====== Session 28: The Work Fog ====== === ??? High Summer, 498 CE === * The party, having learned that they arrived in Dwarfheim yesterday, went to re-enter the city again. * They [[maps:dwarfheim|recieved a map]] from [[:wiki:npcs:seigagar|Seigagar]]. * Their only lead being the aetherite crystal found on the [[wiki:npcs:wanderer|Wanderer]]. * RED SHIFT - They started by heading to the Middle Ring. * They first traveled to the Helforge, to see where the Aetherite was smelted. * The party met [[wiki:npcs:grim_glumson|Grim Glumson]], the Forgemaster. * Grim told the party that they had just discovered the process to create Aetherite. * They sussed out that the Aetherite was created through physical process, and was made up mainly of mithril. * When asked what they do with the aetherite, Grim told them that the dwarves don't have a use for it yet. * They just stockpile it in the Warehouse for now. * Next, being stuck in the Middle Ring until the end of the shift, Revana wanted to check out the Botanica. * They met Bjurna Hildendottir, the head botanist. * She asked the party what they were doing there, and they convinced her that they were there to help. * Bjurna told the party that a couple of trees had become sentient and were disrupting lumber collection. * Revana and co. headed into the underground forest to find the treants to calm them down. * Revana cast Speak with Plants, where she heard all the plants chanting 'grow, grow, grow!' * She also heard a couple trees howling in pain, exclaiming that the voices were too loud. * Revana was able to calm the treants down, turning them back into regular trees. * Bjurna was very happy with this development. * GREEN SHIFT - The party then decided to head to the Upper Ring. * They went to the Temple of Duergamiir, thinking maybe the dwarven religion could point them towards Burden. * They caught a sermon being delivered by Stonemother Gunhilda Starolfdottir, the priestess of the temple. * They learned about [[wiki:organizations:temple_of_duergamiir|Duergamiir, the Dwarf God.]] * At the end of the sermon, they talked with the Stonemother for a while. * Eventually the conversation was broken up by a couple of rowdy forgeworkers. * The forgeworkers were hastling some of the priests, wanting them to switch shift crystals with them. * The party broke up the commotion and told the party to take it up with the Forelady. * BLUE SHIFT - The party, wanting to get some more info on what was going on at the forge, returned to the Middle Ring. * Sanglant attempted to use his Wind Walk ability, but was stopped by a Guardian. * The party then decided to check out the Bindery. * The found that the dwarves there were all working really hard, as their actions in the Botanica had solved their lumber shortage. * Deciding to go have a rest, the party went to the trams to head back to Old Dwarfheim, but before they could, everything suddenly went black. * They arrived back in Old Dwarfheim with no memory of what they had done the previous day, only learning about it through Ekhart's journals. * Apparently they lost 3 days. ---- [[:recap| Back]]