Afterdoom

Once Moirir falls, everything quiets down. After gathering our wits we start healing up, and while working his trade Potter disappears instantly. We are very confused. Indeed, the warp is fickle, but this is too much. He shows up a few minutes later, initially unaware that anything has happened. Strange.

Rutland tells us that he must go to the capital to report to his superior, and needs help to fix his squadcar. Alpha helps him out with this.Outside the serfs are massing, a low murmur everywher 'Ulbrexis, Ulbrexis,...' There is a few men right outside the door, fanatism shining in their eyes, demanding that "the saint" appears. We decide to let Ulbrexis out.

If there were many serfs before, it explodes now, they show up in the thousands out of nowhere. Holder-Smith and Ulbrexis go out among them.

We decide to destroy the Scourges vox-caster, and everyone but Holder-Smith goes to get this done. Potter and Alpha shoot it to pieces easily, and we run of, the scourges pursuing in an armored car.

Alpha finishes fixing the Arbiters squadcar, and Rutland sets of. We have given him a note from the Inquisition to his superior: 'don't tell the queen Ulbrexis is back'. We wait.

After a week we receive a coded transmission, it is from inquisitor Whitlock. He requests a quick report, and gives us coordinates for a rendezvous. We get there as Whitlock lands, in a large Aquila, with a troop of stormtroopers aboard. The serfs have followed us, but the stormtroopers hold them back.

We give our report, Whitlock looks concerned at first, but is very pleased with us, it turns out. Unusually pleased, he says. He tells us to kill Ulbrexis. I must admit, I balk. I find it difficult to belive what he preaches is heretic, and the condition the serfs live under are utterly appaling. But we do it, or more correctly, I distract him while Potter shoots him in the head.

We have a new mission: go to Solomon and investigate the Serrated Query. We get 500 thrones each for gear, and Whitlock secures us passage on the Antagonist. He seems to know the captain, and bullies him into travelling to Solomon. The passage is uneventful. Underway we read about Solomon, it is a Hive, utterly ravaged by millenia of industrial exploitation.

At the spaceport we find an astropath, and get a message. We are to contact Lorelei Dekant, in Hive Gloriana. We get planetside, contact her, and get her adress. She lives on the 140th floor of a large tenant building. It turns out that she is an Adeptas Sororitas, 1.95 tall, from the Dialogous part of the order.

She tells us that something extraordinary has happened, we have been 'transferred' to a local inquisitor, Silas Mar, of a sinister reputation. Mar is not an ally of Whitlock. All in all, strange. We have a new mission, and we are to contact Mar at the Halls of Chancellor Court, to get the details.

We dress up to dine with Lorelei, it is a fine meal, and she is certainly an accomplished diplomat, being most pleasant company. The following day we fly to the Court. Enormous building, it takes hours just to get permits to enter the building. Eventually we are met by a clerk who seems to get regular mind-cleansings, and are led to a small dark chamber. Mar shows up, ancient and scrawny.

Our mission is to go to an auction over the Hairlock 'relics', to observe. But we are warned, this is a very dangerous place where the auction is held, with lots of very dangerous people. We are to pose as the agents of Ezekiel Saunder. We are given ID-papers, rebreathers and corrosion-resistent cloaks, and fine clothing, in addition to 1000 thrones apiece. In addition 1000000 thrones locked to bidding at the auction, if anything 'interesting' shows up. Finally, a dataslate with noted heretics in the sector. We shall travel with the Zygnam Martyr. These ship names, I wonder where they get them...