[center][b]The Hunt for Diana - Mathew [/b][/center]

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With the Dwarf taking the lead, Mathew found himself falling in behind their orange-clad guide. When they reached the cavern, the three choices were presented to them. To the left, the promise of fire and brimstone. Not being much for a fight, especially against crazed dragons, Mathew saw this option as a last resort. The Telepath thought the middle road the best bet, with its benign smells, but then the dwarf revealed it as a likely trap. Considering this idea, Mathew had to agree. They wouldn’t be so lucky as to have an easy road.

The third path, however, was unknown to them. But, if it was so recently made, then whatever made it must have wished to evade the dangers of the other paths. Whatever lay down that road must then have been less dangerous than what blocked the other two trails, surely? 

[b]”We should avoid the trap. If the Queen could barely escape from similar powers, I doubt our odds would be any better. I say we head down the road less travelled -- whoever, or whatever, made the tunnel did so to avoid the dangers of the other roads. I mean, assuming they all go to the same place. I’m not expert on underground passages.”[/b] Mathew said, [b]”At any rate, I think we should avoid hitting a dragon’s nest with a stick. I don’t fancy being a snack. What does everyone else think?”[/b] Having said his piece, the telepath shivered. Things were bad enough when it was just mind-flayers; now there were mind-flayers, dragons, apparently deadly-magic, and who-knows-what-else hiding in these caverns.

Just then, an idea came to his mind. He didn’t know if he could reach that far, but Mathew tried to feel out down the passages with his mind, searching for some mental purchase. Maybe he could feel some dragons’ crazed hunger, or the diabolical thoughts of whomever laid the trap before them… Or find some idea of what lays down the chilled, unknown path. Mathew knew he wouldn’t be very useful in a fight, but he could at least try to get more intelligence so they aren’t going in blind.