OOC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

[Bennosuke]

Checking in Banana???

Initiative
Servitor 8
Milo 6
Marcella 5
Arl 4

[BananaPhone]

Yup, here, posting today.

[Bennosuke]

Well, Arl's shot will definitely put the Servitor away. Nice rolls Wynde. Since Marcella should technically act first, I'll give Banana the chance to post today, but will otherwise wrap things up. Will probably through Arl a little extra XP anyways for the "critical hit".

[bramblefoot]

hey bennosuke, how much for the medicae skill? id like to buy it

[Bennosuke]

Per the rulebook, Medicae becomes available to the Cleric at rank 5, "Cleric" for 300xp. If you want it earlier it will cost more, say 500xp.

[bramblefoot]

ok thank you. i will hold off on that for now

[rax]

Going through a bit of a heatwave and it's sucking the energy out of me, so I'm only managing to update a couple of my games a day. Aiming to get round to this one tomorrow evening.

[BananaPhone]

I think I'll take Biomancy as Marcs first Psyker Specialisation.

[Bennosuke]

Thank you everyone for the patience with me these last two weeks. Been long hours at work followed by about an hour of interviewing for a new job at the nd of the day. Going on vacation this week and will have a lot of personal time to post during it, so expect a more regular post rate.

IC post coming now.

[bramblefoot]

schtuff happens, no worries

[BananaPhone]

All good Ben, we've been going for almost two years now so you're entitled to some leeway .

[rax]

...the expensive rejuve treatments he'd undergone to make him seem frail and elderly...

Rejuve treatments to seem frail and elderly? Is that a fashion thing or is there a "less" missing from the sentence?

[Bennosuke]

Thank you all.

@Rax: That was more something along the lines of how the Drimmle's fear expose how old and frail he is, despite the expensive rejuve treatments he's had

[bramblefoot]

Thank you all.

@Rax: That was more something along the lines of how the Drimmle's fear expose how old and frail he is, despite the expensive rejuve treatments he's had

do i know anything about lord durchess, given that im noble born of this hive?

[rax]

There's a summary of the Durchess family in one of the early posts when Hound joins the team. He rolled well on his knowledge skills...

[Bennosuke]

do i know anything about lord durchess, given that im noble born of this hive?

I think it’s safe to assume he knows the basics since the family is pretty powerful. I’d assume they’ve never met though.

[bramblefoot]

understood, lemme update my post

[Bennosuke]

Thank you Bramble.
@All: I assume I'm waiting on the players but please let me know if I'm missing something. As a general rule, I'm almost always under-caffeinated.

[rax]

Having a tough week, but I'll post more questions for Drimmle tomorrow. Sorry for holding things up.

[Bennosuke]

Having a tough week, but I'll post more questions for Drimmle tomorrow. Sorry for holding things up.

No worries. Other players could be posting as well . Regardless hope your surviving and that things get better.

[BananaPhone]

Sorry too, the fiance flew in this past Saturday and now we're off to a few cities for a bit. My posting will be spotty for the next 5 days or so.

[Bennosuke]

Enjoy the time with the fiancée!

[rax]

So, how would everyone like to proceed from here? I see our ultimate aim as building a case against Lord Durchess, who just happens to be one of the most powerful men in the Hive. And while we don't need to bring him to a public trial, we should assume we need strong evidence of his wrong-doing to get the Inquisition to take him down.

So far, Drimmle has largely confirmed what we know. Even the information that the goods were being delivered from off-world is something we already knew (or heavily suspected). I was thinking of pressing him on Lord Durchess' reaction to the loss of the latest shipment. Drimmle has made it clear that Durchess' was upset, but what instructions has he given about handling the situation?

Other thoughts on how to progress:
1. Drimmle suspects that Clan Sabay leaves the hive to pick up off-world deliveries. That doesn't seem to gel with the accounts of the failed sale that started all of this. IIRC, all indications are that the off-world supplier was in the Underhive, delivering the goods directly to Half-Face. Drimmle could just be wrong, but it might be worth questioning him about why he believes the Clan Sabay picks up the goods outside the hive.

2. Get Drimmle to provide us with the exact dates when crates and funds were delivered to Sabay and exact dates on when Durchess received shipments from the Underhive. This has no immediate value, but could prove important later to build our case or at least discern if there's a pattern involved.

3. Corollary to #2 - get Drimmle to turn over all of his/Durchess' financial records connected to these transactions. IIRC selling weapons and providing cash to the Underhive is at least frowned on by the Guild and the authorities? Access to the real financial records (and knowledge of how to interpret them) could be a smoking gun later on.

3. We can hardly let Drimmle wander around after we're done. He needs to disappear, but do we just get rid of him or do we remove his entire team? Obviously, once Drimmle in particular disappears, Durchess is likely to suspect that something's up, but that would likely also be the case if it's just Drimmle and Jen who have disappeared or died. Killing off the entire team at least removes them from the chess board and covers our tracks.

4. As an alternative, do we think we can turn Drimmle and the rest of his team? Force them to work for us and keep up the facade vis-a-vis Durchess for now? We have the threat of the Inquisition to dangle over them, and "leniency" could be expected if they serve loyally. The question, of course, is how to use them if they agree to turn...

[BananaPhone]

We could pretend to implant a remote or psychically activated mini-bomb in Drimmle, and threaten that the Witch can hear his thoughts and will be randomly reading them. He plays along to help give us the evidence we need to take down his boss, and he can keep his position within the guild, albeit as an informant and collaborator for the Inquisition.

But if he betrays us, we'll know and the mini-bomb will paint the nearest wall with an interesting new hint of brain.

It's a classic carrot and stick situation. Even if our team fails, we'll be informing the Inquisition, and his boss will happily offer him as the sacrificial lamb to save himself. It needs to be impressed upon him that working with our team is his only way of coming out of this alive, with his status and soul intact. All other courses of action lead to execution and damnation.

The mini-bomb is bull**** if course, but we've got the guy so dead scared atm and we have the presence of an actual Witch, he'll probably believe it. Citizens of the Imperium are terrified of the Inquisition for a reason.

[bramblefoot]

i like that idea.

[rax]

I take that as a majority vote in favour of turning Drimmle, then? Do we also want to try and rope in the rest of his team, or do we rely on him being able to act his normal self in front of them?

[bramblefoot]

just drimmle. i got a feeling he's a squealer

[rax]

Hoping to get a reply in tomorrow. I'm on a business trip so nothing much going on in the evenings.

[Bennosuke]

I'm still here, but assuming I am waiting on players to post.

[rax]

Apologies, my evenings ended up being filled with after work activities instead of relaxing in my hotel room. Post coming up when I get home tonight.