The party enters the dungeon, seeing a blood-smeared corpse of a man, wearing the uniform of Horvyn Quickstamp's assistants. Sooty immediately wastes no time looting it, finding only a few silver coins, a clipboard and a pen. Mikhail meanwhile investigates it, and sees several stab wounds and what resembles to be a bite-wound, only that it looks to be a cleaner cut than the kind that natural teeth generally can do. As the party enters the next room however, everyone sees the culprits; a watchman construct, and a mechanical dog, asking for a Visitor- or Employee ID-Card... That the party couldn't produce, of course. A fight ensued, but it was easily won by the party.
After some exploration, Volk Lesnoy got split off from the party, as he was attacked by another metal dog. The rest of the party was able to find a teleportation circle in a room with several bookshelves and a painting of three clocks on the wall. Sooty was able to deduce that the arms of the clocks on the wall are pointing to different times, while a book shelf had an empty space in it, with 12 volumes of the same book. So, with the help of Dareth Lion'el Griffmane, three books in accordance to the three different times were put into the empty space, revealing a secret room.
In that room, Sooty wasted no time to try to open the chest... only to get interrupted by a gigantic statue animating behind him, resulting in him deciding to peace-out using Misty Step. A fight ensued, Philomena Snapdragon was hurt quite badly before being healed by Mikhail, Dareth had his longsword stuck magnetically to the statue, and Zora was able to put an end to it with a well-placed punch. Sooty was now able to open the chest and found Three Scrolls of Haste and Three of Slow each, as well as a note.
Turns out that this was left here by a researcher of The Great Liwilai Empire, a man called Severinus Maursus. This facility was used to research ancient time- and clockwork-magic, and two of his colleagues, two men called Euclio Cyprias and Isidorus Peregrinus, were ripped across spacetime as a result. The Great Wasting resulted in most of the Illadian technicians of the facility dying, so he and his colleagues left for Rumas, the capital of the empire at the time, and he wished to return with people to fix things. However, he left this note in case something happened to him. The Slow- and Haste-Spells may be the key in helping his colleagues return to linear space-time, and he implored whoever found the note to try to help them; or put them out of their misery. Noting that down, the party went to move on, and search for the two keycards that are required to open the door to the room where the two time-displaced researchers are locked in.
The party reconvened, some more exploration was had, robotic dogs were fought (including some that explode), and the door to the locked room was found. Mikhail found some ancient gold, as well as a magical unicorn plushie, but sadly, no key cards. And so, the party moved on. In one room, Volk found a collection of metallic triangles, just lying on the ground. Sooty investigated further and remembered from some of his studies, stories about constructs from another world with an alien mind, made from triangles, that infest places with unstable time-magic... and fired a fireball.
Another fight ensues and Sooty gets hurt quite badly. However, Dareth was able to destroy the creature. As the triangles that made it up dissolved, it left behind its two arm-blades, which Dareth collected. Mikhail meanwhile tries out a spell on Sooty, mending the gashes in his fibers ever so slightly and healing him a little.
SESSION END