Book 2 Chapter 8

After delaying everybody's corruption, the party is now ready to continue exploring the ancient mine. They soon find themselves with two options: climb down a ladder, or go down an extremely long hallway. They decide to head down the hallway. Once they reach the end, they are now in what seems to be a quite room, but soon are surprised by some strange looking creatures. It seems like the party may be bested by this abrupt attack, but somehow they muster up enough strength to slay them all. The party is clearly exhausted, but they know they must trudge on so they can head back to Porthaven. After a quick breather, they continue on and soon find the unpleasant surprise that this cave is infested with rust monsters. The party tries to continue on carefully, but soon find a room full of these fowl beasts and realize they have no other choice. They dispatch quite a few rust monster before being attack by a giant rust monster. This creature is at least three or four times bigger than any previous rust monster. Luckily, the party is able to slay the giant beast and hopes that this was the last monster that needs slaying within this hellish mine. They explore a bit more and soon find that there are dozens of rust monster eggs; now they must ask each other... Should we keep them? Or destroy them?