(Rag, what's your ETA? I'm going to progress without you, so just imagine what happens when you approach the stairs. ;))

The huge expansive caverns of the Underground envelope the backdrop, the drip, drip of water heard distantly from some unseen location. A soft light glowing from Dalboz provided the enormous Underground Empire enough luminescence to see their way around. The ground on which the adventurers stood was a narrow pathway of stone, which ran along a wall to the left, forked so that its one path continued in this same direction along the wall, and the other crossing over the chasm separating the walls of the cavern. To the right is a small ledge, that curves around an especially dark outcropping of the stone wall.

"Ah, the Great Underground Empire..." said Dalboz, "It's been a loooong time. Uh, too long, in fact;you're on your own, kids. I have no idea where to go from here."


-Dalboz of Gurth, The Third Dungeon Master of the GUE-