{"id":783,"date":"2000-06-07T03:37:47","date_gmt":"2000-06-07T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=783"},"modified":"2000-06-07T03:37:47","modified_gmt":"2000-06-07T10:37:47","slug":"venturing-into-alchemists-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2000\/06\/venturing-into-alchemists-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Venturing into Alchemist's Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nDay 36, Year 538 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe 132nd Chaos Storm has swept by the lands, and
\nI am happy to report that many new things have come of it. There is now
\na shop that sells skin dyes in town, and the museum now features the
\ntop three prize winning pieces of the Puddleby Clan Council sponsered
\nart contest. Most importantly, however, the T’rool mines have been
\nexpanded. I had already predicted that something like this would
\nhappen, based on the turn of recent events, so as soon as the Chaos
\nStorm had passed, I found myself dashing to the T’rool mines.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nUpon reaching the eastern mines, I was pleasantly
\nsurprised that my predictions had come true; the mines had been
\nexpanded upon greatly. Of course, I soon found myself hopelessly lost
\nwithin the mines, and then felled by marauding bats and T’rool Kin.
\nLuckily for me, the lovely healer Thuja was nearby, and she swiftly and
\nskillfully put me back on my feet. Afterwards, I took to exploring the
\nvast mines with a small group of exiles. I cannot put down in words all
\nthat we found within the mines today, for the mines are quite large,
\nand extensive. They remind me somewhat of the new Hive in the Myrm
\nHiglands. Let us just say that these new mines are quite massive.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"The<\/font><\/p>\n

\nAfter the exploration of the T’rool mines I was
\nquite tired, and retired to town. After several uneventful hours, I
\nheard a sudden cry for help over the sunstone. It seemed that exiles
\nwere falling left and right in Alchemist’s Folly, the strange tunnel
\nwithin the Dark Cavern. I heard of a rescue party being assembled
\nbefore the Dark Cavern, and I rushed there to check out this place
\nwhich I had heard of before, but had not yet been to. The party was
\nquickly assembled, and led by the pathfinder Korinthia, we plunged into
\nthe Dark Cavern. I was quickly disarmed by the overwhelming darkness of
\nthe Cavern, but I managed to navigate the burrow by following the
\nvoices of my companions. This went on for quite a time, and for several
\ntense minutes, I thought that our party was lost. Then, suddenly, with
\na burst of light, I found myself within a narrow tunnel.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Alchemist's<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThis sketch does not begin to tell how dangerous
\nAlchemist’s Folly is. Sure, there are only a few corpse warriors and
\ndetatched spirits present, but the narrow passage way allows for little
\nmovement. And then there’s the boulders. Small boulders continuously
\nfly at exiles, from the north, and dodging the boulders within the
\ntight space of the tunnel becomes near impossible. The party that I was
\nwith was struck down one by one, and soon the entire rescue party lay
\nstrewn about the floor. Only Su’ub III, who escaped using his Purgatory
\nPendant, made it out alive. The rest of us were forced to depart.(Check
\nout this Vision Stone<\/a> of our futile efforts)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Depart\"<\/font><\/p>\n

\nNow, one might think one such experience a day
\nwould enough for any exile, but not for us. As soon as we returned to
\ntown, we were reforming again, and another party was sent to
\nAlchemist’s Folly. This time, we sent in only a few of the most
\npowerful exiles, therby giving them room to maneuver. Soon, the
\npassageway had been mostly cleared of undine, and the rest of us
\nentered the tunnel. Dodging rocks became quite easy without the undine
\nto bar our way. The party made it’s way slowly westward, and soon
\nexiles were slipping onto the caverns beyond the tunnel. However,
\nseveral exiles at the tail end of the procession (including myself),
\nreached the westend to find ourselves trapped. The path that the
\npathfinder had showed the rest of the group, was to us, invisible. A
\nback spawn of undine, and the continuously flying boulders sealed our
\nfate.<\/font><\/p>\n

\nThat was the end of our<\/i> adventures, but for
\nthose who made it past, it was another story. They later told me of a
\nstrange cavern they had found themselves in, almost over-flowing with
\nundine. Within this great cave, they also claim to have spotted a
\nstrange woman, dressed completely in red. This so called “Woman in Red”
\nseemed to remind them of the witch-priestess Lilit, for the undine she
\nsummoned did not even dare to attack her. Was she some kind of Darshak
\nPriestess, or was she something else entirely? Only time will tell…
\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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