The cultist slashed wildly at Cortez as he backed off, hate and darkness in his eyes.  The cultist-messenger staggered from Cortez' inferno blast catching him straight to the chest, as the skull of Chaos Undivided grinned and illuminated his entire body with currents of dark energy.  Delila could sense a dark presence manifesting itself from and around his body, as if something REALLY bad was getting ready to happen.<br/><br/>(14 points of damage to Cortez' arm)<br/><br/>Baromir tried to attack the cultist attacking Thraxius, only to find himself harried by his own assailant.  With a squeeze of the trigger, the entire top half of the cultist was vaporized, even his bones cracking and melting as flames spread across the pile of debris covering the floor of the room.<br/><br/>The messenger threw his hand in front of Sarah's bolt shot, catching the bolt in a frightening display of skill.  Of course, he didn't have a hand after that.  The stump was cauterized by the heat of the explosion, and the psychotic maniac simply smiled.  He stared at the bloody blade in his remaining hand, and plunged it directly into his chest.  "BY ALL THE POWERS OF CHAOS, I NOW CONSIGN MY SOUL TO THE WARP.  FILL ME WITH YOUR POWER, KHORNE!  MAKE ME IMMORTAL!"  He screamed at the top of his lungs, thrusting the knife deep into his heart as the powers of the warp began to quake in the chamber of death and destruction.  A hand reached out and grabbed the messenger by the neck.  It was the astropath, suddenly back from his journey to the stars.  "No."  The astropath said simply, grabbing the Messenger's head in both hands and infiltrating his mind, telepathically bonding with the maniac to abort his attempted transcendence.  Delila's hellfire pistol thrust itself through the Messenger's chest, and his expression changed from one of triumph to panic.  The astropath staggered away as the messenger crumpled over dead, all of his warp essence clearly gone.<br/>