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House of Dust and Ash Chapter II Deep Cover - Keeping a Low Profile So, where were we? Shortly after waking Trantor and hearing his story of a visit by Inq. Malignus and mind washing (or so he says), Adept Wheezy from Inq. Rathbone’s office shows up at the door with three gun servitors (lobotomized humans with firearms grafted to their bodies) carrying boxes. Wheezy is wearing a nose cast from where Barbossa punched him (last episode) and has one of the gunservitors cover Barbossa while the others set down the boxes. Wheezy hands the fake IDs to the well dressed stranger in the room (Draco) and states that only swords and pistols will be allowed on the skyship to the Burning Isle.  Draco gives a “Huh?” while Barbossa tries to pick a fight (while staring down a servito’s autogun barrel). Wheezy explains that Draco will be faking the Rouge Trader Hermes Sunder and the rest of the acolytes are his entourage – they will travel to the remote “Burning Isle” and bid on the curi...

House of Dust and Ash Part I of the Season Finale: False Redemption Surviving their release of the Dei-Phage (demon lord), activation of the Pax Machiana, the ravaging of Kephistron Altis, melting of the Most Holy Gilded Cathedral of Baraspine, and the discovery that the “Pope” of the Callaxian Church is, in fact, a heretic…well, let’s say our Murder Hobos have a “mixed” reputation…(although Drustos seems to have made out well enough…) It has been a month since and the Acolytes are abruptly ordered off planet.  As the adventure begins the Player Characters are transferred temporarily into the service of a shadowy and notorious figure in the Holy Ordos, Inquisitor Lady Oriantha Rathbone, on the bleak and poisonous industrialized hive world of Solomon. There is a trip on the Lamentations of the Flame Princess which allows some new artificial limb work. Littlus replaces his pipe-like robotic leg (courtesy the Dei-Phage) with the “Major Award” leg from Christmas Story…fish...