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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mewness" data-source="post: 5913569" data-attributes="member: 14889">The adventurers lower a rope into the hole revealed by the trapdoor. Kane’s light cantrip reveals what appears to be a natural cave complex below.Leaving Pezock still tinkering with the lighthouse, the group climbs down into the cave. There is no sound except for trickling water, and, more distant, the ocean. Nevertheless it is clear from the bones strewn about that something is living--or at least eating--down here. From the first cave, the party follows passages through a number of irregular caverns. An underground stream runs through one, and the clear water is wonderfully refreshing after slogging along steamy jungle paths for hours in order to fight a camp full of cannibals. Another passage leads to a vast cavern that is open to the sea. It is mostly flooded, as the tide is high.Going through another passage, the group arrives in a cave with a pool of stagnant water containing various detritus. Lying against a wall, well away from the pool, is a large piece of leather, somewhat decayed, that was probably once some sort of cloak. Scratched onto its surface is writing, in Allarian.[sblock=Scratched onto the leather]”I am Alizandru Kovack, once captain of the good ship Jenivere, later her destroyer. I am a betrayer and a murderer. That I did these things while in thrall to a demon in human form cannot excuse me; for had I the wisdom to see the strangeness in her from the start, I might later have found the strength to resist her magic. I poisoned my crew and my passengers at her behest; Alton, the one person who did not eat that last meal, the one man who might have saved so many others’ lives, I ran through with my sword. Now Ieana has discarded me. I belong to someone else, I know not who, but even now I undergo a terrible transformation inside and out. Soon, there will be nothing of me left.”In my final moments, I despair. Not at my own prospects, which are no worse than I deserve, but that Ieana still lives. She has gone to Red Mountain, to the east. What she wants I do not know, but it has been her purpose all along, and it cannot be to the good. O Reader, slay her if you can, and fear her if you cannot! And if you be a soul whose mercy extends to the very least deserving, find what I have become and destroy me. I am most truly sorry for the lives I have taken. While yet I have a mind, I pray; while I have tears, I weep.”[/sblock]The passage that leads out of this room has a worked finish, unlike the others.</blockquote>

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