The Boomstone Core has been returned—briefly—and now the guilds of Durnhollow are at each other’s throats. The Rune-Smiths claim ancestral right to all mysterious forge relics. The Hammerheart Engineers insist they filed a “General Gizmo Claim” six months ago. The argument escalates into a shouting match, then a tool-throwing skirmish in the East Forge Hall. You’re hired not to pick a side—but to survive the chaos, calm the clans, and maybe convince them not to repurpose the public mail chute into a long-range cannon. Again.

Trying to study the Boomstone Core safely, the Hammerhearts dig up an old golem chassis to act as a containment supervisor. Unfortunately, they reactivate it before installing the new logic crystal. Now Clankus—designated "Boomtown Safety Officer, Class IV"—is on the loose with a clipboard, a megaphone, and a list of outdated safety codes. Clankus is citing miners for “reckless walking,” condemning buildings for “improper chimney stance,” and has welded shut the cafeteria because “snack time exceeded mandated cheerfulness limits.” Someone needs to reason with him before he declares martial order over all of Durnhollow.

The Durnhollow Council has had enough. After three Core-related incidents (and one "mechanically accelerated soup spill"), they’ve issued an emergency ordinance: all non-standard mechanical devices must be registered, inspected, and approved—immediately. This has triggered a city-wide paperwork panic. Inventors are rioting over form formatting. Guilds are lobbying to have their devices declared “naturally occurring.” One dwarf has filed a permit to regulate other permits. And you’ve been hired to help restore order—or at least keep the city from turning the Permit Office into a trebuchet.

The Boomstone Core is gone. Again. This time, it wasn’t an accident—it was “borrowed” by a delegation from the Junkspire during a completely unauthorized “friendship visit.” Goblin engineers have hooked it into a massive, semi-operational mechanical duck intended for urban parcel delivery. The duck is currently walking—slowly—toward Durnhollow. You’re dispatched to the Junkspire to retrieve the Core, negotiate with the Goblin Tinker Guild (if they’ll sit still long enough), and prevent Boomtown from being “upgraded” by quacking automatons.

Peace talks between Durnhollow and the Junkspire were going surprisingly well—until someone activated “Demonstration Mode” on the mechanical duck. It launched a confetti cannon, triggered a flashing light parade, and stomped through the perimeter fence. Now, a full-blown skirmish has broken out across the scaffolds, lifts, and catwalks between the two cities. You’re tasked with protecting the Boomstone Core, calming the factions, and preventing the situation from escalating into a full-scale gear-and-grease war. Bonus objective: disable the duck. Again.

After the skirmish, the Boomstone Core has grown unusually quiet. That’s the first warning sign. The second? It begins hovering in place and rotating slowly, projecting strange holographic runes into the air and rearranging every metal object in the room into spirals. When returned to the Durnhollow Central Forge, the Core activates a hidden mechanism beneath the forge floor—revealing a sealed door, humming with long-dormant energy. What it unlocks is not a weapon, but a workshop: a forgotten chamber designed for collaboration between dwarves, gnomes, goblins, and constructs. The Core was never meant to destroy. It was meant to build—and it’s ready to begin.

The Boomstone Core has completed its final sequence. The forge beneath Durnhollow is no longer dormant—it’s fully awakened, shifting gears and platforms into a configuration unseen in any known schematic. A chamber opens at its center—mechanical, organic, alive. But you are not alone. A rogue invention, pieced together from lost designs and misread instructions, has absorbed part of the Core’s resonance. It believes its purpose is to “perfect” the city—by replacing every building, street, and citizen with something more efficient. It’s not malicious. It’s just terribly helpful. You must rally friends, guilds, goblins, golems, and Clankus to stop the Overfixer before it “upgrades” Boomtown into a city no one recognizes.