2024/01/03: The Formian War Part 6 Report
General Summary
Knight, Kit, Malakai, Starlight, Ash
While Terana and co. went to hit the mine, Knight and Kit picked up a group of new adventuring buddies and went to kill the mad derro. Ash had the feeling he was needed, so he dropped by Malakai, gave him a list of parts he'd need to properly fix the singularity engine, grabbed him to take to New Hallownest to join the group. Starlight stopped by as well, apparently noticing the explosions and other disruption down here. Other (NPC) adventurers joined in: A really tall girl (6'6", extremely skinny, very fancy black mourning robe, fully covered by long gloves and such). She's acting pretty shy. A particularly cocky-looking halfling fighter with an enhanced longsword. Darkly dressed gnome thief. Cold-looking elven woman, as in literally frosty and with bluish-white hair and skin. She isn't wearing a whole lot. Big hulking dude in a clerical robe with a shepherd's crook staff. Has very obvious holy symbol of the goddess of healing.
Starlight's party is reasonably powerful. The tall girl is pretty new.
Knight acted as navigator. About 10 miles away from New Hallownest, the terrain had been markedly altered. Many old tunnels with markings by dwarves, drow, derro, etc. had been unveiled. Ash said it was just an Underdark thing, and the party mostly ignored it and stayed on track. They got jumped by some war golems, but aside from Malakai getting shot repeatedly and then kicked (which he basically ignored), the golems went down quickly. (Golems had about 200 hp.)
Starlight fell through a fungus canning factory roof partway through. Got pulled out by Knight and Malakai. They encountered a cyborg derro in there, who seemed intelligent and suffering and didn't raise any alarms. They elected to leave the cyborg zombie alone for fear of its death triggering alarms, but they fully planned to make sure this whole place was destroyed with every poor cyborg slave going with it.
Once they reached the end of Kit's planned route, Starlight summoned some minions as a distraction, and the party made their run for the center.
The party made its way through multiple crumbling passageways and found an area the golems were patrolling. 16 dwarven war golems with spear things, 2 silver dwarven golems with halberds.
Starlight gave Yvenna a vial of oil of etherealness, letting the enchantress sneak past the golems and teleport everyone else in to join her. They found themselves in an enormous, heavily industrialized cavern. Almost 10 miles across. Sort of like industrial Chicago. Some buildings of note: Giant foundry building, with rail lines coming in and out bringing materials. Very smoky. City divided into four quadrants. One incredibly tall building sort of hanging from ceiling, with large parts of the building being supported by chains of living golems that frequently shifted and moved in response to unknown commands. Gigantic, very crude step pyramid immediately adjacent to foundry. Party was currently in a more normal part of the city, sort of an urban residential area. Many 4-5 story chunky apartment complexes, lots of wires and antennae sticking out all over the place. There's a central apartment block in the residential sector. There's a giant agricultural farm area mostly growing fungus, which seems to be growing off the industrial waste. There are people moving off in the distance, but it's unclear from this distance what they are. The fungus being picked is being tossed into piles to rot.
Right in the middle of the city, there's a larger, more fancy building. Not as big as the foundry or the pyramid, but has a big round tower with a projected energy field around it. The mad derro's head is projected on the giant cylinder, and everywhere he looks, the city changes. Big brother is watching.
Kit guided the party on a stealthy route through the city to the central building. While doing his initial scouting run, he found out the "people" seen in the distance are cyborg derro zombies. Basically robots. Kit found no animals at all. He did find living statues, cybernetic earth elementals, golems, war golems, and yet more cyborg zombie derro.
The stealthy route got the party close to the center, but past a certain point the golem density was too high to sneak past. Starlight summoned minions as a distraction and Knight carried Yvenna into the lobby of the central building so she could summon the group.
Lots of traps near the elevators. Party ignored the obvious trap elevator, fought an invincible golem to no good effect, and fled for the upper floors via a hidden passageway. There were office spaces behind the secret door, some of the chairs having actual skeletons in them. (Some of the skeletons had marvelous mustaches.)
Rewards Granted
3 xp
Character(s) interacted with
Starlight's tagalong party. Tall enchantress, halfling fighter, gnome thief, cold elven woman, hulking cleric.
Created Content
Notes
Locke has bane against undead. Everyone who participated in the meeting in the Underdark is now dead to him, and apparently he had to make a bunch of checks in the background during that meeting to not start a fight immediately. Working with the archlich Inkanzor in any way was anathema to him.
Giordino wields a gladius or claws.
Starlight: Has been traveling in the Underdark. Grey/white mage robe. Coral mask, no real features aside from eyes. Glowing eyes. No pupils, all white. White hair from under hood. 5'10". Cloak that looks like a galaxy, with moving stars (including shooting stars). Plain staff, several knives. Some sashes, one with a star on it, the other dark and swirly.
Malakai has a sword called (Area?). Last-ditch anti-everything weapon. Hits everything in a wide area around him really hard.
Starlight has a staff that, if focused through, removes all of her defenses and causes any spell to take a full round to cast, but makes whatever spell she cast cut through all resistances.
The frosty elf girl is all draconic and arcane, in terms of power sources.
Shy enchantress(?) is Yvenna Schwarzchild. Halfling's name is Dova. Gnome is Ven, elf is Aishivastis, priest is Meis.
The Evil City of Gertaglebrache
Starlight
Knight of Darkhome
Ash Falconherst
William Kit
Malakai
Report Date
03 Jan 2024
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