Beneath - An Uru Explorers Journey Through D'ni and its Ages

It was apparent the changes had taken effect as soon as we arrived on Sul, the heavy heat in the air and the acrid taste were no more. Instead the heat was what one would consider normal for the location, and the air felt cleaner.

The last visits to Sul before the changes were made had shown us large sections crumbling away, giving way to that onslaught of molten rock, the changes wrought by this were vast. The Link in point was still in the same place, and whilst it looked vaguely familiar the changes made by myself to the Book had caused more changes to the Age.

With the hostile air gone, the old wildlife had returned, and then some we had not witnessed before. The sea of molten rock was no more, things were apparently stable. The sky continued to keep a sense of its previous foreboding nature, but this time we could see the stars peeking through.

Within the basin another smaller basin had formed from where the lava well was previously. The water had settled in, through the water we could see that below was another cave system with a fissure providing the heat that set the water in place.

Steven and I set up some ropes and lowered ourselves down through the small fissure and into the cave below. It opened out into a larger cave with a passage leading deep into the rock, an orange glow coming from it indicated that it probably opened out to another magma pool.

We spent a couple of ours there studying the rock and surrounding formations hoping that the instabilities of before had been fix. I plan on setting up a makeshift lab in the cavern below the basin to observe over a period of time to make sure it is safe before we even consider letting others visit.

Tomorrow I shall bring some supplies over to get set up.

The Christmas holidays saw the majority of us heading up to the surface to spend the season with family and friends.

For us it was a double new, it was the first Christmas of me being a US resident and the first Christmas in our own place. Despite some issues in November and the chaos of organizing it went well, the kids seem to certainly enjoy themselves.

With the holidays over I returned to the cavern to continue the work we are doing, one project was Kehrahn. Upon seeing Cass my wife expressed an interest in having a Linking Book to a similar location albeit purple instead of blue. So for our one year anniversary that is coming up at the end of the month I thought I would Write a small Age for her, I may not be able to give her the world, but I can give her a world (sappy I know but I adore my wife).

Work has been progressing nicely over the course of time, I based the design heavily on Cass with some changes (the Kehrahn Book is almost a copy of the Cass Book), I don’t plan to get into the habit of duplicating Books I feel it belittles the specialness of the Ages contained within, almost like mass production of a classing painting or something, not that I could deem any of my Ages to be classical, they simply are what they are.

Thankfully the project hasn’t been as much of a disaster as Winterbloom, which still hasn’t reached phase 5.