Descending deeper into the mine has the party on edge. The air is thicker here, and humid. The humans begin to become uncomfortable, though the dwarfs barely notice. Golinar is caught unawares as a oozing acid creatures drops from the ceiling, just missing him, but finding its way into Gwyllas chainmail before being dispersed with axe blows.
A few oozes later the party attempts to cross an ancient rickety bridge, twobellies bulk sending him through the ancient timbers... only to be caught by his belly. As he flails in place Gwylla goes to help... and Golinar holds two oozes at bay by himself at great personal danger though he takes the pain without complaint like a true dwarf. Deeper again they travel, hacking oozes in their wake. As robart falls behind he hears a noise following them... a man who attacks... and then transforms into a rat, scoring a bite on Golinar.
Perhaps he followed them in.. for there are no signs that he lived here...
The party find an underground lake, filled with milky scaled blind fish. Cooter amuses himself by playing with them and treating them a golden waterfall which sends them to the deeps.
At the bottom most level of the mine the party finds and defeats an even larger ooze (or collection of oozes?) which releases a myriad of (very, very clean) metal items as it is ruptured. The mine has been cleared as best the party is able, and Jakor speaks of hiring guards and a few miners until he finds just the right "blue crystal"...
