is, you might want to go by vote as well. Everyone else is in the Guard quest thread anyways.

>>17871093
rolling for myself

rolled 7, 9 = 16

Slaanesh, or undivided.

rolled 5, 20 = 25

>>17871127
It goes in email, you know.

>>17871127
rolling for myself again because newfag is apparently new

rolled 1, 3 = 4

>>17871143
goodamnit

>>17871109
>>17871062
>>17871031
>Peer pressure wins over high roll this time.

Your mind clears a little and you feel the familiar and pleasant tugging of the winds of Chaos on your soul. You feel the hallowed energies giving you strength, clarity and purpose. Surely they favor you or that Earthshaker round would have surely been your end.

>What is your Warband? Must be Undivided.

rolled 7, 13 = 20

>>17871143
It seems one of the voices in our head isn't very bright.
>Don't worry, it happens

>>17871150
Night Lords!

rolled 18, 12 = 30

>>17871150
Word Bearers. The philosophers of Chaos.

rolled 14, 4 = 18

>>17871162
Forgot my roll.

rolled 8, 16 = 24

>>17871150
Black Legion, because that paintjob.

>>17871164
Wow, that roll will be hard to beat.

rolled 5, 6 = 11

>>17871150
Alpha Legion
You can't stop the hydra

rolled 4, 2 = 6

>>17871170
I be rollan high yo. Chaos favors me.

rolled 6, 16 = 22

>>17871171
Alpha Legion all the way

>>17871164
You remember the Apostle's pre-battle speech:

"Brothers, the Pantheon has favored us, for surely we are Their blessed! Our disciples have uncovered the remains of the Daemnabus on the world of Kerna IV! It's presence is entirely unknown to the blinds oafs that call themselves the lords of the planet. The lapdogs of the false Emperor will be entirely caught by surprise when we turn the skies to blood and poison their land! We are the Favored, we are the True, and we will be blessed by the Gods for our holy deeds!"

That memory brings clarity back into your mind and strength to your muscles. You remember the battle, the slaughter of the Imperial cretins and the artillery barrage from the Earthshaker battery that reduced you to the sorry state you are in now.

>What is your name, blessed son of Chaos?

rolled 5, 6 = 11

black legion because we can

>>17871264
Jacius of Blades

>>17871277
Roll.

rolled 13, 17 = 30

>>17871277
Shit

rolled 4, 3 = 7

^ Might as well keep the name from earlier
As for the space marine's name: Teneborous

rolled 6, 4 = 10

>>17871264
Fehdman Kassad

rolled 8, 14 = 22

>>17871277

>>17871334
Another Fable fan, I see.

>>17871339
Never played fable, I just liked the name

rolled 16, 4 = 20

Decimus Petillius Tiro

rolled 1, 8 = 9

Our name will be Echo Tcetice

>>17871345
Oh, really? Well it's meant to be a play on Jack of Blades. Pic related.

rolled 8, 20 = 28

>>17871277
Let the rivers run red with the blood of those we have slain!

Gather the faithful, bring the flesh of the slaughtered to our temples! The Chaos Gods will feast this eve! Jacius of Blades walks among the mortals that serve the Corpse God, and the harvest is nigh!

Let us fetch our chainsword and boltgun! Let us bring the lapdogs of the False Emperor to their knees! We are FILLED with the power of Chaos!

>>17871350
You remember your brother Terkar of the Havoc squad Debilitator saying as you made planetfall:

"Decimus, me and my brothers will provide covering fire as you and your lot go plant the charges to destroy the batteries covering the valley. You must be swift or you will be on your own when we release the Dreadnoughts."

A spike of fury clouds your mind for a second. There was no covering fire. Terkar was never there. You just gained the honor of leading a small squad of your brothers in battle, only for all of you to be getting caught in a barrage because Terkar didn't keep his word. He would pay, oh yes he would.

>What do you do?

>>17871414
Wait, why was that one picked? I still don't fully understand how the rolling works.

rolled 12, 20 = 32

>>17871414
Something must have gone wrong if he didn't provide covering fire. Go find out what happened to his squad.

rolled 13, 5 = 18

>>17871452
Is it possible he wanted us dead?

>>17871427
The first roll was the highest. 16 VS 13 VS less than 10 times three.

The first D20 tells whose post takes effect. The highest wins.

The second D20 tells how effective your action or choice is. If you decide to jump and your first roll was the highest, Decimus jumps. If your second roll is 19, he succeeds phenomenally. If your second roll is 2, he falls on his ass or into a pit.

rolled 10, 4 = 14

>>17871452
Agreed. If he did not provide cover, it is possible his squad was reassigned; or killed. It is possible he abandoned us, in which case, striking him down would not be out of the question.

rolled 6, 17 = 23

>>17871467
Oh. I see. Interesting. Are we pinned down? If so throw a grenade and have someone go check on Terkar.

>>17871483
You are lying in an Earthshaker crater from the waist down. All you see is the gray sky with streaks of purple and all you hear is static from the vox. You are shell-shocked and your Power Armor is unresponsive.

rolled 2, 7 = 9

>>17871499
Oh. I thought we were reenacting what happened in the flashback or some such. Try to stand up, I guess.

rolled 15, 14 = 29

1st we swear vengeance.
Then we look around and try to figure out what happened to the rest of our warband after we got hit. If there are no survivorts, we might be able to loot some useful stuff.

>>17871512
One more roll, yours is probably going to win.

rolled 20, 9 = 29

>>17871499
Begin power armor diagnostic and repair rites. We must become mobile if we are to rip the Havoc who abandoned us to enemy fire apart.

>>17871534
You sit up slowly and with effort. Immediately the pain flares and all the discomfort returns. The armor feels like a tomb instead of a second skin. There's not a single spark of life and at every movement you feel the grating of joints. You can't turn your head. At first you think there's something wrong with your neck, but then realise your head does turn but the helmet is jammed in position somehow.

You look around as much as you can with no head movement. All you see is a bleak, blasted battleground with pieces of crimson armor and brothers lying in the ground, entangled in the crushed, pathetic bodies of Imperial Guardsmen and huge craters from Earthshaker shells. Next to the crater is the wreckage of a Dreadnought leaning on the blasted hull of some Chimera-chassis tank. There's inscription on the hull of the Dreadnought, but your vision is still too blurry to make out what it says.

The left lens of your helmet is missing.

Your back feels too light. Is your backpack attached? You can't be sure. With no head movement, you can't look and with the armor silent you can't get diagnostics from it.

>What do you do?

>>17871619

Pray to the Chaos Gods for Power. Nurgle to heal and repair our body and armor, Khorn for strength to get vengence, Slaanesh to take pleasure in the pain we have, Tzeentch for a plan to get out of this situation

>>17871658
Roll, bro.

rolled 5, 4 = 9

>>17871658

forgot the roll

rolled 5, 5 = 10

>>17871658

rolling for

rolled 6, 17 = 23

Perform weapons check rites, this is a hostile area and we don't want to be unarmed.
And, try to either fix or remove our helmet

rolled 8, 14 = 22

>>17871658
And the Emprah for rolls

rolled 8, 7 = 15

>>17871619
Do we have a weapon or something? If so, use it to reach around the back of our armour and see if it bumps against the pack. With no backpack, we aren't going to last long enough to find out what happened OR get our vengeance.

Love the thread, but I have to catch a train now. Bye and have fun.

rolled 3, 1 = 4

>>17871658

if your going to pray, pray using a song

make it loud and pround so even the enemy can hear it

rolled 5, 9 = 14

Punch your helmet off with the righteous fury of those who have had enough of this ol boo'shit.

>>17871686
>>17871690
You spend a minute in prayer and feel a myriad of dark gazes shifting your way for a fleeting moment. You feel empowered, you vision clears and you find purpose of mind.

You reach around for a weapon or anything to reach behind you. You can't look low enough thanks to the stuck helmet and feel nothing in the ground but dirt. While you reach to your left, your gauntlet hits something. As you pick it up and move it in front of your eyes, you see that it's half a Lasgun with the stock and grip being blown off from what appears to have been a Bolter shell. You prod your back with it, but there's nothing there, only the curved surface of your backplate.

>What next?

rolled 7, 6 = 13

>>17871747

This again, so we can try and see exactly where are backpack is, if it's even still in one piece.

rolled 5, 5 = 10

>>17871753

Use our Sorcerer Psyker abilities

rolled 6, 2 = 8

>>17871753

play dead till the battle is over and the scavengers of battlefields come

>>17871797
We have none (yet), but good try.

rolled 14, 11 = 25

>>17871753
Try to see if that Dreadnought can still be operational and help us get somewhere we can fix our armor with a bit of firepower just in case.

rolled 3, 2 = 5

>>17871753

use our ancient teleporter to transport us off the battlefield back to base for safety and repairs

>>17871823
The battle is over, for all you can see. At least there's no gunfire everywhere. In fact, there is no sound apart from the hiss of the vox.

rolled 14, 20 = 34

>>17871753
We need to get this armor off. Begin removal of whatever we can.

rolled 17, 20 = 37

>>17871856
captcha: this ommen

rolled 16, 11 = 27

>>17871854
Look around. We shouldn't go out there without a weapon. Does the dreadnought have anything that could be jury-rigged into a melee weapon, at least? A big-ass section of piping we could rip off or something?

>>17871856
>>17871826
With effort, you rip your helmet off. You immediately see why it didn't move: The whole left side is covered by a huge dent and shrapnel that stuck the collar and the helmet together. If you hadn't had the helmet on, your head would have been torn to shreds by whatever did that. The hiss of the vox becomes less audible as the sound now emanates from the collar speakers instead of the headphones of the helmet. There seems to be some power left in your armor, but it's only enough to power the vox and possibly some rudimentary backup systems, definitely not power-assisted movement, auto-senses or life support.

The rest of the armor doesn't come off manually, but your left shoulder pad is a mess or wrangled metal and drops off when you merely touch it.

You get on your feet and walk to the Dreadnought. The inscription on its hull retells the pilot's history since the beginning of the Long War. The power plant on its back is emanating a dark smoke and its close combat arm is missing. It's armed with a twin-linked Heavy Bolter. It's inert.

>What now?

rolled 7, 13 = 20

>>17871964
See if we can pry off a section of metal and scrape it on a rock to make a spear or something.
If it's long enough, that is. If not, we'd probably just be better with our fists.

>awakening nonserv
(I think Captcha-tan is hinting that waking up the dread wouldn't be to our advantage)

rolled 4, 6 = 10

Try to contact someone via vox

>>17871990
>>17871999
Three more rolls and we can get on with it.

rolled 9, 12 = 21

>>17871999

rolled 7, 8 = 15

>>17871990

rolled 19, 10 = 29

>>17871999

>We roll with both of them.

You look around you a bit and notice a broken-off piece of a handrail next to the Chimera-chassis tank. It already has a sharp point and it looks solid enough to use as an impromptu weapon if need be. You test it on the corpse of a Guardsman hanging from the access hatch of the tank, and it easily pierces his flak vest and torso.

You try reaching somebody on the vox.

"This is Decimus Petillius Tiro of squad Gehennus calling any brothers on the field. Stranded in Valley 1B4, no power, limited movement. Reply in audio only, unable to receive data-burst. Awaiting reply. Pantheon bless us. Over."

The tone of the hiss fluctuates slightly, but there is no reply. You aren't even sure if your message ever got out. You curse and kick the corpse of the Guardsman, crushing every bone in its torso. The Dreadnought's power plant has stopped smoking. When the wind changes, you hear faint gunfire from the distance. You judge it is emananting from some 50 clicks away.

>What next?

rolled 17, 15 = 32

>>17872214
Try to find something that moves on wheels (or even treads), if there's nothing, walk it.

rolled 4, 12 = 16

>>17872214
What kind of gunfire? Lasfire, bolter-fire, or something bigger like an autocannon?
Either way, flatten ourself against the rim of the crater and look in the direction of the gunfire. Guardsmen, or battle-brothers?

>>17872237
Also, may I ask why you're saging? Not that I mind, or anything.

rolled 1, 19 = 20

>>17872214
Try to find a working powerplant for our backpack so we can have working armor. Also, search for weapons other than the makeshift spear we have.

>Captcha: ctikid under,

maybe we should check under the youngest looking guardsman?

>>17872324
It's impossible to tell at this distance, but it has to be big guns for the sound to reach this far.

Two more rolls.

rolled 15, 3 = 18

>>17872324

Go the opposite direction of the battle. We are Word Bearers we say a few words and send someone else out to fight and die.
Rolling for go looking for some Cultist or people we can turn into Cultist, maybe corrupt a Imperial Legion or two

rolled 16, 6 = 22

Look around for a good place to hide in case of enemy encounter.

rolled 3, 16 = 19

>>17872398
Head out of the crater, then. Toward the sounds of battle. We'll likely be able to see the fighters before they see us, since they're likely focusing on each other. Plus, assuming they're human, we can likely see much farther than they can.
Well, this is all assuming the air's fairly clear.

>>17872237
>>17872435

In your vicinity, you see no immediately operable transport. The tank would take days to fix even if you had all the resources and tools necessary and the Dreadnought shows no signs of life to the outside. You climb out of the crater and on top of the Chimera and look around you. There is an immobile Defiler entangled with a Leman Russ tank some hundred meters where you stand. There's nothing more except corpses of Guardsmen and Word Bearers, wreckage and craters as far as you can see.

In case of another barrage or enemy encounter, the hull of the Chimera-variant could provide shelter and a means of surprise attack.

The last effects of the shell-shock are vanishing and the pain diminishes to a dull ache.

>What do you do?

rolled 12, 5 = 17

Carefully go in the direction of gunfire.

>>17872455
>>17872324
For clarification, the gunfire is coming from some 50 KILOMETERS away. That's 30 miles.

rolled 7, 9 = 16

>>17872499
The armour of our brethren is tempting, but it's not like we could put it on without aid.
Some of them must have bolt pistols or chainswords.

How the fuck did two other quest threads start practically at the same time as this?

rolled 5, 13 = 18

>>17872530
Oh, then I second this >>17872553 instead.

rolled 16, 11 = 27

Check our brethren

rolled 9, 14 = 23

>>17872553
Indeed. Acquire weapons and if possible, see if we can't cobble together a half-decent suit of armor from the surrounding scrap.

>>17872566
CREEEEEEEEEED

>fieldred cause
The Red Rivers regiment has been in this field.

>>17872553
>>17872584
>>17872569
As expected, the firepower needed to bring a Chaos Marine down has rendered most of your dead brothers' armor decimated. However, you do find an intact Power Armor helmet, although it reeks of its former owner's blood, an otherwise intact Chainaxe that seems to have run out of power, a Bolt Pistol and two magazines of ammunition and a Bolter with all electronics (autotargeter, rangefinder and scope) broken with half a mag of ammo. It seems your brothers were exceedingly efficient in using every last round of ammo before their deaths.

>What next?

rolled 8, 12 = 20

>>17872644
lets check out that leman russ/defiler mess

rolled 15, 1 = 16

>>17872644
Alright, we got some shit to work with.

Now, let's see...we should probably hike back to our base camp or head for the front. Don't forget, that asshole Havoc left us hanging. He'll be at home chilling or at the front lines blasting shit. We can't let his shit slide.

I say we head for home. No way we'll be able to deal with enemy opposition in our state, and we need fresh gear anyways.

rolled 9, 19 = 28

does chaos have some kind of burial rituals we need to perform for our fallen brothers? Or at least a prayer of some kind. If so, do it before we move on.

Postin' from a train. Bless mobile internets

rolled 13, 13 = 26

Head back to base-camp/drop site for some slaves/cultists to take out our anger on

rolled 1, 10 = 11

>>17872669
this
>>17872682
then this i guess

>>17872704
No need. They are with the Gods now anyway, and the Gods don't care about the corpses littering the ground. The Apostle will most likely have a feast for the fallen after the battle.

rolled 19, 5 = 24

The power armor we possess is in no shape to fight.If we have rendevouz point head to that location.If we don't then slowly move towards the battlefield in the distance while keeping our eyes open for replacement armor and munition or even better weaponry.

*Sigh* I tried making a Chaos Marine quest once. It lasted one thread. =(

In fact, I used more or less the same system, too... based on the Chaos Quest (or whatever it was called). I wish you more luck than I had.

>>17872682
You don the helmet and immediately feel blood trickling down your head. The smell of blood is so strong you feel something flaring inside you for a brief second and your heart rate is slightly higher than normal. You take a while to get your bearings and start heading towards the canyon splitting the mountains behind you where you remember the last camp was.

You hike for a while, the unpowered armor slowing you down slightly. As you get nearer to the canyon, there is not a soul in sight. The sun starts to set, painting everything around you sickly purple. The vox flares a couple of times while you walk, but there's nothing but interference.

You reach the base camp and find it empty. Your brothers have moved on. The ground is covered in myriad trackmarks and footprints from Marine and warmachine alike. The tents have been taken down and the containment cells of the Dreadnoughts are empty and abandoned. The only things left are some litter, the altar where the Apostle performed the ritual before the battle, with fresh crucified Guardsmen that weren't there that morning when you mobilized and the remains of the bonfire from the night before.

>What now?

>>17872775
Thanks. Having a successful quest thread is not easy, there's a million things that affect the popularity of one.

rolled 3, 11 = 14

>>17872726
Our armor is useless to us now and will only slow us down. Try to take it off.

>>17872830
You already tried that before. The only things that were possible to detach manually were the helmet (now replaced with a former brother's one) and the left shoulderpad that was banged up.

rolled 14, 9 = 23

>>17872814
If the guardsmen have carapace armour, try and patch up the dents in our armour with bits of theirs. We're a marine, we should be able to be creative like that.

rolled 19, 12 = 31

>>17872814
search the litter for something useful

rolled 12, 13 = 25

is there any idication as the where the others went? any tracks? Try to find out.

rolled 13, 16 = 29

>>17872851
Also, can we scrounge for any more weapons/ammo? After that, follow in our army's footsteps.

rolled 20, 10 = 30

>>17872852
This, and after that, if possible try to follow the tracks.We need to re-equip ourselves and need information before we start to hunt down our elusive Havoc.

Is it possible for our marine to estimate how old these tracks are?

rolled 20, 10 = 30

All things being equal, we should recognize that we may need to put off our vengeance for a bit after we find the Havocs. After all, they've got heavy weapons and we've got more or less bupkis.

rolled 10, 10 = 20

is there any way for us to power up our armor?

>>17872933
That would require manipulating the backpack, which we can't do without removing it - which we can't do... if we even have the backpack still. We'd need help at the very least.

who is in charge of mainaining our equipment anyway? Chaos AdMech? Techmarines? Ourselves?

>>17872875
Your armor seems mostly functional, although without power and missing the left shoulder pad. You take the flak vests off the crucified Guardsmen and patch them together to make a temporary replacement pad to protect your left shoulder joint.

Darkness is starting to set in. There is only light in the horizon from the setting sun and the sky is painted purple with gray smog covering most of it.

The footprints seem older, the freshest ones being made by the Dreadnoughts when they were released to the battle. The trackmarks, on the other hand, seem fairly fresh, the freshest ones being made by a Rhino, probably the one holding the camp-building material, fuel and stocks.

The tracks lead towards the gunfire in the distance, but it's starting to be so dark they will be almost impossible to follow after 20 minutes or so.

>Will you risk getting lost in the dark following the tracks? Will you stay here for the night, alone with unpowered armor and minimal weaponry? What will you do?

>>17872950
>>17872933
You have no backpack on. Probably it came off in the barrage. You were unable to find a working replacement on the field.

rolled 15, 4 = 19

repent your sins. for the emperor!

rolled 13, 19 = 32

>>17873000
>space marine
>lost in the dark
lolwut? We have night vision and shit!
Let's follow the tracks.

rolled 1, 1 = 2

>>17873000
is it an urban area? hide in a nearby building
anyways, dont stay in the camp
too easy to be found

rolled 10, 19 = 29

>>17873016
What he said

>>17872998
The Armorer, who was a Techmarine. You also have Dark Mechanicus on the fleet.

rolled 5, 1 = 6

hmmm, how banged up are we? If we are are tired and/or hurt, stay and rest.
If we are still more or less fresh follow the tracks. If that gunfire keeps up, we can just follow the sound of it should we lose sight of the tracks.

rolled 6, 13 = 19

>>17873000
Depends on how the marine feels.If he's battered up and tired he might need a rest but only if it's really bad.

I am in favor of him manning up and following the fresh Rhino tracks.

>>17873016
Only rudimentary without auto-senses. They have powerful low-light vision, but it'll be pitch black in about half an hour.

>>17873034
Thus far it's only a battleground in a valley, some mountains and the canyon where the base camp was. No buildings.

>>17873080
The armor is unpowered but otherwise functional with missing shoulder pad. You are banged up a bit but uninjured.

rolled 2, 6 = 8

we cant do nothing now can we? Lets try to follow the tracks, If we are lucky we'll join the battle by morning

>>17873016
>>17873035
>>17873100
You start following the tracks in the quickly deepening dark. Fortunately the ground is quite soft so the tracks are deep and easy to follow. There is the rumble of warfare in the distance, but otherwise the night is silent. After an hour so you see a speck of light in the distance and come across the wreckage of a burning Word Bearers Rhino. For a moment you curse and try to look if that is the Rhino holding the fuel, the camp-building materials and the stockpiles, but a sigh of relief escapes your lips as you notice the markings on the hull that tell you it was merely on troop transport duty before being destroyed. The whole left side of the hull is covered in a hole from which the flames rise. There is a smell of gunpowder and burning flesh in the air. Obviously the squad was still inside when the Rhino got blown up. There is not a trace of what destroyed it.

>What next?

rolled 14, 13 = 27

>>17873112
So when it's pitch black,would our marine be able to follow the tracks?

If yes then do it, the cover of the night provides cover.

If not then then sit out the night using the Dreadnoughts containing cells.Seeing how they should be able to hold a dready, it should provide decent cover.

rolled 4, 12 = 16

>>17873253
If it seems safe then loot rhino
Else keep going

rolled 5, 6 = 11

>>17873253

Well I assume this isn't the Rhino we've been tracking so I suggest we keep following the tracks.It's a burning wreck so I doubt anything can be salvaged from it at this moment.

>>17873263

Thanks to
>>17873016
rolling a 19 for the effectiveness, yes he is. Fluffwise it's debatable, but Lexicanum tells me Marines have improved "low-light" vision, not vision in complete darkness.

And you have left the camp an hour ago, you are now next to the burning wreckage of a Rhino.

See >>17873253

rolled 13, 1 = 14

>>17873283
this

rolled 9, 11 = 20

we are cathing up, keep going

rolled 7, 18 = 25

is there something inside the rhino?

>>17873253
is that a world bearer with purity seals?

>>17873360
Pre-Heresy World Eater.

>>17873339
The Rhino seems nothing but a burning husk, with nothing worth salvaging apart from scrap metal and tracks. Despite looking around in the dark, you see nothing that hints as to what caused the destruction of the Rhino, so you decide the attacker has probably moved on and keep following the trackmarks.

The sounds of battle slowly grow nearer as you keep trodding on and you start to see flashes of gunfire and tracer rounds in the horizon. From your left you hear the sound of artillery in the distance, most likely the same Earthshaker battery that led to your squad's downfall.

After a while the tracks start to become criss-crossed with other trackmarks and small craters and while concentrating on following them, you almost collide with a Leman Russ Vanquisher sitting across the trackmarks.

>Your action?

>>17873477
Is it going to be possible to keep following our track or does the current situation make this impossible?

>>17873532
Depends on the Vanquisher.

rolled 20, 6 = 26

>>17873477
Carefully check if there's still anyone alive inside, or if there's anything useful in it. Also, perhaps check whether we could drive it. We won't be able to use most of its offensive powers, but at least we'll have a vehicle.

>>17873556
Well fuck... Why did I roll that 6?

>>17873556
>>17873563
Bro you gon' get hurt.

Waiting for another 20, although that's not likely.

rolled 13, 5 = 18

>>17873543
Alrighty then.

Inspect the Russ for salvagement, then inspect if it interferes with the track we've been following.

If it doesn't interfere proceed to follow the track.

If it does interfere then I suggest we take a rest using the Russ as shelter.There is a battle going on in the distance and from the sound of it they're using heavy guns, don't want to walk into the wrong frontline with our current equipment.

rolled 18, 13 = 31

>>17873577
rollin

rolled 10, 1 = 11

>>17873477
1st of all, listen carefully. I don't think that a tank would just be left to sit still without support.
If we almost collided with it, we must be very close and that thing is either not crewed or it lacks night vision optics(since we would be dead if it could see us).
If it's empty, try to loot something from it(since we are probably too big to get inside anyway). If there is someone around, use the bolter we looted earlier. If there is someone inside, try to find a hatch or opening and shoot them through it.

>>17873556
>No chance for another 20 to save, so rolling with this.

You start to clamber on the hull on the hopes of gaining a transport or something salvageable, when the turret starts to traverse in your direction.

>Boy you done goofed. What now?

>>17871109
>>17872566

Tbh, I can't see how guardquest gets that much attention, the writing style is aweful, like the doom comic all over again. Perhaps that's the point, but I'd much rather stick with a quest I can actually read without having my head hurt.

>>17873636

What was our combat equipment again?

rolled 10, 14 = 24

>>17873636
we're probably gonna have to find a way to break the turret's gun barrel

rolled 11, 9 = 20

>>17873636
Attempt to dodge the turret. Do we have any frag grenades? Is the top hatch open? If both are true, throw a grenade in. It'll destroy some useful stuff, but at least those pesky guardsman inside will be dead without having to fight normally in this crap armour.

Btw, do noko rolls count? It's a bit of a pain to constantly change it, but I know many quests don't accept them because it doesn't show what you actually rolled.

rolled 11, 20 = 31

>>17873636
I've been looking at the vanquisher model on lexicanum and that thing has blind spots. Climbing on it and getting next to the turret would keep us out of the field of fire and we can use the main gun as leverage. The weight of our armor is the biggest problem here.
So -> hide from the guns behind the tank's own armor and climb on it if the weight of our armor is not too prohibitive

rolled 10, 12 = 22

>>17873729

>>17873697
>>17873678
Your equipment is a Chainaxe that is intact but out of juice, a Bolter with all electronics out and the sight broken with half a mag and a Bolt Pistol with two mags. Your Power Armor is unpowered, the left shoulderpad replaced with a MacGyvered version made of Flak Vests and your helmet is looted from a dead brother.

No grenades.

All the access hatches are closed, the engine wasn't running when you got there or you would have heard it.

Noko rolls do count as long as both of the rolls is under 20. It doesn't matter if you roll 2d100 as long as the rolls don't go over 20.

rolled 6, 4 = 10

>>17873636
Climb up to the hatch and see if we can't pry that shit open. We need to get inside and kill the crew.

rolled 9, 12 = 21

>>17873757
This, while trying to stay within the blind spots of the turret

>>17873680
>>17873729
never mind the whole breaking the gun barrel

rolled 20, 12 = 32

>>17873756
Reading this situation I will go with:
>>17873729

rolled 8, 14 = 22

Get behind it - the rear of the tank is highly vulnerable, and the gun shouldn't be able to depress far enough to hit you. Unload bolter into rear armour, looking for any weak spots.

>>17873786
nice nat 20

>>17873786
You quickly drop off the hull of the tank and hide behind the rear of the tank before the turret can get its bearing on you. You are stuck: If you try to escape, the tank will blow you to pieces, if you try to climb back on you'll get a face full of Vanquisher cannon.

To make matters worse, you hear the engine start.

>Whoo boy what next?

rolled 8, 20 = 28

>>17873856
Hold on and pray to the Dark Gods that we can kill these fuckers in their glorious names. Fire the bolt pistol at the turret joint if you can.

>>17873883
NOBODY ELSE ROLL!

>>17873883
OP, 8 is the holy number - can we just go with my critical success, please?

rolled 13, 19 = 32

>>17873856
sneak towards one of the side turrets and climb up on it, the vanquisher cannon is too long to reach you when you're that close.

>>17873888
we need 5 rolls before he continues anyway...

Any further rolls can either support
>>17873883
or
>>17873904
or propose an alternative plan.

>Captcha: Princeps Mmoduar
You'll probably meet this guy sooner or later.

>>17873918
damnit you're right.

rolled 15, 3 = 18

Try to get ontop of the turret using the sideflanks.The cannon is way to big if we stick too close to the Russ it's armor.also try to get a bolter round in the turret joint to jam it.

>captcha expekt doom

Captcha foretelling the future?

>>17873942
looking at your rolls... indeed captcha is a powerful fortune teller...

>>17873883
Supporting

rolled 13, 4 = 17

>>17873904
>>17873918
Considering that we have to roll one way or the other... I'm going with this option. Also, the back of the tank(or at the very least the tracks seem to be sloped and it appears to me like that turret would turn very slowly. We might exploit that to reach the upper access hatch.

rolled 8, 11 = 19

blarg
>>17873963

rolled 17, 9 = 26

>>17873883
THISTHISTHISTHISTHIS

>>17873883
i support this option

Nu, OP?

You grab hold of the exhaust stacks just in time. The engine revs and the tank lurches backwards. Obviously the Imperial scum tried to crush you and would have succeeded if not for your quick reflexes. You desperately search for foothold and after finding it, proceed to fire a couple of shots from you bolt pistol to the turret joint, the barrel of the Vanquisher cannon above your head. The shots detonate violently, but there seems to be little damage. The tank gathers speed and reverses flat out, then brakes full stop in order to shake you off. Your hold nearly gives way, but you manage to tighten your grip and stay on. The Vanquisher starts accelerating forwards, with you hanging on, when the top hatch pops open and the tank commander emerges, manning the pintle-mounted Storm Bolter. He swings it your way and presses the trigger, while the tank speeds on.

>What prevents you from getting a face full of Bolter shells?

rolled 45 = 45

>>17874056
Throw the chainsword towards anything.

rolled 2, 14 = 16

GOD DAMMIT>>17874096

rolled 8, 5 = 13

>>17874056

Jumping of the tank will get us crushed no matter what.
>What prevents you from getting a face full of Bolter shells?

Our helmet and faith in the dark gods do.Screaming for strength from Khorne lunge forward with your chainsword aiming for either the commander or to disable the bolter, whichever is closer.

Fire the pistol into his face. Kill the weak!

rolled 19, 20 = 39

>>17874096
so we're throwing the chainaxe like a tomahawk? i can roll with that

rolled 10, 8 = 18

>>17874124
Bolt pistol shot to the face. Boom, headshot. KHORNE WILLS IT.

rolled 16, 19 = 35

>>17874056
hulk hogan?

rolled 10, 6 = 16

>>17874124
Messed up my roll.

Looks like we got him with the thrown chainaxe. I hope so, anyway,

rolled 17, 19 = 36

Fuck, I don't think there's much we can do... as >>17874122 said, jumping off will get us crushed.

So try to jump sideways to evade the bolter fire, pray to khorne, shout "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" and jump at him with the chainaxe. It might not be active, but it's still heavy and spiky, and he's just a squishy guardsman.

>>17874134
Didn't see that, should have refreshed before posting. Oh well, fine by me, I just hope we don't lose the chainaxe.

>>17874134
When the first shell hits your right shoulderpad, you grab your Chainaxe and throw it with all your strength towards the tank commander. The head of the axe hits the commander straight between the eyes, shattering his skull. The sickening crunch is clearly audible even over the roar of the engine. The Chainaxe drops off the tank and falls down somewhere in the speeding ground below. With satisfaction you regard the limb body of the commander, leaning backwards from the access hatch.

>You just lost your Chainaxe but the commander is dead and blocking the hatch unless somebody moves him from obstructing the hatch. That hatch is the only one on the turret, only the front of the tank has other hatches. What next?

rolled 12, 8 = 20

>>17874225
climb up to the hatch before anyone clears away the body and starts shooting again. Ready your bolt pistol and throw the corpse off the tank.

rolled 10, 11 = 21

>>17874225
looks like that turret is stuck with a comissar
time to climb and kill shoot them all with our pistol

>>17874225
Climb up, pick up body. Quickly see if he has any grenades - if he does, drop one in the hatch. If he doesn't go in with your bolt pistol - and aim for the ammo bins. A vanquisher ammo explosion will cripple the tank but you might well be able to get clear before the whole thing goes kaboom.

rolled 15, 14 = 29

>>17874225

Whats next?

Peel those loyalists out of their little metal box ofcourse.We asked strength from the bloodgod and now we shall give him blood in return.Force your way in the tank and destroy it from inside out.Massacre those mewling loyalist welps inside

rolled 15, 3 = 18

>>17874267
god fucking dammnit

rolled 19, 5 = 24

>>17874225
Climb up, remove the body, ready bolt pistol, and prepare to slaughter everyone inside! Let's tankjack this sucker.

>>17874225
we should probably make a mental note to loot the storm bolter after we deal with the crew

rolled 16, 11 = 27

Ugh - rerolling.>>17874271

rolled 6, 1 = 7

>>17874283
Fuck that. We're a space marine. Rip that shit off and take it now!

>>17874283
I see where this is going... We're becoming a chaos space marine ork!

rolled 7, 5 = 12

Damn these dice!

rolled 15, 2 = 17

>>17874268
Blood for BoodGod

rolled 14, 6 = 20

hijack the tank!

rolled 5, 14 = 19

>>17874260
Rollin' for this.
I would prefer not to throw a granade in if we can shoot them.

rolled 17, 2 = 19

>>17874324
i vote for this option

rolled 18, 6 = 24

>>17874268

such brutality most certainly would grant us a little favor from the bloodgod.and in our current position that is a nice thing to have.rollingfor this

>>17874280
You climb on top of the turret with effort, nearly losing your footing once or twice. You hear someone shouting from inside the tank but can't make out the word above the roar of the engine. You see the body of the commander start to disappear inside the tank, but grab hold of him and toss him off. For a fleeting moment you see the surprised and terrified face of a crewmember in the hatch before he disappears. You ready your bolt pistol, take aim and prepare for some hijacking, when a shot from a Stub Pistol hits the forehead of your helmet.

You drop the Bolt Pistol, which bounces off the hull and under the tracks.

>Your only remaining weapon is your Bolter. All it's electronics and sight are out and you only have about 15 shots in the magazine. It's also way too unwieldy to use in the confines of the tank, were you to board it. What's your next action?

rolled 4, 19 = 23

>>17874424
grab the storm bolter

rolled 14, 12 = 26

grab the storm bolter

Sorry for slow posting, 4chan is laggy.

The loss of Bolt Pistol was due to the shitty effectiveness roll of >>17874280

rolled 12, 9 = 21

>>17874424
well fuck.
Try to see if you can take the storm bolter off its mount, we could do with a weapon that actually functions.

rolled 19, 16 = 35

>>17874424

They are guardsmen.You are a chaos marine.It's time for some good old fistwork now.Trying to get our boltpistol back isn't going to work.

I suggest we continue with:
>>17874268

rolled 17, 5 = 22

>>17874424

Get in there and rip them limb from limb with our armored fists, obviously.

rolled 12, 6 = 18

lets just get in there and kick some ass

rolled 2, 17 = 19

>>17874424
Climb into the tank and engage the tank crew in hand-to-hand combat! Slaughter them all! This is OUR metal box now!

rolled 8, 6 = 14

>>17874424
voting to grab the storm bolter and spray fire through the tank hatch.

rolled 1, 1 = 2

Right, we got enough rolls in, you can stop rolling, just let this guy do his job:
>>17874453

woops, still had my dice in...

rolled 19, 11 = 30

>>17874475
>>17874464
>>17874453
>>17874461
voting for these

rolled 2, 1 = 3

>>17874387
i can only see one option
bolt them down!

>>17874506
sorry i was a little late on that one

rolled 20, 3 = 23

>>17874453
this
can we even fit into that tank?

>>17874453
You jump through the hatch, barely fitting through and landing on the floor of the tank, three crewmembers looking at you with utter surprise and horror on their faces. You immediately notice the Stub Pistol in the hand of the gunner and punch him in the face, fracturing his skull and killing him instantly. Despite being surrounded by explosive munitions on all sides, the crewmember manning the frontal gun whips out his Laspistol and shoots at you, fortunately hitting you instead of the munitions. The shot harmlessly hits the flak vests covering your left shoulder. You less harmlessly kick him in the stomach, rupturing his guts and ending his pathetic life. The tank lurches to a halt as the driver abandons the controls and takes out his sidearm, but before he has a chance to act, you hit him with a backhand slap on the temple, fracturing his skull and snapping his neck.

All this in the span of seven seconds. For another second, you wonder why there were just four crewmembers instead of six, but then notice the gun servitors slaved to the targeting cogitator and controlling the sponson weapons. They do not notice you, blind, deaf and lobotomized as they are.

>What now?

>>17874453

Don't care if this is gonna work out or not.Either we will have a laugh or we will have a happy bloodgod

rolled 8, 11 = 19

>>17874575
Attemp to hijack the tank somehow.If that fails salvage what you can and destroy the tank.

rolled 15, 5 = 20

>>17874575
We can't drive the tank can we? On the off chance that we can, rolling to drive tank If not, we search the tank for anything useful. Comm codes, things like that

rolled 5, 6 = 11

>>17874575
Paint our armour with Khornate runes drawn from the blood of our foes. Then look around from the turret - see if there's any other Imperials around.

rolled 19, 5 = 24

>>17874575
Loot storm bolter at the top, check the rest of the tank for valuables, and see if we can actually use this tank ourselves. If there's a servitor for the reloading, we might even be able to actually use the cannon.

rolled 6, 5 = 11

>>17874575
1st thing's 1st
Offer their blood and skulls to the gods and sanctify this tank.
Then see if we can comandeer the tank and recover the equipment we lost in the fight. We would probaly need some optics or at least searchlights to find them in the dark, however.

rolled 5, 13 = 18

>>17874575
go to sleep, good night op it was a fine tread

rolled 20, 14 = 34

>>17874575
Paint Khornate runes on your armor.Salvage what you can from the tank and disable it.

Way too big of a targer to drive around in and since we are looking for our chaos bretheren it might cause confusion if where not carefull.Especially as we have no idea how the current battlefield looks.

As a Word Bearer, I think we should do something to thank the Dark Gods for our victory and our earlier survival.

rolled 19, 4 = 23

>>17874610
Supporting this. We need to observe the immediate area, and this tank presents a comparatively safe way to do so. We might be able to fire off a shot or two from here at the enemy using the tank's guns if we're lucky.

rolled 3, 16 = 19

>>17874627
i'm definitely voting for this choice

rolled 11, 18 = 29

>>17874624
Why don't I ever get a good roll on my second die...

rolled 7, 9 = 16

>>17874610

We're Chaos Undivided remember?

Claim the tank for the service of Chaos and hijack it.

>>17874653
Chaos Undivided doesn't mean we don't recognize the individual gods - it means we worship all of them. We just won in gory melee combat, including a crazy stunt with a chain-axe. That's something to thank Khorne for.

rolled 1, 10 = 11

>>17874631
What's it with the khorne obsession, we're chaos undivided.

>>17874669
sure, but blood and skulls, right?

rolled 17, 11 = 28

>>17874631
>>17874631
Supporting this one. Our objective is to make contact with our HQ as silently as possible.Unwanted attention isn't something we want.

>>17874647
cheer up bro, you'll get a high roll

bump

um OP? are still waiting for us to make a decision?

rolled 10, 11 = 21

The emprah must have smote OP for his blasphemous quest!

OP here, it seems I was banned for no reason. The quest will continue tomorrow.

rolled 1, 13 = 14

>>17875060

Nuts. I'll archive this for posterity then.

>>17875060
Postan from PDA right now, in case you're wondering.

It said my "post contained a banned URL" when my post didn't contain any URL

>>17875104
Ive seen a few instances of that today OP, its (hopefully) just a temporary thing.

well, it was fun

well thanks for the quest OP, you were excellent