In Game:
Matt relaxing aginst thew wall again, says "Hay Praos you have read the books the most want to ketch the new guy up on what we are ~looking forward to (tone of sarcasm). And, I will cover whats happened so far."
Matt looks to be half elf, possibly the half of him that is elf is drow. He has silvery hair and lavender eyes but tan skin. Tall thin well built man with short unkempt hair. He looks to be a young man. A masterful crafted curved short blade sits on his hip.
Praos nods digging the 3 books out of his bag and shuffling over there pages to find key pages of notes.
The man looks like a "Book worm" but a well built one, as if he has known physical training of some kind, you see no weapon on his belt.
Haru a young half orc teenager sits watching the newcomer Vigo with bright and intelligent eyes. A small lap harp sits on the ground next to him a long with a small sack and 2 slightly damaged spears.
Matt clears his through and then begins the regaling of the day thus far tot he newcomer. His rendition of the story is crude and lacking luster and details befitting the words of a good fine tail.
"We got locked up for crap we did not do. We got stuck down here. Fist there where puzles then traps then puzzles and traps it was crappy to say the least a good man died in a trap less then an hour in. Bloody loss. We got past the traps met up with more people started walking hall seemed to go on forever, several hours later found the kid."
Haru smiles at the note of the group finding him.
Taking a deep breath Matt keep talking. "Harus is Izumi's kid, shes also been acting as are group leader for the most part, shes done dungeon crawling before, ant that right?" he shrugs. "After we find the kid we pass some acid taps magical seals and inter spider territory twisting halls and maze like hallways and rooms lots of webs little buggers and large ones. Deeper we went the move cave like the spider area was. We lost a woman to the fangs of them I would not call her good but we had not gotten to know here very well enough before her dearth."
"You are forgetting the books and the carvings." Praos interrupts saying.
"You can cover that. In trying to do the cliff notes here." Matt responds then continuing adds. "Where was I, oh yeah. So, we are fighting spiders and this guy falls out of now where like you, kind of, but with out the flash of light." jesters over at Yaeth.
"After a hard fight we fallowed are ears down here it took a while but we discovered this room to be safe." he makes a motion over toward the runes of glowing magic surrounding the space int he room. You can hear the sound of the water steam in the room.
"We think its some form of protection magic. We just finished having diner and where going to turn in for the night. I have fist watch. I can't sleep anyhow this place has me on edge."
Praos nods taking over the story's tail. "While down here we stumbled across some books the set seams to of been written 10 years a go buy a great scholar of my order a man of [great] renowned and wisdom. From what we can tell of the books and some carvings on a wall in the fist room of the dungeon there is a set progression threw the dungeon as well as a grand quest that must be undertaken and successfully for filled in order to make it out alive." his words are enthusiastic and nearly joyful.
"Our research suggests that after we swim threw a hidden passage there's some sort of water room we need to escape from keeping an eye out for black water and avoiding a monster something of the like. There is a note on blue eyes for that location but we don't know what it means and then after that we should be interring a grove of corruption it looks like." yeah definitely enthusiastic feelings in his voice almost as if he has forgotten this hellish pit is a dungeon they are unlikely to service and ever get out of.
Seeing as everyone is still awake for the moment, Izumi takes the two extra bracers she made and walks over to both Felipe and Alexander explaining that as the front end combatants in a fight they get the armor bits over the others. She also leaves a note of hope, "I hope to make more as soon as possible for everyone else."
(Out of Character: Bracers are worn around the forearms. While wearing these, the Player gets a +1 to Armor Class.)
In Game:
The group talks for a bit longer offering the new man to see the books if he wants.
Slowly the group nods off one by one with some one on watch over the sleepers. Every hour or 2 the next is woken for a turn on watch but not everyone is needed to take a shift before the night is over and the need for rest is drained from the group and the will to press onward is replenished.
The group will each have the same dream, in the dream you are you and the group with you is nothing but shadows formless faces and muttered voices.
The dream:
Darkness is everywhere the cold and the damp surround you. You look down and it seams almost as if your body glows the skin light with impermanent tingling feelings. The shadows of your self stretch out in to the nothingness taking forms of no-ones, the whispers of voices unknown. Over head you see a light a star in the distance far out of the grasp of the morale mind, blinking in the distant darkness a symbol of hope. It draws closer the body moving lifting up feet planted on nothingness the void still present dark and you alone with in it. You call out to the light asking where this place is. Asking what it wants. What it is. What it wants with you. Why am I hear? Silence is all that is revealed. Silence and questions echoing in the mind, till the light is bright above you like a sun, burning hot and full of hope. You look down around you many shadows from your feet, each moves as if they where a life there own, taking shapes some familiar some strange. You recognize some to be the comrades of the group, others to be yet formed unidentifiable to you.
The light lowers its self changing in size then shape. It takes the form of a blank man faceless formless glowing shape. It walks on feet and holds out hands its glowing form slowly turning from flam to skin, from skin to color, from color to form again. It grows hair it takes on sex, race and clothing till it mirrors you and opens eyes matching yours, lit looks long at you, in to you as if a mirror of your self it stands before you silent waiting. Waiting for what? Waiting and looking deeply in to you till you realize it is you looking deeply in to the pillar from [which] the shadows span. Have you switched body's? Are you the light in the sky over head offering hope? What is this twisted world a dream reality? So many questions you close your eyes and next they open you will be awake.
One of the fist to wake in the morning is Haru, whom sits off to the side playing still with the magical box and slowly filling his bag with all sorts of odd things but for the most part trying to trade up to an instrument he can play. The lap harp he has is no longer with in his potions and a look of concentration is on his face.
The person on shift for the morning and who was woken last for the watch is Izumi, she has been up for nearly an hour, and Haru for nearly a half hour.
Out of Game:
If you want to read over the books found or gain more detailed from the recapped story feel free to back read the in game thread and consider all information to of been relayed to you. Same goes for anyone in the group.
Alexander hesitates as Izumi holds the bracers towards him, "I see your reasoning, but I worry..." He lowers his voice, "I worry about our weaker members. No offense, but I count your son among them. I do not mean disrespect by this, his talents merely lie elsewhere. I don't want to lose anyone else down here. I do not fear for myself, I have faced death many times, and if this is the place he finally gets me, so be it."
Before going to bed
Izumi replies to Alexander, "I offered him these first, he wants you to have them. He has his own ways of defense, if he remembers any teaching he's ever received. Besides, I have a few more tricks up my sleeves, too."
Vigo went up to Alexander and Izumi.
"Not to cut in, but I can look after your son. I may not be much of a warrior but I can handle myself in a tussle well enough. However, if I'm to do that, I might need a weapon. All I have is this dagger." Vigo revealed.