Session 1 Recap
As I have mentioned, the acolytes left Magyaru
(Trotsky V) after a brief battle with an enemy pilot, and have arrived on Valis
(Ursula II), coming in through the spaceport on the southern continent.
Their initial investigation led them
to a mid-hive apartment complex, in the name of Davilia Mythrux. A subsequent
search of the apartments where the daemonhost first originated revealed a scene of brutal carnage, with roughly a dozen young members of
the planet's noble families pureed into a bloody paste that coats the walls,
floor, and ceiling. There is a scribed circle of with arcane symbols, and an
intact (though somewhat charred) Malefic Codex. On its cover is the Ankh-like
symbol of The Order of the Infinite Way (an ankh with a Moebius Strip at its
head, instead of a simple loop).
Other than that, the
apartment doesn’t seem lived in, so much as it seems like a place that gets
used sometimes. There are a variety of sex toys and the clothing available here
seems to be lingerie, for the most part.
Questioning of the
superintendent suggests that the apartment was used by a young woman,
primarily, who received frequent visits from an older man. The acolytes
hypothesized (incorrectly) that she was whoring for kicks, and (correctly) that
she may have been the mistress to someone, and that this was the love nest they
used.
What's Really Going On
The planet's nobility
contains elements of a very, very old order of sorcerers, The Order of the Infinite Way. Their symbol looks like an ankh, but
with a Moebius Strip in place of the regular, single loop. They are sorcerers,
some powerful and some not, and they tend to draw members from the nobility,
especially among the Great Houses of Mythrux, Dekkarta, and Paxxu.
A member of the Order of the
Infinite Way, Miklas Freeny, brought
in a new member, his young mistress Davilia
Mythrux, who more or less began to teach the magic she was learning to her
peers, in order to show off and gain status among them. The young nobles tried
to create a daemonhost out of a mendicant found in one of the hive city's
seedier districts, not seeing it as anything but an amusing diversion. Many of
them had no clue what could (or would) happen next. Things did not, shall we
say, go as planned. The mistress was killed along with her circle of
dilettantes, and her lover/teacher's grimoire was left at the crime
scene. It is the malefic codex found in the room where
the creature was made to exist. Freeny will want to recover it at all costs.
Miklas Freeny.
is also, in fact, the leader of The Order of the Infinite Way, and has many
resources at his disposal, though they will have to be deployed subtly, so that
The Order is not discovered. He is motivated to act now, not only because of
the obvious danger of discovery by the Inquisition, but also by his anger at
himself for falling prey to the oldest of magics: Feminine wiles. He also, now,
and somewhat irrationally, has hardened his stance toward House Mythrux,
largely due to the fact that one of its members (Davilia, his mistress)
precipitated all of his current problems. He fears that Alize Mythrux might just use this incident, should it come fully to
light, to replace him as leader of The Order. This campaign to replace his
leadership, probably, would precede (but only by the slimmest of margins) her
campaign to end his life.
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