Category: Graveyard of Empires: The Islands of Curabel

SESSION 202 – May 9, 2018

We hear a loud noise to the NW of us and hear a female dwarf voice advise to stay clear of the tracks.

Rallion uses the mask and Lonely isle has a concentration of infected monks, dwarves, and other humans milling about around the fort. Midmark has regular activity. Xen Khel appears to be abandoned.

We find the chief biologist’s office and the gold key. There is a secret torture room and we rescue an ancient elf, Peronell, who agrees to help us. We give her clothes and weapons. She has never heard of the Matrons. She was a prisoner before the rebellion against the dwarves.

We go downstairs and retrieve the magic items that were on Lysander and the eye orbit bones.

As we go back to the lift, Nash stays behind. He activates his force field and it goes down and he takes a lot of damage when he smaches the tube with the eye. The eye jumps on his face and replaces one of his eyes. He can’t see out of the new eye.

We go upstairs and find the trams and a sign in common claiming to be the domain of Jax, the Archmagi.

SESSION 201 – May 1, 2018

Lambertus removes the curse so Rallion can remove the gauntlets, allowing him to use a weapon. Rallion puts them in his pack, just in case they are needed for the strength.

We investigate long-term storage and there is a time-field guarding each drawer. We get details and view the items taken off Lysander. Some look fancier than others. A gold key is needed to gain access. It is decided to finish searching the entire place, and then to go up.

We shut the door to block the room with a single automaton stomping an infected. We take out the automaton constantly shooting the other infected. Lambertus cures disease on the infected so we don’t have to worry about it. We find an observation room and more rooms, but alas, no gold key.

We search the other sub, and it has two dead occupants, and no keys or other useful items. Its hull was breached and floods the lower portion of the access shaft.

Having explored all we can, we take the elevator up, and the alarm is sounding. There are three doors. The first two we cannot open, the one we can open has two automatons who manage to shoot us up until we slowly take down each one.

Now to find a way past the other doors. We know that one wall is a one-way mirror from which we may be observed.

SESSION 200 – April 25, 2018

We continue our exploration.

Nash uses the Serithaz helm to put a copy of Axel into one of the two automatons we see, and it sets off alarms and lock down commences. Two more automatons are revealed.

“Axel” fights on our side, so we have 3 foes to face. Rallion uses his lightning axe on one and Kauri finishes it off with magic missle. The other two are unharmed. They then disappear and reappear, basically “blink” automatons. Kauri can see them the entire time, but can only affect them when they are visible to all of us. This wastes a blast from Rallion’s lightning axe and one of Kauri’s magic missile spells.

Once we end the threat of the phasing/blinking automatons, the 4 gun turrets in the other room with Lysander’s eye fire on us and injure a couple of us.

Kauri convinces the DVL to lower the threat level in our area and we wait about ten minutes for the turrets to go idle.

WE explore the research room and find a catalog of notes and recordings of items being cataloged. There is no easy way to tell what things are by their catalog code, so we don’t learn a lot there. the long term storage is in lock down.

We explore the residential area and it is cleaned out, like an orderly exit. We take an opportunity to rest. Rallion hears a noise of a whump! and firing of the weapon from the “Gatling gun” of the automaton we fought in the residential area. It must be holding off infected.

We use the code from the desk (carved into it) 96249 to operate the doors labelled lift. We see one Gatling automaton killing a mass of flesh each time it gets up. We send the drone to look and a second Gatling automaton is stomping an infected.

We plan to take out the one doing the shooting, and closing the door to keep out the one doing the stomping, while Lambertus cures disease on the mass it is keeping down, so we can use the lift.

However, before we do that, we will check out long term storage. Laris used Knock to open it and it did NOT set off the turrets, so we will check that out next time.

SESSION 199 – April 18, 2018

We quickly found the obvious skull of an enormous dragon at the bottom of the sea. It’s empty eye sockets just large enough for our submersible to transit them.

Nash used his ring of swimming to exit and look around, and was soon grabbed by an enormous tentacle and pulled out of sight into the skull.

Bavmorda attempted to steer the sub into the tentacle to help Nash, and it did some damage, but did not free him. Bavmorda exited and managed to get behind the enormous beast nestled in the nose/snout of the skull. Between Nash trying to bite his way free, and a fortuitous back stab by Bavmorda, the creature was slain.

We found more coin than we had room for, and several items to help us.

We piloted the sub through the eye socket and through the tunnel formed by the massive neck of Lysander. We reached a large cavern covered with many bones of those from the rebellion who were the distraction for the assault that brought down the Crystal Tower.

Only one of us could hear the devilfish ancestor, as we all have rings protecting our minds. We were warned not to disturb the honored heroes of the rebellion. The ancestor is also a member of the night court and wanted to speak to Serithaz. News of Serithaz’ capture was not widely known, so he allayed fears of his betrayal of the rebellion and we were allowed to pass.

We docked the sub at an access hatch. In addition to a wrecked sub below, there is a damaged one docked at another access point.

We found dwarf sized underwater gear, a well placed Knock spell opened several doors and we found the desk of the head researcher into the remains of Lysander.

The eye of Lysander appears to be able to attack foes, as we found a recording of it in the archive. We have directions to magic items Lysander had been wearing, and information on various parts.

We also found a lone undying that Rallion removed the cube, and two automatons unknown to us. We managed to avoid setting off the trap that would release them.

In addition, there is mention of evacuations to Xen Khel for the research efforts there.

We hope to find items to aid us, and find our way to the ship that we hope is here so we can make it to the orbital.