Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25684606-20180802153703/@comment-25684606-20180806142210

Through the contorted hallways of the Malepertus with its tilted walls and straightened floors, lit by torches or light bulbs and filled with air thick and dense from endless recycling, the Astartes came past countless doors, some merely closed, others weld shut and marked with purity seals. Alcoves contained contained statues of past heroes, metallic plates enscribed with texts of great deeds or warnings about the vileness of the Xenos. Blind windows either opened to adjacent halls, empty caverns within the Fortress or had been turned into passageways into a neighbouring vessel. Only once or twice, they would meet a human servant, clad in simple black robes and carrying books, texts or gear. They quickly made way for their masters, bowing their heads and eventually continued on with their tasks as the Astartes had passed them.

At the end of the flight of corridors, hallways and junctions, you reach hangar bay 22. A Corvus Blackstar awaited them, aking to a manta armed to the teeth. Multiple rockets sat under its wings and two storm cannons protruded from under the cockpit like a pair of silvery tusks. Beyond it, a heavy blast gate sealed the bay off from space.

In front of the vessel stood two more Marines, turning towards Ciaran and the Kill Team as they entered. One of them, bearing a crimson red claw in a black circle on his right pauldron, wore the rusty red of the Omnissiah's disciples on his right arm and two servo-arms were folded on the sides of his backpack. As he turns towards you, you see that the right half of his face is heavily burnt and scarred, partially covered by the lenses of an augmetic eye.

"Welcome, Captain", he boomed and slammed a clenched fist onto his chest plate as his face turned into a grim smile. "Iron Father Phokas Barak of the Red Talons, Sons of Ferrus Manus. I have the honor of delivering you into battle, Brothers." At his hip, he carried a Combi-Melta Bolt Pistol and a Power Axe as well as a helmet tailored to accomodate for his bionic.

The other Marine was a Psyker, carrying a Staff and the badge of a Black Raven of a field of pale bone on his right pauldron. He was accompanied by a servant, who handed Ciaran a short message from Watch Commander Todtgrimm, stating that he had assigned Epistolary Reus to the Kill Team as additional support.