Below the Undercroft (Solo)
Below the Undercroft, Delve 10 - by Lilliaquil Nov. 30
A much better expedition.
We just returned from the undercroft again, but this time, aside from Gabriel, we were unscathed and easily evaded most of the giant insect life on the way out. That's not to say we didn't have some trouble with the vermin.
We entered a room filled with debris and a poorly hidden chest. Dargo was still recovering from his injuries and didn't join us. We looked for traps on and around the chest but found none. I have heard from the others that there are a variety of traps they have encountered below: arrows, darts, trip wires, falling stones, and a nasty blade, which I saw with my own eyes when we defeated the orc scum holding Rockmound and Denby. Gabriel volunteered to open the chest and was both relieved and nervous to discover that it was unlocked. He opened the chest and a set of darts shot from the lid. Unfortunately a couple found the gaps in his armour as he recoiled. Breccia gave him a quick once over and told him he'd be alright. Then we approached the chest and, before we could appreciate the thousands of coins sitting within, the coins started to move. Three of the giant, venomous centipedes writhed out of the chest. Gabriel, Breccia and Caedwilla were prepared and quickly crushed the creatures under blade and hammer. Fortunately, no one was bitten by the beasts.
Thousands of silver coins lay in the chest. We quickly filled some of our sacks and then hid them in the corner of the room. I thought we had enough and I wanted to leave, but Gabriel insisted, again, that we need to know more about what is happening in the undercroft and that he isn't here just to fill his pockets. So we carried on, leaving the coins hidden.
I was glad of his insistence. A couple of rooms away Caedwilla noticed a loose stone in a wall. When she pulled it away, she revealed thousands of silver pieces.
At this point Breccia stepped in and said that, whatever was happening here in the undercroft would be sorely hurt by losing all of this coin. By taking it away, we were striking a blow to the evil that resides here. Gabriel acquiesced and we collected our other sacks and, almost overburdened by the weight, made our way back to the village.
We decided to keep knowledge of the coins a secret for the moment, for fear that unsavoury characters might, in the future, lay in wait for us if they knew of the coins. Gabriel agreed, recognizing that the villagers, through greed, could risk his goal of bringing the bandits to justice and exposing a nefarious necromancer.
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