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journal Clockwork Sidestory, Session 2

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

Other Notes

  • Next steps:

    • Heading to the student housing to search for tunnels under the college campus