We then suggest that if they help us get the Nobles off their asses and get all the forces in the hive city mobilized, we should have an appreciable chance of successfully damaging the chaos forces, hopefully enough so that we can get the fleet called off and deal with the problem more realistically, rather than using common grimdark tropes. You fought hard, and carried the day, you don't need to bow your head to me.' He confers with our new Cleric Nihilius (who had taken the Firebrand redemptionist background) for a bit, and then after fiddling a bit, walks out into the open (he was made to take a fear test to walk down bullet avenue, but failed by less than a degree, so after spending a bit of time whimpering, he went). At some point, he encountered the cursed wolf-man Argent and began a long battle with the creature. We have exactly three frag grenades left, and are on the fourth floor. (You can bet the survivors started sleeping elsewhere.) Ten. Huh. And while all this is going on, all of us acolytes are busy checking on the barricaded front lines, ensuring that there is no unknown access from the lower hive to the upper hive, managing the placement of the troops and basically being crazy busy. So, we commandeer a flatbed truck, and are about to set off when two things happen: 1: Dakka suggests we 'Orkify' the truck to hopefully get past a patrol or two, which the party wholeheartedly supports, and I get to work on, and That will be all. It is working pretty well, until the Cultists of Khorne breach the barricade after they all pass their willpower test to avoid pinning (I suspect the GM fudged the roll, but it certainly was thematically appropriate and kept the combat brisk). So, we dash over, leaving about two thirds of the Stormtroopers behind to make sure none of the nobles have second thoughts. Anyway, the party (Psyker, Scum, Arbitrator, Adept, Tech-priest, 2 Guardsmen and an Assassin) had been investigating the rumors of the cult, and generally mucking about. Nihilius insults the 'lesser beings' that are all those not of the Nobility, and turns the admiring masses into bitter and angry fucks, who proceed to think of us as racist, assholic dicks. Awesome. He is a fa/tg/uy. Apparently another vagrant/hostage combo was directly in the line of fire, and I have to roll a d10 to see which of the two I hit. Party is at level 2 (only just, highest has spent 650 experience). In the poem called Beowulf is to Anglo-Saxon civilisation what The Iliad is to the Greeks. And then the ship is in the air, and we have time to bust out our data slates, and review our mission, simply titled: Crucible. Our trip on the Space Wolf ship is much less prone to attack by raiders, pirates and the warp, with good reason. When the space marines respond, identifying themselves as being Space Wolves, and ask who is in charge of the survivors. Grendel turns Heorot, the heart of Danish society, into a slaughterhouse. By the time the orks get to act, so much devastation has been laid on them that only the three nobs (two on fire) and four 0 wound orks are left. Updated: 17 Jun 2012 10:01 pm. After a round passes, at least half of our forces and all but Nihilius are again able to act, and we split up, Grendel, Inez and Benedicta taking most of the Inquisitorial stormtroopers and a thousand IG at the Khornate Prince, and everyone else mobbing the Sorcerers. We opt to let the Arbitrators charge in next, and go in last with the trainees, imparting the greatest possible words of wisdom to them: Let other people take the bullets for you. How would you feel, knowing you could not struggle further against your foe, an enemy of you and the Imperium? Yay. 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Back to the other group for a bit, Hak is dead, but managed to pull the pins on a few of the grenades strapped to him as he went, and since he had charged one of the sorcerers, it did not end well for him. One sister in particular stands out, since it matches exactly the fake sister cultist I had rolled up to present to the GM as a cultist of Khorne that tries to get close to Grendel, either to kill him or protect him from all non-Khorne-caused deaths. So right as Ulthyr is about to escape, the third prong of our ambush cuts off his escape and isolates him as he watches his prized ship and whatever treasures were contained within burn and break as it plummeted to the ground. He thought it very unseemly for such a noble personage as himself). For a while they get nowhere again, but the Arbitrator Inez actually finds someone who recognizes this, and after some cajoling he tells us that the cowled people took his sister around the time that the sacrifices to the Beast started drastically rising. So we regroup several blocks away in an abandoned facility, and there are enough rooms that everyone has a place to bunker down/scrounge for stuff to use. So thus ends the career of Acolyte Castus Grendel, and thus begins the story of Living Saint Inquisitor Adept Castus Grendel of the Ordo Malleus, traveling the stars with Grey Knights and frequently Space Wolves lead by Brother Beowulf, killing Daemons and adding more and more creatures to his robe based kill counter. It is his bloody head that Grendel's mother leaves sitting on the edge of a cliff as a sign of her revenge. The Beowulf quotes below are all either spoken by Grendel or refer to Grendel. So, we set out to recover our lost daemon-murdering guy. Dismissed.'. Able gets weirded out, and rolls psyniscience. Before we can really do anything, two things occur simultaneously: We start hearing distant explosions but see nothing happening, and another slab of debris is pushed aside as the Daemonhost gets back up, still infused with biomantic power, and charges the warboss. Now this sounded crappy to the rest of us, as we were all wondering what the hell we would be doing during Grendel's little caper, but wait! Able tries to take over the ship and guide it in safely, but he gets rather violently thrown out of the system, an image of a blue and gold mask staring impassively at him burned into his mind, and the ship shook violently as the course changes, aiming us right at an inhabited hive city. He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. here. Now, while our attacks are making short work of everything unlucky enough to be near the two thousand sons, the damned sorcerers themselves are either predicting the placement of the shots or using the warp to deflect them. Rolls a 2, spends a fate point, and rolls ANOTHER TEN. So we continue our assault, and while we don't actually cause pinning or serious wounds to the two thousands sons, our dm rules that enough bullets are hitting them that at the very least it is hard as hell for them to do any more summoning style sorcery. So now the Thorians advance, and sit at the table across from Grendel, who at this point is pretty out of his league. In 1998: In Beowulf, he is based on Predator that can blend in the environment. Now what the hell could have done that? Once again the GM rolls awareness for the pirates, once again the ones that pass stop their compatriots from shooting this man, and once again the pirates are faced with what appears to be a suicidal and scary as hell fat guy. The two scum under Cromwell and Nihilius' control, however... both get burned all three times and set on fire (that is with spent fate points for re-rolls). Or at least that is the analogy we want to believe, but we get rather thoroughly disabused of it by the second day of traitors and Orks fighting in the lower hive. Grendel's mother sneaks into Herot and kills Æschere (or Esher), who is described as one Hrothgar's favorite thanes, and a close associate of his. We are met with hastily thrown together barricades and a FUCKTON of guns pointing at us, and apparently whoever is on guard duty right then is either mentally deficient, scared out of their mind or a heretic, as they all open fire on us, screaming that the traitors have come. Fourth session: spaceship funtimes (now with commissar on drugs) Apparently, Khorne likes all the shit that has been going on here so goddamn much that A FUCKING BLOODTHIRSTER POPS IN THROUGH THE PORTAL. As Grendel entered, she started talking, maybe to him, maybe to herself. The one remaining, however, smirks at us, presses a button on his belt, and disappears. But fuck it, they can either figure out to stop drop and roll on their own or are too stupid to be of use anyway. Ulthyr was going to get away right after taunting us. Anyway, they mess up horribly on trying to find the cult, and don't even stumble upon them until after the summoning ritual has started, but come with some local administrators in tow. So we blockade the central corridor, start using suppressive fire and liberal firebomb use to thin out their ranks. After a few minutes, it becomes clear that the combined authority of these three far outweighs Gerrod, who pauses to tell Grendel 'I did what I could for you, and still find you to be the finest Acolyte I have had serve me. AND ROLLS A SIX ON SAID CALLED SHOT, STABBING HIM IN HIS FACE. A bit of two way communication, and we have a plan: All the inquisitorial stormtroopers and combat-capable acolytes and whatnot will be coming with us as we charge into the fray below with about four thousand assorted guardsman. FUCK YOU SUPER MONSTER, OUTNUMBER RULES ARE HERE. Posted: 1 Jun 2004 3:28 pm. The orks just got out-orked. We all jump down, and thanks to the short distance, no one incurs damage. before his body becomes liquid. What toy was created 20 years before it hit the public shelves? Garm passes, and notices a rosette of the inquisitor's on the daemonhosts remains. He successfully hits it (impressive, when he has a weapon skill of 27) and proceeds to roll a ten. Hell, after what he killed, as far as I am concerned the man is a living saint, and I already forwarded his deeds to the Ecclesiarchy. Grendel pops off a few shots with his stub revolver at the window, bursting the glass just before he reaches it, so Grendel explodes out the side of the building amidst a shower of glass, gun in hand, and about eight meters off the ground. Anyway, what with the chaos spawned mutiny, the ship is not flying too well, and it starts plummeting through the atmosphere. Grendel frowns, questioning this, as did not Benedicta's own sisters fall before Xenos and Daemons? Grendel. And of course, it is now time for the three melee CoK to charge. Fuck. He found her in the chapel (appropriate for a sister of battle), leaning against a back pew smirking at images of the God Emperor, occasionally looking at the statue of Saint Drusus with respect. The GM rules he must make a -20 agility test to try, and then must try and hit both with a -20 to weapon skill to each attack. We answer truthfully, most of us erring on the side of giving more support to Grendel than is strictly necessary (he did save our lives multiple times, after all) with the exception of Cromwell, Nihilius and Inez. Grendel explains he happened to read a forbidden book by mistake when checking it to see where to catalogue it, and had then turned himself and the book in to a local arbitrator he knew (Inez) who brought his story to the Inquisition, where both eventually got recruited. Grendel's mother (Old English: Grendles mōdor) is one of three antagonists in the anonymous Old English poem Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD). Benedicta proffers that she was sent with them as one of the few people who had been serving with the combined army in the previous skirmish, and as such has some knowledge of their armaments, troop strength etc. BOOM BOOM BOOM 24 damage, six short. You could say it is our purpose to seek out those... like you. The two maybe real sisters are most impressed, and murmur prayers of thanks to the God Emperor for so blessing one of his children to do his will. Our pilot actually picks up the Inquisitor's distress signal. Oh, and in case this isn't enough of a challenge, we get attacked in the warp mere hours before we were scheduled to exit by a bunch of Hullghasts that, coincidentally, also chased out a few vagrants and a few Cultists of Khorne. HE CHARGES THE KHORNATE WORLD EATER PRINCE, JUMPS ON HIS BACK AND TRIES TO STAB HIM IN THE NECK. Grendel stands there awkwardly for a moment, and Benedicta continues, asking him if he sees how he is different from other men, how the middle of a warzone seems to be his place to flourish. And yet you, a lone man, as bereft of power as one could find in the inquisition, you stood against foes stronger, more fierce than you, perhaps more powerful than any servant of the imperium, and did not die. There are minimal adversaries between the entrance and den, with only a pair of badass … Pretty much all we get is generic legends about the Beast of Solomon, and how things sound like they got worse in the underhive. Kiss that shit goodbye, you are going to a warzone on a hive world rumored to have a severe amount of cultists on it, and have to try and rescue an Inquisitor who may have gone insane and might attempt to kill you rather than come with you. OH GOD. Grendel casts a spell on their weapon which makes it useless to it against him. It topples back, dying, as Grendel wrenches his arm free, and releases the clip, falling back onto the Shadowsword. Also, While Grendel is retired from play now, we have all voiced two thoughts: To the last thought (Keep in mind the other players never found out who she really was), I hope to run into Grendel's son some time later. So, the GM plays the role of the Interrogator and crew for each player one by one, and the questions are both relieving, partially expected and at least partly disturbing in focus: Grendel. This is the first time Grendel has ever been wounded by a daemon, and apparently that unlocks his nerdrage as when his turn comes, he announces he wants to try and kill them both. The ship explodes, mere dozens of yards away from the spire, showering hunks of metal and other detritus on the hive. While the execution is mostly accepted, the point still remains that the Nobles won't commit troops that they feel are vitally required to keep themselves safe. And he is still nothing more than a bookworm. We encourage you to read our updated PRIVACY POLICY and COOKIE POLICY. Anyway, the party interaction is as follows: One of the times Grendel pops up his head to take a pot shot, He says he wants to do an awareness test to see if he can observe anything useful about the marauding pirates. The Warboss pulls out his snazzgun, and unloads on us. Thankfully, the blaring sirens and sounds of shouting invaders did wake us, and we had time enough to set up cover and make the hallway something of a deathtrap, and after killing sixteen pirates who tried to rush us, the rest are bunkered down, and we have ourselves a stalemate. This situation continues for twelve years. Beowolf killed Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon. Anyway, with that dealt with we go back to dealing with the remaining trapped hullghasts behind the barricades and finish up the fight, and start organizing the passengers and few crewmen present to help start cleaning up, hauling bodies to airlocks, and pilfering the dead. So, the one vagrant's head explodes, showering blood everywhere (I imagine the hostage is not feeling too good right now), but then the GM frowns, and pulls out a ruler, fiddles with the map a bit then smiles. I and my brothers would be happy to work with Grendel again, and as such I expect to see him become an Inquisitor. So a naked fat guy with a monocle using his robes as a parachute with a knife in his mouth is descending on the city, pissed off that he lost his wallet. We whip out an Auspex, but there is no trace of the individual. 1 Biography 1.1 Beowulf (poem) 1.2 Beowulf (film) 1.3 Grendel, Grendel, Grendel 1.4 Other Appearances 2 Personality 3 Gallery 4 Navigation Grendel … We quickly rig him up, and then once again he heads out, smoking a Iho-stick and holding a firebomb and a Molotov with a dozen flamer canisters clearly strapped to his chest. This page was last edited on 28 March 2020, at 11:37. Dusk Feral World Moritat Assassin (prev. In that moment of Gallantry and Badassery, picking up the wounded SoB while fleeing a city being shelled, Grendel made Benedicta fall for him (sex didn't count, that was mostly the job to her before). There are no nearby IG forces, as they already came for the Ork problem, but have since decided to stay and KILL MAIM BURN. Beowulf: "The hero of all heroes," Beowulf, strong and courageous, is the prince of Geats. So we're left with Grendel, a semi-human being who hates goodness, and and Onela, who has killed his brother (an act regarded throughout the first two thirds or so of Beowulf as the worst thing anyone can do) and usurped his throne, and who then sets out to kill that brother's sons and succeeds in killing one of them, along with Heardred. One hits, and Grendel makes his dodge. The GM already gave him a full 1,000 bonus xp (no one objected, fucker earned it) but still has no idea what the inquisition would have to say to a confirmed report from a batch of newbie acolytes that the bookworm absolutely curb stomped a daemon that can eat space marines. 1 Biography 1.1 Beowulf (poem) 1.2 Beowulf (film) 1.3 Grendel, Grendel, Grendel 1.4 Other Appearances 2 Personality 3 Gallery 4 Navigation Grendel … Grendel is feared by all in Heorot but Beowulf. After Grendel is defeated his mother attacks and is also handily defeated. Explain who killed who and why they did it. When Grendel's turn comes up, he swings around to the front, hanging with one hand clutching the sword jammed in his shoulder, and tries to slam Grendel's Claw into the rent in the armor (treated as a called attack) before he gets hacked into bits by the giant fucking chain axes. We all split and go different ways, because fuck this scares us. He then rolls a nine. It is now Grendel's turn, and he decides to grapple one the the two CoK on Inez. In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge. Finally the Space Wolf leader gets in a solid hit with his thunder hammer, causing some solid damage to the Khornate Prince, and attracting his singular attention. And then there is Grendel. During the night, Able is awakened by a group of robed and cowled individuals trying to bodily spirit him away from the hotel. Apparently, the people manning the barricade are some retired guardsman who live in the hive as well as some arbitrators, just trying to guard their home. She shrugs, only a hint of melancholy on her face, and wonders what choice would two people have in the face of such foes. After a few rounds pass with only an occasional trade of potshots, Grendel (who had not hit a single pirate with his stub revolver) has an idea. Oh yeah, forgot this, but some funny things about Castus Grendel: He has not bought a single Sound Constitution, and rolled a 1 for starting wounds. That makes Solomon, Ambulon on Scintilla and Cantus that all know Grendel's name and face and find him awesome. Our GM had already prepared new temporary characters for us all around Grendel's level. We pass all but one with ease, thanks to having some intimidate oriented characters and the nobles not being particularly hard-willed. here. Sure enough, a few corners turned and there they are, shouting and shooting as they pour in from a massive breach caused by their ship. Grendel's mother, unknown to the Danes or Geats, is plotting to avenge the death of her son.After the celebrations are over in Heorot and everybody is asleep, Grendel's mother appears out of her dwelling place, the swamp. As such, Grendel's position as senior acolyte and previous protector of Cantus, coupled with our impressive backing of three inquisitors might net us some more clout, with which to bully the nobles into committing their forces (we can't tell them about the exterminatus, we would just get a panic in the general populace and nothing would get done). It is now called Grendel's Claw. Grants bearer a Fear 3 against followers of Khorne. Oh wait, Grendel recently became a Xeno Archivist, and can speak Eldar. Beowulf then ventures into her cave under a lake, and engages in fierce combat with Grendel's mother. 'A consummate conqueror, a warrior who led to glorious war on planet after planet, and he fell against something stronger on a small planet called Iocanthus. The Butler did it! Based on the epic poem Beowulf "about a Norse warrior's battle against Grendel the murderous troll. Over the last several weeks, disappearances named as sacrifices to the 'Beast of Solomon' (widely believed to be a myth by majority of the inquisition thought up to give the people living and working there a sort of mental release, a reason that their lives are so terrible) have risen dramatically, to the point that work is slowing drastically. The ork truck veers and starts flipping, and by the time it has flipped all it will, it is mostly pieces. As to the Daemonhost we saw,’, At this she pauses, grimacing, before going on, ‘I know not why Tzeentch would be there, but I doubt it is unrelated to why the IG and PDF after turning have fought each other. Sadly, the eldar are slightly faster than them, and their shuriken catapults dice the fuck out of half of them before they can even act. So to defeat him, they have to engage him in a hand in hand combat which unfortunately, none of them can withstand him except for Beowulf.. Well, this is bad, especially since the pansies kept running into their non-burning compatriots and setting them on fire too. Because Grendel is a murderer and a descendant of Cain, he has transgressed the bounds of society and is demarcated as 'other,' banned from the mead hall, the site of laughter and social engagement. He succeeds. Beowulf’s struggles to overcome the monster are thought to symbolize Anglo-Saxon England’s emerging Christianity. After a bit of time, someone knocks on the door, and shortly informs the Inquisitors of what was said in the other rooms (almost exactly the same as what Grendel had been saying). Inez starts bellowing orders as the drugged commissar exits our rooms, and when some now roaming pirates round the corner, he grabs one in each cybernetic arm, and starts slowly crushing their faces as they scream and plead, all the while looking at them with a face of hate and drug-induced mania. So we make great progress, inflicting sizable casualties with minimal losses on the way to the lowest level. But then our Inquisitor calls us in, and tells us 'Oh wait, that awesomely non-fatal lifestyle you were just living? The GM has Grendel roll to resist seduction, and he rolls a flat 100. Then Nihilius decides to try and charm the captain into upgrading their room and board, maybe even pay them for services rendered, in light of their actions. Definitely a smooth exit. ', 'Hence why you are no longer under Gerrod's jurisdiction. Cromwell (Got put out by the blast from the explosion) pulls out his Nomad Rifle (apparently richer than the average scum), and aims a called shot at another vagrant's face. So anyway, we are getting SWARMED and a bunch of these enemies are actually pretty damn strong. Apparently, either Tzeentch weakened our ships defenses, or the Chaos gods love topping each other, as several crewmen go berserk, clawing out throats and popping skulls barehanded with berserker frenzy, screaming about blood and skulls. Well, the battle continues for a bit, us picking off vagrants for about a round as they grow increasingly frantic as they watch their comrades die (we only lost one hostage to an itchy trigger finger) when about a dozen BURNING HULLGHASTS jump through the inferno, set the one last CoK on fire, and all of them (Including the CoK) charge straight into us. Well, he seems to be having the time of his life, in his own little eye of a maelstrom of blood and gore. When Grendel finally got tired of all the cheers and laughter he went up to it and killed most of the warriors in it. Grendel, fictional character, a monstrous creature defeated by Beowulf in the Old English poem Beowulf (composed between 700 and 750 ce). By Stax. We want to play as new acolytes serving under Grendel some time in the future. After all, he was only awarded a scant amount more time before he was returned to death, not enough time to fight at all.’, At this she turns to Grendel, and says, 'I fear you may be faced with a future not unlike Drusus, and I fear the Emperor is not as… watchful as he was during the years of Drusus.

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