Session 37: Breaching Ironslag

General Summary

After doing the food exchange with the 2 fire giants at the top of the elevator shaft, you made your way down into the mines of Ironslag.
You got off the elevator 2 floors above the ground floor, but made your way through the mines until you came upon 2 salamanders who were keep watch over roughly a dozen slaves. One of them whom was the female gnome, Wiri Fleagol, that Halani told you to seek out.
You freed the slaves from their captors, however you left them hungry and to their own devices to escape the mines by their own means. Wiri did however accompany you and guide you down into the breaches of Ironslag.

Ironslag Upper Level

• Entered in from the mines at area 17. Killed a salamander slave overseer. Saw that the slaves in here were shoveling ore into a bucket chain system that is perpetually moving counter-clockwise.
• Zephyr slinked down the tunnel and looked in areas 14 and 28 which opened up into a massive chamber that is currently being used to build the giant colossus, "The Vonidod". Currently in this chamber you saw Duke Zalto, who was currently playing fetch with 2 of his Hellhounds.
• You left the slaves and Wiri in area 17 and made your way into chamber 18 which opens up into chamber 34 below. Here you saw 4 ogres who were dumbing the ore into the forges below. You also saw duke Zalto's son, Zaltember, who was in the process of torturing/murdering a dwarf. After this he left and made his way downstairs and passed into the chambers north of area 34.
• From Wiri's description, you know that area 20 is where the massive slave wheel is that powers the bucket chain above and that area 23 is where the slaves are kept.
• You snuck past the ogres and made your way to area 19 and then down into the lower chambers.

Ironslag Lower Level

• When you got to the bottom, you watched as a very large catlike humanoid passed by your party into chamber 34, and then eventually through and into the chambers north of 34.
• You went into area 36, and further into the chambers east where you battled it out with the same drow that you initially encountered in Yartar who were delivering the Iron Flask to Duke Zalto.
• After a difficult battle and even the death of a party member, Ivellios, from a charmed Eldred , they eventually fled down into the tunnels. Draac, the mindflayer along with several of the drow elite warriors managed to make it out alive. You did however give him a run for his money and kill the drow mage, Taal, that accompanied him.
• Battleworn and eager to press on, you took just a moment to regain your composure. You are in Area 36 and the time is now 00:25; with 5 minutes left on Pass Without a Trace cast by Zephyr..

Report Date

30 Sep 2020