Path: Chapter Three

-Eva and Augustes get to the bottom of the well and... nothing happens.

-After a quick check of the bottom, Eva starts jumping up and down to loosen the pressure plate they're standing on. Augustes joins in, and a door opens in front of them, spilling the water out . They look down a well-crafted stone hallway, with torches lit every 50 feet

-Eva scouts out ahead, and finds that there are a group of evil dwarves from Itan Horu also undergound. She guides Augustes away from them by softly humming The Song of Paths and Ways, staying just one step ahead of the dwarves.

-They come to a fork in the road, and they pick the right passage because it's warmer. 

-Augustes and Eva hear singing and see a soft glow behind them and flee, trying to get away and arrive upon a spiral staircase. They bolt down it, but all of a sudden the lights go out. The lights turn back on with a horrific scream AND..

-Augustes finds himself in a magnificent golden palace with relief carvings in the wall, showing scenes of sadism and torture beyond imagination. Golau, the eternal Queen of the Continent Golau walks up to him and asks why he has these illusions of grandeur. Becoming a hero! Bah! A Duel of Wits ensues:

Augustes (3 disposition): I wanna be a hero!

Golau (8 Disposition) you're worthless, accept it and come back home.

It doesn't take look for Golau to verbally browbeat Augustes into submission. But he does get a minor compromise: he wants to save Aelia before going back to Golau to beg forgiveness for thinking he could do anything apart from her.

-Eva also comes to the same room, but is face to face with her father instead. A Duel of Wits also ensues.

Eva (4 Disposition): Never talk to me again, get away from me!

"Kai" (8 Disposition): Running away from me and my plans is pointless, you know I'm right.

It's only one action longer and Eva still loses, but she does get a major compromise out of it. Eva may be wrong about running away from her father and his ideals (elves suck and should be destroyed, humans are awesome and everything should be done to help them!), but she isn't wrong about her father. And she's determined to stop him before she sets sail.

-Eva comes to, only to find that Augustes is standing next to her on the staircase, still in a trance. She then hears the dwarves coming in their direction, complaining that they of all people are lost in their ancestral home!

-Eva hides under the spiral staircase, the unconscious Augustes  limp over her back, and watches as the dwarves walk past into the unfurnished caves... she then drags Augustes back up the stairs and slaps him into wakefulness. Together they make their way down the hall, and choose the other way in the fork in the road.

-As they traverse the labyrinth the two hear roden off in the distance, looking for "some damn elf". using the Song of Paths and Ways Eva keeps her and Augustes clear of the roden. They stumble upon a massive underground dwarven temple, manned by roden...