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Projection Stone Mine
The mine is madness! The Bards need only retrieve a single projection stone shard. Yet it seems Yannick is quite insistent on retrieving two shards despite the risks to the party who, setting one foot inside the cavern, are immediately beset by all manner of hazards.
The immensity of the mine is first awe-inspiring, then terrifying, as the party assesses the task before them. They close quickly on the first of the glowing markers denoting a potential shard site. It doesn't take long for the crawling cave denizens to appear. Dog-sized silverfish to the left of them, cave scorpions to the right, there they are, stuck in the middle...until they discover the potential of the mine carts. Now even the earth elementals, appearing in trios, have trouble keeping up.
While Hemlock and Galen take turns careening on carts to smash into, swipe at, and distract the cave's savage fauna, Yannick, Agiri, Dash and Jericho desperately race from spot to spot, digging away at the walls. Dash uses his earth-based Kineticist powers to peel away the rocks, but it begins to feel hopeless as site after site comes up empty. Slowly, the monsters in the dark start overcoming the heroes. Yannick goes down, then Hemlock, and Dash, then Yannick again. Agiri and Jericho continue to bring them back valiantly, but more and more creatures rise to take the place of the slain. Some in the party question which is worse, the bite of the bugs or the bite of Agiri's blade as he deftly slices, but always gives more than he takes.
Suddenly it's there! A shard rests first in the hands then in the mouth of Dash. There's but one site left unchecked and Yannick yells for the party to hold fast while Dash and Jericho frantically dig at the wall.
Galen, Hemlock, Agiri and Yannick make a gritty stand, using the mine cart as cover and taking out a horde of silverfish. Unfortunately, Yannick is felled again by a large cave scorpion which perishes to Hemlock's bullet a moment later. With more bugs on the way, time has run out. At that moment, Dash triumphantly retrieves the second projection stone. Everyone races for the mine cart, scoops Yannick's body up, and rolls to the exit with not a moment to spare.
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