It's almost like home

We made our way back to Dragon’s Keep and things were buzzing along quite nicely.

Once Deepest Darkness saw all the friendly dwarves working in the caverns he seemed reasonably happy to settle within, and I arranged with the kitchen to ensure he was regularly fed.

We heard that there was trouble in another cavern complex the dwarves had been exploring, and they asked us to go and explore it.

The caverns were extensive, and I had to keep returning to the party to stop them getting worried, which kind of cramped my style.

We hit a few dead ends but then one of the passages started showing unmistakable signs of dwarven workmanship and it wasn’t long thereafter that I heard some conversation up ahead. I moved forward but it wasn’t a language I knew and when I repeated it back to the others they didn't recognise it either.

So we basically moved in ready for a fight, which turned out to be a couple of large reptilian creatures. They packed a wallop but, of course, we won. Aren’t we just too good?

They’d been beating on the dwarven tombs in the complex but didn’t seem to have found anything. One of the tombs was that of some old dwarven king I’d never heard of, but in the far wall I found a hidden door leading to the real burial chamber, and much as I wasn’t down for the whole tomb-raiding thing, it was clearly a good idea to reclaim whatever was here before more scalies came for it.

It was some axe that Dearthen found exciting, and I’m sure the dwarves won’t mind him using it with honour.

We moved through more of the complex, discovering along the way that the entrance cave had collapsed, so we’ll need to find some other way out.

None of the other passages showed any evidence of decent workmanship, but we did discover one that was closed off with some poorly-worked doors with murder holes along the walls. We decided to leave it alone but apparently the residents didn’t like visitors and sent a hunting party out after us.

We sprung an ambush on them inside and spanked them, and then moved off again to see what else we could find in the caverns before we return to teach the rest of the bug-eyes a lesson.