It has been a few weeks since our last Inquisitor sesh. Last week got derailed by a 60-hour work week and then Fall In at the end of it.
Still, no troubles for this week.
We had most of the crew out.
After discovering that the Inquisitor Draxis in stasis at the Xiquan Longwall Mining Facility Inquisitor Aife and Interrogator Faydem split up. Aife sought to determine which Draxis was the original, the one that was with her, or the one that was running around trying to coordinate resistance to the GSC government, if either.
Biometric scans, at least ones as detailed as she could access were inconclusive without the other Draxis to compare it too and Aife was not ready to reveal the news of the existence of potential clones.
She summoned the leader of the mutant group she had set up to run a parallel resistance against the Golden Dawn and the other mining groups running the government. Reivax came and agreed to try to use his high-level abilities as a psyker to try to determine the length of time this Draxis had been connected to the warp.
Little did she know that Draxis had been following Reivax for some time. When word reached him that the mutant leader had been seen meeting with some people who had recently been at Xiquan HQ he decided it was time to bring a halt to the mutant's activities.
Seeing the ritual that was going on Draxis moved to break up the obviously heretical activity.
When the two Inquisitors met up face-to-face, they tried to discuss their differences, but the ritual had reached a point where warp energy was spilling from the mutant's pale, bloated body.
The energy was too much for most of the unshielded minds around it and soon both warbands were driven mad. Comrades turned their weapons on each other in point-blank gunfights.
Eventually Aife's savant Elias and Inquisitor Draxis had a simultaneous moment of clarity and Elias managed to get Reivax to stop the ritual. After a brief demonic possession as well as some rather painful warp feedback, the two warbands were able to calmly discuss their differences.
Aife revealed to Draxis that there was a doppelganger of the Inquisitor.
Which, kind of, blew the Inquisitor's mind a little bit.
Now the two groups are united in their efforts to determine who is the clone.
Feydem was not idle while this was happening. He organized a meeting between himself and two of the other elements resisting the GSC government.
He had his Kroot tracker bring some Kroot to the meeting spot outside the Wire and the two groups got suspicious. Eventually someone chose violence and there was a gun battle which quickly ended when the group that started the fracas fled and the other group followed them out leaving only Faydem and his warband on the field.
The government, meanwhile, was completing their cleansing of the Guilds. They had assumed control over the services the Guilds had been providing. Now they summoned the Guilders. They all met and were told by the Lord Regent that they would join the government or die.
The pit they were in slowly filled with a mutagenic gas and Aberrants were released to kill those that did not succumb to the gas.
Tough as the guilders were, they were not able to escape from the monstrous creatures unleashed upon them.
Guilders were being crushed right left and center by the monstrous mauls the creatures wielded.
They fought back, but it was mostly futile. Between trying to resist the effects of the gas and the creatures lumbering through their ranks all of the guilders were either beaten to death or senseless.