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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1408663" data-attributes="member: 114">The party cautiously but as quickly as possible complete the descent down the stone chimney. As their light floods the chamber at the bottom of the rock face they see Anne-Maries broken body, her legs and neck twisted at unnatural angles, her eyes wide and staring.Trajan chokes up a little.“We can’t leave her body here for the scavengers. She’s not too heavy. I’ll carry her”. The others stand aside as with surprising tenderness he straightens her limbs, binds up her obvious wounds and then carefully carries her over his shoulder.Everyone is shocked that the agile, devil-may-care swordcoaster woman with the fiery temper and one-track mind has been silenced. Trajan says a quick, inarticulate prayer (aware of his complete lack of religious knowledge, even now) and in solemn mood the party continue onwards, following Garricks lead.The silence and oppressive weight of darkness reminds Trajan of his journey under the mountains along the dwarf passageways, and he thinks of companions from those days who have fallen – Dala the sorcerer, Arilyn Windbourne who wanted to become a stormlord and now Anne-Marie. There are now none who faced the door in the air with him.After an hours travel they approach some caves which are lit with dim greenish light. Garrick assures them it is merely natural luminescent fungi and they enter a series of caverns which are full of toadstools – some huge, as big as trees, many smaller ones the size of shrubs and bushes, and everywhere there are scatterings of diminutive mushrooms, almost as common as grass except on the obviously well trodden trail they are on.Tania is surprised in the third cavern by the impression that one of the diminutive mushrooms that she was watching as they walked along blinked at her. The others watch as she stops to look in more detail then recoils slightly in shock as three or four of the toadstools uproot themselves and scatter away from her, peering at her with little yellow eyes under the hoods.“That’s pretty strange” they all think, as a man sized toadstool the other side of the path from them leans over unseen and discharges a cloud of spores all over the party...</blockquote>

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