Rosia Lightfoot's Journal - Part 1

We journeyed to Tharl-Fellen and were employed by the wizard Parademius to go into the caverns under the StoneSea mountains to seek out the evil magician Longtail. Parademius gave us very little information, but he did give us three glowing balls to light our way. When we arrived at the entrance to the caverns we found the long dead body of a giant man, possibly a Titan. There was nothing of interest on his body, apart from some notes about his brother who had gone on before him. Perhaps we'll meet him one day?

Entering through a crack in the ground, caused by the recent earthquakes, we found a room with two doors. Each door had a field of some type of magical darkness behind it, maybe the work of Longtail? We discovered that what went through could not come back. We went in anyway, but now we are trapped in the dungeon!

Behind the doors was another room, with 3 sorry-looking orcs in it. We questioned them, but they were too full of despair to give us much information. Apparently they had been wandering these strange halls for ages. Curbag was so disgusted with the orcs for giving up that he provoked them into a fight, and we were forced to slay them all. I took no part in this pitiless massacre, and went to explore the rest of the room.

There were 4 doors in the room, 2 to the north and 2 to the east. I checked the northern doors for traps and managed to set off some sort of fire spell. Most of it missed me, but I was burnt on my arm. We went north, one door had an empty room behind it, the other had a room filled with moldy sacks and stuff. Curbag managed to get covered in a cloud of spores, but I think he's ok. We continued north, past rotten barrels and then east to a junction. It look suspicious so I moved forwards to check for traps, but in doing so set one off. A jet of acid came at me, I jumped clear but was burnt on my legs. I tried to locate the mechanism for setting off the trap, but only succeeded in setting it off again...

We decided to go back, and in doing so Oren noticed a secret door in the moldy store room. We found a non-moldy store room, full of tools. A door to the north led to the area with the acid trap. We took some tools (hammers and chisels to jam doors with) and then spent the night in the relative safety of this secret room.