The Sink - Printable Version

Achyon, the city of progress. A beacon of the Empire's ambition and a monument of the corruption of its intent. Renamed Pauper by the Dread Captain Tigerseye Reave and the arch lich Nidaz Vanreth, it was destroyed in a glorious inferno by the detonation of the Phoenix Chamber, the masterwork of the legendary soldier Marcel Delisle. Once a symbol of technological ascension within the backwaters of Esshar, the cataclysmic meltdown turned what remained of the city into a shattered swamp of remnant architecture, skeletons, and dust.

Yet such an explosive release of Ifraheimic mana did not fail to leave a mark. Countless vile experiments, leftover monsters, shattered synthetics, and immense amounts of magical radiation were plunged into the depths of the black, scorched earth. Mutation, untapered malevolence, and all that remains of Achyon's depths were swallowed by the sink, coalesced and scattered deep under the swamps that guise the primordial evil below. The endless sludge of flesh and machinery that, like a primeval soup of flowing genetic material, gestated in the darkness where no one dared to travel.

A terrifying place, and one anyone with flesh would be wise to avoid if they didn't want to join the graveyard of the lich's sins. A crypt no mortal man would dare to pursue.

Godfrey and Veles were not, however, mortal men. They were synthetic, and their will and form were unshaking metal.

Coaxed along by the insights of a mysterious stranger, the synthetic innovation and innovator finds himself leading an assembly of his fellow machines deep below the depths of the tomb of Achyon, the dreadful sink below, to pursue the past, that they might understand the future.

But some stones are best left unturned. And some holes best left unexplored.

Character: Godfrey the Invented

Attendees: Veles, Eureka, possibly Maude, other interested members of the :REDACTED:

Risk: CoD

Tone: Fallout, mutants, undead, synthetic abominations, science gone too far.

Rewards: Remnants of research/datashards on the design of the Phoenix Chamber, ancient mysteries of old Achyon R&D, synthetic parts and insight. Possibly hats.

DM: Didos, though Chance WAS down.

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