We were assigned a new member to our squad, an adeptor sororitas called Quintilla Lupa.

We were ordered to the planet Zillmans Domain, locate and terminate the arch heretic Ferran Ghast. A secondary objective was to determine the fate of the last group to attempt to terminate him.

We spent a week in the warp flying to the planet. We easily located the lander belonging to the previous group. It was deserted. We found tracks leading away from the lander towards the nearby town. We started following them, but a tremendous storm came in, forcing us back to our starship. Drakar tried to fly us nearer the town but managed to spin the ship almost crashing before putting the ship back on the ground about 2 kilometres from the village.

We walked the rest of the way to the village. The villagers did not seem overly concerned at our presence. We found the local tavern and questioned the barmaid. There was a fair due to start shortly. There were a number of people in the tavern who had arrived for the fair.

The barmaid denied recognising an image of Ghast but I could tell she was lying. She moved off and Orday followed. He oberheard her telling the barkeep we were looking for the high one. He replied to her that it did not matter as the calling would get us after dark.

Drakar and Severus took the barman into the kitchen and interrogated him with prejudice. He said the high one was in the temple and was the high priest of Dagon, Dagon liked sacrifices and they were called the calling. Dagon called the sacrifices and they would not be able to resist him. They would be taken into the sea. Quintilla then executed the barman and barmaid before we left.

As we walked through the town we were ambushed by cloaked figures throwing bolts of energy. Drakar killed one. The others opened fire, killing another couple before I fried the rest in a firestorm. The figures were wearing rings with a chaos symbol.

We returned to our ship and took off. We waited in orbit until the next day when the next low tide was due. We flew over the coast around the town until we spotted a cave which had been uncovered by the tide. We landed a kilometre away and walked towards it. As we got to the cave I sensed something behind us in the sea. We all ran into the cave except Orday who hid in the rocks as an abomination burst from the sea. Orday fired a crak grenade at it and it charged him. Drakar charged it and immediately fell unconscious after breathing in its spores. After a brief burst of fire from everyone it was dead.

We crept into the cave. Drakar set off a trap and narrowly avoided getting covered in acidic slime. Immediately after five grotesque humanoid figures came at us out of the darkness. Orday and Sangius fired on the nearest one knocking it back. Quintilla set fire to three of them with his flamer and I called down a fire storm on them, but they all survived an onslaught. I then saw a strange mass of flesh crawling along the ceiling from a side corridor. It let out a psychic cry which stunned Quintilla and Sangius. The humanoids advanced and attacked Sangius and Quintilla. Drakar fired on the mass of flesh with his multi laser, killing it. Orday ineffectively tapped one of the humanoids with his chainsword. I called down another firestorm but they still survived, though they were looking badly hurt. The others continued to fight them. I summoned the power of the warp to heal Drakar, Quintilla and Sangius, but then got hit badly by one of the creatures. Drakar finally killed one. Orday continued tapping lightly on one of the creatures and Drakar killed another. I healed myself and Drakar. Drakar killed a third. Orday got hit by one, and I hit one back with a psychic blade, almost killing it. Drakar rhen killed the last two.

We advanced down the corridor and found a statue of an aquatic abomination. I sensed a strong warp presence to the north, down the side corridor. I focused my will on the statue, melting it to slag, as Quintilla explored further down the tunnel. She found a lake at the end with large shadows swimming under the water. We went down the side tunnel towards the warp presence, and found a large cave with another 5 statues, two of the humanoid creatures and three of large serpents. Next to an altar was the arch traitor.

Orday and Sangius fired on him. Both shots hit but did no damage. Quintilla charged him, striking him with a power sword, but he seemed unaffected. I sensed several warp presences, none the figure the others attacked. I called down a firestorm on the only one I sensed which was not in the water. The presence moved to Drakar, who screamed and burst into black flames. I shot at the presence as a huge creature erupted out of the water. Quintilla attacked it with her power sword. Drakar jumped into the water to put out the fire.

The presence shot me with some energy weapon and I was forced to heal myself. Quintilla continued attacking the huge creature while the others shot at the invisible presence.

I healed Drakar and Sangius while the others continued fighting. Sangius managed to hit the invisible presence. I ran into the room and called up a holocaust around myself. It destroyed a statue but the arch heretic, who appeared briefly in the fire, appeared miraculously unharmed. I sensed a connection between him and the statue. Quintilla killed the huge creature, but not before it had disgorged two of the humanoid creatures which continued attacking herself and Drakar.

He hit me in the face with a bolt of energy, seriously wounding and blinding me. Drakar killed one of the humanoids. I healed the damage but could not cure the blindness. Fortunately my sight came back quickly and I was able to see to heal Drakar, Sangius and Quintilla who were all looking badly injured.

Drakar burst into flames as the arch heretic hit him with an inferno shell. He dived into the water after Quintilla who had been dragged under the water by the last humanoid creature. I healed Orday who had been seriously wounded by a bolt round, but he did not regain consciousness. Quintilla managed to kill the creature which was dragging her under. The arch heretic blasted me with energy again, forcing me to heal myself again. I also healed Drakar who had just resurfaced in the water. I then brought Orday back to consciousness as the heretic shouted 'catch me if you can'. Everyone fired down the corridor. He was hit but not killed. He fired back, hitting Drakar in the head and leaving him confused and dazed. After another brief fire fight we finally killed him.

We then returned to Scintilla to report to the templar moray in the administratum quarters of hive Sibilis. We were all awarded the star cluster medal in recognition of our achievements and promoted to the rank of interrogator.