Ishzu Down Under

A metal touch passes the dragons reply Simply pushing a bit of your mental energy into the place where the mark is will allow you to feel the connection the mark creates with me and you will be able to trigger it. The mark can have other effect based on the individual that carries it and how the react with the trace of my power in the mark.

The crack winds down dozens of feet and you lose track of direction and distance before reaching the bottom in darkness. During the climb you note there are a few glow grub on the walls of the crack, giving off their faint light, but the further you descend the less there are. The climb proves instructive as you stretch your senses to detect any nearby lifeforms you begin to not that your forced reliance on it has exposed its potential to "feel" objects around you which greatly aids you descent in the darkness. Reaching the bottom of the climb, or at least a large level area, you pause to consider your options.

Do you wish to continue in near total darkness or light a flame for illumination.

The low rock wall is as "solid" as a loose collection of rock piled together without cement or mortar can be. The pit is low enough that none of the creatures can see even the base of the wall at their current eye level. Searching nearby you do see a walled off ramp leading down next to the pit with a solid door granting access to it.

Moving towards the sounds cautiously you hear another clink, of chain shifting?, but can make out nothing in the area. Now that you look at it is seems oddly devoid of the small glowing plants, moss, or lichen that grant the little level of light there is. Knowing that many denizens of the dark do not need even that much to see by you get the strang impression of being back lit in the nearly pitch black cave as you pause your approach towards the black area as you feel increasingly uneasy.

Suddenly from the shadows hiding the breathing a large form rushes out accompanied by a low growl and the tilkle of metal behind it. Two heads lunge at you snapping their large maws to bite down on your hardened stone skin.You sidestep in time to avoid the creatures charge. It twirls in place to face you with the pens a ways to your left, the creatures starting position behind it and to the left as well with the passage you came in from to your right

Holding the lantern up the troglodyte peers at you. Is a housing, taping voice it replies Lossst in the cavessss? Haashad Krisska am I. This place is mine. . And it states at you, holding one of the dogs collars.

Holding your torch to light you way you move closer to the firelight. You se two small figures croutched ovre a small cooking fire. One of the figures looks up towards your direction and you recognize it as a goblin.