~~Shrine to Saint Thira, House Ortisa's holdings, Acele~~ The Alter boy said to his finder:"My name.... It's Artelis." Then hearing the Kroot speak he then asked "Who else is with you?" Clearly, he was worried who else was in the Shrine considering the screaming was never a good sight for something going on. K'tikathat's sense of smell would also catch the scent of recent death emanating from the Shrine's library, which could be something worth investigating. Pierce would find that the King's assassin had moved a stone gargoyle statue in order to get in position high above the worshippers. He could also see that from where the arrow was in Justra's head and the position that the Assassin shot from, he would had to have some method of attracting the King's attention towards his position in order for the arrow to land where it did in the King's skull. Meanwhile, the Inquisitor said to Takeshi "Fine by me, besides I would say now's the time we consolidated what we know, then start looking elsewhere... I think we have all we need from here." So she whispered into her comm-bead "Everyone, report in what you've found out, clearly we're going to have to look further afield." She hadn't ignored the Kroot's report about the witness describing a male, she just considered it to add nothing of value to the sum of knowledge about the assassination and that the Xenos was dumb and so didn't get that subtle details can make or break an investigation if known (or not) by the right people. @DeranVendar @GoreWrencha @Vulpas @Verticus @Uriel1339 @TechCaptain @Coffeechipmunk ~~Deserts of Acela (Raided Camp)- House Karitha territory~~ Waiting on @Warsmith_Dantioch , @Colapse !
"Oh, just some friends. Nice to meet you, Artelis. What did this man look like?" She heard the order over the Vox. "Roger, almost done here." She looked back at Artelis "Sorry, continue."
@Uriel1339 "Silver shroud I have found something interesting, I have found the likely location of where the assassin took the shot that killed the king, I have found a moved gargoyle and found along with a guess the assassin had to have gotten the kings attention before taking his shot, I shall continue examine the gargoyle for now." Pierce said over the vox to there arbite. Kneeling down in front of the gargoyle he looked at it looking for a possible hand print or possible way to find a finger print, Even if this world was feudal and had no data base it could be used when they found there assassin to prove it was him."
Firebat stayed to the shadows but returned to the group and reported all he has discovered. He also recorded all that the others have discovered. Once the review of evidence was complete, he was going to run timelines scenarios.
"Those monsters your priests warn and preach about on their sermons? I'm one of them. Boo." K'tikathat introduces himself, this time trying to add local feudal accent to his, result sounding like blacksmith with sore throat dropping box of tools on his toes. K'tikathat leaves the tau with the kid and follows the oh so familiar scent of death.
OOC: If you wanna play out giving information to everyone else (Shrine peeps)/further arguing about why you're here (Desert Peeps), just use a <Before> Tag! ~~Shrine to Saint Thira, House Ortisa's holdings, Acele~~ Artelis was about to reply to Kai's question until K'tikathat rather distastefully introduced himself to the boy, who promptly bolted back into the room that the duo had found him in, and quite loudly praying for the Emperor to protect him from the Xenos in the Shrine. While the Kroot sauntered off and looked for the smell of death, finding it within the same Library and it coming from the same corpse that Firebat had found, Alicia sighed in irritation at her Alien's actions, clearly it would be better put in service with the more crass members of the Retinue. After everyone had come together and spoken about their findings (Boris would have found that stepping on the discoloured patch of flooring would trigger a laser that while not a las-weapon, was meant to play on someone's vision and therefore draw attention towards the area that Pierce had identified as the assassin's position.), Casatela would appear to be quickly conversing with the Governor before he stepped towards the now assembled team and said "Well, Valira has seen it fit to provide a Sanctioned Psyker, one that came through here apparently from being a retainer of a Rouge Trader. Needless to say, she thought that having one of those damned witches might help your investigation out, and the arrangement also get that vain Psyker out of her hair." Speaking of the Psyker, the team would hear another Valkyrie descend from above, and the Psyker in question, Tyesha Demetris, had quite quickly dashed though the main doors of the Shrine, both to find the Inquisitor that she had been told she'd be working with and avoid getting rotten tomatoes down her robes from the mob waiting outside for the Xenos in the Retinue. Alicia promptly said "Well, if everyone who I'm meant to have is hear, I have a plan for investigating the noble houses: Takeshi, Kai, and our newest Psyker, once she's bothered to tell us her name will be investigating House Harkon, given they have need of items necessary to fend off plagues. Firebat, Pierce and Ferenien , I will task you with investigating House Tarthen, we cannot risk ignoring a House so widely hated. As for K'tikathat, myself and Boris we'll have the pleasure of dealing with House Ateno given they have their fingers in the most political pies. Miria shall be tasked with getting further clues from the Shrine just in case we miss something here. Are we in agreement over this plan?" ~~Deserts of Acela (Raided Camp)- House Karitha territory~~ After the unlikely duo had managed to settle their reasons for being on Tharsax III, they would find a column of thick, black smoke coming from the east. Ogedei having the more acute senses of the pair, could also make out heat-devils that were of the sort that came from flamers and their ilk on the horizon as well, clearly someone or something had technology in advance of what a Feudal World should have. @Warsmith_Dantioch @Keidivh @DeranVendar @Uriel1339 @Colapse @Coffeechipmunk @Vulpas @Verticus @TechCaptain @GoreWrencha
Tyesha strutted up to woman who seemed to be in charge of this... Rather different crew. "Aww, you referred to me as a her! That's the nicest thing anyone has called me since I arrived on this putrid little rock." She wiped off the last of the rotten fruit from her robes before pulling her sapphire hood down, revealing her short purple hair and strange purple eyes. She gave a small bow to the Inquisitor, but her eyes remained fixed on hers. As if trying to gleam some kind of information from her. "Tyesha Demetris, sanctioned psyker of the late Lord Coris. A true pleasure Inquisitor." She took a moment to look around the room, her eyes coming to an abrupt halt at the Kroot who had wandered into the next room. There was no sign of distress or anger towards the beast. Instead she smiled. "See you've got yourself quite a looker there." Teysha nudged the Inquisitor lightly and giving a small wink. "Forgive me for being uninformed, but the only words I got out of the men who brought me here were 'witch' and my personal favorite, 'warp spawned bitch'. So could one of you lovely people tell me why the hell I'm here? And be quick about it if you would." While she didn't show it, Tyesha was almost as afraid as when she was on the Black Ships. This was her first time being without Lord Coris, without his protection. She couldn't show weakness, couldn't make any mistake. It would likely mean her death. OOC: Hello friends!
Kais thought about shooting The Kroot after that action cost them the information, but figured it wouldn't end well. "Don't mind him, he's just a good for nothing Xeno." These words felt like venom flowing from her fangs, but was needed to keep her cover. "What did the man look like?"
"Ogedei, who do you suppose they are?" asked Frederick curiously. "Maybe that bike of yours can get us closer, so we can scout out the area."
"So, we have dead leader, a King, and another dead body on humans holy place, no one saw, heard or knows anything, evidence of planned murder, assassination, with tools not native to this world, clan with medicine they should not have, clan who has made enemies with everyone, clan who up most loyal to the leader on sky, clan who spreads to other clans matters. So, Takeshi, what does your detective mind say? What of these things matter? What is relevant? Which body is the important one? Who are suspects, what is the evidence, what is the crime?" K'tikathat opens his mind, results of his pondering during the inspection of the Church, leaving questions to air for others to catch or is just being a prick. You can't know for certain and who cares, it's just foul xeno yapping its mouth. Damned thing should prove its usefulness and stop staring the newcomer like that.
