Khonshu and Dacien are sent as quartermaster and negotiator to finalize a contract Lanternwurm secured with the Firebrand Brewery, a factory like building on the edge of a lake.
The deal is for a fair amount of gems, precious metals, and planar crystals from Lanternwurm for alchemical goods used in the sanctuary engine’s maintenance. Dacien gathered information as Khonshu prepped his contraptions. After being dropped off, the two approaches the building compound. Dacien set up to detect enchantments as a precaution.
After being welcomed in, they met Gran the Gracious, a large, bald goliath in fine clothes and jewelry. The brewery was filled with machinery and some magic auras, including some old Ember tech components.
Gran sat on a carpet and offered them beer. After some intense negotiation, the two won over Gran’s respect but he regretfully betrayed them and sprung a floor trap, the grating falling away, leaving Gran on his flying carpet.
Fallen into the factory works, the pair and Khonshu’s steel defender Mule were confronted with a long channel with fluid flowing from a pipe in the wall. The liquid flowed in a channel down to a larger chamber filled with noxious fog. Within the fog lay a giant fire toad.
After figuring out that the heat aura from the toad was converting the inert liquid into acidic and poisonous fumes, they planned to sneak past. Dacien failed to compel the creature to flee, but Khonshu’s tinkering provided a distraction with a sound emitting device thrown into the fog.
Taking grievous damage by getting through the fog that hovered around the toad, the party made it to the side of the chamber away from the fog and ran. The toad did not pursue, and they patched themselves up. Finding access to a maintenance room, the group found a grating above. Khonshu pulled out a grappling rope to climb up and work with his various tools to escape. They returned to Lanternwurm empty handed but with new information.