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dissertation done. can actually post again. yay.
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rendering corpses requires corpse looting missions, got unlucky with the mission drops so only one patrol intercept so far.
wow I am barely just getting my laser construction up, took me forever to get a mission I could get resources from.
xcom 2 long war mod?
The armory truly was a sight to behold, the wonders of the destructive Omnissiah were in full display but this all was soured slightly by one section labeled xenotech which, while of limits for now, it was most concerning that it even existed. This was the first sign of why the Deathwatch required secrecy from its members even from their own chapters.

The guardians of this armory do not seem to share your opinion on the use of the enemy's weapons Brother Berumedes.

He said to the techmarine before the two separated to arm themselves, somewhere between a quip and a damning of the armory's guardians. There would be time to deal with the implications of those weapons later, for now it was time to ready himself for battle.

10 minutes was not much time, Draksal could and would if there was time after this mission, spend hours examining the myriad of weapons that lay within these halls but for the time being he would focus on those he knew and what they would face. The Kroot were know to be lightly armored humanoid xenos who prefer melee combat, who were sometimes accompanied by large war beasts. Draksal had heard of them due to their being known to do mercenary work for just about anyone, including the forces of Chaos, so while they were not the most common xenos threat they were not locals of this sector either. While most equipment could therefore be chosen with anti - infantry capabilities in mind, it would not do for their lone heavy weapons user to be caught without some way of dealing with the larger monstrosities. For this the versatility of the missile launcher would be a good choice, frag missiles for Kroot, krak for their monsters and flash missiles to disrupt their charges and help with building clearing. Finally a small number of Flakk missiles in case there were shuttle craft (it was unlikely kroot war spheres could land on planets) that needed to be shot down.

For sidearms they took a Deathwatch shotgun with Wyrmsbreath shell, which turned the shotgun into a burst fire flamethrower, for dealing with any xenos that got a little too close and an inferno pistol for getting through bulkheads/walls or incinerating anything that survived missile and shotgun fire.

Thus the armaments chosen where
A Deathwatch shotgun and Inferno pistol.
A Soundstrike Pattern missile launcher with
Frag Missiles
Krak Missiles
Photon Flash Missiles
Flakk Missile

The launcher was slung over their shoulder, the shotgun holstered on their right hip and inferno pistol on their left.

Finally they searched the armory for a Skull Probe, this he linked to their Signum that he had as a former devastator sergeant and to his augmented mind, so that he could use it to scout and get targeting data for his missile fire.

With the small hovering device following behind him Draksal boarded the Strike Cruiser.
A couple more days ye have, then I'll just get us into the fight anyway.


does anyone who doesn't post get to punch xenos then because they didn't use their 10 minuets to arm themselves?
31 flying enemies and we have arrows and a foxes pew pew laser pistol as aa. This is going to be interesting. If only we had someone with a flak cannon.

@Holy Soldier
would said special abilities work outside this game setting? because gratuitous setting looting sounds fun.

also is the xp requirement increase for each subsequent level linear or exponential? sorry if this is stated somewhere already.
Naija

Lvl: 1
Day: 1
Location: outside the Demon lord's Castle
Speaking with: Garrett@Simple Unicycle, Mario @Holy Soldier, Fox McCloud@Etherean Fire
Mentions: none
Word Count: 1,087
Seed deployed: 1 Napple Seed


Naija watched and listened with increasing aggravation as fox simply dictated to her team a plan as if he was the leader. Said plan also seemed like a poor idea, in her mind exploring such a massive castle separately was a recipe for disaster, they would get lost, have no means of coordinating (Naija was not familiar with the coms devices that let fox perform such operations with his own team and still keep in touch, which would have made the plan make a lot more sense to her) and inevitably blunder into fights on their own that would require the help of the others. His rather flustered conclusion however, duld her anger at him, It was quite adorable really, he had simply got caught up with his idea and his enthusiasm had lead him astray. His plan did indicate the strengths of the various team mates far better than they themselves did though and for that she was thankful. Mario was the kind of person who could and would get right into the thick of things, fox thought himself similarly capable but also capable of keeping an eye on the big picture simultaneously, while Garrett was stealthy and could run interference on anyone who would try and sneak up on them.

I will take all that into consideration, though I would prefer if we stay in shouting distance of one another rather than all going in different doors. The basic setup of our forces sounds sound though

Then there was Garrett, pockets were not a thing under water, they would only cause drag, but she got his meaning. He was a thief, in what kind of a world was a thief a hero she wondered. Shure she had engaged in looting the ruins of civilisation but that was different, the owners were long dead, or were so once she had delivered them from their fates worse than death. If he could stay on task for the most part she would not be opposed to him collecting a few ‘souvenirs’ but it was a bit odd to send someone like that into a saving the world situation.

Just make sure you're there when we need you and not busy looting when the time comes for us to fight

She grinned at Mario when he was surprised about the rock, glad to have surprise him, but her mood soured once again as she was referred to simply as ‘fish girl. again.

Mario, my name is Naija ” she said rather exacerbated

She was not getting the respect she should as leader, sure she was small in comparison and they were all well renowned, bould, handsome heros… Naija was not handling meeting more people very well when it came to dealing with the fact that almost everyone new she had met was attractive. As a result of being distracted by being around people who did not want to kill her on sight, an unusual state of affairs for her, the appearance of so many that did certainly was a rude awakening back to the dangerous reality of the situation they were in.

She let out a gasp at the size of the detachment rising from the castle, 30 winged women like those that had been with the general rose along with the large demon lord. One the one hand the flight of him and his guard was intimidating as they filled the dark sky, but on the other his tiny wings were silly and she had fought larger beasts and made armor out of their hide in her ocean home. She watched as they began to fly out of the castle rather more concerned at the number of valkyries than the presence of the demon lord, so many attacks would be tricky to dodge. She was not confident in their ability to take on them all at once, but they had the tree cover and they only needed to stall and not engage in a pitch battle to kill them all.

ok planning session is over apparently and unfortunately I cannot fly or shoot at the moment so it is up to one of you to get their attention. If they don’t all come down to engage us we are going to harry them all the way to the other castle. If they come down try to stay hidden from the main force, hopefully they send down a small detachment first and we can get used to fighting alongside one another before the rest come down. We follow the basics of Fox’s plan but stick together: mario in front, me and Fox on the flanks and Garrett you cover our asses. Fan out and get ready to hit anyone who comes to investigate

She paused a moment before adding

Also let’s see if we can take one alive, they wanted samples of the virus right? I assume his guards would have been around him long enough to get infected so we tie one up and bring her back with us. It would also be nice to see if there’s physical differences between the generals valkyries and these ones so we can spot the infected at a glance in future.

Because when it came down to it ambition was not an easy tell when it came to identifying the infected and Naija was a little bit concerned that maybe they could be duped in the future by an infected to fight someone they claimed was infected, for all they knew that was happening now but it wasn’t like they could just ask the demon lord if he was infected.

She briefly hopped down from their tree and retrieved a Napple Seed from her inventory, dug a small hole in the soil and planted it in a small sunbeam that broke through the treeline. Naija had never gardened before but this was quite an interesting idea, growing food some place specific rather than hunter gathering like she did, she would need to look into this when they returned to platform city. Perhaps she would set up some kind of piece of land with specific plants to grow ingredients, it would be much simpler than combing the seabed for patches of vegetation that might contain the right type of plant.

She then hopped back up to a nearby tree to watch the sky, dragging her rock up with her and lodging it in some of the branches, ready to leap out at anyone who came down to investigate their team firing upon them.
just a suggestion, we could have one or two people from team 2 reinforce team one for some reason and have everyone who bailed on team 1 fall in a pit trap/vortex/mine or otherwise vanish into the mist. they are close after all and we end up with relatively even team sizes 3/4/4. have them be ordered by the general to go help, then shove them at the start of the order so that they describe themselves arriving on the scene and then the rest of team one can react to that.

Give them James and we almost have "Luigi gets all the ladies" of my prediction of his char development down :P

my two cents on the situation anyway.

edit:or do squad leader order instead of general like you said.
@Hylozoist
I am also ready to blow this joint and be off on our adventure.
@Zelosse No.

@Wraithblade6 Right...

Just curious as to why everyone's going for powerswords - there's other weapons, ye know! If it keeps going, we'll have an entire Kill-team tooled up with relic weaponry.

Especially considering there are so meany wonderfully bizarre things in the deathwatch armory, although maybe I am being spoiled in the heavy weapons department.
still there's heavy Thunder-hammers, wrist mounted flamers, Power Fist with auxiliary Meltagun attachments and Guardian Spears in there for everyone else.

Which is partially why I still haven't posted as I am salivating over the options, I assume taking both a missile launcher and an Infernus Heavy Bolter might be a bit much even if I am mostly metal and it has a grav disk that lightens its weight. That and how not to stall the entire proceedings with cries of heresy at the xeno isle.
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