Session Ninety-One (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

SESSION 91: January 13, 2016

We found that the elevator would only ascend one floor, but we had access to the two lower levels.

Level 1 had something moving and the level appeared destroyed through the eyes of the monkey automaton used to scout.

The two lower levels were in decent shape and the water worked. One of them had a functioning cleaning automaton. The scouting monkey found many gems and identified a lot of gold. We then visited the two lower levels and found a lot of gold and a few other items to go with the gems.

Before leaving the lowest level, Thorfus directed the cleaning automaton to clean the rooms that had been locked with red lights.

We tried going up to one level and the security automatons were conflicted. When Thorfus told them to disregard the chief engineers orders, they resumed focus on defending the engineers and had pure anger towards us.

We pulled back and formed our plan to use the 7 monkey automatons as a wall. Chuq shadow stepped Thorfus and Axel behind the two security automatons, and Edan ran to the room on the left.

The monkeys took the brunt of one automaton from a frontal assault and all but one of the 5 assaulting it were dropped, the remaining is severely damaged (1hp). The other two automatons were unscathed as they were “behind” the other automaton that was focused on Axel, Thorfus and Chuq.

Thanks to magic missiles from Edan, he sped up our defeat of both security automatons. Thorfus was able to deal the killing blow to each.

Thorfus had the surviving monkeys gather up the remains of their comrades and put in a large sack for later repair. Thorfus also had them gather the control cubes from each of them.

We then searched that level and gathered up many more gems, some jewelry and more gold.

The top level eastern hallway had collapsed into the fist level eastern hallway. Thorfus had a monkey pass through the rubble and gather up the valuables from the rooms in the eastern hallway.

Thorfus then had a monkey go to the top level and scout and recover all the items from all but the last two rooms. Again, more gems, jewelry and gold.

The last two rooms near the elevator are guarded by a security automaton. Thorfus sensed watchfulness, endless patience, and pride from it in its duties. We surmise that the “surviving” engineers were dragged to these two rooms to be guarded. The monkey came up to it and it aimed its weapons at the monkey and spun them up, but did not fire. When the monkey left, it spun down its weapons.

We will address what to do with this remaining automaton and final two rooms before we do further exploring of this facility, and then leave.

Healing sounds like a good idea….