Exploring the Ruins 5/4/2458

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General Summary

Exploration

• The party descended into the dwarven ruin
• The construction was obviously dwarven and there were old dwarven statues and décor, but they were hidden by tapestries of human lords.
• There were traps in the tunnels, but they were easily avoided.
• Rust found a suspicious chest opposite a pair of naked skeletons that contained a mimic ooze which the party dispatched. It seemed to feed on magic, but left behind a copy of Rust's gauntlets when it died.
• The lock from the chest also turned into goop and escaped through a crack in the stone.
• The captain noted that since some paths were covered in spiderwebs and others were clear, they could deduce which way their quarry had gone.
• There were strange eyes popping in and out of the walls. 
• The party overheard some fiends arguing about someone's soul. 

Mirror Trouble

• After ghost stepping through/battering a door down, the party found themselves split over three fractured mirror planes.
• They could hear, but not see each other
• As they had before, they figured they needed to synchronize the rooms.
• Everyone, upon seeing a large stone chair in the room, sat on it.
• The room had slightly different décor, as well as some broken statues in different rooms.
• There were flames burning in different colours. The party managed to synchronize these by putting them out and relighting them in regular orange though they did some experimentation with chemicals
• This seemed to be a workshop
• The captain found mithril ingots in his fragment of the room.

Puzzle Box

• After navigating this far, Alton tried to open a strange puzzle box like object. It seemed to contain a log of an expedition from Aurolyra.
• There were maps of the complex, after it had been abandoned by Vyra.
• Captain Ruakos Aladarn had some logs, and indicated that he deemed these tunnels unsuitable for their purposes due to some kind of instability.
• The logs and maps were somehow stored on a red and blue glass memory.

Rewards Granted

• 7 plat
• 143gp
• mimic guantlets of ogre power
• 3000gp mithril ore ?

Character(s) interacted with

• Randy Pockets 

Report Date

23 May 2023

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Related Characters

• Helena Redbarrow
• Randy Pockets
• Ruakos Aladarn
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