Abra and one of the other Duskwardens, a dwarf by the name of Nobu open the door and lead you in. Beyond the Twisted Door, the Half light Path is a roughly 15-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall tunnel that winds up through the cliff at a steep but manageable slope. The tunnel begins as a natural-looking cave, with minimal work done to widen it, but as it climbs, it passes through numerous distinct regions—places where the tunnel has been painted with crude pictographs or decorated with elaborately carved pillars and frescoes, or where it becomes a mirror-smooth tube or a square-walled path filled with right angles, like a labyrinth in which every wrong turn has been blocked off.
Sometimes it emerges briefly onto narrow ledges along the cliff face, and at one point the tunnel even opens up into a larger chamber where both walls are carved with elaborate porticos and balconies, its many doors and archways all carefully locked and barred or bricked up completely.
Abra explains, "Maintaining the barricades that separate the Halflight Path from the rest of the passages below Kaer Maga is one of the Duskwardens’ chief jobs."
All three Grumms are noticeably nervous in the tunnel, and flinch at every distant roar or shriek that filters through the walls. The boys are in phenomenal shape and while the cart moves slowly, they move steadily with no signs of letting up.
About an hour in to your journey you come upon a long and straight tunnel that maintains a consistent 15-foot diameter. On the right wall, elaborate carvings depicting a falling star wreaking havoc on a humanoid populace flank an enormous archway carved with twining vines that almost obscure leering skulls. The space inside the arch has been crudely bricked up, with many of the bricks broken or sticking out at right angles.
As the party passes the archway, Abra pauses to look at the poor brickwork on the barricade and mutters, “That isn’t right.” At that precise moment, the unmortared brickwork explodes outward as a piece of it flies out and a long tentacle works its way through.
Abra and Nobu immediately draw blades and leap to the barricade, pushing rocks and pieces up against it as something thunders against the other side. Nobu, closer to the barricade, slashes at the tentacle with an axe and the blanches as he looks beyond the hole, he whispers something to Abra.
Abra turns and looks at the party, grimly, shouting over the hammering on the walls "Take the Grumms the rest of the way, use your charms if you get in trouble, someone will come down from above. We'll hold the line here."
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Huh, almost every single paragraph above started with an "A" ... weird