Session Two Hundred and Five (Graveyard of Empires Summary)
SESSION 205 – MAY 30, 2018
We open the door, ready for a fight, and did not check for traps. Many of us are severly wounded. Druetta is outright killed, and a few others are knocked unconscious. Nash and Lambertus set to work saving those knocked down. Rallion notices a monk of the Order of the Celestial Dragon and several dwarves in normal Silverthrone armor. Rallion calls out asking why they attacked, and the monk has them hold their fire, when he realizes we are not infected.
A dirty and dissheveled dwarf yells and motions for us to enter the ship, as “the master” wants to meet with us. Axelbot runs over, hits him, then grabs him and brings him into the area with the dwarves and monk, who close the doors. They sigh with relief when Rallion locks it.
We learn that the captured dwarf has resorted to canabalism when the food provided by Marchmain ran out. He eyes Drueta’s body hungrily. He is Nadreat Ironhand. (It was not made clear that he is Lord Ironhand, but Rallion assumes so, since Marchmain said Ironhand was with him.)
Rallion locks him in a room. They take the elevator down to the kitchen, mess hall, and recreation room. They put Druetta’s body in an empty food stasis unit. Nash asks Rallion to use the golden feather and Rallion touches her brown and says a few words over her.
Axelbot asks the two engineers they have, Angus & Coltish, to fix him. They do all they can with the material available. They are amazed that it speaks common, modern dwarven, and all the other languages dwarves speak. They question him about ancient technology. Axel spins a great yarn, and they soak it all in.
Nash and Lambertus cast all the healing they can, then we all rest with Axelbot on watch. Nash attempted to heal Estrill with his second round of healing, but she was infected and attempted to attack him. Rallion and Axel helped and got a cure disease potion in her, and she lay still, dead. (We can’t wait a day to do cure disease. If no time for Lambertus to re-learn the spell, we must use a potion.) We put her body in an empty food stasis chamber, to avoid rot.
The monkey autamaton worked to attract the attention of the infected that got on the catwalk after the explosion we set off.
After healing, but not giving Nash and Lambertus time to heal up, we go up, and with a prayer and silence on Axelbot, we take on the 5 infected still on the catwalk. Once slain, we pushed them over. The monkey made noise to attract the infected and gather them in one area. Before the silence wore off, we ran around to the stairs nearest the crowd. Kauri zapped 15+ with lightning, and all but one are now smouldering husks. Alys cast entangle, which rooted several more to the floor, in addition to a large cloud of spores below.
We hope another couple lightning bolts from Kauri will end the threat of infected in this area so we can ensure the stairs to the surface are secure, as there could be thousands of infected above. We also learned that 100 feet above is the first set of doors over the ship, controlled by the command center off the catwalk. 500 feet above is another set of doors. When it is opened, it will probably rain infected. Our plan is secure the ship area and the forge, so we can take advantage of the agreement to roam freely to return to the sub, etc.