>>8824506
Pretty poorly, I'm afraid. The idiots out doing the feildwork havn't brought much back for me to examine, so I'm left running diagnostics on the servitors for the thousandth time.

>>8824553
Terribly. Our tech adept can't even spell 'fieldwork' and disregards all our reports as irrelevant and nonsensical. I knew we shouldn't have blown up the Mechanicus facility back on Tashen's World. We didn't tell her, but I guess she found out somehow...

>whip
>obsessed with perfect perfection
>poofy clothing

...Totally Slaanesh right there.

*zip*
Uhh...doing okay here, Mistress Inquisitor! No heresy to report here! Though we haven't yet given the area a thorough examination, so I'll need to request another 30-no....another 2 hours until we're done here!

Intelligence work is enjoyable to me, so long as I can stay close to bed, bottle and breakfast and don’t have to venture out.

>>8824595
Bob, for fuck's sake, that was last week. We're on a different investigation now. Are those bionics working right? You've been subpar ever since that blast of scorching, excorciating aetheric daemon-light. Get over it already, we've all been there.

>>8824595
Oh, by the way, can I get an advance so I can buy some ocular implants? If my lady would be so generous I could get right back to my investigation.

>>8824570

IT WAS YOU GUYS THAT BLEW IT UP?

>>8824583
... Can't unsee!

Awful because I don't want to be here and the Sororitas I have to work with is insane and blaming me for shit I didn't do.

No, Sister, I had nothing to do with the recaff machine malfunctioning I can't even drink recaff why would I be in the kitchen

The lasgun might be the best member of the team.

No heresy over here.

>>8824570
Nor can she spell 'haven't'.

>>8824595
That's your own fault for standing so close.

>>8824553
Go out there and do fieldwork, if they are so useless at it.

>>8824627
Ohshit-

Uh. No! No, it was uhh. It was this lady! Look! She's our Inquisitor's eeeeevil sister. She's so eeeeevil. Why don't you go look for her, you know, until the murderous binary rage subsides?

>>8824672
The binary rage doesn't subside, it switches off.

1 or 0, bro.

>>8824656

None over here either.

Look, it can't be lupus if the symptoms are neurological! If we just...

...oh. Wrong office. Sorry.

>>8824647
That's not the bionics, you're still weeping black tears that form the screaming faces of children. By the way, could you maybe do something about that? Like, wipe them with a napkin? It's putting me off my corpse starch.

>>8824681
Well, I don't know about you freaks and your crazy robot emotions.

>>8824693

This guy seems legitimate to me

>>8824570
Oh, well, I'm sorry if my language-cogitator's on the fritz. I WAS scheduled to have it looked at by a senior Techpriest, but he and the rest of his facility suffered a sudden outbreak of 'Horrible, exploding death'. Perhaps if the one responsible for such a crime was to turn himself in, the vexation of my Machine Spirits might relent in the knowledge justice was done, and we could start getting somewhere.

I'll just sit down over here...

>>8824718
Horrible exploding death?! I hear that's infectious, you know. It's caused by asking too many questions and being suspicious about your fellow Inquisitorial agents. Remember, all for one and all for one! (That's a quote or something, right?)

This myth called bravery, which is half panic, half lunacy (in my case, all panic), pays for all; in the Imperium you can’t be a hero and bad. There’s practically a law against it.

>>8824716

I like your style.

"What's she yelling about now?"

"Shhhh, I can't hear."

>>8824617
>>8824625
>>8824627
>>8824643
>>8824647
>>8824672
>>8824693
>>8824718
...

Does "The Flesh is Weak" stack with AP from Armour like Dragon Scale?

>>8824697
Is it really that bad? I'd wipe it off if I could find a paper towel or something but my eyes are as fried as an Astropath's right now. If I can't get my vision back soon that cranky techpriestess will be back here jumping down my throat and bitching about "incomplete fieldwork" again. She took my lho-sticks away too.

Please don't tell me she's standing right there.

>>8824663

Oh god. This reminds me, I've got to crack on and finish Edgeworth Investigations. I've got a growing stack of DS games that I have every intentions of getting though, after this is infinity space, and after that it's Ace Attorney 4.
Maybe that Bleach game my friend goaded me into buying afterwards.

You can't be Franziska. You haven't overused the word "fool" yet.

>>8824791
>>8824791
If it does then I have a 20AP Techpriest

>>8824773
She's a bitch who hates my guts because I don't have any!

itt: why i hate being picked up by the inquisition

I won't rest until I've investigated every suspicious-looking nook and cranny.

>>8824773
This fucker is always making us look bad. Oh yeah, he's 'perfect'. Never does ANYTHING wrong. Fucking Inquisitor's pet, I say we teach him a lesson.

>>8824773

Now I'm not one to point fingers...
But someone in this thread may be a heretic..

>>8824802
Dude, you're looking at the wall. Where did you get those damn bionics anyway?

>>8824806

In all fairness, by EE she doesn't do that all that often anymore.
She's still committing multiple counts of assault with that whip and being deeply tsundere for Edgeworth though.

>>8824809
> 20 AP Techpriest

>>8824816
YOUNGER SEXIER MODEL COMING THROUGH.

YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES IN WHICH TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOU FOOLS HAVE DONE.

>>8824817

Deutch-pattern las rifle Mk36?

>>8824872
Don't get mad! We blew up the planet, just like you told us to! At least, we blew up -a- planet.

>>8824872
I didn't do anything I'm stuck on a ship in space with three assholes, two meat shields, and one feudal worlder who is scared to death of me.

>>8824879
Yeah, man. I swear, it's like he's the reincarnation of Sebastian Thor or something.

>>8824872
>>8824872

…where’s the fun if it’s all too easy, I told myself, and set to scheme how I might bring the lady to the sticking point, as we Shakespeare scholars say.

>>8824872

You guys are in troooou-bleeee

>>8824802

I'm right behind you. What, you didn't hear the heavy, metal footsteps walking past?

And I relieved you of your Lho Sticks because smoke from those filthy things upsets the Machine Spirits, contaminates my ritual incense, and stinks like a hovel full of mutants. By the way, I'm not touching that black stuff. Just keep it off those Bionics, they're more valuable than the rest of your meatframe is.

>>8824872

I haven't fucking got the fucking time or fucking inclination to fucking explain my fucking actions to a fucking fucktard like you.

>>8824884
>Don't get mad! We blew up the planet, just like you told us to! At least, we blew up -a- planet.

Which is good enough for MOST inquisitors admittedly.

>>8824872
Hey, if they don't work out, my boss is missing and presumed dead. Just saying.

>>8824947
Fuck. I bet that bitch has started putting prank routines in all the servitors.

>>8824947

Some of you will hold up your hands in horror that a Emperor’s acolyte could behave like this, and before his fellow team-members, too. To which I would reply that I do not claim, as I’ve said already, to be anything but a coward and a scoundrel, and I’ve never play-acted when it seems pointless.

>>8824973

Maybe, maybe not. It isn't like you cretins would be able to tell either way, after all. You couldn't tell the difference between a deliberate programming reroute, a cyber-virus, or an exterior hack even if the correct prayers of examination were written out and I walked you through them step by step.

>>8824986
'Guardsman'? You are the worst adept ever. You have no idea what it's like when we've finally bound the freaking daemon inside the circle and we ask you what we do next. God forbid you actually tell us, fuck no - instead you start some inane rambling rant about the glorious empire, or the nature of heroism, or your schooldays, or that woman you shot and that tiger you fucked. That shitty behaviour got our REAL guardsman killed, you cunt.

>>8824986
... I'm sorry, my behavior hasn't been the best...

Now can you get me a paper towel or have someone fix this thing? I want to get back to work before I get ejected into the void.

>>8824986
So do you have advice re: Sororitas being horrible or am I just screwed? I can deal with Guardsmen, but Sisters are beyond me.

>>8825020
I'd laugh and agree but it's not very fun when everyone you work with is afraid you're going to make their bionics explode if I don't like them or something.

Making Servitors do stupid tricks is always great, though.

>>8825055

They say he was brave. He was not. He was just stupid, too stupid ever to be afraid. Fear is an emotion, and his emotions were all between his knees and his breastbone; they never touched his reason, and he had little enough of that.
For all that he could never be called a bad soldier. some human faults are military virtues, like stupidity, and arrogance, and narrow mindedness.

>>8825096
You know, I'm beginning to think this is a bot.

Anyone got any advice? She thinks I'm breaking her stuff and I honestly don't care about anyone's crap except their weapons.

>>8825055
>>8825033
>>8825024
>>8825020
>>8824986
>>8824973
>>8824951
>>8824947
>>8824929
>>8824915
>>8824906
>>8824903

>>8825055
>but it's not very fun when everyone you work with is afraid you're going to make their bionics explode

Oh, come now. Surely they should know that no right-minded member of the Holy Mechanicus would damage or desecrate such valued bits of technology out of idle spite? Programming the Servitors to harass them does the job perfectly well, and doesn't risk anything valuable being damaged.

>>8825133
>>8825133

…this time I had the wit to seize a tit and buttock, fairly hooting with lust…

>>8825124
You fix my eyes and I'll deal with the Sororitas. Deal?

*drip drip*

Emperor save me, the leaking is starting again.

>>8825133
OH SWEET OMNISSIAH NO ow ow

>>8825134
She's a nutty really paranoid 'The Martians are basically xenos we don't need them grr' sort. I didn't say she was bright. Even the Feudal Worlder gets that I just want to help his lasrifle work better.

The main thing she has going for her are her guns and how well she can point them at people. And being loud.

>>8825168

The only thing i can offer is copious amounts of "finer" refreshments

>>8825168
I'm not touching your eyes with a Servitor's mechadendrite. Go bother a Priest, man, those are tar-babies leaking from your eyes.

>>8825240

You help your fellow acolyte or a sword shall go to your sticking place

>>8825212
>She's a nutty really paranoid 'The Martians are basically xenos we don't need them grr' sort. I didn't say she was bright.

Oh, great Gear of the Machine God, she's one of THOSE...

My only advice would be to ignore her. Make sure she sees you willingly bestowing the Omnissiah's blessings upon everyone else, tending to their wounded weapons. If she thinks the Imperium doesn't need us, let her try and maintain her own wargear. Sooner or later, either she'll be forced to come to you begging for aid, or her armour and weapons will fail and she'll be killed in combat. It's win-win as far as I can tell.

Investigation?
Oh boy...
Uh, GREAT! Killed me a few heretics!
Now I, uh, gotta get some Sacra, be riiiiight back.

>>8825268
Get dropped; I'm not a Medicae and I am definitely not messing with any Psyker bullshit weeping baby-tear nightmare stuff. I'm a TECHpriest, not a techPRIEST.

>>8825323

You will be a bloody Deadpriest if you do not at least check upon him

>>8825268
>>8825349
You scare me sometimes but you're an okay guy.

>>8825349
Why don't you do it yourself, then? I'm not getting that filth anywhere near my Mechandrites.

>>8825366

Why you ask? Because I am drunk, you trollop!

You try anything and I'll break your 'bloody' sword arm off.

I'm Skitarii! The only thing I know about biology is 'food goes in one end and shit comes out the other'!

>>8825293
There's a lot of metaphorical eye-rolling involved, right? I'm doing that right now and fixing the shit she says I broke (esp the recaff maker because I remember how much recaff is needed to live).

>>8825397
"Eye rolling?"

>>8825397
The recaff maker isn't broken, I just drank all the recaff we had.

rolled 73 = 73

>>8825437
like this: 9_9

as in 'Machine God what a stupid bitch 9_9'

>>8825360

That reminds me of my campaign among the Death Korps. Now they are a crazy bunch....

...
I ask you to investigate the death of a fellow Inquisitor and you have managed to...

>>8824570
Break a Mechanicus facility...

>>8824595
>>8824617
Injure and kill yourselves...

>>8825134
And waste the valuable resources of the Inquisition.

...I look forward to your next income reviews.

>>8825388
Trollop? How - how dare you! I object to such base accusations! The very idea I might give myself over to such pleasure of the flesh - Me, a member of the most Holy Mechanicus - is absurd! Absurd, I tell you!

>>

rolled 8 = 8

>>8825441
That's because I just fixed the damn thing!

>>8825498
At least keep it to other machines.

>>8825481

Remember if you are still living, you can still shoot. Once your last breath comes, then you shall become a great explosive weapon of the Imperium.

>>8825498

I believe that someone is just resisting her "urges". Another grand quest has presented itself and I could help you with it.

>>8825492

Franziska, why don't we do some investigating of our own?

>>8825492
Please! Inquisitor Franziska! If I could just see again I could make it up to you! The techpriests and the servitors hate me and I still can't see!

>>8825542
I'm blind! I might be able to shoot but I sure won't be able to hit anything! And the techpriests took Lucy away from me because I was... dripping on her...

>>8825542
The mental image of a Krieger dying, and then his buddies covering him in melta-bombs and throwing him towards the enemy is humorous.

>>8825561
Oh, really now? And what makes you think I don't already have a partner at the Forge, awaiting for my return from this farce of an investigation?

>>8825613

Because of my dashing wit

>>8824951
Hmm.

>>8825498
>>8825481
>>8825449
Mithras! Lidia!...You! The Skitarii! You have a new team member.

>>8825640
Your wit is about as dashing as an Ork in drag.

And while in truth I don't have a partner, I'll have you know I could get one whenever I wanted! It'll be a cold day on Mars before I degrade myself into settling for you.

>>8825641
Oh, really? Is he more intelligent than the rest of these half-wits?

rolled 82 = 82

>>8825641
My proper title is Captain!

>>8825691

Degrade? Surely you jest. I would elevate you to a whole new level. Whenever you want, my dear.

>>8825641
Who would that be, Lady Franziska?

(hopefully a nice techpriest)

>>8825779
It's Haxtes; he's pretty cool.

>>8825598
...Which one of you fools turned his bionic eyes off?

>>8825691
It would be hard for him to surpass you three in terms of idiocy.

>>8825705
And my proper title is Inquisitor. It would do you well to remember this, Captain.

>>8825753
You'll be waiting a long, long time, I think. I've seen your medicae records, and it's surprising just how much detail they have in them. You're...not particularly impressive in the important areas. Neither brain nor...well, you get the drift.

Oh, HOW have you sidetracked me onto this? It is most unfitting of a Techpriest.

You people look like you're having so much fun. Really. Do you know which investigation Francie is talking about?

>>8825805
If I am correct, we are looking into the investigation of Inquisitor Lang's death, yes?

>>8825795
Glad to be on the team, Inquisitor.
>>8825805
I don't.

>>8825824
True, though the only investigation currently going on, is Flashy's efforts to discover what lies beneath my robes. Which, I might add, he has applied himself to with greater zeal than any official task our superiors have ever set him.

>>8825797

Perhaps you are just falling for me. Is that it? Also you should know that those medicae records were off a man, who is currently scattered across some godforsaken battlefield. He surely wasn't going to need them.

>>8825795

Inquisitor, I seem to notice that you ignore my advances. Perhaps something more "adventurous" must happen.

>>8825851
Well I would be THRILLED to get back to the investigation if I could SEE.

*drip drip*

>>8825851
You could always slip an explosive collar on him in his sleep.

>>8825868
...I'll get you a towel. But I don't have any bionics to spare.

>>8825888
*crying* Thank you so much...

>>8825871

Ahhh....I see we have another deluded man joining our ranks.

>>8825868
I'll have Interrogator Gumshoe look into helping you out, Acolyte.

>>8825866
Hrm. And those reports seemed to fit your character so accurately, too. And I might ask, how you even think you would seduce me, when you openly flirt with our superior? Do you think we might both fall into your bed simultaneously?

>>8825868
He'd probably think it an invitation to something kinky.

>>8825906
Nice to meet you too, Skippy.

>>8825795
Fine, whatever, Inquisitor.

>>8825851
It's kinda sad to see him dogging you like that.

>>8825888
Look, if we could just go pick some up, I could... hold the scalpels? I don't know, I shoot lascannons for a living.

>>8825805
>>8825824
Glad you could join us, Inquisitor Miles Edgeworth.

Yes, that is correct. He was investigating rumors of a Heretek cult on Tashen's World. He did not report in after landing on the planet's surface. These three were supposed to go over his ship and try to piece together what happened, but they somehow destroyed the entire facility.

alas i can turn up no pertinant information, but the callaxian data archives bear some most peturbatory customs of the feral worlders of Px-3914 apparantly they...........

>>8825949
Well... I have two bionic eyes... I guess I could spare one.

>>8825900
Is that the Poor quality cybereye? Or is it full of xenotech?

>>8825939

One must be open to all avenues, dear. Even if we sometimes try to suppress the truth and look the other direction.

WHO THA HELL PARKED THIS DESERT HERE? I wuz drivin'!

>>8825956
Alright, boss, what's the game plan?

>>8825956
indeed, some new direction would be most welcome

>>8825979
And to think, had you pursued me, alone and with an ounce of restraint and decency instead of acting like a dog in heat, you might have stood a chance.

>>8825971
>>8825949

If suitable bionics can be found, I should be able to install them well enough. Assuming that black crap is wiped up first.

>>8826000
I want to get this the hell over with so I can get back to vaporizing orks, so I'm with this.

>>8825956
Destroyed the entire facility?
...

Well, are any members of his retinue still alive? Perhaps we could gleam some information from them.

>>8825936
I-interrogator? I... uh... thank you.

>>8825977
Xenotech?! XENOTECH!?! No... no... can't be true... can't be true... they didn't they didn't... Is that why my eyes are leaking?! XENOTECH?! No, there's no way they would do that to me... would they?

>>8825971
Thank you! Thank you! I'll share my liquor with you when I can see again.

>>8826053
That chance will never fade

>>8826000
At least you have your mind on the job.
Unlike the rest of you. Hmph.

Since the actual crime scene is now a crater, you are to enquire on his cruiser as to what happened before and during that flight. I understand he had his personal adept with him, one Inditor Shih-na... her whereabouts, strangely enough, are unknown. The three stooges here didn't find her body amongst the wreckage, so we can assume she survived the landing.

>>8826053
You would do that for me? I thought you hated me. I'll tell that cranky Sororitas off for you and the captain, I swear!

>>8826056
Relax. It's probably just faulty. Some tech-priest didn't hit it with his dick enough times during manufacture or something.

>>8826000
>>8826028
Standard investigative procedure.

Hit people until they tell you stuff.

>>8826102
Awesome, questioning people-

OH WAIT, I'M FUCKING ADMECH

brb grabbing my paper bag

>>8826100
In your lewd dreams, meatstick.

>>8826102
Unless, of course, her body was simply vaporised in the blast. Which, due to she magnitude of the explosion Dumb and Dumber caused, seems likely.

>>8826102
as you command lady inquisitor.
Crusader-in-training Haxtes, care to help me search the cruisers records for a possible fix on the adept?

>>8826115
Hate is an emotion for those less in touch with the Omnissiah. Frustration and irritation, are not.

>>8826154
THE magnitude. Blasted faulty cogitator.

>>8826154
No, she'll be alive. Narrative laws are in effect. No body means she's got a 92.458% chance of being alive.

>>8826154
as a point of simple curiosity, when the lady inquisitor points the finger of righteous blame at you, do you demurr and try to shift the blame on your compatriots?

Phenominally, ma'am.

>>8826102
I see. I will have Interrogator Gumshoe set up search patrols as soon as he comes back from setting up the perimeter and fetching a proper techpriest for that Acolyte.

That is, if he didn't get lost on the way again.

>>8826154
Baby you and me....

>>8826242

Oh lawd, is dat some Sawao?

>>8826154
>Unless, of course, her body was simply vaporised in the blast.

The Skitarii and Mithras looked over the entire ship before they destroyed it, Tech-priestess Lidia. They found Inquisitor Lang's body, but no sign of Inditor Shih-na.

>>8826276
See? I'm totally right.

I'll start scouring security vids. It's something to do, at least.

>>8826276
forgive me for being so presumptuous milady, but can we not then assume from the adepts flight that she killed Inquisitor Lang and fled to evade the swift justice of the inquisition?

>>8826056
Thank ye, and yer welcome.
>>8826102
Alright! So, do we have to figure out how to get there or do we get a free ride?
>>8826122
I can hit pretty hard.
>>8826166
Sure, dude. Let's boogy.
>>8826263
She's gonna end up giving you the chem geld trait.

>>8826276


Wait...I think I saw...a Daemon Prince back there, maybe

>>8826276
Fair point. Had the others fed me the correct data, I would have been better informed. Though unlikely to come up with results, I shall run a search of all entrants to local medicae structures within reach of the crash. If injured, someone might have taken her there.

>>8826263
Omnissiah's gears, my patience wears. At this rate I'll consent just to shut you up.

>>8826338

Better to die in bliss, then fighting some phallic looking xenos scum

>>8826338
Hey, I had it done, and I'm just fine.

>>8826364

I promise to end my flirtations if you give me another chance

>>8826364
That's just what he wants!

>>8826382

I AM THE LAST THING THEY WILL SEE.

>>8826248
You-you WHAT?
You gave him his own transport?

>>8826320
> forgive me for being so presumptuous milady, but can we not then assume from the adepts flight that she killed Inquisitor Lang and fled to evade the swift justice of the inquisition?

Nonsense. They have been working together for a number of years; it would make no sense for her to kill her own employer.
That and it would be very hard to kill Inqusitor Lang. Shih-na's specialty is NOT assassination, Strelok.

>>8826422
My Apologies Milady. i merely present every alternative so that no answer may sheild iteself from our scrutiny

Anyone of you remember seeing a guy like this? I swear...he looked trustworthy...

>>8826397
But if I gave you another chance, wouldn't you just start again? That is, after all, why you would want another chance.

>>8826408
Granted. But a few hours to ward off a lifetime of his whining and my headaches? It is tempting.

>>8824570

I lol'd.

>>8826465
This time...the advancements will be more to your liking, I assure you.

>>8826338
>Alright! So, do we have to figure out how to get there or do we get a free ride?

You do not have your own transport?
Captain, pick Haxtes up on the way.

>>8826364
>Fair point. Had the others fed me the correct data, I would have been better informed.

This is simple logic. It had nothing to do with what the others told you.

>Though unlikely to come up with results, I shall run a search of all entrants to local medicae structures within reach of the crash. If injured, someone might have taken her there.

Get started, then.

>>8826479
...fine. It will take time for the search to complete anyway. Despite my cynicism, I could use the entertainment.

>>8826422
Of course not. I left him with Interrogator Kay and a couple of my guardsmen in one of my personal transports. If anything, my portable auspex/vox bead will keep me informed of his current position.

>>8826465
Alright, if you go through with it, he'll know it'll work next time, so he'll just keep coming back for more. Is that what you want?
>>8826549
There is a transport I could use... if it weren't being used by another person already.

>>8826549
Yes, Inquisitor. I'll get them there with all parts in tact.

>>8826613

You, sir, mind your own damn business. I have a woman to woo.

>>8826263
>>8826479
>>8826550
(Hmm... I wonder if Inquisitor Fran- NO! She'd kill me.)

>>8826242
(I just had the strangest vision.)

>>8826635
*pssst... You have to teach me some time*

Later, at the investigation site.

>>8826635
Poorly.
>>8826682
What's on your mind?

>>8826714
N-n-nothing. I was just thinking. Trying to remember what I saw when we found Inquisitor Lang dead. If only that damn psyker hadn't screwed everything up...

>>8826613
No, but I'll likely also know how utterly terrible he was, and can rub the inevitable shame in his face whenever he tries again.

>>8826635
The Logic-engine's ticking. You're on a timer here.

>>8826702
I sure the fuck am proud. Look at how well AdMech facilities blow up, goddamn. I wonder how well the forge back home would go up.

>>8826745

The God-Emperor be praised! You must teach me how to blow stuff up.

>>8826745
Lalala, this is me pretending to ignore the techno-heretical implications of that sentence and not starting another argument.

>>8826773
and failing dismally young one

>>8826766
No explosions for the fleshy one.

>>8826773
I'm Skitarii, we love blowing things up. Think of it as giving the enemy a great last fuck you.

>>8826773

Have you ever felt the "pleasures of the flesh" as you so harshly phrased it?

>>8826745
That's probably best left to speculation.
>>8826744
If that's the way you want to play it. Just make sure you back up your investment. I'm sure you could get a bomb collar or some toxins or something pretty cheap, what with AdMech connections.

So what happens now?

>>8826773

There is no heresy if no mon-keigh is left loyal.

>>8826818
Now we have a montage.

>>8826822

with a face like yours, loyalty is assured!

>>8826804

Oy, I have already told Mithras of my adventures with the Death Korps. Tossing the dead corpses of their own men at the enemy, albeit with explosives attached.

Acolytes!
What are the preliminary findings?

I doubt you will find anything in a crater, although you seem confident.Why did you want to come here again, Miles?
And where's Interrogator Gumshoe? Shouldn't he be here by now?

>blowing things up
>blowing up
>flashback
>psyker's head explodes
>brains shower Mithras
>flash of light, warp energies radiating everywhere, then burning anguish

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Er... Um... Well... I should find something to do... Are there audio records I can skim through or something? I feel a little useless right now.

>>8826857

I found this...

>>8826836
Okay, I'll get popcorn.

>>8826868
no psykers in the information-digging room

>>8826857
Well, I found some sign that something walked out of here not-dead?

And some servo-skull bits. Never know when you need those.

>>8826816
Yes; I'm not Chem-gelded and have no intention on persuing the Rite of Clear Though. Research, data-mining, and work duties leave little time for such dalliances, but I have persued relations with others before. It has been several years since the last time, however.

Well. More than several. Nearly ten.

>>8826804
But speculating on the magnitude of blowing up your own home forge? Destroying so much holy technolgy! The idea is insane! Blowing the enemy up, of course, but your own side?

>>8826818
Some people owe me favours. I'm pretty sure I can get my hands on some mind-altering chemicals and make him think it was all a daydream, should things go horribly wrong.

>>8826895
I'm not a psyker! That crazy, muttering flesh bomb who burned my face off was the psyker!

>>8826898

And you instantly refute a man giving himself to you after ten years?

>>8826857
the cruisers data logs state that Adept Shih-na 's authority was used to aquire a gun cutter and depart the planet scant hours before our first investigation team arrived on scene

>>8826898
Why not just get the mind altering stuff before hand and make him think it already happened?

>>8826818
>>8826868

...I was considering sending some of you to Inquisitor Lang's cruiser, but it appears together you just barely make up one competent investigator.
I dread to think what would happen if you split up.

>>8826857
I have expanded the search to cover Arbite and Enforcer stations, and am attempting to intrude upon the vigilantus camera-networks overlooking nearby city streets. Piling through so much data takes time. So far there have been a handful of visual matches with 75% possible accuracy, which are currently the primary targets of my search.

Wait, are we on the cruiser or at the crater? I'm getting conflicting ideas here.

>>8826941
...

(Once I get my sight back I'll show all of them...)

>>8826898
It's in the case of catastrophic failure, duh. Better to leave them a crater than to leave them the forge, in my own thoughts. By then everything valuable should have been shunted out and packed away.

>>8826971
I told you, you could have one of my bionic eyes.
>>8826948
Anything solid enough to hunt after?

>>8826941
statistics suggest a group such as ours, with its internal strife, would either be brought together or destroyed by the experience.
strangely enough, there is no middle ground in this instance.
i am unsure of the exact percentages, and for that i apologise, i could only collate seven sources together and thus can do little more that look to an adept of the omnissiah for more clear percentages.

>>8827002
Yo.

I say about 43% of not imploding and killing eachother in a whirr of mechadendrites, flamers, and psyker bullshit.

>>8826992
Data seems to correlate with Strelok's findings. An individual matching Shih-na's physical makeup did indeed purchase an unliscenced gun-cutter from a black market dealer and escape off world shortly before our arrival. The possibility remains it was a Xenos creature or Heretic somehow mirroring her appearance, but it seems slim.

>>8826923
Such dalliances should have meaning, not merely a hormone-laden romp to be forgotten about.

>>8827023
Trust me....it will never be forgotten

>>8826992
Let's get this thing installed then! I'll go back to that crater and find SOMETHING. No aircrafts left the area before we arrived so the perpetrators had to have left by land... Maybe we can find out what kind of vehicle left the area or where it was going. There has to be something...

>>8826857
I had received a message via astropath from Inquisitor Lang to meet him here. He had some interesting evidence for my own investigation into a heretical cult that has infected this sector. After asking for him at the Inquisitorial Fortress, I was told he had been murdered and that you were in charge of the investigation here. I am looking for that evidence Lang left for me, as it may lead me to the cult's headquarters.

Gumshoe should be here momentarily, if my auspex is correct.

>>8827034
...and this is you being more charming than your last attempt? Flashy, I am dissapoint.

>>8827042
I'll go with the psyker. My head won't explode; no chance of losing data.

>>8827065
Disappointed you will not be.

>>8827034
>>8827023

BY THE HIGH LORDS BALLS AND THE GOLDEN THRONE OF TERRA!

can you two not sort out this sexual tension in your own time. we have work to do here
*returns to sifting through data logs*

>>8827044
*but readys a laspistol, just in case*
paranoia is the shield of the wise

>>8827022
If it comes to that, I'll just sit back and let you do it, maybe pull a couple people that I like out of it.
>>8827023
Either way, it's worth investigating. So let's head down to find the seller, and SUBTLY get the info. We don't need to flash any badges, we can probably just buy it. Know one needs to know who we work for.

>>8827085
>subtle
>tehcpriests, psyker, flashy in group

>>8827072
Ahhh! I told you I'm not a psyker! I was an Arbites before... well... I got mistaken for a psyker, dragged onto a black ship, and ended up here.

Sigh.

I don't even play Dark Heresy and I want to do so now for Inquisitor Miles Edgeworth.

>>8827118
Well, the unsubtle people will best serve by doing something else. Who's that leave?
>>8827042
Alright, get one of the cogs to do the transfer.

>>8826893
Hm. This could mean there were more than just Inquisitor Lang and Shih-na on this transport.
Or it could just be an extra part left over from the explosion.

Get it tested.

>>8826895
>some sign
The only thing that matters here is evidence, Captain.

>>8826926
>the cruisers data logs state that Adept Shih-na 's authority was used to aquire a gun cutter and depart the planet scant hours before our first investigation team arrived on scene

...There are so very many things wrong with that statement the mind boggles.

Firstly, Inquisitor Lang's cruiser can't access the planet's network. Secondly, all the transports are either in pieces, vaporised or accounted for. She could not have taken one.

...Are you accusing Inditor Shih-na of murder?

>>8827023
>An individual matching Shih-na's physical makeup did indeed purchase an unliscenced gun-cutter from a black market dealer and escape off world shortly before our arrival.

That makes much more sense.

>>8827085
Good idea.

>>8827044
>He had some interesting evidence for my own investigation into a heretical cult that has infected this sector.
Perhaps a cult member had infiltrated his ship?

>I am looking for that evidence Lang left for me, as it may lead me to the cult's headquarters.
The killer may have taken the evidence with him.

>>8827134
I think that's just you and the Adept.

Have fun in town; I'm digging (or will be) in the dirt with the not-Psyker.

>>8827065
Techpriestess, could you get install this for me? Once I can see I'll be ready to get back on the group.

*wipes away the writhing baby tar with towel*

Sir! Sir! The perimeter is secure! I also have that techpriest you wanted.

(Notices vonKarma)
Ms. vonKarma sir? You're here?

>>8827134
I'd best stay here. More than one Techpriest stomping around is bound to draw attention, and I need to sift through the remains of the data. Plus, you'll need someone with an ounce of talent to record and analyse any of your findings.

>>8827078
The funny thing is, I don't remember you once having actually paid me a single compliment.

>>8827206
>ounce of talent
And that you do have. Much more than I do, that's for sure.

>>8824506
I'm glad I'm not the only one who transplanted the Ace Attorney series into 40k.

You will address me by my proper title, Scruffy!
>whktsh

>>8827179
Alright. Let me give you a shot of painkillers.

Now, lie back. You'll be conscious throughout, so try not to squirm. This operation will be very delicate, since it necessitates poking around in your brain to wire the bionics up. I reccomend reciting the thirty-first prayer of Communion, giving praise to the Omnissiah for drawing closer to his perfection.

>>8827206
He never even bothered to tell you how nice your chassis is?
>>8827176
Super. Just super. Alright, so we hit the planet, get some clothes that won't make us stick out, and bribe the jackass that sold the gun cutter for the info. We'll also mark him to be dealt with later, if need be. Do we already know where to find him?

>>8827278
Do I get pain killers for when you take it out of me?

>>8827164
not at all lady inquisitor. my doubts as to the adepts guilt in this case was assuaged by you earlier.

and with all due respect lady inquisitor, as for the matter of the data i found, it was not on the planets, data hub but on the cruisers. that the cruiser had no access to the planet is irrellivant, as the information was transferred beforehand.

also i never specified that the cutter was one of the cruisers.

the files were found in operational planning.

perhaps this is all a part of a larger plan by Inquisitor Lang himself?

stage his own death to get close enough to strike at the heretical cell!

>>8827280
Not once. Also, chassis be damned. I'm not that high up in the ranks. Beyond the limbs and mechandrites, most of me's still flesh.

As for painkillers, sure. There. Now this'll be much easier, since I just have to unscrew *this*, pull *that*, cut away the flesh...one firm tug and we're disconnected!

You'll probably want to get a bandage for the hole.

Now, Mithras, are we ready?

>>8827353
Time for an eyepatch!
Listen, if he isn't treating you right you don't give it up to him, you know?

>>8827382
*puts on a flak vest under his adepts robes*

lets roll Crusader, we have a gun cutter to purchase!

>>8827274
Oof!

Sorry, sir...

>>8827408
Not a full crusader yet. And I don't think we need to purchase anything but the information. And some clothes that don't make us stick out too much. Something that'll do a decent job of covering our features without making it to obvious that we're wearing it for that very reason.

>>8827337
So you are saying that this was staged by Inquisitor Lang?

Show me evidence, then. That is all that matters.

>>8827417
You are to accompany the others into the city.

Do not draw attention to yourself or them, Scruffy.

>>8827164
This seems most likely.

>>8827194
Finally. Get that techpriest working on Adept Mithras. Then join Inquisitor vonKarma's investigation team and help them as you see fit.

I'm counting on you to not screw this one up, Gumshoe.

>>8827495
Mithras appears to have vanished, sir. Along with Flashy.

>>8827457
a sound plan.

>>8827473
I intend to find some Milady, but at present all i have is supposition.

>>8827528
Well... fuck.

Why don't you kittens just step aside and let a real man handle this investigation?

>>8827617
with your looks? you would stand out like a sore thumb.

no, better lowest rung acolytes, "expendable" acolytes like myself and the Crusader in Training take care of this matter.

>>8827495
What was this evidence, Miles?

>>8827528
I won't disturb them. Their paychecks will speak for me.

>>8827583
Since we are short on manpower, I will accompany the investigative team.

>>8827617
You've got something in your teeth.
>>8827638
So you're coming along? Alright, let's head out before anything goes wrong.

>>8827638

I was talking to your pathetic excuses for superiors, adept. You'll have to learn your place, or I'll teach it to you.

And I'll warn you now, my lessons are nothing if not supremely bitter.

>>8827659
as you command milady

>>8827617
>a real man

With hair like that, I doubt it.

>>8827659
Glad to have you along, boss. And, yeah, they already taught me to jump in front of the Inquisitor if she gets shot at.

>>8827672
>whktsh
These are my acolytes and I will punish them as I-
>whktsh
see-
>whktsh
fit.

>>8827664
Hmph.

>>8827703
Is something wrong, master?

>>8827701
as am I milady. that bodyguard training you paid for will proove itself worth the investment should it come to that.

>>8827691
Where is the dealer located?

>>8827716
...No.

>>>8827659
>Perhaps a cult member had infiltrated his ship?
The cult has already been linked to a number of Imperial Commanders being murdered. Infiltrating an Inquisitor's personal ship, while difficult, would not be impossible for them.

>>8827617
And you are?

>>8827796
Very good, ma'am. With your permission, ma'am, I'd like to change into something that doesn't give the impression that I'm out to purge someone.

sorry im late, what do i need to do

>>8824506
A wizard did it.

>>8824506
I did it.

>>8827826

I'm Godot. And I've never lost a case. Well, not to anyone you haven't lost to as well, Miles.

Might want to keep the filly there on a leash, by the way.

>>8827921
see
>>8827903
>>8827884

>>8827850
Permission granted.

>>8827826
Do we know anything else about this cult?
Affiliation? Members? Metholds?

>>8827751
Hmph.

>>8827921
You've never won a case either. At all.

>>8827952

...why don't we just get past these trifling details and get back to the matter at hand?

>>8827970
Oh, god. Lady Inquisitor, PLEASE say I'm not going to be stuck here with this asshole.

Bring Flashy back, at least he was halfway amusing.

>>8827934
greetings inquisitor, what needs doing?

>>8827992
I don't follow all my acolyte's movements.
Anyway, you should know where he is.


...This is the place, then. Haxtes, if you would.

>>8827992

You won't be stuck with me for too much longer.

Make yourself useful and brew up some recaff. I'm going to go see if I can find some actually useful evidence, and if a cup of recaff isn't pressed directly into my hand when I get back, there'll be hell to pay.

>>8827934
Other than their infiltration skills rivaling that of our own Imperial Assassins, nothing else. Lang's evidence was apparently so insightful, he couldn't even give details in in the high level astropathic communique that summoned me here.

>>8828045
Make your own damn recaff. I'm going to sit here with a bottle of Amasec and drink until this whole horrible sequence of events just goes away.

>>8828112

Perhaps you didn't hear me clearly, kitten. Know your place, go make me some recaff, and be ready with it when I get back.

>>8828096
So he must have had the evidence on him.
...That raises another question. Why would he take it with him?

>>8828039
What would you have me do, master?

>>8824506

Man, Inquisitors are starting to look good.

Pretty smart PR from their side, if I may say so.

>>8828141
And perhaps YOU didn't hear ME clearly, you loud-mouthed waste of space. Make-your-own-Recaff.

>>8828177
Oh, hey Alex. How's kicks?

>>8828200

"Kicks"?

>>8828218
...How are things? You need to get out more.

>>8828146

...The door, Haxtes. Open the door.

>>8828177
Ah, the local PDF.
Seargant, you are now an Acolyte.

>>8828257

Actually I'm Imperial Guard, Krieg 852nd Support at your service.

Currently detached to guarding an Interrogator's door, though.

>>8828235

Believe me, I'm working on that.

But anyway, pretty long and tiring day, you?

>>8828257
Actually, this one is a Krieger. One of those clones.
And yes ma'am. Here you are, ma'am.

>>8828277
I got through most difficulties during the week. Still, I'll be getting busier as time goes on. Went to a nice little party last night though.

Just me and one other guy stayed sober.

>>8828320

Staying sober is always good, yes. So are parties.

>>8828320
I am rapidly coming to the complex scientific conclusion that sobriety is over-rated.

...

On which note, I shall retire to my quarters before that jerk Godot shows up again. Try not to die in my absence.

>>8828378

Will do, ma'am. Good night and may the Emperor/Omnissiah guard your sleep... or charging process...

>>8828277
Well, I'm an Inquisitor.
Guard the door.


I've heard that you deal in black-market transports.
And that you sold one recently. Care telling me who you sold it to, and where they went?
Oh, there's no need to deny it.

>>8828378
Take some of my moonshine, and thank the Omnissiah for leaving rednecks to fend for themselves.

>>8828404

Sure, why not?

>>8828144

That, I do not know. This investigation has plenty of questions, but not many answers. Let's head inside, shall we?

The only information I could acquire from him before he passed out was that the purchaser matched the description of...Shih-na.
This is worrying news.

>>8828568
Damn. So shall we take him with us in case we can get more from him when he wakes up?
And we may as well confiscate his goods while we're at it.

>>8828568

I seem to have missed all the first part of your investigation, care to explain what is going on here, Madam Inquisitor?

>>8828593
You're catching on quickly, Haxtes.
Scruffy! Organize the transportation of his goods to my transport.

>>8828541
Once again I am allready a step ahead of you, Miles.

>>8828643
Well, care to share your deductions with me, Franziska?

>>8828618
We are investigating the murder of Inquisitor Lang.
He had evidence pertaining to a heretic cult in this area, and had sent a message to Inquisitor Miles to meet him in this area, but was found dead in his crashed transport.
His personal Inditor, Shih-na, was not killed in the crash and had been seen purchasing a transport off-world by that unconscious man over there.
Also, a severed hand has been recovered from the site that belongs neither to Shih-na nor Lang.
...Then my acolytes destroyed the entire area.
...

...I believe that sums it up.

>>8828643
Uh, yes sir! I'm on it, sir!

>>8828643
It's a pleasure to please, ma'am!
Mind if I snatch some snacks and tunes for the ride back?

>>8828777
>...Then my acolytes destroyed the entire area.

So they destroyed the evidence? That does not sound like a smart thing to do when there are techpriests specialized in forensics just walking around the place.

>>8828777
>...Then my acolytes destroyed the entire area.
*snicker*

>>8828796
He will not be using them. I see no reason not to.

>>8828797
>>8828802
...................

>>8828876
i dont get it.

>>8828876

It does shows a disturbing lack of discipline, ma'am.

Quite strange, seeing you walk around with a whip and all.

>>8828899
*whispers* The whip isn't for discipline, it's for... "Discipline."

>>8828899
I did not forsee the foolishness these fools could perform.

Also, I was not with them at the time.

>>8828899
I believe that is exactly *why* she has the whip.
Which she appears to be getting ready to use.
I'm going to stand over here, away from you.
*Munch munch munch*

>>8828930
>>8828899

>>8828937
Ooh, chips. What's the one with the whip doing?

>>8828933

If I may speak freely, ma'am, that problem only has three possible solutions.

First one is to train your men, instil the love for discipline and teach them what are the proper proceedings when conducting an investigation. Second is to change your team for one that fits the above description and, finally, be there with them.

You'll agree with me on the fact that the last one is incredibly complicated and time consuming. Therefore, one has to default for either option one or option two.

>>8828959
Knocking the crap out of Alex and Nameless. So she'll be at it for a while. Want some?

>>8828947
Y'know, if I was there, and not just hacking your vox channels, I might be turned on. But probably not.

Haxtes. Alexandros. Varity. Emperor-blessed afternoon to you.

>>8828933
well, if every fool had an inquisitor, we'd run out of cannon fodder.

>>8828979
Sure, and I'll watch.

>>8829014
I love potato chips...

>>8828947

*wktsh*

Ma'am, not only was that unnecessary and rude but it also goes to further prove your lack of leadership skills. One of the most important being to know how to take constructive criticism and improve oneself based on said critics.

>>8828975
Yes well...

Shall we continue with the investigation? This entire sector is at state here, and the longer we take here, the smaller the chance will be for finding the root of this corruption.

>>8829031
Yes, though not regulation food, they're not bad. Not that I really get a chance to eat any.
>>8829038
....Are you talking back to an Inquisitor? Do your clones get progressively stupider as they die off?

>>8829060

The Inquisitor brings a good point.

That said, has anyone bothered to check Inquisitor Lang's logs and/or journals, if he kept any.

Bureaucracy, gentlemen, bureaucracy.

>>8828568
....Milady inquisitor, forgive my absense, but does not this point towards.......my earlier assumption regarding Adept Shih-na?

>>8828741
This is what I think happened, Miles.
Inquisitor Lang came to the planet with Shih-na to corner the cult here. He's allways been headstrong that way.

On the way down, a cultist assassin revealed himself and assassinated Lang when he was distracted piloting the ship.

After that, the assassin used the pod on the ship to eject to the surface, leaving it around here somewhere, bought a ship and left the planet.

Simple, and perfect.

>>8828959
'The one with the whip' is an INQUISITOR, Sister.

>>8829076
I think you're right about that clone thing. At this rate, we'll be seeing Alexandros the IV.

>>8829114
Did you ever find out how many people were on the craft Inquisitor Lang was using? Perhaps Shih-na was able to escape the attack with Lang's data? Perhaps she fled the planet due to the pervasiveness of the cult?

>>8829178
We'll find out when she's been tracked down.

>>8829114
I apologize, however your badge indicating so is not as prominently displayed as others usually are.
>>8829163
They ARE typically used as cannon fodder. There may be a reason for this.

>>8829163
>>8829076

While that's an interesting possibility that we cannot, in good faith, discard, I must say it's quite insulting.

Getting back to the case, would it not be wise to inform the Imperial Navy of this and have them detain any ships trying to exit the sector without the proper clearances?

>>8829114
shall i consult the planetary astrology archives to attempt to find where the pod crashed milady?

>>8829234
What kind of craft did Shih-na acquire? Where would she go?

>>8829234
Probably not, seeing as how space is really fuckin' huge and they won't been able to search all of it for one single gun cutter, assuming that's still what we're looking for. We need more information out of the shop keeper before we can proceed.
>>8829189
Right, so they don't ever realize that they're in any danger. And the badge of office is hidden because we were just doing some of the more subtle stuff. Sort of.

oh and milady inquisitor, i also found several data slates containing the arrested suspects dealings.
Adept Shih-na, or someone matching her description has been to see the prisoner before the actual purchase.

i suspect your prisoner may in fact be a heretic cultist.

>>8829178
Well...All his personal records and journals were kept by Shih-na.
If she escaped, finding her would persumeable find the evidence.

>>8829112
I await your proof.

>>8829234
Imperial navy? Useless fools.

>>8829249
Does that matter? The assassin still bought a transport and left.

>>8829234
You're arguing with an Inquisitor, such which is grounds alone for simple on the spot execution by those particularly inclined.
>>8829277
I suppose, but most subtle Inquisitors are not the ones drawn to my Order's services.

>>8829114
Piloting the ship? It's well known that most Inquisitors, including Lang, would have a flagship, complete with support staff such as Navigators, shipmasters and the like.

Inquisitors don't have the time to be piloting their own ship through the warp, especially since we are not trained to see the Holy Astronomican like a Navigator can.

>>8829295
Can you actually use grammar and spelling? Everyone else is, there's no excuse for you to be a lasy sod.
Also: Someone archive this.

>>8829308

You would know about killing clones, wouldn't you?

>>8829277

That just invites further research, thus keeping the suspect alive and talking becomes one of our primary objectives for the time being.

As for the cult, what is it devoted to?

Can gun-cutters traverse the warp? Otherwise she's still in the system and may simply respond to an appropriate vox transmission.

>>8829340
you tell me to do things you yourself do not manage.

i shall however endevour to do as you ask

>>8829328
This was just his personal ship. His cruiser is still in the area, if you wish to look over that.
Lang only brought Shih-na to the planet, according to the logs on-board.

>>8829372
>lasy
hurf durf
>>8829340
No you're not. You're typing in lowercase without punctuation.

>>8829378

So maybe he had some sort of relationship with this adept of his?

>>8829356
That was already our primary objective.
>>8829328
Well, the suspect wouldn't be able to just pick one off the street, so that means they must not be using warp travel, and their destination must be fairly close. How many moons does this planet have?

>>8829378
Did the Inquisitor bring any cargo? Something an assassin may have concealed himself in? Does the cruiser have its full crew complement, or are any missing?

>>8829356
I would.
>>8829408
I'm not terribly good at investigating, nor is it my job. Still, I would like to help if possible. If you could synopsize the situation for me, or point towards a task I'm more suited to aid in, it would be quite nice.

>>8829434
The ship was...destroyed. We don't know what cargo he had on-board.

>>8829406
Miles would have more information on that topic than me.

>>8829370
Hm. Make a transmission.

>>8829378
>assassinated Lang when he was distracted piloting the ship.
>was distracted
>Lang only brought Shih-na to the planet

This still wouldn't explain why he would be piloting the craft himself, when he could get a navy pilot from his cruiser to do it for him.

What I'm getting at is that he shouldn't have been distracted piloting the ship, when we Inquisitors wouldn't pilot a ship if there's someone else to do it for us!

>>8829450
see
>>8828777

I think that at this point we all need to take a step the fuck back.

We know who we're looking for. They're on a gun cutter, and we know when they took off from the planet, so we should be able to figure out how far they might have gotten.

Here is my proposed list of shit to get done:
1. Scan as much of the surrounding space as we can for the gun cutter. As I said, we should have a good estimate as to how far it could have gone.
2. Check the moon(s), if it is possible for the subject to have gotten that far.
3. Keep in contact with any ships in the area, specifically those who might have taken on the subject's gun cutter.
4. Question the shopkeeper when he wakes up, and go through any records he may have kept.

>>8829528
Some Inquisitors enjoy secrecy in all things, even those mundane. Perhaps he wished to pilot his own ships for more of a personal reliability?

>>8829518
His cruiser should have logged any stowage, for cargo can upset a craft's trim and make piloting more difficult.

Shih-na may have chosen not to return to the cruiser if she thought it compromised. Who are Lang's known associates within the Inquisition? If she receives a message indicating that one of them is investigating Lang's death, she may come forward.

>>8829528
!
What if...What if he was practising?
He's a very hands-on Inquisitor, after all!

>>8829629
(someone's carrying a torch here)

>>8829629
Would it not have, then, been sensible for him to bring a copilot? In case he made a mistake. If he was still learning.

>>8829563
Mind wiped servitors can do the same.

>>8829629
>practicing
If I had critical information being so important that I needed to guard this personally, I wouldn't any part of my attention towards piloting a ship, hands-on investigator or not. I'd have a professional pilot/pilot-servitor handle my shuttle, just in case.

Lang made it clear that this evidence was possibly bigger than any of us here.

>>8829760
>>8829563
Nngh...!

>>8829760
Clearly the subject knew how to pilot as well, that's how she got off-planet after all. So I suppose this Shih-na was the acting co-pilot, or perhaps him to her.

>>8829776
Well then, Inquisitor Miles Edgeworth, what do you think happened?

>>8829810
She could have hired a ship of planet. Or, could have forced the Inquisitor's copilot to curry her. Or, there could well have been her and a copilot, and they actually worked in tandem. Could there have been a second person involved not known of?

>>8829776
If the evidence was that important, could it still be on his cruiser? They are VERY hard to kill.

>>8829843
I suppose that would explain the hand that was found.

But really, these are questions best answered by the people involved, assuming there is more than one, and those persons are most likely on a gun cutter that is getting farther and farther away.

So perhaps it is time to alter our focus from speculation to finding that ship?

>>8829872
Could it have been duplicated? Or is it even physical. The 'evidence' could have been a person.

>>8829900
Hel-lo? Message? Anyone?

Why do I bother, I may as well not even be here.

Oh wait, I'm not.

>>8829900
A Guncutter cannot leave the system by itself, it may be possible to find it, still. One could place the descriptions of those involved to local Arbites and ports, and ensure they do not attain a warp capable ship. Though, it would make sense to assume this has already been done.

>>8829940
Fuck, I'm no tech-priest. I don't know how to work that shit.
She actually told you to do it.

>>8829835
It would be difficult to postulate anything due to the fact that we haven't found any definitive evidence yet.

I suggest we get started hunting around for evidence. Finding Shih-na would be our first priority.

>>8829969
As I've stated, it's likely still very close by, or has landed on a nearby moon.
I redirect you to this shit right here:
>>8829562

>>8829971
And I said it would need to have apprpriate authority attached. Okay, I didn't say it in so many words, but it was definitely implied. Miles or Francie would need to compose that message.

>>8830049
So why are you telling me about it?

>>8830049
You have my permission.

Compose the message, and I'll sign and encode it.

>>8830069
Oh, I'm just generically bitching.

Well, that and you're there and I'm not, and the Inquisitors aren't paying a whole lot of attention to me. Maybe I'll just go off and sit in a dark closet somewhere. Until I'm needed.

>>8829996
Y-yes, that sounds like a reasonable next step.

>1. Scan as much of the surrounding space as we can for the gun cutter. As I said, we should have a good estimate as to how far it could have gone.

It wouldn't be able to leave the system.

>2. Check the moon(s), if it is possible for the subject to have gotten that far.

Given the speed of the craft and time elapsed, it could have.

>3. Keep in contact with any ships in the area, specifically those who might have taken on the subject's gun cutter.

The only ships in the area are Lang's and mine. This is a backwater area.
>4. Question the shopkeeper when he wakes up, and go through any records he may have kept.

They're irrelevant; mostly black market dealings and smuggling. This fool is definitely not a cultist.

>>8830177
Well, there first point isn't about it leaving the system, but as far as I can tell it's either on the one of the moons (how many are there?), some how got on one of our ships, or is still very near by the planet.

As for checking the records and questioning the merchant... mostly about finding a serial number or some such that we could scan for or inform port authorities of. It'll be much easier to keep track of the cutter that way.

>>8830143
Okay.

"Acolyte Shih-na, this is the Inquisition (ship type) (ship name) under the direction of Inquisitor Francie of His Imperial Majesty's Most Holy Inquisition. If you can hear this message you are hereby ordered to respond directly to this ship, whereby we may make arrangements for your recovery.
Signed,
Inquisitor Miles, assisting
Inquisitor Franziska, of
His Imperial Majesty's Most Holy Inquisition."

Suitable?

The closest and most likely moon would be...
Tashen's moon.

We shall investigate there next.
Acolytes! Miles!
We're leaving.

>>8830340
Umm, Inquisitor? You wouldn't happen to have one of those Navigators that can follow old trails, would you?

2:10 4-CHAN TIME
TASHEN'S MOON
28 MARCH

>>8830340
Yes, ma'am!

>>8830305
"Inditor Shih-na, this is the Reverentia Offendo under the direction of Lady Inquisitor Franziska vonKarma of His Imperial Majesty's Most Holy Inquisition. If you can hear this message you are hereby ordered to respond directly to this ship, whereby we may make arrangements for your recovery.
Signed,
Lord Inquisitor Miles Edgeworth, assisting
Lady Inquisitor Franziska vonKarma, of
His Imperial Majesty's Most Holy Inquisition, Ordo Hereticus."

Send it.

>>8830340
Yes, let us be off.

(Sorry, I had to leave suddenly earlier. I enjoyed this thread very much and wish I could have continued. I hope to see a thread like this again in the future)

It appears you were correct, Haxtes.

There's a guncutter down there, but it doesn't have any signifigant markings. It appears to be the same model as the one purchased, though.

...There has been no response to your message though, Miles.
If we are to find answers anywhere, it will be on that guncutter.

>>8830448
Alright. Ma'am, I will take this opportunity to get back into my power armor. Best to be prepared.

>>8830471
>>8830448
Haxtes and I can secure the site.

>>8830448
Is the moon habitable? Is the gun-cutter psy-shielded? I could scan it.

>>8830500
>>8830471
There's no real point, as-
>>8830501
I have allready scanned it. There appears to be no-one on board.
...!

>>8830563
>...!

What is it?

>>8830563
My lady?

Aaaaaaaaaaah!

>>8830563
>>8830581
>>8830582
>>8830589
Weapons at the ready?

>>8830589
>shihnahisanull
I... impossible!

>>8830618
Make sure the boss is alright first!
>>8830589
M' LADY!

Gunnery! Disable the engines!
GET ON THAT SHIP! DON'T LET HER GET AWAY!

How could I be so blind?!

>>8830649
YOU HEARD THE LADY, LET'S MOVE PEOPLE!
DEAD OR ALIVE, MA'AM?

rolled 48 = 48

>>8830649
Aye, ma'am! Targets locked!

>>8830669
Alive!

>...I should probably point out that the atmosphere out there is not breathable.

>>8830722
Aye, let's get to the landing ship. I'll put on my power armor in there.

I am so happy that crusaders get power armor.