The First Dungeon
Cultio, 11th day of Wither leaf
The First Dungeon
by Hubert Leofyr Vanelor (Radclyfe)
Today was interesting, a day full of firsts, the first time I saw a massive spider (did I mention I hate spiders) and the first time I've been knocked unconscious since my childhood.
After we entered the town we ran into one of the townsfolk who led us to the guard hired by the guild to watch the cave. They had mentioned there had been an earthquake localized to the town. The gatekeeper had instructed us that our mission was to clear the cave and make sure that there are no dangers left unchecked. Entering the cave we found that it was extremely dark, this was a problem for Trswynn as she didn't have any form of dark vision. Lighting some torches and exploring we found two shear walls and a path heading south, following the path south, we found a cavern with a hole in the ground. Unfortunately walking to close to the hole, it collapsed beneath our feet and the other three fell down. Thankfully they managed to get caught in some spider web tangles, in trying to run a successful rescue plan I had managed to severely damage my hands and get entangled myself, we finally got out of the tangles thanks to Millias' fire magic, at least I had managed to create us an escape route.
Upon reaching the ground we found ourselves in a cavern and after lighting some torches we found ourselves in a corridor near a room with books, after exploring the room Millia found a crystal spider. Heading south along the corridor we found three rooms through really old doors, full of old storage items and rotten food indicating whoever lived here have long gone, also we found nothing in these rooms. Heading north through the corridor we found a room to the right and as we entered we were attacked by large spiders. Upon a brief combat session, and almost being knocked unconscious, we emerged victoriously and found another crystal spider. Heading further north we walked past a room to the right towards more rooms where we found another crystal spider, though we found a lot of the pathways and routes had collapsed rubble sealing the way most likely due to the earthquake. We walked back down south to the room we walked past and found a room which had some plinths in the center of the room and a mural, depicting a type of spider people building an underground city delivering bounties to some large humanoid spider queen, on the wall. This mural was strange it was almost as if it was looking straight at us or like it was aiming some sort of enmity at us. Having a look around we also found another crystal spider, each a different colour. We noticed that four of the plinths had markings on them each corresponding to each crystal (each for earth, wind, fire and air). Placing the correct spider into the correct plinth opened up a hidden wall that had some books and other stuff inside. Having a once over of the facilities we found nothing else and decided to check the outside cave as well.
Back on the outside, we climbed up the closest ledge but found nothing, we headed north and climbed the other ledge where we found a large giant arachnid, the combat was difficult, it had managed to knock me unconscious thankfully Triswynn was able to heal me up a bit. We managed to kill the extra-large spider and found nothing else atop of the ledge. Having come to the conclusion that we had adequately checked the cave systems and cleared through all dangers, we decided to see the guard about informing the guild about completing our task. We headed back to the village to take our well-deserved rest.
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