Eight Ways Inn

A tavern at a major cross-roads of the Underdark not far from Westgate.
The Inn
From Rollo's Journal:
And so we left the cavern and continued to follow the trail left by the troglodyte army. We arrived at a much smaller cavern that had a total of eight tunnels leading into it. There was a door in one corner and a gravestone in the other. On the stone were strange runes, but Fenrir could translate them and told us that they said;
Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Cassleray:
Stop, traveller, and piss!
Well, I wasn't going to, but Fenrir did. He said he felt a shiver run down his spine when he did so as some minor magical benefit was bestowed on him.
The door, meanwhile, was made from ironbound rock slabs. There was a hatch in it, but Fenrir used his ring of Knock. I listened at the door and could here something lurking within, so instead of just barging in Fenrir knocked.
The hatch opened and a crude earthen face looked at us, blinking in the light of our lanterns. 'Overworlders is it?' he said in Undercommon. 'What do you want?'
Well, it turned out this was an inn called the 'Eight Ways'. The man at the door was actually a 'slyth', a fairly gentle race native to the Underdark. He was the doorman, the place was run by an elderly dark elf couple. They didn't get much pass through trade, but today it was quite 'busy' apparently as there was another man in the common room and a group of five dwarves.
During the time of Fenrir and Rollo's visit they met:
Veets the Spelunker
Five dwarves from a place called Boatmurdered.
The Night of the Minotaur
We got rooms at the back and went to bed, but were all woken up when screaming could be heard coming from the main room. Fenrir, unusually cautious, had us all go into one room to wait and see what happened. There was the sound of crashes, roars, screams for mercy, that sort of thing. I was itching to go help, but Fenrir thought it safer to stay put and await developements. When it seemed clear that the rooms were not being targeted though we eventually did go down the tunnel to see what was going on, only to meet the minotaur coming charging the other direction in a berzerker rage.
It took a few swings at us, but Fenrir gave it some really powerful blasts and down it went. All the elves and the innkeepers wife were dead. Only the innkeeper was alive although he was utterly distraught. The main room was a blood bath and no one knew what exactly had happened to set off whatever had happened.
Afterwards
The Eight Ways is currently not owned by anyone, but is used by passing travellers as a resting spot.
Through long tradition it is still a place where beings that would normally fight each other are at peace.
Category:Dungeons and Dragons
Category:Westgate Adventure
Category:Underdark
Category:Westgate Underdark