More Horus Heresy House Yato

"Wait, did we just travel 10,000 years back into the past?" Tanaka asked, looking around. At least he was in his Questoris Knight suit this time, making full use of an Errant-pattern with thermal cannon and a Stormspear rocket. Even better, he was the Seneschal this time, which meant he was the big boss.

The +1 bonus to his Ballistic Skill and Weapon Skill was the cherry on the cake. God-Emperor, I love the Horus Heresy.

"Daimyo Tanaka, what are you doing?" One of his subordinate Bushi, Sato, asked as he steered his Armiger Warglaive forward. "We've been tasked by Lord Dorn to take to task a traitor detachment of Ultramarines."

"What? Ultramarines? Traitors? There must be some mistake."

"No, not really," Watanabe said gravely, his Cerastus Knight Lancer loping forward. The Tsurugi was gleaming under the bright rays of the sun, the rarely seen pattern a common sight during the Age of Darkness. Tanaka couldn't believe he was able to witness such a venerable suit. To think they had entire armies of Cerastus Knights ten thousand years ago.

How much had been lost over the ten millennia that had flown past since Horus Lupercal's betrayal?

"The Ultramarines Praetor, a bloke by the name of Mariaden Suh, has decided that he wanted to rule a sector like Ultramar, and so his company rebelled against Lord Guilliman and took up authority here."

"Well, we can't let that happen, can we?"

Tanaka couldn't help but feel pride when he saw four Armiger Warglaives escorting Kazan and Tsurugi. Not only that, but the Mechanicum had fielded their own exotic Knights too, with four Armiger Knight Moiraxes accompanying them with esoteric weaponry.

"Careful!" Watanabe warned as Tsurugi stalked through the demolished hab-blocks. "Legion Shadowsword ahead!"

Before Tanaka could bring his attention to the super-heavy tank, he found his front armor riddled by high velocity rounds from a heavy support squad. Ten Ultramarines, bearing autocannons, were firing on his position and overwhelming his ion shield through sheer volume of shots.

"Oh, f off already!" He yelled and Returned Fire, his Reaction taking out a chunk of the heavy support squad. They immediately took cover, ducking under dusty ceilings, but over half of them vanished in the superheated blast from the thermal cannon. Tanaka blinked in surprise. "Huh, no more rolling 2D3. We're back to using blast templates now. This feels...refreshing, actually."

"What are you talking about?!" Sato yelled. "Pay attention to the front!"

"Yikes!" Tanaka rotated his ion shields to withstand a barrage of missiles from the Arcus, as well as sundering ruby beams from the Shadowsword's sponson lascannons. He steeled himself for the deadly shot from the volcano cannnon...but it never came.

Instead, the Shadowsword chose to fire its volcano cannon at the four Armiger Warglaive escorts.

"Huh?"

Thankfully, the Knights of House Yato were Eternal Warriors. A couple of the Warglaives rocked, their ionic deflectors overwhelmed by the sheer fury of the violent blast. A third Warglaive stood strong, its ionic deflector...well, deflecting the shot by the most miraculous of chances.

"Good thing we no longer have D6 plus 6 wounds or hull points with no saves of any kind allowed," Tanaka murmured, shuddering at the memory of the previous edition where Destroyer or Strength D weapons were pretty much cheese.

The Contemptor Dreadnoughts advanced, along with a tactical squad and a group of Fulmentarus Terminator squad and Invictarus Suzerain squad accompanying them. The Mechanicum dentured Armiger Knight Moiraxes opened fire, their haywire grav pulsars wreaking havoc on the Contemptor Dreadnoughts' systems and frying them. Both Dreadnoughts dropped, convulsing as their normally impenetrable hulls cracked and were crushed by gravity.

The Terminators continued to fire their hellfire plasma missiles, destroying an Armiger Knight Moirax with lightning locks, but the other decimated the tactical squad with rending blasts of electricity. Unfortunately, the resulting explosion killed a Tech-priest Auxilia who was trying to repair the damaged Knight Moirax, and also wiped out 3 of his accompanying servo-automata. The Archmagos Macrotek, on the other hand, survived without any problems, his specially designed weapon proof against such attacks.

On the other side of the battlefield, Watanabe charged the Shadowsword, his shock lance smashing a hole in its front, shocking the crew. However, the venerable super-heavy tank held strong, its resilient superstructure resisting the deadly strikes and the crew firing in retaliation. Tsurugi raised its ion gauntlet shield, tanking the blasts, but he was unable to finish off the wounded machine.

Tanaka had worries of his own, however. As he and his accompanying entourage of Armiger Warglaives charged forward, the Arcus and surviving autocannon-bearing fired upon Kazan, determined to bring down the big Knight. Kazan staggered from the onslaught, almost on his last legs, but Tanaka was able to rotate his ion shields in time to tank a full blast from the Shadowsword's volcano cannon, the super-heavy tank's turret traversing to fire at him even as the sponson lascannons spat angrily pointblank into Tsurugi. Watanabe deftly deflevted the majority of the shots, but his attempts to destroy the tank were thwarted as his shock lance found no purchase through layers of adamantium.

"The Shadowsword is proving to be a tough nut to crack!" He complained.

"Quit whining and just keep it busy for now!" Tanaka snapped. Fortunately, the Armiger Warglaives had blown up the reversing Arcuses with their meltaguns and thermal spears, and more of the superheated rays lanced out at the Fulmentarus Terminators, laying waste to at least half their number. The remainig Armiger Knight Moirax with lightning locks fired and killed off a bunch of tactical marines, forcing the lone survivor into retreat. Disobeying his furious Praetor, the coward ran off the battlefield.

"Hey!" The Praetor bellowed, and then turned just in time to see his Fulmentarus Terminators charged by one of the Armiger Warglaives. His Invictarus Suzerain bodyguards were getting pasted by another blast from the thermal cannon before Tanaka had enough and charged the autocannon squad. He finally scythed one of them down before stomping on the Masters of Signal who was accompanying them and pulping him into bloody paste.

"Phew..." He breathed a sigh of relief as he checked the condition of Kazan. The Knight suit was literally on its last legs, its integrity on the verge of blowing up. Just another lucky shot and he would die.

Not to be denied victory, the Praetor and his sole surviving Invictarus Sizerain charged another Armiger Warglaive, even as the other one was locked in combat with the Fulmentarus Terminators. The poor bodyguard was cleaved in half by the reaper chain-cleaver, but the Praetor deflected the next few attacks with his refractor shield.

Realizing that he had no anti-tank weapons yet, save for the Shadowsword that was being locked in combat with Tsurugi, and only a tactical squad remained...about to be stomped to oblivion by Tanaka, the Praetor threw his power sword down and raised his arms in surrender.

"Fine! We'll rejoin the Imperium! Don't kill us!"

Tanaka blinked in disbelief and glanced at the others, who shrugged. Watanabe, piloting the other Lord of War, deferred to him, for he was just a Dolorous and not a Seneschal. As the Warlord of this particular Knight Lance/Banner, the choice was for Tanaka to make.

"All right." Tanaka considered, eying the Shadowsword. The super-heavy tank would be a valuable asset, as would the surviving Fulmentarus Terminators. "We accept your surrender. But you'll have to prove your loyalty to the Imperium."

"How?" The Praetor demanded. Tanaka shrugged.

"Um...by a penitent crusade against the Warmaster's forces, I suppose?"

"...I guess we have no choice."

With no other options, save death, the Praetor raised his arms and called for his private army to lay down their weapons and rejoin the Imperium.

Watching them, Tanaka felt his chest swell with pride. Taking a deep breath, he punched the air inside his Throne Mechanicum.

Oh, God-Emperor of Mankind. I love the Age of Darkness!

Contagion Detected

"We've been sent here to root out a plague," Tanaka informed his fellow Knight pilots coolly as he steered Kazan toward the ghost town. The hive world of Hovid-18 used to be populated by billions of Imperial civilians, tolling in the heavily polluted hive cities as they churned out macro-tons of ammunition, weapons and vehicles to feed the ravenous appetites of the Astra Militarum.

As such, when the Administratum noticed a drop in exports, they dispatched the 7th Karam Regiment to investigate. The last reports from the panicked Guardsmen hinted at something darker...about bloated, diseased traitor Space Marines lumbering through volleys of lasguns and felling soldiers with plagues.

Thus, the Knight Lance of House Yato had been rerouted to Hovid-18. It was unfortunate, but Tanaka found himself demoted back to becoming a lowly Bushi piloting an Armiger class Knight instead of a Questoris...for narrative reasons.

"We're restarting the crusade, and so everyone is starting from scratch again - this means, you're back to leading combat patrols," Warmaster Jack had informed him, and that was it.

"Okay..."

Not at all pleased with the situation, Tanaka nonetheless led Suzuki and Kanda on a patrol. The two Armiger Warglaives and one Knight Moirax loped across the blasted ruins of the ghost town, seeking for the remnants of the 7th Karam Regiment. They hadn't gotten very far when their auspexes picked up something.

"Plague Marines."

Tanaka realized the green armored monstrosities that marched inexorably toward them, having fought against them in the Konor campaign a few years ago. They belonged to the Death Guard, the XIVth Legion and one of those who had turned against the Emperor during the days of Horus Lupercal. Aware of how disgustingly resilient they were, he immediately opened fire, his meltagun and thermal spear

firing superheated lances at them. A couple of the Plague Marines vanished, disintegrated by the incadescent beams, and then Tanaka was suddenly among them, swinging Kazan's reaper chain-cleaver and cleaving another couple of Plague Marines. They struck back, slashing at the adamantine hull with their plague knives and rusted blades, but the consecrated surface of Kazan turned away their melee weapons.

"We're coming," Kanda assured him, moving his Knight Moirax forward to support, but Suzuki's warning came a second later.

"Blightlord Terminators!"

Even more heavily armored and disgustingly resilient than the Plague Marines, the slow-moving but sturdy Terminators teleported a few meters away from Hebi. Suzuki opened fire with his meltagun and thermal spear, but only one of them went down from enough destructive prowess to melt a reinforced bunker.

They charged in and smashed Suzuki's steed with their bale swords and flails, ripping out rivets and causing the metal to rust immediately through foul magicks. Hebi reeled, and despite Suzuki's vengeful strike that reaped another Terminator, his Armiger Warglaive was going down.

Kanda opened fire immediately, realizing that he might be too late to save his fellow Bushi. The exotic energies arced from his twin lightning locks and detonated against the Terminators. But the swollen bodies of the foul warriors absorbed the punishment, shrugging off the lethal electricity. Only one burst open, falling to his knees as his flesh cooked within his ancient armor, but the rest continued to hack away at Hebi, which was now flailing about.

By now, Tanaka had finished off the Plague Marines. A Malignant Plaguecaster attempted to attack him with its plague staff or something, parrying his reaper chain-cleaver with the ease of a veteran who had survived the long war. Unable to defeat the plaguecaster in melee, Tanaka pulled Kazan back before desperately firing his thermal spear in pointblank range.

Shocked, the Malignant was unable to evade in time, his millennia of experience failing him when he needed it the most. The lance of superheated energy disintegrated him in a single volley, and Tanaka rushed Kazan through his smoking remains, adding insult to injury.

He was too late.

The Blightlord Terminator Sergeant had brought Hebi down to its knees and Suzuki was wailing, trapped in his Helm Mechanicum as it rusted all around him.

Then Kazan barreled into the Blightlord Terminator and ran him through. Even the tenacious body of the Death Guard was unable to withstand such a crushing blow, and he crumpled underneath the Armiger Warglaive's feet.

"You all right, Suzuki?"

"Yeah," his fellow bushi replied, his voice shaky. "I'll live. But Hebi needs critical repairs."

"The sacristans will get him fully restorted," Tanaka vowed. Straightening up in his Helm Mechanicum and comsulting his pict-screen and auspex. Swallowing, he wiped the perspiration from his face. "We need you back in the fight as soon as possible. I have a feeling this is only the beginning."

Order of Ruin Numerologist Cabal and Phalanx Warders

I'm exhausted, so I'll keep this short, but I've almost assembled my Order of Ruin Numerologist Cabal and Phalanx Warders. I'm still missing a pair of legs for one of the Life Wards for my Numerologist Cabal, but hopefully the seller I ordered the bits from will send me the missing legs soon. He usually replies very quickly, so phew. But yeah, here's my Order of Ruin Numerologist Cabal - the Techmarine or Technomancer Numerologist fashioned from MKIII Techmarine, the Achean pattern helms, and the shoulder pads. The Life Wards themselves are fashioned mostly from MKIII armor, but I used spare bits from the MKVI set to make the volkite caliver guy. Yeah, I want a life ward with volkite caliver. I love volkite weaponry, so I'll be adding more volkite and plasma (I love plasma as well) to my forces.

I also assembled my Phalanx Warders. With 20 of them, I can run my Stone Gauntlet Rite of War as a primary detachment, so yay. With my Cataphactii Terminators equipped with Vigil pattern storm shields and thunder hammers, a Spartan Land Raider, a couple of Contemptor Dreadnoughts and a Praetor in Terminator (Tartaros, it seems), I essentially have what I call the Shield Company. Heh. Because almost everyone is equipped with shields.

I'll probably add Rhinos and maybe a Tartaros Terminator command squad, and yay. I'm tempted to add Breachers, but I hate dealing with resin. Ugh. We'll see. Sigh. Anyway, till then!

House Yato vs Goffs

"We'll be doing Commissar Yarrick and Lord Helbrecht a favor if we hunt Ghazghkull Thraka down," Tanaka told his Knights excitedly as he led them on a Crusade. That only earned him a few disbelieving stares from his fellow Bushi, but thankfully he couldn't see their incredulous expressions when ensconced within his Throne Mechanicum. His steed, the Questoris Knight Errant pattern Kazan, slowly stalked over the ruins as it hunted the barren wasteland for any sign of Orks.

"Assuming we are able to hunt him down," Suzuki commented dryly as he guided his Armiger Warglaive, Hebi, over difficult terrain.

"We shall have none of such talk!" Oogami barked, the venerable ancient piloting the much older machine, Ookami. The battered Questoris Knight Preceptor had waged thousands of battles in the name of the Emperor, and only the sagely Oogami could temper its bellicose machine spirit. "We will prevail!"

Suzukin snorted. "Like how Lord Ragnar Blackmane prevailed?"

Tanaka was about to retort, but he was interrupted by a howl from over the horizon.

"WAAAGH!"

A stream of green raced toward them, Beastsnagga Boyz accompanied by clunking walkers and greekskins riding squighogs. A beastboss on a squigosaur led them, waving his choppa wildly. Killa Klans and a single Deff Dread charged forward, their guns firing erratically. In the center of the horde, Ghazghkull Thraka growled, firing off an onslaught from his Mork's Roar to little effect, for the rounds didn't do much to Kazan.

"Kill them all," Tanaka commanded, though he didn't have to. Chiba and Sato were already getting into formation alongside Suzuki, their Armiger Warglaives loping forward to meet their charge. Kanda took up position behind cover, his Armiger Knight Moirax readying its twin lightning locks to fire into a squad of Boyz. Accompanying him was wise Watanabe, whose Questoris Knight Paladin, Tsurugi, fired its rapid-fire battle cannon into the Squighog Boyz and pulped them instantly. Oogami blasted a couple of Killa Klans apart, while the Armiger Warglaives wiped out a squad of Flash Gitz with their thermal spears, as well as damaging the Deff Dread with their meltaguns. Tanaka focused on Thraka, vaporizing the big guy with a blast from his thermal cannon.

Or so he thought, but the greenskin survived, bellowing in rage as his flesh burned and blackened from the sheer heat.

"That can't be good," Tanaka murmured.

Chiba and Suzuki crashed into the Deff Dread, but it twirled about and hacked down Chiba's Armiger Warglaive with its saw-like contraption. Furious, Suzuki scythed it down to avenge his fellow Bushi, totaling the clumsy-looking but deadly walker. Unfortunately for him and Tanaka, the Deff Dread exploded, showering both Hebi and Kazan with destructive shrapnel.

Meanwhile, Watanabe slashed the Beastboss on Squigosaur, only for him to survive the opening blow and retaliate with a devastating strike that left the venerable Tsurugi reeling.

"Damn, we're getting slaughtered here," Tanaka murmured, eying Thraka, who was steadily drawing closer to them.

"Got them!" Kanda cheered as his lightning locks ripped through a horde of Beastsnagga Boyz, wiping out the whole squad. "Don't worry, I've got your back!"

"Yay," Tanaka murmured as he fired overwatch at the charging Ghazgkhull Thraka, taking off another chunk from the great warboss. The leader of the Goffs stumbled, coughing as he failed to charge across the crater he was running in, partly because of the damage he had sustained from repeated blasts from the thermal cannon.

However, a squadron of deffkoptas dropped in from the skies, rockets spiraling and hammering into Sato's Armiger Warglaive. Kaen staggered, smoke billowing from its slender frame as it struggled to right itself. Sato managed to evade the other projectiles from the impossibly flying machines, striking out at one of them and tearing its wing off. The other two continued to hover above him, chopping at his steed with their rotors. Fortunately, Suzuki was on hand to save him, striking from the flank and scything down the last couple of machines.

On the other hand, his rear was exposed to a squad of Stormboyz who rocketed from one of the ruined habblocks to slash at him, but Tanaka intercepted them, grabbing one of them with Kazan's Thunderstrike Gauntlet and crushing him. Hurling the corpse at another, he continued to sweep them away, the lethal energies around the mechanical fist burning the poor Stormboyz to a crisp.

Spinning around, he then sent another incandescent beam lancing into the still charging Thraka, finally ending the warboss's terror for good. No doubt a Painboy would find his corpse and bring him back to life later, but for now his reign of atrocities over Imperium held space was finally ended. Tanaka and his Lance had prevailed!

The rest of the battle was little more than moping up. Watanabe finally hacked down the Beastboss on Squigosaur, and his rapid-fire battle cannon, combined with Oogami's las-impulsor, wrecked a Trukk that was bundling toward them. Tsurugi proceeded to hack and saw the surviving Nobs to death while Kanda annihilated the Burnaboyz that spilled from the wreck with an accurate volley of exotic energies from his lightning locks. Ookami cut down the last Killa Klan, and proceeded to perform a Linebreaker action toward the remaining Beastsnagga Boyz.

The Weirdboy still had other plans in mind, teleporting a fresh horde of Beastsnagga Boyz behind Oogami, and both squads, along with the Squigbuggy, assaulted Ookami. Tanaka was about to move in to help, only to find Kazan assailed by...Makari.

"...what the?!"

To his surprise, Makari managed to evade the sweeps from his Thunderstrike Gauntlet with contemptuous ease, jumping about and laughing as he stabbed with his dagger. Annoyed, he enacted an exacting charge and finally dealt the slippery Grot a mortal wound that squished him. Sato also managed to vaporize the Weirdboy with his meltagun, taking him out. On the other side, Ookami was listing slightly as he fought against the horde of Beastsnagga Boyz and Squigbuggy, but while the Boyz were able to hack and run about, the Squigbuggy wasn't so fortunate. It was cleaved neatly in half by the roaring Reaper chainsword.

Eventually, Watanabe was able to help Oogami by charging Tsurugi into the fray and sweeping the bigger squad of Boyz out. Though Ookami suffered more damage from the surviving Beastsnagga Boyz, he was able to wipe them out.

"See?" Tanaka panted as he moved to the center of the battlefield. If only he had a standard to plant, just like the Imperial Guard or Adeptus Astartes. "We won!"

"Yeah...I don't believe it..." Suzuki shook his head. "How...?"

"I guess Thraka had a bad day," Tanaka remarked with a shrug. "But who cares? We won!"

And thus, the Imperium lived to see another day. For now, anyway.

Horus Heresy Match

It has been a while since Renegade, and I finally had the chance to play Horus Heresy again! A group of us is attempting to make it a regular thing, so we're having weekly sessions, mostly in Dreamers Vault at Hiawatha Avenue (Minneapolis). So we had 4 guys show up today, including me, but unfortunately, one of them wasn't playing. Fortunately, I did get a game against White Scars.

Still, here's what they have! White Scars, Blood Angels and Iron Hands! Cool!

And then there's my Thousand Sons. So we had a 2,500 point game, though I only had 2,470 points worth of a Thousand Sons army. I had a game against White Scars, who had 2,655 points - almost 200 more points than me. That's totally fine, I didn't expect to win and was playing for fun. Besides, I could use it as an excuse when I inevitably lost (heh).

Chris - the White Scars player - used the Chogorian Brotherhood Rite of War. So he had a list like this:

Praetor on bike

Stormseer on jetbike

Warmonger

2 huge squads of Outriders

1 massive squad of Sky Hunters

Tactical squad in Rhino

Support Tactical squad with 10 plasma guns

Xiphon Interceptor

Storm Eagle

10 Tartaros Terminators

Apocethary on bike

I think that's...it? In contrast, I was using the Achaean Configuration Rite of War for my Thousand Sons, so my list was something like this:

Praetor in Cataphractii Terminator with Biomancy

Previan with Biomancy

Librarian with Biomancy

Techmarine

2 Osiron Dreadnoughts

5 Cataphractii Terminators with volkite chargers and aetherfire blaster

2 tactical squads with asphyx bolters, chain bayonets, aetherfire pistol and achean force sword

2 tactical support squads with 10 aetherfire blasters each

2x2 Castellax Achea-automata with aetherfire cannons

Yeah, I think that's about it. The mission was Tide of Carnage, so it was about grabbing deployment zones or something. Chris got first turn, and I didn't bother to seize the initiative because most of his guys were in deep strike or outflank, so we basically skipped our first turns, ha ha.

Then the White Scars came in, took out almost an entire plasma tactical squad, wiped out one tactical squad in combat (with the bikers) and destroyed two Castellax-Achea automata and the Previan. Ouch. He then killed all my Terminators and Praetor with his Sky Hunters, while his Storm Eagle took potshots at my Dreadnoughts, but didn't do much other than a couple of wounds. I did manage to decimate most of his plasma tactical squad in return and even wrecked his Storm Eagle. Phew! He continued to chip away at me, wiping out my plasma tactical squad eventually while putting more wounds on my Dreadnoughts. In return, I destroyed a Rhino, all of his Terminators and an Outrider squad.

We continued to trade blows, and I lost one of my Osiron Dreadnoughts to the Sky Hunters, but managed to kill the Stormseer and wipe out an outrider squad. The plasma tactical squad killed themselves on gets hot! rolls while trying to kill my remaining Osiron Dreadnought, who then proceeded to pummel the second Outrider squad, killing the enemy Praetor in combat. His Sky Hunter squad flew up to kill one of my remaining Castellax-Achea automata, leaving just one, while earlier he had wiped out my second tactical squad with the Outrider squad (who then fell back and got locked in combat with my Osiron Dreadnought). His tactical squad traded blows with my plasma tactical squad, who lost combat, leaving my Librarian to fail his Leadership test twice in a row and ran off the table. Wow.

In the end, he had a Xiphon, the remains of a Tactical squad and a couple of Outriders and almost a full Sky Hunter squad in my deployment zone, giving him a lot of points, while I only had a single Castellax-Achea automata, my Techmarine and the Osiron Dreadnought (with 1 wound remaining). Ouch, that was a pretty crushing defeat. Oh, well.

At least I had a game, and it was fun! That's all that matters! (also, insert obligatory "He had almost 200 points more than I did!" excuse here)

Looking forward to another game maybe next week! Maybe I'll get a chance to test out the new Knight rules this time.

Fully Painted Thousand Sons

I finally finished painting my Thousand Sons today. Finished up the half-painted plasma/Aetherfire support tactical squad and the second Osiron Dreadnought. Yay! Oh, and I did the various arm weapons for the Osiron Dreadnought too! Now they all have aetherfire plasma cannons! Cool!

That means almost my entire Thousand Sons army is fully painted. The only exception is the Techmarine in MKIII armor, but I'm waiting on the Thousand Sons MKIII shoulder pads to be delivered so that I can glue it on and paint him later. I also plan on making him a Numerologist of the Order of Ruin because that seems fun. But we'll see. If I do that, I probably should get a couple of tanks or something for the Numerologist to buff, but again, we'll see. I have no idea what will happen in the future, but we'll see!

Now I need to get my Warmaster Titan painted too, but I will most likely end up procrastinating on him. Yikes.

Painted Knights and half-painted Thousand Sons

I managed to finish painting my new Knights - the Armiger Warglaive and Armiger Knight Moirax with lightning locks - today. Phew. They are the important ones because I plan on primarily playing Knights for Horus Heresy. I painted my remaining Thousand Sons units too, but quite honestly, there's too many of them to paint, so they are half done. Oh well, I'll get the rest done soon. Knowing me, I'll end up procrastinating. It is what it is, I guess.

Anyway, I'll post more when I paint more, but I doubt I'll get much done over the next couple of weeks. Oh, that's not my dog. He's Nugget, and he's my roomate's dog. Both of my roomates' dogs like barging into my room...probably hoping I would feed them. Either that or they're bored and want company, especially since this particular roommate is hardly home. His poor dog. I guess I'll take care of him for now. I just hope he doesn't...eat or damage my models, ha ha.