Post by hubertbartels on Aug 4, 2019 14:09:22 GMT -5
Getting up in the morning the party proceeded to the Dominion Hive, passing Hyrsek’s camp and the decaying mass of the Dominion Dropship. As they headed up the slope, Istovar and Astrovel could see the damaged Annihilator Robot’s footprints on the ground but not signs of a cave opening. It was only after Istovar cast Druidcraft on the vines growing on the cliff side that he determined it as an illusion hiding the opening and walked through the oddly green leaves.
On the other side, they found 2 shadow flayers, black skinned and four tentacles, who were banging away at the damaged Annihilator Robot. The flayers put down their tools and attacked as the Annihilator Robot sprayed the room with a plasma beam. The party put down the flayers and finished off the robot for good.
An application of Paeytr’s peppers unlocked the flesh valve leading out of the entry chamber. The party stepped into a series of 15 foot diameter tunnels, their walls covered in crocodile-like hide and a long stringy mucus. There were things like jellyfish floating through the mucus, faintly glowing and providing light.
In the next chamber, the party found a fleshy leather and chitin-covered machine birthing these strange metallic and biological machine spiders. As the party was cleaning up the spiders, four kasathans entered the chamber to defend the machine. The party made short work of them and their intellect devourer masters.
Moving to an adjoining chamber, the party found two columns filled with human brains and the floating objects from the wall. Destroying the cylinders reduced the power available to the Dominion of the Black.
The party left the Power Generator room and traveled to a ‘T’ intersection, heading left or right. As they were deciding which way to go, a voice from the left invited them to enter his chamber.
Turning left, the party entered a large chamber where a void dragon sat waiting. The dragon raised a claw and asked for a parley. He was Maukui and he was using the void dragon as a suit. Maukui did not want to fight. He would be willing to tell about the rest of the complex if the party would retrieve an experiment that the Dominion Master, a mind flayer called, Dweller-in-Dark, took from him. The experiment is a compact Artificial Intelligence core holding the intelligence of a young woman. Maukui found a neurocam and some other stuff in a cave and transferred the contents of the neurocam into the compact AI. core.
The party made motions that they would work with the dragon. The young woman described in the the compact A.I. core sounded like Cassandalee, the woman that the party had been looking for. They left the dragon’s chamber, walked down the tunnel and passed into a large room fitted to be a research laboratory. It was bloody and disgusting and presided over by a creature dedicated to inflicting pain – the kyton Paajgat. Istovar quickly banished the kyton back to her native plane.
A short tunnel from the Grand Labs led the party through a de-powered killing trap and into the darkened chambers of the Dweller-in-Darkness. The mind flayer was accompanied by four shadow flayers but even with several party members stunned by Dweller’s mind blast, Amelina and Obin and Istovar were able to put an end to the creature and it’s minions. In an alcove, they found Cassandalee’s compact A.I. core. The image of Cassandalee thanked them for rescuing her – the Dominion was trying to break her mind.
On the way out, in the Annihilator Robot chamber, the party ran into Maukai waiting for his experiment. Amelina went invisible thanks to Astrovel’s spell and unleashed such a burst of damage that the dragon was forced to flee. As he started to fly off, several blows and shots finished him off.
Returning to Binox’s cave, the party started to recover from their efforts. It was time to relax and make plans how to travel to Silver Mount.
On the other side, they found 2 shadow flayers, black skinned and four tentacles, who were banging away at the damaged Annihilator Robot. The flayers put down their tools and attacked as the Annihilator Robot sprayed the room with a plasma beam. The party put down the flayers and finished off the robot for good.
An application of Paeytr’s peppers unlocked the flesh valve leading out of the entry chamber. The party stepped into a series of 15 foot diameter tunnels, their walls covered in crocodile-like hide and a long stringy mucus. There were things like jellyfish floating through the mucus, faintly glowing and providing light.
In the next chamber, the party found a fleshy leather and chitin-covered machine birthing these strange metallic and biological machine spiders. As the party was cleaning up the spiders, four kasathans entered the chamber to defend the machine. The party made short work of them and their intellect devourer masters.
Moving to an adjoining chamber, the party found two columns filled with human brains and the floating objects from the wall. Destroying the cylinders reduced the power available to the Dominion of the Black.
The party left the Power Generator room and traveled to a ‘T’ intersection, heading left or right. As they were deciding which way to go, a voice from the left invited them to enter his chamber.
Turning left, the party entered a large chamber where a void dragon sat waiting. The dragon raised a claw and asked for a parley. He was Maukui and he was using the void dragon as a suit. Maukui did not want to fight. He would be willing to tell about the rest of the complex if the party would retrieve an experiment that the Dominion Master, a mind flayer called, Dweller-in-Dark, took from him. The experiment is a compact Artificial Intelligence core holding the intelligence of a young woman. Maukui found a neurocam and some other stuff in a cave and transferred the contents of the neurocam into the compact AI. core.
The party made motions that they would work with the dragon. The young woman described in the the compact A.I. core sounded like Cassandalee, the woman that the party had been looking for. They left the dragon’s chamber, walked down the tunnel and passed into a large room fitted to be a research laboratory. It was bloody and disgusting and presided over by a creature dedicated to inflicting pain – the kyton Paajgat. Istovar quickly banished the kyton back to her native plane.
A short tunnel from the Grand Labs led the party through a de-powered killing trap and into the darkened chambers of the Dweller-in-Darkness. The mind flayer was accompanied by four shadow flayers but even with several party members stunned by Dweller’s mind blast, Amelina and Obin and Istovar were able to put an end to the creature and it’s minions. In an alcove, they found Cassandalee’s compact A.I. core. The image of Cassandalee thanked them for rescuing her – the Dominion was trying to break her mind.
On the way out, in the Annihilator Robot chamber, the party ran into Maukai waiting for his experiment. Amelina went invisible thanks to Astrovel’s spell and unleashed such a burst of damage that the dragon was forced to flee. As he started to fly off, several blows and shots finished him off.
Returning to Binox’s cave, the party started to recover from their efforts. It was time to relax and make plans how to travel to Silver Mount.