RED SHIFT - The party decides to split up so they can cover more ground. Sanglant goes to the Lower Ring, while Ekhart and Revana go to the Upper Ring.
In the Lower Ring, Sanglant decides to head to the Office of the Foreperson to talk to Maria Seigagardottr, the Forelady.
Maria sees Sanglant's broken shift crystal and chalks it up to the ineptitude of the Consulate.
She gives Sanglant a working All-Shift Crystal so that he can go to the foreign embassy to get the proper paperwork.
With the All-Shift Crystal, and unfettered access to the trams, Sanglant decides to try his best to fix the shift completely.
Sang starts by heading to the Mithril Mines to clear out the kobold infestation.
He handily defeats all the kobolds with a single blow of his new
handwraps.
Sanglant then heads off to the Upper Ring to meet up with the others.
Meanwhile, in the Upper Ring, Ekhart and Revana head to the Record Hall, hoping to find out more about Dwarfheim.
There, they meet Sigvaldi, the Record Keeper, and with his help manage to find several useful books.
Ekhart learns about aetherite, and that apparently they had been manufacturing it for hundreds of years.
Revana learns that the last contact the dwarves have had with the outside was over a thousand years ago.
Sanglant meets up with Revana and Ekhart, as all three of them arrive at the Foreign Embassy.
They meet Jofrid, the Consulate, who appears to be the first lazy dwarf they have met so far.
When they met her, she was taking a nap after eating a bowl of crackers.
The party asks her about how foreigners are supposed to gain access to Dwarfheim, and she explains that visitors would be given an All-Shift Crystal when they arrived, and that typically they would send the crystal along with an invitation.
She also mentions that she, personally, has never had a single foreigner visit Dwarfheim in her lifetime.
They ask her to fill out the paperwork to allow them to get All-Shift Crystals from the Forelady, which she begrudgingly does.
Sanglant tells the party that he believes that they need to enact their plan this loop, before Burden can somehow get these crystals from them.
They travel to the Middle Ring, before the end of Red Shift.
Revana helps out the Treants.
Sanglant and Ekhart got to the Helforge, to talk with Forgemaster Grim.
They manage to convince him and the rest of the Dwarves to stop producing the aetherite today, and that a fresh shipment of mithril would arrive tomorrow.