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Rectors:
287.819.M41 - My Burdens have returned to the Tricorn to meet with Sage Zarkov. He orders them to investigate some books. Lord Vendigroth Tristan Haddon, a Scintillan nobleman, is believed to have recently acquired them. He has a Curator named Jessie Seraphina who maintains his private library and artifact collection. Jessie is the one who alerted Zarkov about the books. Jessie is concerned that they are heretical in nature.
The team decides to meet with Jessie, but not at the Haddon estate. They go to a nearby restaurant, the Canoness, and eat a meal to scout out the place and reserve a room in the back. Then they send a servo skull to Jessie and invite her to the restaurant for a midday meal tomorrow. After the meal Cutter goes and looks around the Haddon estate here in Hive Sibellus. He finds the fortress-like structure guarded by armed men and gun servitors. They return to the Tricorn and requisition funds to spend on the investigation, which is given to them.
288.819.M41 - In just before the meeting with Jessie, My Burdens arrange themselves around the area. Cutter and Kaltos are at a recaf shop nearby. Garvel and Cain pretend to shop. Sander is at the restaurant, waiting to meet Jessie. She arrives armed, armored and nervous. She speaks with Sander about the arrival of the books and their basic history. The books are the Encyclopedia Telum, once owned by a Rogue Trader named Thale.
Sander asks for shipping cargo and personnel manifests of vehicles heading out of the estate, which she will try to do. He also asks about Haddon's personality. She describes him as an arrogant duelist. He spends a lot of time in his Gunmetal City estate, personally overseeing operations. He owns a third estate in Hive Tarsus, to oversee trade operations. They talk more and finally part ways, agreeing to meet tomorrow.
The team looks for information on Haddon in the Administratum files and are able to acquire original blueprints of the estates and records showing he has licenses to station gunservitors and armed guards at his estates.
289.819.M41 - Sander and Kaltos go together to meet with Jessie. Garvel, Cutter and Cain are nearby. When Jessie arrives, two men exit a second vehicle and try to follow her, but they stay outside the restaurant and return to their groundcar. My Burdens assume the men work for Haddon and request an Inquisitorial escort to come pick her up after the meal. During the meal she provides what records she was able to procure from Haddon's manifest records.
She also tells them of Cymbry Victrix, who is trying to kill her. Jessie recently worked for Victrix, but Haddon offered a larger salary and other incentives to change employers. Victrix claimed this as betrayal and dueled Jessie, who lost both the duel and an arm. The arm was replaced by a cybernetic one. Victrix was still not satisfied, but has no reason to duel Jessie a second time. Jessie stays in the Haddon estate almost constantly, in fear of Victrix's men. As this excursion proved, they hope to harass her, provoking a second duel, one that will be fatal.
Unsure about this new variable, My Burdens decide to neutralize Victrix's men. Cutter hides on a roof across the street, the others idle around the restaurant as Jessie waits for her groundcar to pick her up. Two of Victrix's men approach her, while a third waits in a groundcar. Cutter fires on them with his silenced sniper rifle, killing the driver. The other two men panic and try and drive the groundcar away, but Cain and Kaltos close on them and force a surrender. The Magistorum officers, in their green greatcoats intervene, but Kaltos orders them off with his Arbitrator authority.
Cain and Kaltos take the two men to My Burden's private residence and interrogate them. They feed them misinformation, in the hopes to confuse Cymbry Victrix, and then let them go. Garvel, Sander and Cutter instead take the corpse and Jessie to the Tricorn, where they meet with Sage Zarkov. After debriefing, they leave Jessie in his custody.
290.819.M41 - They requisition an Aquila Lander and head to Gunmetal City.
Until the next report
I am your eyes,
Oculus
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