Taking of Rast's Refuge- Grimm Omens campaign

 

Rast's Refuge-  Grimm led his warband towards the warp tainted planets surface.  They had arrived stealthily in system and had quickly taken the Renegade cobra destroyer in orbit with a swift boarding actions that saw it added to Grimm's control.  Most of the pirates were below at a camp known as Rast's Refuge.  He would subjugate the remaining pirates and have them serve him.  Even as they approached the settlement the cultists and fanatics came storming at his forces in a seething tide of hatred and malice.  Grimm would crush them and then force them to serve.  Grimm's forces opened fire cutting down the first ranks.  A pair of massive spawn bounded ahead and slammed into Harkon and his squad.  One marine was down and wounded.  A black legionnaire jammed a meltagun into one and reduced it to a puddle of steaming meat as Harkon swatted the other one back leaving it dazed and bleeding. 

A massive mob of possessed and mutated cultists swarmed Grimm ignoring his demands that they surrender. 

"Honor the gods with their blood!" The cultists demagogue screamed.

     The ferocity of their attacks caught Grimm by surprise a number of his chosen fell wounded by the onslaught.  Grimm blasted one and then another of the possessed cultists apart with his staff even as his chosen hacked apart other cultists.  Over the vox Grimm heard the report of beastmen flanking his force.

     "Kill their leaders!" Grimm ordered through the vox.  "Slay the masters and then we will take their place!"

As the hordes of cultists advanced into the firepower of the black legion Harkon used his powerfist to smash apart the remaining spawn.  Brutus and the venomcrawler barreled into the possessed cultists until only the Dark commute stood before Grimm.

A crazed mob of cultists charged the Vindicator throwing molotov cocktails that burned impotently on it's siege blade as it's guns ripped them apart.  The beastmen charged into the black legion cultists in a berserk fury.  The cultists met fury with fury such was their dedication to Grimm, and though many fell they held.  Another screaming mob of cultists charged into Harkon and his squad only to be ruthlessly hacked apart with chainblades.  The last cultists was picked up by Harkon by the throat as he begged for his life.  Harkon reached out and took a Tarellian Handgonne in poor condition from the cultists.  It was a powerful weapon and Harkon mag locked it to his armor.

" Now where did you aquire this?" Harkon mused aloud.  " Bind him and bring him with us, he's my prisoner." Harkon ordered.

Grimm had his chosen hacked apart the commune until only the demagogue stood trembling before him.

Despite himself Grimm was impressed with the demagogue.  He had infused spirits into cultists and that was an impressive piece of warp craft for a mortal.

     "Order your forces to drop their weapons and kneel and they will be spared to continue serving the gods and me" Grimm ordered 

    " I will serve but none of the others will serve as long as Captain Rast and his enforcer live my lord" the cultists demagogue stuttered in terror.

     Grimm grabbed the mortal and climbed a scaffold.  He could see this Rast and a massive ogryn directing a group of former guardsmen firing at Grimm's forces.

     " I honor you mortal.  You will witness my power and mastery of the warp.  You will then order the surrender and bear witness and testify of my might amongst the survivors." Grimm commanded.

With that Grimm raised his staff that suddenly was surrounded by green warp fire and then pointed it at Rast and his bodyguard.  Two green fireballs leapt out and the two were consumed by warpflame and fell screaming to the ground until they were utterly consumed.

With the death of Rast the remaining cultists and pirates surrendered.  All except the berserk beastmen but Brutus hammered into them smashing them apart. And burning them with his heavy flamer as they attempted to flee.

The remaining pirates knelt before Grimm and he took stock.  He had killed many but nearly half had survived and would now serve him.  They would be broken up and integrated into his own forces.  He had gained a destroyer class starship, vicious cannon fodder, supplies, and a skilled witch demagogue.  He saw Harkon organizing the new conscripts.  Harkon had acquired a crude xenos weapon and a new serf by the look of things.  Grimm felt triumph as he stood there surveying the ramshack settlement.