After a few seconds the door opens and a red headed woman in her forties steps wearing a lab coat. She looks relieved and says, "Thank the gods the jaguars are gone."
Then she notices the mayor in bracelets and says, "Why is the mayor being restrained?"
The woman looks wholly confused and says, "That must be a fib, we were told this project was sanctioned by the king himself. I was brought in from the University of Bole for this project."
And do you have any proper paperwork to support this claim and what is you name anyway and your involvment in all this
She says, "The mayor did."
The mayor says, "Yes, I brought her in on the project."
She then says, "See, anyway my name is Alejevtina Smythe. In my apartment the Bosum Strand district, I do."
The woman seems depressed, and says, "Strange, the mayor of the Nettles and Cauldron Hill, who is appointed, we even knew about that in Bole. I guess we were all hoodwinked. Sheesh, I feel so stupid. I just wanted to give my country an edge and er, concentrate on mixing the arcane with science. Drats... "
She then starts to cry.
"I'm sure the truth will all be sorted out in the end. For now lets just focus on averting disaster. Lets disable all these devices. I am sure all assistance rendered to RHC will be taken into account when legal matters are being settled."
Johnathan nods rapidly, "Hurry. Have to hurry."
You follow the mayor through the third door to a staircase that takes you further down into the limbo between the real world and the Bleak Gate under Cauldron Hill.
After descending the staircase you end up into a tunnel is lined with pipes, where you can hear the steady bubbling of liquid within. In this room there are three doors in addition to the one you just came in from. The mayor takes you to the right and through the first door to the right. Inside this room is all the possible materials that are required to plug up the leaks of the machine.
Chretien instructs the group on what things the group needs to fix the witchoil engine. You then follow Chretien back up the stair to start repairing the machine.
Knowledge Engineering, Use Magic Device or Profession Engineer, or Craft(Make) Mechanical DC 15
vs DC 15
Cretien will start repairing the machine, using his fantastic contraption as a proxy to protect himself from contact with the witchoil as much as is practicable.
Johnathan assists--not able to help on the mechanical side, but giving advice on managing the witchoil.
The mayor says, "Well there is the resevoir."
Through the work of the group of you, you are very confident that all of the leaks have been repaired and the machine should be able to work.
Intelligence DC 10
Knowledge Arcana DC 24
vs Dc 10
First Chretien primes the engine and then Falko aligns the energized throttle with the flow from the
reservoir and
Strength check DC 10 to pull the starting cord.
With a heavy pull, Chretien's makes the engine come to life. It starts to cough the exhaust of burning witchoil and the lights in the tunnel turn on, making it much easier to see.
The mayor says, "Now we got the lights on, we need to go and see what kind of damage the tremors have done. Follow me to the reservoir."
Johnathan cringes back from the exhaust, covering his mouth and nose with his uniform. He whispers, "Burning souls..."
You follow the mayor down the stairs again and then he takes you to the first door to the right but just before he opens the door and alarm sounds and then he pushes the door open and then sees the dials and says, "It looks like pressure is building on the relief pipe where the oil is supposed to go."
He then looks towards the ladder that goes down and you can see that witchoil is rising from the reservoir. He then moves over to the edge and says,"My eldritch machine is partially submerged by the oil. This is really bad. We need to check the pipes!"
"Looks like you all really half-assed everything with this machine. Not content to kill yourselves, you must bring the world as we know it down with you..."
The mayor says, "The earthquake caused this, it was unforeseeable. Anyway, follow me."
You follow him back through the hallway back to the corridor and then you see two large pipes and follow them west until you get onto a catwalk that is five feet above a large reservoir of witchoil.
An entrance to an elevator is also to the right. You follow him to the two pipes.
Perception North Pipe labelled "Down" DC 10
Perception South Pipe labelled "Relief" DC15
The mayor says, "Let's turn on the pumps and drain this reservoir"
The mayor says, "The relief pipe leads down the north face of Cauldron Hill, anything more than a trickle could destroy the Nettles or even Parity Lake, we should switch the pipe to "Down" and then turn the pumps on in the control room, unless someone wants to dive into the pool of witchoil and adjust the speed to fast on the eldritch machine we would need to wait. "Down" goes into the center of Cauldron Hill, but for the oil to have built up so much in the reservoir, there must be something wrong with the relief pipe."
"One, why does the relief pipe lead tothe Nettles and Parity Lake??"
"Two, where is 'the center of Cauldron Hill' connected to? We had witchoil flowing up out of the sewers in town!"
The mayor says flatly, "To prevent an explosion. The center is deeper in the mountain, partially in the real world and partially in the Bleak Gate, where we are now. I cannot divulge anymore information."
Spellcraft DC25
To switch from Relief to Down in this room Strength DC 10
"Let's just get this done..." Johnathan murmurs, clearly not wanting to be here any longer than he has to.
Alevtina says falls on the ground and says, "I was working on the golem project, I helped with it, I know the others were working on some stuff to control animals and such. They made them jaguars and the next kind was to be working on sharks to take care of the sea fey titan. That is all I really know. Our golem was a prototype and we were working on the plans for a really large one but that was put on hold so that they can raise the money, but I really don't know anything else."
She sobs a bit more.
You start to hear the loud crunching noise of the elevator come downstairs.
+1 vs traps
GM Rolls
While you are conversing with the mayor and the tech, and the elevators loud grinding mechanism is very loud, you all get distracted, three enemies make their way towards you and get the drop on you.
Creed after climbing from out of the witchoil reservoir, attacks Angus with his claw hit + negative energy and sneak attack damage.
Thug 1 sneakily moves towards Angus and attacks with his shortsword hit plus sneak attack damage
Angus goes down with -3 Hp
Thug 2 sneakily climbs down from the ceiling and attacks Johnathan miss
Initiative: Falko , Chretien , Johnathan , Angus , Sarya , creed , thugs
Round 1
Johnathan, Creed, Angus, Thugs, Chretien, Sarya, Falko
Johnathan ducks a second before the thug even swings, despite having no idea the thug was there. It's eerie, for anyone who saw it.
He takes a 5' step back towards Cretien and casts magic missile at the thug with a blank, lifeless expression.
Creed 5ft steps toward Sarya and attacks with his claw hit plus negative energy plus sneak attack
Angus to stabilize
Thug 1 fires a crossbow bolt at Sarya miss
Thug 2 moves to attack Johnathan crit yes?
Damage
If 16 confirms crit, not sure if your mage armor gives you 20...,
Crit damage extra
Chretien, Sarya, Falko
Cretien sets up a turret in his space while his mechanus attacks the enemy who felled Angus, standing protectively over his space.
confirm, bonus dmg if confirmed