[BC] The Blackest Heart (IC)

[Mazer Rackham]

Cyrandras ONLY:

 

Spoiler

GM: No really, only him.

 

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GM: I suggest your Forbidden Lore (Occult) would be the Talent used for this. As an ex-Librarian, when you served with the Astral Claws, you would be privy to such matters, and even though the Claws (and Corsairs) were Renegade, they would have still attacked Stealers - they're Xenos after all, you don't stop hating them:

 

Forbidden Lore: Fail, Partial

Psyniscience: Fail, Partial

 

 

It is clear there are pyschoreactive or inhibitor crystals buried in this part of the tunnel which are preventing certainty, or soul-tracking, and the signs on the three individuals - all males - do not indicate definitively any interference with genome. No cult markings of any consequence among the worker and tribal tattoos - nothing sticks out. However, there is a slight, greasy 'discolouring' about the two corpses with scarves, a scent of otherness, you recognise if you will.

 

GM OOC: If you need more, go ahead and PM me.

 

 

 

[Xin Ceithan]

Cyrandras 

 

“ There is something ….odd …about these two “, 

 

Rakash told Hagga and Ukalegon as he thoughtfully rubbed his gauntleted fingers, then wiped them on the scarf of one of the corpses. 

 

“ I have had an odd feeling about this place since we got here, but I can’t quite place it. There is a hint of that here, too. But it doesn’t seem to be anything empyrean. It feels wrong somehow, but it’s much more …corporeal. Some morphic deviancy maybe, or even something Xenos..”

 

He shrugged, then rose up again, reading his weapons.

 

“I am not an Apothecary, but maybe there was more sense to that decontamination glade earlier than I gave them credit for?”

 

The Sorcerer took up his scouting  position again.  

 

“ Just one more reason to get to that launch bay, however. We should link up with the rest of this outfit, get access to better comms, so we can at least tell of us to keep an eye out for it. There might be a bigger problem here than just some un-compliant gangs of void scum ”

 

[OOC Scouting rolls if required:

 

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Navigate Surface  56 fail

 

Encounter  18

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Xin Ceithan
Autocorrect derided the names of the noble companions - chastised servobrain and fixed spelling

[Mazer Rackham]

GM: With Assists, I think that's a pass.

 

Cyrandras:

Through instinct and the odd pointer from your comrades, you continue to navigate up. As you do so, you pass through a disjointed segment of tunnel, where a fissure has opened up. Bottomless, it is easily avoided by anyone with the technological capacity or wherewithal, but were you not Astartes, with all the gifts and even curses that brings, you would have surely come to harm and been lost forever.

 

However, there is a bright side in the fact the tunnel has broadened significantly, and now you tread on metalled deck, strewn with dust and pebbles. Even here, just over half way toward your goal, the pulse of power and ruckus of industry form a solid hum in the walls, making it feel less like a secluded tomb, reminding you instead that you walk in a space station.

 

The space opens up and the constant light from eye-saving glowglobes in bulkhead fittings along the wall, greet your ascent from the gloomy depths.

 

GM: We'll hold off any further rolls for the Marines a minute to let the Mortals catch up. Talk amongat yourselves.

 

Edited 10 hours ago by Mazer Rackham
Let there be light

[Lysimachus]

Hagga:

 

Interesting, and potentially troubling, but what Cyrandras thought he felt did make a certain kind of sense? If there were some form of xenos influence here, particularly among those in positions of authority, that might explain their refusal to bow to the Corsairs? A paltry group of mortal pirates would not normally stand against the Astartes of Huron Blackheart.

 

They moved on, crossing a deep, dark chasm within the rock of the asteroid with little trouble, though it made Hagga think momentarily of the Stygian legends about the mouth of the Pit of Hel. Trying to avoid such foreboding thoughts, as they moved on into cleaner and brighter areas of the station Hagga continued to consider the prospect of divisions among its inhabitants.

 

If it were aliens, surely there would be some who would have refused such interference? Whether Secessionist or Chaos cultist, most human renegades were no less xenophobic than the most puritan Loyalist. Would they have been purged entirely, or might some be lying low, waiting for the opportunity to rise against the hated xenos? Could there be potential allies imprisoned within the Brig that appeared on their maps? Again, as they walked on, he expressed these thoughts to his comrades.

 

“Maybe after we take the Landing Bay, we should consider searching the Brig?” he concluded.

 

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Lysimachus

[Trokair]

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Spoiler

Navigate Surface, Int: 45 +10(Map) = 55

D100: 38, Pass, 2 DoS

Encounter roll D100: 43

 

Stealth,  Ag: 42

D100: 74, Fail, 4 DoF