Seeking passage through the mountains and not caring to brave the high passes, laden with snow as they were, and scoured by storm, [Character] had been grateful when, coming upon a low cave entrance, it seemed to worm its way back into the mountain. Having heard tell of many such tunnels, said to be carven beneath the mountains’ very roots, she began to make her way cautiously into the darkness. And for two days she continued onwards, braving the long dark with only the sound of her footsteps, the soft sussurance of her breath, to break the quiet, a quiet that seemed to press ever more heavily upon her the further she traveled. More than once she considered turning back, yet, to the best of her reckoning, the tunnel was taking her in the direction she had hoped, and with far more speed than she could ever hope to have managed above ground. And so she endured. A change in the echoes of her footsteps first alerted her to the huge chamber into which she suddenly emerged, walls and ceiling lost in darkness beyond her torch’s light, whilst, thinking it first a trick of her eyes, from up ahead there came a dim red glow. Cautious now, she proceeded more slowly, as the light seemed to brighten, and with it there came a growing tension in the air, a gathering sense of malice that crawled upon her skin and twisted behind her eyes. Until, from a rent in the ground that split the chamber near in two, there leaped a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark-form. Of man-shape, maybe, yet greater, it wielded a power and terror that seemed to be in it and go before it. It strode towards her, and now she knew it for what it was, as suddenly flames kindled to wreath about it and blaze behind it. A Balrog, Felagrod, and in its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire, and in its left it held a whip of many thongs, which twisted and snaked in the air as if possessed of life.
NPC Encounter
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Options | Loyalists | Neutral | Usurpers |
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SAY (one word) | ? | ? | ? |
CAST spell (spell ID) | ? | ? | ? |
ATTACK the Balrog | ? | ? | ? |
Offer 10,000 GOLD in return for safe passage onwards | ? | ? | ? |
FLEE | ? | ? | ? |
Run and HIDE | ? | ? | ? |
APOLOGISE for having intruded, and beg permission to continue onwards | ? | ? | ? |
Offer a random ARTEFACT in return for safe passage onwards | ? | ? | ? |
Seek to RECRUIT Felagrod to her cause | ? | ? | ? |