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his one remaining eye on the patrons garvin started asking around trying to discover any rumours of the marionettist or possible movements of illegal goods or bodies that might point to his hideout mortimer suggested the party ask rosemary badwhisker who sold stolen goods out of a shop on the street of magpies rosemary s receiving she had been apparently dealing with a variety of necromantic types of recent selling tools and spellbooks liberated from the reanimators college and the académie macabre this would be the party s next stop operating alongside and in conjunction with the midnight market the shops along the street of magpies move many of the stolen goods in hex the prices here tend to be higher for buyers and significantly lower for sellers but the shopkeepers along the street frequently deal with freelancers and smaller gangs pawnshops buying and selling various goods many of them stolen at one time or another lined the street of magpies the cloaked and ill favoured figures who drifted between sported thief s marks and guild insignia some ostentatious displayed others cagily concealed many of these establishments had signs bearing symbols informing thieves of the allegiances of those within or of current prices and inventory as the party headed for rosemary s receiving something truly bizarre happened garvin otherwise abruptly vanished into thin air without so much as a word baffled the party cast around for a moment to try and locate some sign of the thief but to absolutely no avail uncertain they entered rosemary s receiving anyway hoping that garvin would turn up soon one of the larger pawnshops on the street of magpies rosemary s receiving clearly specialized in the sale of arcane objects most of them likely stolen in the window of the shop a reanimated head dangled from its hair muttering to itself next to a cage in which a clockwork scorpion scuttled a hat changed its shape every few moments and a garrotte which a small signs proclaimed to be possessed was visible inside an even more bewildering array of oddities could be found amorphous keys enchanted duplicating slugs ensorcelled pistols an analytic engine spellbooks and scrolls magical stones and jewels aquae vitae grimacing idols and a hundred other strange objects as numerous and variegated as those in any gentleman s cabinet of curiosities such as that of leopold van lurken the shopkeeper was an elderly woman with masses of long white hair and tattooed arms attended by a small horde of albino rat familiars who seemed to inhabit her hair she was currently locked in conversation with none other than yam the gnome illusionist on an errand for their supervisor sebastian eldridge who procured certain rare reagents from the woman intrigued by their companions rambling investigation and by garvin s sudden disappearance yam decided to join the group speaking with rosemary revealed that the marionettist had indeed been by the shop but that she did not know his address however she could disclose that he was buying large quantities of clockwork parts after hearing of the marionettist s fascination with gnomish clockwork and toy shops yam volunteered to ask around in mainspring to see if anyone had any advice as to where to look for a former gnomish shop exactly the sort of place the marionettist might hold up in cephalus meanwhile headed to golemsgate to try and find any legal information about the necromancer he discovered that the watch still had a bounty of five hundred guineas posted for the renegade wizard yam meanwhile learned that a number of gnomish toy shops used to be located in the southeast corner of corvid commons the party regrouped and headed back into the labyrinth of streets somewhat ill at ease without garvin who had still failed to reappear after some wandering they found their way to scarecrow street a rather desolate street that had been mostly abandoned derelict buildings slowly decayed on either side now the haunt of vagrants squatters and fungoids the largest of these was an abandoned toy maker s shop all wound up this could be our place yam said let s see about a back door armand suggested cephalus meanwhile seemed to be stretching himself in preparation for an altercation vespidae was appraising the place with a curious look unbeknownst to most of the group the waspkin had no fixed abode but squatted in derelict buildings much like this one perhaps the shop if cleared of its criminal denizens would make a good home the abandoned toy maker s shop all wound up had its windows boarded up obscuring the interior the walls now faded and peeling showed a series of whimsical murals depicting an antiquated kingdom a whimsical place of knights fairies princesses and dragons avoiding the front door the group went round the side into a filthy alley but successfully located a back door cephalus managed to force the lock with little effort inside some old crates and chests were stacked some open to reveal doll parts the vacuous glassy eyes of the lifeless things glinting in the darkness further investigation of the crates revealed quantities of the drug known as ghostdust a silvery green powder formed from processed ectoplasm other reagents were also stored here cephalus curious tried out some of the 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 ma...