The Emperor's Heroes -- Magistrates Log
Necromunda: 174 925.M41
Scavenging Trip 112
As is our custom we set off this morning to explore the nearby territories looking for prospective foraging grounds where we could establish a new lair. Some of the brothers are becoming over zealous even by Cawdor standards and I think it would be a good idea to spread out. The Emperor in his beneficence led us to a perfectly defensible grouping of desolated buildings in district 8745B.
Imagine my surprise when our scout
Brother Claudius indicated that he had spotted
Gorok the Mad up ahead!
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| The Beastly Bastards of Madness have been spotted skulking behind a few buildings. |
We knew that a new gang named the Beastly Bastards of Madness (appropriately named) had been assembled by Gorok. They had established themselves somewhere nearby but I had not expected them so close. The acid rains had barely stopped falling an hour ago meaning they could not have been wandering long. They must indeed be close to our own haven...
Though they were a relatively new gang word had already spread about Gorok and Trak the Violent, two demented and unpredictable beasts, so we were not taking any chances on this unexpected encounter. I sent Father Maximus with his heavy stubber and Brother Typhus up to one of the highest level to lay down some covering fire as they were two of our best shots.
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Maximus (left) and Typhus (right) getting ready to engage the enemy.
Bother Claudius took Adept Peloneus and peeled to the right to try and outflank the enemy. The rest of the gang fell on me as I led them cautiously ahead.
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| Magister Titus (left) Brother Psycus (middle) Adept Kraucus (right) ready themselves to flank to the left. |
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| Brother Claudius (back) stealthily moves to the right with his trainee Adept Peloneus. |
As we cautiously crept ahead we could here the raucous clamor of Gorak ordering his men into position. They had seen us.
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| Gorak whips his men into a frenzy as they take position behind cover. |
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| The gangers prep themselves to assault. |
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Contact was made and the first shots sounded loud in the frigid morning. We opened fire with all we had! Typhus' sharp eyes spotted three tangos crawling out of the vents on the second floor of one of the buildings. As soon as he had pointed them out to Maximus, the big man leveled his heavy stubber and let out a steady ktchac ktchac ktchac as he sprayed the wall around the window trying to hit the would-be ambushers. It was a fiasco, no one hit a single target. The Emperor must mean us to finish this one up close and bloody. Very well then...
I decided to see what my greenest man was made of as I ushered him up to the front lines with me. Adept Kraucus had joined us a week ago and the whole gang saw him more as a meat shield than an asset. He was meant to be the replacement for Brother Aurelius who had fallen a few weeks before during one of the nastiest ambush I had the misfortune to be a part of. Kraucus had some big boots to fill and I was ready to give him a trial by fire.
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Titus (left) and Kraucus (right) ready themselves in the ruins of a small house as they hear the enemy moving outside.
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We could hear some of the Beastly Bastards outside, they were getting ready to storm our hiding place, though they may not have realized how close we were. Suddenly there was a loud whoooop! and I heard Maximus call out from somewhere to my right "that's two for me Titus! Let's see you do better."
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| Gorak orders his men to stack up at the entrance to the building in preparation for an assault. |
I peeked around the corner of the wall and saw at least three ruffians only a few steps away. I began to consider the best course of action that would allow me to make a strategic retreat back towards the rest of the gang. I could put up a good fight but ever since that hand injury I took a little while back I simply wasn't feeling as confident. I still do just fine with my brace of pistols though. I was about to order Kraucus to fall back slowly when the dimwitted imbecile rush towards the wrong end of the building! I felt only slightly guilty as I began to move back, I didn't know what he expected to accomplish besides getting himself brutally murdered though it would offer me a few extra seconds to re-position myself. To my greatest surprise Kraucus through aside his laspistol and pulled out an ancient looking hand flamer! I had seen the thing before but dismissed as it didn't look fit to use it combat, but the fool man leveled it at the four men who were lined up perfectly. He squeezed the trigger and an enormous orange gout of flame erupted from the end of the small instrument.
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| Adept Kraucus runs up and opens fire (literally) on the four unsuspecting enemies. |
The Wooosh! sound that the ignited fluid made as it swallowed up the baddies was followed by a loud yelp from Kraucus who dropped the over heated (and slightly melted) gun. I was surprised and glad the relic had actually worked. Kraucus peeked around the corner, then turned around grinning like an imbecile holding four fingers up at me. He had taken down four of nine enemy gangers!
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| Kraucus starts out his career by taking four guys out in one shot. |
At that moment while Kraucus still had his back to the enemy a grenade erupted right behind him. Gorok was sputtering with fury reaching for another grenade; apparently he did not appreciate what my man had done to his. Kraucus was down and I moved back up to support him (I figured he might be worth his salt after all). There were a few more exchanges between my other guys and the rest of Goroks men. A few yards away the half burned point man was still fidgeting on the floor so I decided to light up his world a second time and chucked one of my plasma grenades at him and that seemed to do the trick. That also sealed the deal for Gorok and his men, they fell back leaving two downed men. Jorak the Unsightly who would no longer offend anyone as he was quite dead; and Hemlock the Deadly, one of the men who had crept in through the vents was now groaning after having taken two round from the heavy stubber. He was alive! I was going to force another Heavy into unending slavery in my mines!
Kraucus has now earned the right to be called Brother Kraucus. And I suppose I could take a closer look into those hand flamer things...
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| Weapon of the day. |
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