Session 20

**Session 20** is unofficially titled “Turnabout Golem”

## Summary

After the crew debunks Nesisk’s logic and figure out what really happened on the first floor, they leave the tower and head towards the building that the golem had broken into. They enter through the hole in the building and witness dozens of golems destroyed by the rogue, as well as Chavve Tiber being cornered by it. Tiber begs them for help but the crew notices that the golem is only focusing on Tiber, and begins questioning him. Tiber says he maintained his golems perfectly, but Stede brings up the neglected water supplies and oil leaking from the robots. After being caught in multiple lies, Tiber becomes enraged and pulls a gun at Stede and fires. Before the bullet can hit Stede, the rogue golem wheels over and gets in the way of the bullet. The bullet pierces the golem and it tumbles over onto Tiber and explodes, killing them both. After the shocking death of Tiber, the crew leaves to investigate the marine base.

At the entrance they encounter a bounty hunter who says he’ll capture them, but moves out of the way after they ask him to. They approach the gate and the guard mentions that he recognizes Low. Stede asks Kushay if he could throw him over the gate, but a marine officer overhears them and confronts them. He mistakes them for marine recruits and asks where their uniforms are, he then leads them inside to get them uniforms. After the crew puts on their uniforms they enter the marine base and begin to investigate. Stede and Kushay check out a pile of bounty posters and conveniently at the very top is Kushay’s, with a bounty of 2,000,000. They then check out a stack of tax records and find Falcher’s, Stede doodles poorly drawn mustaches onto the pictures of people on the tax records and Leon spits on them before grabbing Falcher’s and leaving.

The group returns to the 20th floor of the central tower, and gives Falcher’s tax records to Oshand. After laughing at the mustache that Stede drew onto Falcher’s picture, he mentions that the paper says he was given a grant to expand the tower, but the tower has never been expanded to his knowledge. Oshand suggests going to the basement again to see if the two rebels he sent have discovered anything. The crew and Nesisk head to the basement and discover that it has changed a bit. They find pools of blood on the floor, red stained tools, and that the incinerator is currently on when it was off before. After investigating the room Nesisk gives his opinion on what occurred. The crew slowly picks apart his terrible logic until coming to the conclusion that some sort of conflict did indeed happen here. Stede peers into the gaps of the incinerator door to try and see what’s burning, and sees two bodies inside it. Shocked, the crew and Nesisk leave to find Falcher to confront him with everything they’ve discovered.

They head to and enter the headquarters of Aqueous Autonomous and see Falcher and an employee. Stede checks out a transponder snail in the room but it turns into a human and runs out the door. The crew then goes over to Falcher and tell him about Tiber’s death and the basement. He continues to deny the existence of the basement, but eventually caves and admits it after they bring pieces of evidence. Still he says that he had done nothing illegal there, and that it was for surgery that involved attaching steampunk machinery to people. His lies continue to crumble and after the crew brings up that they will tell the leader of the rebels about what they found, he snaps. He orders one of his golems to grab the employee in the room and snap their neck, killing them. He begins to talk about his plans for immortality and that he wishes to turn every human into a perfect golem. He activates the jets in his brass suit and flies over to Nesisk and uses a medical tool to slit his throat, also killing him. He says that he must finish his ultimate creation soon and flies away.