Session 75 – People & Places

Session 75 – People & Places

Maranthala – Chief Bioforge Engineer. Female dwarf who altered herself into a chimera of various humanoids and mechanical devices. Slain by Thorfus with the “multi-attack” sword.

Reliquaries – Formal name the ancient dwarves gave to their library cubes.

 *PAS (Personal Access Device) -* Ancient Dwarven terminology for the various lenticular discs we have found for various levels of security dealing with dwarven artifacts and portals. They come in Copper (Security), Silver, Platinum (highest level), and Gold. The Priority from lowest to highest appears to be gold, silver, copper, platinum.

Chief Pathogen Engineer, XK Section G – We believe this to be the area in the other portals that was locked down. Where the 6 missing dwarves in power armor went.

Xen Khel (Research Station Prime) Network – We found this as an option at Maranthala’s desk. It explained what all of the letters on the big portal keys are for:

-Upper City (A)

-Botanical Research (C)

-Engineering & Power (F)

-Pathogen (G)

-Special Research (X)

-Crystal Tower Base Station (Error when tried this option. All the others gave No Response.)

-Xeno Tel2

The Conclave in Exile – Mentioned by Maranthala in her personal diary. This appears to be the ruling council of dwarves after the fall of the Crystal Tower.

Date system – The ancient dwarven dating system seems to function like a clock. The first date we found using Maranthala’s desk was 01.001.01.01. When the three digit portion hit 350 the left most number incremented. It appears that the dating system is xx.DDD.MM.DD, where the DDD = day of year, only 350 days in their year? MM = 1-12 months, and DD = day of month from 1-30. Two significant dates were 6.0.34.?? (John didn’t have the exact date.), and 6.035.09.12. The first saw the number of Khels go down from about 50 to 40. Perhaps the fall of the Crystal Tower? The last date showed the number of Khels as 6. I’m not sure I have the right interpretation, as that would mean that the ancient dwarves were only in control for 6 years. 350 is also an average lifespan for a dwarf, perhaps it is the number of generations of the empire?

Geological Survey – We learned from Maranthala’s desk that there were once more islands in the archipelago.

Underground Cavern with giant mushroom forest – WE opened the shutters in Maranthala’s office and through thick glass with rie support in it, we saw a huge cavern with a forest of giant bio-luminescent mushrooms. On the far side of this huge cavern, we saw a dwarven complex with similar shutters, hundreds of feet away, but the giant mushrooms had breached the wall and infiltrated the structure. We postulated that this might be the facility on lockdown.