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Day 10 10/7/2022
In the Smithery
We make a game plan. We take a short rest, and then get ready to go to the next room. We check the door for traps and it seems that there might be something there, but we don’t know what. The door does not seem to be magical, and the slot at the bottom is for something to go in and not come out and it’s not harmful to us. The holes on the sides do spray liquid but we are uncertain what kind, and that liquid likely drains into the bottom, and we are likely thinking that this liquid would be acidic but would run off a body. Rayvvin asks Exor about what the liquid might be. He says it stings a bit but they walked through it all the time. Abcde jiggles the knob and it seems to be unlocked. They continue to push open the door. As their arm enters the doorway, the liquid washes over them. It seems a bit tingly and burns a bit but that’s it. They pull their arm out and we all try to figure out what it is. It’s primarily water based, and though Rayvvin can’t tell the ingredients, they are similar to a flame retardant. We head into the next room, each getting heat resistance from the spray.
Inside, we see a massive 20ft x 15ft wide vat of lava. We see two massive anvils, 8ft tall, a full forge with lava, several bellows and a finishing bench. Currently standing in there are four large metal automatons. They stand almost 20ft tall. One of their arms is almost the diameter of Sterling’s torso. Rayvvin waves at them and one of them mimics their movement before they tilt back toward the lava. Rayvvin tries to speak to them but they don’t reply, but when Caleigh speaks in Celestial, they respond. They want the materials, but when we say Exor will have them shortly they are confused. Finally, we give up and just tell them to be on standby. Abcde looks for the rocks for Exor and sees some in the corner across the room. They head to that pile. Abcde looks at the rocks and the automatons say they are fuel. We leave the rocks.
Abcde and Caleigh go to speak with Exor to talk about the rocks. He can’t eat the ones we were looking at because they are fuel (probably coal). Abcde and Chodrak go back to inspect the hallway where we first came down with the spiderwebs. There is a small hole at the end that would be big enough for Abcde’s head. Chodrak goes through the hole to check it out and he sees racks and racks of weapons, probably a couple hundred. They all look minorly dusty but otherwise in perfect condition. There is definitely magical energy from inside the room.
We get a call from Artimious that the automatons are on the move. They say that they are repelling an intruder as there was unauthorized access. Caleigh tells them that it was us checking for traps and they believe her. They say that they will return and want us to come back with materials. It is a solid wooden door and absolutely magically enchanted. There is no lock or handle, just a round wooden door. Chodrak sees another door, and it’s identical to the one where we are, but this one has a handle. Chodrak opens the door. There are five chests, piles of gold, two statues of lions, and 12 plinths with different items on them. Everlee goes through the hole in the wall as well. Abcde tries to stealthily shape change into Chodrak, and then change back into themself so that they can climb through the hole as well. Everlee and Chodrak don’t notice. Chodrak and Everlee try to go into the treasure room. They are able to step into the treasury. Abcde makes their way into the room as well. We hear two wolf howls, and Abcde knows they are saying “Big metal coming.” Abcde goes back to the hole and yells for Caleigh and she goes to see the four automatons are out of the forge room, and their arms have shifted into large bladed weapons. The one in front has just struck a glancing blow against Exor. Caleigh tells them to stop. They stop and stare at her. She says, “power down.” And they hunker and slump down.
Exor, though frightened, looks to not be too terribly injured. Caleigh hugs one of his legs and runs away. Caleigh tells us she turned them off, but she isn’t sure for how long. As Chodrak looks at the piles of gold, he sees they aren’t gold coins, but raw lumps. Abcde goes to check the door next to us, and sees a handle, and they turn the knob and open the door. Though surprised that Abcde is in there, we believe them when they say that they were able to get through the hole and we all head into the treasury.
Caleigh, Abcde, and Chodrak check out the plinths while Rayvvin looks at a chest. Everlee also heads to a plinth. Chodrak finds a bronze rabbit sculpture. Everlee sees a statue of a sheep in polished black stone. Abcde sees a crystal ball nestled on a golden base that wraps up around the sides. Artimious is looking at a large golden statue, looking demonic with two wings and a hideous face. Caleigh sees an obsidian panther. Rayvvin uses a crowbar to try to open one of the chests and the crowbar shatters. There is an anti-tamper spell on these chests. Caleigh starts trying to unravel the spell. The spell fights back against her. There is a keyhole in the chests as Rayvvin looks, and it looks like the keyholes would be matched by identical keys. Chodrak goes to a different plinth, it’s a geode with one deep blue sapphire, one light blue, and two rubies nestled into it. Abcde goes to the other room to check the armory, there are four full suits of metal armor and daggers scattered around. Abcde finds four magical daggers, but all of them are definitely of masterwork quality. Abcde takes the four daggers.
Rayvvin and Caleigh look for a key and don’t find anything. In the back of Caleigh’s head as she tries to take some of the gold, she feels a gentle nudge that she should in fact take some for herself. She decides to go for something off of a plinth. It is a golden engraving of a scarab. Rayvvin takes six magical staffs. Caleigh looks for scimitars, and takes two that are magical and 4 others. Abcde uses a plain dagger to prop the door open. Everlee takes a couple pieces of gold.
We head back to find Exor. The automatons are still off. Abcde calls for Exor and gets no response. We find him in the forge, bent double over one of the buckets. He seems to be vomiting into one of the buckets. Five minutes later, the bucket is full and he moves on. Ten minutes later, that one is full and he moves on to a smaller bucket. Ten minutes later two of the small buckets are full. He moves to a grate and keeps expelling more. Just as it starts to mound out of the grate, he stands up and wipes his mouth. He says he feels better. The food he normally likes to eat isn’t here, they brought it with them from an island. Exor climbs into the cage in the previous room and lies on the mat that’s in there. We go back to the room with the well and talk about what to have the automatons do with the material. We talk about a key for the library, but aren’t sure what else. We talk about a map, maybe a teleportation thing, and communication devices, maybe flying boots. Priorities are the universal key, the map (where to go and where we are), and then the communication device (one for each of us), something to get back to this place if we need to (teleportation device).
Caleigh moves to the automatons and tells them to power on. They turn back on and lumbar back toward the forge. Caleigh tells them that she has a surprise for them. She points to all the excretions, but they need materials, so Caleigh runs to grab gold from the other room. Caleigh asks for the key. They say they need spell work for the key. They want the spell of opening or unlocking or something along those lines. We aren’t sure where they might have these spells. There are likely shops or spell books that have these. Abcde checks their spells for dummies books.
They come across a spell that they don’t think that they could learn, but people here could learn it. Caleigh takes the book to show the automatons. It doesn’t work, they are illiterate. Realizing that they have this spell, Rayvvin goes over to cast Thaumaturgy. The automaton grabs gold ore and sticks it in the lava, they move it to the anvil, and they take it to forge, etc. The key shape begins to take form. The spell is now required and Rayvvin casts it. The spell forms into the key. Rayvvin checks the key, it has a beautiful swirling pattern throughout. It’s bright and golden. Abcde has Sterling try to use the key on one of the chests in the treasury. Everybody except Caleigh and Chodrak go to see what happens. It works, the lid pops open. He opens it the rest of the way and it’s full of silk. Abcde has Sterling try again, and it works. Inside the second is slabs of ivory. The third holds slabs of worked steel. The fourth holds is tanned and processed leather. The fifth holds a beige putty like material. Looking at this, we realize that the other four chests have crafting materials, and wonder if this putty might also be some sort of crafting material. We should find out more about it and find more before giving him the chest full of this putty. Checking this material, Abcde, Rayvvin, Everlee, and Artimious are able to figure out that it looks like this has been processed (it isn’t raw) and it looks like it comes from an ore and that while it doesn’t have magical properties, it reverberates the magic it receives much more strongly. Abcde scoops some of this putty into a bowl while Rayvvin goes to close the door, feeling it seal suit. Rayvvin puts the key up next to the door and tries to open it but it fails. Abcde opens the door for Rayvvin. As Abcde scooped some of the putty into a bowl, it seemed to fill back up.
We take some of the putty back to the automatons and ask them if they can make a key of it. It is an enhancement material so adding it to the gold or anything else would work. We have them make another key as well as the putty. The key is finished and is much stronger. We’re starting to feel warm, and as we glance down, we realize that the layer of the flame retardant has started to evaporate. We leave the room. We try the key on the door to the treasury again, and it works.
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