Chapter 4

Inquisitor Tyburn Graves summoned us to investigate more deaths due to possible xenos activity in hive Sibilis. We were given details of some suspicious deaths.

Marius Lavitisus 4th worked for the central processing authority. He was killed with his bodyguard outside his apartment (342-1658, 11-11:30) 2 days ago. He was a member of the presidium.

Dorean Pedulus who worked for the offices of administration. He was killed while out walking. His apartment is 345-6654, 10-10:30. He was killed 3 nights ago.

Cerci Beradictus worked for hive Savilus governing council. He was killed outside his hab block (347-9816) at sometime arround 1-2am 2 nights ago. There were witnesses, a group of men hanging about the hab block. The reception video did not record anything useful. Cerci managed to kill his attacker who was from the Orlocks hive gang. He had a xenos worm thing inside him similar to the one encountered in mission 1, plus he had been modified to have a poison injector. He had radioactive dust and luminous algae on his robes. Ceris had a girlfriend Regia.

We were told to:
investigate crime scenes
enter underhive to find where attacker came from
terminate heretics

We went to Marius's place. I got a security video showing the attack. The attacker had an orange mohecan and dark eyes, which identified him as a member of the goliath hive gang.

We searched Dorean's apartment and found a dataslate detailing a meeting with Dorean and a Remus Dimtrades at the Redback club. Investigations revealed the Redback club is a brothel. We went to the Redback club for the meeting and caught Dimtrades. Remus Dimtrades had been blackmailing Dorean and the lead was a Red herring.

Marius lead the presidium which was considering plans for a new power generator. They voted in favour of building the generator almost immediately after Marius died. Votes went:
X Honourable Barak
X Rt honourable Kaine
Y Lord Dariel
X Lady Elvie
Y Baron Grioch
Y Count Frastus
Y Rt honourable Vindicus (took over from Marius)

Some investigations revealed Marius had been against the plans. Vindicus's appointment had given him the deciding vote. We found a link between Vindicus and Frastus, they both belonged to the Sibilus hunters club. We went to the central processing authority head offices to interrogate them. They were uncooperative and the encounter ended in a firefight. We killed Vindicus and captured Frastus. On examination both were infected. we found a dataslate with the incriminating message “The brood await your negotiations with the humans. Hybrids are available if you need them. The magus will be born soon.” We also found directions to a power plant hidden deep in the underhive.

We tracked down and killed a heretic xenos scum Mallear Strang who was interfering with sector security. We then went to the Sabilus hunters club. The receptionist actively hindered our investigations and we had to execute him. As we progressed into the club we were attacked by a group. We killed most of them but one fled into the underhive. We tracked them to a goliath compound and killed him when the goliath refused him entry. We negotiated with the goliath and got a goliath guide called Deadend in exchange for some weapons.

Deadend lead us towards the power station. We had to pass through a flooded section of tunnels. Most of us got through easily, though Drakar seemed unable to cope with the simple task of swimming and almost drowned. We got to a deserted subway station and headed down the tunnel to an abandoned train. Severus went to the front of the train to get it moving. While he was doing so a crowd of mutants came swarming down the tunnel. I killed many of them in a wave of firestorms, but several made it to the train. Severus got the train moving but Sangius fell off and we had to maintain a running battle with the mutants for about half a minute before he managed to climb back on board and Severus could put the train into top speed.

We took the train to the end of track where we found the power plant. The place was swarming with mutants and xenos, with a number of tanks where xenos creatures seemed to be growing. Through force of will I burned the area clean until we were left with only the main control room to clear. Drakar decided to set up outside one door with his heavy stubber while the rest of us stormed in through the other door. While we entered the room and destroyed the rest of the heretic xenos scum while he fired ineffectively through the door. Drakar then refused to use his demolition charge to destroy what was left of the area, so I had to summon more power from the warp to finish the job.