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@Warbozz

Udan realizes that fighting Lentus would end in disaster, so he holds off for now. If the warband does break up, though, he'd be one of the first to commit fratricide.

What kind of CSM RP would this be without the tension of betrayal, eh?
Udan gave Lentus one final look before joining Arabar in his step. As he thudded down the dark corridor, he regarded the pulp that Jantaer had become, and he was impressed. What great power, he thought. His twin hearts beat faster as he regarded the foreign space marine, playing with the thought of rushing in and burying his chain-axe inside the Word Bearer's head, then taking his potent weaponry. But that wouldn't be good, for only his presence fettered the maddening advances of the voices.

The Word Bearer was wearing different regalia for some reason. Were these the colors of the warband that would be born after this slaughter? Udan thought it was ugly.

"Sorthraal, good news," he voxed. "That fool Jantaer is dead and I have linked up with Arabar and Lentus. We are proceeding swiftly."

"Copy," came back the modulated reply, then the distant Sorthraal blinked at an icon in his retinal display to allow Arabar to hear. "Vorax has joined us along with Second Claw. We are in the main concourse leading to the bridge, and await only the Apostle's command."
Currently pouring myself into a WH40k RP out of a sudden fanboyism for the Night Lords after reading the trilogy.

Other than that, I slipped in the bathroom recently and peeled some skin off of my left ring finger. I poured rubbing alcohol on the wound, and then I realized just how big of a masochist I am.

The bottle is empty now.
Alright. Better get down to writing 'Literate' in Variel's sheet.
@Warbozz

Udan just might just challenge Lentus to a murder duel in order to get that sword. Or maybe he'd snag it from him when he's wounded planetside.
Added blurbs about Fourth Claw in Sorthraal's character sheet, as follows:

Fourth Claw:

Sorthraal is the sergeant of the warband's Fourth Claw, or Fourth Squad. Its members, excluding him, are as follows:

Udan: A Legionary who'd walked in the shadow of the Primarchs just as most of the squad, Udan is a fierce fighter, competitive on the battlefield and unyielding in defense. Prideful, he is not one to decline an honor duel. Pettily envious, he desires Lentus' power sword. Although afflicted by the whispers, he has not yet devoted himself to the Ruinous Powers. A tactical marine, he does not favor ranged combat over melee.

His powered armor is a mishmash of multiple Marks, as is common amongst traitor marines. He is not very distinguishable from the rest of the warband, save for the cracked Novamarine helms that he has impaled on the spikes of his back-mounted powerplant. He is equipped with a bolter and a chain-axe.

Vorax: Vorax is the youngest of the Claw, having been born only after the Heresy and into the Raiding Years. Despite never having seen the Primarch, he has been fortunate enough to step into the dark halls of the Legion fortress at Tsagualsa before the Primogenitor chapters came and destroyed it. Only 144 years old according to his suit's chronometer, Vorax has not devoted himself to the Ruinous Powers, although the whispers are wearing down his defenses. He is a tactical marine, and favors ranged combat.

Notable for being in full Mark VII plate, Vorax can be distinguished by the ruined Imperial aquila that is still emblazoned across his chestpiece. However, unlike Sorthraal, he has taken pains to aggrandize himself. Skulls are chained across his form and he wears the skinned face of a Raven Guard scout on his right pauldron. Hooks dangle in between his thighs, each ending in a still-rotting severed head. He uses a modern combat knife and a bolter.

Bas: Mentally dull out of combat, and utterly implacable, impetuous and bloodthirsty in it, Bas is a Khornate Berzerker in all but name, because he refuses to call himself as such even as he screams praises to the Master of Battles every time he raises his chain-axe. Clad in midnight, he has yet to repaint his armor crimson and trim it with bronze or brass. In his chamber is a small altar dedicated to Khorne, a mound made up of skulls. Bas is the Claw's melee specialist, and a dangerous one at that.

Bas can be distinguished by the knightly helm of his Mark III war plate and the painted lightning that streaks across its ceramite. Two chain-axes are always present on his person (as well as a bolter and a gladius), although he favors a one-handed grip. He eats the gene-seed of fallen enemy marines unless restrained.

Malgadon: This Legionary finds a perverse pleasure in fratricide, as he discovered when he cut down a squad of Blood Angels with his heavy bolter back during the Siege of Terra. Still carrying the same weapon today, he feeds upon the fear the roar of the cannon inspires, and the dread of those who realize that they are about to die. Gregarious, he is Fourth Claw's devastator -- he does not call himself a Havoc. Erring towards Slaanesh, every soul he sets loose into the Warp sends warm chills up and down his armored spine.

Curving horns sprout high and proud from the temples of Malgadon's Mark VII helm, as is iconic of devastators. Skin that he has flayed himself is draped across his armor, in addition to the usual skulls. He is never seen without his personal heavy bolter and is extremely protective of it. When the battle is finished, he will usually be one of the firsts to start skinning the fallen foe.
@Jyoliod

Everybody in a warband the size of a company or smaller knows each others' names, unless there are new arrivals. If Quel's been there with the rest of the gang, through thick and thin, then there should be no reason for him not to know the members of Fourth Claw; conversely, Fourth Claw has no reason not to know him, since he is a warpsmith.

@agentmanatee

Speaking of which, does Quel tend to our armor, or do marines have personal slave-artificers?
@Jyoliod

I've spoken to our Father about it, and he is fine with me controlling Fourth Claw. I don't know if I should make CS's for the other four, though, although if prompted by the GM, I'll do so.

It's more interesting if you learn what makes a character tick as the story progresses, instead of having it already laid out in front of you from the get-go, isn't it?
Staring through the scarlet eye lenses of a faceplate forged into a perpetual, rictus snarl, the legionnaire in question halted his thumping bootfalls and regarded Lentus' power sword with complete and unabashed envy. Clad in a power-armored mishmash of multiple Marks, the marine stood, like the rest of the Legion, as a living nightmare. Dirty white skulls with outstretched, ugly, maroon pinions screamed in silent fury through the hollowed ceramite that served as their eye sockets as the spikes on his back-mounted powerplant bristled with the cracked helms of Novamarines. On the trimming of one pauldron, stenciled in the serpentine cuneiform of Nostraman read, 'Udan, who is without mercy.'

"I," he pronounced slowly, in a low, deceptively cool voice; his body language guarded and his trigger finger itching, "am one of Fourth Claw, and Sorthraal is my sergeant; but I am not his man, Lentus."
@Warbozz

Looks good. I'll read it after Priests of Mars by Graham McNiell, also a good read so far if you don't mind consulting a dictionary every so often as he uses some rather esoteric words for common actions. Then again, the ostentatious prose really traces how far out and legendary the galaxy is in M41.

There is a cute tech-priestess character who is somehow more human than machine, and likes to write with pen and paper instead of notepad.exe, so that's good too. I hope nothing bad happens to her, but given the way things usually work out in the far future, that's not likely.
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