Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #18 - Tunnel Fighting

(G18 18/07/08 BG)

Nobby rushed to join the fray as well. Unluckily for her, at that precise moment I slipped on a moss covered tile and released an arrow that hit her in the shoulder!

I should try and be more careful with this bow.

Eventually though, all our enemies were dispatched and we had made a complete circuit of the tunnels. We realised though, that there must be more secret doors around, because how else would this area connect to the place under the Taxidermist's Guild?

The first place we found was a chamber that had a table and nine chairs in it. The wall facing the flooded cave was some sort of illusion as you could see right through it from the room.

I found the furniture quite interesting. I looked for a makers mark and saw a H and a T joined together. I wonder if I can find out who that is?

Anyway, we continued to search, for about half an hour I think and eventually we found one more secret door in one of the circular rooms that lead down yet another gloomy dank tunnel.

Shifty opened the door. I swear, that boy is good for some things and hopeless at others.

He's good at finding things, but always seems to blunder right into traps. A thunder stone dropped from the door frame and cracked on the floor. It deafened me completely!

From the hand signals Raz was making, he was utterly deaf too!

So, Shifty, who had miraculously escaped the trap, stepped down the corridor and reached a T-junction. He was then shot at from both direction by attackers at either end of the T. Again, he had blundered right into a trap!

I suppose being the guy at the front must be a difficult job, but it would have been more sensible to send a summoned creature forward I would have thought.

Anyway, Raz, Nobby and Mashai charged into the combat, all drawing crossbow bolt fire as they rushed in. The enemy had prepared the ground at the T-junction to make traversing it difficult. Some areas had marbles scattered across them, and some had been greased.

It didn't seem to hold Raz back much though, he managed to cut down one of the crossbow-men pretty quickly, on the right had part of the 'T'.

As for myself, I summoned another crocodile right into the fight and it slithered through the marbles and grease to attack the rogues on the left hand 'T'.

Since I was as deaf as a post at that time, I couldn't hear anything, but from what I was told later when my hearing came back, one of these ruffians was Dek.

These crocodiles that I can summon seem to be pretty effective. Although they only stick around for about half a minute, during that time they appear to be able to do as much damage as a barbarian can with his double-headed axe!