after two days of investigating and a bruising train ride in the morning you need to travel to the conclace where Arch-Deacon Artosy is presenting his findings into the investigation for a Saint.
Time to think over the facts you've learned....
Augmetic Arm:
• Novem believed that Cutters gang abduct people with augmetics. Many abductions occurred at the Maglev Nexus (page 20) close to the Acid Refinery. It is unclear why they are being abducted or what happens to them. No abductees have yet been recovered or accounted for.
• The Vigilite recorded circumstantial evidence that Cutters gangers participated in the worship of the
• Blazing Seraph. She had observed them wearing iconography and even tattoos associated with them.
• Novem’s notes indicate that the Cutters use much better equipment than would be expected of lower
• hive gangers. She looked for, but could not find any evidence of recently reported thefts of such equipment. She speculates that the augmetic theft might be funding these acquisitions.
• Repeated observations indicate the Cutters operate out of a bar named the Claymore. In
• addition, she repeatedly saw them near the Acid Refinery, deep in the territory of the Scarred Hands.
• Many known worshippers of the Blazing Seraph attend worship services at the Cathedrum of Rationed Beneficence (Rokarth: A Guide to the Hive, page 42), including members of the Cutters, who mingle with their social betters.
• Arch-Deacon Artosy (page 41), head of the cathedrum and high-ranking member of the Adeptus Ministorum, has repeatedly asked Zhao to investigate the Scarred Hands for renegade activity. Novem has no evidence of them participating in significant criminal activity — they seem to have a
• strong presence at the refinery, where many work and defend themselves from Cutter encroachment.
• Zhao’s final page of notes records observations of a group of Cutters leaving the Claymore near the Acid Refinery. They accompanied a robed figure and what appeared to be servitors. She notes that she intends to follow them, suspecting that this might be their connection to premium equipment.
The Administratum Rota
• The Scarred Hands controlled the Acid Refinery and used it as their headquarters.
• Vigilites pressed several gangs into service at the refinery hundreds of years ago. Those gangers united to form the Scarred Hands.
• The new ‘workers’ suffered routine chemical burns from poor working and safety conditions, which lead to their naming.
• Knowing that an open revolt would lead to a massacre, the Scarred Hands worked in the shadows, blackmailing and ‘removing’ management until the gang gained control.
• Local Administratum authorities considered this a more acceptable risk than shutting down the refinery to lose production.
• Some of the workers too injured or infirm to continue working at the refinery took positions amongst the Coven of the Blazing Seraph, but were never heard from again.
• None of the gang members nor Jorrgensen know what happened at the facility. All of the gangers at the site died in the blast.
Maglev Station
• The Cutters abduct people to harvest their augmetics for someone called the Armourer.
• The Armourer was the hooded figure who provided weapons for the Cutters in exchange for augmetics so that they could win the turf war with the Scarred Hands. The Armourer wasn’t abducted, merely aided in safely departing the area.
• The Cutters believe that the Armourer is a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The gangers do not know why they need to source augmetics this way.
• The Cutters often hold abductees at the Chop Shop for the Armourer to retrieve through a trapdoor leading to a hive maintenance tunnel system.
