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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7176410" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>ADVENTURE 16: THE ABANDONED ARKEYAN WORKSHOP</strong></p><p></p><p>PC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Baabby, humanoid sheep barbarian/cleric (Life) 9</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Sam Crow, humanoid crow ranger/rogue 9</p><p></p><p>NPC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Sapphrina, fairy sorcerer 9</p><p></p><p>Game Session Date: 8 July 2017</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>"Hey guys, watch this!" said Sam. "I've been teaching Shelldon math."</p><p></p><p>Baabby and Sapphrina dutifully stopped what they had been doing - the fairy had been helping demonstrate to the baabarian how to channel spells through his <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> to cause <em>dimension door</em> and <em>teleport</em> effects - and gathered around the crow, whose snail "animal companion" was perched on his usual position on Sam's left shoulder.</p><p></p><p>"I saw a horse to math tricks once," explained Sam. "You'd call out a math problem and he'd tap the answer with his hoof. So I figured, 'Shelldon's smarter than some dumb old horse.'"</p><p></p><p>"But he doesn't have any hooves," pointed out Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"He won't need them," assured Sam to his audience. Then, turning to his pet snail, he asked, "What's zero times zero?"</p><p></p><p>Shelldon didn't move in the slightest measure. After a few seconds, Sam proudly declared, "...That's right! Here's another one: How much is 100 minus 100?"</p><p></p><p>Again, there was no reaction from the snail, which might as well have been carved out of stone for all the movement he was demonstrating. "Very good!" cried Sam, beaming with satisfaction.</p><p></p><p>"Let me try one," offered Baabby. "Shelldon: Whaat's 3 times 4?"</p><p></p><p>"...divided by itself, then subtracted from one," amended Sam. After a few seconds of silence, the crow once again declared his snail a mathematical prodigy.</p><p></p><p>"Enough of this," sighed Sapphrina, turning back to Baabby. "Let's get back to our practice." They'd been on the troll airship for almost a week, heading over to where the fairy had determined there was an old, abandoned Arkeyan workshop that had been working on a device that could grant a wish - although the ancient documents she had studied suggested it was "a single wish, doubled." The animated statue of Xacho's son effortlessly and tirelessly piloted the craft through the Skylands, heading for their destination.</p><p></p><p>"We are approaching the island," he finally alerted the crew, and the three heroes ran to peer over the sides of the airship at their destination. Below them was a small, floating island containing a set of crumbling ruins, six buildings in all. Of the six, five of them were occupied by Arkeyan forces of some type, either a group of soldiers clad in red or blue armor, or, in the case of the small amphitheater, an Arkeyan ultron - an enormous automaton with impressive offensive and defensive capabilities.</p><p></p><p>"Hey! No fair!" squawked Sam upon seeing these forces ranged below. "I thought this was an <em>abandoned</em> Arkeyan workshop! That doesn't look abandoned to me!"</p><p></p><p>"That's what my research indicated," offered Sapphrina. "Perhaps they just meant abandoned by the living Arkeyans." As the troll airship passed overhead, none of the figures scattered among the ruined buildings even bothered to look up - they might have been statues for all the curiosity they demonstrated. "Maybe they're all deactivated," suggested - and fervently hoped - Sam.</p><p></p><p>"We'll find out soon enough," suggested Baabby as the airship landed in a nearby clearing. The three heroes disembarked and silently made their way back to the ruins.</p><p></p><p>None of the buildings still had a roof, and few had all of their walls intact. The first such ruin the group approached was a simple box of four walls, although two opposite walls had gaps in their respective middles. Along the two fully intact walls stood a total of four humanoid figures in red armor, each armed with a halberd.</p><p></p><p>"Let's split up," suggested Sam, drawing a diagram in the dirt with the tip of an arrow. "I'll go to the opening on the right, Baabby will go to the opening on the left, and Sapphrina can fly over the back wall. We'll take them from three different directions that way." Following the crow's advice, the three heroes got into position, then Sam stepped into the ruins, his Dynabow 3.0 nocked and ready for action.</p><p></p><p>The Arkeyan defenders along the back wall jolted into awareness. "Identify yourself," demanded one of the figures - which, Sam could see, was an animated skeleton wearing red armor. All four of the figures were skeletal, yet the voice of the one who had spoken seemed more mechanical than anything else.</p><p></p><p>"I'm the Dynabow 3.0," said Sam in a funny voice, shooting an explosive arrow at the two armored skeletons along the back wall. The explosion staggered both figures, although neither one dropped its weapon. Seeing the fight had begun, Baabby rushed into the ruined building and approached the other two skeletons. His sword chopped one of the skeletons in two, then he pivoted and with the same swing did likewise to the other one. Sam gaped in astonishment; he'd seriously thought he'd done pretty well with his explosive shot - leave it to the hulking baabarian to show him up!</p><p></p><p>"Intruder alert!" announced one of the staggering skeletons. "Under attack by marauding forces!" Sapphrina flew over the wall, faced the two remaining skeletons, and cast a <em>burning hands</em> spell that took them out. As their ruined bodies collapsed onto the ground, she said, "I hope those were bad guys we just took out."</p><p></p><p>"They were undead!" pointed out Sam, still slightly creeped out by the concept of dead things that didn't act like dead things.</p><p></p><p>"Undead doesn't aalways mean evil," pointed out Baabby. "That vaampire shopkeeper was nice."</p><p></p><p>"Okay, fine," grumbled Sam. "We'll introduce ourselves nicely to the next group of undead guardians, shall we?"</p><p></p><p>The trio crept up to the next crumbling building, this one large enough to sport six red-armored skeletons. Sam boldly stepped into the middle of the ruins and once again this prompted the guardians to snap to attention. "Identify yourself," demanded one of the skeletons in a mechanical-sounding voice, gripping his halberd at the ready.</p><p></p><p>"Why, my name is Sam Crow, and I'm very pleased to make your acquaintances," said Sam in his most sarcastic voice, scowling in Sapphrina's direction as he did so. "Please allow me to introduce my boon companions Baabby, Sapphrina, and Shelldon." He swept one feathered hand in the direction of his two fellow adventurers.</p><p></p><p>"Incorrect name given!" announced the skeleton. "These are impostors! Deleting Sam_Baabby.prophecy file!" He actually pronounced the file name, calling it the "Sam underscore Baabby dot prophecy" file.</p><p></p><p>"Destroy the intruders!" replied one of the other six skeletons, halberd raised for combat.</p><p></p><p>"Wh-what the heck?" spluttered Sam, firing off an explosive arrow at the two armored skeletons in the back of the ruins, confident that Baabby could take care of the two closest ones as he'd done at the last building. As before, the skeletons weren't destroyed in the explosion but were considerably weakened. One of the closer skeletons swiped its blade at Sapphrina, but the fairy managed to fly under the weapon.</p><p></p><p>Baabby swung his <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> at the closest skeleton, cutting it in half, and then repeating the process with the rest of his powerful swing. As before, he'd taken down two opponents with a single strike of his blade. Sam just shook his head in disbelief and begrudging admiration.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina flew up and blasted three of the skeletons with a <em>burning hands</em> spell, taking down one of the three - the only one of the trio previously damaged by Sam's explosive arrow.</p><p></p><p>Realizing that his Dynabow 3.0 would take a moment to recharge, and that even an explosive arrow wasn't likely to take down a "fresh" skeleton, Sam scrounged in his backpack and pulled out a trollish monkey wrench he'd taken from a foe in one of their earliest adventures. Brandishing it like a club, he brought it crashing down on the head of a skeleton. Had he been Baabby, he'd likely have slain the undead foe, but this was Sam - and the skeleton, although damaged by the bludgeoning weapon, was still up and about and counterattacking with its halberd.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, Baabby was near enough that he got into a flanking position with Sam and took it out with his own weapon of choice. Despite being a slashing weapon, the Undead rune in the magical greatsword overcame the skeleton's inherent damage resistance.</p><p></p><p>Dodging another blow from a halberd, Sapphrina flew to the side and blasted a <em>lightning bolt</em> spell at both remaining skeletons. One was taken down immediately, but the other hung on to its semblance of life - just long enough to be taken down by the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em>. Then the baabarian cast healing spells on those who needed them.</p><p></p><p>"What was all that about?" Sam wanted to know. "I did it your way, and they still attacked!"</p><p></p><p>"I'm not sure," admitted the fairy. "They seemed to know us, or at least our names - but they said one of them was wrong."</p><p></p><p>"And did you notice I got top billing in their prophecy file?" asked Sam. "'Sam underscore Baabby' - not 'Baabby underscore Sam.' About time I get the recognition I deserve!"</p><p></p><p>"By undead forces trying to kill you," pointed out Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"Well, yeah, there's that," admitted the little crow. "But one thing still puzzles me."</p><p></p><p>"Only one?" scoffed Sapphrina.</p><p></p><p>"Yeah. What's 'underscore' mean?" Sam asked, scratching the feathers on the top of his head. Sapphrina told him she'd explain later and the group moved on to the next set of ruins.</p><p></p><p>This crumbling, roofless building held four more skeletons, but these were more heavily-armored than the others, wearing blue breastplates. Their weapons were different, too: they held greatclubs instead of halberds. And despite their general immobility, every once in a while one of the greatclubs would give off a little spark of electricity.</p><p></p><p>"Shall we try being nice again?" asked Sam, looking at the fairy as he stepped into the ruins. "Hello, all - my name is Sam!" he said. "That is my absolutely correct name, no doubt about it."</p><p></p><p>But it made no difference. Upon being activated by the crow's presence, one armored skeleton began speaking to its compatriots. "Network update!" it announced. "Deleting Sam_Baabby.prophecy file! All defenders initiate attack mode against the intruders!"</p><p></p><p>"I give up!" called out Sam in exasperation. "Next time one of you gets to do the greeting bit!" But as he was concentrating on his grousing and griping, the four armored skeletons had approached him, two of them flanking him from either side. Their electrified greatclubs slammed into him, practically staggering him on his feet. This prompted him to bring back his original battle cry from his first days adventuring with the hulking baabarian, long before the fairy entered into the picture: "BAABBY! HELP ME!"</p><p></p><p>Baabby obediently stepped up behind Sam, cutting one of the flanking skeletons in half with his blade, then cleaving into another and bringing it down as well. Sapphrina flew into position and slew the other two with a well-placed <em>lightning bolt</em>, for despite their electrified weaponry they were not themselves immune to electrical attacks. Baabby then cast healing spells upon a beleaguered Sam until he was back up to his full fighting strength.</p><p></p><p>There was one last clump of four skeletons, this group wearing the red armor and wielding the halberds of the first two groups. Sam decided to try something before they entered the ruined building, and did a little dance all around the building, capering and cavorting and wiggling his tail-feathers at the unmoving guardians. "Hmm," he noted. "They don't activate until you enter what's left of their building."</p><p></p><p>So Sam stepped past the ruined outer walls and the skeletons immediately jolted to life. Then Sam stepped back, and they became immobile once again. "Heh heh heh," Sam chortled, "Check this out, guys!" And the little crow did an impromptu version of the hokey-pokey, putting his left foot in - and activating the armored skeletons - then taking it out, which caused them to instantly deactivate. "Dance, my little puppets!" the archer chuckled with glee.</p><p></p><p>But Baabby's patience for such shenanigans was limited. Greatsword in hand, he stepped boldly into the ruins, causing the skeletons to animate and stay animated even while Sam pulled his left arm out, but before he put it back in to shake it all about. Two strokes of the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> cut down half of the skeletal resistance. Sapphrina flew over to the other two and cast a <em>burning hands</em> spell at them, which singed their armor and their exposed bones but failed to bring them down. Seeing that play time was apparently over, Sam shot an explosive arrow at the two remaining skeletons, causing one to crumble to a pile of bones but failing to take out the last one. It attacked the crow with its halberd but missed, and then Baabby quickly dispatched it with his sword.</p><p></p><p>That left only one ruin still guarded - and that one, the amphitheater, guarded by an Arkeyan ultron, a much fiercer-looking opponent than any they'd yet faced that day. It stood at the bottom of a lowered platform, with three sets of stairs leading down to it among stone benches from a half-circle where the audience would have sat.</p><p></p><p>Sam tried the same hokey-pokey nonsense and this time got a surprise when the Arkeyan ultron, once activated, stayed activated. It raised a mechanical arm into the air, announced "Targeting," and shot a bomb into the air. The heroes scattered away as the bomb arced in the air before landing right where Sam had stood when "putting his right foot in." There was a massive explosion, much bigger than those from Sam's tech-infused arrows, which had a certain way of bringing the little crow back out of his screw-around mode and straight into full hero mode. This device wasn't fooling around!</p><p></p><p>The heroes split up, thinking to take on the ultron from three different directions. As such, each headed for a different set of stairs. Sam took the stairway to the right, firing an explosive arrow at the ultron as he ran. This was followed by a charge from Baabby, timed such that as the smoke was clearing from the explosive arrow the baabarian was upon the mechanical device, swinging his <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> for all he was worth.</p><p></p><p>But for once, Baabby's great strength proved to be ineffectual. Its thick armor plating kept it from being damaged much by the baabarian's greatsword, despite its numerous magical augmentations. Fortunately, the ultron was big enough that Sapphrina could fire a <em>lightning bolt</em> at its side without hitting Baabby as well, and that seemed to do some damage. But then the Arkeyan ultron struck back. Fortunately, Baabby was too close to it for the automaton to shoot at the baabarian, so it merely bonked him on the head - hard! - with its armor-plated arm. Sam tried to divert its attention away from Baabby by shooting a trio of arrows at it, but they just clunked off its armor without having made so much as a scratch.</p><p></p><p>Baabby, incensed at his attacks being basically ignored by the mechanical foe, channeled all of his strength into his next swing. This swing managed to cut into the device's armor, so he repeated the swing in the same place, cutting the gash even deeper. Gears and other mechanical parts started spilling out of the rent in its armor, and before long Baabby had the ultron on its back, gushing oil onto the amphitheater floor and smoke into the air.</p><p></p><p>"Thaat was a worthy foe!" he enthused, rubbing the sore spot on the top of his head where he'd been clubbed.</p><p></p><p>"That was also our last one," noted Sam, looking around at the remaining ruins. "There's got to be a secret panel or something to a lower level, because I sure don't see any wish-granting machines up here!" The trio split up, looking among the ruined buildings. Baabby finally unearthed a lever that, when pulled, caused chunks of the floor to lower into the ground, forming a set of spiral stairs that made a full circuit. "Those sneaky Arkeyans!" griped Sam, noting the hidden entrance to where they really wanted to go was the one building out of six that didn't have any defenders assigned to it. "They had us fight all of those defenders for nothing, when we could have just walked up to this one and found the secret passage without anybody bothering us!"</p><p></p><p>"What's done is done," pointed out Sapphrina. "There's no use griping about it."</p><p></p><p>"I can't help it," offered up Sam. "I'm part grouse on my mother's side."</p><p></p><p>Baabby led the way down the spiraling stairs, followed by Sam and then by Sapphrina. There was an entire lower level, looking to be separate rooms carved out of an old system of natural caverns. There was flickering light throughout, caused by technological devices rather than the half-expected luminous fungus. These electric lights flickered and occasionally shot off a spark or two, but that fact that they still functioned at all after all of these years - centuries, even! - was practically a miracle.</p><p></p><p>There was a massive gear situated on the floor in the middle of the winding stairs. It was wider than Baabby was tall, and made from solid adamantine - worth a fortune if they could lift it, but they couldn't. Sam glanced back at it wistfully as they left, not wanting to leave behind something worth so much money.</p><p></p><p>The first door they passed through led them to an even bigger ultron than the one they'd fought outside - this one must have stood 20 feet tall. Fortunately, its left arm was buried in solid rock, no doubt from a collapse many years ago. The ultron had three spaces on its exterior that were missing pieces; a quick investigation revealed that the adamantine gear they'd seen by the stairs would fit perfectly into any of the three slots.</p><p></p><p>"I think this may be what we're looking for," remarked Sapphrina, examining the unmoving machine. "We should try to find the other missing gears and see if we can repair it."</p><p></p><p>"Are you crazy?" squawked Sam. "More than likely, we'll repair it and then it'll try to kill us!"</p><p></p><p>"I don't think so," the fairy replied. "Plus, it's immobilized by the rock fall in any case. I think we should give it a shot." </p><p></p><p>"We caan't lift the gear, though," pointed out Baabby. "If the others aare the same size, we won't be able to lift aany of them."</p><p></p><p>"I have some thoughts on that problem," replied the fairy. "But let's go find the other gears first."</p><p></p><p>Checking out the other adjacent rooms, the heroes discovered another mechanical device. This one was a zelekhut, a robot of centaurian build, with spiked chains at the ends of its arms. "Destroy all intruders!" it announced in a mechanical voice like those of the skeletons the group had fought outside. It started swinging its spiked chains, ready to attack.</p><p></p><p>Baabby bull rushed straight into the zelekhut, ducking beneath the swinging chains. His sword, however, seemed to do no damage. Sam shot an explosive arrow into the area, targeted to catch the zelekhut in the explosion while keeping Baabby out of it, but it too had a limited effect. Sapphrina, no front-line combatant, opted to stay back from this foe but cast a <em>haste</em> spell on her two friends. That spell, plus Baabby's rage at once again facing a foe that seemed to shrug off the attacks from his greatsword, gave him the advantage he needed. It took only three blows for his <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> to cut the centaurian zelekhut down. As the power left the creature's circuits, it had time only for a quick message to those who had slain it: "Destroy...destroy the beast...we summoned. We should have never...have never...." But then the light left its eyes and it froze in place, to speak no more.</p><p></p><p>Sapphrina spotted another adamantine gear behind the slain zelekhut's body, but they opted to leave it for later.</p><p></p><p>Another room nearby was filled with three of the blue-armored skeletons wielding electric greatclubs. Sam shot an explosive arrow into the midst of these Arkeyan defenders, damaging two of the three fairly severely. Baabby rushed in, slaying the one who hadn't been hurt, while a <em>lightning bolt</em> spell from Sapphrina took out the other two. A side cave off that area held the third gear, identical in appearance to the others. Sapphrina led the other two heroes to a close examination of each of the three gears, then back to where the trapped Arkeyan ultron stood.</p><p></p><p>"Remember what we practiced on the airship," she advised Baabby. "Picture one of the gears in your mind, and then channel a spell through your sword. That will allow you to open a rift directly beneath the gear, opening to a spot directly above where you want to place it on the robot." Baabby concentrated, then cast a spell through his sword. Within seconds, one of the massive gears popped into existence there in the room, dropping into place on the immobile ultron.</p><p></p><p>"Great!" said Sapphrina. "Now the other two!" With a fierce concentration the likes of which the hulking baabarian was unused to, the other two gears popped into place. The effect was almost immediate: the gears started whirring in place, and the ultron's eyes seemed to focus on the group of heroes.</p><p></p><p>"Xacho detected," it intoned. "Prophecy confirmed. Beginning creation of Tech crystals."</p><p></p><p>"Not this again," scoffed Sam. "Listen here, buddy, you're not the first to make this mistake, but this is not Xacho. His name is Baabby - Xacho has been dead for, like, centuries."</p><p></p><p>"Incorrect," replied the Arkeyan ultron. "Xacho is present in this chamber."</p><p></p><p>"Oh yeah?" asked Sam, looking around for anybody but the trio of heroes and the obviously mistaken bit of ancient Arkeyan technology. "Where?"</p><p></p><p>"On your left shoulder."</p><p></p><p>Sam looked down at Shelldon, sitting perched upon his normal place on the little crow's left shoulder. The others looked at the snail in wonder.</p><p></p><p>"That's Xacho?" asked Sapphrina.</p><p></p><p>"Confirmed. When Xacho confronted the Devourer of Nightmares, he was unable to defeat the beast the Arkeyans had summoned through their experimental rituals. The Devourer of Nightmares, however, was similarly unable to defeat the first wielder of the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em>. So he <em>polymorphed</em> Xacho into a form he feared, and made him virtually immortal."</p><p></p><p>"Don is <em>afraid of snails?</em>" squeaked Sam, holding his hands up to his beak - this was too good to be true! He couldn't wait to tease their foe the next time they met up with one of those eyeball-tentacle things!</p><p></p><p>"Negative. It was Xacho who harbored a fear of snails," replied the ultron. "He thought they were...icky."</p><p></p><p>Everyone peered at Shelldon, who for once wasn't completely immobile: he was slowly waving his two eyestalks up and down, in the equivalence to a nodding motion. It seemed the snail was confirming the ultron's story!</p><p></p><p>The ultron continued with its explanations. The ancient Arkeyans had either created the Devourer of Nightmares or allowed it to enter their reality from another realm entirely. He stood well over 100 feet tall, and the eyeball-tentacle things the heroes had encountered this far were his fingers, which grew back when severed. The ultron also explained what it was currently doing, now that he had been reactivated in accordance with the Prophecy of the Brave Sheep and the Cowardly Crow: he was creating a pair of Tech crystals, one of which would be placed in the Tech rune shape in the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em>. But then, since the combined powers of the eight original elements hadn't been enough to slay the Devourer of Nightmares, the greatsword's blade would need to be modified. The heroes would need to find an adherent to the Light Element and another of the Dark Element and get them to carve their appropriate runes into the greatsword's blade. Then the eight existing runes could be used to convert their power into that of Light and Dark, filling up those rune-slots on the sword at the cost of depleting the original eight element runes - which would then need to be gathered again.</p><p></p><p>"What?" squawked Sam. "We have to go fetch the eight elemental runes <em>all over again?</em>"</p><p></p><p>"You're grousing again," pointed out Sapphrina.</p><p></p><p>"Blame my mom."</p><p></p><p>"Only with the power of all ten elements will the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> be able to destroy the Devourer of Nightmares," informed the ultron. "But a part of the elemental power can be infused into the crow's shortbow, allowing it to at least hurt the summoned beast before the greatsword brings him down."</p><p></p><p>"That sounds good to me!" said Sam, rubbing his feather-fingers together in glee. He didn't care if Baabby got in the final blow - after all, he usually did - but he just wanted a chance to actually cause Don some real pain!</p><p></p><p>"The process is complete," replied the Arkeyan ultron, presenting Baabby with a pair of crystals, each in the shape of the Tech rune - a miniature, stylized gear. Sapphrina stashed one of the crystals into her pack, while Baabby inserted the other one into his greatsword, causing the rune to flash when installed. Just like that, the <em>Rift-Weaver's Blade</em> had gained the ability to overcome the inherent damage reduction of constructs.</p><p></p><p>"It sounds like we've got a bunch of more little quests to go on, don't we?" asked Sam.</p><p></p><p>"We do," confirmed Sapphrina. "We'll need to find adherents to the Light and Dark Elements, which might be a bit of a challenge since they've only recently been accepted as true elements. And then we'll need to gather up all of the other original eight runes again, all within the next year. But besides all of the sword stuff, we also need to see if there's a way to restore Xacho to his original form. I can't imagine he enjoys being trapped as a snail, immortal or otherwise!"</p><p></p><p>At that, Shelldon's eyestalks slowly slid from side to side, the equivalent of a person shaking his head. Sam looked down at his little animal companion in amazement. If he had doubted the story about this being Xacho before, it was hard to do so now.</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>It's taken me a while to write this up, since we had relatives staying with us for the past week and a half. For the same reason, we're not playing through an adventure today - Logan hasn't had time to work on the next adventure.</p><p></p><p>And we won't be going through an adventure next Saturday, either, but for an entirely different reason: Harry's decided that he's had so much fun playing "Skylanders D&D" that he's ready to join us in our regular D&D 3.5 campaign! Our next session in that campaign is scheduled for next Saturday, so we'll have a place for him at our gaming table, where he's decided he'll be running a half-orc sorcerer with a weasel familiar. Logan went out and purchased a "familiars" pack of minis that includes a weasel, so he'll be painting it this coming week in time for next Saturday. We're all looking forward to it!</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, the "topside" ruins were a set of Paizo's Game Mastery "Map Pack" cards, this one quite appropriately entitled "Ruins." The lower level was the "Tech Dungeon" (also quite appropriate!) from Paizo's "Flip-Mat" series. I made the zelekhut and ultron minis as stand-up tokens, as well as the blue-clad skeletons (those were, in Skylanders terminology, "Arkeyan defenders"), while we used skeletons from the D&D Miniatures and HeroQuest games for the red-clad skeletons. For the adamantine gears, Logan repurposed some drow floatdisk tokens I had made for our previous D&D 3.5 campaign. (It helps to save things from previous games as you never know when they'll come in handy!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7176410, member: 508"] [b]ADVENTURE 16: THE ABANDONED ARKEYAN WORKSHOP[/b] PC Roster: [INDENT]Baabby, humanoid sheep barbarian/cleric (Life) 9 Sam Crow, humanoid crow ranger/rogue 9[/INDENT] NPC Roster: [INDENT]Sapphrina, fairy sorcerer 9[/INDENT] Game Session Date: 8 July 2017 - - - "Hey guys, watch this!" said Sam. "I've been teaching Shelldon math." Baabby and Sapphrina dutifully stopped what they had been doing - the fairy had been helping demonstrate to the baabarian how to channel spells through his [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] to cause [i]dimension door[/i] and [i]teleport[/i] effects - and gathered around the crow, whose snail "animal companion" was perched on his usual position on Sam's left shoulder. "I saw a horse to math tricks once," explained Sam. "You'd call out a math problem and he'd tap the answer with his hoof. So I figured, 'Shelldon's smarter than some dumb old horse.'" "But he doesn't have any hooves," pointed out Baabby. "He won't need them," assured Sam to his audience. Then, turning to his pet snail, he asked, "What's zero times zero?" Shelldon didn't move in the slightest measure. After a few seconds, Sam proudly declared, "...That's right! Here's another one: How much is 100 minus 100?" Again, there was no reaction from the snail, which might as well have been carved out of stone for all the movement he was demonstrating. "Very good!" cried Sam, beaming with satisfaction. "Let me try one," offered Baabby. "Shelldon: Whaat's 3 times 4?" "...divided by itself, then subtracted from one," amended Sam. After a few seconds of silence, the crow once again declared his snail a mathematical prodigy. "Enough of this," sighed Sapphrina, turning back to Baabby. "Let's get back to our practice." They'd been on the troll airship for almost a week, heading over to where the fairy had determined there was an old, abandoned Arkeyan workshop that had been working on a device that could grant a wish - although the ancient documents she had studied suggested it was "a single wish, doubled." The animated statue of Xacho's son effortlessly and tirelessly piloted the craft through the Skylands, heading for their destination. "We are approaching the island," he finally alerted the crew, and the three heroes ran to peer over the sides of the airship at their destination. Below them was a small, floating island containing a set of crumbling ruins, six buildings in all. Of the six, five of them were occupied by Arkeyan forces of some type, either a group of soldiers clad in red or blue armor, or, in the case of the small amphitheater, an Arkeyan ultron - an enormous automaton with impressive offensive and defensive capabilities. "Hey! No fair!" squawked Sam upon seeing these forces ranged below. "I thought this was an [i]abandoned[/i] Arkeyan workshop! That doesn't look abandoned to me!" "That's what my research indicated," offered Sapphrina. "Perhaps they just meant abandoned by the living Arkeyans." As the troll airship passed overhead, none of the figures scattered among the ruined buildings even bothered to look up - they might have been statues for all the curiosity they demonstrated. "Maybe they're all deactivated," suggested - and fervently hoped - Sam. "We'll find out soon enough," suggested Baabby as the airship landed in a nearby clearing. The three heroes disembarked and silently made their way back to the ruins. None of the buildings still had a roof, and few had all of their walls intact. The first such ruin the group approached was a simple box of four walls, although two opposite walls had gaps in their respective middles. Along the two fully intact walls stood a total of four humanoid figures in red armor, each armed with a halberd. "Let's split up," suggested Sam, drawing a diagram in the dirt with the tip of an arrow. "I'll go to the opening on the right, Baabby will go to the opening on the left, and Sapphrina can fly over the back wall. We'll take them from three different directions that way." Following the crow's advice, the three heroes got into position, then Sam stepped into the ruins, his Dynabow 3.0 nocked and ready for action. The Arkeyan defenders along the back wall jolted into awareness. "Identify yourself," demanded one of the figures - which, Sam could see, was an animated skeleton wearing red armor. All four of the figures were skeletal, yet the voice of the one who had spoken seemed more mechanical than anything else. "I'm the Dynabow 3.0," said Sam in a funny voice, shooting an explosive arrow at the two armored skeletons along the back wall. The explosion staggered both figures, although neither one dropped its weapon. Seeing the fight had begun, Baabby rushed into the ruined building and approached the other two skeletons. His sword chopped one of the skeletons in two, then he pivoted and with the same swing did likewise to the other one. Sam gaped in astonishment; he'd seriously thought he'd done pretty well with his explosive shot - leave it to the hulking baabarian to show him up! "Intruder alert!" announced one of the staggering skeletons. "Under attack by marauding forces!" Sapphrina flew over the wall, faced the two remaining skeletons, and cast a [i]burning hands[/i] spell that took them out. As their ruined bodies collapsed onto the ground, she said, "I hope those were bad guys we just took out." "They were undead!" pointed out Sam, still slightly creeped out by the concept of dead things that didn't act like dead things. "Undead doesn't aalways mean evil," pointed out Baabby. "That vaampire shopkeeper was nice." "Okay, fine," grumbled Sam. "We'll introduce ourselves nicely to the next group of undead guardians, shall we?" The trio crept up to the next crumbling building, this one large enough to sport six red-armored skeletons. Sam boldly stepped into the middle of the ruins and once again this prompted the guardians to snap to attention. "Identify yourself," demanded one of the skeletons in a mechanical-sounding voice, gripping his halberd at the ready. "Why, my name is Sam Crow, and I'm very pleased to make your acquaintances," said Sam in his most sarcastic voice, scowling in Sapphrina's direction as he did so. "Please allow me to introduce my boon companions Baabby, Sapphrina, and Shelldon." He swept one feathered hand in the direction of his two fellow adventurers. "Incorrect name given!" announced the skeleton. "These are impostors! Deleting Sam_Baabby.prophecy file!" He actually pronounced the file name, calling it the "Sam underscore Baabby dot prophecy" file. "Destroy the intruders!" replied one of the other six skeletons, halberd raised for combat. "Wh-what the heck?" spluttered Sam, firing off an explosive arrow at the two armored skeletons in the back of the ruins, confident that Baabby could take care of the two closest ones as he'd done at the last building. As before, the skeletons weren't destroyed in the explosion but were considerably weakened. One of the closer skeletons swiped its blade at Sapphrina, but the fairy managed to fly under the weapon. Baabby swung his [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] at the closest skeleton, cutting it in half, and then repeating the process with the rest of his powerful swing. As before, he'd taken down two opponents with a single strike of his blade. Sam just shook his head in disbelief and begrudging admiration. Sapphrina flew up and blasted three of the skeletons with a [i]burning hands[/i] spell, taking down one of the three - the only one of the trio previously damaged by Sam's explosive arrow. Realizing that his Dynabow 3.0 would take a moment to recharge, and that even an explosive arrow wasn't likely to take down a "fresh" skeleton, Sam scrounged in his backpack and pulled out a trollish monkey wrench he'd taken from a foe in one of their earliest adventures. Brandishing it like a club, he brought it crashing down on the head of a skeleton. Had he been Baabby, he'd likely have slain the undead foe, but this was Sam - and the skeleton, although damaged by the bludgeoning weapon, was still up and about and counterattacking with its halberd. Fortunately, Baabby was near enough that he got into a flanking position with Sam and took it out with his own weapon of choice. Despite being a slashing weapon, the Undead rune in the magical greatsword overcame the skeleton's inherent damage resistance. Dodging another blow from a halberd, Sapphrina flew to the side and blasted a [i]lightning bolt[/i] spell at both remaining skeletons. One was taken down immediately, but the other hung on to its semblance of life - just long enough to be taken down by the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i]. Then the baabarian cast healing spells on those who needed them. "What was all that about?" Sam wanted to know. "I did it your way, and they still attacked!" "I'm not sure," admitted the fairy. "They seemed to know us, or at least our names - but they said one of them was wrong." "And did you notice I got top billing in their prophecy file?" asked Sam. "'Sam underscore Baabby' - not 'Baabby underscore Sam.' About time I get the recognition I deserve!" "By undead forces trying to kill you," pointed out Baabby. "Well, yeah, there's that," admitted the little crow. "But one thing still puzzles me." "Only one?" scoffed Sapphrina. "Yeah. What's 'underscore' mean?" Sam asked, scratching the feathers on the top of his head. Sapphrina told him she'd explain later and the group moved on to the next set of ruins. This crumbling, roofless building held four more skeletons, but these were more heavily-armored than the others, wearing blue breastplates. Their weapons were different, too: they held greatclubs instead of halberds. And despite their general immobility, every once in a while one of the greatclubs would give off a little spark of electricity. "Shall we try being nice again?" asked Sam, looking at the fairy as he stepped into the ruins. "Hello, all - my name is Sam!" he said. "That is my absolutely correct name, no doubt about it." But it made no difference. Upon being activated by the crow's presence, one armored skeleton began speaking to its compatriots. "Network update!" it announced. "Deleting Sam_Baabby.prophecy file! All defenders initiate attack mode against the intruders!" "I give up!" called out Sam in exasperation. "Next time one of you gets to do the greeting bit!" But as he was concentrating on his grousing and griping, the four armored skeletons had approached him, two of them flanking him from either side. Their electrified greatclubs slammed into him, practically staggering him on his feet. This prompted him to bring back his original battle cry from his first days adventuring with the hulking baabarian, long before the fairy entered into the picture: "BAABBY! HELP ME!" Baabby obediently stepped up behind Sam, cutting one of the flanking skeletons in half with his blade, then cleaving into another and bringing it down as well. Sapphrina flew into position and slew the other two with a well-placed [i]lightning bolt[/i], for despite their electrified weaponry they were not themselves immune to electrical attacks. Baabby then cast healing spells upon a beleaguered Sam until he was back up to his full fighting strength. There was one last clump of four skeletons, this group wearing the red armor and wielding the halberds of the first two groups. Sam decided to try something before they entered the ruined building, and did a little dance all around the building, capering and cavorting and wiggling his tail-feathers at the unmoving guardians. "Hmm," he noted. "They don't activate until you enter what's left of their building." So Sam stepped past the ruined outer walls and the skeletons immediately jolted to life. Then Sam stepped back, and they became immobile once again. "Heh heh heh," Sam chortled, "Check this out, guys!" And the little crow did an impromptu version of the hokey-pokey, putting his left foot in - and activating the armored skeletons - then taking it out, which caused them to instantly deactivate. "Dance, my little puppets!" the archer chuckled with glee. But Baabby's patience for such shenanigans was limited. Greatsword in hand, he stepped boldly into the ruins, causing the skeletons to animate and stay animated even while Sam pulled his left arm out, but before he put it back in to shake it all about. Two strokes of the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] cut down half of the skeletal resistance. Sapphrina flew over to the other two and cast a [i]burning hands[/i] spell at them, which singed their armor and their exposed bones but failed to bring them down. Seeing that play time was apparently over, Sam shot an explosive arrow at the two remaining skeletons, causing one to crumble to a pile of bones but failing to take out the last one. It attacked the crow with its halberd but missed, and then Baabby quickly dispatched it with his sword. That left only one ruin still guarded - and that one, the amphitheater, guarded by an Arkeyan ultron, a much fiercer-looking opponent than any they'd yet faced that day. It stood at the bottom of a lowered platform, with three sets of stairs leading down to it among stone benches from a half-circle where the audience would have sat. Sam tried the same hokey-pokey nonsense and this time got a surprise when the Arkeyan ultron, once activated, stayed activated. It raised a mechanical arm into the air, announced "Targeting," and shot a bomb into the air. The heroes scattered away as the bomb arced in the air before landing right where Sam had stood when "putting his right foot in." There was a massive explosion, much bigger than those from Sam's tech-infused arrows, which had a certain way of bringing the little crow back out of his screw-around mode and straight into full hero mode. This device wasn't fooling around! The heroes split up, thinking to take on the ultron from three different directions. As such, each headed for a different set of stairs. Sam took the stairway to the right, firing an explosive arrow at the ultron as he ran. This was followed by a charge from Baabby, timed such that as the smoke was clearing from the explosive arrow the baabarian was upon the mechanical device, swinging his [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] for all he was worth. But for once, Baabby's great strength proved to be ineffectual. Its thick armor plating kept it from being damaged much by the baabarian's greatsword, despite its numerous magical augmentations. Fortunately, the ultron was big enough that Sapphrina could fire a [i]lightning bolt[/i] at its side without hitting Baabby as well, and that seemed to do some damage. But then the Arkeyan ultron struck back. Fortunately, Baabby was too close to it for the automaton to shoot at the baabarian, so it merely bonked him on the head - hard! - with its armor-plated arm. Sam tried to divert its attention away from Baabby by shooting a trio of arrows at it, but they just clunked off its armor without having made so much as a scratch. Baabby, incensed at his attacks being basically ignored by the mechanical foe, channeled all of his strength into his next swing. This swing managed to cut into the device's armor, so he repeated the swing in the same place, cutting the gash even deeper. Gears and other mechanical parts started spilling out of the rent in its armor, and before long Baabby had the ultron on its back, gushing oil onto the amphitheater floor and smoke into the air. "Thaat was a worthy foe!" he enthused, rubbing the sore spot on the top of his head where he'd been clubbed. "That was also our last one," noted Sam, looking around at the remaining ruins. "There's got to be a secret panel or something to a lower level, because I sure don't see any wish-granting machines up here!" The trio split up, looking among the ruined buildings. Baabby finally unearthed a lever that, when pulled, caused chunks of the floor to lower into the ground, forming a set of spiral stairs that made a full circuit. "Those sneaky Arkeyans!" griped Sam, noting the hidden entrance to where they really wanted to go was the one building out of six that didn't have any defenders assigned to it. "They had us fight all of those defenders for nothing, when we could have just walked up to this one and found the secret passage without anybody bothering us!" "What's done is done," pointed out Sapphrina. "There's no use griping about it." "I can't help it," offered up Sam. "I'm part grouse on my mother's side." Baabby led the way down the spiraling stairs, followed by Sam and then by Sapphrina. There was an entire lower level, looking to be separate rooms carved out of an old system of natural caverns. There was flickering light throughout, caused by technological devices rather than the half-expected luminous fungus. These electric lights flickered and occasionally shot off a spark or two, but that fact that they still functioned at all after all of these years - centuries, even! - was practically a miracle. There was a massive gear situated on the floor in the middle of the winding stairs. It was wider than Baabby was tall, and made from solid adamantine - worth a fortune if they could lift it, but they couldn't. Sam glanced back at it wistfully as they left, not wanting to leave behind something worth so much money. The first door they passed through led them to an even bigger ultron than the one they'd fought outside - this one must have stood 20 feet tall. Fortunately, its left arm was buried in solid rock, no doubt from a collapse many years ago. The ultron had three spaces on its exterior that were missing pieces; a quick investigation revealed that the adamantine gear they'd seen by the stairs would fit perfectly into any of the three slots. "I think this may be what we're looking for," remarked Sapphrina, examining the unmoving machine. "We should try to find the other missing gears and see if we can repair it." "Are you crazy?" squawked Sam. "More than likely, we'll repair it and then it'll try to kill us!" "I don't think so," the fairy replied. "Plus, it's immobilized by the rock fall in any case. I think we should give it a shot." "We caan't lift the gear, though," pointed out Baabby. "If the others aare the same size, we won't be able to lift aany of them." "I have some thoughts on that problem," replied the fairy. "But let's go find the other gears first." Checking out the other adjacent rooms, the heroes discovered another mechanical device. This one was a zelekhut, a robot of centaurian build, with spiked chains at the ends of its arms. "Destroy all intruders!" it announced in a mechanical voice like those of the skeletons the group had fought outside. It started swinging its spiked chains, ready to attack. Baabby bull rushed straight into the zelekhut, ducking beneath the swinging chains. His sword, however, seemed to do no damage. Sam shot an explosive arrow into the area, targeted to catch the zelekhut in the explosion while keeping Baabby out of it, but it too had a limited effect. Sapphrina, no front-line combatant, opted to stay back from this foe but cast a [i]haste[/i] spell on her two friends. That spell, plus Baabby's rage at once again facing a foe that seemed to shrug off the attacks from his greatsword, gave him the advantage he needed. It took only three blows for his [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] to cut the centaurian zelekhut down. As the power left the creature's circuits, it had time only for a quick message to those who had slain it: "Destroy...destroy the beast...we summoned. We should have never...have never...." But then the light left its eyes and it froze in place, to speak no more. Sapphrina spotted another adamantine gear behind the slain zelekhut's body, but they opted to leave it for later. Another room nearby was filled with three of the blue-armored skeletons wielding electric greatclubs. Sam shot an explosive arrow into the midst of these Arkeyan defenders, damaging two of the three fairly severely. Baabby rushed in, slaying the one who hadn't been hurt, while a [i]lightning bolt[/i] spell from Sapphrina took out the other two. A side cave off that area held the third gear, identical in appearance to the others. Sapphrina led the other two heroes to a close examination of each of the three gears, then back to where the trapped Arkeyan ultron stood. "Remember what we practiced on the airship," she advised Baabby. "Picture one of the gears in your mind, and then channel a spell through your sword. That will allow you to open a rift directly beneath the gear, opening to a spot directly above where you want to place it on the robot." Baabby concentrated, then cast a spell through his sword. Within seconds, one of the massive gears popped into existence there in the room, dropping into place on the immobile ultron. "Great!" said Sapphrina. "Now the other two!" With a fierce concentration the likes of which the hulking baabarian was unused to, the other two gears popped into place. The effect was almost immediate: the gears started whirring in place, and the ultron's eyes seemed to focus on the group of heroes. "Xacho detected," it intoned. "Prophecy confirmed. Beginning creation of Tech crystals." "Not this again," scoffed Sam. "Listen here, buddy, you're not the first to make this mistake, but this is not Xacho. His name is Baabby - Xacho has been dead for, like, centuries." "Incorrect," replied the Arkeyan ultron. "Xacho is present in this chamber." "Oh yeah?" asked Sam, looking around for anybody but the trio of heroes and the obviously mistaken bit of ancient Arkeyan technology. "Where?" "On your left shoulder." Sam looked down at Shelldon, sitting perched upon his normal place on the little crow's left shoulder. The others looked at the snail in wonder. "That's Xacho?" asked Sapphrina. "Confirmed. When Xacho confronted the Devourer of Nightmares, he was unable to defeat the beast the Arkeyans had summoned through their experimental rituals. The Devourer of Nightmares, however, was similarly unable to defeat the first wielder of the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i]. So he [i]polymorphed[/i] Xacho into a form he feared, and made him virtually immortal." "Don is [i]afraid of snails?[/i]" squeaked Sam, holding his hands up to his beak - this was too good to be true! He couldn't wait to tease their foe the next time they met up with one of those eyeball-tentacle things! "Negative. It was Xacho who harbored a fear of snails," replied the ultron. "He thought they were...icky." Everyone peered at Shelldon, who for once wasn't completely immobile: he was slowly waving his two eyestalks up and down, in the equivalence to a nodding motion. It seemed the snail was confirming the ultron's story! The ultron continued with its explanations. The ancient Arkeyans had either created the Devourer of Nightmares or allowed it to enter their reality from another realm entirely. He stood well over 100 feet tall, and the eyeball-tentacle things the heroes had encountered this far were his fingers, which grew back when severed. The ultron also explained what it was currently doing, now that he had been reactivated in accordance with the Prophecy of the Brave Sheep and the Cowardly Crow: he was creating a pair of Tech crystals, one of which would be placed in the Tech rune shape in the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i]. But then, since the combined powers of the eight original elements hadn't been enough to slay the Devourer of Nightmares, the greatsword's blade would need to be modified. The heroes would need to find an adherent to the Light Element and another of the Dark Element and get them to carve their appropriate runes into the greatsword's blade. Then the eight existing runes could be used to convert their power into that of Light and Dark, filling up those rune-slots on the sword at the cost of depleting the original eight element runes - which would then need to be gathered again. "What?" squawked Sam. "We have to go fetch the eight elemental runes [i]all over again?[/i]" "You're grousing again," pointed out Sapphrina. "Blame my mom." "Only with the power of all ten elements will the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] be able to destroy the Devourer of Nightmares," informed the ultron. "But a part of the elemental power can be infused into the crow's shortbow, allowing it to at least hurt the summoned beast before the greatsword brings him down." "That sounds good to me!" said Sam, rubbing his feather-fingers together in glee. He didn't care if Baabby got in the final blow - after all, he usually did - but he just wanted a chance to actually cause Don some real pain! "The process is complete," replied the Arkeyan ultron, presenting Baabby with a pair of crystals, each in the shape of the Tech rune - a miniature, stylized gear. Sapphrina stashed one of the crystals into her pack, while Baabby inserted the other one into his greatsword, causing the rune to flash when installed. Just like that, the [i]Rift-Weaver's Blade[/i] had gained the ability to overcome the inherent damage reduction of constructs. "It sounds like we've got a bunch of more little quests to go on, don't we?" asked Sam. "We do," confirmed Sapphrina. "We'll need to find adherents to the Light and Dark Elements, which might be a bit of a challenge since they've only recently been accepted as true elements. And then we'll need to gather up all of the other original eight runes again, all within the next year. But besides all of the sword stuff, we also need to see if there's a way to restore Xacho to his original form. I can't imagine he enjoys being trapped as a snail, immortal or otherwise!" At that, Shelldon's eyestalks slowly slid from side to side, the equivalent of a person shaking his head. Sam looked down at his little animal companion in amazement. If he had doubted the story about this being Xacho before, it was hard to do so now. - - - It's taken me a while to write this up, since we had relatives staying with us for the past week and a half. For the same reason, we're not playing through an adventure today - Logan hasn't had time to work on the next adventure. And we won't be going through an adventure next Saturday, either, but for an entirely different reason: Harry's decided that he's had so much fun playing "Skylanders D&D" that he's ready to join us in our regular D&D 3.5 campaign! Our next session in that campaign is scheduled for next Saturday, so we'll have a place for him at our gaming table, where he's decided he'll be running a half-orc sorcerer with a weasel familiar. Logan went out and purchased a "familiars" pack of minis that includes a weasel, so he'll be painting it this coming week in time for next Saturday. We're all looking forward to it! Incidentally, the "topside" ruins were a set of Paizo's Game Mastery "Map Pack" cards, this one quite appropriately entitled "Ruins." The lower level was the "Tech Dungeon" (also quite appropriate!) from Paizo's "Flip-Mat" series. I made the zelekhut and ultron minis as stand-up tokens, as well as the blue-clad skeletons (those were, in Skylanders terminology, "Arkeyan defenders"), while we used skeletons from the D&D Miniatures and HeroQuest games for the red-clad skeletons. For the adamantine gears, Logan repurposed some drow floatdisk tokens I had made for our previous D&D 3.5 campaign. (It helps to save things from previous games as you never know when they'll come in handy!) [/QUOTE]
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