Locc Mangyr

South of Traunt bridge, deep in the mountains lies the underground fortress Locc Mangyr. Once a Dragonborn stronghold, it laid abandoned for thousands of years, forgotten.

## Surface

The surface is a long winding desert road, riddled with dangers like Quaggoths and Harpies. At the summit lies an old abandoned mansion filled with brain rats. It has a destroyed mana teleporter hidden in a secret room as well as the entrance to the underground fortress.

## Underground

Here lies Number 4's past, the mana teleporter prototypes, the androids, a second arm for Asphalt and many more left relics left after Number 4 caused the cave in. It was revealed that number 4's family was still (presumed) alive as they were taken to Azrus here.

It was inhabited by a peaceful android and his bird, who were slain by the party.

## Research Notes

The mindflayers left behind their invaluable notes pertaining to the state of the world, which were later translated by Limes for the party

1:

* Date: 5,860/5/3

Locc Mangyr has successfully been captured and cleared of pests. It shall do finely. All that remains is to begin research, for which we await Ulitharid Saeir or Ulitharid Kains command.

* Date: 5,860/7/25

Research has begun on a method of creating suitable brains for consumption without using pure mana, similar to Oortlings. Also testing to see if growing an isolated brain alone speeds up the brain growth progress. Many different species will undergo these tests, as well as construction of android bodies as hosts.

* Date: 5,860/9/9

Research on brain growth: mostly failed It appears that we shall have to keep some life in our Azrus breeding facility to feed on once phase 3 is implemented. Androids in storage.

* Date: 5,861/4/10

Glory to the Illithids! What a glorious day it is to finally walk free upon the land! Date:

* 5,861/7/17

Research on non mana based life forms has lead to discovering that impure mana exists on a lower state of the Ethereal plane, and this finding may aid in filtration during phase 3. On other matters, the Gith have discovered this outpost and are beginning to pose a nuisance. Send a party to collect more thralls from the nearby settlements.

* Date: 5,863/6/10

We've done it! Impure mana can be pulled into the physical plane, causing it to harden. We've called it 'mana freezing'. Now all thats left is to perfect this technology. I will ask Ulitharid Saeir and Ulitharid Kain to move non-mana based life research to Kaerbrok Keep to focus on mana freezing.

2:

* Date: 5,863/7/10

To: Kaerbrok Keep Research Division Thanks to your generosity in accepting most of the the work relating to brain research, we've perfected a means of freezing impure mana and the new proposal is as follows Problem: Once all the mana is 'liberated', it is naturally drawn to the ley lines to support the massive amount of souls that now reside there. However, this pure mana mixes with the impure mana, making it nei̶̽̏r imi̶̽̏i̶̽̏sibi̶̽̏le i̶̽̏i̶̽̏s̸̛͊ē̸͠p̷̍͛a̵̒͂r̶̈́̿à̵̕t̶̑́e̸͛͝ ̴̐̑u̶̓͆s̶̍̈ǐ̶͒n̶̍̔g̷̀͌ ̸̃̈c̵͋͑o̴̔̎n̵̒͑v̵̂̈ȇ̴̿n̵̿̕t̶̒̕î̷͗o̵̓̾n̸͛̽a̷̒̍l̵̓̅ ̷̉̋m̶̟̈́é̸̕a̷̐̚ń̴̃s̷̪̔.̴̾͝ ERROR: 301 ERROR: 301 The solution: Ó̶̉n̷͊̈l̷̎̉y̵̽̈́ ̴́͘ì̶̑m̴̎̈́p̵̎͑ŭ̸̚ȑ̷e ma ::::: ERROR: 301 - CONTACT ADMIN

* Date:

5,863/10/28 We see that the full scale MFD's (mana freezing devices) are working perfectly and have recieved reports from the Scouts of preliminary hardening signs at the target location.

* Date: 5,863/11/1

It appears that the MFD's are working almost too well. Today we discovered that residual impure mana left within a corpse in our disposal room has hardened into a gem like structure (a mana gem, if you would). We are also planning on starting testing new Ceremorphosis candidates, such as bugbears.

* Date: 5,863/12/13

EMERGENCY TRANSMISSION - SPEECH TO TEXT CONVERSION OF TRANSMISSION SAVED Test subject 4 has broken free of his restraints after seeing his family being tested on! We have evacuated them to the Azrus base for further testing! Requesting immediate assistance! The attempted ceromophosis has given him wild magic abilities and turned him from a mild mannered father into a raging berserker!! His wild magic has already killed 3 staff and hes now inadvertently freeing other detainees! The east mana research wing and the west Android and brain research wing have already suffered cave ins, our research from there may be unrecoverable. If you hear nothing more from me i fear i will already be dead, please hurry!

## Music used

*Surface*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqF8XaYy\_Xs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzWjZ39euU

*Basement*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35hxpTd70FI