{"id":603,"date":"2002-10-03T03:53:06","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T10:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=603"},"modified":"2002-10-03T03:53:06","modified_gmt":"2002-10-03T10:53:06","slug":"day-of-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2002\/10\/day-of-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"weblogDayText\">Day 265, Year 547<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/diwraiths.gif\" alt=\"Wraiths on DI\" align=\"left\" height=\"160\" width=\"174\"><br \/>\nToday I managed to fall to a tough little Fire Vermine while testing<br \/>\nthe path into McBolie&#8217;s Cavern on Devil&#8217;s Isle. I was soon rescued by a<br \/>\nsmall party of exiles, and we ended up exploring the interior portions<br \/>\nof Devil&#8217;s Isle.<\/p>\n<p>The first place that we decided to explore was the volcano area<br \/>\nof Devil&#8217;s Isle, with its infamous Drake Den. The Drake Den used to<br \/>\ncontain dozens Fire Drakes, ranging from small infants to powerful<br \/>\nadults, but recently the Den has been completely empty.<\/p>\n<p>Today we hoped to discover some Drakes in their lair, or at<br \/>\nleast some clue as to where they have disapeared off to, but<br \/>\nunfortunately we could find nothing. I have now officially renamed the<br \/>\ncavern to the &#8220;Rat Den.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/lavavool.gif\" alt=\"Fallen Voolcon\" align=\"right\" height=\"75\" width=\"97\"><br \/>\nWe did notice something of interest, though. The entrance to the Rat<br \/>\nDen is surrounded by a pool lava, which exiles must run across to reach<br \/>\nthe cave entrance. What we noticed were several Voolcons trying to walk<br \/>\nacross the lava, but falling before they could make it to the cave.<br \/>\nCould it be that there is something of interest inside the cave, which<br \/>\nthe Voolcons seek?<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, we peeked into the Voolcon Caverns to see if<br \/>\nanything was new, then headed to Dal&#8217;Noth Isle to explore the<br \/>\nUnderground. The caverns beneath Dal&#8217;Noth Isle have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-conversant.com\/lundar\/13\" target=\"_new\">unusually active<\/a><br \/>\nlately, and today was no exception. We encountered a Tuz&#8217;Noth, four<br \/>\nXar&#8217;Noths, and half a dozen Zol and Gar&#8217;Noths while exploring the<br \/>\nUnderground today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/nothspawn.gif\" alt=\"Xar'Noth Spawn\" height=\"167\" width=\"234\"><\/p>\n<p>\nWe mostly explored the south-eastern portion of the tunnels, searching for the secret passages that Qual once <a href=\"http:\/\/lundar.puddleby.info\/SOD\/191-545.t\" target=\"_new\">hinted at<\/a>,<br \/>\nbut we were unable to find anything. It has now been more than two<br \/>\nyears since the defeat of Qual, and we have yet to discover anything<br \/>\nnew. I wonder: was Qual lying, or are we just not searching in the<br \/>\nright places?\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 265, Year 547 Today I managed to fall to a tough little Fire Vermine while testing the path into McBolie&#8217;s Cavern on Devil&#8217;s Isle. I was soon rescued by a small party of exiles, and we ended up exploring the interior portions of Devil&#8217;s Isle. The first place that we decided to explore was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}