The group began with a severely wounded Alexander Churchill needing medical assistance from a bolter shell which passed through his lung before exploding on the exit. Scalia provided emergency first aid, evacuating the wound and getting Churchill stable enough to move, before the group dragged him into a stasis tube for transit to a hospital on a major planet.
Meanwhile, Flim Janx searched the courtyard, Kastor spoke with Fish about the moonbase, and Genevieve began interrogating The Falcon. The Falcon didn't take kindly to enhanced interrogation, and pulled a Dune-poison gas tooth, killing himself and nearly hurting Genevieve, who was saved by her filtration plugs and tough constitution.
The group then explored the rest of the moonbase. There, Flim found a lot of random ammo clips, Genevieve found some evidence, including drop coordinates, a code, a key, and a note incriminating Finn, governor of Finn's bounty. With the keycode the group found some juvenat, of which they too two liters. Most of the group took 2 doses 10 ml a piece of juvenat serum, and some actually used a dose, extending their natural lives by 10 years.
The group then traveled to Port Aquila, and leveraged their black market contacts (and the extreme value of good juvenat serum) in order to get some goods, including ammo and tricked out gear. Additionally, Genevieve pulled inquisitorial rank to get Churchill and Scalia medical attention. He was quickly (relatively) fitted with a partial artificial heart, artificial lung, and some vat grown skin in order to get moving again, but not without some minor complications.
While on Port Aquila, Flim hunted down information on Pelagia, especially regarding the drop coordinates that they found, learning that the planet is a super earth, mostly used for Krill harvesting, and with incredibly deep oceans. Additionally, Genevieve tracked down corroborating information regarding shipping manifests (found 2 ships with regular manifest discrepancies). The group also came up with cover stories (working as agents for the Krill Consortium/Redblatt Rogue Trader family) and dug up fake credentials to that end.
Before leaving Port Aquila, the group enlisted the services of an Astropath in order to send a message to their Inquisitor, Romelia Girard on Hive Desoleum. They included the following information:
1. We met The Falcon
2. His party was interrupted
3. We are traveling to Pelagia
4. The big fish on Finn's Bounty stinks
5. We met a friend, and we hope to introduce you
They received a message from Romelia, suggesting that they follow any leads from Finn's Bounty, but treat The Falcon with extreme caution. - This message probably came a bit too late to be useful.
The group then traveled aboard a freighter to Pelagia, entering orbit and making inquiries with the dockmaster and archivist. There they learned that red tide emptied the aquacultural zone around the coordinates in question roughly 15 years ago. After some bribing, the group got permission to travel down to the surface. (They also learned that there were rumors of Tech-Priests messing around with biological whatsits and whatnots, probably to blame)
Following that, Fish flew the group's shuttle down to the watery surface. The group did some recon first, and decided to set down. From there, they briefly tried to trick the Skitarii rangers and tech-priests (or Hereteks), before realizing they didn't have the Ork parts needed to pull off such a trick, and resorting to violence, because violence solves everything.
This led to a tense battle against hardened, well trained and extremely well-armed Skitarii rangers. The rangers had entrenched positions, and weapons that took advantage of their range. However, the group took extremely good advantage of surprise, eliminating major threats early on, turning what could have been a highly lethal encounter into a very painful and bloody one.
Everyone with the exception of Genevieve took some degree of critical damage, with at least 2 party members suffering broken bones, and Fish taking his first bullet for the group.
400 xp.
Various bits of loot, including 2 liters of juvenat, odd ammo, 12 vac suits, odd rifles from downed skitarii, electro-mace, brandy (1 bottle was used as a bribe).
Items acquired: new heart/lung for Churchill, 3rd arm for Scalia, custom grip for Kastor's Chainsword, red-dot sight for Kastor's long-las, Klartesh,
The group then traveled aboard a freighter to Pelagia, entering orbit and making inquiries with the dockmaster and archivist. There they learned that red tide emptied the aquacultural zone around the coordinates in question roughly 15 years ago. After some bribing, the group got permission to travel down to the surface. (They also learned that there were rumors of Tech-Priests messing around with biological whatsits and whatnots, probably to blame)
Following that, Fish flew the group's shuttle down to the watery surface. The group did some recon first, and decided to set down. From there, they briefly tried to trick the Skitarii rangers and tech-priests (or Hereteks), before realizing they didn't have the Ork parts needed to pull off such a trick, and resorting to violence, because violence solves everything.
This led to a tense battle against hardened, well trained and extremely well-armed Skitarii rangers. The rangers had entrenched positions, and weapons that took advantage of their range. However, the group took extremely good advantage of surprise, eliminating major threats early on, turning what could have been a highly lethal encounter into a very painful and bloody one.
Everyone with the exception of Genevieve took some degree of critical damage, with at least 2 party members suffering broken bones, and Fish taking his first bullet for the group.
400 xp.
Various bits of loot, including 2 liters of juvenat, odd ammo, 12 vac suits, odd rifles from downed skitarii, electro-mace, brandy (1 bottle was used as a bribe).
Items acquired: new heart/lung for Churchill, 3rd arm for Scalia, custom grip for Kastor's Chainsword, red-dot sight for Kastor's long-las, Klartesh,
