Sea fascists and golems

Another person rose up on the platform, (which was known as a Podicum) giving a speech on fish and the political implication there.
 
With no one seemingly bothered by the murdered senator the group were largely confused but responded with a gallic shrug and decided to ask more questions to locate the Emperor.
 
This being the capital city, he apparently spends some time here, but the nameless politician didn’t seem to know. He said they should go to Old Cerulo. The senator then spoke about how family designed this city and it was so much better than Old Cerulo which didn’t have any protective magical dome to protect from falling from debris. He had clearly never seen a hard day’s work. He also attempted to come on to Liliana but she wasn’t interested. He asked if they had an advisor.
 
Zimori said they had loads of different advisors.
 
“Do you support the Garrum or the Worcesters?”
 
This lead to a conversation about the parties and the lack of a centrist party. He seemed to be digging to find out who had put them up to giving the speeches and learned they’d been approached by people from each party.
 
They also became away that they were looked at with dislike by another person. Clearly not a fan of drylanders. He said some unpleasant things to them from a distance.
 
Liliana used mage hand to slap the racist repeatedly around the face while Kassemir invited the person to come over and ‘say that to my face.’ He walked away still shouting.
 
More conversation took place during which Ziomori and Kassemir said they needed to ‘talk’ to the emperor. Liliana didn’t know that they actually had been hired to assassinate the emperor and so she believed what Z and K were saying and so she thought, ‘Yes! Right, ok, we have a clear objective now!'
 
The group discussed amongst themselves (and above table!) that the end game was to get back to the surface as the route the others used to get down was broken. The emperor would have keys and info on this, so Liliana was fully on board with the idea of finding and talking to the emperor.
 
Someone called Emry had joined them, she was merfolk but also seemed interested in finding a route out and so joined with them to try and escape. She asked some locals and learned that he hadn’t been seen for a month or more. And that he was heavily into feathers and piercings.
 
The racist zealot reappeared with a dagger in his hands and friends in tow.
 
“A look, my favourite piss-boy is back, what do you want?” Kassemir called.
 
They approached intent on attacking, so Kassemir swung his mace and one shotted the leader, As the others turned to run, Liliana hit one with a firebolt and Ziomori hit another with eldritch blast. Emry used her crossbow to kill the one Liliana hit and Kassemir threw a javelin at the only one left standing, skewering him dead. Kassemir set about looting the bodies. The crowd looked scared and occasional murmurs of ‘drylander’ reached. Within minutes the place was empty except for the person giving the speech who was so absorbed in their own words they didn’t notice.
 
Emry said a protective golem was likely to be here any moment and we should move.
 
“Ok, let’s skedaddle.” Said Ziomori and Emry cast past without a trace on them all. They snuck away from the approaching footsteps of the golem into a beautiful park nearby, lit by chemically created lighting. Couples lay under the trees, people practised music, and played games, it looked like everyone was having a very lovely time. The golem’s footsteps still approached. They continued to run on, reaching a neighbourhood of pleasant dwellings with garden surroundings.
 
To evade the golem they dived into a nearby house.
 
“House inspection!” Cried Ziomori and Liliana in unplanned unison.
 
The family tried to engage them in conversation about what life was like above the sea but they barrelled through, “There are some improvements to be made, but you pass, paperwork will be in the post.” Liliana bluffed as they stepped out the back door. They ran through the back garden, the footsteps audible on the other side of the house.
 
They burst into another house, found a scared family hiding in the basement, who they left there. Liliana looked around the room, saw a chest that must have come from a sunken ship, she checked it was not a mimic and opened it but found nothing useful inside. The golem smashed the window of the house next door to peer inside for them, so they decided to keep moving, slipping once again out of the back door, scrambling over a nearby hedge and into another house, where another family cowered in fear. A fake dragonhead was mounted on the wall and the deco had a real geeky vibe. Unfortunately, a golem saw them through the window and moved in their direction.
 
Ziomori ran, Emry slowed one golem down with a gust of wind, Kassemr ran to distract a second one that they saw coming, taking some heavy hits, and Liliana magnified gravity around the golem, hitting it with magical force damage and slowing its speed.
 
“Run!” Liliana shouted and followed Xiomori.
 
Kassemir swung to attack as they tried to run, missing completely, the golem made a strange motion with its left hand and a rune on its forehead glowed, as it cast the haste spell on itself and swept forward to attack Kassemir once more. Liliana hit the golem with wither and bloom, necrotic tendrils wrapping around the golem whilst restoring Kassemir, she turned to run. Xiomori aimed an eldritch blast at the golem attacking Kassemir, hoping to distract it enough to allow him to run. Emry channelled divine magic to invoke duplicity, sending the duplicate in to go distract the golem, sending in a spiritual weapon on the shape of a whoopee cushion to bash the golem with.
 
Kassemir got in some hits before Ziomori’s hit gave him the opportunity to flee. Its face caved in it moved to attack Emry’s duplicate, when it’s attack swing through it moved on through it. Liliana ran out of the house and cast reduce on the golem, to make it half its original size. Ziomori hit it with an eldritch blast and shouted.
 
“Run!”
 
Everyone obliged.
 
A rectangular garden surrounded by mosaiced streets lay ahead….