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by Archereon on Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:15 pm
The moment Holt opened the door to his cabin on the Inquisitor's ship, his suspicion that Obsbourne had already decided which of the candidates he was going to recruit was confirmed. Before him was an square room about 5 meters wide and 6 meters long, lit by several incandescent lamps located in arched recesses in the walls. Besides the lighting fixtures however, the room was almost entirely bare of the elaborate ornamentation that characterized private cabins aboard Imperial vessels besides a large imprint of the Machine Cult's coat of arms, and an Aquila motif on the ceiling.
An officer sized naval cot was bolted to the far side of the wall, though from the looks of things, the bedding was of higher quality than what Holt had observed in pics of the majority of cabins he'd seen in pics of Imperial Navy and merchant vessels, and certainly better than the thin slabs of fabric that passed for cots aboard Explorator ships. Across from the bed in the near left corner of the room, there was a plain metal desk, also bolted down, with a surprisingly ornate office chair attached to a pair of rails.
On the other side of the room there was a sliding metal door leading into a compact lavatory, complete with a shower and a cabinet housing a wide variety of toiletries. To the right side of the door was a locker with a dataslate taped to it, and an empty bookshelf. Having been born on a Forge World, Holt had never experienced claustrophobia as far as he could remember, and as such didn't mind the somewhat cramped quarters in the slightest. While he had been taught the value of ornamentation in pleasing a device's machine spirit, a less elaborately decorated room would be far easier to clean.
Not that that particular task would be at all difficult, since, as far as he could tell, the room was completely and utterly spotless; the metallic walls and desk were polished to a shine, the cot and bedding were white enough to be brand new; and probably were. Just to be thorough though, he ordered the servo skull floating above him to sterilize the room with ultra-violet rays before entering it.
At this point, Holt was extremely curious as to whether the Inquisitor was a psyker, and, more importantly, whether Osbourne had been reading his mind during the long wait between his arrival at the space station and his interview with the Inquisitor; at one point he'd spent a good three hours thinking about the chaos that would ensue if the station's gravity failed.* There was also the matter of the careful cleaning, though from experience, Tristan knew he was blindingly obvious about his obssession, and would be surprised if the Inquisitor hadn't seen that mentioned several times in his dossier.
Might as well ask; he'll know I'm thinking about it if he is.
Shrugging, Holt walked up to the footlocker and activated the dataslate.
This locker will open to the password 17724. Do with it, its contents, and this dataslate what you will. Your weapons and armor are in locker 224 in the ship's armor. It opens to the same code.
Holt tapped in the password out on the keypad, and the light switched to green. Opening the locker, he found a box containing a set of varioius hand tools and auspexes, a fully stocked medkit complete with a handheld diagnostic unit. Best of all, resting in the small holster hooked to the wall of the locker was the gelt gunāa rare archeotech pattern of lasgunāthat had been confiscated from him after being taken into Inquisition custody.
If the Tech-Priest still had lips he would've smiled. Everything was in order, and more importantly everything was clean.
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Archereon on Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:35 pm, edited 7 times in total.
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