Miss Entity makes some small talk as they pass through the charred husks of the control room and the now-thawed hallway.

"Mister Oneshoe, you may wish to know that you and that troll were frozen in the corridor together for 73 years, 9 months and 6 hours. The facility has degraded significantly since your gnomish corporation fell to the invaders below...

She eyes Regdoc's artifact and shakes her head.

"The wheellock pistol you hold was unreliable, even when it was new. With the decades of degrading it is useless at best and certainly a danger to yourself. Perhaps in a few centuries the technology will be improved and commonplace, but this piece? You should discard it..."

"A terrific paperweight for when I get back to the office." Regdoc snorted, though the Entity would likely know that as a Seeker he had neither an office nor a stack of papers to his name. He shoved it into his belt with a stubborn jut of his chin.

"The Wanderer's Ways are sometimes long and serpentine... time is measured in leagues by my order. A century is a dusty road, but one best taken a step at a time..."

In reply to Regdoc (msg # 2):

"You haven't even lived a century, Regdoc."

Creston may have been guarding the rear, but his hearing is fine.

"You don't know that..." he muttered in response. "One Step and then another..."

"But getting through this mountain may take a century of its own..."

Brodd smiled at the talk, entertained by it. Remembering the 'wrinkled kid' talk when they first got together.
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Further down the tunnel, the party reaches a small opening in the rock on the right.

"This is the entry to my lair," the naga announces. "The Unificant among you may enter. The rest of you, please wait outside."

She lowers her head and slithers through the halfling-sized opening.

Einhard drops the reins, and pats his steed calmly. "I don't like the idea of leaving some behind either, but it seems there is little choice if we wish to get out of this place." The knight calmly moves forward to follow this strange being.