High Security Magical Experiments

AK510-40 Cool Summer End Week 4 [Charon Guiding, Shale Resting, Cycles Watching]

Croiday (evening)

After a short discussion and a few healing spells, they set off to explore the level. Ethan and Ivellios agreed that according to the writing on the walls this was the high security magical experiments level. In the distance they could hear an alien hum with a hint of a mutant heartbeat running through it. The beat was pierced randomly with telepathic moans and screams of tortured minds.

The opened a nearby door and saw a yellow green semi opaque force field blocking the passage into a spherical room beyond. They eventually determined that there was a control of the wall that allowed to the barrier to be deactivated. Jo of Kell was unable to overcome his enthusiasm and shut off the field.

Everyone went to full alert.

Nothing happened.

Tim slammed the button and the force field slammed up again. They all looked at Jo like he was a madman. They peered beyond the barrier to see that there were mutant creation chambers beyond. These were similar to those found in Honeyglen and Setanta's Tomb. This was where the Tzakandi were being created. In the centre of the spherical room, lying on a table was an Ogre Mage Corpse. It's skull had three holes drilled into it and vile green slime ooze from the wounds. Obviously, reckoned Ivellios, the Prince and his cohorts had been in the process of creating another voidmind ogre zombie. Ivellios sent in a swarm of fire spiders that incinerated everything in the room. They set off to find the great experimentation chamber, hoping to be accosted by some stragglers along the way. They soon realised that the rest of the prince's minions were unlikely to attack and so decided to rest.

Draiday (morning)

They rested for the night and in the morning studied and meditated to regain their spells. Dim noises in the night revealed that the prince's minions had decided to flee. They explored the experimentation level and found several magic experimentation chambers similar the one the prince had been using. Most of the valuables had been salvaged by the fleeing tzakandi and there was little of worth left to investigate. The one other chamber they found that contained mutants in the process of being transformed was scoured with and then consecrated.

The most interesting find was an enormous chamber which was lined with mystical symbols dating back to the time of Tain Mac Lir. These symbols were painted on adamantite and kellum alloys which formed the walls of the sphere. A well crafted but obviously temporary platform reached tentatively out into the open space. A small circular dais was suspended at its end, in the exact centre of the chamber. Ivellios deduced that the chamber was used for massively powerful and dangerous experiments. Wards and abjurations cast upon the walls to create a magical dead zone protected those outside the room from the effects of failed experiments.