The dwarves of the Deep Descent seemed pleased with what Elu­veril had accom­plished. A few of them told her she should move on to the Cham­ber of the Cross­roads. This proved to be pretty sim­ple as she’d been there before; a quick pay­ment to the local sta­ble keeper and she was on her way.

The Cham­ber of the Cross­roads itself is a rel­a­tively small area on the far east­ern side of Durin’s Way. The sur­round­ing area turned out to be sur­pris­ingly con­fus­ing, with rises and falls and a mul­ti­tude of dead ends. It didn’t help that the ene­mies that prowled the area, par­tic­u­larly to the north and the east, were still par­tic­u­larly strong. It turned out that the dwarves were sim­ply ask­ing too much of her. While she could take on a sin­gle Mer­roval, she never was able to make it to their actual roost­ing grounds. Sim­i­larly, while she could take on most lone gob­lins in the area, they tended to form groups around the drums she was asked to destroy. It was a los­ing game.

Some time was also spent help­ing Bori, who had me run­ning what appeared to be a fool’s errand: find­ing a leg­endary mithril axe. She’s not had too much luck yet, unfortunately.

It was decided that more time should be spent build­ing her skills and strength. Elu­veril killed a good many gob­lins, bats and wargs. She even man­aged to gather some leg­endary weapons, all of which were quickly iden­ti­fied and decon­structed. While the Frost Rune-stone she cur­rently uses isn’t ideal, a Lightning-based one has yet to pop up.

Moria has offered a nice assort­ment of met­als and ores as well, but in order to refine and smelt, Elu­veril has to find a forge. So far, she’s not had much luck, but the Twenty-first Hall is said to con­tain one. This area is even fur­ther east, but the route so far has been sur­pris­ingly quiet. The halls that lead there are immense, open and bright … Not some­thing orcs and gob­lins seem to pre­fer. Hope­fully she’ll reach her des­ti­na­tion soon.

Next time, Elu­veril keeps help­ing Bori and advances to the Twenty-first Hall.

(My apolo­gies for the short update and lack of images… My com­puter crapped out on me. All is good now!)