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{{Infobox expedition log
| title = Treasure Hunting 3: The Family Black
| date = 12/6/24
| storyteller = Zoro
| tier_of_play = Legendary
| player_characters = [[Siltmean the Craftrat]], [[Serene Leyvald]], [[Pomba Bright-Eyed]], [[Illiam Elro]], [[Grist Vanafeld]]
| rewards = 350 xp, The Origin of Violence, 14k gp
| result = Success?
| author = Siltmean
| downtime_days = 21
}}
== Log ==
''The writing is more messy than normal in this listing of events. The author was clearly in a hurry.''

'''Finding the Path'''
*Gather up
*Check out Cutter Black's back tattoo
*None of us can read a map
*Illiam uses magic to find a path
*Go look for "Granny's" dark citadel that only the family Black will be safe in
*Have to get there in 8 hours, as it closes off until the next full moon after the night
*12 hour trip by foot
*We all calculate our speeds and determine we can barely manage a flight path to get there in 8
*Find a pond with trap door at bottom
*Pomba jumps in, water is illusion
*Door broken, but still operable
*Head in carefully

'''The First Danger'''
*First obstacle is pillars over gap
*Poison dart launchers in gaps
*Swinging saw blades on pillars
*Whole room is death trap with complicated deactivation device at other end
*Victoria sends in "Evangelist", gets ripped apart by traps halfway through
*Weapons entering room do not trigger trap
*Trap either activated by sound, contact with pillars, or life signs
*Either way, I'm the only one who can be trusted to disable the devices here apparently
*Hope trap is sound based, quietly fly in
*Trap does not activate
*Reach invisible wall in front of device blocking hallway
*Find no way around
*I conclude this is a wall of force
*Have Serene break wall using extending weapon
*Get out before trap activates, then sneak back in
*Successfully disable trap without injury

'''The Second Step'''
*Everyone jumps across to next room
*Enter next room
*4 golems with cannon arms, flame spewers in chest on raised platform
*5 chests spread across room as well?
*Golems begin firing cannon balls at us
*I did not enjoy getting hit in the stomach with one
*Impact dampeners were marked as "Sufficient" this day
*Serene and Pomba hurry in
*Chest opens near Serene, confuses her, also Pomba very briefly
*Grist wakes her back up with force barrage
*Tough fight, but golems go down
*Don't like electricity, I noticed
*Also worn and faulty, likely from lack of repairs in previous defenses
*Team heals up before investigating 2 doors and other 4 chests
*Find piece of key and gold in one chest
*Victoria finds hidden door behind same chest
*Pomba identifies another chest as trapped with green magic
*Decide to leave other chests alone, investigate hidden path
*Pit to nowhere behind second door in hidden area?
*Investigate other paths, also pits
*Grist spots hidden door in hidden room's pit room
*I open it up, find long hallway
*We begin heading in, Grist stays outside
*Vorpal blade traps activate
*Nearly kill multiple of us as I jam each of the 4 blade paths
*Victoria leaving room early causes blades to reactivate across entire room
*Trap disabled
*If not for my multilayered concealment haze mask I would have died on the 3rd blade

'''Third In Line'''
*Heal up in next room
*6 chests
*Victoria spots 4 are trapped
*2 have gold
*Trick doors ahead hiding trap and gold chests
*Find room with hole in ceiling
*I look inside
*Spot aquamarine chalice inside hole
*Serene fishes it out with extending fauchard
*I catch chalice
*Floor lifts, room begins filling with water
*I hold chalice while Serene and Grist begin talking to it?
*Trap deactivates
*Chalice has no magical value anymore, worthless
*I sense multiple figures ahead, including one huge one
*Check side door first
*Tries to confuse me both times I unlock it
*Fake door trap
*Head down hallway
*Walls drop
*Adamantine golem and multiple quicksilver entities attack us
*Quicksilver golems not actually aggressive until we bring down the adamantine golem
*It regenerates
*Need adamantine to kill it
*Only adamantine available is my adamantine bar
*Hold it out for others to use for spells
*Victoria brings it down with adamantine needles
*Rampaging quicksilver golems die

'''One Final Tragedy'''
*Two doors left
*One left, one forward
*Grist gets impatient, tells Victoria to just open left door
*Victoria is reverted into a child?
*I don't know
*Not temporary
*Fake door trap?
*No way to bring back old Victoria
*Illiam collects approximately 6 month old baby
*We investigate final room to hurry and find a way out
*Still have 8 hour trip at minimum to get child to civilization
*Final room features a club in a theater
*Surrounded by semi-circle of seats full of dead elves
*They clap as Serene and Grist approach club
*Cross dangerous bridge
*Spirits try to push Grist off
*Get across safely
*Regular, non-magical club?
*Serene spots real club inside a body
*Always drips blood
*Determined to be magical weapon known as "The Origin of Violence"
*Very powerful, very scary looking
*Theorized first weapon to kill human after a major cataclysm
*Demands blood
*Owner must kill something with it regularly
*None of us want it
*Good luck Rocco?


'''Post-Notes'''

I genuinely do not know what happened to Victoria, they're stuck as a baby. Probably not forever, they'll grow up eventually we think? Illiam has chosen to take care of the child and raise them. Onadbyr's a safe place protected by some pretty strong people, hopefully this'll give them a good, happy upbringing. Side note, I don't think Victoria retained any memories? Illiam theorized it was a reversion, not a de-aging, so no reversal, and no concern with an adult being stuck in a baby's body. Don't expect the baby to recognize you if you were friends with them, I guess.