Session 37 (500 xp)

"The traitorʹs hand lies closer than you think."

Acolytes: Lazerus, Drake, Meghera.

The Acolytes find Marshal Skarmen chanting heretical spells in between two dark mirrors, one whole, the other missing the last fragment. Trapped in the mirrors, a daemon struggles to free himself. Skarmen attacks the Acolytes with warp powers, but is defeated and killed. The Acolytes break both mirrors, and take the shards with them.

Sinophia Magna is deep into civil war, as the Acolytes make their way to the star-port. There, Spectre Cell 17 is waiting for them. As members of the Tyrantine Cabal, they mean to slaughter the Acolytes, and make sure Haarlock's secrets die with them. The Acolytes are unprepared for the attack, and only manage to survive thanks to the help of the daemon, who seals a pact with Meghera and Drake.

After defeating the Cell, the Acolytes return to Haarlock's Folly, and place the mirror pieces backs into their frames. As the mirrors repair themselves, the daemon is free. But he chooses to escape to the Warp, for he fears the return of the Traveller.

Before leaving, he tells the Acolyte to seek the Blind Tesseract, where Haarlock is supposed to have found whatever he was looking for.

* * *

Thanks to the Acolytes efforts of the lastest months, the Inquisitorial Conclave has identified the location of the Blind Tesseract on the planet Mara. They're entrusted with the full power and resources of the Inquistion to travel to Mara and end Haarlock's doom once and for all. A squad of Maccabian Jannissaries is assigned to them for protection.

They travel to Mara on the warship Sigillite's Word, but when they exit the Warp outside the orbit of the frozen planet, a full scale battle is ongoing, and they also fall under attack. The Captain does his best to get the warship as near to Mara as possible, and allow the Acolytes to escape the battle on their guncutter.

As they leave for the void, the Sigillite's Word is engulfed in flames.