The workers of the Drunk Dungeoneers gathered up in the Bottom of the Barrel tavern for briefing as to the nature of their coming three day contract. With a quick overview the team was briefed that the legal statement of the contract was the retrieval of a family heirloom lost by a Garlean family fleeing from the civil war and chaos, and informed that this was a short three-day contract. They were then informed that the actual contract was the retrieval of their own employee’s family, that of Adlai Mishra. His sister and mother were expected to be found in Garlemald proper, having refused evacuation offers in the past, while his father and sister-in-law are expected to have fled the nation to unknown areas.
Following the briefing, and some outfit adjustments to get better cold preparation, the team was aetherwarped into Garlemald, dropping into an occupied train station held by Maelstrom forward operative L’eyline Talyn. L’eyline gave the team a quick run down of their expected operation and the landscape around them, finding them to be in dangerous cold, surrounded by uncontrolled automatons, and with a desperate population doing their best to get by.
Ceruleum stores were noted to be the worst of the issues effecting the operation, so the party elected to search for supplies and survivors in the surrounding area. Going out into the cold, the party did a quick scout of the city immediately around them, finding a higher vantage point in a park to keep eye on the city.
Part of the group broke off in search of tracks that had been spotted, later identified to be that of a family with a small child, but were lost amongst the snow. Lacking to find an entrance to more underground areas of the city, the groups’ search efforts were cut short by a sudden hail of bullets. Most of the group were able to avoid the bullets, but many found themselves bearing shot wounds and left on the ground in pain, compounded moments later by revelation that the bullets had been poisoned as the victims began vomiting profusely. Thanks to the quick actions of the healers in the group the poisoned was cured, and the uninjured hurriedly gathered the wounded to find a better position safe from the gunshots, under the protection of cover fire by the ranged weapon bearers of the group.
Finding a building among the ruins to hide in, the group discussed their options. Whether to fight the attacker and risk being harmed, or return to the train and risk leading the attacker to there. In the end, following the revelation that the attacker was armed with a gatling gun and had some energy reserve akin to that of a monk of Rhalgr, but was not a hypertuned Garlean experiment, the group decided to fight back.
Taking up position with a vanguard in the streets and the rest in the building waiting to attack from the flank, they prepared. The misshapen and hulking monstrosity started moving down the street towards the party. An errant grenade colliding with a nearby building and descending over the fight zone.
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