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[Plane Sailing]

The Sunless Citadel

In Oakhurst, there was news of an earlier expedition to a chasm in which the Sunless Citadel lay - yet none had returned. Furthermore, some remembered an old witch who had travelled that way many years ago, and wondered if her hand was behind some of the unnatural goings on.

On Markday the adventurers set off to the chasm, and lowered themselves down on ropes. Miranda was jumped by a couple of dire rats which wounded her before they were dispatched, and threatened her life with filth fever… not for the last time either. Stealthily moving into the darkness, they came to the entranceway to the citadel, where Miranda cunningly detected the spring loaded trapdoor in a precipitous fashion! Assailed by an imprisoned dire rat in the depths of the pit, she was saved by Graculous who leapt in and swiftly dispatched the rat.

Investigating with more caution, they found a sealed door covered with dragon motifs which they couldn’t pass, and a corridor with a metal water cylinder. They tried for some time to prise out the bung in the top of the cylinder but happily without success. Moving further into the citadel they came across a whimpering bundle of rags, which seemed to contain a heavily scarred kobold named Meepo.

Blodwyn, ever the diplomat, managed to calm the frightened chap who seemed to have lost something important. Meepo agreed to introduce them to “the great leader” who knew the answer to all their questions.

to be continued...