Luthiel's Diary 2
General Summary
Ugh, you guys, today was, like, the actual WORST. EVER. It's taken me forever to even start writing this down 'cause just thinking about it makes me feel totally gross all over again, and there's just NO way to wash that feeling off right now. Seriously, I'd give anything for a nice, clean forest stream right now.
Okay, so I HAVE to write this down, or I'll totally forget all the horrible details, and I need them for the next time the other girls are complaining about how "hard" their lives are. Then I can be all, "Oh really? You have NO idea."
So, after we finally got some rest (thank goodness!), we went through the doorway past the lava cave. Everyone else said they felt a little weird going through, but I felt completely FREAKED OUT. Like, I just KNEW it was going to be a total disaster and we were all doomed and indescribable horrors were waiting for us. The others said they didn't feel that way, which just proves how, like, stunted and inferior they are.
Beyond the doorway? Totally anticlimactic. It was just this long, boring tunnel going down in a straight line. At first, it was pitch black, but then we started seeing these gross patches of dim light from fungi on the walls. There was no sign the Dark-kin had gone this way, but we were still talking to Sentinel, and she said they were still rushing downwards. But then, after like five or six hours, the spell wore off and we lost contact with her. We tried to get back in touch, but she was way too far away.
We walked for what felt like a million years - it's impossible to tell time in this endless darkness. We were all totally exhausted. It was SO slow going - even I had trouble seeing stuff, and the floor was all rough and uneven with random steps and drops and, like, sinkholes everywhere. Some of the others are completely blind, so they had to use lights, which meant we were probably visible from, like, miles away.
We finally had to stop 'cause everyone was completely wiped. We found this spot where the tunnel got a little wider, and the mage guy did his spell to make this totally impenetrable dome to protect us. It also kept us warm and dry, which was a HUGE relief after being so hot and then suddenly freezing and damp. While we were resting (the others slept in shifts while I, like, tranced), this giant slug thing slithered past us in the tunnel. It was SO disgusting, and in the morning (if it even WAS morning), its slime was still all over the floor in the direction we had to go. So we kept slipping and sliding as we tried to keep going.
We kept going super carefully, even though Sentinel was probably getting further and further ahead, 'cause the path was still so treacherous. After hours, we got to this side cave with THREE MORE of those giant slug things. My skin was totally crawling at how gross they were, just blindly sliding all over each other and eating the fungi on the walls. Ugh.
We decided to just sneak past them in the main hallway instead of fighting them, and we actually made it past before they even noticed us. Phew!
Hours later, we got to this place where the hallway split. The main one kept going straight, but a smaller one went off to the right. We had no clue which way the dark-kin had gone. The halfling and I went down the side hallway to see if we could find any signs they'd been there, but before we could find anything, this giant slug appeared out of a sinkhole in the main hallway and shot this stream of totally disgusting acid right at the big fighter guy, covering him in this vile-smelling goo. The halfling and I turned around to help, but then ANOTHER slug came sliding up from the side hallway and attacked us! I also got blasted with the gross acid. The smell was SO awful that I immediately passed out, so I have no idea what happened for the rest of the fight. They told me the mage dragged me away. When I woke up, there were three dead slugs and my hair and clothes were all sticky and smelled like total slug barf. Luckily, there was this little pool of water nearby. Normally, I'd be totally worried about what might be living in there, but right then, all I cared about was getting as much of this slime off me as humanly possible, like, NOW. Ignoring the totally gross stares from the others, I ripped off my nasty clothes and washed myself and my hair as best I could in the water, and rinsed my clothes too. The big fighter guy actually lent me his cloak to dry myself with, and he even tried not to stare too much. Finally, I was in a state where I could actually function again, but if I NEVER see another one of those slugs, I will die a happy girl. Seriously, are the dark-kin all messed up 'cause they live down here, or do they live down here 'cause it's already so messed up? Once the slugs were dead, we checked out the side tunnel, but it just ended in this huge sinkhole after a little while. So there was no way the dark-kin went that way, and we went back to the main hallway.
After hours and hours, we were exhausted again and found this narrow crack in the wall to camp in. The mage guy did his magic dome thing again, and I was SO glad because in the middle of the night, this HUGE spider crawled out of the crack we were camping in and across the wall above us and scurried off down the hallway. I'm, like, totally shivering just writing this. I thought the slugs were bad, but now I realize there are even WORSE things down here.
We kept going the next day, or night, or whatever it was. This endless darkness is seriously getting to me. I keep jumping at shadows and I'm starting to think I'll never feel the sun on my face again. If I'm down here much longer, I can totally see myself turning into a dark-kin myself. Ugh.
Anyway, when the mage guy did his spell to connect all our minds, we could tell there was someone else in our group! Someone who wasn't supposed to be there, hearing our thoughts! The mage, like, challenged him, and it just laughed at us and was all smug about having power over us, so the mage dropped the spell. Now we have to talk in the totally barbaric human language these people use. Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse.
So we're still marching down into the dark when suddenly, as we're going around this massive sinkhole, a bunch of dark-kin just step into view! The mage and the big fighter guy both blast them with fireballs, but they blast us back, and then the BIGGEST slug you have EVER seen crawls out of the sinkhole! I ran forward to get away from it - dark-kin are gross, but not nearly as gross as a giant GIANT slug - but then another blast from the dark-kin knocked me out AGAIN. I woke up while the dark-kin were dragging me away, but then the others totally took out all the dark kin, even though they tried to run in the dark. The butch priestess did some spell that let her see through their magical darkness, and she and the halfling chased them down. The drow leader had this magical sword that I totally snagged 'cause I'm sure Sentinel will want hers back eventually. I'm not totally sure if it goes with the rest of my look, but maybe I need a bit of a makeover? I can totally see myself as this edgy dark avenger, like, penetrating to the heart of the enemy's place to get revenge for my lost people. I bet I could totally pull that look off, and it would totally shock everyone back home if I came back all dark and brooding. Hmm.
Report Date
11 Sep 2024
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