Stepping through the Webway

The session began with the acolytes and Romelia in the plasma gun control room, watching as a massive cruiser rose from the palace, raining macro cannon and lance fire(large light based weapon like a scaled up laser) down upon the palace and the Juno’s capital, Vesuna Regis.

Genevieve rushed into action, and spent a few feverish minutes trying to jury rig the plasma gun controls. She managed to reroute some of the controls, and got off a shot at the cruiser, which by that point was moving too quickly to hit.

After that, the group spent 24 hours searching the ruins of the palace. They managed to avoid crumbling architechture, fire and surviving recidivists to find a number of pieces of crucial evidence. (An explanation of motivations for attempting to kill and replace the emperor to save humanity and the galaxy from an extragalactic scourge, mind mold’s critical weakness to alcohol, Connection between warp storms and the precursors to mind mold) While discussing possible methods of leaving the planet and chasing the surviving heretics.

Then, the group got a ride out of the crumbling palace, and rested. Following that, plans discussed while finding clues in the palace were executed.

Romelia had Churchill make use of the Black Orb in order to contact her ally, Farseer Halatha of the Eldar. Using the orb corrupted Churchill in invisible ways, and caused some disturbing side effects, most notably paranoia and a broken foot. (Churchill later had the foot and leg replaced with a common cybernetic replacement. )

It took the Eldar roughly a week to respond, and in the meantime, some members of the group worked to repair a warp capable ship in orbit, with the goal of sending it to a nearby system to get the news out about the fall of Juno.

The Eldar did eventually arrive, leading to a conversation in orbit aboard their vessel, and the decision to take the webway out to the Kuiper belt on the edge of our solar system.

Traveling through the webway to Sol was incredibly fast, nearly instant.

The group then encountered a system patrol vessel, interfaced with the fleet, and warned them of the coming danger before traveling to Mars to seek out a spy amongst the Arch-Magi. They managed to track down a spy code-named Renley, going by the name Terlin, and interrogated him to learn that the heretics plan on bringing a fleet.

The next session will commence as the heretic fleet enters the sol system, and handle that confrontation between Batlefleet Solar and the forces of the rogue inquisitor Faustus Gelam Irdnak (Romelia's Former Inquisitor and mentor).

Storming Heaven

Session began with the group on the docks in front of a burning wreck on Juno. 

- Kastor took Scalia to a hospital to repair her seriously messed up mechanicus implants

- Churchill noticed a terrible scream in the warp 

- The rest of the acolytes took Vladinya, Davos and Sally to a PDF precinct for questioning, and proceeded to gather a decent amount of information, especially regarding Vladinya's suspicion that her company, Valerius Rising, was doing dirty deeds for the Sector Prefectrix (Charlotta Anastasia XX), and was especially worried due to threats from her company contact, Milford

-From there, the group traveled to a number of spire bars, eventually tracking down Milford at the Golden Hand (a bar named after it's primary feature, a giant golden hand that pours alcohol from it's fingertips) and proceeded to honeypot Milford using Kastor/Churchill

-This led to his office, which had the smoking gun (letters positively identifying Charlotta Anastasia as the "V," from the many correspondences the acolytes have previously seen (and some disturbing stuff in there about ordering super soldier hybrids from a group known as the Order of the Toothed Gear)

-This was enough for the group to take it's standard operating procedure of stripping foes nude to it's logical extreme, and Flim Janx did the honor of executing Milford 

-This led to a hasty bit of prep in the Inquisitorial Sector Fortress, where the party grabbed some arms and armor and headed out with a group of PDF troopers, Sisters of Battle and other inquisitorial troops. 

-This led to street to street fighting, before the Inquisitorial forces established a beach-head at the base of Charlotta Anastasia's Sector Palace

-The Acolytes, Romelia and Fish made their way through a series of access tunnels, until they found their way to the control and power generation for the primary defensive cannon

-This was a pitched battle, but eventually the Acolytes destroyed the controls to the defensive weapon, and survived without too much serious injury (aside from Fish being shot in the torso, and Churchill getting a high-speed bullet through the leg, snapping it). 

- PDF/Inquisitorial Forces then entered the palace, relieving the group, as Charlotta and a Tech-priest escaped from the battle, and a massive, Adeptus Mechanicus Battlecruiser detached from the palace

-This battlecruiser then fired down upon Vesuna Regis, including the palace, wreaking massive havoc and leading to our next (and possibly final session). 

-One thing to note: the battlecruiser took off almost immediately after Charlotta and the Tech-Priest left the room, and was definitely some distance above the control room, 

Next session, the acolytes will need to figure out how to leave a planet without any warp capable ships or astropaths. Additionally, it's going to be important to confirm what the cultists are actually attempting (which means searching a palace that is probably on fire, and full of hostile remnants of Charlotta's troops)

Juno: Deadly Cargo

Session started on Pelagia

• The acolytes delivered the surviving Heretek Skitarii to the local authorities for punishment
• Acolytes sent a report to Romelia via astropath, leaving out information about the picture found in Glabred's chamber
• From there, the acolytes booked passage aboard a cargo hauler before heading to Juno

The rest of the session took place on Juno, the sector capital, as the group attempted to seek out the mysterious writers of letters found on Pelagia. Most of the action on Juno took place in Vesuna Regis, the primary Hive City on the planet, and it's nearby spaceport.

• Inquisitor Romelia Girard met the group on Juno, and went over evidence with them in a rented house near the primary spaceport
• Romelia revealed the name of her former Inquisitor, Kendri. Additionally, the group was affirmed in some of their recent choices, such as fostering contacts and informants.
• The group then followed Romelia’s advice, and started following leads to probable faceless trade activities on Juno
• This brought them to investigate Lans Giuljan, a member of the nobility with a recent personality change
• The group asked around, eventually visiting Giuljan’s family estate and getting corroborating information about recent changes to his character, and a believable cover
• The acolytes then paid a visit to Giuljan in his manor, intimidating their way past a servant and discovering Giuljan under the influence of a black orb of alien construction and tainted by the warp
• Giuljan expired, and between his rantings, his journal and his former bodyguard, the group had a lead to an unsavory bar in the lower hive called the Screaming Wheel
• The group recruited Stirwell the bodyguard, took the black orb, and an Eldar necklace from the manor before heading to the lower hive (the necklace was owned by a farseer Halatha, an Eldar ally of Romelia)
• Tense negotiations in high Gothic with cherub masked thrill-killers lead to a faceless trader, Zax Holthane in the underhive
• The group set up a meeting with Holthane, and barely avoided a nasty back alley rumble before learning of a cargo vessel with dangerous (but unspecified) cargo coming to the spaceport
• The acolytes rushed to the Spaceport, beating the would be buyers to the landing pad
• When the lighter landed, it exploded, and a hybrid-human emerged, while a tech priest ran away into the spaceport, dodging sniper fire to escape unscathed
• A nearly perfect burst of fire from Flim’s autocannon, followed by sniper fire felled the creature
• A short battle ensued with the would be buyer and her bodyguards, leading to their surrender, and critical damage to Scalia’s Mechanicus implants from a bolter shell

Rewards: 400 xp, and a would-be buyer of human-hybrid super soldiers to interrogate, a possible lead to whoever V is.