- We are still in the vents
- We drop back into the room with the gold rooms and head to one of the rooms we havent been through yet
- We phase through doors
- We enter one of the rooms and see an illusory version of Eli’s Mother
- She’s walking around shes staring at something in the corner
- Its likely shes staring at something in the real world
- This seems to imply that The Mindscape corresponds to the real world in some way?
- Everything seems to be enchantment
- We head down the corridor shes looking at and find a lab
- Whenever we try to pick something up it seems bolted down
- There’s a bubble in the corner (Audio Log 18)
- We head past the lab and find another prison room with animals
- 2 vultures, 2 chipmunks, a spider, 3 antelopes, 1 lion, one cheetah
- 2 crabs in a pond
- We find another bubble (Audio Log 1)
- We head past the lab and to the right and find some more rooms
- We find Audio Log 8
- We eventually reach another door with symbols on it
- There are 9 symbols corresponding to 9 numerical digits
- A wing
- A pond or a lake
- Reptilian Scales
- Flower
- Squirrel of some kind
- A worm or a snake shape
- A drawing of a bug
- A pair of fangs
- Horns
- We find another prison with animals and a bubble
- Audio Log
- Animals:
- 1 tiger, 2 parrots, 1 anaconda, 3 giant ants, 1 giant flower
- We go back to the locked room
- The code is
12, 7, 3, 1, 4, 3, 9, 8, 6
- In the center of the room we see a brain laying on the ground, unfolded so that it looks like a flower
- We see a shadowy figure (Eli’s Mother) who is charging at the brain, she stabs it and crumple to the floor
- She then steps out of some unseen door and collapses
- We see an image of Eli’s Mother crumpled in a corner watching the fight
- There is a loud thumping that sounds like a heartbeat from the brain
- We talk to Eli’s Mom
- She seems surprised to see Eli but doesn’t recognize him (or know Everbloom)
- She’s a remnant of Mary-Kate
- There is a faint chain from her leading to the brain that we cannot interact with
- She asks about the ring Eli has
- Its a nicely kept silver ring
- Its protecting Eli
- The ring is working to create a bridge between our original Mindscape to Mindscape
- Being shackled to the brain means you feel dazed and disconnected; just going through the motions
- At some point she just disconnected from the brain and awoke
- She stored some of the magic (the same one referenced in Audio Log) that allowed us to access Oryndrus’s Mindscape
- The research areas (the areas with bright red lights)
- Its probably to protect our minds against something?
- We could move her soul into Eli’s ring and turn it into a sentient object (Inscribed Ring)
- We stab a massive hole in the The Brain and awake in a cell
- There are a bunch of catatonic humans with scars and stitch marks
- We also have scars and stitch marks
- Some of us have stitch marks near our brain
- Notably Nes and Eli
- We aura of vitality
- We escape the prison room
- We enter the room where we found the fake gold
- There is a note on an operating table
- We find our stuff, climb into the vents, and take a short rest
- We continue around the prison looking for other notes
- Stealth 🪕
- We find a vacant room
- We find another
- We find an alchemy lab
- Bubbling liquids in vials
- Bugs, snakes, etc lining a shelf
- 3 barely Elven researchers (bug parts were grafted onto them)
- They see and attack us with an assortment of bug bullshit
- When we kill some centipedes they gain vitality?
- We find Experimental Subject “Duergar Trait Analysis”
- We try pass without tracing to the other rooms we couldn’t get to before
- We enter the room where Eli’s Mom was looking at a weird spot
- The walls try to eat us 😭
- We find a research lab repurposed into a mechanical room
- One of the rooms has the corpse of the ash dragon (disected and flayed)
- They are working on some kind of draconic staff
- We’re taking a short rest