Woodsworth Moure would awake after a meeting with Reiga (Mineshaft Collapse at Udrodzid). As we finished our rest, the morning of the 33rd of Chaos, 3486, Ripley studied over an Unwound Clockwork Overseer that was just completed. Fortune's Vanguard kept watch inside the Assembly Line, where Riply would toss a blanket infront of the Unwound Overseer just before it was made active. The Laborers were not impressed, and began to attack her immediately with nets! We ended up culling most of them in the onslaught, but J'ack Rameur was given a chance to disable some invisibly. Two survived, and we left them to continue constructive operations in the Assembly Line. We must be cautious, for this place's Caretakers are now so few that any more mistakes would make this place unmaintainable. Time would take it otherwise...
With preparations made, we moved towards the High Security Research Containment area, where we discovered the many names on its doors. Up and down the hallway, egresses would stretch with a strange set of indentations above each metal door. Milu Soma can translate between Clockwork and Common it seems. Studying each door, we determined they were charged, and some had magical traps. Through Riply's Lantern, we could discern the magic that laid in wait. We determined it was the same warding spell, used against the living from Alpha. Enervation. Through luck of the idol, Woodsworth already had two anti-miracles of it available. With an aegis against electricty on J'ack, we prepared to enter the room as gaseous bolt of darkness lunged from the door. Woodsworth barely identified the right timing, and cast the same spell. It was undone - the counterspell forcing the magical trap to be unmade. We opened the door.
Inside, more machinations of the Ancient Evil awaited us. Cleis Frostclaw and Xael harried them with spells and swords. A Clockwork Mage, aligned to Necromancy in the back moved towards a platform that gave it the powers of Unreal to phase through walls. We cornered it through a maintenance vent and took it out. Milu used a strange Glowing Station Vial Dust phial that we found, and casting a Overriding Spell modified Charm to bring SC4BB1E to our side for the next 6 or so hours.
We decided to head through the main doors of the hallway. On the other side, a Clockwork Surgeon of sorts awaited us with an envoy of other clockwork beings...