We spent 2 months in R&R before squads from the inquisition appeared and asked us to follow them. We were taken to a military transfer lander. The lander took off and climbed into orbit. Severus did his usual trick of strapping in tightly and whimpering for the whole journey. The lander docked at a Dominator class cruiser. We were greeted by captain Cypher of the Magnus Ecthelion. He showed us an image of what appeared to be a joined mass of ships. He stated it was a space hulk which had exited the immiterium and was on a direct course for Scintilla. That was particularly strange as I knew hulks only ever appeared outside solar systems.

The captain then introduced us to a space marine, brother sergeant Agamorr of of the ordos xenos deathwatch. 3 days ago a cadre of psykers detected a disturbance in the ether in the golgenna reaches. Naval sensors later detected a hulk which was named twilight. Its trajectory will put it in Scintillas atmosphere in half a sidril day (15 hours). Battlefleet calixus was readying to destroy the hulk when it received a signal from the heart of the hulk identified as originating from the legendary inquisitor Adorjin who disappeared over 600 years ago. We are to find her fate and rescue her legendary weapon called the luminous approach. The marine was to accompany us.

The rest of the party were given instruction on using a void suit. I spent the time playing in the zero gravity room.

We crossed to the hulk in an assault boat helios. Drakar piloted it, or at least sat in the pilots seat and got it pointing towards the hulk. As we approached the hulk we were fired at by some sort of energy weapon. Drakar managed to avoid the shots. I spotted some xenos ship flying arround the hulk. The cruiser fired at it as we docked with the hulk. Drakar blew the melta charges to give us an access hole into the hulk.

We entered the hulk. We had not gone far when Drakar and Severus's weapons lost power. I sensed the warp flowing unhindered nearby. We hurried on, after passing through a bulkhead door the weapons reactivated. We continued for an hour when I heard a voice from behind say “Its watching us”. Sangius and Orday denied saying or hearing anything. Suddenly Drakar cried out from the front. The floor ahead had disappeared and the blackness of space could be seen. A lo-stick thrown at it bounced off something, so the floor was still there somewhere.

Drakar walked over the ceiling using his magnetic boots. Myself and Severus just walked over the invisible floor which proved to be quite solid. As we passed over the floor became opaque again. As we crossed a room I saw seven demonic dog like creatures come at us with incredible speed. Sangius collapsed, I was afflicted with some sort of supernatural fear and forced to flee. We both recovered quickly. They were not strong and we dispatched them easily.

As we continued our way was blocked by debris. The only way forward was through a crack in the hull which was not large enough for the marine to get through. Serverus detected a life form beyond. I focused my will and melted the bulkhead round the crack, enlarging it considerably. We passed through. The auspex registered a life form approaching though we could see nothing. Drakar opened fire with his new multi laser but hit nothing. It registered something right on top of us and suddenly a young girl appeared, though she was partially transparent. She said “you are in trouble now, they are nearly here”. I sensed a strong warp presence from her and the words “shadow raider”. She moved towards Sangius and he opened fire with 2 auto pistols. The bullets went straight through her. She said “That was not very nice, are you jailers” then vanished.

I healed the marine, but as I did so there was a huge explosion from the warp which blew me from my feet and melted my equipment. Nothing further happened so Severus gave me his void suit as he had some backup survival gear. Sangius lent me some of his spare weapons.

We then continued our exploration. I heard a dripping noise from ahead of us. The dripping came from an area where the ice had started melting. We continued through the area until our route was blocked by a bulkhead door. Sangius opened it and looked through. The corridor continued beyond but the door was too narrow for the marine to pass. I concentrated my mind and started to melt the bulkhead around the door. As I started the marine said he saw something. A few seconds later we were attacked by a dark eldar and a couple more of the demon hounds. I ignored them and continued to focus on the door leaving the others to kill the xenos scum.

We continued on. Eventually a lit entrance way into another ship came into view. Sangius went to walk through it and pulled up short as his foot lifted upwards as he put it through the doorway and he realised gravity was reversed in the ship. The others used their magnetic boots to walk through. I just jumped up to walk on the ceiling. A bit further on at the entrance to a room the gravity flipped back to normal.

As we entered the room Severus received a signal on his vox which was identical to the signal from Adorjin which came from a side corridor. He scanned down the corridor with his auspex and caught a glimpse of something red. Meanwhile Sangius had started exploring down another corridor and realised there were some demon hounds. Drakar threw a grenade and missed badly. I hit them with a firestorm. Severus then finished one off and Sangius finished off the other. As the sound of gunfire died we could hear more barking approaching, and more hounds than we could count came round the corner. The space marine shouted that he would hold them off. Drakar turned and ran immediately with Severus and Sangius following quickly behind him. I held back and called a firestorm onto the hounds to slow them up before following the rest off the party.

The marine held them back for over a minute before succumbing. Drakar stopped to lay demolition charges and messed around with them for about half a minute before getting it right. We finally got through a bulkhead door and closed it behind us. Beyond the door was a black ship.

As we approached the black ship I heard the sound of a weapon being cocked and saw movement ahead. I warned the party and dived for cover. Severus challenged them and they replied they were inquisition. It turned out they were another team to the hulk on the same mission as us. Suddenly one of them was attacked by a hound which appeared from nowhere. The rest of us ran into the black ship.

I saw the inside of the ship was still covered with pentagraphic wards to ward off demons, though the hexagraphic wards to ward against psychic powers had been removed. The ghostly figure of the young girl from earlier appeared suddenly and said 'Have you come to kill them' then she whispered into Sangius's ear 'Are you an inquisitor?' He answered yes and she whispered back 'Oh dear you should not have said that'. Sangius drew his gun and everyone opened fire, but all the shots passed straight through her. Sangius tried to push her and passed straight through her. He dropped like a stone unconscious.

She then just started walking away. I followed her and she asked whether I was an inquisitor, to which I answered no. She then said I could meet the others. Once we were 6 metres away from everyone else I drew on the powers of the warp and summoned a holocaust around myself, destroying the creature utterly.

We crept further into the ship until dark figures suddenly appeared both in front and behind us. All the other inquisitor group plus Drakar used their magnetic boots and walked up the wall onto the ceiling. The figures were more of the ghostly forms. One approached and said his name was Corvus. He asked about inquisitors to which Sangius answered no. They said he had been on the black ship for 600 years. They had been guiding the ship back to the home world Scintilla where they would be free.

Another figure appeared and said 'the dead should not bother the living'. He was Vogul and he started arguing with Corvus. Vogel said he sent the signal. In life he served Adorjin.

At the rest of the parties request, I stayed to keep watch on the rest of the ghosts while the Warp Ghost Ishtan Vogel took the rest of the party into the 7th Hold of the Black Ship where the Inquisitor Adorjin was locked in death with a Daemon, both of them now covered in thick ice. Severus started to cut away her book, the Liber Daemonica, with his Lascutter.

Whilst this was happening a holographic projector appeared through a portal displaying the image of the Dark Eldar leader. He offered to let the group leave unmolested if they agreed to let the Dark Eldar inspect their gear and take what they wanted, obviously the party refused.

Severus handed the book over to Orday and started on cutting free the Luminous Reproach while the rest of the party prepared for the Dark Eldar attack.

Numerous portals appeared into the hold from which 20 Dark Eldar came out, guns blazing. Sergeant Forden of the rival Inquisitor's retinue turned traitor and shot Orday, blowing off his arm and taking the Liber Daemonica.

Drakar and Sangius continued to fight, but fared badly, and Drakar had an arm blown off and Forden took the book to the Dark Eldar who swiftly departed via their Web Portals, leaving the party in a bad way.

Ishtan mentioned some centuries-neglected escape pods which they might use to escape the imminent bombardment of the Space Hulk. He took Severus to the bridge to send out a distress call to the Imperial fleet to watch out for the pods while the others collected me, then everyone made their way to the pods and escaped just as the bombardment began in earnest. The Space Hulk was obliterated and our pods were eventually picked up by the fleet.

During the debriefing Drakar and Orday were taken to have their injuries treated and Bionic arms fitted. The Inquisitor Globus Vaarak was generally pleased with our performance, but expressed concern that the Dark Eldar took possession of the Liber Daemonica. Afterwards the party attended the funeral service of Brother-Sergeant Agamorr.