Orhan 1 Day 63 TE 6064

Kyrik sees several figures patrolling outside the mine.

We buff up and Kyrik swoops down on them out of the sun. Moments before his strike, they seem distracted by something off in the distance. (We know not what.) He kills two, the rest of us teleport in, and the third dies.

We charge into the mine. Looks like a carnage happened here. Some Trogli run into a corner, but a half dozen iron wind come out before we can talk with them. Most of the iron wind are AT20 DB50.

We lay into them. They shoot grenades at us, but Heraan deflects them all. The fight grinds on. Suddenly a few of the iron wind run up to the fighters and self destruct. Fireballs all around.

It does some damage, but at least it gets rid of that wave. Seeing how things are going to go, Oathar casts a Greater Extended Haste on everyone else, so they are hasted for 12 hours.

We quickly debrief the Trogli. They were mind controlled by the horrible machine. There's undead all over the place, and Stitches, the great abomination of undead stitched together. We unmindcontrol the Trogli with mentalism dispels and send them on their way.

Missiles start flying everywhere! Deflections get a lot of use. Trogli behind us get bombarded by our cast of missiles.

At one point Oathar gets mind controlled and teleports to his dark master. "Hi Dark Master!" The Kyrik castles with him. Now Oathar is back at the party, and Kyrk is with the dark master and Stitches. Stitches whacks at Kyrik doing hundreds of points of damage. It's a mess. Oathar teleports back to the dark master, while Kyrik teleports back to the party. Oathar buffs the dark master a bit, while the party preps, and then they castle Oathar and Kyrik, unmind control Oathar, and then everyone teleports back down to the Dark Master. Now the whole party is together with the Dark Master, Stitches, and the Machine.

Oathar casts Darkness at the machine so it won't mind control anyone else, but many people have darkvision. Mass combat ensues. Stitches hits really hard. Imre casts a lot of healing. Oathar casts a lot of lightnening. The fighters fight.

Oathar blasts the dark master to bits with a titanic lightening strike. The excess lightening strikes Haeraan causing his morningstar to flail around menacing others...

Stitches explodes once the darkmaster is dead. The machine explodes. All is left in darkness. A lone Trogli crawls into the room, says, "Why?" and then dies.

The remains of the machine are indeed Tech, but probably not Lords of Essence Tech, nor Iron Wind Tech. They were powering the tech device with a magical ritual. It looks like it was part of a giant ritual, one node of several. There are some residual essence flows heading off into the NE and SE. Something like nerve stapling. It's creepy.

The party buzzes around the mine destroying everything in sight.