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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 4650640" data-attributes="member: 301">Here There Be Monsters Part 2 (Garnham)From the journal of K. Garnham, Seeker translated from the Valossan  There was a time, not long ago, when I knew the name, the face and basic biography of every person that I'd killed; the abomination Alden, Mathias Carruthers and Damned Barker.  Now I have trouble remembering all of their species.  We continue to make our way to Farshore from the other end of the Isle of Dread.  The old woman's advice on using the mountain passage turned out to be good.  Five or six miles of very straight tunnel saw us through without too much trouble.  Elyosha's new pet got nervous part way through, as if something were following us.  We took precautions, but didn't encounter anything until we got to nearly the end.  We finally came to a carved stone room with what appeared to be a stone throne towards the middle.  On it was a human skeleton pinned to the solid rock by a longspear.  We travelled further finding two large bridges leading across a chasm to a pair of large earthern doors.  Our combined strength was unable to budge them so Elyosha used her magic to turn the stone around the doors into clay.  That was messy, but effective.  We then came upon some sort of burial hall.  Multiple dessicated corpses were placed into alcoves along the path.  At the entrance was a statue that Maggie identified as Mictalantechtihi- the Ohlman god of the undead.  A mummy fight ensued.  While searching the area after the fight we came across a hidden door, behind which was the tomb of an Ohlman priest.  There was a trap, but it was avoided.  Maggie and Elyosha had concerns about desecrating the grave,   In the fight with the mummies Maggie had turned one.  It had run in the other direction, bolting into rooms we hadn't explored yet.  We followed it's trail and saw no sign of it.  I scouted ahead.  The final room seemed, initially, to be empty.  A plain space with water pooled into one of the corners.  As I approached the water an amophous pseudopod reached out and tried to grab me.  Fortunately it missed.  I pulled back.  Medvedya charged the blob and Dexter followed the bear.  Two minutes later the blob is dead, Dexter is naked and Maggie is telling him that he should embrace his body.  Dexter had a counteroffer.  A pulley system we had found in the room before the one with the blob opened the exterior doors.  As an aside I would like to point out the sophistication of the Ohlman society that dug this place into the mountain.  Tunneling that many, relatively straight, miles through that much mountain is a feat that I would normally only associate with Dwarven engineering.  The trap I bypassed and the mechanism for opening the exterior door were efficiently made and managed to survive the centuries while maintaining their functionality.  The open air was welcome to us all.  Especially Captain Venkalie who didn't take to underground travel that well.    The doors led out to open beach.  A man-made path led up and skirted the mountains and sea.  We travelled along the path for some time and rested.  The next day the path ran along a sheer cliff face.  As we passed rocks came tumbling down upon us.  Among the rocks were several human skulls.  I assumed they were dropped on us by the servants of the four-eyed being that we had been warned about.  I wrote my innermost feelings about Four-eyes on one of the skulls and threw it over the cliff.  I sincerely hope that Four-eyes has a reproductive system, otherwise it may not understand my heartfelt message.  Nothing else happened that day.  The next morning we awoke to find a dozen bird carcasses had been crucified Ohlman style and left at the edge of our camp.  Elyosha and Urol could find no trace of anyone putting them there.  I used the wood of the bird crucifixes to repeat my message to Four-eyes.  On the road that day we were attacked by a pack of gargoyles.  Gargoyles with Ohlman symbols on their stony flesh.    Avner was knocked off the edge by one of them, but we managed to save him before he drowned.  The next day we were also attacked.  This time one of the pack stood out from the others.  He wore a stone crown and bracers.  Know Dexter wears a stone crown and bracers.  We lost Barnaby in that attack.  We made further progress and had a peaceful night.  The next day we came to a decision.  The path passed open jungle.  There was a man-made trail.  Avner was set on re-entering the jungle, but the path we were on seemed safer.  Elyosha spoke to some birds and learned that the path we were on came to an end.  Maggie asked for divine guidance and was told that the jungle trail wasn't a good idea.  We followed the path to confirm the bird's story.  When we came to the end of the trail we saw an Ohlman man on the edge of a cliff.  He stabbed himself and plummetted to his certain doom.  Or so it seemed.  Elyosha detected a hint of illusion magic in the area.  Seeing no way to continue forward, we turned back and went along the jungle trail.  Elyosha became an eagle and scouted ahead.  Over the next two days we weren't attacked by anything significant.    A fog descended upon us and the animals we passed grew increasingly odd looking and miscolored.  Urol caught some lizards and tried to make them into a stew with some wild herbs, but the meat was tainted and the spices held no flavor.  Finally we made it to some ruins.  Ohlman ruins if I have the architecture down.  There was a corpse tied to a wooden X in the middle of all this.  As we approached the corpse spoke to us, welcomed us, told us that we would never leave this place.  Maggie is having a word with it right now and I'm taking a moment to get this up to date before the next round of violence.  I miss Lavinia so much.</blockquote>

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