Faced with the
guards sacrificing four helpless slaves to summon Maelrawn the
Tentacular, we decided it was probably in our best interest to try
and save the world this one time. Although as usual we seemed to mess
it up. We managed to kill a few of the guards, but there simply were
too many of them and they were too spread out for us to take them out
quickly,and they began to kill their sacrifices much to Meda's
dismay. Plus it seemed that every time we killed one of the guards,
their blood only added to the power of whatever accursed ritual they
were trying to enact. On top of that, the worker fish people's
refusal to do anything to save themselves, despite Meda's constant
calls to action, meant that we could only save about half of the
workers that had been herded into the temple. All during this of
course the blood continued to flow in a magical fashion down the
steps of the chamber towards the central pit. When the last of the
guards had been knocked out the workers thanked us and said
cryptically that “Azalanti blood would show us the way” before
buggering off to do whatever.
As we had no
realistic way to stop the blood, we decided to hide outside the
chamber and see what happened. When blood ran from all four corners
into the pit it glowed bright red and the previously terraced slope
of the pit became a steep slope. And then it continued to....do
nothing. For quite some time as a matter of fact. While everyone else
was rather confused by this intense bout of non-activity I found some
sheets of paper on the ground. Reading through them I concluded we
were supposed to go down the pit and fight whatever was down there.
So like an idiot I charged straight into the pit and dove into the
center, plummeting to the confusion and irritation of my comrades.
This proved to be a rather good idea, though, as I landed safely in a
pool of water at the bottom of the pit. Well, mostly safely. There
were a few eels at the bottom of the pit but with a few lucky strikes
I was able to kill them and keep from becoming a moray's lunch. My
comrades soon joined me and we discovered a passage to one side that
lead out of the pool. Eventually we came to an intersection. To our
left was a passage blocked entirely by a cave-in of rocks. I
investigated the rocks, seeing if there was any way around, only to
get attacked by an ooze that was hiding within them. Fortunately we
were able to kill the ooze quickly and proceeded down the passage to
the right. We soon came upon another intersection and heard cries of
help coming from the passage to our right. We soon came into a
chamber in which contained several wounded fish people. Those that
were still conscious asked for our help, and Whitmore was able to
provide some first aid to prevent their unconscious friends from
bleeding out. We demanded to know what exactly was down here in the
caves and the fish people gave vague answers about walls and ceilings
and monsters in water. These statements turned out to be correct
later on, but their ambiguity made it extremely possible for them to
be accurate. We decided to press onward, ignoring their desperate
cries for additional assistance. Freeloading bastards.
As we proceeded
along the tunnel it seemed to follow a rather linear path. There was
the occasional chamber off to one side, but they were all dead ends
and we were left with no choice but to continue deeper into the
cavern. We did encounter a cave-in that almost killed Soma and Meda,
but fortunately Whitmore and I were able to pull them from the rubble
in time. We also encountered two more of those gods-damned cloakers
again, which was a little tricky, but fortunately not as bad as last
time. And we managed to find a really sweet spear which will give a
little righteous smack-down on any aberrations we encounter in the
future. Soma also managed to use an earth elemental to retrieve a gem
that will summon a fire demon, and an urn containing some potentially
useful salves, bypassing whatever nastiness was waiting for us in the
other chambers. Faced with an out and out showdown with Maelrawn and
Soma running low on spells, we decided to rest for the “night”
and climbed up Soma's rope into our extradimensional campsite. With
our new items we may be able to tackle whatever the hell's underneath
this island, but it's definitely going to be a challenge.
- Krinsblag
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