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Another good poll. Votes are:
Catacombs: 9
Surface: 7

Sorry for the length. I promise they will get shorter.

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What am I doing? By the Emperor's name, I can't believe what I got myself into. And on top of that, she's unconscious, maybe dead. I can't tell FROM THE BLACKNESS of these forsaken catacombs.

It started out when the xeno grabbed my hand motioned me to climb down to the darkness of the tunnels. She climbed down after me, pulling the entrance cover back on, making it impossible for me to see. We reached the bottom, realizing it's the sewers by the smell and the dripping sound. The xeno pulled me along, following an unseen path. I'm sure she saw everything in the blackness from that helmet from the way she never doubted her footing. Me, I tripped, stumbled & weaved like I was drunk.

Then another entrance lead us further down into the catacombs. I saw my first glimpse of light from the few lit torches down here. These catacombs held the countless millions of higher class citizens from the past several millennia. I've never been down here before. Most of the light was still gone, probably from the hundreds of artillery strikes that shook the foundations and snuffed out the almost all the torches. The few that were left had been down other tunnels that didn't belong to the path that she was taking me.

Then she stopped, and waited. Minutes went by, and I could hear the sound of movement. That is when I felt her push me.....hard. I flew to the ground. A squig from nowhere jumped to my last position, now taken by the xeno. I hate these things. Ugly, smelly, and they bite hard. I can see why those orks love to breed these things.

She was hit by the squig, and while this thing grabbed her arm, she flew back and hit the stone wall head first. She grabbed her pistol from her back pack and blasted the thing off her arm with a bright blue pulse. She fell to the ground, those creepy vertical optic sensors loosing light.

A few more showed up, all coming to attack the wounded xeno. She can't die. She knows the way out of here. She can see in the dark. She............she saved me again. I jumped up and grabbed her dropped alien pistol. Pulling the trigger produced no results. No bright blue pulse. Nothing. One of the squigs jumped on her prone body, so I thought fast. I grabbed a metal pipe from the rubble and swung wildly.

I don't remember details, but one thing is that these squigs can take a beating, but they also have an awful scream when retreating, because I heard orks. Lots of them, and coming in our direction. I picked her up, gosh she was light. Having little muscle mass and soft bones make her very light. I wore backpacks in boot camp heavier than her.

As I ran away, it got darker. She lost consciousness, or died, because the arms holding my shoulders went limp. I saw several huge sarcophagi, and another few darker tunnels straight ahead.

What should I do?
-Jump in a sarcophagus so we can hide while the orks pass us by. It might be a long time to wait, and the xeno is bleeding. I could try to stop it, but the Imperium boot camp didn't take time to teach us about injuries. They wanted us battle ready ASAP.

-Keep running to one of the dark tunnels ahead. It looks like the orks are loosing ground, and interest. Plus I think I'm getting closer to the point she want us to be. But those squigs could catch up, and with larger numbers.
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Votes will close on July 28th.
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Mood: Joy ~JTPeter Dec 12, 2010
Nice.
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~ShadowShogun50 Nov 15, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I would choose option 2 (too bad the voting is long gone)
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~Hikaru-119 Apr 6, 2010
At this point I find it interesting that his boot camp wouldn't teach about injuries when it is clearly covered in the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer... Nice story so far.
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~Niteshifter Jan 20, 2013
Well as we know, not many imperial worlds really care what happens to individual troops, most are conscripts taught the basics in the warp on their troop transports and dropped straight into war. Cadians would have full training sure, that's their life, and other worlds dedicated to the guard, but perhaps not this.
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~DustyGrafix Apr 7, 2010
Thanks so much for the compliment. Encouraging words like this make me try so much harder.
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!aaronmax Aug 27, 2009
woah, this looks kewl. haha
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~DustyGrafix Aug 27, 2009
Thanks. You still have time to vote on the latest chapter [link]
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!aaronmax Aug 27, 2009
kewl
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~Illuminette Jul 30, 2009  Hobbyist Photographer
SQUIGS!!! XD XD XD
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~DustyGrafix Jul 30, 2009
Squigs are always fun to draw. Sometimes, they can get cute.....sometimes.
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