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layout: journal
title: Clockwork Sidestory, Session 2
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# 2022-01-17

#### Events

- Professor Stein and Co begin establishing a college-side camp  
    - Complete transfer of good via working trolly
    - Party moves to nearby rise to secure area 
        - Plenty of broken-down stuff
        - A massive carving, vaguely pear-shaped, with some wavy lines; a relic from pre-colonization.
        - To the right: a large, rectangular building
        - To the left: the domed roof of another building, behind rubble
        - An animated corpse, with some sort of magical fire in the belly and genitals. 
            - COMBAT! The enemy tries to escape, but is chased down and eviscerated by Gustav
        - Two Cadavers approach from behind a debris pile 
            - COMBAT! Despite their tenacity, they are swiftly dealt with
        - A flesh golem moves to flank the group! 
            - COMBAT! It nimbly avoided a pit, then was swarmed by the party and destroyed
- The party explores the plateau 
    - Several clockwork goblins were heading towards the camp, but took note of Holden, and began moving to engage the party 
        - COMBAT! The goblins are dispatched with impunity, and they explode!
    - We find an old, broken carriage 
        - We find a clockwork phonograph, with several cylinders
        - We find a box with 140gp
- Reconnect with Professor Stein 
    - Learn of Mosely's supply train
    - Agree to meet and discuss further details
    - Party Split! Gustav takes a rest, the remainder explore some more. 
        - Heading towards the domed-roof building, party finds combat between the undead and the automata. A clockwork wall, 30 feet tall with gears and towers, from which are firing rapidly bolts.
        - Salvages 3gp worth of copper!
    - Stein provides details: 
        - Either approach the domed building, or the circular building, in search of professors' stuff
        - Buildings of Note: 
            - Chapel, under the alien edifice
            - First Building of the College (domed-roof building) 
                - Under the fountain in the plaza before the building
            - Student Housing (large, rectangular building)

#### Locations

- The College Arcanum  
    
    - Trolly Landing
    - Top of the Rise

#### NPCs and Notable Characters

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#### Other Notes

- Next steps:  
    
    - Heading to the student housing to search for tunnels under the college campus