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tancred in response to: Port of Call - Investigations continuing

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:40:44 +0000

I'll presume knock him senseless or shock him first; that would be the appropriate way to subdue a psyker. Either that or drug him. Xerza: "What he wants is irrelevant, bu I'll keep his willingness to cooperate in mind." You eventually get out of the hive; and none too soon, more and more people are trying to get out and across the bridge and into the top-side city. But only so many can fit at any one time, and you see several people pushed over the sides by the heaving mass of bodies. Getting to the spaceport proves somewhat easier, but here too there is a mass of people desperately looking for salvation. Some few hundred, maybe throusands, will undoubtedly fit into one of the waiting lighters and cargo shuttles, but millions more will not. You have your own ship of course, and Johammod's presence allows you access into the space-port area, which is heavily guarded (but for how long will the guards be able to keep the raging masses at bay - or for how long will they stay on their posts before the panic takes them too?). You bring along Johammod and a score of his retinue in your lander. You're missing Haxtes, Odessa and the three savants. Once Xerza has powered up she takes of, then flies over the city towards the hive. Haxtes and Odessa are there, waiting for you at the top of the hive, far from the throng of people on the bridge below. Soon they are aboard. The savants are not there. You don't suppose they will make it. The ship lift of, gets clearance from shield control and takes of. Beyond the shield local Lightings are tangling with ork craft, lighting the sky with traces, energy beams, and missile contrails. You race the gauntlet, to be joined by a much bigger Imperial fighter, a Thunderbolt. Silon is at the controls, guiding you up and away and keeping any overly inquisitive orks from going after just your craft. Two hours later you rendezvous with the Maiden. The ship is already under power and building speed, but you vectors are perfectly matched and you glide into her launch bay.

kuhnrat in response to: Port of Call - Investigations continuing

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:53:37 +0000

"Yes, lady Xerza." Max strips the body of any useful items before he ties it with its own belt and lifts it up. "I think he will come willing, he wanted to see you anyway." Maxi smiles.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:19:08 +0000

+MAXI. SECURE THE ROGUE PSYKER, HE REPRESENTS A GRAVE DANGER TO HIS SURROUNDINGS. WE'LL TAKE HIM WITH US FOR INTERROGATION AND PROCESSING.+

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:07:05 +0000

Maxi doesn't shoot him - yet... You move over into the next slice. A security crackdown is in effect and the Black-Jackets are out in force, kitted up with hi-power autoguns and matted carapace armor. They have wheeled Rhino variants bristling with crowd-suppression gear backing them up. Maxi has seen this kind of thing before - Arbites striking suddenly and in force against up-hive targets suspected of sedition or other capital crimes against the Throne. Finn: "Tricker is making a grab for power. We need to find a way of stopping him. Where is you mistress?" As if on cue Xerza comes walking out of the entrance tunnel leading into the Johammod manor. Her hands along her sides, fingers spread like fans. Which is odd, since Maxi can't actually see her from here - it's like when Ignace teleported, time and space flooding together, losing their inherent properties and assuming new ones. For a moment you can see what is about to happen - potential futures merging together into an inevitable singularity; in this case a massive release of pent-up psychic energy. A challenge is shouted, guns are pointed, and her hands are raised - not in surrender, but in defiance. Deep dark hatred for these rogues living beyond the Emperor's light, fiery anger at being made to pretend before these backwater yokels, turned into a wave of invisible kinetic energy. One moment the enforcers have a coherent line. Then next there is nothing; armored men are hurled a hundred feet, their bodies broken long before they land. 10 ton Rhinos are flipped over, some even coming completely apart at the seams. You see Jarra and Ignace, running up behind her, guns at the ready, scanning for any that might have survived the onslaught. Vern brings up the rear, with the voidborn speaker in tow. Finn is down, blood running from his nose and ear. There is smoke coming from his psi-damper.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:45:41 +0000

You reach a checkpoint leading to a secondary sluice. Finn flashes his ID, but it doesn't have the supposed effect - instead of having the desire effect the guards move to arrest him (and you). It's an awkward moment, but Finn assures you that there is no need to be worried, so Maxi stands down. You're frisked and weapons seized. Same goes for Finn - it's when one of the guards removes the security token Finn has around the neck that things get interesting... ...his eyes suddenly fill with liquid blue fire - fire which leaps out, touching the guards, worming its way into their minds, frying synapses, leaving a squad of lobotomized people spasming on the ground. Maxi keeps his hidden compact trained on him while he picks up the psi-dampening amulet and puts it back on. Finn: "Yeah, I'm a rogue psyker. So I suggest you either shoot me or put the gun away."

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:24:33 +0000

Finn: "That does it. Until the fire is contained it won't be possible to get into the adjacent slice. Damn. We must find an alternate route, come with me. I'll explain on the way." ----- He fills you inn. Marshal Bill Tricker, Finn's boss, who is also one of the Speakers, is the one who is behind all this. Or at least he's part of the problem. Finn doesn't have all the details, but he know the orks didn't come here by chance. It was supposed to LOOK that way, but they are really here because they were paid to come. Paid by the Adeptus Mechanicus most likely. Finn knows, because Tricker and a few of his men went to SPEAK with the AdMech adepts. Right there in the ork warlord's camp. If only he knew what they talked about - but he doesn't.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:05:58 +0000

Shortly thereafter Maxi is in a conveyor (a car in 40K-ish) with Finn. Anna somehow manages to include herself as another Throne agent. Finn is tight-lipped as you drive at high speed towards the clockwise slice and the Johammond estate. He is insistent that he MUST see Xerza immediately. As you approach the check-point set up in the man sluice (in the massive wall separating each of the slices on this level) a massive explosion rips though the opening. The conveyor is thrown on the side and you're all given a good shaking, but nothing serious (unless you count now knowing the color of Anna's undergarments). Maxi shakes his head, clearly recalling the moment - a large multi-wheeled conveyor was the source of the explosion. The power maul fixes the buckled door panels and your out. A wave of heat strikes you - the massive vehicle is burning intensely, dark toxic smoke belching forth. Overhead the automated fire-fighting systems go online and start spraying - it will be some time before the fire is contained.

tancred in response to: Port of Call - Investigations continuing

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:47:35 +0000

Maxi is enjoying a cup of recaff with Anna when Mr. Finn arrives - quite unexpectedly. He looks weary and agitated at the same time. Finn: "Where is the Inquisitor? Or do you want to continue this 'Rogue Trader' charade? Where is she - I must speak with her post haste."