And we're off!
Strong-armed Kar and Tekkud Asizbomrek "Flashedwhip" venture from Dawnthunder into this blighted wasteland some call the Ocacular Planet!
The going is real rough, honestly. My strategy was mostly fleeing the instant an ambush arrived and trekking manually across mountains since they're mostly devoid of life/unlife. A swarm of angry undead elephants was enough for me to just patiently walk across the mountains.
Let's meet our companion, Tekkud, though -
Aww, what a sweet guy. I hope you don't die out here, buddy.
Kar drinks a bunch of wine and eats a handful of nuts before passing out on the ground. Ah, so like myself. Better find a nice place to lay down my head. This will do:
An interesting part of the long walk was seeing the horrible impossible landscape. Accursed fog boulders and devildust walls were everywhere. I found several mutilated great horned owls too. As I walked onto some flat ground to fast travel a bit, I found some sort of site.
There were a ton of coins from goblin civilizations on the ground here. I tried to find the entrance, but couldn't - this was a usual problem in this journey. I'm not sure where the entrances are for some of the sites - using just the compass for navigation. Possibly, there are hatches covered by some junk somewhere in here. Or it's the result of raw strangeness. Not really sure. I'm going to double check on legends to see if they were sites like Titan one or actual caves that perhaps I missed.
Some of the more interesting coins:
We continue walking - and finally, some hope appears on the compass.
It's not long before we find another impossible to enter site. I wander around and find a nice souvenir which I wear with pride.
The journey is pretty easy, just involves a lot of running. I'm not sure how Kar does it, as she is running with a barrel full of wine with nuts floating in it in one hand. Incredible. Tekkud and I only fought an undead weasel and some giant moles. The weasel was impossible to kill - every blow just glancing off. I eventually ran from it.
And then.
Glorious Machineheat!
What are these walls made of?
A tear comes to my eye. It's so similar to Dawnthunder. Now, to discover what destroyed this precious site.
There's food in the depot - which is an extremely pleasant find. The most precious resource in the world. It's almost all cheese.
There's a tavern on the surface level. It's empty of food and drink, but has some mugs and instruments scattered about.
I see something I can't even imagine.
We're in.
The halls are empty - some of strange materials, but mostly it's the usual stuff. There are some forges long forgotten and a room filled with pig cheese - I mark it mentally. I find some remnants of the old empire.
Tekkud and I hear something moving around in the fortress.
Could there be a survivor? A single lost soul? Somehow surviving the swirling chaos of the world below? Milking pigs and living off the cheese perhaps?
Uh oh.
See you next time when we encounter this stranger! Perhaps with violence!