Endur
First Post
The party rides in two rail cars, one after another, along the southwest track.
Working the pump handle of the cart is a move-equivalent action that moves the cart over level terrain at a speed of twenty, up an incline at a speed of 10, and down an incline at a speed of forty. Using the brake is a move equivalent action that slows the cart by 10 feet. Four medium sized people can fit in a cart comfortably.
After traveling 150 feet south, the party passes through a cavern where a couple of strange creatures are burning their way through stone. The party continues on past the strange creatures.
The party sees one two tunnels that lead east towards the other rail track. The party sees a passage that goes to the west. The tracks then begin to go up a rise.
After the party travels about 600 feet south along a winding path, the party then enters a large cavern where the tracks pass through the air over a pit. Down below in the pit, the other tracks cross beneath the party.
After another fifty feet, the tracks enter a large room. The cart track curves through this chamber. To the south, a wooden ramp slowly elevates the track at about a 15 degree angle. The wooden incline carries the track higher and higher above the floor of the high-ceilinged stone passage it runs through. The ceiling in this chamber and the passage to the south is fifty feet high.
After traveling another five hundred feet (and past a large opening to the west), the party arrives at the end of the tracks. A wooden platform lies at the end of the track. It stands forty feet high. A crank driven conveyor belt is on the eastern side of the platform, with small scooplike attachments suggesting that it was used to convey materials from the floor of the cave to the top of the platform.
Raner believes that this whole area has been extensively mined, but not in the last twenty years.
Det and Kef inform the party that this is the route to the Fire Bridge complex. The Fire Bridge leads across the Stalagos (the lake in the middle of the mountain) and is ruled by the insidiously evil Demon D'Gran, who owes allegiance to the Fire Temple.
Det and Kef lead the party out a side passage past an underground river, past a few side caverns that smell badly, through a fungi forest, and into a cave where a large dead creature is found.
A large corpse lies in this cave, desiccated and maggot ridden. Its black, armor plated skin and long claws are all that remains of its humanoid form. Its head has been removed. The cave is otherwise bare. A sour smell lingers in the air and a few insects buzz around the room. The corpse lies nearest hte east exit.
Det and Kef tell the party that this is the boundary of the forces under D'Gran's leadership.
Kerwyn sneaks forward invisibly and scouts further.
The central portion of the next cave is a pit about ten feet across and six feet deep full of animal bones and dung. The western end of the room has two patches of uprooted, dead fungus mashed into what appears to be large beds or nests. Two tall, muscular humanoid creatures stand near the pit, their scaly greenish hides scarred and pocked from many battles. (Room 36 on the map).
Kerwyn goes to sneak past the large green humanoids when one of them starts sniffing and says something that sounds like "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum".
Kerwyn quickly retreats from the humanoids and returns to the party. The last he saw of the humanoids, both were sniffing the air with their long noses.
Working the pump handle of the cart is a move-equivalent action that moves the cart over level terrain at a speed of twenty, up an incline at a speed of 10, and down an incline at a speed of forty. Using the brake is a move equivalent action that slows the cart by 10 feet. Four medium sized people can fit in a cart comfortably.
After traveling 150 feet south, the party passes through a cavern where a couple of strange creatures are burning their way through stone. The party continues on past the strange creatures.
The party sees one two tunnels that lead east towards the other rail track. The party sees a passage that goes to the west. The tracks then begin to go up a rise.
After the party travels about 600 feet south along a winding path, the party then enters a large cavern where the tracks pass through the air over a pit. Down below in the pit, the other tracks cross beneath the party.
After another fifty feet, the tracks enter a large room. The cart track curves through this chamber. To the south, a wooden ramp slowly elevates the track at about a 15 degree angle. The wooden incline carries the track higher and higher above the floor of the high-ceilinged stone passage it runs through. The ceiling in this chamber and the passage to the south is fifty feet high.
After traveling another five hundred feet (and past a large opening to the west), the party arrives at the end of the tracks. A wooden platform lies at the end of the track. It stands forty feet high. A crank driven conveyor belt is on the eastern side of the platform, with small scooplike attachments suggesting that it was used to convey materials from the floor of the cave to the top of the platform.
Raner believes that this whole area has been extensively mined, but not in the last twenty years.
Det and Kef inform the party that this is the route to the Fire Bridge complex. The Fire Bridge leads across the Stalagos (the lake in the middle of the mountain) and is ruled by the insidiously evil Demon D'Gran, who owes allegiance to the Fire Temple.
Det and Kef lead the party out a side passage past an underground river, past a few side caverns that smell badly, through a fungi forest, and into a cave where a large dead creature is found.
A large corpse lies in this cave, desiccated and maggot ridden. Its black, armor plated skin and long claws are all that remains of its humanoid form. Its head has been removed. The cave is otherwise bare. A sour smell lingers in the air and a few insects buzz around the room. The corpse lies nearest hte east exit.
Det and Kef tell the party that this is the boundary of the forces under D'Gran's leadership.
Kerwyn sneaks forward invisibly and scouts further.
The central portion of the next cave is a pit about ten feet across and six feet deep full of animal bones and dung. The western end of the room has two patches of uprooted, dead fungus mashed into what appears to be large beds or nests. Two tall, muscular humanoid creatures stand near the pit, their scaly greenish hides scarred and pocked from many battles. (Room 36 on the map).
Kerwyn goes to sneak past the large green humanoids when one of them starts sniffing and says something that sounds like "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum".
Kerwyn quickly retreats from the humanoids and returns to the party. The last he saw of the humanoids, both were sniffing the air with their long noses.
