Lots of suggestions here! Some of them seem promising, but I lack domain expertise. Can one of: Cangi, Zey, Reebs, or Togomor confirm for me that Cryptstone is a real thing?

It's real.

Because you want to deal with shadow demons instead of shadows? Really? Anyway if we walked out of the worldwound everyone would have to attack us. There's a treaty about it.

Is that a real treaty?

I think so? It was in the setting doc, I think...

It definitely is! Cheliax is a party, ask Reebs about the details.

Oh yeah, my uncle's cousin's neighbour got robbed by a guy who fled to the Worldwound and escaped all justice! It's a real scam, all that.

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If you. Somehow dug a tunnel. From here to the Arctic Circle. You would be protected by the Worldwound Treaty.

Oh, huh. Then maybe we should do that. Thanks for clarifying.

The Abyss is infinitely big so if we go there and look around theres a 0 percent chance we'll manage to find the worldwound.

Wait no that can't be right how would any of the demons manage to find it then.

There are spells for getting directions to significant planar features. They're not even very high level.

Anyway, speaking of spells, when are people going to stop doing massive guilt trips about personal use of spell slots? Some of us want to scry our families.

What if we tunnel down to the darklands and just live there, like the dwarves? I’m already getting used to living underground, it’s kinda nice

You know what would solve this? Dragons. Gold Dragons can get sunburst at will. Do you think Mengkare is looking for another country to rule?

We could just make our current tunnel bigger and stay here. Then we wouldn't get eaten by shadows or demons!

I'd rather be turned into a shadow than be eaten by a dragon, no way that's a good idea.

They say there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution. We wouldn't want to prove Them wrong, would we?

If it works for the dwarves it'll work for us.

I heard some people in Mendev tried that and then their kids started being like, half lizards or something. No thanks

Dwarves don't live in the Darklands, idiot. Torag told us to quest for the sky, it was a whole thing.

We grind all our silver down into powder and make Holy Water with it.

Then we drink nothing but Holy Water for a week, until our whole bodies are Holy Water.

The shadows won't be able to touch us, we can just run around punching them all to death with our magic fists.

Being eaten by a dragon sounds way better than turning into a shadow. Really we just need to figure out a way to die that doesn't expose our bodies to necromancy and that isn't Evil, we'd be better off that way. Dragon would work if it digests the corpses thoroughly enough.

> Dwarves don't live in the Darklands, idiot. Torag told us to quest for the sky, it was a whole thing.

Liar. You're literally living underground right now.

I bet this was all your idea, trying to drag us down here with you!

Oh, we should ask Torag for help then. Great Torag, lead this humble mortal to The Sky, such as for example with positive energy channelling...

I heard that the kids of people who move to Hermea are half-lizard too. Maybe there's just no way through this without getting lizardy.