Journey begins 4 Rolaxin 864
I figure it's been a while, perhaps never, since I've sent one of these so here goes.
Life, Death and I headed to the root tunnel beneath then hollowed out tree west of the entrance to Heathwell. Before traveling in, we found a small circle with what seemed to be teeth inside carved into the rootway. We found glowing crystals and mushrooms as we walked through and it never truly seemed a proper cave. Life and Death gathered some crystal shards and mushrooms. I believe they will be sent back for as a sample for investigation. We traveled for a while after this and our current path continued becoming quite small but we were met with a forking path with 4 branches. At this point, the rootways became more gnarled and twisted. We decided our passage via game of chance and took the right most route. As we passed through and looked for a spot to mark our passage, we found just a circle carved by what seemed to be the same hand. We continued to what seemed to seemed to be an intersection ( a three way fork of right, left and straight). We continued along the straight path until a cavern containing six paths in and out. Meet a pair of purple-pale dwarves with white beards. I proceeded to communicate with these fellows the only way I know how, dice. We build a sort of report, disregarding the language barrier, and they leave us be. Life finds a locked storeroom among some out of place plants and Death picked the lock. Marked outside of the storeroom, we found a circle with what seems to be an eye with a line drawn through the center. We find some weapons in disrepair as well as an interesting potion that grants vision within darkness. We leave the way we came and come back to the three way intersection. We take the path we believe would take us back to the cave but we ended up in front of 3 tunnels leading out from our entrance. We continued along until we hit another intersection and encountered a group of sentient mushrooms which were non-threatening. They shook some spores loose after picking up what seemed to be their young and thanked Life for not interfering. We were then telepathically bonded. We continued along the north middle path until we looped back. We loop through the southern tunnels until we looped back to the 8 way intersection. We take the most horizontal tunnel and continue through for some time until we hear voices. We listen before we continue, thinking we hear several voices as they echo down the tunnel. From what I could tell, there are roughly three voices. We come across what seem to be purple skinned elves. They seem non hostile if not somewhat threatening and cautious. There was a relatively fresh corpse in the room as well. We talk it over and decide these are Drow worshipers of Lloth. We leave back to the spider shaped chamber and discuss. We decide to continue for the time being along the northwest tunnel and continue past 2 intersections. As we continue, the other plant life begins to disappear and the glowing mushrooms become more abundant. There seem to be hallucinogenic spores in the air, identified by Life. Continue along the tunnel to a cavern covered in mushrooms with a larger mushroom with a chest in front of it. There was a corpse draped across it. Life keeps watch while Death and I make our way towards the chest. We trip on a mushroom and we all fall into a hallucinogenic trip. We back up and come down and Death makes another pass at the chest. He seems to pull a hat out but both Life and Death swear that I don't know what I see. Must've been a side effect. We double back across and follow another tunnel further. We tire and make camp. We all have terrible hallucinogenic nightmares. Death appears as myself to me but with purple, longer hair. WE continue our rest and then back track until we go back to the Drow and murder them. We find a staff that seems interesting and then return to the middle most path. We head down for a while until we find an intentionally made cavern. Life seems to know whats happening but I have no clue. It seems to continue and so we head forward. As we continue down the tunnel, we hear a cacophony of voices, seemingly in the same language of the pale dwarves. Death sneaks into the cavern and discovers gods know what. He tells us that there are more pale dwarves and they seem to be making a village of sorts. We head back and over to the right most path and find a barrier similar to the bridge guarded by the stone sentry. We backtrack out of the tunnel and head northeast towards the place of power we had previously discovered. Once I have satisfied Life and Death, we head back to Heathwell. And thus, I leave you, my lady, with a poem.
What if you slept?
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
and what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then
Journey ended 8 Rolaxin 864
Warm Regards,
Cassick Talbot, guide to those who can see.