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Fri 8th Apr 2022 04:24

Dragons and Dungeons

by Jordis Drianska

While within the new laboratory orb working on pronunciation for exiting the others left Algernon with instructions on how to find him once more should we ever find ourselves in some place called the Shadowfell and apparently mentioned his dislike of some "Prince of Punctuality" Rom'Gol'Ghok and requested we pass along his disdain. Heading back to the downed bridge back within the mines we found odd unrecognizable runes on a downed structure with some glowy dust which has been scooped up for later. Once through here we reached a very confusing constantly winding mess these dwarves apparently call a city. Khaggy realised it was the lost city of Dhogarhum, which begs the question how do dwarves keep losing track of cities but I guess the learning will be just not to give them anything I'm not prepared to have "misplaced".
More walking and drawing of the map ensued before eventually finding our way to a throne room for one "Bhaznulim the Earthsunderer first king of Dhogarhum" with quite a tall throne. While an interesting archaeological find there wasn't much good here, finding a library we discovered an odd orb that would later be found to have a Djinni in it - they do not grant wishes as well as stories would lead me to believe. Some book about arcane smelting or other was also found but handing that off to Khaggy to deal with seems best hopefully he can keep track of it..
Finally seeing some light for an exit we are briefly relieved before spotting a dragon which turned out to actually be 3. The Djinni orb helped deal with one fairly well, we unfortunately lost Broldrig to the fighting I fear somewhat for our expedition at the rate we're losing dwarves. Polis nearly perished but was saved by Orimnok and Khaggy and Ezekiel was having a rough go of it as well.