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We were all at the tavern when it happened. Forgemaster Erik showed himself to be a bald, 40-year-old, heavily built man. The steam backpack he wears is very interesting, spitting out smoke which complements his multi-tool battlehammer. He cut to the straight, asking us to follow, which we did. He briefed us on the past week's advancement. During one of the Break of Dawn's weekly trips, they lost the villagers, and a new forgemaster found them disappear into the Break of Dawn's engine. Other than that, they know not of what happened. Forgemaster Erik reminds us to prioritise the protection of the ship's engine and core. Three villagers were found missing, one at the engine, core and boiler room each. Forgemaster Erik passed us a map of the ship quite easily; it seems he trusts the Bastion or the Two Silvers quite a bit. The boiler room is at the bottom. The party quickly discussed what to do.

The party arrives at the Break of Dawn, where a spiral staircase is let down, allowing us access to the first floor. They, as in the forgecrafters, seem oddly nonchalant about the fact that the villagers are melded into the ship. The party was informed there was a witness, so Magnus went to question him. He was busy, but fortunately, he made time to answer. Apparently, the villager just melted after touching the copper engine, turning it into gold. While the party made their way to the boiler room, Alan surprisingly found no one knowledgeable about the boiler room.

When they reach, they realise the room is suffocatingly hot. Additionally, it seems the golden boiler is spreading. Rohan leylines the boiler room, reducing the Plane of Order's influence. Magnus followed up with an inspiring speech, which somehow worked in commanding the melted villager to recede from the boiler room. Alan tried to peel the rest of the gold off, which worked, but a golden parasite tried to make its escape. Brok managed to catch the gold parasite with his bare hands somehow, extra successfully too, with Magnus' aid. Rohan tries to chain it, but it doesn't really work, and Brok seized the opportunity to yeet it off. Magnus produced an interesting container to hold the parasite, and it worked.

The party then moved to the Core, which is locked behind a wheel-mechanism door. The room behind it is just gold, in a way worse situation. The core is a giant Aetherforge (About 3 Bald Eagles and a Half?). The Core is protected in a metal cage with four pillars supporting it and glass walls that go all the way to the top. The floor and the ceiling connecting to the Aetherforge are gold, and it seems to be controlling the Core. Rohan tries to leyline this place as well, succeeding, which causes gold to bubble. Brok pops one of the bubble then some liquid gold replicates the form of Brok, which charges at the party. Rohan quickly reacts and charges back at it with Arcane Absorption. The creature dodged out of Rohan's path, purposefully leaving an arm which corrupts Rohan who touched it. Brok charges it as well, making contact. Using the commotion, Alan quickly identifies the energy pipes connected to the Core and starts removing the gold-transformed part he knows is safe from any fragile parts. The Core reacts weirdly, causing great harm to the party and causes another golden egg to hatch into a young gorilla. Rohan tries to fend the creature off with his magic to a very bad aftermath, being Bloodied and corrupted further as the creature jumps onto Rohan and covers him from head to toe. Brok rushes his doppelganger instead, barely succeeding with Magnus' inspiration.

Alan quickly grabs the rope dangling from the ceiling to reposition himself to where he needs to be and away from the Gold Gorilla's ranged attack. With the vital parts already marked, he quickly carves out all the transmutated parts and learns how the energies are transferred within the ship. Down the floor below, Magnus draws his bow and shoots the Gold Gorilla, which eliminates it. After all the active hostilities are removed, Rohan works on the Golden Egg. He was able to remove it, though a bit of time was spent. Before the party leaves the Core, Alan quickly uses his understanding of the Core to empower his healing barrier and patches Magnus up.

The party finally arrives at the Golden Engine, which is raining gold inside. The Engine is a giant turbine with gold seeping down in front of it before sent flying outside into the forest. It seems the Bloom is purposely trying to spread the corruption. P.s. Rohan wanted to eat the engine. Nevermind, he does try to eat the engine. And Magnus thinks it's a spellcaster thing. Wow. (He ate it using Chains as his platery, Magnus helped him dine, apparently. GM Mystic is taking all the Suspense.) It's done, and the party heads to Forgemaster Erik for a final report.

As the party tries to leave the ship, on the deck, the Golden Corruptors kamikaze the party. The party tries to fight back. Magnus tries to coordinate the people to achieve a certain success. Alan fired his Prismatic Rifle, but had a hard time aiming. Brok uses the ships' cannons. Magnus broke the cannons. Alan fixed the cannons. Brok used the cannons. All the cannons.

The players found themselves aboard a ship (kinda like aircraft carrier).

The boiler, core and engine room all had "gold corruption" spreading across the ship.
The party decided to start with the boiler room, inside, they found that the room was covered in gold.
The mages of the party were able to contain and remove the threat which then "ran", Brok caught the creature before it could flee too far and put it inside Magnus's bag.

The party then moved to the core, where a fight ensued, a copy of Brok, an egg that turned into a gorilla. and the core spewing gold. The group was faced with a fierced challenge, after 3 of the party member got bloodied the members finally achieved to get the room under control and move to the engine.

Inside the engine the gold was maintaining control solely on the engine and not spreading, as opposed to the other rooms. After a wee bit of magic and patience the party was able to regain control of it.

Screams could be heard from outside, the group ran up the stairs leading outside, to find that golden corrupted horrors and corrupters were spreading fear amongst the crew, many had already died when the group came up ( a bit more than half the crew ).

The party manned the cannon and used their spells to first destroy the horrors. The corruption taking hold of many of the party members, making it harder and harder to resist it.

Soon after Magnus was holding on with all his might to fight the corruption the party slayed the last corruptor. Saving the remaining of the crew and themselves.
Walked away victorious.

• Accepted a job from the Forgemaster to clear out corruption in the Break of Dawn ship.
• Explored the ship, asked around if anyone had seen the corruption first hand.
• Discussed among the group, and decided to tackle the boiler room first, followed by the core, followed by the engine room. Reasoning was that the engine or core would be the riskiest, so we would see how the events turned out in the boiler room first.
• Opted to use a combination of magical means to weaken the corruption in the boiler room, and Magnus attempted to convince the corruption to stop being corrupted.
• Things were going great, lots of perfects!
• Eventually managed to get the first blob of golden corruption off of the boiler, which attempted to escape. Brok attacked it and grabbed ahold of it, while Magnus captured it in a bag (spent story to establish that the bag was a bladder from some sea creature that had a mediocre enchantment on it to make it a suitable container).
• Moved to the core next. It was almost entirely golden, with ether tubes. While we examined it, golden eggs formed, and Brok damaged one to prevent it from forming. Other eggs still managed to form several golden spawn however.
• Combat broke out. Rohan used his patron’s chains, Magnus shot arrows, and Brok smashed. Alan focused on the core to try and disable it.
• Things were getting worse, we had several more messies and grims, and rohan’s corruption pool escalated, but we managed to take out the golden creatures and neutralize the corruption on the core. Alan also used an arcana to heal a mark on Magnus.
• The final room was the engine room. We discovered that corruption was spreading into the forest below it due to choosing it as the final room.
• In a high risk, high reward moment, Rohan used his Spelleater talent to neutralize the corruption in the engine room in a single roll.
• Having wrapped up the three sources of corruption (we discussed Magnus handing the bag with the golden parasite in it to Brok), we made our way back to the ship deck so that we could return to the guild.
• The corruption in the forest sprang to life as flying golden horrors.
• We had outside assistance from the crew on all rolls, but things went badly at first with the crew getting significantly harmed at the start of combat (8d → 2d)
• Things were much more dire this time around. Lots of messies, grims, and disasters…
• However, we did manage to make steady progress on the golden horrors between a cannon shot from Brok, Magnus commanding the crew (2d → 4d), Rohan’s chains, and Alan improving and repairing the cannons.
• We managed to finally end the last of the golden horrors, but there were consequences: Corruption 1 emptied for Alan and Brok, Corruption 2 emptied for Magnus and Rohan

Cursed mission. We had to deal with the cursed villagers we tried to save from that village affected by Bloom, on that mission where I started to be cursed.

The mechanical villagers began to merge with the airship's machinery.

First we went to the boiler room. It was so hot that I don't remember exactly what we did. I tried to weaken the effect of the Order's magic in the place, luckily my Patron didn't notice.

I think Magnus tried to talk to the villager or something. Magnus seems to be a former imperial. I'm glad he learned. Alan did something that removed a golden parasite. I tried to contain the parasite with my chains, but I couldn't. Magnus contained the parasite in a container, and I believe this will cause a problem in the future.

The core room was almost entirely golden. I reduced the effect of local magic again. A golden creature similar to Brok appeared. And there were some golden eggs too. We started a battle. I went all out on the golden Brok and he started to corrupt me. With Brok's help, I got a break and sucked the creature's powers.

I think Magnus defeated a gorilla that emerged from an egg, which was strange. I destroyed one last egg. Alan took care of the core.

I think I was still affected by the heat and the corruption was distracting me. I don't remember many details.

Finally, the engine room. Golden liquid was leaking out of the ship. With great effort, I absorbed the gold from the engine.

After receiving payment, as we were about to leave the ship, two large groups of golden, flying creatures attacked us.

A great battle ensued, with the crew helping us. With many cannon shots, rifle shots, Bloose horn blows, chain cuts, and axe cuts, we defeated the horde without any casualties among the crew, but we did suffer losses among our group: Magnus had his eye cursed, while I had my arm cursed. Now it looks like that of a golden forged. I thought my patron would protect me from the Bloom, but it seems that his wishes align with the Bloom on certain occasions. This is not right. I cannot depend on the power granted in this way. I must not serve a being who aligns himself with the Bloom.