Chapter Summaries

Trevor reached the Death Seekers’ front line and used his golden psychic light to purge Nurgle’s poisonous fog, heal the players, and devastate the plague forces. Watching from afar, Typhus suspected the Living Saint might be more support than warrior and decided to test him.

• Trevor left the Battle Sisters and flew toward the battlefield, destroying several Chaos fighters on the way.
• Trevor bathed the Death Seekers’ position in golden light, clearing the plague debuffs and restoring the players’ strength.
• The players cheered and charged as the golden light burned and slowed the attacking Plague Zombies and Nurglings.
• Typhus watched Trevor’s support powers from his command platform and wondered whether the Living Saint lacked direct combat strength.
• Typhus gripped Manreaper and decided he might test Trevor rather than retreat.

Trevor fought Typhus and the Death Guard while the Death Seekers prepared a rescue, but their planned nuclear strike was aborted when an Ork force launched a surprise assault on the Plague Legion’s flank. The battle became even more chaotic as the Orks crashed into Nurgle’s troops.

• Typhus and the Death Guard First Company broke through the first defensive line, prompting Trevor to descend and empower the Death Seekers’ weapons with golden light.
• Trevor fought Typhus and the Terminators for about an hour, then wounded Typhus to signal the command staff to cover his retreat.
• The Death Seekers commanders rejected several powerful options and sent bomb-carrying aircraft on a suicide run toward the battlefield.
• Command ordered the pilots to abort just before their attack, and Trevor sensed a force approaching from the Plague Legion’s flank.
• Hundreds of Killa Kans and Ork Boyz charged into the Death Guard, led by a warboss who tore a plague marine in half.

Gulg "Iron-Toof" led the Orks into a surprise attack on the Plague Legion after Bit impersonated Gork and prompted him in a dream. Their charge struck the Legion’s flank, opening a chance for the Death Seekers to escape Typhus’s encirclement.

• Trevor watched the Orks attack the Plague Legion’s flank and realized Typhus would have to divert troops from surrounding him.
• Bit appeared to Gulg as Gork in a dream and kicked him before urging him to attack while the humans least expected it.
• Gulg woke with phantom pain, ordered the boyz and Killa Kans to mobilize, and claimed Gork had given him a revelation.
• The Orks roared out of their camp and charged toward the unsuspecting Plague Legion’s flank.

Typhus redirected his elite First Company to fight the Orks, then revealed that thousands of Death Guard reinforcements had landed across the battlefield. Trevor identified their numbers, struck Typhus, and escaped toward his lines while Typhus continued his campaign to claim the planet.

• Typhus ordered the Death Guard's First Company to leave Trevor's encirclement and attack the Orks on the flank.
• Typhus rejected Trevor's suggestion of a truce as nearly a thousand Death Guard drop capsules rained across the war zone.
• Trevor estimated that Typhus had brought around seven thousand Plague Marines, and Typhus confirmed the force's strength.
• Typhus declared that his veteran Death Guard would crush the defenders, and Trevor answered with a psychic sword strike that drove Typhus backward.
• Trevor used the recoil to flee toward his own lines, while Typhus watched him go and vowed the planet would become nourishment for Nurgle.

The Death Guard’s first assault on Pedetia met fierce resistance from Orks hardened by years of fighting the Death Seekers. Typhus ordered all seven thousand Death Guard to deploy on the surface, while Galgos prepared to hold the line until they arrived.

• Nearly a thousand Nurgle-marked Drop Pods struck Pedetia, but the Orks quickly took cover and regrouped.
• The Orks counterattacked with Killa Kans, Warbikers, Stormboyz, infantry, and a creeping artillery barrage, inflicting losses on the Death Guard.
• Galgos told Typhus that his forces lacked the strength to break through the Orks’ coordinated defenses.
• Typhus ordered Galgos to join the First Company and hold the line while the Death Guard gathered for a full-scale deployment.
• Typhus commanded all seven thousand Death Guard to descend to the surface, leaving only seven hundred to guard the fleet.
• Galgos rallied his troops to establish defensive positions and hold until the remaining Death Guard arrived.

In a trench under attack by the Death Guard, Bug rallied the Death Seekers by promising that loyalist reinforcements would turn the battle into an epic clash. Battle Sisters arrived and requested a representative to coordinate with them, so the company commander sent Bug to meet them.

• The Death Seekers debated how long they could hold their trench as the Death Guard attacked.
• Bug dismissed their fears and listed the Space Marine Chapters and mortal regiments expected to reinforce the battlefield.
• The players grew excited at the prospect of a massive battle between thousands of Adeptus Astartes and resolved to hold their position.
• A messenger announced that reinforcements had arrived, then revealed they were Battle Sisters rather than players or Ultramarines.
• The Battle Sisters asked the Death Seekers to send a representative to coordinate with them, and the company commander chose Bug.

Bug was assigned to coordinate with the Battle Sisters and persuaded their commander to abandon her demand for the hardest mission. After learning that the Seraphim Squad excelled at close combat, he arranged for them to serve as a countercharging reserve while the Death Seekers attacked from range.

• Assimilation Complete recommended Bug as the Death Seekers' representative because he seemed devoted to his wife, and Bug reluctantly agreed to meet the Battle Sisters.
• Bug met the senior Sister commanding the Seraphim Squad, who insisted that her unit take on the coming battle's most arduous task.
• Bug argued that troops should fight where they were most effective rather than seek hardship, and the senior Sister agreed with him.
• The senior Sister explained that the Seraphim Squad specialized in close-combat and close-to-medium-range assaults.
• Bug proposed that the Death Seekers suppress the enemy from their fortified positions while the Seraphim Squad waited in reserve to countercharge, and the senior Sister accepted.

The Battle Sisters and Death Seekers countercharged Nurgle’s forces, while a senior Sister mistook the players’ respawning bodies and combat stimulants for an Emperor-given miracle. When Nurgle Beasts appeared, the company commander sent the Sisters back and prepared the players to meet the monsters with explosives.

• The Battle Sisters charged the Nurgle forces, and Bug led hundreds of stimulant-enhanced players out of the trenches after them.
• A senior Sister watched the Death Seekers fight and wondered how soldiers who rarely trained could withstand combat stimulants and battle with such strength.
• The senior Sister concluded that the Emperor had blessed the Death Seekers with unusual bodies and renewed her attack alongside them.
• Dozens of Nurgle Beasts emerged from the plague fog, and the company commander warned that the Death Guard would follow if they broke through.
• The company commander persuaded the senior Sister to withdraw, then ordered the players to prepare their explosives for the approaching Nurgle Beasts.

After the Death Seekers sacrificed themselves in a desperate bombardment, the senior Sister and the surviving players repelled a Nurgle Beast but lost their battalion commander, leaving their position vulnerable to an approaching Death Guard assault. The senior Sister sent Bug to seek reinforcements, using his wife as a reason to make him leave, while she and the others prepared to hold the line.

• The senior Sister watched the Death Seekers attack the Nurgle Beasts in a friendly-fire bombardment and condemned the mortal commander for treating the Sisters as assets to protect.
• A huge Nurgle Beast broke through to the second line, where the senior Sister and the players killed it, though dozens of players died and two Sisters were wounded.
• The players discovered that slime had corroded the command bunker and killed the battalion commander, removing their highest-level respawn node.
• Bug warned that the Death Guard would exploit the weakened line, and the senior Sister insisted that they hold the position and send someone to fetch reinforcements.
• The senior Sister ordered Bug to go because he had a wife and was likely to survive the journey; Bug reluctantly left as the others teased him.
• The senior Sister prayed for Bug and his wife, then turned to face the approaching Death Guard.