{"id":667,"date":"2017-04-14T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2017-04-14T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T03:23:23","slug":"the-first-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/fluff\/the-first-trophy","title":{"rendered":"The First Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fighting had been going on for weeks, but grandmaster Antosh of the Vindicare Temple used the confusion to his benefit. Staying in the shadows. Firing rounds unseen. Repositioning. Then\u00a0letting loose once more. His rifle brought\u00a0low many xenos and heretical scum.<\/p>\n

He had only been flushed from his vantage point twice. The first time, the Eldar Corsairs moved fast enough from the sides to force him to move. The second time, the\u00a0Tau’s advanced scanning technology found him. Antosh felt\u00a0blessed by the Emperor that was able to escape both times. His\u00a0mission was an easy one, thanks to his heightened abilities. His orders were to\u00a0assist the Imperial forces on the moon base above Ravensforge, providing fire support for the various teams in place. They fought to destroy the moon base’s tractor cannon. Once it was reduced to rubble, an invasion fleet could drive the Necrons back to their underground tombs.<\/p>\n

“This is Antosh to Watcher, do you read?”<\/p>\n

The box crackled back.\u00a0Salena’s voice sounded almost robotic. “I read you Antosh. What are we looking at down there?”<\/p>\n

“All of the forces are converging on the cannon’s control rooms Inquisitor. I will assist in the assault in wherever\u00a0possible.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0vox crackled again. “Thank you Antosh. Do try not to get yourself killed. I\u2019m still going to need your services once this is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Antosh let a smile crease his face, “Do not worry Inquisitor. I will make it back. The same cannot be said for the enemy however. Antosh out.”<\/p>\n

Antosh could hear the cracks\u00a0of gun fire and the screams of battle\u00a0from a good distance away. His mask picked up many life forms as he approached his ideal position. Antosh had spotted a tall building that would make the perfect shooters gallery. It\u00a0had good fields of fire, and plenty of shadow to sit away in. The enemy would be lucky if they could even figure out what sector of the battlefield he was firing from.<\/p>\n

Antosh easily slipped\u00a0inside of the building, and pulling his pistol and knife from their holster and sheath, set off with a sprint. The building was clear, and within moments Antosh sat in the perfect position. The Master of Assassins looked down through his telescopic scope, scanning the\u00a0ground in the middle of the control rooms. It was bare, and immediately his mind sent off warning signs. His\u00a0caution was rewarded when the open ground splintered and cracked, giving way to one of the behemoth hierophant Titans from the Hive Fleet. It was certainly a rare occurrence, even for one so experienced\u00a0as Antosh.<\/p>\n

The lethal man’s mind raced. He needed to deal with the monstrous creature, but the armoured carapace\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0beast was thick. Antosh considered the situation silently. His rifle could punch through easily, but piercing\u00a0the armour and actually harming\u00a0the bio-titan\u00a0were two different subjects. The flesh-eating capabilities of the Hellfire round were perhaps best\u00a0suited, but even those might\u00a0fail\u00a0to kill\u00a0the beast.\u00a0Antosh, however, was equipped with no regular Hellfire rounds. A smirk creeped across his face as he slammed the magazine into his custom\u00a0weapon, its machine sprit dripping with lethal intent to end the titan.<\/p>\n

The first round flew silently from his perfectly crafted Exitus rifle. The moment\u00a0the\u00a0round was clear of the barrel, Antosh adjusted and let off with a\u00a0second. The two rounds zipped through the air with death dripping from them. Perfectly crafted and perfectly placed, the first round struck the titan in the right eye, and before it could even react,\u00a0the second round pierced its left eye. The behemoth skittered and faltered, reeling from side to side before finally falling to the ground, its head\u00a0slowly turning into a bubbling\u00a0mess of liquified flesh.<\/p>\n

Antosh grinned as he looked down upon\u00a0the dead creature. He had never been one to take trophies, but this time an exception could be made. Antosh had single-handedly brought down one of the most powerful creatures\u00a0the Tyranids could produce. Slowly he\u00a0dropped\u00a0from his position, sneaking to the dead body amid the chaos and claiming his prize. With his\u00a0much-warranted trophy in hand, he\u00a0crept away from the roaring combat, hearing the detonation of explosive charges in the distance.\u00a0The Imperial forces must have been successful. The tractor cannon was destroyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntosh to Watcher. Mission success. Moving to extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"
The Hierophant is truly a terror to behold.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\"
The Assassin’s skill is as much planning as execution.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fighting had been going on for weeks, but grandmaster Antosh of the Vindicare Temple used the confusion to his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,18,41],"tags":[8,14,58],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns","category-fluff","category-kill-team","category-slaves-unchanged","tag-fluff","tag-kill-team","tag-slaves-unchained","type-campaign-fluff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}