Return to the Violence of the Ocean Floor

"Return to the Violence of the Ocean Floor," - Moonface

Dark Heresy 12.12

• Party begins by receiving first aid from Scalia, then disabled their Skitarii foes sub and flew to Pelagia's primary orbital spaceport
• From there the party split, with Fishbutt and Genevieve dropping off their injured friends and flying back to the surface to watch the krill platform - for some members of the group, there was nearly a week spent in hospital
• Genevieve noticed another sub breaching a few hundred meters from the platform, which seemed to observe, then leave
• While the others finished recuperating, Kastor and Scalia attempted to recruit mercenaries, but scared them off with talk of tech priests.
• They drew unwanted attention from said mercenaries, but the party was able to appeal to their self preservation instincts and avert a fight
• Gained the aid of the Pelagia Planetary Defense Forces, including a small squad of troopers and some explosives
• Took the sub down to the base. Scouted around for a while.
• The group decided to use demolition charges to enter through the main sub bay- while a large sharklike critter circled above. The fish came dangerously close before Kastor and Flim set off the charges.
• The group then advanced into the facility, covering their rear by jamming the only other hatch in the submarine bay.
• Making their way up the stairs, the group found an observation deck, overlooking a training arena for test subjects, all of whom seemed to be hyper muscular psykers in the mold of the Emperor, suggesting that the hybridization process has improved significantly since the crude Xenos-Human Frankenstein’s monsters seen in the first session
• The group set up demolition charges in the observation deck, then made their way upstairs into the command center, where a pitched battle ensued with the remaining skeleton crew of Skitarii on the station.
• 3 PDF soldiers went down, but eventually the acolytes prevailed, taking two prisoners and interrogating them
• From there, they interrogated the prisoners and searched the facility

Evidence Discovered

1. From Interrogation
1. Mind-mold hybrids are like “an empty vase,”
2. The “Seekers of the Perfect Body,” must be selling them as super-soldiers
3. Head of facility is known as Glabred
2. Documents
1. Pict-File: Depicted a young Romelia and a small squad of acolytes on a Hive World, likely either Juno or Desoleum, including a Tech-Priest and several others
2. Letters, written to Glabred signed simply as I, mentioning the names of a number of psykers, and their locations, suggesting the possibility of kidnapping them, and describing them as “The Spark of the Emperor,”
3. Letters written to Glabred signed as V, requesting more product “My mistress found the previous product exceptional, and requests your presence on Juno for the delivery of more.
4. Receipts showing payments in the hundreds of thousands of Thrones from Valerius Holding Company to “The Order of The Toothed Gears,” with a description of delivery to “our trusted agent on Juno,”
5. A list of highly ranked Magos from the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars, with those involved in “Golden Throne Maintenance,” underlined, and the name Dalia Cythera with a star next to it, with the note - “vacation planned to Europa ice fields,”
3. Other Physical Evidence
1. Abandoned Lab had specimens from a number of xenos breeds
2. Human/Xenos Hybridization was being further refined
3. Work was done on highly pressurized mind-mold, corroborating information found back on Temperance

XP Gained - 400
Influence Gained -



PS: I seriously over-reported the amount of time it takes to send an astropathic message.
The real length of time changes quite a bit based on distance
Orbit   -  instant
Within a Solar system - no more than 10 rounds
Nearby Solar System  - 1d10 minutes
Within a subsector (Pelagia to Port Aquila, Pelagia to Juno) - d5 hours
Across the Sector - d5 weeks (I would modify this based on distance, IE Pelagia to Desoleum is going to be d5-2 weeks with a minimum of 1)
Across a Segmentum - d5 months