SOTDL CAMPAIGN DIARY: SESSION 7 – A CLOCKWORK GREEN

The Cast:
·         Brother Aron: Human priest/cleric of the New God
·         Calista: Ferren rogue/thief
·         Perry Flaxseed: Halfing Hunter/Fighter
·         Nikolai Petrechko: Human Veteran/Fighter

The Monster Hunters stop off at an Alchemist’s shop prior to descending to the Gears ward and pick up some supplies to aid with the environmental hazards of the level. They also pick up something to help with the more toxic environment of the Bowels, in case they have to go down there.  Once equipped, they head down to the ground level and start walking towards the area known as the Red Zone.  Upon reaching this area, they start looking for signs of the iron titan and run across a group of homeless vagrants being harassed by a gang of humans that seem to have a variety of physical mutations and augmentations.  The Monster Hunters don’t like how they are treating the vagrants, so a fight breaks out and the Monster Hunters kill or chase away the gang, but not before one tells them about the “Iron Ogre” that has been running rampant the last several nights.  The grateful vagrants confirm this and say that it comes up from the Bowels and just starts killing humans and destroying things along with other clockworks that are part of a clockwork gang known as the Rebooters, who are led by a clockwork that calls itself The Emancipator.  The vagrants are scared.  The Monster Hunters ask how to find the gang and the vagrants tell them that that the goblin gang called the Turtleheads, who are at war with the Rebooters, will know how to find the Iron Ogre.  The group asks about this Emancipator and the vagrants say that it was once a clockwork soldier but was damaged and cast away into the Gears, no longer needed.  It decided to wage war against humans that enslaved it and the rest of clockwork kind, and formed the Rebooters from the discarded clockworks that litter the Gears, trying to start a revolution.  Now that it has the Iron Ogre, it has become a serious problem.

The Monster Hunters head down into the Bowels and begin searching around. Eventually they come across two goblins who claim to not know where the Rebooters lair is, but their goblin king would know.  They convince the Monster Hunters to follow them to their lair, where dozens of goblins go about their business of processing filth.  The first goblin king claims that they don’t want the Rebooters dealt with, because they are a source of entertainment for the Turtleheads.  But then that king steps down and another ascends and decides it’s best for the tribe if these humans would get rid of the Rebooters.  He sends them off with the two goblins that brought them here, to lead them to the Rebooter’s lair, which the two goblins lied about not knowing where it was. 

The goblins take the Monster Hunters to the Rebooter’s lair where the Emancipator is raging about having lost a key to one of his clockworks.  The heroes try to sneak in to hear better but run across some clockwork mice that scatter and alert the gang of their presence.  The Emancipator and his thugs attack the heroes, which becomes a challenging battle, especially when Nikolai falls to the Emancipator’s axe.  The clockwork, vowing hatred of humans and a devotion to the Machine God, continues his attack, only to ultimately fall to the hero’s combined might.  The remaining clockwork abandon the fight, leaving the heroes to find the inactive Iron Ogre, which is missing it’s key.

End of session.