There has been a drastic pickup in activity around the guild after the kobolds had left the town, mostly in wanting to go hit the dragon dungeon hard. Most of them wanted to do it since they hadn’t realized kobolds where that aware and wanted to “free” them from the dungeon. It was a sentiment that I had seen countless times from adventurers as our group traveled around, and it didn’t often last long. Honestly with so many very experienced adventurers I am surprised so many of them didn’t know how actually aware kobolds where. Dragons have always been odd creatures when it came to morals of hunting them like wild beasts. I give it a couple more days of the guild master denying a liberation raid before someone does it without permission and gets punished hard.
I don’t blame them, kobolds where so on the line between what people considered, well people, and random monsters. This dragon dungeon was a rare one in that it seemed to actually give a shit about the little sentients. Most dragons, and dragon dungeons by extension, tend to see them as a means to an end, and so treat them as little more then tools. This dungeon though, seems convinced that even they are a part of it’s hoard and thus worth its attention. The way the guild master smiled when he saw them I can bet it was due to him in some way, that or he was just surprised and happy about it. Either way what I find more interesting is that they went to go see the graveyard dungeon, it shocked just about everyone.
Honestly I am not that surprised after I saw what they where carrying, it was quiet a few bundles of items. The items where rather bulky on the kobold’s small frames and some of them even looked fairly big for a normal sized species. If I was a guessing woman, I would say that the next time we all go to check on the dungeon there will have been some major changes. Well while everyone panics about the morality of dungeons 101, I look into my current bit of reading material. This hedge wizard that I have been looking into recently is rather interesting, the theories on the nature of death dungeons is rather useful. Though frankly I find some of the claims wild at the very least, including the one about there being multiple types of mana a death dungeon can use. Even a mage as sensitive to the mana as I am can only sense one type of mana between death dungeons.
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“Hey got news” Orkus says as he slides in to sit near me, I glance up to give him my attention while still reading my book. “Boss wants us to do some work, get a lay of the land of the dungeon, and any big changes.” That gets more of my attention as I mark my page before I look at him full on, my curiosity fully peaked. Before he speaks though we wait for Venos to come by and sight down, though he came packing with a hearty lunch aswell. “So, the job is simple for us. The Guild Master wants us three to go in and head figure out if there is any major changes. Especially any new creatures that may have been made.” Venos seems to be the most exasperated by this all, with a deep sigh as he realizes what all three of us are going to be doing.
“So what are we planning then?” Venos asks as he puts down a spoonful of stew, and thinks quietly.
“well my opinion is we do it, might be the only chance we get to go there again” There was a massive smile on Orkus’s face. He was entirely ready to just go out and get this whole job don, which it is easy to see.
“I like the idea of going that way” I speak out, smiling slightly. “those bursts of mana where surprising and I feel a need to find out what they where.” Venos quietly rolled his head and leaned back as he sighed, he knew this would happen and is playing up the annoyance a bit. I don’t doubt it’s real but he is certainly going above and beyond about it. “Hey look at it this way big guy” I shine him a small smile. “There could be something in there that’s fun to take down, and we can get revenge for our guild mates.” That got him to smile as we spoke, ready for battle. Though he did return to his meal which I know neither Orkus nor me would stop him finishing up. It was just something that we just have to live with, we don’t have much that can’t be done about all of these little bits and pieces.
I return to my book since it’s best to just kill some time and wait for a minute, and getting some more ideas as to the nature of the dungeon. There is a lot that is hard to understand about death dungeons and this one is hitting ideas that are so volatility different then any other I have seen. And even this wizard so inundated with wild magic and wild dungeons doesn’t make note of any of these oddities. Maybe if I do find out more, and end up writing a book about all I learned, then I might end up marked a hedge mage. That would be something else, a great scholar from the academy, discounted as a hedge mage for going against common knowledge.
