Session Two Hundred and Four (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

SESSION 204 – May 23, 2018

We finish the battle with infected dwarves in modern power armor. During thefight one of them opened their suit and shot spores into the tram, infecting Drueta, Bavmorda, and Estrill. After the battle, Drueta drinks her potion of cure disease.

Nash tied them to the tram, and before it left, we retrieved 4 new style batteries, each with 2 charges. We gave one to Axelbot for the lightning axe he has, that had no charges.

We find the portal station and no cubes. The armory only had one pristine suit of ancient power armor, but no battery. Bavmorda is short enough to use it, and she uses one of the ancient batteries with one charge that we found. Before getting in the armor, Lambetus casts cure disease.

The other portal station was collapsed.

The forge had inert gorilla automatons, and materials of sheets of metal that only 4 of the many forges had. We encountered 4 infected dwarves. Kauri zapped them with lightning bolt dropping three, who did not move after that. The other was dropped by Bavmorda, and it tried to get up. Rallion zapped it with a charge from his lightning axe. It quit moving. So we have learned that cure disease and lightning will stop the infected.

We go to another tram terminal and see a monkey automaton. It looks at us and signals for us to go in. Rallion puts on the gold circlet and removes his ring, holding it so he can replace it quickly.

The monkey tells us using charcoal from Kauri, that Marchmain Sivis lives and had one other with him, the only two not infected.

The monkey makes a distraction at one door to lead the 40 infected away from us, so we can enter the central core without having to fight out way in.

We pass through a hall of heroes that includes Marchmain, Kalgun, and the names we have seen for the heads of all the research areas in Xen Khenl.

Next we enter the central core and see a 100 foot tall ship like the one some of us saw in the jungle, but this time, it is nose up.

We entered using silence 15′ radius to keep us all quiet and avoid attracting the infected. We go up a spiral staircase about 100 feet and see the gladd of the control room. It is unoccupied.

There is a sign in chalk in modern dwarf – “Survivors”.

It appears to point to the crew quarters across the bridge to the doors to the ship.

We prepare to meet Marchmain Sivis.

It was clear from the energy of the monkey automaton, that Marchmain needs our help and he asked after Thorfus and the Starchy Boyz.

Is this really Marchmain? What does he need from us, and can we trust him?