Gaining Friends and Replacing a Leader

We are about to engage with the Inquisitorial Kill team when out of the blue the Psyker and Sniper take out the rest of their cadre.

Uhm.... what??

They are Lothan and Arcadia, respectively, and inform us that Silas Mar had a favor he could call on with their team.  They want us to come with them to Macabeus Quintus. We agree to meet them at the space port the next day

We have a longish discussion about cleansing me. There is a church or something two days away. I don't really see the point.

The town is a lot calmer - guess that demon kept it's word. As we walk through the arbites canteen, suddenly I feel a strange surge as something leaves my body. My friend finds a new host, as Laz tries to kill the host it jumps to another. Laz does not fail this time.

We go to an astropath to deliver a report about the recent events, and that we're leaving for Macabeus. Obviously we don't tell everything. There is a message from Silas Mar. He says that Inquistior Whitlock is dead. Assassinated.

We are obviously a little taken aback by this. What does it mean? Is it true? Who can we trust? But these are the thoughts we face on a daily basis, and the reason I sometimes grab the opportunity to loose all thought and fear in a bottle or other means of escape.

We meet up at the ship. It is filled with pilgrims and religious nutters. Arcadia shows another side of herself. She is very extrovert and super flirty. It makes for a nice change. The psykers practice their sword skills on the flight. Holder-Smith reads and reads. I try to keep up my strength and fitness.

Holder-Smith has found something interesting in his books. All signs point towards the planet Mara, a mining planet and prison world. It is a forbidden planet due to all sorts of freaky shit happening in the past. Put short: teams just vanish over there.

We arrive and almost instantly a monk appears and hands a scroll case to Lothan. It a message from Silas to meet him in the catacombs. Silas is there in a chair, Psyker along side. Silas coughs up a bit of blood and greets us.

Whitlock has been killed by the Tyrantine Cabal about two months ago. A servant passes a scroll to Laz. We are officially Silas' cadre now. Whitlock was killed because of the desperate regards to secrecy that is the motto of the Tyrantine Cabal.

Silas says he is impressed with our work so far. He has received the reports we sent Whitlock. He also says he suspects that Mara is the key. There are three elements required to find the Blind Tesseract:

1. A pattern - Silas has it in the Greyskin Psalter
2. A guide - A scion or servant of Haarlock
3. A key - We have it - the Keystone

We need to prepare for the hell that is Mara. We are offered wards for our armour, blessed ammo and gear. We can also have a ritual done on us that will give us benefits against psychic attacks. We will also have a posse with us to Mara consisting of two psykers and ten maccabian janissaries. And a ship - Sigillit's Word.