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.