To the Council of Grognards,
Rhys, Manawa, Kastor, Tiryn, Wenzan, Novad, and Marly decided to venture further into the umber hulk tunnels. As we were exploring the tunnels a hand reached out of the wall a hand reached out and tried to take Novad's gold. Everyone was preparing to fight the creature, but the druid Rhys was able to communicate with the creature. Rhys was able to make friends with it by feeding it a few gold and silver. The creature's name was Ziggy.Rhys asked Ziggy if he could lead us to where any gold was, and he said to follow him. After traveling through the tunnels we managed to work our way up into a room of worked stone which lead us to another hallway that spiralled up and down. We went down the hallway until Ziggy stopped at a door that he said he couldn't get into. It seemed to be protected by magic. A machine made out of wood, stone, and metal with a wheel in it's chest came down the hallway and attacked us. It was able to make Kastor vanish for a few seconds. We managed to defeat it, but it seemed like it was trying to run away from the group after taking some damage. This machine we called a shield guardian. It had a flux stone in it's chest which Wenzan was able to pull out. As we were discussing what to do a snake with the face of a man appeared and told us to follow it. We call this creature a naga. We followed it cautiously to a massive domed room filled with other naga and shield guardians. The Naga showed us a wall with a mural of strange looking humans merged with the elements and a floating city between the three mountains. It told us that the Naga were created by the people in the mural. It also said that they were waiting for them to return and that they were the protectors of this place.