Upon arriving at Constanthus Hive, the acolytes are met by Rig, an aide of Lady Marith Amaranth. He brings them to Gassy's Bar in the deep hive. There, Scam spots a woman named Modesty who is covertly observing the group. He insinuates himself into her confidence, and learns that she is working for a man named Dark who assigned her to watch the acolytes.
Meanwhile, a man in the bar was killed by an assassin working for the 'Mushers', a myconid farm guild. The blade was tainted with some mushroom poison or spore. Ignoring this crime and summarily executing the assassin, the team followed another lead - subliminal messages in the tapes playing in the bar. This led them to a blackmarket dealer named Hodde, who told them that the disks were often recycled, and that the data was not always fully erased. Many of the disks dated back to the Illuminated Brethren. Two further leads presented themselves - a man in the Hippodrome named Thaller and scavengers in the underhive.
Dorn visited the Inquisitorial stronghold, where he learned that many of the records relating to the Illuminated Brotherhood had been removed by Falco, a former aide of Inquisitor Drake who was killed in action on Constanthus.
The acolytes decided that Rig had betrayed them to Dark. They confronted Rig, who threatened them with the wrath of Lady Marith Amaranth, but they forced information out of them. He had informed two people of their arrival - one was a man with a cybereye, the other was someone in the Inquisitorial stronghold.
They then moved to capture Dark, but were interrupted by several armed thugs...
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We didn't ignore the stabbing, we apprehended the murderer and purified the spores growing in the victim. Job done :-)
As the Arbitrator of the group, I decided to pass sentence on the murderer without delaying our mission too much further. He had confessed his crime to us after all.
I was concerned about the Mushers sending hitmen to collect on the debts, and had planned on reporting these activities to the local Arbitrators later on.
Since then we have conveniently found a lead that takes us into the Underhives and we'll probably be investigating the Mushers ourselves as a possible source of these disks containing Brethren heresy so we'll get to kill two cultists with the one shot as it were.
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