Ruins

I write this down, while the rest of the group is eating their dinner. I am waiting for them to finish, I wish they would pick it up!

We traveled to these ancient dwarven ruins, this afternoon. Travel was hot and sweaty, the horses were getting rather odorous by the time we got there.

When we were nearly there, we found a ruined fountain that was still pouring water from somewhere. As we were about to take a drink to cool off, we noticed that there were signs of a bird and possibly those left by a humanoid body (a belt buckle). Upon a little investigation by the sorceror and myself, we realized that the fountain was pouring poisonous water that was apparently some type of neurotoxin that paralyzed it's drinker. Who knows what would have happened, after that!

So, we traveled into this dwarven ruin and found a number of monsters that we haven't previously fought. There were three phase spiders, two ettin, three achaieraie which were pretty tough going, a horrible mind flayer, a deep spawn, and three other adventurers, two of whom attacked us. All of these were dispatched, with differing amounts of difficulty.

My friends recovered a number of items, some of which may turn out to be magical, some of which may just be ancient "relics" and some which just appear to have strange chemical properties. We haven't yet identified all of what we found, and we still have more of the ruins to explore once everyone is done eating. That's it for now. I'm going to take a look around and see if anyone else needs healing while we are resting, and to see if I can hurry them up!