Session Recap
Game Date:
1172-7-16
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Over breakfast the next morning the door to the Griffon comes flying open. A watchman we don’t recognize comes bursting in and says there has been a raid at the tower and we need to come at once. We tell Porky to let Lyza know we’ve gone to the tower. The watchman says he was at Mint Station and his Sergeant told him to gets.
When we find ourselves outside the tower, where we expect guards, we find none and the door was wide open. It looks like they have been broken open. We enter carefully but confidently. We enter the lobby and see a pile of dead bodies and destroyed clockwork spiders. The people are all wearing leather armor without tabards. It looks like a band of ruffians. We do a quick search. Leather armor, cheap weapons, money, black hand patch. Thesual. We loot a small amount of coin and Penelope gets 36 pounds of short swords.
Fortunately Tick and Tock are still here. Also some of the things we repaired seem to be now broken.
We first gop to the Timepiece of Eternity with the guardian. More bodies (moresed swords!), but the Guardian is still around. Eugene flashes the clockworker’s medallion and the guardian seems mollified. Atop the pedestal in the middle, there is a series of five small circular indentations on the surface. They look like they may hold some type of gemstone. Earthheart emeralds maybe?
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In talking to the guardian, it seems to follow Eugene’s basic commands.
We go to the foundry where Beep Beep is, and find . yep, more bodies. They look like they have been stacked by Beep Beep. The ingots that Beep Beep made are still there. So we move to the next room.
We go to the room of mirrors where we met the ghost of Gerhart. We recall the ghost wanteds to repair the mirrors. Martin is pretty sure that Mending won’t be effective. The party discusses asking the mayor if we can borrow a few of the mirrors for the council chambers
In the Assembly Room we find more bodies, which isnusual since nothing was lethal in here before.
We go to the library and find a few more bodies. It is looking tos like they sent in a bunch of mooks who managed to all die.
We start looking for anyseful books, but find nothing. With nothing else to do, we decide to talk to the mayor and get Olivia.
We make our way back to the watchmakers shop, and Olivia and Seraphina are there. We tell them we are going back to the tower, via the mayor’s office. We explain to the mayor that we need some mirrors to repair the tower. She also conspicuously avoids any discussion about Swiftsword.
We take a pane of glass across the road to see how it fits. Sadly we think we will need a glass cutter to make it work. Fortunately Olivia has a glass cutter. Arada tries cutting the glass, which turns out to be a piece of cake. We fix it into one of the mirrors on the floor, and the room seems to brighten ever so slightly.
We repeat the process for all the major mirrors. Once they are all back in place, the ethereal figure of Constantine forms in the shimmering reflection of the newly restored mirrors. His translucent visage contorts with a mix of relief and despair. “Adventurers, “he begins, his voice echoing through the chamber with a hollow resonance, “my Clockwork Tower, a marvel of time and engineering, now stands on the precipice of collapse. I need your aid to right my wrongs. “In my zeal and ambition, I left muchndone. As you ascend, you will find my research, incomplete designs, and abandoned constructs. The time control device, my magnum opus, remains unfinished, a testament to my hubris. Seek the blueprint, lost in the maze of gears and pendulums. Only by completing my work can you restore harmony to the tower ‘s temporal core. “Time, while a fascinating subject of study, is unforgiving master. The tower groans and grinds, its once seamless operations marred by decay and neglect. Every jammed door, every grinding gear, is a cry for help. “The very heart of the tower flutters erratically, like a bird trapped in a cage. Power surges and wanes, causing rooms to vanish, constructs to go awry, and time itself to warp. “His voice grows desperate, “You must find an alternative source of power or stabilize the existing source. “He looks at you, hope gleaming in his spectral eyes, “Help me set things right. Restore the Clockwork Tower to its former glory. Only then can I find peace, and the tower continue its journey. ”
We discuss where the maze might be, and Olivia and Seraphina offer to fix some of the basic stuff. We show them the library and the book inside the glowing force field. Eugene does a perusal of the library to see if there is anything of interest, but find nothing.
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Since it is afternoon, we decide to go back to the Griffon, making a brief detour to sell the weapons we looted. Penelope sells the swords and daggers, and gets a total of 194 gold. That’ s a lot of beer money. Or ink money in Eugene ‘s case . We also hire someone to repair the door and get the guards from Noble Station to resume guarding.
Also while we are there, we learn more about the aftermath of Swiftsword. The story they heard was that Swiftsword and some of his guard tried to takes down and there are rumors of some very high ranking people who came to helps. What we hear is half true, but also some exaggeration. One of the big questions is” who is in command now? ” Right now, each local Captain is watching their own area, but they are waiting to see what next.
It is clear there is some support fors on the ground, but we don’t know what kind of support Swiftsword had. Eugene also talkies to one of the Noble Station wizards about settingp a”Police Wizarding Best Practices ” committee. They think that is a great idea and offer to setp a meeting.
Back at the Griffon, Porky tellss Lyza is in front of the fire. Thom tells us to keep things calm and quiet.
We talk about Swiftsword and the updates about the Tower. Between Martin and Eugene we totally keep her calm.
She tellss she went to Swiftsword and got jumped by some of his thugs and we go through the events.
She also tellss Hars left a message fors with Porky. He says the message is that the long and short of it is that with the gaps in the structure of the city and that some of the powerful groups are looking fors. And if there is something we could do out of town, we might want to do that.
Wedding or Mine Hunting time!
We throw out the wedding idea, and realize we should leave tomorrow or the day after. He thinks he can gets some supplies if we can make a list.
Tents
Blankets
Horse blankets
Tarps
Rations
food for the horses
Mobile kitchen
water/water containers
Wagon repair tools
Basic tools, shovel, axe, hatchet, 50’ of rope
Penelope can talk to contacts if there is a caravan going that way
We also discuss planting false rumors where we are going.
Turin can procure some food on the way via hunting to supplement.
As the crow flies it is 150 miles to Oxgate, which will be 6-8 days with the wagon.