Descent into the Underdark

you sit on a couple crates off to one side of the camp after sorting our your own buisness and buisness with the artificer.

A couple of the guards join you and are grateful to hear that you got most of the Darkmantle and only lament that one got away . However they say one lone beast should be easy for them to handle.

They talk about the other local perrils, the spider cavern and gelatenous cube are both known threats but do not wander so are easily avoided. The spider cavern is supected to lead to the surface and the Expedition would like it explored and either guarded or sealed off. For now they simply check the spiders ocasionally, using them as a natrual deterant. The gelantenous cube resides in what must be a manufactured shaft but who built it and why? It too leads up but as none have been able to get past the cube they leave the cube to guard tht for them. The concern is that if it is constructed, perhaps the buildier of the passage have a way to bypass the cube. So it is still watches closely

Besides those two things there is teh cavern with the pink fungus that emits deadly spores to the NW and the magic pool a short way from the camp. Both Fiznik and Valpip have looked at the magic pool and simply told the guards to leave it alone but did not go into details. Ishzo had been tracking a goblin trail that lead towards the region with the pink fungus and/or the passage back to the surface.

What, more goblins? Blast. After skeeve and Blornvid cleared teh tunnels beneath the base we hoped we'd seen the last of them Should have knonw better. We'll report this to commander. If you can find how they are getting back into the caverns and show us, along with any other proof, they will likely reward you.

You chat a bit more and they relay the sotries they have heard about those that ventured deeper into the underdark using the passage that leads down deeper into their depths to the west. Once we seure teh othe passages, ya know the spider, the cube, and now the goblin, then tat will be the last problem and we will likely stick a couple guards there. But fore now there are too many places to watch so we just guard back at the base and here at the camp.