Sentient Monsters

The party resumed their march, going back to their stressful lookout, as they pushed further into a dungeon they knew nothing about. They walked for another two hours, stopping almost every kilometre to fight monsters.

To make matters worse, the first few combats were against an increasing number of harpies, whose strength seemed to get higher as distance passed. But the further they got, the more varied monsters they found until they were stumped for their next fight.

Crouched at the entrance of yet another cavern, in which the crunching of bones and clattering of teeth could be heard, Alex and Jin-Sil scouted out their next adversaries.

Looking into the cave, the pair of scouts were faced with a strange situation.

Standing above the floors, in their tightly built nests, harpies were silently watching a group of a dozen lizard-like compact figures, who were gnawing on bones in the center of the cavern.