Chapter 4: Adventures in Blingdenstone

The gnome leans toward Xeliss, whispering, "Well, you ARE one of us, so I suppose I could give YOU 20%, but your friends don't get that much, they gotta stick with the 10%" he says with a wink.

Alchemist's Fire: 45 gp
Bullseye Lantern: 9 gp
Potion of Healing: 45 gp

On the ground, where the cubes were at, you also find some stuff that they dropped. You find 12 gp and a very well made shortsword (+1, Drowcraft)

Once you are done with your shopping you head to a door on the north wall (leading into area 28). A guard inspects you for a moment and then opens the door, "Good luck," he says, very seriously as you go through.

The walls of this great cavern are covered in slime, dripping, sickening green slime. Echoes of dripping water also fill the cave, in the center of which is a large spherical structure is held up off the floor by stone pillars. Around these pillars crawl dozens of living oozes, heaving forward while reaching out with grasping pseudopods. The sphere's surface, like the cave walls, is covered with slime. Black slime swirls with yellow and gray slime in a disgusting soup, the unearthly patterns in the movements of the slime straining your eyes and tugging at your mind.

A disembodied voice fills the cave. "What's this, what's this? Visitors? Now? Not yet! We're not ready! Go away, pests! I will call upon thee and all of Blingdenstone to announce our glad tidings of the Faceless Lord to come at the proper time! Begone!"

The oozes do no pursue you if you back out of the chamber.

The guard opens the door to let you back in, "That didn't take long," he remarks as he shuts the door back up.

The guard chuckles, "A bit more than you expected? It's pretty nasty in there, alright, and getting worse by the day," he gives directions to the Goldwhisker Warrens, the are of Blingdenstone that the wererats have claimed as their own.

You do indeed have to pass through the market (area 7) and find that purchasing a silver weapon costs 100 gp (90 for you, 80 for Xeliss) on top of the base price of the weapon. A steep charge, but they are in demand these days with the looming threat of the wererats. You may choose to make any purchases you wish, as long as they occur before the first combat you may encounter down there.

You pass through the market and into the main entry chamber (area 5), then turn west to approach a large set of reinforced and locked double doors that lead into the Warrens. The guards briefly listen to your story and then confirm that they got word from Dorbo to let you through. They tell you to knock with a "three-then-two" signal if you want to be let out.

The doors are opened and you enter into near-complete darkness with a warning to Watch your step in there! A little bit of glowing fungi sheds some light, but those without darkvision will need another source of light. The chamber you enter into is empty at first glance, with a tunnel leading to a neighboring chamber.