[AMBIENCE] After the perilous end to the first expedition, searches went out to find more entrances to the dungeon. It was rare that there was ever only _one,_ and even then, they tended to move and warp without a logical explanation. But wherever they were once, they’ll sur...

"Well you've sure gotten yourself into a fine pickle." Even wedged with his back to the sultry voice, Luca knows he's in trouble the moment he hears the other courser approach. He starts squirming, trying to back out, inch forward, do anything to free himself from the narrow slanted tunnel he thought he could fit through. "Yes, great!" he whinnies, "you've identified there's a problem! Now help me!" ...

If a half dozen fairies with ittybitty knives are all they have to worry about, Luca feels pretty good about their odds. After all, this is barely the first level of the dungeon. The group seems restless as they proceed, though, and he can see them occasionally tilting their heads together in the gloom, outlined by torchlight. He can never hear what they're saying. And it's eerie, everything seems to bo growing darker, little lights he could have sworn wer...

The hired muscle isn't entertaining him, which is pissing Luca off. Nevermind the humidity, nevermind the incessant dripping, he'd nearly had one of them ready to take him under their wing and humor him, when a thunderous crash had made them all jump, shaking wet gravel down from the ceiling and all but cracking the tiles. The musclehead in charge had barked them all back to 'point!' which meant jostling Luca into the middle of the sweat...

Caverns shmaverns. For all the hype about this dungeoneering crap, Luca isn't impressed. Yeah the walls are dripping with glowing slime, the howls of the lower levels scare the piss out of him every step he takes, and the occasional ominous boom heralds a door closing or distant fight, but so far it's been mostly a lot of fungus, and a lot of humidity that's making his hair frizz. The steady drip, drip, drip of water down the moss-covered walls i...