Session Two Hundred and Eighteen (Graveyard of Empires Summary)

SESSION 218 – September 12, 2018

We join the Bacchanal feast with the centaurs and others, eating the last of the food. They want to know if we know that Sylvanus is not really divine, and are we really able to stop the Dark One?

We reassure them that yes, we can. We ask final questions, and learn that there is a passage beneath the altar in the temple.

We talk to Sylvanus and ask and learn that it is blocked by choke points in each direction. We devise a plan to have a two phased diversion. While we go get Axelbot, after an hour, they will do a surface diversion. We will then flee. They will pull back that diversion, then do a subsurface diversion.

We see the fruit of of our plan. Kauri cast invisibility 10″ radius on two of us, so we moved in two groups past the patrols. Rallion went last to obscure out tracks. Kauri made Axelbot invisible and carried spiderbot in a sack. Rallion continued to obscure tracks until we heard the baying of the mechanical hounds Axel managed to avoid during the week. We get to the gate, and Laris thought about opening the gate, like he did to get wood and leather to make our wooden mud shoes. (How did he do that? – The ring with a demon)

We close and lock the gate behind us.

We get past a door and the turrets open but can’t see us. We spike and disable the door behind us. A tram car shows up with a ninja bot looking out the window on our side. We manage to get on and squeeze together. As it starts to turn around, Bavmorda has positioned herself behind it and strikes it down like a true assassin.

The tram takes us to elevators. As we move, the turrets pop up but can’t get a lock on us. We get on the elevator that is labelled Research and Library of the Dead, and hit the button for the penthouse.

A short time later, the doors open up in the mile long, mile wide sideways cylinder with rows upon rows of labelled cubes with the dead dwarves. A clear tube runs the length of the library with single person elevators leading to it. We see pairs of overseers working in the stacks.

Within the central tube we see a large floating sphere that appears to have a large eye with stalks with more eyes on the ends of the stalks “walking a picket” along the central tube. The end of the tube opposite us, leads to Xenotel. The sphere seems to fill the tube and be too large for the smaller elevators.

We have arrived at 3:15 AM on the 1st of Tenrelden, the first anniversary of the original party sailing into port at Midmark. The apocalypse clock reads 00.000.00.14, a fortnight remains until time runs out!