Imperial Knights - Campaign Finale

Friday Night Knight Fight: To say that things escalated would be an understatement

I am honestly a bit amazed our DM managed to escalate a campaign that we were treating pretty jovially (Shout out to the in-between combat deployments RP moments at the shitty toxic waste barrel fire with nameless Imperial Guardsmen) to such a wrenching and honestly spooky conclusion.

I'll briefly (well as brief as I can make it while still making it good to read) summarize here, as I'm intending on doing some longer write-ups for Ostia and this campaign as it now directly transitions into the stuff I'd prepped for her.

The idiot squad had been deployed to try and oust Chaos from a Mechanicum Forgeworld, and right at the 11th hour after fighting traitor guard and Iron Warriors Knights, we descend into the planet itself to secure something in the subterranean workshops. No guards allowed. Just the Scions were permitted into the inner sanctum.

Turns out, that something was the ruins of a Knight factory as well as whatever the hell that hella spooky thing is. Some amalgam of living bone, Necron metal, and imperial tech, currently controlled by a figure who none of our scions could tell if it was actually Puerterabo but by god our table was dying. We even asked and our DM just didn't clarify??? Just looked at us and kept describing things???

The Iron Warriors figure was actually there at the device with our Knight Praetor and the sole remaining Knight from his Lance (A lil squire named Richard), chatting about you know, falling to chaos, regular Tuesday hot girl stuff. Praetor Argus then cuts the damn kid next to him in half and turns to fight us.

The Spooky machine was powered on and was slowly trying to, as best we could figure, fuse our Scions with the Knight and its machine spirit wholely. It was a struggle to resist the pull, but Ostia nearly didn't as the Machine spirit took the form of her sister begging to be given life again through their merging. Every time the Knight took a hit, Ostia perceived it as her now fallen friend trying to kill her sister, and on multiple occasions let herself slip into the pull as to not watch her sister get hurt.

It was a hellish fight. WARDEN suffered catastrophic damage, losing both its weapons along with multiple hull breaches and serious system backfires. Since Ostia did succumb slightly to the melding, she emerged from the fight severely wounded.

Everyone in the squad was able to ask a boon of the Mechanicum, and Ostia requested additional augmentation to her knight's melee capabilities, a vacation, and never to be knowingly deployed against chaos again.

And that boon, along with her experience fighting on and liberating a manufactorum, will be what leads to her deployment on Vitrius Seven with the Salamanders against the Orks.

Poor Marcus Crael is going to have questions though about why n her file the entire final assault is redacted and she is listed as killing her old Praetor whoops

ANYWAY that ended up being long but now that one chapter of Ostia's story is wrapped up I'm thinking I might do weekly lore posts like this with some Art going over events leading up to the Vitrius Seven/Current events. Obviously, I'll still be answering questions in the meantime but I want to explore some past stuff with her.