SAM in Mechanus

While the rest of the party went on without him, SAM passed through a cursed artwork in Duskmere and found himself in Mechanus. This adventure was played out by message between 30 September and 14 October 2022 (real time), a turn at a time.

He stood before a city of machines stretching far into the distance. A few miles to his left rose a twenty-sided mechanical fortress with an imposing gate; behind him, megafactories formed a hemispherical ring. The light came from all around, so directions were hard to judge. One of the small winged, eyeball-like workers walked up, studied him for a moment, said "unclassified", stuck a red sticker on him and walked off. As he looked at the sticker, three deep rolls of thunder sounded.

Making his way through the city he reached Regulus and learned its story: the demon that killed the Primus and sat in his pool, its departure sixteen years earlier, and the tainted secundus left to take its place. Rebels told him about maruts, and he learned that the warforged probably descend from Mechanus by way of the modron marches, and that modrons were quietly arming in the city's corners.

Then a marut attacked him and banished him. He was teleported into the sea near Vistas Landing.