{"id":768,"date":"2001-03-29T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2001-03-30T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=768"},"modified":"2001-03-29T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2001-03-30T01:03:47","slug":"exploring-the-di-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2001\/03\/exploring-the-di-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the DI Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 164, Year 541 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

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\nI’ve been hearing rumors lately that there have been some new
\ndevelopements in the Crater area of Devil’s Isle, so I decided it was
\nabout time to head back inside. The first thing I needed was a party.
\nMy clan mate Lark was in the lands, and she joined the party, and I
\nalso recruited Madcat, Shadowmist, and Ippon. I decided that this would
\nbe enough, and headed for the docks. However, by the time my party had
\nreached the docks, it had grown to seven members. We all landed on the
\nnorth side of Devil’s Island, and headed for the McBolie Caverns.
\nLuckily for us, Ippon was able to open the path, and we all headed into
\nthe darkness. We were all almost immediately lost, and somehow, the
\ngroup had swelled to thirteen.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nFor those of yi who don’t know McBolie’s Caverns,
\nit is hellish. Basically, the “Caverns” are merely a series of
\ninterconnected tunnels that run underneath the lake of Devil’s Isle,
\nprobably formed by some ancient underground rivers. What this means, is
\nthat the tunnels are very narrow, and sometimes very dangerous, and it
\nis very easy to get lost. Our party wandered around the tunnels for
\nhours, getting lost, falling to unseen monsters, getting harrassed by
\nearthquakes, and bumping our heads on low hanging stalagmites. Finally,
\nwe decided to follow Magnar and Ippon, who seemed to know their way
\nabout the Cavern, and made it to the exit.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\nWe all slipped into a path, and suddenly found
\nourselves in bright sunlight. We had made it into the Crater! We were
\ngreeted almost immediately by a horde of Wendeka, but we dispatched
\nthem with little difficulty. We decided that some planning was in
\norder, if we were to survive this expedition. Ippon was put in charge
\nof leading the party, and we all broke into groups of three, for better
\norganization. I readied my mapping tools, and we all headed for our
\nfirst destination: the Fire Cave.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\nOur trek to the Fire Cave was an adventure in
\nitself. We met many Pumaces, Fire Rats, Fire Vermine, and even a Lava
\nWalker. I made many Vision Stones, and took many notes down, so I could
\nadd all this new terrain to the map. Finally, we made it to the Fire
\nCave in one piece, but unfortunately, we lost Kard, who had slipped
\noutside of the Crater area. That’s the thing with the Crater: hard to
\nget in, easy to get out. Anyway, we got back into our groups, and
\nplunged into the Fire Cave. Strangely, the cave was pretty empty,
\ncontaining only a sole Lava Walker and a few Pumaces. This did not, of
\ncourse, prevent me from falling to firebursts and puddles of lava.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAgain, I took out my mapping tools, and began
\nsketching away. We then prepared to head to our next destination: the
\nVoolcon Caverns. However, we managed to lose three more of our party
\nmembers when they hopped out via another path. F’nord. We made our way
\nto the Caverns, and met several more Lava Walkers, but nothing we
\ncouldn’t handle. Finally we made it to the Voolcon Caverns. However,
\nmuch to our disapointment, we could not find a way into the deeper
\ncaverns, not even with the aid of the skillful pathfinder Ippon.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nEven our attempts to communicate with the Voolcons failed miserably.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\nThat pretty much concluded our adventures in the
\nCrater, since we had to rescue several of our fallen comrades, who had
\nslipped outside the wall. Unfortunately, I had to leave before I could
\nhelp in the rescue because I had pressing matters at home. Sorry guys!
\nHopefully, the next time we visit the crater, we will be able to
\nexplore the rest of it, and perhaps even find a way into the Voolcon
\nCaverns.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\nMy revised map of Devil’s Isle should be posted on these scrolls soon, so please come by again, and check it out!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 164, Year 541 of the Ascendancy I’ve been hearing rumors lately that there have been some new developements in the Crater area of Devil’s Isle, so I decided it was about time to head back inside. The first thing I needed was a party. My clan mate Lark was in the lands, and she […]<\/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\/768"}],"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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}