[Rage of Rhelg] Mission Reports

[Rhysand Sekker]

UPDATE: APPRENTICE SEKKER

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Following is the report of an expedition to Rhelg to investigate the disappearance of an Imperial patrol in the swamps within the Garden District of the planet.

Attending:

• Sith Tutki (mission lead)
  
• Apprentice Rhysand Sekker
  
• Apprentice Naile Valzino
  
• Apprentice Emlar Racta
  
• Apprentice Charsette
  
• Apprentice Nivalis (with a Vornskr pup)
  

Gathering at the shuttles of the Horuset Estate, Sith Tutki gave several within the group specialised tasks. Apprentice Charsette was to use her Force Sight to assist in detecting any trace or warning of Sithspawn Q163 or other phenomena. Apprentice Nivalis was to handle the Vornskr pup, which acted as a bloodhound in the search. If contact was made with Sithspawn Q163, Apprentice Valzino was to implement a tracking device on the creature.

After arriving on Rhelg, we set out into the swamps and ventured inside, with the following formation:

• Front: Apprentices Nivalis and Sekker, with the Vornskr pup.
  
• Middle: Sith Tutki, with Apprentices Racta and Charsette
  
• Back: Apprentice Valzino
  

Venturing into the swamps, Apprentice Racta noticed that something had come through the treetops, though what was unclear. Apprentice Nivalis found a civilian-issue blaster pack on the route beneath the ruined treetops, which leads me to suspect that the patrol was ambushed by something.

Further on the route, we encountered a farmstead, long-abandoned, I estimate several decades at least. A sense of death pervaded the area around the homestead itself, which was ruined. Apprentice Nivalis explored it, finding "fresh-ish" blood, of which samples were taken and are now delivered to Lord Sarias. Heading south, we followed the Vornskr pup, which stopped at the edge of the water that covered the fields south of the farmstead. I sensed a Dark-Sided Presence at the bottom of the water, with a further sense of death around the area. It was not active, more a remnant, like from an Alchemical or Sorcerous ritual.

Sith Tutki used the Force to retrieve something that sat on top of the Dark-Sided Presence, which was a mix of body parts, some clad in Imperial reconnaissance armour, some in civilian outdoorsman garb. They sat on top of the remnants of a ritual site, which is the source of the Presence. The moment it left the water, a screech echoed in the distance, and all life between us and its source scattered, running away.  We began withdrawing back to the shuttle, while the forest went silent. While it approached, we were all capable of Sensing it.

Boarding the shuttle, we took off in time to see Sithspawn Q163 approach, tunnelling underneath the earth, tossing steel plates embedded into the earth into the air without difficulty, demonstrating significant strength. When it reached the shuttle's previous location, the ground exploded in a shower of dirt and mud, and it screeched again, likely in anger. It then thrust something up into the earth approximately the shape of a skull and the size of a human torso.

Conclusion:

We can conclude from this that Sithspawn Q163 indeed burrows, and upon returning to the Estate, Sith Tutki mentioned that it was capable of cutting through structural beams with sheer force. It is theorised that the bodies we uncovered were set at the location of a previous Dark-Side ritual, though it is no longer active. The bodies match the missing patrol. It is possible that:

• The bodies were not part of the ritual itself, but rather a 'stash' kept by Q163
  
• The ability to hide in the Force was a misconception
  
• The creature has some kind of affinity to the ritual site
  
• The bodies were used as some sort of sacrifice
  
• Any sort of Sorcerous energy being channelled will stir Q163