We continue on our path to track the evil Torphus… Grunk scouts ahead and has come upon a “deep fisher”. We discuss how to get across.

Meanwhile, Gareth and Thong meet in the woods. Gareth seeks his brother just as we seek the killers of Emil Dorne! Coincidence? I think not!!! Thong and Gareth descend into THE HOLE, for no apparent reason. Meanwhile… A grappling hook is tossed across the gap a few times, but finaly catches (visions of a very Large Beast holding the hook pop into peoples heads). The party crosses. Thong and Garith join the party. Garith finds out his lost brother is no longer among the living via the belt the party found on a corpse. We all exchange greetings. Garith attempts to find the tracks of the big guy. He succeeds. Grunk scouts ahead and finds some guy standing in the room ahead. This thing is not evil, in fact he’s a mushroom man. Carbuncle searches his memory to find out what this is. He’s heard stories of these creatures. They aren’t hostile. We try to communicate with it. Aldar heals him some. Mushy walks off and we follow him. Mushy is a “fun guy” to be with! Get it? Fungi = “Fun Guy”!!!

We follow Mushy into an underground lake. We all wade into the lake with him and find a stalagmite/sandbar thingy, within which is some sort of depression or cauldron. It’s the hole within THE HOLE! We follow Mushy into the Hole…

After some slippin and slidin’, we come down into an underground river/passageway. We reach a four-way fork in the river. We take one passage, but then Mushy turns around and walks in different direction. We come to a chamber in which there are two more mushroom men - Shroomy and Goomba. They “hang out” together for a while. Mushy tells us to “stick to the right” after the main passage to find “the big one” -Torphus?

After following that passage, we came upon an enormongous room! We follow the right wall, going around “structures” that Carbunkle determined to be naturally acurring. We find a side passage, but decide to investigate the enormoungous room before we move on. Garith finds tracks, but then Carbunkle is attacked by Torfus. We fight. Torfus falls with a mighty blow from Elia after many…rounds.

We find:

>Bloodstone

>Short Sword

>Great Club, that’s all.

We decice to explore the rest of the enormongous room. We find nothing. We decide to go back to the magical glittery room where half of our party is enchanted by the glorious beauty of the golden walls. We pull the ensorcelled party members out of the room, grab Garith’s deceased brother, and return topside.

The goblin is questioned as to whether or not he had witnessed the death of Emil Dorne… something about the priests of Tritherion. The goblin claims he had been enchanted by Torfus, but as Gareth pointed out, “Goblins only speak two languages…. Goblin or lying.”

Carbunkle performs last rites for “Bob”, Gareth’s brother and two others. We sleep, the night passes.

In the morning we decide to spend a couple hours exploring.

Almost Immediately, Carbunkle finds:

***small boots (increase move ’10)

Spell Book

*4 vials (cure light potions)

**quiver (18) arrows

2 plates (50gp each)

750 silver, 275 gold (-30gp to pay back Elia for horse/cart), 1000 copper

**2 potions

*spear

rug (125gp)

gem(200gp)

wood axe, arrows, shortbow, 100’ hemp rope, 2 daggers, 4 long swords, 1 medium shield.

*=magic, ** = strong magic, ***=stronger yet magic

We discuss our options and eventually pack up, taking the goblin with us.

We come to the edge of the light forest.

Coming upon the rundown Inn, we smell smoke. It is near night. Gareth and Kire argue to continue towards the burning smell. Another 5 miles… still smoke. We sleep.

In the morning, Chef Thong cooks pancakes, Kire walks with Lucian. Around noon, more smoke… Grassy rollin-ya heeeeeels. The group awakens to the goblin trying to get some KFC. The smoke is gone. The group travels to the Inn. Carbunkle checks out the zombies and finds a note. Carbunkle and Gaeth climb a hill and see smoke in the distance. The group decides to explore.

WTF is this hut place? There are some humanoids milling about. The chef tumbles down the hill towards them. Night fall rolls around and the army packs up.