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Notes:
- Using Grothor’s letter, the party gains access to Chrysalis Labs’ outer storage in Dawn Town — a repurposed ancient power station
- They solve elemental/geometric riddles to access its hidden rooms
- Zander briefly gets pulled through a portal to the Highland Plateau, where he ends up in a flexing contest with the Silver Man, cheered on by goliaths
- The party finds the hidden library, where a book tells Ambystoma about her sister Urodela and reveals connections between originium, Chrysalis Labs, and Malachite Forges
- They sneak a guard out to cover their tracks
- A person is petrified in the streets that night
- The facility is specifically repurposed as storage for books and research papers
- Two door codes are recorded: portal room (IIII–IIUU) and hidden wall (IIII–IIIIIIII–UU–IIU)
- It’s late afternoon; Zander rejoins the party here after escorting Leonore (presumably Leonore of Alyss) — a small but concrete link between Zander and the mayoral race
- Street-level oripathy detail: Chrysalis was the first city where Malachite Forges’ new smelting technique was tested; the party walks through fine black dust in the air and is approached by a begging six-year-old with visible crystallization
- A reversal of Malachite’s dynamic is noted: in Chrysalis, other races blame dwarves for spreading the disease (dwarves aren’t the targets of prejudice in Malachite itself)
- Specific rolls: Wisdom 17 (Anne/Anne Marie, Zander’s player), Investigation 21 (Zander), Investigation 20 (Gwen)
- The hidden library’s books shift and shuffle their own text to hide their contents — you only get a book to “hover toward you” by thinking of what you need
- The galaxy-cover book ties Originium to both Chrysalis Labs and Malachite Forges, notes Rhine Labs was originally funded by Chrysalis Labs, and references goliaths protesting and a pattern of catastrophes tied to large Originium deposits
- Thrum (written “Thrym” in the raw note) is the one who mends/fixes the door afterward