Unknown Xenos Site 001 on Tartarus, Schola Progenium

Time Signature: 859.999.m41 to 875.999.m41 (4 days of resting up, 2 days of action  )

Session Begins on Tartarus, back in the Schola Progenium (Imperial Orphan School)

• After 2 days resting (mostly for Kastor's head wound), the party headed out to the island, rowing across a still lake, seeing woods on one side of the lake, flatlands on the other
• The group found a number of black and green objects in a triangle pattern, these appeared to be alien devices of some sort, with a base of shiny black metal, and a top made of a crystal like green globe structure
• Group advanced to a tarpted over area in the center of the island and lifted the tarp up revealing a new dig site with a central triangular portal flanked by consoles, then the broaches activated, burning some PCs, and allowing 3 creatures through in a flash of blinding light. These creatures were heavily cybernetic specimens of a previously unencountered Xenos breed with apparent psychic ability, and an overall dinosaur or birdlike/meets insect bent.
• The group was able use cover fairly well, and leveraged some heavy firepower to eventually slay the Xenos filth, and wisely ignored the pleas of the alien to negotiate
• Genevieve then, in investigating the alien devices, activated one, sending 2 more Xenos creatures through the portal. One of these creatures dealt a nearly fatal blow to Genevieve, but both were stopped before they could open the gate.
• Group destroyed the rest of the gate computers and torched the aliens
• Returned to the school with a barely living Genevieve (4th degree burns, necessitating a medically induced coma, (armor/clothes will need to be replaced due to burns)
• Supervised a Kroot kill team which killed and ate the smugglers on Tartarus
• Found a clue and a bolt pistol, leading to Kastor's home world, and The Falcon, a smuggler operating there.
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• 400 XP reward

10/3/16 - Tartarus Schola Progenium

Time Signature: 700.999.m41 to 859.999.m41 (1 week of resting up, 7 weeks passage, 2 days at the school )

Session Begins on Temperance, in the Mind-Mould stasis tomb chamber.

Group drags Kastor out of the stasis tomb, he receives a replacement spleen in emergency surgery.

Romelia has taken the disk drive from the stasis tomb, and plans to bring it back to her safehouse on the Hive world Desoleum in order to study it further with the aid of decryption specialists there.

In the meantime, she asked the group to look into a grisly death connected to Xenos artifacts on Tartarus, a world that is home to the Tartarus Schola Progenium, an Imperial controlled Orphan-Indoctination/School. She received a tip about it from her old friend, Arterian Goldfang (related to the the Desoleum Goldfang noble line).

There, the acolytes met with Arterian, and went about investigating, starting with checking the student's room and finding warp taint, fatal blood stains (duh doi), and evidence of a missing diary.

Further investigations led the group to examining Barbana Sal(the dead student's) body, further learning the nature of her terrible injury (high energy bird talons that seemed warp tainted), along with a missing bit of mass from her body. Shortly thereafter, the group checked out the broach, finding an extreme power source that pulsed regularly. Checking it out with an auspex was difficult due to overwhelming power/radiation causing interference.

The group interviewed students, and quickly broke the spirits of these amateur smugglers, eventually getting enough information to grab additional xenos broaches from the student's rooms. On the way to the rooms, Kastor and Churchill ran into a professor who spent a lot of time looking them over, suspicious of the players. Rickard Bultan seemed to be the leader of the student smugglers, and broke quickly when exposed to interrogation tactics, which broke the whole story wide open.

Met Alaricious, a Tau agent who was infiltrating the school's smuggling ring in order to gain access to maybe-webway like technology, but was opposed to Somnio Bellus' darkness. - might want to turn him into a contact

-Slew Somnio Bellus as he tried escaping in a rowboat

-Arterian Goldfang died from a bolter round

-Random servant in the school died from a bolter round -

-Vesuyvia Waysira assumed the headmaster position at the Tartarus School

-Kastor got shot in the head with a bolter round (and came out pretty well, all things considered)

- Still need to assault the dig site and take on the smugglers