Dicing with Death: Episode 205

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==Synopsis==
With the help of Cassandra, Divan opens a gateway into the earth and uses it to mine ore with Chronos and Heffer for a few days. He relocates the troll blood fountain to Chrono's Temple of Velthara, captures a cockatrice along the way, and learns about Elemental planes. Divan comes up with a better way to mine ore with magic, While miners gather the ore, and ooze elemental slips through the portal and kills one of the miners. They manage to escape, Divan goes to inform the minor's wife. He visits the mine a few days later and sees another miner is dead. 
==Recap==
===January (Divan Age 20)===
It is January, start of a new year. Divan tries to learn over 5 days, but fails.
Divan and his apprentice Cassandra head out into a field. Divan then casts to the Elemental Plane of Earth while Cassandra casts to keep the gateway open for a whole minute. Divan then casts on the gateway, making it larger. Through the portal, Divan can see an iron vein. After some time, the gateway collapses with a loud thunder-like sound.
The next day Divan brings Chronos the Giant and Heffer the blacksmith along with Cassandra out to the field. Divan casts , then he and Cassandra open the gateway again. Divan punches the earth that appears, while Chronos and Heffer work with equipment. They end up digging out some pure copper. Divan investigates the copper and finds it isn't magical at all, but very pure, and can be considered a rare component as such. Divan uses his magical crown to cast and find out if what he's doing is safe and learns that the portal to Elemental Plane of Earth is the safest to open because it is unlikely anything will come out of it.
The group repeats the process for a few days and try to get different deposits and ends up with copper, iron, and silver ore.
Cassandra researches a different version of the spell and learns it after 5 weeks. Divan learns over 4 days.
Divan then helps relocate the blood fountain to Chronos's new temple of Velthara to at the cyclops's old cave. While traveling, they encounter a cockatrice. Divan binds the cockatrice in and then punches it unconscious after inspecting it. Divan captures the unconscious cockatrice and adds it to his cockatrice collection.
Near the end of January, Divan uses his magical crown, Sorona, to cast to learn about elemental planes. Elementals shift to the prime material plane due to spells that interact with their plane elsewhere in the world. Elementals are not perticuallary attracted to portals to other planes, but they sometimes take interest in objects and materials they sense through a portal.
Using the new version of , the to the Elemental Plane of Earth is held open for longer, allowing the party to remove more resources out, they find a silver vein and some quartz. After 14 minutes, they extract the silver and startle the creature living in the plane of earth, making apprentice Cassandra lose concentration and the portal to close.
The next day, they get miners from the copper mine and open the portal again, inside the mine. The miners get to work during the limited time, but Divan doesn't tell them what is going on. After half an hour of mining, the miners have dug beyond the surface of the portal and start entering through the portal, unaware of dangers. One miner accidentally hits an elemental ooze, it springs out and kills a miner named Dale. Before Cassandra closes the portal the ooze escapes the portal, avoids Divan's . The elemental then attacks Divan. Divan casts a new , cutting off part of the elemental when it closes. However, the part of the elemental that remains behind after both portals are closed is still active and still attacking. Divan flees the mine along with all the miners and Cassandra. The elemental stays inside the mine and doesn't chase after them.
Divan goes to Nancy, Dale's wife, to inform her about Dale's tragic death in the mine. Nancy doesn't seem too broken up about it. 
Divan retires to his residence, recovers his mana, and gets materials for the armor spell from Platos. Cassandra keeps a watch of the mine from a distance.
After 3 days, Divan heads back to the mine and discovers the elemental has escaped, inside, he finds some peeled skin, and sees miners are missing. He shouts after the elemental, to no avail. Divan searches the mine, using his ESP amulet not to get ambushed. He finds a trail of gooey blood and comes across a dead body of a miner named Bill. Divan grabs the copper and leaves.
==Experience==
No experience given this episode. 
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