WLD May 3, 2006
Present this week were:
* Riamara - loresong faen greenbond
* Ruke - human paladin
* Miru – human fighter
Ruke broke through the other ice wall, and managed to dodge most of the ice shards. They found a small holding-cell like room and some scratches on the walls. Upon examination, the scratches turned out to say “Damn all celestials and their traps.”
Upon encountering a jammed door, Miru and Ruke bashed it open. On the other side they found some of the spikes Cinner had used to seal the door during one of their earlier rest stops.
Proceeding down the corridor, they found three dark-skinned humanoids, lying in a heap to form some bloodstained indalo. Ruke determined that they had been choked to death and found two rings - one with a spider pattern on it and another with a drider image.
Another corridor might have gone unnoticed save for a single feature at its southern end, a series of concentric iron and gold rings, fully three feet across at their largest are set into the wall. Ruke discovered that the middle ring could be moved. However, as he moved it, he began to feel dumber.
As Ruke recovered, a creature with a snakelike body and a human face came out of the west door. She introduced herself as Siglinde. She told them of the Twins. Madness, a creature of protoplasmic flesh, a hungry, angry version of the flesh you have seen on the walls and corridors. Anguish is partially draconic but twisted in ways no dragon would dream of. She gave them each a token with triumphant drider on one side and a spell-casting naga on the other. Siglinde wants at least one of the Twins destroyed by means of a ritual in a hidden area. Mahir is the name of the master of this place. Mahir was a drider who mastered the art of reshaping creatures. There have been few could equal his ability with magic and none who surpassed him in that art.