Panting, they moved back into the trees where they rested. They inspected each other for injuries and recovered over the next few minutes. Matt’s stab wound was poisoned, and it took them three hours to get the black tendrils to vanish, even with him putting 75 MPS into [Endurance], and Liz casting [Ranged Heal] over and over.
They had even started dumping potion after potion onto the wound, but none of them seemed to work better than their repeated efforts.
After they were healed and recovered, they entered the base and found a tunnel descending into the mountain.
They encountered no opposition until they found a miner orc, who attacked them with a pickaxe. He was no threat, and was quickly dispatched, but they found an increasing number of miners as they pushed deeper into the mine.
