Serlinda's Report - Early Findings/Text

First Report

Stetzs, you did not warn me that this would be such a trying mission. I thought I was here to assess a magical rock, not to deal with the insanity that grips this quarry.

The administrator of the mine, Korl, is a preening fop. He rarely leaves his residence on the hill outside the mine for anything. Indeed he had a slave lead me down after I spoke with him. Yet Korl is nothing compared to Prime Ritualist Ofgats.

He cloisters himself in his Scelerium and refuses to see me. The messages he sends through his geomancers are completely mad, although it's hard to tell if it is the messenger or the message that is the source. The other guards are terrified of his rituals, and it seems that if he cannot get all the slaves he requires he is not choosy about pressing any who wander near enough into bloody service.

The guards near the depleted tunnels have most certainly lost their minds, they argue with each other constantly about nonsense and attack anyone on sight. I need Ofgats to get me into the area I'm supposed to survey, but the bastard won't see me! From what I have been able to discover in interviews of guards and slaves, once the ore is harvested from a vein, the tunnels become increasingly infested with some kind of stone construct or golem. Above ground they shamble, but many claim to have seen them flow into and out of tunnel walls, floors and ceilings.