Rogue Trader - The Bull and the Wasp

Below is a little novelisation of an epic combat from Rogue Trader last night:

The Bull and the Wasp

The battle raged on and around the alien temple. On the top of the temple The Elder desperately tried to complete their eldritch ritual to shift the sacred structure to another plane, while the competing Rogue Traders below were equally determined to prevent this happening.

With his head still swimming from the strange xeno’s blast of psychic energy, Maarn leap to his feet and charged the Elder Warlock, who had descended to hold off the avaricious humans. Screaming his primitive cry of battle, Maarn unsheathed his great sword from over his shoulder and swung at his eldarian enemy.

The graceful alien psyker easily stepped aside the raging human’s clumsy strike. The runes on the Elder’s witchblade glowed with blue energy, and with preternatural grace and speed he struck a blow on Maarn’s head, slicing deep and opening a gushing scalp wound.

Maarn stumbled backwards with blood rushing down his face and into his eyes and mouth. Knowing he could not match the Elder in speed, he took advantage of a momentary lapse in concentration by his arcane foe as Andreas and Ezekiel joined the fray. Stepping forward, Maarn focused his rage and rammed his skull into the arcane and rune encrusted helmet of the xeno.

The Warlock was caught off guard and fell to the ground with his helmet cracking. Pushing his advantage, Maarn drove his sword into the Elder’s stomach, slicing through its exotic and forbidden armour. The Elder barely filched as the sword drove through it and into the ground below, though all those nearby felt the energy present.

Maarn, his head wound still gushing, and the Warlock stared at each other with icy hate, each tensing for their next move. As the Warlock prepared for its strike, a series of explosions from the top of the temple broke the tension of the moment. As the Elder started to teleport away, Maarn howled in outrage as his foe at his feet sneered at him and dematerialised before his eyes.