A package finds its way to the barracks, containing a set of letters.
wrote:
To whom it concerns,
I am submitting a copy of my own field report of an operation that relates to a current situation involving assassin golems that I believe have attempted to neutralize specific targets in Sigil. I'm not sure if it will be helpful to the ongoing investigation, but if so, here it is.
I'd also like to request any additional information the Harmonium have on the incidents relating to these attacks, including the victims backgrounds, races, etc.
wrote:
In response to a case of attempted assassinations conducted by a strange breed of half mechanical, half organic beings, a Guvner Administrator - with the help of the Doomguard and Harmonium- located and secured a portal to an unknown plane or pocket plane. The gate was held in the Astral port town of Dead God. I joined a band of adventurers who, on request, went into the portal to investigate this supposed source of the attacks.
I was unable to discern if we had arrived in a fortress or some large vessel, but it was a large super structure filled with very advanced machinery and charged with otherwise contrary energies, most prominantly POsitive and Negative flows. At the heart of this bastion was a massive core of some kind, a conduit that forced these otherwise opposing powers to merge together and redirect them towards other parts of the installation.
The entire facility seemed to be dedicated to the creation of more of these "golems" (if they can be called such). In our reconnaissance, we discovered the followeding chambers:
1) Staging Area: This chamber contained several rigs and portal arches. Presumably it is where they launched their attacks from.
2) Core Chamber: The aformentioned conduit. We used it to destroy the facility as we left by overloading its power store units.
3) Forge: Manned by an unidentified and possibly artificial being resembling a homunculus. Its where they create a new kind of alloy out of morgoth iron and true steel. Rather than using traditional water as a cooling agent in the forging process, a mixture of fiendish and celestial blood was employed. Samples of this mixture have been recovered for furhter study.Â
4) Organic Incubation chamber: Unsure if this was its function, but its the best guess. The room was filled with large tanks containing unformed (or deformed?) organic beings with some mechanical componants fused into them. We destroyed the chambers contents, though the adventurer Negative Moon managed to recover one intact specimen, which was granted to the Guvners (to my knowledge, confirmation needed).
5) Artificial Incubation Chamber: Smaller than the Organic chamber, but seemingly serving a similar purpose. We did not spend enough time in this room to discern more.
6) Surgical Lab: Chamber was used to contain and experiment on prisoners, as well as harvest their blood and other body parts. We managed to rescue three survivors; an alu fiend, a hezrou and a ghaele. I did not speak with either of them outside of the mission, but the adventurer Scarlet may know more.
There was one more oddity about the base and its denizens; a sense that those within were from other planes and, according to Scarlet, times. The truth behind this strange impression has yet to be revealed.Â
If any other teams find themselves in bases of a similar kind, be aware that the walls are lined with maintenance and security golems. Anyone exploring these places must be alert at all times and not travel alone.
On a final note, we discovered that this unknown enemy intends to dispatch material harvesters (for ore, organics or both) to the following planes in the near future:
45v67 (identified as a Prime world. Request Guvner translation of the name and information on the plane)
jop9Â (identified as a Prime world. Request Guvner translation of the name and information on the plane)
Lunia (First layer of Celestia).
A plane identified as the 446th layer of the Abyss.
I'd like to request the Triad dispatch expeditionary parties to these worlds at locations where the identified materials could be easily found. We should be able to intercept any raiders and learn more about this menace.
-Justice Dace Andor
