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journal	Harvey's Quest, Session 2

Tuckleberry's Tales of Redemption and Heroism, 2023-01-23

Events

• During the night a random dwarf stumbled upon our fire. His name is Boggom, and he and his companions were attacked by ogres! He managed to escape, but the remaining of his companions are unknown. His camp might have supplies still too. We pretty quickly found the remains, and it is a scene of absolute carnage. Some of the dwarves were carried off, and we followed them to a cave!

  • We invaded the cave, and found 4 ogres, one of which appears to be a shaman! We killed them and rescued the remaining dwarves.
  • We found a secret tunnel, with some weird writing and lighting and stuff. Something about "metal that's tasted blood." We left our weapons with Brandywine, and went down. We found ourselves in a purple dome, with a small stream of water, and a small stream of dust, that coalesce and spiral down and together in the center of the room. At the end of the room is large stone door, with a semisphere divot, and the imprint of a dwarven hand. On the arch above the water it says "born," and on the arch above the dust is says "unborn." Sir Laughlin McLaughlin and I each put our hands on it and walked through the door, but Harvey couldn't because he has weird hands, and Hangmoor didn't even try.
  • Laughlin and I walked down into a cylindrical orange chamber, in the middle of which a combination of the dust and water is falling onto a many-sided rounded object. It is surrounded by many levers and gears, which look to manipulate the many-sided round object. There are carved runes on the walls, which look to be expedition notes. Opposite the entrance is a small pedestal with a glass bell jar, and a small black twisted thing inside, and a plaque on the front. It says, "Here lies the original Pansteer Expedition notes from Tarsis Mons" Turns out the levers and the sphere thing display the pages of the book on the walls in the carved runes! And that small black twisted thing inside is probably the original book. After some reading, it seems the Pansteer Expedition is a geology mission, exploring rocks and stuff in some canon in a place called Mars.
    • Pansteer Expedition arrives on Mars, begins geological survey. They find artifacts, astounding and impossible, and considered this particularly noteworthy. The survey became an anthropological survey, with extensive funding. They found a number of artifacts, and it continued until the found a chamber, where they found evidence of writing. They also found spheres, that were not solid, liquid, or gaseous, and moved in size at almost random intervals, never getting too small nor too big. Experimented on the spheres with electricity, discovering that it can break them. Within the spheres was a green gas, which controlled and manipulated the expedition members, eventually into sabotage, at the instruction of the man with breaking skin and moving bones and stuff. This information was liberated from the Tarsis Society, and moved here for the express purpose of studying the artifacts below. The language found on Mars, and the language found in the chamber below, and thought to be one and the same. Post Note: If the work they're doing is not finished, hopefully someone else can finish it for them! Last Page moves the sphere over, with the water and dust combining into a ladder leading down into a dark hole.

Locations

• Ogre cave

NPCs and Notable Characters

• Boggom, a freed slave, who escaped an attack by ogres

Other Notes

• We're archaeologists now!