The Shadow Forge Shutdown

Previous	Cheshire's Assault on Seglock
Concurrent	The War of Many Names
Next	The Umbral Flood
The Shadow Forge Shudown
Date	825 PR
Place	The Shadowfell
Outcome	Death of Tokax

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.

About

TODO: Clean up

Table 1

- The Iron Hawks entered the Shadow Forge, including Vadath, Delphi, Linden, Tristram, and Ezra.

- They fought a bunch of orcs/goblins

- They beat up a machine (The forge control panel)

- Vadath's mount got banished temporarily.

- They used Tristram's Popcorn Shack method to get a Tiny Hut (Andy paid extra chips to make it a 1 action spell this time, not a precedent)  to create a safe space for them to keep beating up the forge machine. They finally killed it (250 hp) and this section of the forge turned off.

- Half the heroes re-entered the forge with the goal of protecting a couple of fey which were keeping a portal open...a portal that led to the final chambers of the forge with Horatio.

- Zevendell, Delphi, Amber, Tokax, Ezra, (and others ocassionally swapping in and out) fought a bunch of strange monsters to protect the fey.

- Eventually thanks to attrition, the PCs were running out of ALL resources, including health, and began to bail, jumping into the portal and joining the final battle in search of a Cleric.

- At one point Nick's secondary character Izac came to this room to try one last attempt at keeping the Fey safe. It bought the last players enough time to get through the portal, but the fey and Izac were unfortunately lost to the monsters, closing the chamber and ending the table.

Participants

Balhannoths Hungry Angry Lonely Lost Cheshire Goblins Cheshire Orcs, Cheshire's Hydra

- Armored Goblins x4 - Orcs x 2 - Fang Mount x1 - Flesh Mound x1 - Legionnaire x1

- Armored Goblins x5 - Orcs x3 - Flesh Mound x2 - Legionnaire x1 - Ghouls x6 (killed 3, turned 3)

Sorrowsworn

Perspectives

Durian

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.