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Campaign: Campaign 2 · Session: 76 of 83 · Arc: Coghaven · Where: Coghaven, beneath the Rotunda; the forge
The vault door failed to latch because crystalline webbing from the spider drones was clogging the lock. As automatons charged the door and the party heard a drill revving, Wilbur threw his full weight against it and slammed it shut, landing flat on his back. The door was closed but not locked. Wilbur stuffed the bleeding, one-legged Chancellor Ansible into his bag of holding, where he later died. With pursuers filling the Rotunda above, the party collapsed the stairwell behind them. Ansible’s notes said the power sources were held either in the old vaults of Packaging, Shipping & Logistics or in the forges. The stairs ended at three doors: manufacturing to the left, Packaging, Shipping & Logistics straight ahead, and the forges to the right.
A pebble falling from the ceiling led Kip to spot a gnome clinging to an alcove above them. Otto, pale and dusty from years without sun, was a Black Parade member who had infiltrated Coghaven with Goric five years earlier, only for their whole team to be captured. He had escaped months ago and survived in the catacombs on nothing but mushrooms, and the party fed him. Otto told them that hundreds of thousands of gnomes labored down the left path, and that everything leaving Coghaven passed through the heavily guarded center. The forge was the least guarded, and it was where he had seen a prisoner taken about a month earlier, so the party went right.
A mile down, they reached a plateau overlooking the sweltering lava forge, where a single automaton hammered at an anvil and combat drones guarded the corners. Otto explained that shutting off the forge would lower the lava and reveal secret entrances to a sublevel beneath it, which the lava protected from bore worms. The only way to shut it off was a control beside the working automaton. The party’s opening volley left the automaton a smoking crater of scattered parts, and every security unit in the foundry came to life.
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