40K/Inquisitor RPG. The Line of Damnation.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-22 03:48am

"We don't know. He may escaped, he might not have. The warp blast served to obscure any trail." Gix snarled in frustration.

"We can pray he died, but if he's alive he gets another shot to blow a big chunk out of a hive."

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-22 03:53am

" Yes we will be here for a while so we may need an escort if ....trouble erupts "

Nathan loooked at Prius and nodded "Good to hear ."

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-22 03:55am

Or worse., he thought at Gix's comment about blasting chunks out of the hive. He watched a body flow along in the torrent below them.

"What end did this serve?" Prius points out, gesturing around him. "That is what we must question. Was there a grand scheme in this, leading to his ends? This is perhaps not the best place to speculate on such matters, though."

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-22 03:56am

The sergeant spoke into his helmet vox, and the judges spread out around the group, forming a small perimeter, facing outward with their guns and shock mauls.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-22 03:58am

"I don't know," said Gix. "This can't have been his plan, although he may yet twist it to serve his purpose. He's either escaped or char. Nothing we can do at the moment will change that. There is a mess up above to solve. Ships firing on other ships. We need to know what happened and purge the mess. Severa, I could use you assistance." Jolan turned back towards the flyer, Severa following loyally behind him.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-22 04:00am

Nathan watched the two leave his own thoughts whirling."Prius ....out of curiosity when the .....Arbites sent in false reports were they from the same general area?"

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-22 04:01am

Prius looked at Nathan expectantly for instructions on what they were going to do. Personally, he would favor leading a rampaging investigation through the hive, shooting people until they found the PsyKing or his remains, but Nathan seemed to prefer slightly more discrete methods.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-22 12:53pm

"When we get back ,secure an office spaace for us ....and send me a isting of where the doctored reports were sent in about...the area they report about. both planetside and on the fort. I`m looking for a pattern my good Commisar"

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-22 01:07pm

Gix looked down at the report. Fortunately the ships' commissariate had retaken control of the stricken vessels within minutes and by the time he had arrived were already well into their own investigation. He had easily been able to put the pieces together.

Personel transfers had been altered. Supposed astropaths from the surface were really conditioned rogue psykers with augmentations to control them and let them pass as atropaths. They carried several daemons with them. They surpise attacked the other astropaths in the dome and then took the bridge, slaughtering the command crew and possessing the survivors. They had then ordered some maneuvers and a "live fire exercise." When the shooting began and the retalitory fire hit the ship, it had confirmed something was badly wrong. The commissars and crew had retaken the bridge within several minutes and then had begun to sort out the mess.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-22 01:48pm

Nathan looked over the reports the arbites had made.He couldnt find any pattern that stood ot right away but he knew there had to be one other than the small ones that they may have been bribed to make .Unless......the orders had come from higher up. But WHO could thus order arbites to lie?

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-22 06:46pm

Jolan walked into the infirmerary waiting room. Severa was there, but it was otherwise empty. She sat with her arms wrapped around herself. "How is he?"

Her voice was cool and precise. "They say he'll make it. He strained some of his earlier wounds by coming back to soon. He'll need augmentic work for his spine and possibly some other work. They don't know yet. He's all for it, of course. Anything that makes him stronger."

"Severa I-"

"You don't need to say anything Jolan."

"Yes I do. I'm sorry. You deserve better."

"Yes." She looked away.

"I'm sorry I hurt you. I didn't- no it doesn't matter why I did it. I was wrong. I shouldn't have tried to keep my feelings about you at arms length. I shouldn't have kept you at arm's length. I should have realized how luck I was to have you. I thought that this work meant I couldn't be close to anyone. I was wrong. I wish I had realized it sooner."

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-23 01:43am

Nathan sighed and sat down on the floor he assumed the lotus position and began to meditate.He relaxed and allowed his senses to expand .Finding his center realigning his being and double checking the defenses he had errected .

He snaped his eyes open and focused them.Prius solidified in his view.

Nathan nodded to the Commisar. "Forgive me I was merely praying and reflecting on the enomity of the task set before us"

"Have you discovered something new?"

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-23 01:59am

From space it seemed logical...simple....

not that she would normally mention this to anyone, unless asked...

there it was a zone of death and madness, people unharmed by the actual orbital discharge killed, with no apparent effect, by the warp fallout. While the bombardment and the death zones overlapped, in certain areas. however by finding three of the mysterious deaths, she was able to match a common point, simple trigonometry.

purhaps, she should mention this to her master....

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-23 02:12am

"Beyond falsified fitness reports, no. But there is a wealth of data to go over from the planet. The judges from planetside have been most cooperative," Prius said, a touch of pride in his voice at having properly cowed the arbites. It feels good to perform in his role so well.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-23 02:15am

Nathan nods and takes the report.He looks at Lillith "Have YOU discovered something? I expect all of those I work with to voice there opinions"

"Speaking of which I am thinking of adding to our number"

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-23 02:21am

"May I inquire as to who it is?"

More warm bodies. They simply need more warm bodies to throw at the heretics.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-23 02:24am

"I have a few in mind one is a naval navigator, an adeptus arbite, and possibly a second sister of battle"

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-23 02:25am

....master Nathan?.....

I think I have found the exact location of the final battle between the marine and the traitor sorcerer?

see, a person, unarmed by the torpedo fire, but in the kill zone, just protected by depth of underhive here. Another family found either dead or had to be terminated for madness here, and a third out break here.

with three plot point's the actual battle was here, the computer showed the location of the battle occuring above the present crater, given blast, and gravity... the it should be directly below this point...

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-23 02:29am

His gaze snaps toward Lillith. As wretchedly uncomfortable as she makes him, she's just earned her keep.

"It's a starting point. Depending on how fast he moves, we can utilize the Guard and the arbites to cordon off the area, then move through block by block until we seize him."

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2004-12-23 02:40am

Nathan nodded and stood up" Good work Lillith . Prius contact the arbites and guard . I`ll tell Gix and we`ll coordinate ."

"Tell the troopers to arm themselves heavily. We have no idea what may be lurking down there. Also we may need to look into what the Govenor has been doing. Things are too lax for my taste"

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-23 02:43am

Elsewhere The arbites were interrogating one of the unfortunates caught at the edge of the warp backlash, the pitiful being mutated, and dying, but still coherant, still some information could be retrieved from this creature, before the cleansing flame.

Mutant: I must kill Horus...
*his body changing as they tried to interrogate him*
Get some truth out of the heretic, as a servator went to apply a charged stick to the mutant.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-23 02:48am

Unbelievable. Nathan was willing to do it. First they let him bring the arbites into line, now they're going to go on a full-scale sweep and clear to hunt a heretic.

That's how business is done, none of the sensitive understanding nonsense they had seemed fixated on when they first arrived.

"I'll inform them at once," he said, striding from the room with purpose and vigor.

If you're down there, I'll find you.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-12-23 03:10am

Elsewhere, the request for additional forces, finally was responed to by a strange reply.

Station this is the penal barge "Unforgiven", fully loaded. Requesting an Inquisitioner to authorize release of our "erm special Guard Troops"

The crew serving out their sentences for minor smuggling charges haulling the "passengers" wondered, if anyone had ever even heard of Legio Xenos, or the white helmeted, black clad secret "alien legion", the scum of the universe, sentanced to death in the service of the emporer, allowed to kit themselves with what ever the wanted to delay their inevitable deaths.

they were pirates, rapists, eldar, beastmen, and others. The were rotten to the max, but in some form of perversity they had the highest survival ratio next to the infamous Gaunt's Ghosts.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2004-12-23 07:59pm

Gix beamed copies of his report to his fellow inquisitors. He reached for ana analysis of fleet battle damage when the com beeped. "Yes?" he answered.

"Inquisitor, we have an. . . uhm . . .unusual situation here. A penal barge has arrived from the uh. . .Legio Xenos. It's orders require an inquisitor to take charge."

"I'll be right down," replied Jolan. He looked around. Subtle, undercover investigative proceedures was not exactly the order of the day. He threw on a carapace cuirass and groin guard on top of his flak bodyglove. Conversion field generator, crystal display eye guards, nose filters, his force rod, bolt pistol, plasma pistol, and power sword rounded out his gear. He put on his coat with grenades and a utility knife stashed in the pockets and his vox bead. He checked in the mirror. Martial, aloof, and intimidating or so he hoped.

Jolan Gix headed down to docking bay. Alone.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2004-12-23 11:02pm

"Full cordon, nobody in or out, full containment measures. If they so much as act suspicious, you are commanded to fire first. Tight contact protocols will be observed, and at the first sign of any form of daemonic activity, I or the other designated members of the Inquisitorial staffs will be notified."

The Huntsmen, the Adeptus Arbites and others were moving into position. Disaster relief in the area would wait while they hunted the PsyKing. Prius was well aware that the Psyking could cut through such resistance like paper, but it was his fervent hope that it would be as a web, bogging the bastard down long enough for the kill team to arrive.