Session 19

**Session 19** is unofficially titled “The Central Tower”

## Long Summary

The crew (alongside Kushay who reunites with them with no explanation) approach a large tower that is located in the very center of Dunsten. They come across a light-grey haired man who stares at them in a strange way in silence. Multiple members of the crew try to greet him before he finally speaks up, he kindly greets the crew and introduces himself as Yonrow Nesisk, professional detective and one of the rebels who is looking into the case of the golems. The crew greets him back and accept his offer to tag along with his investigation, and finally enter the tower.

On the first floor the crew spot a rebel and some bystanders near the right side wall alongside some tables and benches. To the left side is a boiler with buttons behind locked reinforced glass. In the middle of the room is a pool of oil and past that are two elevators, one of them broken and the other functional. The crew and Nesisk begin investigating the room, talking to people and checking out the damage done to the inside. They learn that all the damage was caused by a rogue wheeled golem, who came through and thrashed one of the elevators. They then investigate the broken elevator, and discovers metal shards on the floor and marks on the wall caused by hot steam. Ashton heads over to the pool of oil and notices a wheel track in it, and assume it must have come from the rogue golem. Kushay mentions checking out the boiler and everyone’s goes over to it, Nesisk attempts lockpicking it to open the glass but ends up breaking his only lockpick. Kushay then attempts to break the glass with a strike from his axe, but ends up failing. After Stede childishly attempts to make it open by saying “open sesame”, the group decides to just look for the key for it and moves on.

The crew heads over to the functional elevator and all head inside, with only one working button, they head to the 20th floor. After getting off, Stede in amazement of the elevator does another trip before staying on the floor. The crew sees Falcher, a few rebels, and the rebel leader as well as some disassembled robots and telescopes. Nesisk heads over to the rebel leader to speak wire him and the crew learns his name is Fiure Oshand. Oshand mentions that the rebels are spread out all over the city investigating, but they still need someone to steal Falcher’s tax records from the local Navy base. Stede questions Nesisk’s suspicion towards Falcher since they had no negative experience with him during his tour, and responds that he’s surprised he even trusts them and calls them lucky. The crew talks to Falcher and he talks about the vigilantes dismantling his robots and the rogue golem that was in the tower. He asks the crew to visit his mansion and collect a file that contains every golem he’s ever made, in order to figure out which one entered the tower exactly. He hands them the keys to his mansion and leave to go there after Kushay attempts to use the key for the boiler, and discovers that it doesn’t fit.

They enter the mansion and come across multiple things of interest, such as blueprints for a human-looking robot, a transponder snail, a walking chair that has legs attached to it, the boiler key (which Nesisk takes), and lastly the golem file. Stede attempts to read the contents of the file but fails since he is unable to read it, and hands it to Nesisk. After returning to the tower Nesisk enthusiastically takes the key and opens the boiler panel with it. He begins experimenting with the buttons before pressing the one labeled “elevator”, which causes an odd noise to come from it. Stede and Kushay offer to test it out and press the 20th floor button after getting inside, but notice that it instead starts heading down. The door open and they walk into a hidden basement area, with Nesisk shortly coming down also. They discover a blank blueprint and a completely blank notebook, sharp tools that look medical, and an incinerator. Nesisk takes the blank blueprint and notebook, and suggests that they go to Falcher and present them to him to see if they get a flustered reaction from him. After heading up to the 20th floor Nesisk swiftly relays the basement to the rebel leader, they leave to investigate it while Nesisk stays behind to present the “evidence” to Falcher. He confronts Falcher about the hidden basement and the items from it, Falcher responds annoyed that they are wasting his time and that the evidence is pointless and means nothing, as well as denying the basement exists. Low backs up Nesisk by pressing Falcher but it only makes him more annoyed as well as angry and goes nowhere. He says that if they want to help they can investigate the dismantled robots the rebels brought here with him. They begin investigating the robots and discover that one has a dented head, and that they all have extreme internal damage. Falcher tells them that some of these robots were sold to a wealthy man named Chavve Tiber, and also says that their water supplies were very low and showed signs of overheating, showing that they were neglected.

Stede and Kushay decide to look out at the city with the nearby telescopes, and end up spotting a wheeled golem crash through a buildings wall. Nesisk interrupts their panic with an explanation of what he thinks happened to the robots. He claims that Tiber had purchased the robot to make it his wife, but in a fit of rage attacked it with a baseball bat, which caused the dent in its head. His rage then would result in its neglect, which would cause the water supply to run dry and for it to overheat. He also claims the oil fluid on the robots legs must’ve been from the robot leaking it out in fear. He then says the robot eventually had the courage to fight back, but Tiber was prepared and promptly disabled the robot, which would’ve also resulted in the damage from the inside. Then at one point he realized he made mistake and would be arrested for the abuse of the robot, and made a plan to frame the robots destruction on the rogue after dislodging it’s head and tearing off scraps of metal from it. After he reveals his logic Stede and Kushay eventually dismantle his questionable logic and deduce what really happened was the rogue was really responsible for the robots damage since a regular human would be unable to cause it. The oil on the robots came from rogue golem after it had leaked onto the floor, and the dent and metal scraps were caused by the rogue golem striking one of the robots while it was in the elevator it destroyed. Tiber framing the Rogue can be disproven by the fact he would’ve had to be present during the rogues attack, and most likely would’ve been spotted. With only part left unknown is the empty water supplies and neglect. Stede tells Nesisk that his whole argument made the situation even more confusing, but pretends that he never brought any of that up and acts like in the end he himself had found everything out.