Oh Drat!

The 'meat' turned out to be three Dire Rats, as Ropin and Masiry found out when they landed on the first top platform leading down to the Sunless Citadel.

As Ropin climbed down the rope and jumped off the last part to land on the platform, 3 Dire Rats moved in, as if they were waiting (since they had smelled the adventurers coming down the rope). Ropin quickly went to one and sliced at it, staggering it a little. Masiry then jumped down, too and was about to make another leap to get behind one of the rats, but stumbled and fell down some of the stairs to almost the second mid platform. He was lucky that he did not tumble off the edge, since the drop off was over 80 feet high - which would have killed him. Luckily, his monk training helped here.

Kasas slowly made his way down and Relord brought up the end, making sure nothing would get them from behind. After a quick fight, the 3 Dire Rats were cleaved and killed. However, both Kasas and Ropin suffered some minor injuries, so the start of their adventure here was not without incident.

Patching themselves up the best they could, they continued down the stairs, looking out all the time for more rats. There were no more on the stairs, so they made their way down to the main section, which was quite impressive.

Each of the adventurers mouthed a surprised 'wow' from their lips as they looked at what was now a huge castle under the ground. They were told that this castle was pulled into the ground by some powerful magic and it must have been powerful indeed. As they stood on the last stair platform, they gazed at the small courtyard and a tower that was almost 3 floors high.


By this time, it was mid afternoon and the sun was going down, so they decided to hurry and try to get in the main door, they saw going into the tower.

Ropin went first stright to the door, when suddenly.......

.....he was gone!

He had fallen into a pit trap that lay in wait for anyone coming to the main door. He had rushed too much to notice it and now he fell into a hole about 20 feet deep. There were scattered rocks and he also noticed a dead goblin - that must have been there for a long time.

However, as he looked around, he also heard something in there with him and he noticed the long sinewy tail of another Dire Rat! He quickly got out his sword and tried to find the beast. It was a quick job for Ropin since the Dire Rat was also wounded.

Then, Relord, Masiry and Kasas were thinking of ways to get him out. Masiry used his rope to make knots in and they threw it in. Ropin grabbed the rope and pulled himself out. He will now be much more careful when looking at doors!