Rin's Guild report - 0.1.25 agf

They came from below

The peaceful Coastal township of Bonfeure was always a place of gentle breezes and folk who knew their business, knew the ocean and were happy just being part of the world without the world interfering if you get my drift.

However, a strange army of robotic steam powered monstrosities recently started emerging from the bay!

A brave "Strike Force" of adventurers set out from the guild to assist them in their fight!

• Rin, the Fish Sorceress
• Fred the Red, Fighter (& lawyer)
• Oswald, Master Artificer (& tavern owner)
• Moss, a masterful rogue of the highest order
• Ridge Rockjaw, Paladin and upstanding Dwarf
• Ideal, Bard, Wizard, and lead piper
• Illyra, Bard and master of the lute
• Mabel, ancient barbarian grandmother
• Adran, druid and lover of all things tree.

All set out to investigate the disturbance!

Arriving quickly, they stood atop a small cliff above the town, and surveyed the damage below.

The town was on fire, burning and fighting for their life against rampaging machines.

Deciding on a course of action, the party snuck down and casting pass without trace, made it to the town streets undetected.

Finding a small group of villagers, fending off two small robots with oars and poles, the party engaged and defeated the robots and quickly headed up into the highest point of the village, where a large robot was attempting to break down the doors of the town hall!

Fighting the giant creature, the barbarian leaping in and throwing her back out, the fighter hacking with their axe, and the rogue firing arrows from the outside with precision shots. The Druid became a huge bear and engaged the monster directly. The Spellcasters focused and heated the metallic creature, eventually decimating it and freeing the group locked within.

The towns mayor and the town guard emerged, then after being chastised by the party for their lack of action in crisis, they moved out to bring the survivors back to safety here.

The party moved through the town towards the docks, where the fighting was fiercest, and found another strange large robot in the town square. the druid changed to a constricting snake, and wrapped up the thing as best he could, while the casters threw spell after spell at the thing.

Eventually the paladin flew up with their boots of flying and dropped like a stone on top of the beast, destroying it and half the town fountain in the process.

They were cheered on, as the townsfolk made their way out in force, driving back the monstrous mechanical marvels, as the heroes pushed forward to the docks.

Here, the town guard had the creatures at bay, but a small island in the middle of the bay had more mechanical creatures erupting from it, so the party moved across to take the source of the problem in hand.

Deep inside the tiny island, they found an ancient staircase, and deeper still within, an ancient structure. from the Ancient Empire long lost to time!

There in the dark, someone had cobbled together some old technology to an ancient cube that was radiating power! these machines were creating the robots!

Out of the dark nearby came the sounds of booming mechanical footsteps, and a machine stepped into the light.

It was not fully a machine like the others, but was piloted by a man!

This man told of how he was smarter than the dumb town, and they didn't give him the respect that he deserved! banished to this small island by the other "lesser" townies, he found this cave and learned to harness its power, and soon he would rule over the town!

As the two bards set about pulling apart the structures and disabling the machines, the Cube seemed to "Sense" their assistance, and flashed in time with their music!

The others tore into the mechanical suit the strange outcast piloted, and with a final blow by the barbarian grandma, they split the machine in half, arrested the man, and saved the town!

They took the cube, and its power established the Tower of the Magi!