"I long to get outside again. I don't want to spend forever in these tunnels."
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outside
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"Oh, it has been so many years. The forests must be so beautiful."
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tunnels
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"Curse these caverns. Curse the day they sent us to clean them of vermin. Triple curse Thralni for taking us to explore them."
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clean
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"Of the monsters. The lizard things, and the demons, and the snakes and gremlins and eye beasts and such. They sent us down, but there weren't enough of us. I sensed the deaths, one by one. You can do that when you're dead."
"We all died. Every last one of us."
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explore
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"We went to explore these rivers. We got split up. My group got beached here. Some of us stayed to fix the boats. No materials. Some of us went to look around. I sensed them die."
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thralni
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"Curse him, for ordering us down here. He promised us we would be safe, and forced us to go when we wouldn't go of free will. He said his magic would save us. As you can see, it didn't. I was murdered."
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magic
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"He had an orb. When rubbed, the holder and several others could fly for a short time. Too short and for too few people to help us. It was a famed and remarkable item. It's gone now."
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murdered
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"By Thralni for bringing me here. That statue around the corner was me. A basilisk caught me unawares."
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basilisk
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"They're extinct aboveground. They turn people to stone. Watch it, or you'll be next."