The 4 adventurers left early in the morning the following day, after talking to Garrick at the Old Boar Inn. They were excited and ready to go and left without having breakfast, saving that for the road.
They walked southwards for awhile, past fields and small woods. They did not see or hear anyone and it seemed the farther South they went, the more like a desert the land became. They were making good time and were humming songs to keep boredom at bay. All the while, Steropes kept flying above them, making bigger and bigger circles in the air.
A little after they rested for a late lunch, Steropes shrieked, telling Kasas that something was up ahead. They all got up and looked, but could not see anything except distant mountains and clouds in the sky.
They kept walking and then they did see something strange - some posts in the ground that bordered a large hole in the ground. As they got closer, they saw that the hole was HUGE and it was many miles long.
They had made it - This was the entrance to the Sunless Citadel!
Ropin looked around the ground where the posts were and determined that some people had come through here recently and had left a fire. Could this be the 4 adventurers before them?
Kasas was looking around at the posts and noticed that there were words carved into the wood - it was in rough dwarven, probably written by goblins, that said: "Stay Out! Don't Come In!"
Masiry looked, too and saw a rope that was tied to the post, going down into the chasm (large hole). He looked down, but it was deep enough that he could not see clearly to the bottom and was worried about falling in.
Kasas then told Steropes to go down and take a look. He did and tried to explain what he saw back to Kasas: "3 lands, 3 lands and meat! Meat! I'm hungry! Big meat, to walk - can I eat? Can I eat?" Kasas did not really understand, but he told him to eat the meat, if he wanted and Steropes flew down and there was a shriek and the sounds of a small fight. Steropes returned with a clump of hair to show and said "Big meat, angry meat! I want to eat, but big, big!"
Finally, they decided to go down the rope to see what this 'meat' was. Ropin was first, then Masiry, then Kasas and then Relord.
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