Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-26383377-20180728220314/@comment-26383377-20180921063941

Archeus quickly noticed the movement of Rikki’s hand, and places his hand over hers, shaking his head. This isn’t the time...

He pulls the girl closer, and reaches to his side. Archaeus picks up a huge detached side door, likely blown off of a Chimera APC earlier. He uses the side door to cover the both of them up, just as the aforementioned speakers turn the corner.

A squad of soldiers, dressed in similar garments to the PDF soldiers that Rikki saw earlier, who were attempting to protect the planet. All imperial heraldry was torn from their armor, replaced with symbols of worship and dedication to the dark gods.

Leading the group was another giant in armor. He would have been Archaeus’s size, but the armor made him stand nearly half a head taller. However, this giant’s armor was painted black rather than crimson, and he wielded a long ornate staff that ended with a stylized head of some eldrich horror. Wedges between its jaws was a purple gemstone.

One of the soldiers veered off of his path, slowly approaching the blast door that seemed so very out of place. He clutched his lasgun within his hands, slowly getting closer and closer, until he now stood right in front of Rikki and Archaeus. He reaches towards the door to move it aside, before-

A deafening crack of thunder resounded, followed by a distinctive ZAP. A bolt of energy flew from the black colossus’ Staff, and struck the soldier on the back. His body was turned inside out, his blood, and guts were splattered onto the side of the Russ tank, and the only thing keeping the gore from splattering onto Rikki and Archaeus was the thick blast door that Archaeus held up, for them to hide under.

A moment of silenced ensued, the rest of the soldiers stood completely still frozen in fear.

“Keep up,” The giant finally spoke, his voice was a deep rumble. “Have I made myself clear?”

The rest of the soldiers followed up with a series of “yessir”s, most of their voices cracking in fear, beffore hurriedly heading to their leader’s side.