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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 239764" data-attributes="member: 143">Thanks for the bumps, guys... I appreciate the support.  NWN update: my second module, "Vorlag's Ruin," is ready for playest.  So far it's four areas, with a large exterior area, some caves, a building interior, and a medium-sized dungeon.  I will be running it at approximately 7 p.m. Pacific time tonight (Wednesday 6/26/02), so drop on by for some adventure!  (game name: [EN] Lazybones's Vorlag's Ruin)wolff: the irony is, I only played the single player game for two days (I'm at the beginning of chapter 2)... I'm too addicted to the toolset and building and running games!  I suppose I'll go back and finish it eventually.  At least I have an 8th level character that I can use to test my modules <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  * * * * * Book V, Part 8The companions spent the next several days making their way deeper through the network of caverns and tunnels of the Underdark, pressing onward toward a destination that was still vague in their minds.  Lok did his best to impart what he had learned in his visions, but even he only perceived dimly the details of what they might find.  Somehow, however, he was able to guide them through the many choices they faced as the tunnels branched and intersected, and he seemed to grow more confident the closer they drew to their destination.Exactly how far away that remained, however, remained unclear.The first day after leaving the urdunnir town, they were on edge, the sounds of their footfalls overly loud in the empty tunnels and every shadow holding an imagined foe.  As the days crept on without any dangerous encounters, however, they became more comfortable, if not less wary.  There was life to be found here, from subterranean lizards the size of a man’s arm to colonies of lichens that radiated a strange phosphorescent glow that winked out when anyone approached them too closely.  On numerous occasions they thought that they heard movement nearby, the architecture of the tunnels making it difficult to pinpoint the source, but when they cautiously investigated, nothing was there to be found.  Cal and Dana found themselves relying on Benzan and Lok more and more as they continued.  Lok’s familiarity with stone and his darkvision gave him an advantage in this underground locale, and Benzan’s ability to hide and move silently made him their default scout.  Dana studied the flora and fauna that they encountered carefully, trying to add to her considerable knowledge of the natural world, while Cal took in everything of their surroundings carefully.  The bard sang no songs nor plied his lyre here, as both created weird echoes that traveled far down the great passageways.  It was well into the fourth day since they’d left the urdunnir town—it was impossible to know exactly how much time passed down here, so the distinction between “night” and “day” had become blurred—when the tunnel they were following emerged into a large cavern.  It was not an unusual development—they’d encountered several such chambers already that day alone—but this one contained a small lake that filled most of its expanse.  The smooth surface of the water reflected the light of their torch, looking like a great black mirror lying among the rocky surface of the cavern floor.  To their left, a rocky shoreline led around the edge of the lake, offering a rugged but passable route around the obstacle.  Dana had cast her create water spell that morning, so they had no need to stop to refill their waterskins.  Lok led them toward the trail that led around the lake, but they hadn’t gotten very far when Benzan, who was in the lead once again, halted and raised his hand.“What is it?” Dana whispered, clutching her spear.  “I thought I heard something.”  For a full minute they all stood there, as still as statues as they listened.  The sound of wind blowing through the tunnels was barely audible, but that was it.  “I guess it was nothing,” Benzan said. “We’re all on edge,” Cal said.  “I think this place is giving all of us a major case of the willies.”“Yeah, you’re probably…”The tiefling didn’t get a chance to finish his thought, for at that moment a deep, throaty hiss echoed through the cavern and drew their attention up to the uneven ceiling above the surface of the lake.  There, dropping down swiftly out of a crevice in the rock, came a monstrous form.  Its central body was a great, bulbous orb, easily eight feet in diameter.  Nearly a dozen tentacles protruded from all around its body, twisting sinuously as the creature descended, and as the light fell upon it they could see that each tentacle culminated in a jagged claw and a small set of jaws, with sharp teeth that snapped eagerly at the air.  In the center of the creature’s body a single eye could be seen, fixed upon them as it approached.</blockquote>

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