The Rotmoon, 26th day of SorowsHelbridgeWe reach Gnaw’s Edge these week and it as worse as we've expecting. The weathers are unremitting bad, in fact they seems worse by each day. So, we head inland for site of power, where El Doktoro has tell us Emberstone are.
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The blood-hued skies of Aqshy roiled with storm clouds and smoke. Lightning
leapt in crimson arcs, striking nearby volcanic ridges with
blinding fury, illuminating a narrow land-bridge that jutted across a churning
sea. Crusted in soot and salt spray, the Rotmoons charged.
Kapitan Alunzo daLeeva led the way, black coat billowing behind him, gold
trimmed armour dull under the ashfall. The blade of his sword, Shipwrecka, seemed to ebb and flow,
reacting to the power at the land-bridge’s far side. A brace of battered
pistols clanked at his side. Behind him came the others; loud, mad, and
hungry.
Palmaz strode along the sand, vouce raised in a shanty so horrible the storm itself
seemed to wince. El Doktoro the shaman trotted barefoot beside him, red eye-glass lenses
glinting like twin embers above his grubby ruff, singing quietly and off tune in a language
only he understood. And towering above them all Ogdrog stromped, his massive axe
slung over one shoulder, smoke wafting from the muzzle of a Kharadron rifle
he'd had modified for use like a pistol.
But theirs was not the only storm to make landfall. From above came the
lightning - true lightning, shot from the heavens - and in its wake came the
Stormcast Eternals, gold-clad sentinels of Azyr. Both warbands had the same
aim, albeit with different motivation: to reach the sacred ground at the far
side of the land bridge and hold it against all comers.
There would be no flanks, no escape, and no room for subtlety. Just orruk
steel, celestial wrath, and a causeway too narrow for anything but blood.
A binding of Soulsworn Questors translocated, from their lightning-borne
arrival point, to the sacred ground objective.
The Weirdbrute Wrekkaz rushed ahead of the rest of the Rotmoons. Eager as
always to start the fight. The Oddmoonz raced in front, but the Weirdmoonz
were close on their heals.
Ogdrog and Roggriguez's Brutes made short work of the Vanquishers who had
struggled to cover ground in claggy sand.
The rest of the crew did their best to keep up, but something moving through
the smoke behind them caught their attention.
El Doktoro cast Bash'em Ladz on the Oddmoonz and Ogdrog roared encouragement:
Both the Wrekkerz mobs charged and crashed into the Soulsworn (despite the
craftily giving ground to confound the Wrekkaz)
Accompanied by the clash of weapons and armour Palmaz' shanty rang out across
the battlefield, casualties fell on both sides, but the Wrekkaz wounds knitted
closed and they leapt back into the fight. Soulsworn held their position
despite atrrition slowly eating away their advantage.
Supported by El Doktoro's magicks, Dragante's watch turned, and ploughed into
the Prosecutors who'd appeared behind them, dropping out of the storm.
A dragon swooped toward Bortagno's watch, as the Stormcast were reinforced by
a band of Annihilators who translocated onto the only Emberstone Cluster in
sight. But they abandoned it, without harvesting the precious realmstone
shards, and thundered into Ogdrog and his hefty ladz.
Vigilors struggled through claggy sand to close on the pirates, but they
peppered them with arrows from long range.
The Oddmoonz took advantage of the cover provided by a squall of soot rain and
disengaged from the Soulsworn.
They'd spotted the Annihilators moving away from the Emberstone and sprinted
to claim it for themselves.
(The Annihilators headed for the sacred ground after they dealt with their
first quarry, but that had nothing to do with the Oddmoonz choice....)
Even without them, the Weirdmoonz felled the last of the tenacious Soulsworn
and captured the sacred ground.
The last Prosecutor fell and Dragante urged his watch to regroup and help
their shipmates.
While El Doktoro and the dragon rider exchanged blasts of magical fire,
Kapitan daLeeva dived for cover behind the rocks...
... as the dragon took a deep in-breath.
Dragante's watch were again hit by Vigilors' arrows, but either most glanced
off armour or were redirected by the pirate's lucky trinkets.
So bows were swapped for swords.
The dragon swept around the rocks and Kapitan daLeeva charged! He drove Shipwrecka deep into the beast, wounding it severely.
But he was immediately swathed in a jet of seering flame...
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The Stormcast had gained the upper hand: Their losses were less significant
than the Rotmoons' overall. When the Annihilators re-took the sacred ground,
it was clear the pirates would continue to be worn-down if they attempted to contest it again.
So Palmaz called for a retreat, and the Rotmoons fell back to the ship with
(a not insignificant) three shards of Emberstone in-hand.
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Opponent: Daniel
Faction: Stormcast Eternals
Battleplan: Storm the Land Bridge (1 Objective)
Twist: Ash Storm
Emberstone Clusters: 1
Points Values: 1290 vs. 1720 (Stormcast stalled reinforcements = 230+
points)
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Result Loss
Added to Emberstone Vault +1 shard from the captured cluster, +2 from
the post-battle D3 roll.
Total Emberstone Shards Gained Overall = 12
Campaign Battles Fought = 4
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