The Shadow Forge Shutdown was a Fey/Shadow conflict in which The Curator enlisted the aid of the many heroes of the Greedy Green in order to break into a factory in the Shadowfell to finally stop Horatio Cheshire for good.
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Despite our best efforts, it was clear that Cheshire's monsters would continue to wreak havoc across Isonhound until the mad alchemist could be stopped at the source. I answered a correspondence from a Fey entity calling himself the Curator, requesting my help with that very matter. I joined a large group of adventurers at a secret location where the Curator debriefed us on his plan. As it turned out, Horatio Cheshire had somehow broken into a forge located in the Shadowfell and was using the equipment in this Shadow Forge to create his monstrous abominations. I was split into a team tasked with infiltrating the forge and destroying the machines used to create the monsters. As we snuck in through one of the Curator's Fey portals, we heard the humming sound of several capsules lined along the walls continuously spitting out more Cheshire monsters. Fighting off an endless supply of monsters would have been a fruitless effort unless we could also cut off the machines' power supply. Across the room, we heard the blare of another enormous machine powering up. In a flash, the machine produced a gargantuan assemblage of reanimated flesh and metal. The grotesque abomination sprung to life, creeping forward with thunderous steps towards us. My psionic attacks proved very ineffective against a monster which had no means of thought, so I flew swiftly past it and focused my attacks on points of the machine that appeared to be feeding it power. Targeting the machine seemed to work as parts of the forge began to crumble around us. Much of the team fought through the horde of monsters towards the other end of the room, joining me in attacking the weak points of the main machine before it could produce another abomination. As we appeared to finally cut off the last thread of power to the machine, the ceiling of the forge started to cave in and we were all forced to retreat back through the Curator's portal. Having successfully taken down the machines in the Shadow Forge, the Curator sent us to defend a portal leading to the mad alchemist himself, as it was currently under attack by invisible Shadowfell monsters. Being capable of seeing invisibility, I hovered over the battlefield and relayed to my teammates where to target their blows. This method proved effective, as we were able to protect the portal long enough for the adventurers on the other side to weaken Horatio Cheshire and his Dracohydra that he had been passing off as Tiamat. We made our way through the portal ourselves and joined the rest of the adventurers to help land the killing blows on Cheshire, finally putting an end to his abominations. The Curator thanked us, offering us each a favor of information from his vast library of Fey knowledge as gratitude for our service.
