1st Interlude
You arrived at the outskirts of Galdion in the early afternoon. Curved, patchwork clouds flew overhead breaking the sunlight into rivers and streams of light. Even so the sun still glittered off the clear waters of the Crystal Sea and the smell of its spray was heavy on the ocean breeze which brought with it a strong chill. Not the cold of the unnatural dark of the days before at least but still enough to evoke a few shivers from you as you walked along the worn stones of the road.
Your curious company received quite a few glances and some stares as you made your way through the hinterlands city.
Once within the city proper Willa lead the way, she claimed to know some shortcuts which would get the party to the guildhall faster and everyone was eager to take the load of their shoulders and put up their feet near a fire.
Some of the alleyways were so narrow that squeezing through them was an uncomfortable, and sometimes undignified experience though one stretch of Willa’s route took the party into Galdion’s Underground via a tunnel which looked to be an old and crumbling drain. Down into the earth Willa stopped at a wall of almost white stone, its surface was as smooth and shimmering as that of glass and she put her hand to it. The patch of the wall she touched lit up and a green ring appeared against the wall around her hand. Two glowing, yellow diagrams appeared a little further up the wall and emerged as rounded cubes, upon four of their faces were large circular lenses. Both these objects seemed to be made of some sort of luminous dust. They flew around the party and Willa told everyone not to worry about them as the two golden cubes meet back at the place upon the wall from which the other had left and was apparently absorbed by it. A few more green circles appeared upon the wall along with handprints belonging to each of the adventurers. These shone for a moment then faded as a large circular opening formed in the wall, right before Willa, she was surprised as the doorway into the Underground had never been this large for her! Pleasantly surprised she lead the party into the large corridors beyond, the white stone of the interior was very familiar to some of the adventurers and Willa seemed to know her way around the vast, empty underground space. When Phelan asked how she could make sense of the maze of corridors Willa only responded with an incredulous look saying she was following the pretty lights. Yet the only illumination was provided by long glowing stones built into the ceiling of the corridors.
What would have been a journey of several hours through the surface city’s busy streets was reduced to barely an hour as not far from the hall of the Adventurer’s Guild the part emerged from the Underground in much the same fashion they had entered it. Moving through this section of the city during the mid afternoon was hardly difficult, especially with Willa’s help and before long the adventurers came to rest in the guild hall.