It has been found that a terrorist group had sourced dragon shards from an abandoned mine in Q’barra. Reaching the mines was treacherous – it required a full day’s trek up a steep mountain, and we were attacked by a detached hand when we had decided to rest. And the mine was far from abandoned. Guards from Red Sun Security Solutions guarded the entrance, and they were pretty tight-lipped as well.

With aid from magic, we were able to sneak past them and go in. Almost immediately, we were greeted by piles of corpses, all missing a hand, and all showing signs of being choked and asphyxiated. The corpse chamber had 3 branches. The left branch had a dragon shard vain that we extracted some from. The right branch was trapped, but inside it held a powerful sword and a bomb. The branch going in deeper lead to another forked path.

We can only assume that the left path was full of these independently moving corpse hands that had attacked us earlier. The sound of their nails clicking on the ground was audible, but we did not get visual confirmation at the time. From the other path, we can hear only one side of a conversation. Inside, we caught a glimpse of red sun crates and a desk full of documents. From the conversation, it was made obvious that she knows we are here, and that Sundowner knows about it as well.

With that knowledge, the aforementioned bomb was set for 6 hours, and we booked it out of there as fast as we can. The running and strategic tumbling down the mountain was exhausting, but exhaustion is temporary. Death is permanent. And we thought we were able to get a safe distance away before the explosion, but a cluster of burning hands flew their way towards us, landing right before us. Emerging from the pile of smoldering flesh was Mistral, who had been overseeing this mining operation. We managed to defeat her in this weakened state, but we were unable to find her corpse the next morning.

But uhh. I got some metal that is allegedly able to pierce through adamantine armor. Only two broken daggers, but maybe we can reverse engineer something from it.