Expedition 111: Toxic Ruins

**Summary**

We went into the Manufacturing Pits to stop the poisoning of the badlands. We fought a purple Worm followed it to its nest and killed it. We found a big pump pushing the poison up. we removed the power source from the pump and ran from the poison titan we activated.

**Detailed Writeup**

At Lin'dsey request we delve into the Manufacturing beneath the Bad lands in hopes of finding and destroying what ever is pumping poison into her land. Each party member drinks a potion of environmental poison immunity before we enter the pits. The cavern is half the size of the city of vrall hundreds of feet tall filld with long rusted over machines and corpses wearing heavy aprons and masks. We notice several pipes in the distance filled with glowing green liquid that provides unsteady dim light to the area and hear the faint clanging of machinery some how still active despite centuries of neglect. Rannag leads us to the sound of the functioning machines assuming that they must be the source of the pollution. On our way two arsenic elmentals come out of a nearby pipe and attack us. One elemental lashes out at Nexrin in the front, the other elemental lashes at Ellie. Ellie strikes back with piercing light instantly causing the creature to start to fall apart.The elemental attempts to strike Ellie but its blows cant find purchase through Ellies armor. Gonerton casts toll of the dead on the elemental fighting Ellie causing it to shake violently. Nexrin strikes two mighty blows with his spears against the elemental in the front but its body seems to resist his weapon. Ranag pushes past Nexrin and the elemental  and strikes it twice with mage ender. Uzmir finish it off the elemental in the front of nexrin with three eldritch blasts. Ellie finishes the last elemental with another strike and a moment of quiet fell over the manufacture pits.

we finally find a functioning machine a large drill that mines mud refines it and pumps out greenish liquid out to somewhere else in the Manufacturing Pits. The machines is powered by a magic spinning wheel. Nexrin takes a sample of the mud and the greenish liquid to give too Lin'dsey to test. Nexrin flies to the machine and pulls off the cover on the magic wheel. Nexrin finds a modron running on a hamster wheel powering the machine. We ask the modron if it speaks common. It dose and we ask it why its running on a wheel. It says its master Carden Seabright of Drakehall instructed it to run on this wheel until instructed to do something else. Nexrin pulls the wheel of the machine and puts the wheel on its side so the modron runs in a circle. We follow the product pipe to see if we can find the machine pumping the pollution. On our way we hear a rumbling in the floor. Uzmir recognizes it as a Purple worm. Nexrin summons 8 giant poisonous snakes. Uzmir prepares to fire mind sliver when the worm surface. The Worm surfaces and lets out a mass of acid on the snakes killing them all instantly. Uzmir lets off mind sliver and casts brain drain causing the Worm to flinch back and burrow underground. Gonerton casts enlarge on Ranag. The giant Ash born plunges their sword through the ground stabbing the worm. Enraged the Worm emerges from the ground and swallows the giant ranag and stabs Uzmir with a massive stinger. Ellie strikes it with piercing light casting booming blade wrapping the Worm in a net of thunderous energy. Uzmir casts Brain drain once more wracking its mind with fear and confusion. Ranags massive bade works its way into a sensory cluster inside the worm and before feeling the worm regurgitates the Ash born. Not satisfied with our foe fleeing Ranag tracks the Worm to its nest. We find a clutch of six silver eggs, on closer inspection 5 baby worms emerge, we quickly start slaughtering them. The mother is forced to come out to defend its young. The worm Stings Ranag and trys to swallow Ellie. Before it can try again Nexrin ends it with a rain of arrows. The mother collapses crushing its young and rendering Ranag unconscious. Nexrin and Rannag carves off its stinger. Uzmir and Ellie pull free a magic dagger in its stomach. Gonerton finds a clump of feathers that seem magical hidden amongst the refuse of the nest. Against Nexrins wishes Gonerotn grabs the unhatched egg to bring with us. On our way out we find three barrels of arsenic worth 1500gp we leave it behind to be gather latter like the modron.

We follow the pipes from the drill to a giant pump powered by a bottle of lighting moving the poison up to the surface. Six posts ring the pump two of grave brass two of void steel and two of magnetite gonerton casts identify on the posts and discovers that they replicate the effects of forbiddance on constructs elementals and undead. Gonerton also detects an alarm spell he just set off. Gonerton warns the group that the caster must be close for them to bother with a basic alarm. Ellie begins to remove the bottle of lighting and stops pointing out how the pipes are built to dump all the poison on us if the bottle is removed. we all back up and Uzmir prepares to dimensional door Elie away once the bottle is removed. We watch with pried as we escape the trap and start discussing how to permanently destroy the device when a gargantuan elemental of poison rises from the released poison. The part starts dashing through the manufacture pits to avoid the creature. Uzmir points us towards an elevator that it wont be able to follow us through and the party just barely escapes to claim our reward.