March 09, 2024

Hook

Rock and Limestone (Orgrey's Platform, Lojem, Jaern)

Plot Synopsis

The party made their individual ways to the island town of Orgrey’s Platform. Meeting with Lady Orgrey, they discussed their contracts and gained a bit of info about the inner workings of the mine and its products. Lady Orgrey told them part of the issue revolved around making sure they met their quota in limestone sales to finish paying their debts to Rougtero. As it turns out, the local Osirite, Lady Greenpeace, would usually cover a problem like this. Unfortunately, she was currently on a vacation/pilgrimage.

The party headed into the mines with Luna serving as a source of light. Freyja and Rik memlocked the first safe place inside the mine they could find. They found an office with a case for keys and a half-finished map of the place. One key was inside the case. There was also a list of instructions from Lady Greenpeace. Lavare was able to identify the weird fungus almost immediately as a magically altered form of a somewhat rocky fungus called Limeshroom.

The key was used to open a stone door blocking a few of the mind-controlled miners from escaping. The party narrowly avoided combat with them. Unfortunately, they didn’t find any other keys, so Merritt had to use their shapeshifting ability to unlock the next door. It was painstaking agony, and took forever, but eventually Merritt unlocked the door.

Rik got bored in this time and tried to shortport past the door. Unfortunately he shortported into a completely different part of the dungeon. He explored a bit and found he was in the room with the creature that created this whole mess. Narrowly escaping by transforming into a bat, Rik flew into a storage room where he found some silvery dust, a material occasionally used in minor divine rituals.

Meanwhile, the party found a different component for Osirite spells scattered in the area. It seems Lady Greenpeace tried to put up protections before she left, but they fell into disarray and disrepair likely due to a lack of care or understanding from foreman.

The divided group each found lanterns on their ends of the dungeon and found they were now separated by a singular hallway. After a brief fight, Rik lead the party to the boss room. Merritt tried to unlock the door slowly again, but Kelp got angry with this idea and just bashed down the door instead. Heading inside, the party quickly defeated the slow-moving boss, though Rik was temporarily mind controlled. Breaking free, Rik jumped ahead in time right as Freyja lit the whole room on fire. Rik narrowly escaped being burned to a crisp as he had thankfully memlocked the entrance to the mine.

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