The tunnel heads, and then opens up and there is a large valley in the mountain in here. It’s colder than expected – almost normal temperatures. The slopes of the mountains are all around. The floor of this alley is marred by large areas of barren rock, ripped and damaged.
As Alzar moves across, he makes out a faint cry and Gilded Ears can hear it as well. It’s coming from a great distance up above. The cry goes on, and then a large bird like creature can be seen, flying towards the area, and as it gets closer and bigger and bigger, it spies Alzar in the valley and the giant bird, a roc, attacks. Alzar prepares a Hold Monster spell. Again, -4 to the spell. The roc rolls…a 5. Would have been a fail no matter what. And it falls to the ground, damaged badly, and Alzar moves over and finishes it.
They continue and exit the valley a few hours later. The tunnels here veer off in three different directions, all of which are big enough to accommodate a passing army. After an hour or so or various passages, Alzar begins to make out something nearing, and they run into a wandering creature as a large, giant, segmented worm known as a caecilia emerges from the bend and moves to attack.
They are basically smaller, but no less hungry, versions of the purple wurm. Alzar steps behind the golem, and the golem is an auto win (no ability to hit magical stuff)
They continue on.