March Entry: Wrong Turn Cellar

[Midgardsormr]

I've finished off the root-mining textures now, and my next step will be to put the finishing details on Room 3. Here's the story of what happened there:

Among the swine (a term applied jokingly to the slaves, comparing them to truffle-hunting pigs) there were three gnomish brothers with stronger-than-average wills. Their spirits unbroken, they began immediately preparing for their escape. It took them almost a year to gather the supplies they needed, melting down all the metal objects they could coax away from the other slaves, filching a few nails from every crate they were given, and carefully sculpting the stones turned up by the excavation. They constructed a secret tunnel that went deep into the earth and protected it with cunning traps, both mundane and magical.

Eventually the time came for a mass escape. The swine vanished into the tunnel, leaving just enough clues for their captors to find it. The villains opened the hidden door and were consumed by a blast of flame from a magical stone cannon the gnomes had prepared.