September 4

**Location**: Hupperdook

**New Characters**:

* Strike Gently
* Bernard

**Notable items/knowledge :**

* The goblins are all robots
* Bea's been dead for five years
* Bernard broke through the robotification

**Notes**:

We wake up in the tiny hut Bea set up in the conference room where we were able to have long/short rests. Dircc takes some time to write in his diary and talks to Frog. Frog eats a bug and becomes friends with Dircc. Dircc also visits Journey in her dream - she is a small girl and being chased by a monster through some halls. She tells him we'll be hearing from her soon and tells us to run and avoid that one bad guy we keep seeing. Dircc disguises himself as Bea for whatever reason.

Halfway through the long rest, a cloaked figure enters the room and acts suspicious, it's a mechanical goblin. Dircc lassos him into the hut and Bea starts punching him. Gen starts talking to him and names him Bucket (like Charlie Bucket) and we realize he's friendly. Something shocked the system so he has his free will back, maybe some of the others do too. Gen and Bea use mending on the goblin to make him better. We decide to dress up as fake prisoners to safely move forward through the factory. Bea gets the Vex doll from Gen. Bucket takes us to a storage room where we find spare parts and disguise ourselves as other robots. We teach him to say "eat his ass". Bea and Gen dress like robots and the others are prisoners, we go to the imaginasium - where the head office is.

The back wall of the room is a smoky portal entrance, Champ goes in and sees the place he feels the most comfortable in. It's an inn room with all of us sleeping. He crits and starts walking towards the bed to join the vision. Gen goes in after him but ends up in a glen and brook by her home. It's not looking great. Bea holds hands with Bucket and they end up in a version of the imaginasium without the portal, but together. Dircc also enters and shows up in a prairie next to a whiskey tree. We have successfully split the party.

Bucket is revealed to be Bernard, head goblin of the Wumpus factory and Bea's best friend, which is why they have the same safe place with each other in it. "I'm a vampire, but that's okay because you're a robot." Bernard gets Bea out of the vision because she failed her roll, and she starts going through her desk in the main room. She finds familiar handwriting on lame forged papers. Bea pictures Champ and jumps back into the portal. It takes three tries, but Bea gets Champ out of his vision. Together they go get Dircc and Rock speaks to them for the first time. Dircc is like yeah, he talks. We discover magic doesn't work in the visions. We get Dircc out after the fake Rock turns into a misty shadow monster and all go together to save Gen.

Bea casts sending to talk to Strike Gently, he apologizes and says he'd love to reverse it all but he did something bad. We discover Strike hiding out in a cloud room (like Floop). Bea punches him and he reveals he legally bought the factory three years ago from Bernard after Bea was gone for two years and presumed dead. Bea's been missing for five years. The world was racist towards goblins so Bernard wasn't able to keep the business going, and Strike said it was "up for grabs". It's also revealed that Bernard hasn't been the person returning Bea's letters, so who's been writing?

There was a brief combat with the smoke monster, but everyone was pretty high and Dalton joined the next session, so we invoked Carlisle's Head.

End session