Journal Log: 7-23-05

Mother;

I can't go into too many details right now, we are on the move again. Currently we are in the dungeon and we were fighting the crystal statues, but the magma statues started coming down the corridor covered in magma (somebody is controlling them from afar and using our tactics against us). Finally, the rest of the party decide to exit the chamber and go to a lower level. It was a challenge to get Archi down the shaft, but we managed. Unfortunately the cleric and the wizard fell further and did not land on the same level as we did.

We found ourselves in a room with only three exits. Archi began to beat down the door since the rogue was unable to open any of the doors (it doesn't surprise me since this dungeon was built to keep in a very old vampire, duh. When Archi opens the door the rogue and Archi head down, they hear combat and charged forward. The rest of us followed. I leapt forward to prevent the orcs from overtaking the lone ranger in the room fighter for her life. Sure enough it was Rain. We managed to kill all the orcs.

We continued our journey through the rest of the level. Being very cautious, but we came to another locked door. Archi beats it down, and he is suddenly sucked into the corridor past a pit and a frictionless floor. Archi is seriously hurt after contacting a spike trap and a falling walling with more spikes, ouch. The bard attempts to help him, but falls into a spiked pit and he is teleported back up and again he falls in the spiked pit. Finally, a very wounded Archi manages to wiggle himself free and holds out his club so the bard can catch himself. The rogue uses a rope and get across to help. They manage to finally get to a room and discover a note left from a necormancer to the vampire.

We moved on to find another room full of arrow holes, but they weren't arrow holes instead they shot out raspberry jam. and across the small narrow room contained a larger chamber with a dire bear in it. Archi fed the dire bear the dead orcs and it was content. Finally, we came to a room with a teleport gate in it. The party decides it was better than facing the dire bear after it was done eating.

Then we found ourselves in a cavern. We began to explore the connecting tunnel. The rogue, ranger, and Archi led the way. While the bard, druid, and myself  remind behind in the chamber. They were attached by orcs, neogi, and umber hulks. Unknown to us two umber hulks were tunneling around to out flank us. The ranger, rogue, and Archi found themselves in a desperate battle. Then suddenly the two umber hulks attack one attacks the bard and myself and the other attacks the druid. The druid and bard manage to wiggle off and attack together against the umber hulk. While I took on the umber hulk and defeated it in short time.

Meanwhile Archi gets a lucky shot and cripples one umber hulk, but it manages to confuse Archi. Meanwhile the rogue and ranger continue their battle. During their battle the druid and bard are seriously hurt while I was battling the other umber hulk prior to killing it. Then I helped to kill the second umber hulk. Somehow during the battle Archi became enraged when the ranger was endangered. She lifted out of harms way when Archi sacrificed himself to help her (strange, but true I think he likes the little one). I heard he charged directly into one of the neogi and killed it easily. I guesse somewhere along the ling Archi was again confused and grabbed the rogue and bashed his head in with his greatclub. That is when we finally came to the large cavern and mopped up the rest of the orcs and neogi.

We managed to capture one of the negoi. He finally made a deal with use to help us get out of the caverns if we would not kill it. We agreed. That is when we found out we were on a different plane. Over the course a couple of days we finally managed to find a doorway. The rogue walked through along with the bard and druid. I could have gone with them since it only allowed 'good' individuals to go through unfortunately that meant we would have to leave behind Rain and Archi. I could not allow that. I am staying behind and hoping that the rest of the party will manage to find a different route of getting them out of here. If not I will not leave my friends and comrades behind, but I may have to leave in order to find them water and food.

I must go now we have to remain on constant alert and guard the neogi. For he would easily kill us and eat us without an bit of regret. If I fail to leave I love everyone.

Love,

E'Ze

-M51