Hello everyone! Long time lurker here, wanting some help with an adventure idea.

So, I've had a Dark Heresy idea bouncing round inside my brainium for a while now, but I feel I'm missing some key pieces to string it together into a full adventure. Anything you want to chuck in will be generiously received!

My basic idea came from watching the classic Hong Kong Cinema film Hard Boiled. The film involves a policeman in a deep undercover role with a triad gang having to excute another policeman that has been uncovered as an informant. The informant says to him before he's shot that there are so many stool pidgeons in the triad gangs not even the police are sure who the real criminals are any more.

I think this applies nicely to a Dark Heresy setting; a fairly obvious adventure plot is having our Acolytes interacting with (observing, assassinating, interrogating) a suspected Heretic who later turned out to be another Inquisitor. What if we make it more complex, though? What if we have a classic Dark Heresy intrigue plot, but what if every other party involved in the adventure is actually an Inquisitor or Inquisitorial Acolyte? To me this would give a fantastic dark gothic humour feel to an adventure, and the 40K tropes of endless bureaucracy and the left hand not knowing what the right is doing.

The challenge is getting this into a plot the players can engage with and where they can find out at least part of what's really going on.

I thought it would be good to send the players to observe some kind of hand-off or deal between two groups of heretics. Unknown to the players' Inquistor, and to each other, both groups of heretics are fronts for Radical Inquisitors operating in the sector. The courier with the item to be traded to or from the meeting is then intercepted by an Assassin in the employ of a third, Puritan Inquisitor (unaware of the presence of any of the other Inquisitors) who is attempting to recover/destroy whatever is in the package.

My best idea for what follows is a game of 'find the parcel', similar to a film like Pulp Fiction (as a nod to that film and other films liek Repo Man, it could be the contents of the 'parcel' are never actually revealed), across the 4 different Inquisitorial parties. I'd originally pictured the whole thing happening at a party at the Govenor's Mansion, but the more I think about it the more I think that chases down shadowy alleys and tracking through crowded rain-streaked streets would be fun.

Any, that's the skeleton of my idea, but as you can see it's missing many key parts. What I've got is basically the 'background' for a more interesting adventure.

Thank you for reading this far, look forward to hearing your thoughts!

You know, this reminds me of a Rogue Trader thread I've read during the past days. In there, the players have made a deal with the Inquisition to sell heretical Halo devices to whoever is interested and can pay the price, with the forces of the privy Inquisitor later rounding up everyone who made a purchase or bid on the item.

When we apply your twist on that theme, we could end up with:

• An Inquisitor who wants to sell the package to capture and interrogate heretical buyers
• An Inquisitor who wants to buy the package to capture and interrogate the heretical seller
• An Inquisitor who wants to buy the package to see what's inside
• An Inquisitor who wants to steal the package from either seller or buyer for similar reasons
• And an Inquisitor who has just heard of this auction and wants to burn everyone and everything down once he finds out just where on Holy Terra this blasphemous meeting is taking place.

Cue chaos at the auction, Imperial forces opening fire on other Imperial forces perceived as corrupted by Chaos (when they're just working for one of the other Inquisitors and assume the same about their counterparts), and in the end the only contents of the package are a heavy leather-bound tome with ... blank pages.

You could indeed use Inquisitors of many different factions. To elaborate on Lynata's ideas:

• The Inquisitor who wants to sell the package is in fact an Istvaanian (or Recongregator) wanting to cause turmoil in the sector through it.
• The Inquisitor who wants to buy the package is in fact a Xanthite (or Xeno Hubris) wanting to use it for himself.
• The Inquisitor who has just heard of this auction is a Monodominant (or Amalthian) and wants to burn everyone and everything down once he finds out just where on Holy Terra this blasphemous meeting is taking place.