"The Artificer closes up the letter and dribbles wax upon the seams. Stamping it with her signet ring she sits back and smiles. She passes the letter to her apprentice and waves the boy off. Soon, soon she will accomplish what the others said was impossible."

***Upon Entering the Shop:*** A bell rings as you open the door to this quaint little shop. The musty smell of old paper and parchment immediately fills your nostrils. The walls are lined with framed maps. Most of them are geographical, and many are of places that you have heard of or recognize. However there are quite a few that are vague, and could represent almost anywhere. Below them are scroll shelves. Mostly empty. In the back of the shop is a large drafting table and a cashier’s counter. On the table is an unrolled map. It looks newer than a lot of the ones around the room. Behind the counter is a Dwarf… he does not look newer. His graying hair and cracking skin peg him to be in the sunset years of his life. He does however become quite excited at your entrance. “Welcome to Kargamon’s! Are you perhaps the Treasure Hunter’s I sent for? And if not… would you like to be?”

“My Beloved Sister, I truly hope all is well for you and your husband. Perhaps after these years you have children as well? I can imagine how that would fill your heart with joy. To have a family was your one true dream. I know you will treat them better than we were. I write to you now to inform you that I too have fulfilled my dreams. Father said I was wasting my life pursuing magic. That those days were behind us. That we should look to the future. To Technology. The words come like poison to write it but he was right, although not in the way he thought… It is through technology that I have accomplished my goals. I have discovered the secret of imbuing a vessel, either common or living, with the power of the Weave. Tomorrow I will finish my work and invite your family for a visit to see my accomplishments. This map should guide you to my workshop. I've marked locations you would recognize. I do wish to keep my location a secret so please be discrete. Thank you for believing in me.”

The mouth of a large cavern lies ahead. It is partially covered by forest plants and fallen trees. However, the entrance is clear. Something large has been traveling in and out of the cavern. There are multiple deep claw marks on the trees and rocks nearby.

The cavern is about 15’ tall and has a damp earthy smell to it. The walls are mix of hard packed clay and dirt holding the stone together with twisted roots. It smells moldy and there is an oder of rotting meat from within. There are several places in which either roots or stone connect floor and ceiling obscuring your vision. The area to the North is also choked with Spiderwebs further hindering your ability to see deeper into the cave. There does seem to be a clear passage out of this chamber to the West along the south wall.

The Tunnels open into a larger chamber. The smell of rot is stronger here. In the back of the room is a very large nest. There is a column in the way but you’re pretty sure that laying just beyond it is a pile of corpses.

And as you get closer you hear a low rumble sound similar to a large cat purring before it strikes. It if followed by something laughing. Crawling out from the nest you see the outline of a large feline like creature with a spiked tail and large bat wings. Its face is mostly human except for the rows and rows of sharp teeth in its overly large mouth.

The room ahead is covered in webs. They are criss crossing in such a way that you cannot see to the far side of the chamber. The webs are thick, about the size of clotheslines.

There is a rumbling sound as a secret door slides open revealing a worked stone passage beyond. It isn’t as tall as the cavern, only 10’ or so, but it looks and feels much more stable. Just inside of the doorway is a lever in the down position. There is a row of crystals embedded in the wall just above it. The far left crystal is lit up red.

Beyond this door is a medium sized room. It is carpeted and lightly furnished with a table and some chairs as well as a long bench. There is a long cold large fireplace on the far side of the room, an armored skeleton lay on the floor in front of it and another sits in a chair in the corner. It does not appear any one living has been in this room for a long time.

Four flickering lights unsuccessfully attempt to illuminate this room. At its center is what at one time must have been a fine fountain. The walls of the fountain have long since crumbled and cracked letting the water run out.

These look like common sleeping quarters. Four beds are pushed up against the walls. There looks to be a foot locker under each one.

This room is filled with shelves of tools and machinery. There is a table central to the room where it looks as if someone was working on a project. The dust on the table tells you that they stopped working long ago.

This room appears to have been some sort of common room. Long tables and benches in the center look as if they were placed for meal times. There is a stove and a sink in one corner and piles of long crumbled crates and barrels in the others.

This room is very similar in form to the fountain room back to the East. However instead of a fountain this room containes a large brazier. There are stairs leading downward in the south wall. There are four chairs creeping around this room.

Shelves of old and crumbling texts line the walls of this room. A broken desk lies against the west wall and a large table covered in moldering tomes and paperwork dominates the center of the room.

Opening the door reveals a very sophisticated looking workshop. It also reveals that this workshop has been badly damaged, likely by some kind of explosion. The mechanics and dials seem to be shattered and broken. In the center of the room are some work tables. One is covered in fractured alchemical equipment. The other has a large metal woman laying on it.

This large bed chamber has really begun to deteriorate. The shelves have collapsed and the bed is almost a pile of unrecognizable debris. There is a workstation that is more or less intact.

This large pentagonal room has an intricate magical looking symbol carved into a slightly raised circular platform. Just beyond that the floor is deeply scored as if there was a fiery blast that left behind the marks.

The secret door slides away revealing the room beyond. Inside of the chamber are three chests.

This massive chamber is filled with lightning coils. Electricity jumps from coil to coil as it woks its way back and forth across the room. There are several large areas that are floorless and the area below where the floor would be is filled with machinery. Across from the secret doorway you can see two niches each housing a lever. The wall between them is covered with unlit crystals similar to the ones you saw at the entrance of the workshop. It would be pretty easy to time a run between the lightning as it courses back and forth.

You come back into the room and begin helping the Ghost fix her equipment. After about three hours of work “she” steps back away from the control panel. “It’s as good as I can manage. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.”

“Something is wrong!” The Ghost screams. She look around and then focuses on something that is beyond your sight. “Be on your guard. They are coming!” There is then a bright flash of light and the Warforged’s eyes begin to glow.