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Numenera Jade Colossus 2025-06-08

  • Yuzu and Ludin head to the flower shop and try to tag along with another group of adventures
  • The other group mentions they are heading towards The Red Labyrinth. Konrad - big strong guy, Ahriman- guy with glasses and activated cypher, and Bith Atkin
  • We offer to help them with their mapping efforts.
  • The Red Labyrinth looks like intestines.
  • At the heart of the Red Labyrinth is something called the Canticle, a device about which even less is known than the various relics within the Jade Colossus.Its nature, like all numenera, is a mystery.However, some within Ballarad have come to believe that the Canticle could be employed as a kind of divining rod that might allow them not only to find more relics, but also to interact with already-known relics far more safely and efficaciously. However, reaching the Canticle(which even the few people who have heard of it are likely to mistakenly imagine as some kind of device or canister) is insanely difficult. To reach all the way to the center ofthe Red Labyrinth is an amazingly hard feat to pull off.
  • Ahriman shows me how to use their mapping device and even lets me try it. I look at their map that they've made so far. It shows some creeks of The Red, a section blocked from being mapped and a section that has congealed over
  • Yuzu talks to Konrad and they bond over being their respective teams muscles
  • The two of them have a race to see who is fastest. Yuzu beats him handedly for 5 shins
  • They go ahead for double or nothing which she still wins easily even though Konrad used a "wings of steel" cypher
  • We go to try to open a locked portal that Ahriman had failed to map
  • We come to the level 8 de-activated portal. It might be trapped
  • It seems to be out of place in the Red Labyrinth.
  • I activate the portal by throwing a Vile of The Red at it
  • I send Saturnalia in who sees some Automatons dumping some liquids into a hole in the ground.
  • We have discovered "The Refinery"
  • Ahriman scans the area and The Red seems to be made of nanomachines. The refinery is turning it into some sort of gel
  • Yuzu speaks to one of the Automatons who says "We refine the Red to stanch the wound"
  • we head back to the flower ring and warp back to town

The Refinery