Journal date: who gives a shit, I lost track, 2425 - Chapter 3 - Session 6 - Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun

Amani started doing creepy Amani things collecting bodies and preserving them. What on Taeavor does she plan on doing with them. You know what never mind I don't want to know. The less I know the better!
Looking over the map Bruin thinks he found a path or two through the area that would allow us to travel pretty stealthily and avoid notice.
When Amani came back from her corpse project she and Z'ed took a closer look at the rods that the syndicate was using and discovered they were being used to anchor and stabilize the tear in the vail between the planes that has become paper thin in this area while the drilling was going on.
After looking over all the stuff we gathered up we decided to press on.
As we started off I saw Odra pick up a piece of parchment and she appeared slightly shaken and quickly passed the paper to Z'ed and walked off on her own. What could have shaken Odra like that? Z'ed followed her shortly after reading the paper herself.
I later found out that the note mentioned something about a Hydra protocol or something about stitching demonic souls or entities to draconic hosts.
After Z'ed left after Odra, Amani and Bruin also trailed off to follow them.
They all came back shortly after and gave Klackers and I the low down about what they found out on the note. We could either go back to town to inform the resistance or push on and try to stop these crazy experiments.
After some deliberations we decided to move deeper into the fae woods.
We came across some weird fungal glass on the ground just thick with arcane aura and started cautiously making our way to the center to investigate some pilon in the center of this area of growth. Amani found out quickly that it was sharp and slick. Klackers slowly made his way to the object and Odra was able to plot out a path that allowed me to move up to it safely. No sooner did I reach it that we were buffeted by a sonic blast from the thing. Z'ed used a featherstep stone and made it to us with no issue whatsoever. Between Amani, Klackers, and myself we were able to disable the device. While disassembling the devise I also found inside another heartshard capacitor. Upon powering down a hologram of scientist popped up screaming something about this fae queen we keep hearing about. I retrieved the heartshard from the device and the glass fungus faded away and we moved on.
We continued on until we noticed that familiar smell of syndicate machinery burning oil. In a small clearing we see a syndicate encampment with some just hanging out around a fire. Doesn't look like they have seen or noticed us at all. Its almost too calm. Amani feels like some weird magicy stuff is going on down there. We slowly approach and notice the campfire is an unnatural purple hew instead of the warm red and orange of usual fire. As we get closer every single guard around the fire in synchronized unison stand up and turn to us offering us a drink. They all had weird masks covering their faces. Very creepy and ominous. Bruin the drunk who cant refuse a drink approached to get a look into the cups. I take a look into the cup and it looks like some biproduct from the drilling was distilled into some funky wine. I knock the first cup out of Bruins hands and as soon as it hit the ground another cup is offered to Bruin who takes it and eagerly drinks it despite my suggestion to drop it. Z'ed also took a cup and downed it before we could stop them both. Bruin seemed unfazed but Z'ed looked high as a kite and confused as to what was going on around her. She started yelling something about the Hollow Queen like she was here with us but she wasn't. She quickly came to her senses though just as Amani tried to cut ofe of the crazy masks off one of one of the guards at which point the vines around the mask became taught and they all immediately became hostile towards us. I immediately threw an alchemist fire at the back line and lit a couple on fire. 2 of the beings advanced on Odra swinging wildly at her. She shoved them off her and pressed them swinging her sword with a vengeance. There were like mindless husks of whoever they previously were. We found out that Z'ed's void magic healed these creatures rather than hurt them. But we were still able to quickly dispatched them with bonks, claws, slashes, scary Z'ed magic and undead thralls. It was like an undead mortal kombat. Undead vs undead. I hit a perfectly placed alchemist fire preceded by a bottled lightning to just crowd control the hell out of them. As they fell the masks fell from their faces and their bodies stated to instantly disintegrate to mulch and dust.
This was a Syndicate caravan we found a journal with some starteling passage "The Queen is not just reclaiming the woods; she is building a court. She told me the Syndicate's 'Aeternal' process is flawed because it lacks 'heart.' She needs nobles of high blood to fill the seats." This went from bad to worse. Whatever she is doing its bigger than we thought. . .