We spent all of today searching out this remarkably homey cave. It really is more of an underground lair than your run-of-the-mill dank and mossy cave. It’s just a little creepy that we’ve been down here for 2 days now and have only encountered a handful of enemies. Makes me nervous – like we’re walking into a trap or something. We’ve made camp in one of the Murder Rooms – ironically, this seems to be the safest place to spend the night.
Battle Records: Lillay = 1 kill (zombie).
Notable Quotes: John: “I could really go for a fancy tickling.” Scott: “From now on, I’m partying…all the time.” John: “Whoever’s on guard needs to be sipping wine with an extended pinky.”
Day 2162 (the next day)
Pressing on…deeper and deeper into the recesses of this place. We found a dormitory of sorts with rows and rows of bunk beds. Caradryan found a scrap of paper with “Having difficulty learning new spells” written on it in Magical. There were private bedrooms across the hall from the dormitory. In one, we found a medical book, or at least that’s what it looks like. We’ve made our camp for the night in another cleared Murder Room across from large, ornately carved double doors. We know there is at least one man and one skeleton behind those doors, but we’re waiting until morning to find out what else.
Battle Records: Lillay = 2 kills (skeletons). Ilmarian = 2 kills (skeletons). Growlyn = 5 kills (skeletons). Esch = 1 kill (skeleton).
Notable Quotes:
Norm: “Okay, don’t poke me in the ass with stuff.”
Hudson: ::poke::
Norm: “Okay, if you poke me again, I’m dropping my pants!”
Hudson: ::poke::
Norm: ::turns around::
Hudson: “It wasn’t a poke! It was a touch!”
Everyone: “Aaaarrrggghhh!”
Norm: “The Crevice of the Damned!”
Day 2163 (the next day)
We kept a watch throughout the night, mostly aimed at that mysterious door and no one reported any changes. What else is an adventuring party to do other than charge right in? It wasn’t a pretty sight: looked to be about 80 or so skeletons and zombies lying in wait for us and another 60 or so humans behind them, all robed and based on previous discoveries they appeared to be casters or apprentices. Half of our party ran again out of fear of the undead creatures. Caradryan, Ilmarian, Jezeg, Arvin, Vincent, Esch, Vladimir, and I reformed as best we could to hold some sort of line – all the while hoping the rest of them would come to their senses sooner rather than later. We had to stave off the skeleton and zombie horde by ourselves and withstand the fireball barrage that the casters were raining down on us. Growlyn was the first to come back – he opened the second door and charged in with Roustov and Vladimir. The rest came trickling in and eviscerated the Evil before us and lived to see another day. Only two people are down for the count. Vincent’s got a broken leg and Caradryan says he’ll be down for 8 weeks. Roustov’s got a shattered arm. We’re holed up in our secured Murder Room again tonight.
Battle Records: Caradryan = 13 kills. Nadon = 13 kills. Lillay = 30 kills, -1 Fate Point. Ilmarian = 6 kills. Nivak = 3 kills. Jezeg = 15 kills. Growlyn = 14 kills (including the Mummy). Arvin = 16 kills. Axtrica = 10 kills (including the Caster Leader by chopping his arm off), High Damage Kill at 33 points. Vincent = 13 kills. Esch = 5 kills. Vladimir = 5 kills. Natasha = 2 kills. Baroushki = 1 kill. Roustov = 0 kills.