Rogue Trader - TO PRETHIAN

Salt · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:46 pm Post subject:

The vox-casters come to life.

"This is Lieutenant Salt. I reckon the machine spirits are feelin' friendly today. They've revived, even though I musta done that wrong. Surely the Emperor be smilin' on our mission."

"Anyway, I had ta leave the Command Crypt and go into the vox-tower to perform the rites. I'm returning to the Command Crypt now. What are my orders? Should I come back to the Docking Bay, or wait for you in the Crypt?"

"Oh, uh... 'over'!" I laugh at my lame joke.
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"For the Amphael!"

Andrea Chan-Gauthier · Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject:

Andrea stares at the torn out wiring of the control panel, clearly frustrated. "Of all the..."

"Chief, can you open these doors in a more military fashion?"

Drak-Kung · Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:50 pm Post subject:

"Explosives could blast open the doors...but I would be reluctant to do so, lest we anger the Machine Spirit. "

Montresor · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:59 am Post subject:

There is a long silence after Andrea's communication to Metanus. Static draws out for several seconds before the enginseer replies.

###Seneschal, you will have to repeat. Tell your party to stop all of that chatter, twenty people using the same channel at once only angers the Machine Spirits and makes it impossible for me to hear you###

Tyor turns on his detachment and yells at them over a universal channel, demanding to know which ones of them were making unnecessary chatter. But, not wanting to perpetrate the same error, the Helmsman is quickly silent.

Ventillators drone down the hall with increased velocity, swirling great pools of grey-brown dust.

[I will assume that Andrea at least repeats her request to Metanus, who then angrily advises her to tell her detachment to maintain strict silence. A moment later, he tells her that he will be able to communicate with Salt to advise how the Supply Vaults may be opened from the Command Crypt.

Salt's progress back to the Command Crypt along the exterior of the way-station is unimpeded. She soon finds herself back inside the complex. Inside, she finds the place undisturbed, with no sign of anyone else having entered. Thoughts of the grimy and claustrophobic slum of Delta-X-7 suddenly come rushing back to her, and she is immediately conscious of the enormous distance between herself and the place she once called home. Profound feelings of isolation and intense loneliness combine into chill sensation of dread]
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"Yes," I said, "for the love of God!" - Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado.

Andrea Chan-Gauthier · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 10:05 pm Post subject:

Salt · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 2:07 pm Post subject:

"Keep it together, girl. Yer all alone. Ain't nothing to be worried about up in here. Place be as empty as the Void, an' just as safe."

I go back to the top of the tower in the middle of the room.

### Yer Honor Metanus, I'm in the Command Crypt. Ready for instructions. ###
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"For the Amphael!"

Salt · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 8:01 pm Post subject:

"Wait. The void ain't too safe..."
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"For the Amphael!"