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Xander Morhaime

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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #300 on: March 11, 2010, 16:58 »

"For the time being," Halsted chimed in with his usual cheer.
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #301 on: March 12, 2010, 00:36 »

The psyker, who was doing her best to stay unnoticed up to this moment, spits, splashing the floor with bright crimson droplets.

"Sorry", - she replies to your raised eyebrows and incredulous stares, - "Had to bite m'tongue. Hard. Otherwise, I would tell that pox-ridden cogbox what I really thought of it, and we'd probably end up as dead as these sodding bastards."
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #302 on: March 12, 2010, 01:15 »

"What do you mean? Where have you been?"
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #303 on: March 12, 2010, 04:31 »

Pass grins through bloodied teeth:

"After the fun part with all the shooting and grenade-tossing was over, I sort of blended with a furniture. Nifty little warp-trick - not quite invisibility, but enough to fool someone who's already distracted. Luckily, the rest of you provided enough of a distraction."

"Anyway, I figured that I'd do more harm than good in our talks with him," she points at DuPont, "or that shiny self-righteous servant of Omnissiah. Negotiations aren't really my forte, unless the other party is already tied to a chair. So, I stayed hidden and silent. The last part was the hard one."
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #304 on: March 12, 2010, 07:57 »

"Still not with you, lady, I am afraid. What would you say If you did not manage to hold your tongue... ?", asked the Eldar, rising his head and staring at Pass.

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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #305 on: March 12, 2010, 14:20 »

"To sod off and not poke their metal noses into Inquisition affairs," Halsted interrupted. "Chat time's over. Let's get back to looting this place before one of the Mechanicus gets the idea to douse it with promethium."
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #306 on: March 13, 2010, 06:48 »

"Well said. So, where the appropriate locker should be ?"

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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #307 on: March 20, 2010, 06:43 »

In this moment, DuPont has apparently snapped out of the shock.

'Please...' he whispered. His voice has changed- where once was arrogance and confidence, now was fear and pleading. 'Please, listen to me. I can offer you every little piece of knowledge I gathered! I can betray all whom I gave my oaths of loyalty! But, I beg you, whoever you are, after that, allow me to shoot myself... Just do not give me to those butchers, who will strip me of everything I am! Please!'
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #308 on: March 20, 2010, 09:04 »

"First we will hear from you, if you deserve a merciful death. Now... Where is the prisoner?"
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #309 on: March 20, 2010, 09:26 »

'If this will buy me the death I am longing for, let it be.'

DuPont bowed his head.

'I do not know which prisoner bothers you- and it does not matter, for there none here now. The eldar, which I was asked to break and deliver to my masters somehow escaped. But... I'll tell you about or operations, if that it what interests you.'
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #310 on: March 20, 2010, 11:47 »

"Carry on..."
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #311 on: March 20, 2010, 12:54 »

"I'm not about to do one bunch of heretics a favour by handing them a heretic from another group. No, I certainly do not expect them to see you again outside of our custody," Halsted explained with a shrug. "Laz, go get your kit. Priest... you make sure to write down what our new friend here says. I'm sure they have a clean data slate around here somewhere. Eldar, feel free to check if these corpses have anything useful on them, weapons and armour inclusive," the guardsman instructed, then looked to Pass. "And we'll make sure there's no funny business here..." he added, then turned once again to DuPont. "Right. You were saying?"
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #312 on: March 20, 2010, 13:17 »

'Thank you. Then, let me begin.'

'I- and my subordinates from Magna Brotherhood- were forwarding our cause for many, many years now. But we were lacking the pull that Divine Light Of Sollex had, so we were always the underdog, the loosing side. However... Alpha Brotherhood offered us help some time ago. Of course, only if we would plead loyalty to them. They were powerful, and it was the only to stop Sollex. So we agreed.'

He paused, likely thinking about the way to say what he wanted.

'For some time, it all seemed normal... Power struggle among Mechanicus, nothing new. But then, suddenly, we realized that our two groups are no longer distinguishable, and that the Alpha Brotherhood has dominated our leaders. From allies, we've changed into servants. And then, we were used. Month ago, I and my pack was sent to investigate a long deserted, demolished complex in the depths of the Forge. All we found was a strange, black stone with odd runes engraved onto it and enough clues to conclude that it was were a place where something foul was going on. Cult? I don't know, as I said, it was demolished using very powerful demolition charges. Anyway, we could not do anything about this. So we served. Three weeks ago, we where tasked with stupid gang wars- we had to attack and capture Sollex supporters from various gangs. Due to this, we have sprouted a gang war we just lost. And four days ago, despite the fact that we were almost wiped out by our foes, we were ordered by the very person that commandeered Alpha Brotherhood, despite not being it's *official* member, a Arch-Magos Albert Of Alba Longa to capture some xeno-biologist and deliver him to Alba Longa tower, Throne knows for what and, even worse, track down, capture and torture "until it's broken" an eldar women... And then, all of sudden, we are attacked by Skiitari, who say that our organizations no longer exists, and we are all heretics. I don't why, we were weak, but *that* weak. Only one person could have enough information to discredit us, and it was Albert, who ran both Brotherhood. But why would he want to destroy his own work? I don't know. And that's all that I know. Did I earn a good death by this?'
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #313 on: March 20, 2010, 17:06 »

"That brings light to our cause. As for you... I do not think you deserve a death... At least now"

"I need more time to think..."
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Re: Machine Spirit PBF
« Reply #314 on: March 20, 2010, 20:20 »

"For my part, I sorely would like to see you delivered into more knowledgeable hands - all this mucking about with politics is a bit much for me," Halsted said with a sigh. "However, I do not know if it will be possible to get you off-world and delivered to the hands of our superiors at the Inquisition. They at least would know what questions to ask. This is a delicate situation, and requires some consideration before we go back to shooting people."

"Our task was to determine the source of the cult activity, and eradicate it if possible. We seem to have accomplished the first part... however, I can't help but feel we should at least ascertain if an assault on this... magos Albert is at all viable."
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