06.13.2021 - The Beneath

We all stopped for a moment until we couldn’t hear the big footsteps anymore before Klaub came down and we decided to have Jerome make some cornbread and rest a little. Everything around us was covered in dust and the whispers seem to think it was dust from a month ago that is on the books and everything now. Klaub took a look at the bookshelves and found one that is the history of the realm that talked about the ‘Saurans and the cat people and a dragon! Also, a little horned creature who claimed to be of the great Shadow Mother, according to the whispers.

   A while later, Jerome looked through the keyhole where we heard the big footsteps coming from and he saw a lit hallway that seemed like something big had been through there. He said he could also see a newer tunnel that had been burrowed that went away from us. Marko went over to see what he saw, but as he was moving we heard footsteps coming back and he saw nothing out of the key hole. Then there was some banging on the door, but before Jerome and Marko could move the top broke and we could see a much bigger spider dragon, a baskalisk, than the one we had seen up above. It then finished breaking the door as Jerome and Marko moved away from it so I grabbed the cornbread to keep it safe from the spider dragon while I flew to the hallway we had come from. It came chasing after me so I had to light it on fire several times while my friends stabbed it as it was running away before it finally collapsed and left our cornbread alone. We had chased it back down the hallway where it had broken the door. There were more tunnels there, one that led to a dark room and the other led to a big place like the place of Shadow Mother in town. Inside, there were some stone people and Jerome and Marko found a book. Jerome also found an egg that was almost as big as him in the corner.

   The whispers think that Kalub discovered that the one we had already dealt with was a dad which seemed odd, so he came in and told us we should hide because there must be a mother nearby. A few moments later, we heard a roaring coming from back down the hallway and in came another baskalisk! It was a good thing I had my mirror out otherwise it could have been bad because it looked at me, but instead of seeming me it turned to stone. But, before it did, the cat person statue I was hiding behind got hit with some wild magic and turned into a pile of rubble. Jerome and I tried to crack the egg open so that we could have a pet to take along with us but it didn´t like that we had opened its egg and it didn't´ come out. Then we went to look through the pockets of the statues and the rubble. Jerome found a cool wand thing that he said could heal me if I was a duck, so he used it on me then let me have it so I could use it on him. It was so cool because he turned into a very fancy looking bird before being himself again. The whispers tell me he also found a fancy coin with some faces on it, but this wand is way cooler.

   We decided to take a rest as the magical lights began to dim like it was night time up above. Nothing eventful happened while I was on my watch except for some crunchy bugs that were climbing on the bookshelf near me became a nice snack. The whispers tell me that Klaub took some time to break the statue of the mother baskalisk and to bury the little one from the egg inside the broken pieces and to take the head from the big one off so we could take it with us as proof that we did what we needed to for the hunters. They also said that Marko seemed to be losing hair and gaining pointier ears. Also, they don’t think they are alone anymore and that he might also be hearing whispers about information.

   As the morning came and the torches lit once again, we noticed there were some spiders among us with one next to me and another on top of Klaub. We made short work of two of them and Jerome tied a rope around the third so that we can still have a pet when we get out of here. In order to actually tame our new spider pet we put it in a box, but I also fell in and it bit Jerome. Then the spider tried to run away and I got stuck in some webs inside the dark room that we hadn’t explored yet and Marko, who tried to climb the wall to get me down from the web bundle I was in, and he also got stuck in the webs . Before long, Klaub came to the rescue after Jerome and Marko had wandered off into the next room and there was a little scream. Klaub took me towards the room where we could see a little bit of light and more doors leading out of the room that were all covered in webbing. There were a lot more spiders but that didn’t stop Jerome and Marko from trying to get to a little chest in the corner. Then there was a flash of blue light and a chill entered the room as the spiders all died where they were.