Please remember that my first language is not English. And I don't own Warhammer 40k.
Why, why, I could have gotten something that I like so much, but instead I get a joke of a Skill and Breathing style.
I looked up from the ground and looked around. I had seated myself on the fallen tree that had fallen down by the giant frog attacked, Ron had gathered everyone and was now scolding them. Apparently some of them had run away when the fight started, but realized they had nowhere else to go, so they came back, and that led to what I'm looking at now.
Apart from the panic, it had gone well, the Ogryn had missed most of the shots, but was uninjured. Bartellop and the rest of the tech priests are ok, and thanks to them killing the giant frog gives them a reason to "explain" to the injured reason they got injured is because the flesh is weak, and their aiming program is weak, and other tech priest propaganda.
Ron on the other hand looks like he's going to explode, the new men we brought in are total rookies and have no training, except what they got on the way here, which was voluntary. So, yeah, he's pretty mad about how things have gone so far, but I'm not too happy either.
I looked down at the window again.
[Going to Hell]
Ronn Cunnane Custa and his men will go through a dangerous jungle. You have to make sure enough people survive for what comes after.
The reward will increase the more that survive.
Half or less = non.
70-80%= 200 xp.
80-99%= 200 xp, 1 Skill.
No dead = 300 xp, 2 Skill. [Failed]
[Note. If Ron dies or all Ironstriders are destroyed, the quest is failed]
Honestly, I should have been prepared for this to happen.
"Hello!" said a happy voice.
When I looked up I saw a guy, no. If I look closer, I can see that he was a she. She had short brown hair that was covered with dirt and something else I'm not sure about and was around my height which was quite short in 40K standards. She had the same clothes as most here with the Custa Company logo on it, her stomach area was covered with bandages, and I could see a little blood on it.
"Are you OK?" I asked as I look at her stomach.
"Oh yeah, great thanks to you, that's why I went up to you, I wanted to thank you for getting me out of that xeno's mouth".
That's when I realised who she was. When I shot the giant frog, ther was someone in the mouth, it must have been her.
"So yeah, thanks for saving me. Sure, they had to close up my stomach, and it hurt a lot, but then they gave me a shot of something, and now I feel great, I think I'm really high now, but hey at least I don't smell like burnt meat and xenos mouth, just xenos mouth now ".
"Ok, wait, why did you smell like burnt meat?".
"Oh, they needed to cauterize my wound," she said happily with a smile.
Oh, that must have hurt, and that explains that smell, wait. "If you got hurt like that, why are you walking around talking to me?"
"Oh, I'm here because they said that I smell, and and that I should go elsewhere so that the dying don't get the last thing they smell is xeno's mouth, so I thought where can I go where no one would be disturbed by my smell, and then I remembered it. I remembered I wasn't the only one covered with xenos ooze, and he who saved me from being eaten by the same xenos".
I watched as she rambled on about how she got here and what it was like to almost be eaten with unfocused eyes.
"Ok, can't you take it easy miss, you are still wounded".
"Oh man, you saved my life, at least you can call me by my name".
"Ok, what's your name?" with that question she stood still and looked at me for far too long.
"Haven't I… ok, I'm Hollie Estkularn," she looked at me for a few seconds before asking a question. "Have you said what your name is, because if you have, I can't remember it".
"No, I didn't say my name, and it is David Ward by the way, and do you want help getting rid of… the smell".
"Can you do it?" Hollie asked in surprise as if the thought of getting rid of the smell had never crossed her mind.
"Yes, at least most of it". True, with my new Cleaning Technique Skill I know how to wash it off with what I have, and what I don't have because right now I know how to make soap and shampoo and how to use it to best effect, which is quite annoying to be honest, especially in a swamp, i think i'm mysophobic now.
Six hours after the giant frog attack we started to approach the destination, fortunately not as much had happened as on the first part of the journey, but I got to spend them with a less smelly Hollie who talked the whole time, sometimes without breathing in between, until she started complaining that she had a stomach ache, then Doc came and gave her a shot of something, and then she was high again and started talking. It was annoying, but I didn't want to be rude.
I had become completely unaware of my surroundings until I got a window in front of me.
[Quest complete: Going to Hell]
[Accept reward]
[Yes/No]
Yes.
+200xp
[Note. You have leveled up to Lv 8. You have 2 points]
[Note. You have 3/350 xp]
[Note. You can put a Lv in Jan-
Put it in Rogue thanks you very much.
[Note. Puts a Lv in Rogue class]
[Note. You have acquired Skill [Fire Resistance Lv1]]
Huh, no Skill from the Rogue class. Well, that's not what I'm going to worry about now.
We had arrived at the bottom of a cliff, around us are half-built houses, the Imperium mark is on everything, but what stands out to me the most is what is built into the cliff. In the cliff, with lots of tents and machines I have no idea what it does around it, is a door. It looks like a temple almost with patterns and quilts built into the cliff.
"Ok, spread out and look around, and if you find something, don't touch it if you don't know what it is. Ed, you and your friends are coming with me". With that the whole group spread out and looked around while I stayed with Hollie.
I looked at the abandoned buildings, they had numbers and symbols for what it does, like warehouse, bunker and laboratory, but what I was most interested in was the door that leads into the cliff, it looks like a thick door that you can see in games like Dark Souls, but before I could check them out someone pulled me away.
"Look David, it's a greenhouse, I want to see the beautiful flowers".
"Why should I come with you, you can check them yourself" but she didn't listen and just continued to drag me into the building.
The greenhouse was like a big warehouse, but it was ugly with overgrown plants and had a glass ceiling, and I mean had, for it was broken, and pieces were all over the floor.
"Oh look David, how beautiful those flowers are", said Hollie as she looks at what I'm pretty sure is a potato flower.
After putting up with her for a few hours, my patience started to run out and I told her in an annoyed voice "I don't care, why are you even here".
Hollie said back as if I hadn't half screamed at her "Because my family sold me here so they could pay their debt, or sold is not the right word, more like forced to work until I have paid back".
It made me think for a few seconds about what she said, if her family sent her here to pay their debt, it's like they sold her, actually it reminds me of when I had first met Ron. I also had a debt and needed to pay it back, however I think, no she is in a worse situation than I was, plus she is very high.
"Ok, we can look in the door now" and with that Hollie started to run out of the greenhouse.
"The fuck, wait for me, Hollie, Hollie". And I started running after her, hoping she doesn't go in there without me.
When I was almost at the door, I saw that Ron and the Ogryn were standing outside the door with a few others. Hollie had walked up to Ron and started talking, and it was pretty clear he wasn't happy about it, and I won't even talk about how the Ogryn looks like, they were obviously trying to keep up with what she was talking about.
Ron, when he saw me, looked at me with a look that said "get this bitch away from me now" and I decided to do as my boss wants.
"Hey how is it going". Hollie looked at me happily as if we hadn't been with each other seconds before, and Ron looked relieved that he doesn't have to talk to Hollie anymore, but I just go up to them and start talking instead of taking Hollie away from him.
"So Ron, what have you found".
Ron after he realized I wasn't going to take the high girl away and after Hollie repeated my question four different ways in two seconds, he answered. "From what I can see from going through one of theirs log we find in one of the labs, there was a landslide, and this opening was found right after, it seems to be xenos in origin, and the log ends right before it they would explore it, if I were to guess there are xenos in there who took everyone here because I haven't had any reports of bodies or was it attacked by xenos and they took shelter in there, so to know what has happened, we have to go into… whatever that is".
"Oh oh, do you think there could be meat in there, I am hungry".
"Oh oh, Ed wants food to", Ed after hearing Hollie's idea, began to talking about what kind of meat you can find in a cave, and both of them had no idea what they were talking about and I'm pretty sure I lost some brain cells listening to them.
Ron pulled me away from their stupid discussion and started talking to me. "Hey, can you start rounding everyone up, I want us all to be alert when we go in there, and the sun is starting to set". I looked up at the sky and saw that it is not long before the sun starts to set behind the mountains.
I nodded at Ron before I left and started to give out the message to gather outside the door, but before that I looked towards the mountains and thought that they gave me a bad feeling, after all, who knows what comes out in the night.
The sky had turned red as the sun set behind the mountains, and everyone had gathered at the door and Ron is talking about what our goal is and not to panic like before. I, on the other hand, stood at the back of the group and looked towards the forest as if something would come out at any second. I know something will happen because the Going to Hell Quest had hints that something worse would happen later, plus the Quest is called Going to Hell. I'm pretty sure something will happen, but I don't know what.
"Ok, five minutes until Group A goes in, prepare everything now". Oops, I should ask what group I am in, but he 'll know I wasn't listening. Hopefully he understands that I was looking out for danger.
As I walked towards Ron, I crossed an invisible line that opened a window with something I expected, but didn't hope for.
[Dungeon Quest: The Forgotten Tomb of Tzeentch]
A Dungeon, a Tomb, a Maze, The Forgotten Tomb of Tzeentch is all of them and more. You must now help Ron lead your group through it or die trying. But with great risk comes great reward, for The Forgotten Tomb of Tzeentch holds long-forgotten lore and artifacts that many would kill for, especially those seeking great psyker powers.
[Select difficulty level.]
[Easy: 100 xp. 1 Point]
[Normel: 200 xp, 1 Skill]
[Hard: 300 xp, 1 Rare+ Skill, 1 Evo-Point, 1 Skill-point]
[40K Mode: 600 xp, 3 Skill, 1 Evo-Point, 3 Skill-point, plus 1 to all stats]
What the hell is 40k Mo-. I stopped my own thought when I remembered when the System tricked me into giving a level in Janitor class, and i didn't think the System would miss the chance to give me the hardest difficulty. You would have to try a little harder than that.
[Note. Hard difficulty selected]
YOUR SON OF A BITCH!
Well, it looks like it's time for David's first Dungeon run, when is the next one and how will David survive, you'll see.
PS, I haven't been able to see my views and visitors on my story in two weeks, can anyone tell me how to fix this?