Session 147 March 15, 2017

Session 147 March 15, 2017

Noon, 4th day of the Great Fair, Glavnonne armory wing

AD clock reads 00.000.04.12

The lonely undying fire giant corpse’ control cube is collected then it’s decapitated to forestall subsequent reanimation. An arrow silted murder room is found to the south. Its single islander undying attendant is quickly murdered and mutilated same as the fire giant. A parallel murder room can be seen across a wide cavern that lies behind Glavnonne’s entrance palisade. A wide pit in the cavern evidences where Finkleworm must have burst the Fire Giant’s defenses from behind.

An immense gutted armory is found to the north with an adjacent trophy room adorned with various racial banners hung from its ceiling. Banners for Gnolls, Kobolds and Islander tribes are seen here. A fully stocked smaller armory is found east of the trophy room. While investigating its contents, voices are heard approaching. An ambush is set and sprung which kills a team of Islander fighters, a mouthless Cleric and a pair of undying Fire Giants. A newly discovered transpatial tube launcher engulfed most of the investigators in a magical ball of fire. The survivors of the explosion are dispatched by the party’s weapons. The TransTube and all the ammunition are looted.

Edan spies the main hall where more foes are lying in wait. The party is shadow stepped to a catwalk above and behind the ambushers. A group of Islander fighters and an eyeless Cleric fall to a surprise attack with the TransTube. One of the pair of undying Fire Giants is singed by the explosion. Stranded two levels below the party, the pair of undying Fire Giants in the main hall slink into hiding keeping the party observed, no doubt informing their handler(s) of our activities. Like the first team, the dead have no loot worth taking.

We descend to the middling catwalk where undying are milling about with raw material in their hands as they enter into an overwhelmingly hot room to the northwest. Those that return from the room are empty handed. Ignored by these undying we approach their destination where we find a conveyor belt manufactory staffed by gorilla autonotoms heating material delivered by the undying, hammering the material into shape and impregnating nano fiber material into sheets that are conveyed to a central steamy pit where the stuff disappears from our view. Kalgunn adores their industry and laments its beautiful.

Axel’s power armor allows him to endure the manufactory’s heat so he crosses a catwalk to another door. There he finds a 50 x 50 x 50 cube room where the catwalk continues to surround a giant 30 x 20 cube hanging from the ceiling. A bedraggled unhealthy dragon’s head hangs from the bottom of the cube. Undying armed with spears jab the cube causing flashes of lightning that prompt the dragon to belch dragon flame into a whole in the floor below. There are steps to a raised dias where there is a very large autonotom shaped like a dwarf made of solid metal with no exposed joints or gears.

Axel returns to the party reporting what he’s seen. We decide to immediately assault. The undying attack, surrounding us quickly. Chuq and Ronan succumb to the manufactories’ heat as the party is shadow stepped to the door Axel had closed. They are dragged by the dwarves into the Cube/Dragon room where they recover in a minute. The door is spiked shut before we open up against the occupants since we hear loud grounding from the palisades. Ronan and Axel move to slay the undying stabbing Arumtaxis. The rest engage the A-1000 with Thessalhydra acid, Ice walls and magical lightning. Eventually all undying lay slain, Edan and Chuq move to release Aruntaxis leaving Thorfus alone to face the A-1000 with the last of our lightning in his hand. Edan yells at the back of Chuq’s head “Get his blood first!” Chuq turns to say “Who, me?” when time just stops…. for station identification. Until next Tuesday…