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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lars Frehse" data-source="post: 275155" data-attributes="member: 1674">Free your mind part 1Free your mindIt was a pleasant summerday as the adventurers left Lave. The sun was shining, the sky was blue and there were enough small streams and lakes along the way to refresh from the heat. In the evenings, they stayed in small inns along the road to Mullis Town and enjoyed Veshian songs, food and hospitality.After a few days, they had covered about half the way between Lave and Mullis Town, and their horses got nervous and the more the men pressed their steeds to ride on, the more they balked. Clearly, they didn’t want to ride the road any further.So, the heroes dismounted, and now they noticed a faint vibration in the ground. It almost felt like something was humming in the earth. And after looking around for a while, they noticed something even more peculiar: The air around them was distorted.The distortion looked like heatwaves on a hot day on a road, but there was a pattern to the flimmering air. It looked as if a giant net made of air was covering everything in sight.Torn climbed up a tree, and looking at the “net” from above, he saw that it seemed to have the form of a vast, circular spiderweb. And the center of it seemed to be further along the road in the direction they were heading to.After getting back to his friends, he told them about what he had seen. There was a short discussion whether they should circle around the strange phenomenom or go to the center to investigate it further. After all, no one of them had ever heard of anything like it, and it was on the way, anyway. On the other hand, it could also mean danger, here in the sparely populated hilllands of northern Vesh.They debated for a while, as their mounts were nervously waiting for their masters’ decision, and eventually, curiosity got the better of them, and they left all their mounts but the apparently fearless horserat, behind.After two hours, as the sun was setting, they reached the source of the vibration and the net. By now, they could actually hear the buzz. There was a great quarter mile furrow in the earth that ran from a grassy field to a house sized hill of disturbed earth. The hill was visibly vibrating and at the point where the furrow reached the hill, there was a small rectangular opening.Trepat looked around and noticed that the shimmering net formed a funnel whose curves were folding directly into the mouth of the cave. He pointed it out to the others and Niklas drily commented:”Maybe that is a trap for curios people.”.Torn shrugged and climbed down the furrow towards the entrance:”Well, if it is, then it is really a success.”.The others followed him, and then they entered the cave through the small opening.Once inside, they all noticed that something was definetly wrong in there.The air was much thicker in there than it was outside, making it difficult to breathe. And once they had adjusted to the air, they all noticed, that the three strange corridors, that were leading ahead and to the left and right were much longer then they could possibly be. They were longer then the small hill they were in was big.The ceiling was ten foot high and there was a layer of greenish mist partially obscuring the floor about a foot of the ground. The walls were azure, uneven and slightly soft to the touch.Ben pulled out his knive, and cut into the wall, which to their mutual surprise started “bleeding” grenish blood right away. Then, just as Jan was about to lay his healing hand on the “wound”, it closed again, leaving no scars behind.Puzzled they looked at each other, as they heard a cow mooing. The sound was seemingly coming from all three corridors.Ben was disturbed:” Let’s get out of here again!”. And with that, he turned to leave through the hatch again.Jan held him back:” Let us look around a bit first. After all, nothing bad has happened to us yet.”“Yes, and there will only be something bad happening if we stay long enough for it to occur in the first place!”, Ben answered, but he stayed nonetheless.Jan walked into one of the corridors and the others followed him, guarding his back. As he came to a part of the corridor with an opening to the right and left, he looked into the right doorway.Behind the doorway, there was a huge chamber that looked like the inside of a collosal gibbering mouther. It was piled high with mounds of shifting, mewling, protoplasmic flesh that was constantly spawning and collapsing eyes, tendrils and mouths while small ripples of lighting rippled over it’s surface.Jan tried to hide his surprise, and greeted the mass of flesh, but whatever it was, it seemed to be oblivious of him. As his friends closed in to stare at the strange thing, Jan turned around. The room behind the other doorway was almost empty except for five transparent spheres of about mansize that were floating in the air.He turned around again and saw Torn poking his head around the doorway. After he had pulled his head back, the half-orc said:” Whatever this thing in there is, the hall it is in should cross the corridor we are in. Apart from that, it is higher then the hill we are in…”.Trepat cast a spell and added:” The weirdest thing is that it is not even magical.”Now, Jan poked his head in as well:” Neither is it evil.”.Ben seemed to be ready to leave:” But it sure as hell is spooky in here.”Torn turned around and went into the beginning of the opposite corridor, there he looked right, and to his surprise, he looked into the same room that his friends were looking into the room with the shifting flesh as well. Now, he even saw his friends in an opposite doorway, talking about what to do next. He turned around to look into the corridor again, and there they were, too!Having decided, that the “doorways” were in fact most likely portals to separate structures somewhere, he turned around. And there, in a room that looked like an alchemist’s labatory, he saw a cow floating in the air. It was mooing dreamily, and around it, there were five five feet tall, naked humanoids with grey skin and big jetblack eyes.</blockquote>

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