The company emerged from the portal into a dark corridor, illuminated by a strange silver-and-grey light. The moist stone walls, almost twenty feet high, were covered with dozens of staring eyes that twitch and blink, following every move.

Not surprisingly, everyone had the strange sensation they were being watched.

As the company oriented, the portal shrank down to a pinprick and vanished with a faint pop.

“That’s the same ‘pop’ that happens when I do this,” Sifer said as he jammed his dagger into the nearest eye. It withered and closed in an instant before blinking out of existence. “Magic?”

“Or freaky,” Uthar shrugged.

“It will take time, but are we going to puncture all these eyes?” Sifer said, daggering a few more for good measure.

“It’s the Lord’s work.”

Eli had not time for that. He walked ahead, following the north corridor.

“I notice we no longer check for traps?” Sifer said. Pop.

“There’s no traps here, people,” Eli called over his shoulder.

“Are we ready, mentally, for this?” Three said tiredly. “Walking down a corridor covered with eyes without Marko checking seems a bit lackadaisical.”

“It is.” Pop.

Eli found himself facing a very long corridor that led to darkness, with another corridor leading south at the midpoint. “This place is huge,” he called over his shoulder.

Uthar took the other passage, seeing Eli ahead once he rounded the corner. The company followed, Three examining the floor but seeing it was too damp for tracks. There were however spores floating in the humid air, so he covered his face as a precaution.

Sifer looked to Eli standing at the further junction. “If you go around that corner I’m just going to let you go,” he shrugged.

“Sifer you don’t let me do anything. I’m not answerable to you.” None the less he waited for Uthar and his aura. The eyes followed the company accusingly with every step.

The small corridor to the south was truncated at a large circular hole, eight-foot across, surrounded by a reddish-purple ring like an iris around a pupil. “Mister Marko do you want to stealth ahead to see what’s down there?”

Marko nodded and shifted down to the opening. A semi-circular, constructed groove lay in the floor and ceiling above. Both were covered in a vivid lime slime, as were the walls that line either side. “Dwarven work, perhaps,” he reported. he peered into the ‘eyehole’ and saw a circular tunnel continued ahead. He poked the rapier into the green goop, drawing a sample level with his eyeline. He smelled it carefully, studying it for poison. “Smells like a naturally occurring slime, not poison,” he called, “Come to me.”

The company gathered at the strange opening. Water had pooled in the floor tracks, like run off that might explain the goop. Marko flew inside, checking carefully. The rounded walls made it feel like the inside of a sewer or pipe. He landed on the floor and continued ahead, following the corridor around in a right angled bend. “Follow, it’s safe.”

“What are these corridors here for?” Eli asked as he climbed inside. “What was the point of the corridor we came from?”

Marko looked around the corner to see a large heap of broken glass that sparkled in a variety of colours. Another circular opening, with the same slime-covered grooves, lay before the piles of glass. He approached, finding the small room ahead was a dead end. “Decorative I think, not just smashed bottles,” he said picking up shards. On the walls he noticed small alcoves and some mounting points, perhaps for shelving now removed or destroyed. He tried to piece together a selection of same-coloured glass, but realised it would take too long.

Three joined Marko, his steps crunching underfoot as he entered the room. He too looked closely at the glass, and his background made him sure of what he saw. “I think we’re walking through a museum, or gallery. This was a fine vase,” he said holding a semi-intact piece aloft.

Idris remained behind, trying to make sense of the slime in the groove. Whilst it was natural, it was different to the ooze covering the eye-laden walls. More like lubrication…

Session played February 9, 2025