Ruby Caves

### Results

* The team from the Brigade managed to find the necessary ruby crystals to protect Nadir's Zenith from the Twins' assault
* Another mysterious time traveler was at the mine, and while the party's paths did not cross with his, it seems word of Koyne's death has begun spreading...

## IRL Data

### PCs

* Baz Brightmoon
* Anyana Legate
* Aster Dewlight
* Lavender (New Brigade PC)
* Ezriel (Non-Brigade)

### Log Author(s)

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In order to protect the tower from Brixx and Braxx's upcoming assault, the party traveled to an abandoned mine to collect rubies to bolster the Brigade's defenses.

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## Prompt

`Within the cuspate caverns of Kem’fis least traversed mountain range lies a system of interconnected fault lines that glimmer a crimson color. These gemstones may very well be built into a leyline, and filled with valuable essence. The brigade task you with heading to this site to find stones of certain dimensions from this fault line capable of sustaining a magical field that can counteract the oncoming assault from the extra dimensional void creatures. The group of you will be awarded handsomely for your efforts, and will also be allowed to take any artifacts you may find in the caverns as well.`

## Character Developments

* First Appearances for:
	+ Lavender
* Anyana befriended an injured baby Rust Drake, who returned to the Brigade with her.

## Entry #1

Baz here with the mission logbook, I've got a lot going on right now but it's apparently important to have a record of our jobs so I'll try to keep it brief. So the reason we hauled ourselves all the way out to this abandoned magic mine in the first place is because these two void motherfuckers are going to be attacking the tower soon and we need a way of countering their anti-magic bullshit. It was pretty important that we manage to pull this off, especially since Sliver, Alexander, and Doomer are gonna be among our first line of defense, so I couldn't leave this job to whoever else volunteered. Sometimes you've gotta have eyes on things yourself, you know?

Anyway, the Brigade members made the hot (for some) and arduous (for unspecified others) trek through the lava fields and volcanic mountains until we got to the mine entrance. There was a busted up man lying on the ground there, along with Lavender, who said he didn't know the injured man and that they had been traveling to the mines for their own reasons, mainly curiosity. Hell of a place to come just for the sake of curiosity, but sure, whatever. I tried patching up the injured man, but there were these barbs in his arms that didn't play nice with my magic. He seemed stable, just unconscious, so we hauled him into a corner and bricked him in with rocks so that he was concealed until we came back. Anyana had a quick chat with some gem-encrusted cats who were circling around the entrance, and they let us pass without any trouble.

After that we made our way into the mine proper. It was branchy and twisty and filled with lots of horrible tight tunnels; while we were squeezing through one narrow space I got attacked by some sort of ruby-themed ooze, which was NOT fun in tight quarters, let me tell you. Luckily for me Anyana was there and she was able to yank me free of the thing before shit got too hairy. Magic in general seemed to have some issues in this mine, which made sense because it was on a ley line or something and we *were* there to get the raw materials for an anti-void artifact. We kept getting attacked by crystalline oozes as we explored, but they left ruby dust behind, which Lavender and I were both scooping up. We also found some sort of platform thing that might have been old mining equipment, but it shocked me when I tried to cast spells near it, so I left it be after that.

We found a little kobold miner roaming around who was pretty surprised to see us, but once we explained that we were here looking for something specific and weren't gonna take the other rubies, he calmed down and was willing to give us some information. Apparently some new folks have moved into this cave and begun mining resources out, and the person in charge of the mine, a kobold named Vyx Virlymi, was some sort of time traveler the same way Koyne was. Fucking sus. Anyway, the kobold warned us about some sort of tunnel guard who was roaming around looking for people to fight, and I got the impression that he was probably the one who had fucked up that guy we found laying on the ground outside. He also asked us to help take care of some sort of crystalline golem, and while it ended up being a tough scrap due to weird magic fuckshit, we won the day in the end. And bonus for us - its head ended up being exactly the sort of big crystal we were looking for!

## Entry #2

We took a bit of a sit-down after dealing with the big golem before setting off deeper into the mine. The kobold miner left his pickaxe behind, which worked out because it was a pretty neat item in its own right. Anyana was able to get some use out of it. Soon after that we ran into the tunnel guard we were warned about, a pretty gross devil who was a *little* too into single combat, if you catch my drift. He was spoiling for a one-on-one fight, which Aster decided to give him for some reason - some sort of sanctimonious religious horseshit. Anyana tried to talk to the devil, but with him and Aster both more interested in fighting, things tilted in that direction pretty quickly. It seemed like it was going well for Aster at first, but eventually the devil turbo-fucked him up and damn near killed him before one of us bopped him on the nose and sent him back to the Hells. Aster was pretty useless after that, but Anyana was able to carry him, so it worked out.

After that we stumbled across more miners - apparently people started noticing we were here, after all that banging around from the fights we were in. We didn't really want to deal with meeting the boss, but we did spot that the miners had managed to dig up exactly the sort of ruby we were looking for. After some shenanagins we managed to distract them for long enough to grab the ruby before escaping deeper into the cave. Ezriel was unexpectedly pretty cool during this - when I said I wasn't down with killing the miners in order to get the ruby, she listened. Not entirely sure what was behind the change of heart but who am I to look a gift horse in the mouth? Speaking of gifts, we found the last ruby in the hoard of an injured baby rust drake who seemed like he'd gotten into a scrap with the miners. Anyana talked to him and he decided to come back to the Brigade with us, and was happy to turn over the ruby along with a cool giant shovel of some sort.

Now that we had all the rubies we needed, we decided to beat feet out of the mines before the squad of miners and their boss caught us. We made our way out to the entrance, but to our surprise and confusion the injured man we left there encased in rocks was gone. Something happened there... I hope it was a miracle, but probably not, especially since he left a cool black iron longsword behind. None of us had any use for it, so I decided to take it back and see if Alexstrasza wanted it.