<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Time Jump</strong></span><br/><em>One Week Later</em><br/><br/>Mouser had said, and the maps had confirmed, that there existed a dwarven mine that had been built ages ago about a hundred miles lying in a northern direction.  And so the party set off, somehow losing the Beast on the way.  The going was rough, for the way was dangerous and deadly.  Large carnivorous lizards roamed the landscape, and House Nox had many, many close scrapes.  Each time they prevailed by their strength of arms or by their sheer cunning.  But one thing was for certain: it had become obvious why Twin had placed a barrier around Tide Pool.<br/><br/>Finally, House Nox arrived to a summit of a small mountain, and below them they could see...  THE RUNE FORGE.<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://img4.goodfon.com/wallpaper/nbig/0/18/incident-in-the-blue-mines-cave-sooruzhenie-liudi.jpg)</div><br/>Mouser had explained that a company of dwarves had established a successful mining company on the Dark Continent nearly two millennia ago.  However, when the Dark Continent disappeared, the company was doomed to a fate worse than death.  It was sometimes difficult to extricate fact from legend when one spoke to Mouser, but he said that the mine yielded some of the most precious diamonds in existence today.<br/><br/>Camp was made in what looked like a watch tower.  It was high off the ground and made of hewn stone.  It was open, but roofed, to keep the party from the elements.<br/><br/>"Sir," a man in House Nox's employ said as he approached Davriel Nox,  "the scouting party has not arrived, and it has been a day.  Shall we send another party?"