Allevia: Here There Be Giants 1
HERE THERE BE GIANTS
Part One: The Caverns
Stepping through the portal from Tienna to Allevia, you once again enter the enormous underground cavern where you briefly met the drow with his ominous words. It is hard to believe that was only about 20 minutes ago.
But the cavern is very different this time around. There is no gaping hole in the ceiling showing you the sky above. There is no torrent of explosions as the world is being destroyed or view of Tienna as a far away moon.
No, this time the cavern is completely enclosed. You stumble in, gather your bearings and let your eyes adjust, and the portal closes behind you.
As before, high walls surround you on all sides with no apprent exit. The walls are lined with long and wide pink and purple crystals, some as large as a tree. They are almost like angled mirrors surrounding you but part of the rock walls. They emit a very low glow that gives a trace of light, enough to see but not much more. The cave itself is immense, more than two hundred feet in diameter with walls that go up at least 50 to a hundred feet on all sides. They curve in a dome like pattern of a ceiling.
There are two other very different aspects of the cave this time around.
First, in the center of the cave is a mass of skeletons and decaying flesh. The smell is horrid, but the cavern is large enough that is not overly consuming. Above them in the ceiling about 100 feet above you is a hole about two meters wide. It creates an upward tunnel that ascends to darkness. If you had to guess, you would say these bodies fell through the hole to land in the pile.
Second, in the far corner of the room, you hear trickling water. There is a puddle of fresh water, surrounded by mud. It is far enough away not to be contaminated by the bodies.
You realize that since nothing appears to have disturbed the pile of bodies, this might be a safe place to rest and gather your strength while you make plans.
OOC: The new campaign in Allevia is a sort of exploration campaign. You are on a new world that you know little about except through legend. There will be some campaign "goals" provided along the way, but this is like a fresh start.
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