Session 02 - The Laboratory

The Opal Dungeon and Laboratory

General Summary

After being teleported to an unknown location after the wedding attack, the players found themselves in a sort of mailroom. Despite being terrified of sticking their hands in holes covered in cobwebs, they successfully solved a puzzle to get a gen that would open the door. Tech lived up to his name as an artificer and made a copy of the gem so that he could keep it for further research.
In a type of dungeon where the walls are made of the same material as their mysterious necklaces, the group find an adolescent Crystalline Stalker wearing a helmet. Varix successfully steals 20 gold and mystery key from a chest behind the monster's back. The monster hears the group trying to decide what to do, and Victus decides to try to become friends with it. Telepathically, the monster introduces himself as ChooChoo and he's looking for his mother. Victus takes the helm and they set off together.
They come across a door which Satoshi notices has fake hinges and doesn't have a draft coming through it. Drakor, confident of tricks he's learned from past adventures, goes to open the door anyway and triggers a trap, knocking him unconscious and wounding Tech and Satoshi. The group continues on and finds a gorgeous greenhouse full of exotic plants that even Clover doesn't fully recognize. The glass ceiling of the greenhouse reveals the sky constantly flashing different colors as they hurtle through space and different planes. Confronted with Razorvine Blights posing as normal plants, Clover rushes by them in an attempt to remain passive, but the rest of the party engages. Satoshi is knocked unconscious but the rest of the group rushes to her aid and they successfully defeat the plants.
The group continues and finds an ancient laboratory used by an unfamiliar civilization. Books on the shelves are written in an unfamiliar script. They find a portal compass, wire cutters, and a cloak of billowing . Then, a group of Mysterious Monks wearing Vanta Black clothes emerge from another room, clearly shocked they have company. The group engages in a fight, and inspired by Clover's code to not kill unless necessary, they knock two infiltrators unconscious and Satoshi convinces the final one to surrender. However upon questioning them, the monk only says "We were reconning" before his head explodes, which Tech concludes was due to a Geas spell that was probably cast on all of the infiltrators. Investigating their pockets and other rooms, the group discovers sets of necklaces like there where common stones were cut out and someone was clearly carving new stones matching their own to fit into the necklace. They also find a sensory stone , and Clover uses it to discover that @thaliaswas here, nervous and afraid, but determined to do the job she was hired to do. In another room they also find a silver chain that looks similar to ones members of the Athar faction in Sigil would wear on their clothes.
Then a metal door with a knocker of a snake eating it's own tail appears. The group walks through and discovers it's indeed a portal to the famous World Serpent Inn . Victus encourages ChooChoo to follow them, but upon crossing the threshold, he shatters, his soul destroyed. Our group continues into the inn with two captives in tow, and level up.

Rewards Granted

20gp
2 health potions
mystery key
@dread Cloak of Billowing

Clues discovered:

• 3 broken wire necklaces with stones matching the rest of the wedding party
• opal rock matching their own that looks like someone was carving it to fit into the necklaces
• Portal Compass 
• @sen belonging to Wedding Planner Thalias

Report Date

08 Apr 2024