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ghostdust rubbing it on his gills he became slightly insubstantial and became aware of a silvery grey reality superimposed on his own he could see into the ethereal plane two ghostly gnomes appeared before him the former owners of the shop what are you doing traipsing through my store like this one demanded in heavily accented common first thieves and necromancers now this necromancer cephalus asked can you tell me where he is that lousy bum yeah he s through there the gnome indicated the creep s set up his little operation here if i could get my hands on him the gnome continued to rant and rave about the marionettist and his depredations as the party pressed forward after looting some more ghostdust the party moved through towards the front of the shop strung up like puppets along the walls and dangling from the ceiling of the next chamber were puppets puppets made from reanimated corpses many grafted and modified some dressed in rags others in stolen clothes others unclothed though inert their eyes followed the group eerily any attempt to move through them would result in the adventurers being snared fortunately as yam proved crawling beneath the zombies proved viable one of the things managed to cut its own strings and staggered toward the group but between them they swiftly dispatched it before it could do any harm the commotion however seemed to have altered someone in the next room the party swiftly hid themselves with several cramming themselves into a small supply closet with a sewer access grate dragging the corpse in with them a tall incredibly thin man who moves his stick like limbs like some monstrous insect a man who could only be the marionettist entered the room he carried with him two control bars of the sort used for puppets though these seem to lack strings fortunately he seemed to find nothing wrong and returned to the other room still adopting stealth the party followed him in the next room mechanist s tools filled the shelves along the walls as well as boxes full of coils springs and other bits of clockwork the corpses sprawled on the work tables had their skulls opened up and their brains exposed with clockwork additions grafted crudely on tinkering with their reprogrammed clockwork brains with a devious smug expression on his gaunt and pointed face was the marionettist who surprised by the sudden attack of the adventurers was swiftly pummeled by cephalus webbed fists and swinging quarterstaff he snarled an order and three of the clockwork driven zombie puppets staggered to their feet lurching towards the adventurers while armand and yam cast combat spells into the fray vespidae hurled javelins and performed a sacred battle dance urging her comrades on cephalus meanwhile pressed his attack on the marionettist the wizard snapped an incantation trying to force his way into cephalus mind but the iron willed dagonian barrister repelled him and continued to beat him to a pulp lashing out with his staff and other weapons he knocked the necromancer unconscious but one of the zombies rushed forwards battering him with a vicious blow to the ribs there was an ugly snapping sound and the dagonian fell to the ground blood seeping from his gills vespidae flitted forwards to heal the fallen martial artist while the rest of the party finished off the zombies as cephalus recovered healed by the holy power of vespidae s new patron the queen in yellow sounds could be heard at the door presumably more foes barricading the door swiftly the group retreated yam picking up the marionettist s paddles after some experimentation yam discovered that the paddles were keyed to the zombies and could control them the gnome used this power to make the undead groan and moan loudly hoping to rattle the incoming enemies also directing the reanimated thralls to free themsleves from their strings in the meantime the crowsbeak thugs also stationed in the rookery had found another way into the workshop black swathed men and women displaying the crowsbeak guild mark vespidae again flew forwards weaving the spell burning hands and casting it directly in the crowded doorway the thieves were engulfed in flames and fell to the floor shrieking and smoking several already dead cephalus and armand managed to dispatch those who survived with a minimum of fuss the rookery cleared the party set about herding the stolen zombies back to shambleside cephalus rubbing his ghostdust dusted gills discretely had the reanimated thralls move the crates of the drug to his offices while vespidae buzzing to herself set about cleaning up what would soon be her new hive images thor polukoshko s cephalus t murkwater bloodborne concept art thief concept art keystone france getty image kurt hutton picture post hulton archive getty image fpg getty image condemned criminal origins concept art hex session vi actual play asylum by bearded devil on august 1 2016 in roleplaying the characters in this session were armand percival reginald francois eustace de la marche iii a suspiciously pale apparently human noble and sorcerer and certainly not a ghoul how dare such a thing be suggested an ancient and enigmatic lengian cleric of the mother of spiders name unknown she wears bulky ecclesiastical garments covering an uncertain number of limbs and goes by sister sprigley gilette a hardboiled cigar chomping human mercenary and veteran of several brutal wars and a relatively new arrival in hex vespidae a waspkin bard a sacred dancer with a deathwish shunned by the waspkin community for complicated ritualistic reasons now a devoted follower of the queen in yellow yam an eccentric gnome illusionist and local graduate student at umbral university yam cares little for money yam is curious yam is yam xp awarded 400 xp at their usual haunt the green star the party convened at the request of yam who had received word from some of their gnomish brethren in the district of mainspring that a company of mechanists cogswright associates who seemed to have developed what they called an issue with their automata the gnomes were looking for those with strong skills in problem solving and robot fighting to assist them after stocking up on a few provisions the party set out for the whirring clockwork ghetto of the gnomes stepping into mainspring was like stepping into another world a place of churning gears and hissing steam valves and hammering pistons where all the doors were made for people under four feet tall gnomes make up almost all of the population in the district and could be seen flitting to and fro across streets up and down elevators across bridges and along moving walkways it would have been maddeningly difficult not only to navigate the twisted ever changing machine that is mainspring but to even discern the function of a particular building many of which seem to be multi use were it not for yam who grew up in the mechanical labyrinth amidst the shifting morass of pistons gears steam valves chimneys and whirring clocks it was difficult to tell where one street ends and another began but with yam s guidance they found your way to coil street a meandering street shadowed by an enormous conglomeration of buildings of bewildering size and complexity a churning street sweeping automaton rolled by followed by a mass of smaller litter collection drones spearing bits of trash with their mechanical spikes and then depositing them in the lumbering cauldron shaped incinerator automaton that trailed the robotic train after a quick visit to yam s mother an artificer of some skill directing construction of a new part of the unfathomable mega machine that is mainspring the party made their way to cogswright associates on coil street the rusty metal spire of cogswright associates was so interconnected with the surrounding machinery it was hard to tell where it ended and its neighbours begin its entrance advertised the company as a maker of fine automata and displayed several samples in a glass window these included an automaton flamingo that delicately stalked back and forth across the display an automaton ballerina who occasionally demonstrated its dancing with a twirl and a hulking clockwork ettin its two heads swivelling from side to side appraising passersby inside the party were met by a ten foot tall automaton of gleaming brass armed with a massive halberd it looks a bit like an oversized gnome welcome visitors the automaton s voicebox croaked please state your business here about the robot fighting yam said and the robot ushered them inside a large workshop where thousands of automaton components were scattered madly from coils and springs and gears to chassis parts and painted faces two gnomes are tinkering they looked remarkably like one another though one looks male and the other female ah hi yam the female gnome said hello everyone i m wanda cogswright and i m edgar cogswright owners of cogswright associates the male said wiping a gloved hand on his apron good to see you yam dissertation coming well yam made a non committal noise thank you for coming on such short notice wanda said can we offer you any refreshments tea perhaps eustace gladly accepted and a scuttling teapot automaton poured them tea you fix the scalding issue yam asked eyeing the automaton ah we re working on it wanda said you re adventurers in hex so i take it at least some of you have been down in the old city edgar said moving on to more pertinent matters most of the upper tunnels have been thoroughly looted already and it can be very difficult to reach some of the lower chambers the librarians put all sorts of traps and protections round the entrances so we thought why not circumvent those protections wanda put in we gnomes have been making tunnels for centuries we re really really good at it we don t need to jump through the librarians hoops we can just tunnel into the lower levels even the most conservative estimates suggest we ve barely scratched the surface of the old city edgar went on there are miles of tunnels down there almost all of it totally unexplored the city up here big as it seems is tiny compared to what lies below so we did what gnomes do wanda said we built automata automaton drills to punch through layers of earth and stone and demolitions automata to blast or cut through what can t be drilled automaton protectors to guard our expeditions against the unpleasant things that lurk in the depths of the old city we drilled and delved and drilled and delved and mostly we just found earth and boring empty chambers edgar continued but then we struck proverbial paydirt a sector of the old city hitherto unexplored deep deep below hex full of everything we d hoped books and artefacts and strange machines all of the wonders of the first library our plan had worked unfortunately there s been something of a snag wanda explained we don t know how it happened but something down there started messing with out automata at first just minor malfunctions bots that wouldn t take orders properly or that started doing things on their own but then then things got ugly edgar interjected really ugly the automata turned on us started attacking we lost some of our expedition more are still down there possibly trapped or on the run from our constructs we ve spent a lot of time and gold on this excavation wanda said and we want to know what went wrong we want you to go down there and see if you can find out what made the automata go haywire and if you can reverse it don t worry about damaging any constructs you encounter edgar said do whatever you need to we can always use mending to repair them and of course if you come across any of our expedition while you re down there do what you can to take them to safety if you can t figure out what s causing the automata to behave like this there s sort of a plan b wanda added well more like a plan z really we ve really worked our way through a lot of plans recently if there doesn t seem to be any way to reverse the process we want you to blow the tunnel seal everything back up eventually the automata will wind down on their own and we can go back in and see if we can make sense of what happened but if the tunnel remains open the constructs might come back up and we definitely don t want that in either case your reward is simple edgar said anything you find down there is yours if you manage to deactivate the automata or undo whatever has happened to them we ll throw in a bonus of five hundred guineas each sound fair wanda asks the party agreed and were duly equipped with a quantity of explosives before being escorted down a flight of stairs and into a series of tunnels below the workshop where a cable car awaited them to lead them deeper underground two metal cables snaked along the ceiling in the tunnel which descended deep into the earth hooked to the cables was a rickety looking rusted cable car equipped with a sputtering light either magical or electric complex gear driven mechanisms were connected to the cables so that the car can be propelled along them a lever was set within arm s reach of the car armand with a flick of the wrist cast a light spell to arrest the flickering light and the group piled in yam yanking the lever with a lurch the cable car began to move swaying vertiginously at first it moved slowly as it approached the shaft plunging down into darkness but then it began to gather speed before finally hurtling into the chthonic gloom at breakneck speed the flickering light briefly illuminating the rock walls as the car whizzed downwards spiraling deeper and deeper occasionally dropping almost vertically occasional side tunnels and branching passages could be briefly glimpsed during the descent before the car leveled off suspended now above a vast dark cavern below stalagmites and the broken stubs of ancient monoliths rose from below barely visible in the darkness the car careened back into a tunnel winding ever downwards before emerging again into an echoing cave this one filled with phosphorescent fungi the party caught a glimpse of a subterranean stream flowing through the inky blackness and then the car was swallowed once more by a narrow tunnel bored into the rock at last the cable car came to a half at the end of the long meandering tunnel within a natural cavern studded here and there with lumps of glimmering crystal another tunnel bored by the same great drill that fashioned the shaft leading up to the surface stretched ahead beyond a short tunnel lay another natural cavern this one with walls not of rock but of softly glowing crystal changing in colour from pale mauve to cerulean blue to bright crimson to gleaming white two passages both obviously artificial led deeper into the caves sister carefully removed some of the crystals here before the party pressed onward coming now to a sluggish river of lava quite broad with occasional lumps of un melted rock floated on its glowing orange surface sister tested one of the crystals here throwing it at the lav...
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