Role

Chapter 2

Viqu wandered through the deep, dank tunnel for over an hour before she came
to a split. It was an old abandoned svirfnebli ambush tunnel that was dug
centuries ago by the miners at war with the dark-elves. This one was dug too
shallow and in time it finally crumbled to reveal its secret. They would leave
the last foot of the tunnel untouched from breaching through into the known
tunnels of the Underdark. The svirfnebli enchanters would feel for vibrations
in the stone through honed rods in the stone and when anyone passed by they
would unleash an earth elemental using the remaining stone to smother the
opposing force followed by spears and pickaxes once they were down. It was
brutal warfare but the drow quickly learned to fill suspected ambush chambers
with poison gas from their own host of summoned demons to counter these
tactics. At the time, the mines were a profitable harvest of gems and precious
stones, but once they were abandoned the skirmishes ceased and both sides
abandoned the exploration.

The abandonment by each side was claimed due to heavy losses to one another,
but in reality there was a much more serious and secret reason. One that
Viqu was completely unaware of.

At the split in the tunnel, Viqu peered and then sniffed down each pathway.
They appeared the same and no ill-odor alerted her to any danger but only
one tunnel held tiny motes of mushroom spores slowly drifting down it and
curiosity got the better of her. "Where are all of these mushrooms coming
from?" she thought to herself. Down the west tunnel she went and ever so
slightly the motes of mushrooms began to increase. It was one or two at first
but then it was three, four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty until a cloud of motes
was all that filled her vision.

How long had she been walking? What was she doing again? Was she on her way
home? Where was Tsinador? Who is Tsinador again? How long had she been
walking? What's my name again? Where was I going again? What is that smell?
Is this the way out? How long have I been walking? She quickly forgot it all.