Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-33521582-20180324203957/@comment-33521582-20180413203310

Alexus reacts first, levelling his Multi-melta with a cry and loosing a super-heated blast from the weapon against one of the armoured brutes. It catches the creature in the chest, melting through it like a hot blade through foam, even as the abomination screeches and hisses in pain as the fire propagates throughout its innards, before the expanding gasses rip its flesh apart and send pieces flying. However, at this extreme range, only one of the creatures is affected.

Gaut fires at the nearby creatures, the ones that are skulking among the eggs tasked with moving and guarding them. His bolt pistol dispatches monster after monster, as they clamber over the eggs and leap at the kill-team. His roar echoes through the chamber, and the nearby creatures rush him like a swarm of locusts.

Drew activates his jump pack and leaps a hundred meters forward, leaving the kill-team far behind and closing with the armoured creatures near the center of the cavern. The hulking Astartes crushes one with his landing, the ceramite of his power armour hammering against the beast and rupturing it in a shower of gore and ichor, even as he rips into another with his chainsword, tearing its neck to shreds.

Zhevordus primes his grav-cannon, and shoots it into the massive beast in the middle of the chamber. The beast thrashes in pain, as an incredible force presses it down to the ground, the sickly sound of cracking chitin evident even over the howls and gunfire. Then, six futher legs sprout from the abominations thorax and, fighting against the pull, it lifts itself up, and lets out a terrifying roar as it begins to move.

Sergeant Invexus charges the incoming droves of lesser beasts along with Gaut, sending a handful of them flying away in chunks with every swing of his Power hammer, like a furious god smashing through a seashore.

"Brother Ferran! You'll be cut off! Brother Zhevordus, Brother Alexus, we are too far! We must advance towards that monster!" He shouts over the vox, even as he signals the rest of the kill-team to clear a forward path towards the centre of the chamber.

Obedienty, the other members lay down a hail of bolter fire, advancing in bounding overwatch, like a spear through the mass of creatures. Frag grenades fly liberally, their explosions shredding the abominations by the dozens, and bursting eggs wide open, releasing a cascade of mucus onto the cavern floor.

Hundreds of the smaller creatures swarm around Sergeant Invexus, Gaut, and the kill-team, their claws tearing and rending at armor, sparks flying where they meet, the sound of their screeches terrible and deafening. Only a dozen manage to circumvent the five Astartes' kill zone, leaping over it and charging the two marines still near the tunnel mouth, Zhevordus and Alexus.

Seven of the armoured abominations charge the kill-teams position in a frenzy, covering half the distance to the advancing marines in a frightful burst of speed. The remaining two leap Drew, their savage claws rending his armour, drawing blood from his chest and leg. One of them manages to grapple the Black Dragon, and vomits a cascade of maggot-like creatures onto him.

The massive creature recovers from the gravitational pull, the anomaly too diffuse at this range, and on its twelve hulking legs rises, and begins to advance slowly towards the kill-team. With a sweep of one of its massive clawed extremities it sends Drew and the two armoured creatures flying in a flat trayectory against one of the lateral walls, over a hundred meters away. The blow pulps the two monsters against the rock, and the Astartes crashes into the cavern wall with a sickening crunch, the blow knocking him unconscious.