Our heroes follow the Ordo Arcanis sorceress named Vayl
Naris into the mines, led by her special incarnum-sensing amulet. The amulet leads them down two levels but
then seems to indicate that a strong source of incarnum is beyond an apparent
cave-in that is marked with danger signs.
The heroes probe the area and discover an illusion covering part of the
cave in that leads into another passage.
They proceed through it into a separate section of the mines and
eventually find an area containing incarnum crystals; some emitting a soft
glow, others emitting a flickering glow.
Vayl studies these while Bantu does invisible recon and hears mining
going on in this section from various chambers.
The Halfling goes into one and sees 3 dwarves silently mining incarnum
with the same un-dwarflike demeanor that was displayed by the dwarves they
followed down into these mines; but these were different dwarves.
The heroes proceed cautiously, finding more incarnum and a cavern containing barrels partially filled with mined incarnum and a few crates containing strange metal rods ending with a runic brand of some kind which glow when picked up. While studying this cave, Norro notices a strange eye materializing in several rock walls and warns the team that something is watching them from the rock. The heroes then hear someone coming and a dwarf bearing a cart with barrels on it pass them and go down another passage, seemingly not noticing the heroes. However a few moments later, the mining sounds seem to stop from all of the adjacent caverns and several dwarves approach the cave the PCs are in and attack. The heroes fight them all, noting that they all appear to be possessed or not in control of their own minds.
Once the dwarves are defeated, the strange eye that has been watching them emerges from the rock and is a strange creature that itself seems to be made out of rock. Vayl casts comprehend languages and learns that the creature calls itself Urt and is a xorn; an elemental creature that lives within the island and is fearful that the “hairy ones” and some alien (for lack of a better term) presence accompanied by “hairless ones” are killing the island by mining the incarnum. It asks the heroes for help, for its people tried to stop them but the alien presence took control of them and they were slaughtered. Urt’s remaining xorn pulled back and have been helpless to stop the mining.
The heroes agree to help Urt and it leads them deeper into the island to a living incarnum chamber that has vibrant, active incarnum crystals that have arcs of energy between them. Urt says this is what used to be in all of the incarnum caves, but since the invaders came there are fewer and fewer of these chambers remaining and the island suffers because of it. The heroes ask Urt where this alien presence and hairless ones are and it says they are on the edge of the island in a large cave where the alien presence controls the scaled ones (troglodytes), hairy ones and the hairless ones protect it. Urt also says the hairless ones have another cave where they are taking the incarnum and doing some strange magic with it that feels bad to the xorn. The heroes decide to rest a bit in the living incarnum cave and decide what their next move will be.
End of session.
The heroes proceed cautiously, finding more incarnum and a cavern containing barrels partially filled with mined incarnum and a few crates containing strange metal rods ending with a runic brand of some kind which glow when picked up. While studying this cave, Norro notices a strange eye materializing in several rock walls and warns the team that something is watching them from the rock. The heroes then hear someone coming and a dwarf bearing a cart with barrels on it pass them and go down another passage, seemingly not noticing the heroes. However a few moments later, the mining sounds seem to stop from all of the adjacent caverns and several dwarves approach the cave the PCs are in and attack. The heroes fight them all, noting that they all appear to be possessed or not in control of their own minds.
Once the dwarves are defeated, the strange eye that has been watching them emerges from the rock and is a strange creature that itself seems to be made out of rock. Vayl casts comprehend languages and learns that the creature calls itself Urt and is a xorn; an elemental creature that lives within the island and is fearful that the “hairy ones” and some alien (for lack of a better term) presence accompanied by “hairless ones” are killing the island by mining the incarnum. It asks the heroes for help, for its people tried to stop them but the alien presence took control of them and they were slaughtered. Urt’s remaining xorn pulled back and have been helpless to stop the mining.
The heroes agree to help Urt and it leads them deeper into the island to a living incarnum chamber that has vibrant, active incarnum crystals that have arcs of energy between them. Urt says this is what used to be in all of the incarnum caves, but since the invaders came there are fewer and fewer of these chambers remaining and the island suffers because of it. The heroes ask Urt where this alien presence and hairless ones are and it says they are on the edge of the island in a large cave where the alien presence controls the scaled ones (troglodytes), hairy ones and the hairless ones protect it. Urt also says the hairless ones have another cave where they are taking the incarnum and doing some strange magic with it that feels bad to the xorn. The heroes decide to rest a bit in the living incarnum cave and decide what their next move will be.
End of session.
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