Blurb

After meeting with Artificers Guild leader Agnis Moonshaw, the group split up – Nora, Brenda, Glenburt and Orm discovered and dismantled a plague-spreading device guarded by a king rat in an abandoned warehouse, while Barry was captured after revealing forbidden powers while he, Coal and Nate fled some guards and an Overseer.

Synopsis

At midnight the whole group converged on the stolen supplies and New Dawn guards, and everyone agreed to set camp for the night. In the morning the guards were gone, so the cart was returned to the city with the promise of a reward.

The group went their separate ways, to relax, get some work done, and recover from the day. Later, they were summoned to an audience with an Artificers Guild leader. This leader, Agnis Moonshaw, made an impassioned speech, got the group’s agreement to help her and the city, and offered some ways to start. Some set out to hunt rats. The others decided to interrogate the suspected New Dawn operative in the prison.

Glenburt, Orm, Nora, Brenda

The first group eventually found an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town, teeming with rats. Not only that, they found a dangerous automaton, complicated mechanical devices, toxic gases, and even more aggressive rats. Combined efforts to prise open consoles, repair machinery, defeat the threats, and navigate down a toxic passageway led them to a final chamber. There they found a king rat towering over the swarms, with matted, greasy fur and seemingly drawn to a strange glowing device. After yet another fight, Glenburt found a way to safely dismantle the device with a hope they had stopped, or at least diminished the source of the plague.

They then turned back to the corpse of the king rat, but to their surprise it was nowhere to be seen among the toxic ooze and many rat corpses. Wanting to get away from the gas and ooze, they beat a hasty retreat, but not before Orm snatched a piece of the device.

Barry, Coal, Nate

The second group didn’t get far from the meeting with Agnis before being accosted by some guards and an Overseer. Nate deftly stepped away and a chase began. Coal initially got himself tangled up with the guards, but sensing their clumsiness he took flight as well. The Overseer fired bolts of energy at the fleeing form of Barry, who revealed forbidden powers in the heat of the moment. He severely wounded the captain and was wounded himself before being captured, while the others escaped among the city streets.