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 recieved a map from Seigagar.
- Their only lead being the aetherite crystal found on the 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 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 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.