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[20:42]  ++++++++Begin Transmission++++++++ [20:42]  +++ The Hive Knight: Meet and Greet PtII+++ [20:42]  +++Thought of the Day: The Imperium overcomes; Man is Imperium+++ [20:42]  +++Location: Hive Spire, Hive Sibellus, Scintilla +++ [20:42]  +++0202 Hours- Sibellus Time++ [20:42]  +++ arriving at the Spire, Mira began to mingle with a couple of drunken nobles, trying to get some possible information concerning the blue blood origin of the Gloom Haunt with Gravel providing some assistance. Meanwhile Lyra and Jon moved out to other patrolling nobles, finding a group of older gentlemen using the excitement as a defeat to exit their household. [20:42]  With them was Major Frobisher Quinlan, one of the three potential suspect; after a little questioning, and the manâ€™s obvious lack of health, he was ruled out. Meanwhile at the Tricorn, Grendel arrived to Munitorium D and requisitioned a vehicle for underhive use, before trying to secure unsuccessfully the serviced of Bowels with Bradon. Without a guide, he went to the Vox station and managed to triangulate Earlâ€™s business associateâ€™s location with more precision. [20:42]  Downpour, a rundown section under the manufactorums, famous for the deadly chemical downpours happening randomly and at irregular intervals, and known to be the perfect heaven for wanted criminals, as the Protectorate, Arbites and even the Inquisition do not venture into such a dangerous location, preferring leaving that to hired bounty hunters.+++ [20:42]  ++++++++End Transmission++++++++ [20:44]  **It seems that no one really knows anything on the Gloom Haunt in the Spire form waht you found/saw** [20:44] * Grendel returns to Mockingbird's quarters, his attempts at locating the next step having failed for the most part. [20:48]  ((Damn. Our Arbitrator was going to be interrogating today, wasn't he)) [20:49]  ((yeah that was gonna be going as well..)) [20:49]  ((plus he saw one of your susepct but didn't go throught with some questions alot..)) [20:49] * Mira meddles around with the nobles and Gravel for a bit longer before thinking no results are coming of it. But noticing she no longer has her driver, she decides to stay put for the time being. [20:52]  **The two nobles continue their patrol, leaving you alone with gravel, who watches you with intrest/hesitation** [20:53] * Lyra will be returningafter the initial bout of questions. As a driver she shouldn't be talking to people [20:54] * Mira takes the chance to get back to the vehicle, sending a quick message to Gravel @@ I'll call you again later, there's something I have to check on @@ [20:54]  Gravel @@oh..all right; I was expecting an exclusive interview.@@ [20:54]  @@I have been unable to find anything helpful with the vox communication, just a general location. I believe an interrogation of Earl is the only way to find the next link, or using him as bait.@@ [20:56] <BradGM> ((I suppose you elave Gravel in your rich dust?)) [20:57] <Mira> @@ You'll get the interview, just not now @@ [20:58] * Mira gets in the vehicle and waits, putting her bead back on with the team @@ He should be ready to be interrogated by now, yes? @@ [20:58] * Grendel puts in a call to the medicae to get a report on Earl. [20:58] <BradGM> Gravel @@you hum..have qa date to give me?@@ [20:59] <BradGM> **He regained consciousness, he's weak but lucid.** [21:00] * Mira doesn't hear Gravel, and doesn't respond, giving him his answer. [21:01] <BradGM> Gravel @@Hello?..Hellooo?@@ *He doens't give up, even trying to look inside the limo thorught the heavely tinted windows to no effect** [21:03] * Maelwys (~who@107-204-185-33.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net) has joined #darkheresy [21:04] * Maelwys (~who@107-204-185-33.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net) Quit (Client Quit) [21:04] * Maelwys (~who@107-204-185-33.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net) has joined #darkheresy [21:06] <BradGM> ((Wb?)) [21:06] <Maelwys> ((yeah, I think soheh)) [21:07] * Grendel (~who@107-204-185-33.lightspeed.hstntx.sbcglobal.net) Quit (Ping timeout: 503 seconds) [21:07] * Maelwys is now known as Grendel` [21:07] * Grendel` is now known as Grendel [21:09] <BradGM> ((crazzzyyy tech-priest!)) [21:09] <Mira> (( heh )) [21:09] <Grendel> @@Earl is awake. Weak, but lucid.@@ [21:11] <Mira> @@ Good, we're heading back shortly. I'm in the car when you're done Lyra @@ [21:13] <BradGM> **Jon has his bike, he can ride out on his own means** [21:13] * Grendel sits back and recharges while waiting. [21:15] <Lyra> @@ On my way now. @@ [21:17] <BradGM> **It takes a couple of hours to drive back to the Tricorn, park the limo to the motor pool and reutrn to your quarters** [21:19] <Mira> (( that's a lot of car ride time back and forth, is my fatigue gone yet? lol )) [21:20] <BradGM> ((Hmm..I would say yes, since you're riding in the back of the limo, in teh confort of it)) [21:20] <Grendel> ((Luxury is heresy)) [21:22] <Mira> (( hehe )) [21:22] <BradGM> **Grendel is stnading enar the power plug, in some sort of techno-meditation** [21:24] * Mira heads back to the flat and changes out of the formal clothing, saying somewhat loudly, not being sure if he can hear her "Ready if you are." [21:25] * Grendel finishes his meditation as the noospheric data indicates that the group is back. "Very well." [21:25] * Grendel turns and heads towards the medicae section. [21:26] <Grendel> "I was able to trace the vox transmission to the section known as the Downpour, but not to anyone specific." [21:26] * Mira follows him. [21:28] <Grendel> ((Damnit, quick AFK)) [21:28] <Mira> "That's more than we had, so... yay?" Shrugs a bit as they reach the section. [21:31] <BradGM> **The Medical section is a rather bleak, very clean palce, with the lingering smell of extreme cleaneness, medical alchohol and death.** [21:33] <BradGM> **Earl is in a secured room, watched over by a pair of Inquisitionnal Storm troopers.** [21:36] * Grendel turns to Mira. "I suggest we let him know he either provides us with intel on who he got the deliveries from, or he will be used as bait." [21:37] * Mira nods, "That's basically death if he's been keeping track, so it should work." [21:38] <BradGM> **you are, of course, stopped by the guards, but after Identifying you, you're let in.** [21:40] * Grendel approaches, looking like...well, a tech-priest, letting Mira talk. [21:40] <BradGM> **another guard is inside the room, where Earl is cuffed to the bed, pluggled to mahciens and medical servo-skulls.** [21:42] * Grendel studies the data on the machines. [21:43] <BradGM> **Roll medicae Grendel** [21:43] <Mira> "Hello Earl. We'll make this quick. We need information on the person or persons that you received your deliveries from. If you cooperate, you get to stay here and heal up. They'll take good care of you. If not, we'll leave out wounded, outside as bait for the vigilante, the gloom haunt. Now I'm not sure if you know how well that has worked for others, but it's not a place you want to find yourself if you value keeping all of your [21:43] <Grendel> !perc 53 [21:43] <DiceServi> Grendel rolls [ 53% (or Lower) : 12 41%, Success ] [21:43] <Mira> (( did that get cut off? )) [21:43] <BradGM> ((keeping all of your...)) [21:43] <BradGM> **Earl is not in shape; good thing you acted when you did else he would ahve died right there and then at the restaurant** [21:44] <Mira> .......00but it's not a place you want to find yourself if you value keeping all of your organs on the inside of your body." She smiles at him.01 [21:44] <BradGM> **He would need quite alot of assistance and treatment to get better.** [21:44] <BradGM> ((roll interrogate +20!** [21:44] <Mira> !perc 81 [21:44] <DiceServi> Mira rolls [ 81% (or Lower) : 04 88%, Fail ] [21:45] <Mira> (( lol fate )) [21:45] <Mira> !perc 81 [21:45] <DiceServi> Mira rolls [ 81% (or Lower) : 12 56%, Success ] [21:45] <BradGM> !perc 33 [21:46] <BradGM> ((..)) [21:46] <BradGM> !perc 33 [21:46] <DiceServi> BradGM rolls [ 33% (or Lower) : 04 34%, Fail ] [21:46] <DiceServi> BradGM rolls [ 33% (or Lower) : 04 82%, Fail ] [21:47] <BradGM> **Grendel, you see that Earl's heartbeat begins to gain speed. He wipes his forehead as a reflex, swallowing hard "Y....I have rights! Where's my legal counsil?/ [21:50] <Mira> "You think anyone knows where you are? We can lock you away and no one will ever come looking." [21:51] <Grendel> "Perhaps if we were Arbitrators." [21:52] * Mira uses her slate to pull up an image of the previous woman's body after being used as bait (( forgot her name )) and turns it to show him. "This is how she ended up when the vigilante found her. She was able to fight back, you don't have that luxury so I can only imagine how much worse it would be." [21:53] <BradGM> Earl "I-I..." *He switches from Mira to Grendel to Lyra to the Storm Trooper standing in the shadows to the slate's pciture "Ok ok..I'll cooperate..but this is off the record!" [21:54] <Mira> "Names." [21:55] <Grendel> "The Adeptus Mechanicus forgets nothing." [21:57] <BradGM> Earl "I met them a few times, a Cold Trader named Bastien. I don't know where he gets his things, but he's got conenctions." [21:57] <BradGM> Earl 2off world connections. Xeno relics are not really lying just outsdie the Hive's walls." [22:01] * Grendel takes note of the information. [22:03] <Grendel> "Where did you meet him?" [22:04] <BradGM> Earl "some horrid place in the udnerhive; He's got the goods so he sets the meeting. Place named Downpour. Smelly dump of a palce, even the hivers look like shit." [22:05] <Grendel> "Where in the Downpour?" [22:06] <BradGM> "I don't know..all the buildings look the same, burned out by acid rain; I know it was like a drinking den, large one too, onlooking most of the block." [22:09] <BradGM> ((block as in Downpour )) [22:09] <Grendel> "How do you contact him?" [22:10] <BradGM> **Earl shakes his head "It dones't work like that; he contacts me when he gets a shipment. He's the supplier and it depends on his own contacts; Warp travel is not steady and reliable he told me." [22:14] <Grendel> "Inefficient." [22:14] * Mira taps the image on the slate, pointing it towards him again. [22:14] <BradGM> Earl "Well, you people ought to fix it then, makes my business easier if the flow is steadier." [22:16] <BradGM> Earl "I told the truth! I can't ask him for things he does not have! He's got his own network to get the xeno things! I'm just a middleman! a cog in the machine!" [22:18] <BradGM> Earl "I can ask him for items he already delivered for a customer, but there's no real garantee he'll ahve it and can get it" [22:19] <BradGM> **He watches you with a weak, nervous smile.** [22:20] <Grendel> @@We could attempt to get him to make a call for an item and arrange a meeting, or perhaps just go there and find the bar?@@ [22:21] <Grendel> "What does Bastien look like? What kind of security does he have? Does he roam off world, or does he stay at the bar?" [22:24] <BradGM> Eerl "He's a man, about 35, clean shaven, well combed with some Bravado, but he's cafeful. I only saw him with 5 or 6 armed men, well armed too...I don't know if he goes off world, he never told me he did, but I didn't tail him so I don't know." [22:24] <Mira> "If you came in to possession of a Xeno item, would he take it off your hands if you expressed wanting to sell it?" [22:27] <BradGM> **Earl seems to get a bit more of his measures "Weren't you listening girl? He was the one giving me the Xeno items, I sold them up Hive. It doens't work downwards. Besides, those underhivers and other rabble can't even affort to buy even the simplest xeno tricklet." [22:31] <BradGM> ((..?)) [22:31] <Mira> "I heard what you said. If you were a client, he would need to meet with you. If you're asking him to find a piece similar to a broken item you already have. I'm sure we could dig up something broken in the vaults." [22:34] <BradGM> **Earl watches you with a questionning look "something broken? what are you getting at?" [22:34] <Grendel> 'you shaid you could contact him to ask for items." [22:35] <BradGM> Earl "But I told you want I know! you said I wouldn't be used as bait!" [22:35] <BradGM> ((Why is the inquisition lie!)) [22:35] <BradGM> ((does)) [22:36] <Mira> "If you cooperate. That was the deal. The terms of cooperation are not finite." [22:38] <Grendel> "So the only time you can ask him for items he has already delivered for a customer is when he contacts you?" [22:39] <BradGM> Earl "Well..I can contact him for that..b-b-but after your raid, surely he will know it's a trap! He's not stupid." [22:43] <Grendel> "The calculations are firm if we follow a set plan." [22:44] <BradGM> Earl "A plan? What plan?" [22:45] <Grendel> "Not your concern for now." [22:45] * Grendel turns and heads from the room. [22:45] <Mira> "You'll know what you need to know. Our goal is to succeed. Sending you in to die won't accomplish that. Get some sleep." Turns on her heels and follows after Grendel. [22:46] * Lyra silently follows the other two [22:46] <BradGM> **Earl reaches out to you, but his arm is stopped by the cuff "wait WAIT! You can't do that to me! I have rights! I am an Imperial citizens1" [22:46] <BradGM> ((Poor Storm Trooper...)) [22:48] * Mira mutters a bit as she walks away, "People thinking they have any rights at all. So delusional." [22:48] <Lyra> "Of course they do. Just not the ones they think they do." [22:49] * Grendel closes the door and considers. "We can head to Downpour, then have the prisoner contact this Bastien. If he is nearby we should be able to locate his position from the vox signal, evne if he thinks it is a trap, we will be there already." [22:49] <Mira> "That's for sure. Otherwise I'd never be here." [22:50] * Mira nods to Grendel. [22:51] <Mira> "From the sound of it, blending in could be difficult though. I can make someone look dirty, but this sounded like more than that." [22:51] <Grendel> "Perhaps." [22:55] <BradGM> ((Doing waht for now?)0 [22:58] <Mira> (( erm... plotting? )) [22:58] <Grendel> "One of the more beaten up vehicles may suffice if we stay inside of it." [23:02] <Mira> "We should see if there even are vehicles in the area. If it's that badly damaged by the acid rain, there may not be any way to drive." [23:03] <Grendel> "Perhaps. I am unfamiliar with the area." [23:07] * Mira starts with her slate to try and find more information on Downpour. [23:08] <Mira> (( Downpour.. we'll end up in Silent Hill. You can never drive in Silent Hill. )) [23:09] <Lyra> ((You can never do ANYTHING in Silent Hill....except get raeped by Pyramid Head)) [23:09] * Grendel heads for a data port to start looking up information on Bastien. [23:11] <BradGM> **Roll inquiry -30** [23:12] <Grendel> !perc 43 [23:12] <DiceServi> Grendel rolls [ 43% (or Lower) : 12 23%, Success ] [23:12] <Mira> (( Same for me on getting Downpour info? )) [23:12] <BradGM> ((yes)) [23:13] <BradGM> ((hum...wiat)) [23:13] <BradGM> ((where are you getting the ifo? your slate via the =I= info?)) [23:13] <Mira> (( Sure, that )) [23:14] <BradGM> ((inquiry -10)) [23:14] <Mira> !perc 51 [23:14] <DiceServi> Mira rolls [ 51% (or Lower) : 12 49%, Success ] [23:20] <BradGM> **Grendel, There is little info on Bastien proper, but there are stories, reports from seocnd or third hand sources, that there is some somewhat organised elements in downpour, identified as a gang, to use the more common underhive form of autority. donwpour itself is home to the destitute and donw written who make a meager living collecting scraps of metal and minerals than can be mined from the chemical leftovers spraying down fomr the menufactorum overhead hundreds of emters above the hiver's heads. some form of chemical protection would be recommended, like a chemcloak or, as reported, metallic homemade armour; carapace and pwoer armour would suffice, but don't expect to come back unscratched, nor would a non sealed armour provide any protection ** [23:20] <BradGM> ((it cuts or no?)) [23:20] <Mira> (( looks fine )) [23:23] <Grendel> ((proving that once again, the Inquisition doesn't hve all the info on everyone)) [23:24] <Grendel> "We would need some sort of chemical protection there." [23:25] <Mira> "Sounds like so much fun." [23:25] <BradGM> ((WEll, they know alot, but even they can't be everywhere.)) [23:27] <Mira> "I'm going to assume this nixes the vehicle idea as well unless we have tires that can handle it." [23:29] <Lyra> "Well, tracks would be too conspicious." [23:29] * Grendel doesn't respond to what he calculates being sarcasm and responds to the vehicle question. "It may be possible, but I am not sure how well it would fit in. Perhaps Bowels would know." [23:30] <BradGM> ((bwahaha)) [23:30] <Mira> (( heh )) [23:31] <BradGM> ((and not to cut it short, but ok if we stop it here guys?..If so, make your closing lines and I'll cut it)) [23:31] * Mira nods, "I'll ask Braden to get in contact with him. I'll meet up with you later, unless you want to go too." Gives Grendel a funny look after what she assumed was not a good meeting between them earlier. [23:32] <Mira> (( sure )) [23:32] * Grendel nods and turns to the data port to peruse vehicles and see if there might be something that could survive the Downpour. [23:32] <Grendel> ((sounds fine here)) [23:32] <BradGM> ((Lyra, anything to add?)) [23:33] <Lyra> ((nope, I'm good)) [23:33] <BradGM> +++++++Terminate Transmission+++++++