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PART I OF THE APOSTASY GAMBIT

ADVENTURE TRILOGY

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Contents

Chapter III:The Macharian Peace

The Reveal ............................................................................46

Area 1: Spinal Shaft .............................................................48

Area 2: Gear Housing ..........................................................48

Area 3: Genatorium .............................................................49

Genatorium Daemons ..........................................................49

Area 9: Princeps Tactorum .................................................50

Area 4: Armoury ...................................................................50

Area5: Moderati Quarters ...................................................51

Area 8: Medicae Suite ..........................................................51

Area 6: Bridge ......................................................................52

Against All Odds ..................................................................54

Troubleshooting ...................................................................54

Experience Points .................................................................54

Chapter I: Death From Above

Area 1: The False Chapel ....................................................10

Area 2: The Hall of Ancestors ............................................12

Area 3: The Menagerie .......................................................13

Area 4: The Courtyard .......................................................16

Area 5: The Mansion ..........................................................16

Area 6: The Hall of Histories .............................................16

Investigation .........................................................................17

Troubleshooting ...................................................................18

A Call from The Dark .........................................................18

Chapter II: The Haematite Cathedral

A Tale of Woe .......................................................................20

Getting There .......................................................................21

Unforunate Events ................................................................21

Inciting Events ......................................................................22

Home Again ..........................................................................22

Medispex Servo-skull ..........................................................22

The Gilded Cathedral ..........................................................24

Abbot Jurutas ........................................................................24

The Black Sepulchre ............................................................24

The Librarium of Relection ...............................................24

Razored Wing ......................................................................25

Area 1: The Grounds ...........................................................27

The Unburied Dead .............................................................27

Area 2: The Nave .................................................................28

The Cog-Key ........................................................................28

Area 3: The Skulleria ..........................................................29

Area 4: The Hidden Laboratory .........................................29

Gustavus Hekate ...................................................................31

Reanimated Victims .............................................................31

Area 5: Trophy Room ..........................................................32

Area 6: Warrant Room ........................................................32

Area 7: The Scholaria ..........................................................33

Area 8: The Chambers ........................................................33

Area 9: Barricaded Chamber ..............................................34

Area 10: The Ballroom ........................................................35

Area 11: Nikea's Tower .......................................................36

Area 12: The Librarium .......................................................38

Area 13: The Solarium ........................................................39

Area 14: Sanatorium ............................................................40

Area 15: Medicae Theatre ...................................................41

Area 16: Planetarium ...........................................................42

Koronath's Opus ..................................................................42

The Device ............................................................................42

Koronath Hekate ..................................................................43

The Belly of the Beast .........................................................44

Troubleshooting ...................................................................44

Experience Points .................................................................44

Chapter IV: Behold the Dei-Phage

Librarium Nox ......................................................................57

Quake Cannon .....................................................................58

Furies .....................................................................................58

On Wings of Madness .........................................................59

The Dei-Phage .....................................................................59

Aftermath ..............................................................................60

What’s on the Vid-File? .......................................................60

Chapter V: Appendix

Inquisitor’s Orders #1 .........................................................62

Maps of House Thrungg .....................................................63

Thrungg’s Journal .................................................................64

Inquisitor’s Orders #2 .........................................................65

Librarium of Relection Excerpts .......................................66

Map of the Haematite Cathedral........................................68

Hadria Hekate’s Diary .........................................................69

Koronath Hekate’s Notes ....................................................70

DeVayne’s Evidence .............................................................71

Introduction

“What is there, but dynasty? The stars are out of our reach. The

great cities of this sector, the spires and cathedrals, they are not for us.

All we have, is each other. All we have is dynasty.”

Game Master’s

Brieing

T he Black Sepulchre is primarily an investigative

–Nikaea Hekate

adventure in which the Acolytes, after obtaining the

hand of a Daemon Prince, investigate an ancient

fortress named the Haematite Cathedral. There they ind the

unquiet spirits of the cathedral’s former inhabitants, they who

belong to the Hekate Dyansty, and delve into their tragic fates

to discover the cathedral’s greatest secret.

The adventure in the Haematite Cathedral is non-linear—

the Acolytes can explore the cathedral and encounter its

denizens in any order, and part of the challenge facing

them is understanding the information they accrue on the

Dynasty’s grim past. The Hekate Dynasty has three stories to

reveal to them, each the sad tale of a corrupted soul, but the

Acolytes might uncover parts of the stories intermingled with

one another. The less hostile warp apparitions can help them

understand the cathedral’s past, and part of the challenge for

the Game Master is portraying these unfortunate creatures

who are part of the Cathedral. Another challenge is ensuring

that the cathedral is infused with all the atmosphere that

psychic apparitions, tragedies and the corruption of Chaos

can give it. The true nature of the Haematite Cathedral and

what has occurred there is the real mystery in this adventure,

and the task of the Acolytes is to uncover this nature piece by

piece. At the same time, the location itself is both adversary

and ally to the Acolytes, with the mutants and psychic echoes

being simply a symptom of something larger and far fouler.

Once the adventurers delve into the cathedral’s lower levels

and discover its greatest secret – that it is actually the upper

torso of an Imperial Titan, half-buried and condemned to lay

dormant by the presence of a daemon – the adventure features

more action and life-or-death moments. The daemon prince

is freed, the Titan walks, and all manner of mayhem erupts

before the Acolytes can decipher the terrible truth held captive

for centuries. This truth is crucial to the Apostasy Gambit

campaign, and introduces a new and terrible threat intent on

bringing ruin and catastrophe to the entire Calixis Sector.

B lack Sepulchre is the irst part of The Apostasy

Gambit, a Dark Heresy campaign that takes a cell

of Acolytes from investigating the tragic history of

a warped Cathedral to crusading against a conspiracy at the

heart of one of the Imperium’s most vaunted organisations.

The Black Sepulchre can be played on its own, or it can form

a part of the grand Apostasy Gambit campaign.

The Black Sepulchre ends with the Acolytes inding

evidence of a long held secret. The nature of this secret is

purposefully left ambiguous. While the adventure provides

the hook into the next book in the series in the form of

evidence against Arch-Cardinal Ignato, it is presented to the

players as a handout available on page 71. To alter this secret

so that the campaign follows a different storyline a GM must

merely replace this inal hand out and description.

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