(Tales from the D&D Table) The Missing Mage Part Four

(I'm just posting these notes as is because I can't be arsed after a few weeks to type it out lol)

• Since all rooms are empty Steve and Cletus runs downstairs
• Follow
• Gug goes back to cell
• Hear weird hum
• Processing guardpost now empty
• Cell 1 open, bright flashing light and noise from inside
• Paladin casts Divine Sense, same as before
• All doors on one side lead to one big room
• Big magic circle, hum is loud, in middle is humanoid thing, Cletus is trying to grab thing but is getting covered in stone?, Steve is tryna pull him out
• Penny tries to pull too, no avail
• Once Cletus fully enveloped light stops
• Oh noes
• Middle of circle is one of their kids
• Euraxia gives him hug
• See heap of stone lumps, all except fighter sees that one lump is not stone, is twitchy with Jeremy hiding behind
• Promise not to stab if he comes out peacefully
• Steve goes to twitchy boy "Luke!"
• Turns out Miguel is Big Cheese
• Cell Miguel is original, rest of Miguels are evil brain splits
• Robed Person is also Miguel
• "How to undo petrify?" 'Omega'
• "Who and where" 'IDK'
• What is going on 'no fucking clue bruh'
• Can brain split be undid 'yeah Omega has been trying to fix'
• Why use the townsfolk 'IDK'
• No celestial presence anymore
• Where was brain split "other side bruh"
• Gug has reappeared
• Open door to other side, inside is weird shit
• Find a thing like a goldfish bowl with runes and weird rock, possibly adamantium ore/space rock
• Bowl is glowing, is scanning the rock, put the adamantium in the bowl and the wall changes to match, take rock out illusion changes to water, hand in bowl turns to half-orc flesh
• Paper with 'Nerd' written on it turns wall into weirdness like paper
• Is bowl big enough for head - yes
• Nothing particulary clue-y
• Warlock and Gug go back to guardpost
• Penny dunks rogue into bowl like digestive in tea
• Penny and rogue join others
• Guard finds us, is like WHAT THE FUCK
• WHY WAS THE WALL YOUR FACE
• Fight time
• Hits Euraxia, is now at ~half health
• Euraxia hits
• Nick hits
• Warlock EB, hit
• Guard is now BIG OW
• Gug hits
• Guard legs it
• Penny lunges for him, grabs foot, tosses him at Jeremy at urging from Euraxia
• While guard is seizing, take guard up to holding
• Gug is like what, try to explain, fail
• Loot guard of p much everything
• Go back down to guardpost
• Search for useful stuff
• 'Even # - cocoon Odd # - cloning bay'
• Nothing to get past Darkness easy
• 'In case of accident contact Omega'
• 'Delta - need more cocoons'
• Rest finally clue into what the lumps are
• Rest, heal
• Share backstories - Penny's whole clan wiped out when spaceship crash landed on town; Halbarad is just Like That I Guess; Nick is ashamed of elven half because racist arseholes; Euraxia literally can't talk about her past as a spy because state secrets.