Oakwood had Covid. However the rest of us soldered on.
Briscoe healed enough to be conscious. Briscoe and Terstegan moved back to the previous room while Clarissa and Xeeli explored the room where the Brownie mysteriously got slaughtered. Used detect magic wack a mole. Xeeli placed the brownie corpse into her magic sleeve. She said it was to provide an honorable burial later… but the rest of us had some doubts.
Clarissa Read Aura and Arcana on the gem and found it was the constructs power source. Then Briscoe, Xeeli and Clarissa went outside to explore the docks. Briscoe went first and the pier collapsed exposing a Flckerwisp that attacked us. It was immune to magic so the GM interpreted this to mean it was immune to stones thrown by magic and magic weapons. It beat on Briscoe but on the second round it retreated. Terstehgan ran up after the fight was done, stumbling through the uneven surface and broken glass of the room.
After treating our wounds we headed downstairs. We found a chamber for making constructs where Worbough's (the bird construct) body was floating in a large glass decanter. We also found a journal. Apparently this goblins master was a construct master and the goblin volunteered to have his soul place in a construct. We found a doll construct with no limbs and were about to place the soul (from the gem) into the doll to question it when Briscoe found a secret door (look, a butterfly!) naturally we dropped our plans to rush to the secret door. It led down stairs to a four way intersection. A door to the east, a corridor to the west and stair going back up to the south.
Xeeli snuck ahead but didn't tell anyone that he was scouting ahead so we had a discussion on whether we knew if he was scouting. We decided to wait since it seemed she was scouting. In one direction of the corridor he found a library complete with librarians wearing blue robes actively placing books on the shelves. We were not sure if they were constructs it being late we decided to look down the other end of the corridor to see the lay of the land without starting a combat.
The room at the other end was filled with thick mist, we were unable to determine any details inside. Going up the stairs we found a "T" intersection. South was what seemed to be an exit to the swamp, a muddy/moldy beach but it got so cold Briscoe and Terseghn took cold damage. Now were didn't think it lead outside and the mold grew as it absorbed the boy's body heat. We backed out. Once again the girls escaped harm.
The room to the north led to a room full of bones that started to pull together into a giant skeleton about three meters with a bull's head with a large sword. Rather than immediately closing the door Xeeli tried to determine what this was first. We determined it’s a skeleton with a bull's head.
