Another day, another why are all these people trying to murder me?

So, morning. Sadly, the only real fire down here is a forge, so my food options are a bit limited. Just some baked potatoes I found and some wine. Maybe soon I can get some cooked meat...

Now that I've looted this mine for all it's worth, time to head out. I strike out across a river, and find this little hut with no one there, so I look around. Seems inhabited, though. After looking around a bit, I find a letter laying there... oh crap, a WITCH lives here! And she's outside! And she's throwing spells at me! Thankfully, before she can really hit me with anything, I manage to fry her with lightning. Phew.

Well, now there's all this stuff here... may as well take it. Ooh, and there's an alchemy lab hidden in the basement. Have to remember that. So, after taking everthing, I head downriver, and eventually find this little village, where I'm able to dump a lot of this random stuff I picked up, get a few supplies. Not much worth staying here for. But I saw this odd place on the mountainside nearby...

Hey, a tower on the way up. Hey, people! Maybe they know something... oh dammit, more bandits?! Thank everything for fire spells... and at least there's only a few of them. Nothing else useful here, continue on up the mountain...

That's an interesting structure... hey, more bandits! FWOOSH. No more bandits. But they said something about a Dark Elf inside...? I should go explore anyways.




Place is huge. Found the Dark Elf, though. Also, I hate spiders. Especially big ones. Also, the elf was an asshole. Said he'd give me this golden claw if I freed him from the spiderwebs, but instead he just ran off. Unfortunately for him, right into some undead, who took care of him quickly. Thankfully, fire seems to work on them just as well as anyone else. Several hallways, chambers, traps, undead, and a quite beautiful natural cave later, I found a strange door, with three turnable wheels on it, and instead of a normal keyhole, like the golden claw talons fit right in it. Would have spent ages working out how to get in if the claw wasn't engraved with the right symbols, in order even. Door open... looks like some kind of huge tomb. A few shiny things... wait, is that wall GLOWING? Woah... vision gets funny when I get close. And then it's like the glowing symbols jumped into my brain...  force. Unrelenting force. FUS.


I wonder what this all means...?