Inquisitor Globus Varak (who had a broken body sustained by an encompassing life support system) tasked us with investigating a group called the Joyous choir. We were sent back to hive Sibilis on a rogue trader. when we arrived we met Laurent Strophies and his daughter Julia. His niece was missing (Saus Strophies). She had some connection with the Joyous choir. We were told the Choir were using 'harmony meters' which seem to have the same xenos tech as as the tarot card we had recovered in the previous mission. Vorlin Orday had got hold of a harmony meter. We were told to investigate and report back within 1 month. We were to take cover as nobles and not tell anyone of our true identity as inquisitors.

I examined the harmony meter and determined it could detect psykers. We met Julia who was to set us up in the role of a noble and his retinue. It was decided Drakar would to play the part of a noble from Fencs world with the rest of us acting as his retinue. I think his background as a military goon gave him the right 'dumb bully' mentality for the job.

We went to the lower hive to meet Vorlin in the barking saint tavern. On the way we found someone called Silon recruiting for the joyous choir. He said the highest members go to the alabaster court. Caros Shoal was the founder of the choir. We went to the choir meeting. It was lead by councillor klitus who preached a load of rubbish. We then continued to the tavern. We found Orday who said he had more information but it would cost 1000 thrones. He said the joyous choir had people in the magistratum so we could not rely on them. He told us about Farcosia, a powerful addictive narcotic. Saus was hooked on it and may have overdosed. Many choir members were hooked on it. He also said the choir was a front for another organisation. He had an encrypted data slate which will cost 1000 thrones.

Severus arranged with Laurent Strophies to get the money. Drakar got himself a prostitute. When the cash arrived we escorted Orday to his apartment. On the way we were ambushed. There were at least seven of them armed with autopistols and shotguns, one was half way up the wall of a building. We shot him and he quickly withdrew.

We ran for Orday's hab block but Orday tripped. Drakar dropped his heavy stubber and dragged Orday into the hab block. I then used pure willpower to drag the heavy stubber back into the hab block. We did all this under heavy fire. Killed one of them and forced another to flee. Sangius challenged them to surrender. They voxed back to somone and Severus listened in. Called Theodosia, also talked about the query. Theodosia said no survivors so Drakar killed their leader and I called down a rain of fire on the others killing all but one of them. The sole survivor fled.

We then went to Ordays apartment and got the data slate.

We left the apartment by the back door. Severus made a new ID for Orday to get him past the magisterum and into the upper spire. He probably should have spent more time on the job as the magisterums scanner spotted it immediately. Severus had to barge into the magisterum and break his scanner before fast talking him into letting Orday through.

The data slate listed people with psychic powers. The majority of them were from the highest orders of society.

In the evening we went to a soiree organised by Lady Borelia as a fund-raiser for the joyous choir. Drakar was to play the part of the noble Pilikus from the planet Fenx. I had to play the part of his jester. Severus was his tech priest and the others his bodyguards. Orday spoke with a girl who looked out of place. She had gathered the most donations that month for the joyous choir. They took drugs together and got stoned. I spent the evening causing havoc in the name of entertainment. Drakar ate a cake which was laced with drugs. The drug made him open to others emotions. Severus scanned Siprit Dannene with the harmony meter, he had a funny mind which seemed to have two presences, almost like he was possessed. Lord Verance scanned as completely human. At one point I upset one of the lords who ordered two of his bodyguards to take me outside and 'hurt me' Once outside I changed my demeanour to a terrifying visage and caused the guards to cower completely incapacitated with fear. Unfortunately Sangius had followed me out and was also inflicted with terror. I took the knuckle dusters from the guards and returned them to their lord when I wend back inside.

At he end of the evening Orday and Sangius tried to follow Siprit home. Orday managed to crash into something and was about a subtle as a fluorescent skyscraper. Sangius continued to follow him but lost him in a dark allyway. He voxed the rest of us and we went to meet him, having got back into our normal kit. Orday easily picked up the tracks of 5 people and we followed them. The trail lead back to the upper spire. I sensed the magistratum at the checkpoint had had their minds affected by powers from the warp in the last hour. We continued to follow the trail to a hab block but were unable to determine the exact apartment. Severus interrogated a servitor which was stubborn and would not tell him which apartment we were looking for. Severus overrode its programming and found the rooms Siprit was renting were floor 97 rooms 1603-1607.

We went back to rest before investigating further.

In the morning we went to search the apartments. Severus used auspex to determine which room people were in. We then broke into another and searched it. Orday found a box under the bed, inside which was a book about someone called Slannesh, prince of pleasure, and a silver symbol. Severus started reading the book. We interrupted him after a minute and he did not remember what he was doing.

We then opened the other rooms to kill the occupants. Orday crept in and killed the first two while they slept, but made a noise waking the third. He drew his bolt gun and killed him. The fourth killed himself. We searched the rooms and found another data slate and 3 more bronze symbols. Severus fiddled with it and managed to break it badly and I was unable to fix the damage he had caused.

I asked Strophies if he had heard of Slannesh. He told me it was one of the dark gods. Based on that information we burned the book we had found along with the symbols.

In the evening we went to a party arranged by lady Borella. They were scanning people at the door with a harmony meter but Drakar bossed his way in without getting the party scanned.

I watched a play with Drakar. The other three went exploring while everyone was watching the play. The finale of the play was one of the actors getting murdered on the stage. Apparently he had been paid to be the victim, though it was unclear exactly how much he had agreed to. We ignored this as it was peripheral to our investigations.

Drakar spoke with lady Borella, but some leading questions did not get satisfactory answers. I saw a large monk appear from the back and go to Caros Shoal. Caros looked scared of him. They went to a quiet corner to talk. I saw a glimpse of a metal foot which made me think of the guy we saw up the wall when we were ambushed. Drakar headed to Caros and the monk headed off out the exit.

Drakar gave Caros some lies about making a payment and went upstairs with him. Upstairs he changed his lie into one about being part of the criminal underworld and talked him into starting another con. The monk was called Theodosa and was a mid ranking member of serrated query. They took psykers back to Amberlon the walking city for processing and brought back drugs. Caros was getting scared and wanted to get out of the choir scam. Drakar promised him a ship and 5 million thrones.

We left the party about midnight.

We went to bed but were woken by the sound of an explosion below. Sangius and Orday started putting on their armour. Myself, Severus and Drakar took positions covering the stairs. Drakar opened fire with his heavy stubber killing 2 people coming up his stairs. I called forth a firestorm and incinereated all three coming up my stairs. Severus blew a huge hole in another's chest with his bolt pistol. Drakar killed another, and I incinerated the rest.

A second wave came up the stairs. They were cut down in a hail of gunfire. The last two surrendered. Drakar and Orday interrogated them. They worked for an outfit called pressure point. They were hired to hit the house Strophies, no survivors. From the description it sounded like Theodosa hired them. Lord Strophies executed them.

In the morning we arranged to go to Amberlon using the cover of gem traders for Lord Strophies. It took us 5 hours to fly there in an ornithopter. When we arrived we got directions from a magestratum to Kronis Estruns jewellery shop in the Red quarter. We questioned Kronis. He did not know anything useful but suggested we go and talk to the oracle. His son Zuriel took us there.

The oracle seemed to know we were inquisitors. He said to go to the church of the joyous choir to find the source of the drug manufacturers. The joyous choir are just a front for the serrated query. The psykers are being processed to make the drug farosia. We went to the church and snuck in.

We descended some stairs, killing a heretic we met coming up the stairs. At the bottom of thee stairs was a door. Sangius looked inside then went running up the stairs screaming. Drakar looked inside and started shaking with fear.

In the room was half a dozen heretics. Drakar opened fire on them, killing one. Another ran out of the door shouting “Theodosia we have trouble”. They opened fire, seriously wounding Drakar. Theodosa came into the room and opened fire. Orday shot Theodosa, injuring him. I tried to call down a flamestrike but there was something blocking psychic powers. They opened fire on us, wounding myself and Severus, and blowing Ordays left arm clear off. We withdrew before Orday died of blood loss. On our way out we met Sangius who had stopped running away and was creeping back. We went back to Lord Strophies to regroup and heal. Orday had a bionic arm fitted and borrowed a grenade launcher.

We flew back to Amberlon the next day. There was 3 guards out front. We went round the back where was another guard. Sangius got spotted scoping out the temple. We left for an hour and when we came back there was 2 guards at the back. We decided to leave it a day and when we returned it was back to one guard at the rear. Drakar approached the guard and identified himself as an inquisitor. He told the guard to give him his com bead and to clear off. The guard was just a hired mercenary and backed down instantly.

I focused my will on the wall and melted a hole in the rockcrete. We entered the church. Drakar set up an explosive trap on the nearby doors and Severus detected 2 guards at the4 bottom of the stairs with his auspex unit. A couple of grenades and fire bombs killed them. We descended the stairs and opened the door. I threw in a fire bomb hitting Theodosa. Drakar shot him with his heavy stubber and Orday fired a flash grenade into the room. Theodora charged Drakar and hit him with a power blade. I then shot Theodora, killing him.

Drakar shouted for the others to throw down their weapons but they just laughed. I shot one of them, nearly taking his leg off. Drakar turned another into swiss cheese. Orday blew the one I had shot to pieces with a grenade. They returned fire, seriously wounding Sangius who was blown back and lost consciousness. Drakar killed another, and I wounded one. Severus killed another. Drakar finished off the one I had been shooting then Orday called for them to surrender. They did so, but then bit down on something and started frothing at the mouth, before dieing.

We investigated the room. The tables had bodies of psykers which had been operated on, and all their brains removed. There were bodies of some of the psykers which had been turned into servitors. We called in the local magestratum to clean up.