C01M02S01: Lady in Red & C01M03S01: The Mechanical Man

Important note – RPG on Monday is cancelled as Armandius is in Spain shooting terrorists with his regiment. He’ll be back to kill Eldar the week after.

The team investigated the Sisters of Battle planet with 6 guardsmen as guards. Entering, they saw the nuns had been slaughtered, entrails were draped all over the shop and the entire temple had been horrifically desecrated. A haunting female voice mocked them from deep inside, Shanks ran like buggery gaining insanity points, Lithinius froze with terror, Armandius was shaken and poor little Mavis was nonchalant about the whole affair. After restoring order to the guards they investigated the altar. Chung photoed the 'Veil of Legends', then torched it. This revealed a series of tombs, one broken into. They checked out an unopened tomb to find that it was of an old hero guardsman. Shanks checked out the smashed tomb, it held a body wrapped in linen.

When Shanks investigated a daemonette claw tore through the linen and just missed his head. Armandis and Mavis shot it with lasguns which phased through the daemonette with no damage. The daemonette then flipped over Shanks head and decapitated a guardsmen, Lithonius covered it with his flamer but held his fire. The guardsmen reeled in terror. Armandis, Mavis and Shanks were aroused by the beast, Lithonius - being immune to her charms due to his immense and 'pure' love of the Emperor charged in. He struck the daemonette with the butt of his flamer. Unfortunately he did no damage only spilling his flamer ammo on the floor in a critical miss, he then scrabbled at her feet to pick up his pyrethrum flask feeling somewhat embarrassed at his ineptitude. Mavis switched to her shotgun, Shanks stabbed and missed with his bayonet and Armandis ripped up through her stomach with his Genestealer claw knife causing it to shimmer and almost be drawn back into the warp. The beast then snapped his leg with its claw causing Armandius to collapse to the floor, leg broken and whimpering like a small girl. Possibly of 12 years, definitely with a pink floral dress and pigtails. Mavis fired her shotgun at point blank range into the daemonettes face and banished the bitch in a suitably heroic style.

They found a deck of 72 tainted tarot cards, a silver combat knife and 40 bolt shells.

Carrying Armandius back to the ship they atomised the facility from orbit with beam and torpedo fire. Once it was cleansed they then went to the Adeptus Mechanicus planet. All partially healed on route (2 weeks). They investigated with 10 guards this time losing 4 to traps, looting the establishment they found a zoo (destroyed by Lithonius), a botany lab (ignored), a storage room (looted), a chem lab (drunk dry by Shanks and Mavis with their guards assisting), a research lab holding a stasis chamber linked to a computer. The chem lab's potions had a variety of effects from illness to outright violence. A guardsman chinned Shanks inflicting three wounds, Mavis drank a potion so potent that she saw through space and time, seeing the a fragment of the 'Eye of Drusus', a space station and a commissar. Shanks performed the 'litany of reboot' on the computer which resulted in a silver, skeletonal hand reaching out from the stasis chamber as it blinked offline and decapitating a guardsmen. The 'heroes' turned and fled leaving the guards to be picked off one by one. Four escaped out of the ten. The ship then hurtled back to Primus led by Mavises vision and Chungs computer research. They spoke to the planetary governor accepting full credit for saving the planet from Genestealers. The governer agreed to send 480 troops arriving in four hours. They docked with the suspect station, Lithonius ordered the ship to general quarters. Armandius and Lithonius interrogated the captain and commissar. The team entered the station to resupply only to have the stations power fail. Racing to the bridge, they witnessed there ship being sliced in two. Panicking they tried to radio the planet but comms were down. Leading a team to the comm array, Lithonius repaired the damaged device and they were able to contact the ships bridge (which had remained intact on emergency power), ordering Search & Rescue procedures to commence. All hands went to the emergency life pods.

They then returned to the commissar’s room to witness the sabotage on the vid screens. Seeing a harlequin they panic, all sorts of shouting happens and Shanks starts to whine about life’s unfairness. Lithonius orders a scan of the station for life forms and fifty additional heart beats are picked up. They then ordered the crew to repel boarders and left to attempt to make contact with the Eldar boarding party.

Lithonius
Repairing comm device - 10 xp
Finding the Harlequin - 10 xp
Identifying the space station - 10 xp
Photoing the veil of legends - 10 xp

Mavis
Assist in daemonette kill - 25 xp
Surviving the warp rift to find treasure trove - 15 xp
Gained Genestealer Knife
Gained One huge herb jar
Gained half a vial of ‘Nun’
Gained Thirty tiny blue steel throwing stars (Designed to be fired, not thrown, 1D10 + 3, PEN:2)

Armandius
Assist in daemonette kill - 25 xp
Lost Genestealer Knife
Gained Silver Combat Knife

Shanks
Finding the tainted cards - 10 xp
Gained Deck of 72 Tainted Tarot Cards
Gained One copper throwing electro axe (1D10 + S, EMP)
Gained One prayer scroll ‘The Litany of Rebooting’
Gained One pair of grey-brown stained breeches with adaptive camouflage (-20% for all spot checks directed at the targets legs with the stain removed, -10% with the stain existing)

Loot to be distributed
40 Bolt Shells

Loot lost on board the ship
One very large iron cuirass (AP 2 body)
One large leather jerkin with built in wireless listening device (AP 1 body) (Range 150m)
Fifteen tiny gold-painted mouse sculptures with wireless listening devices (Range 100m)
Twelve ironwood carvings of famous vehicles
One huge yew flute with integrated amplifier
One vase
One tiny gold helmet with night vision suitable for a child of eight (AP6 Head).
One tiny quartz stone microbead (Range 2 km)