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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 7836877" data-attributes="member: 6920268">We started off at the railroad , El Kevin and Ulvaar were in charge of Security and decided that mercenaries were needed to protect the track behind them particularly the bridges. They thought that as this was Ber it must be possible to hire trolls to lurk under bridges so after a moment of thought the Steelhead Mercenary company was invented lead by a number of Half Giants and Minotoaurs the company employs Troll and Ogre shock troops . These highly paid mercenaries were soon lurking under and around the bridges supplying Griento enterprises. Ulvaar soon noticed that scare stories were being spread around about the problems ahead and brought in Griento to rally the workers spirits which was a success particularly with the infusion of capital from Risur.In a strategy session they decided to hold onto the high morale of the workers and plug away with a steady 2 miles a day (using the steam gang) until they hit the bridge, then put on a surge and blow through to the finish faster than the Ob can react.Maths for thisDay 11 materail , 1 mileDay 22 Material 2 miles   Wealth drops to 6Day 3 2 material 2 milesDay 4 2 Material 2 milesDay 52 material 2 milesDay 6 Bridge 5 material, 3 morale used and wealth drops to 3Day 73 material, 1 morale 3 miles wealth up to 5 morale down to 2Day 8 3 material, 1 morale, 3 miles morale 1Day 9 4 material, 3 morale (spending 4 wealth) wealth down to 0 Railway completedSecurity continued on the 3rd day and El Kevin inspecting the steam gang noticed that they were actually built to combat specifications. They notified Risur but did not bother to warn the locals. In Risur Harkover organises a crack down on Pemberton industries to find any combat constructs in Risur.Early on day 4 Nevla and Manuel  arrive their work elsewhere done , immediately the team plans a pre-preemptive strike on the keepers of Cheshimox. Manuel performs an aerial recon and sees nothing unusual just missing Rush and Murton departing the area after having dropped off an Ob assassin construct.The team enters the tunnels and the undead detect them and start to prepare their  ambush,the clockwork assassin spots the team and contingency programming kicks in it tries to kill Ulvaar fails and is  beaten to pieces. Manuel  takes  the pieces for study.As they approach the main cave they spot the army lieing in wait on either side and attack. El Kevin throws a puny fireball  right while  Nevla leaps into the army on the left and triggers a detonate spell which obliterates all on the left. The ghouls rogues charge Nevla and inflict a light wound then she and Padme despatch them in mellee with a series of critical hits. Manuel fires a shotcannon right taking out the priests and half the Zombies and El Kevin launches a second fireball killing the rest. Ulvaar thinks he has a bad initiative score.Then a skeletal construct bearing the head of Cheshimox lurches into the cave at the same time a Kobold Lich sorceror drops invisibility and fires a cone of cold , signifignant damage is done. Ulvaar , Padme and El Kevin engage the mirror imaged sorceror damaging him , Nevla drops a burst of Radiance on him which blinds him and his second cone of cold only damages Ulvaar and Padme. The dragon thing attacks Manuel who has just Nock gunned it and hurts him.Nevla drops a flame strike on the lich but its magic resistance blocks the spell,Padme and Ulvaar injure it but it then dimension doors out to recover. El Kevin sitting on the shoulders of Manuel shoots at the skeletal thing and the attack of opportunity nearly drops him, but instead his bullets smash it to debris.The group heals and goes looking for the lich which is also healing. It attacks again trying to blind them with gloomblind bolts from range. Ulvaar hastes the party, Nevla hits the lich with a dispel magic which drops its mirror images and Manuel rushes forward with a redlined suit and gets a rifle shot into its face, before El Kevin drops it with a hail of revolver fire.They contact Risur to see if anyone there knows how to find a lich Phylactery and Haqrkover Lee volunteers they leave him to deal with it while returning to guard the rail camp.He melts the entire area destroying the phylactery and teleports back to Risur .At the camp a rabble rousing Murton is caught and asked to leave and Manuel 'The Knight' catches Rush planting an immovable rod , with this evidence they turn him over to the local Executores and he gets beaten before being turned loose.  El Kevin really wants to do something more permanent to them but is talked out of it.At this point they are able to get the railway finished faster than Lya is able to get hers done and before any more schemes against them can take shapeNext session -- they meet the Bruse and Ulvaar realises just how useful his new ability is as it renders the entire party immune to Agony gas by protecting them inside a life bubble</blockquote>

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