The Hook
The gang is hired by Dr. Lonis to procure a peculiar item he knows is present deep in the heart of a Simic laboratory. He assures everyone this cytoplast would pose a danger to Ravnica if left in the hands of the Simic, and implores the party to acquire a sample for his own study.
The Dungeon
The party found themselves crawling through a classic waste disposal tube, large enough to even accommodate their new friend Gary (whom Dr. Lonis had sent to help them).
Upon exiting the tube system, the team found themselves in a dungeon network resembling sewers yet oddly enough was better lit.
The gang soon encountered a pair of elves. The one wounded and near death was healed by the party. They revealed that they had been in this dungeon for far longer than they could remember. The team pointed to them a way out. More than grateful, Vorel and Ļ̸̧̛͔̻̑́͊̏̃̇̾̈̀̈́̊͑̚̚͘ǎ̴̡̧̢̡̨͈̩͇̻͔̯̰̭͙̥̼̮͉͈̎̿̉̃̏͋̂̾̈́z̷̢̛̊́̒̋͗̍̿́̓͆̑a̸̧̨̧̧̤̳̦͚̘̻͕͕̬͎͍̟̳̓̀̅̈̎̊̒͠v̵̅̉͐̀̆̀͌ͅ would be escorted out by Niko and Schulden shortly after.
A little ways down, the party encountered a dying giant of the Boros legion - who also confirmed his internment in this dungeon to be extensive beyond memory. He too doesn't remember how he found himself here, only that he awoke there.
After the party showed kindness, he offered Abe an old, cracked horn; he asked that it be returned to the Boros guildhall of Sunhome and the nature of his passing be made known to the legion. Calgar would died of his wounds soon after.
The team would dispatch a Krasis guarding the exit with relative ease, much to the chagrin of the DM.
The Laboratory
The party trudged on without Niko and Schulden - who presumably were helping the elves find the exit - where upon they happened upon a holding cell. There was one prisoner whom they tried interacting with.
Very soon, they'd realized he'd lost his damn mind. Realizing he was a lost cause, the party continued up the only exit to the holding cell.
To their surprise it was a private study. Neatly kept if slightly dingy, there was no evidence that this facility was abandoned. The party looked around the study, opening drawers, peeking under desks, rifling through books. At some point, they heard a *click*, but could not determine the source or effect.
Delorix found a book that caught her interest titled Hybrid Theory.
The gang pushed forward and out of the study into a large hall...
Ceilings replaced their sky as the top of the hall were as tall as a gothic cathedral. the walls were stone and buttresses peeked from seemingly every nook and corner of the grand space.
Instead of pews, the hall's main floor featured glowing glass containers the size of an office's water dispenser. Metallic tubes poured out of every side of each device, spilling onto the floor and disappearing into the darker corners of the hall, surely connected to some other unholy device.
Suspended in the cool, blue liquid was some kind of a biomass. A singular pound of flesh housed in every glowing jar, from a distance resembling a still-beating heart.
As the party crept closer and deeper into the laboratory they heard the man in the far end of the room, like a priest in a sermon's voice echo...
"Here, already?"
He seemed unsurprised by the party's arrival. What more, eerily, he was undisturbed.
He was very welcoming to the party and invited them closer. They all obliged, Abe most of all. He was very eager to explain what he was doing, as the party inquired.
Until Abe lost his temper at these vile machinations and struck the doctor. He retaliated in kind. The party soon realized they were outmatched.
Abe ran back and grabbed one of the blue containers and threw it at Dale; the jar shattered but Dale caught the biomass inside and put it away as the party made their getaway.
After leaving the dungeon, they convened at a safe house.
The Pub
Back at the party's designated safe house (a pub no less) the team discussed their next move.
Abe and Dale had retired for the evening as Dale was not feeling well and Abe decided to accompany him upstairs. Down at the tavern, the gang celebrated with a few drinks while creepily eyeing the patrons in attendance.
Among them were a loxodon dressed in Selesnyan colors, a lone goblin and several other more "regular" looking patrons.
Niko found a lone goblin to be peculiar (as he was under the impression that goblins travel in groups) - not police profiling at all.
The "inquiry" was going well until Niko pried to deep and realized this goblin was here on a mission and not a trade deal.
After realizing Niko's ruse, the goblin pulled a rip-cord in his jacket and not a moment later, a large flash of light emanated from his body followed by half the tavern being blown up, catching the party in the blast.
From the blast, the party pried themselves up from the rubble and realized slimy, runny figures resembling people were walking around poking the bodies to make sure they were dead. After hatching a "plan", the party attacked these creatures.
They quickly realized these were not men, but a bunch of live worms slithering together to make a man-like figure.
The party fought, though they were all heavily wounded from the initial blast.
Losing, and with their backs against the wall Nix cast cantrip in an attempt to distract the creatures. As the light poured out of his illusion, each exposed creature crumbled to the ground - the worms that made up a man's body dissipated as if magic into what ground remained in the destroyed tavern, leaving only their shoddy clothes and rusted tools.
Nix the quickly ran upstairs to learn the fate of Abe and Dale, but to his horror, they were not in their rooms...
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