They see two passages to their left and right, one passage directly in front of them and one to the northeastern part of the cave.
From the northeastern passage, the party sees a bright glowing light. Tasen and Reed volunteer for scouting it out. They both walk silently to the side of the doorway. Both Tasen and Reed take a look inside. As soon as Reed pokes his head in he hears a voice in his head saying “Hello.”
Reed doesn’t answer and pulls his head back out of the doorway.
Reed whispers to Tasen, “Did you hear that?”
Tasen replies “Hear what?”
Reed says in return “The voice saying hello…”
“I didn’t hear any voices,” says Tasen.
Reed then walks into the room and says out loud, “Hello?”
And the mysterious voice says in return “Hello.”
Tasen walks into the room and says “What are you doing, there’s no one here.”
They both realize that there are animal cages, some filled with starved to death animals and decaying bones on the ground. They look closer at the cages and see one animal still alive. It’s a giant firefly.
Reed then hears the voice and says, “Have you come to save me?”
Reed says, “No… sorry, but maybe you can come with us.”
Tasen then runs back to the rest of the party and tells them to follow him.
The Firefly says, “Oh… well alright.”
Tasen returns with everyone else.
“So... has any thing happened, Reed?” Tasen asks.
“Just talking really,” says Reed.
“Who are they?” asks the voice.
“Just friends of mine.” Reed replies.
Wrathale says “What’s going on?”
Reed replies “I think this bug thing is talking to me.”
“Bah! Bugs can’t talk... ya dim wit,” says Bhass.
Reed ignores Bhass’s comments...
Reed asks the firefly “How did you get here?”
“Well I remember flying out in the night looking for a meal... when something flew over me and I couldn’t see or fly away, then I was brought here where I was left to die... and now you’re here...” replies the firefly.
“Did something fly over you so you couldn’t see or fly away?” says the firefly.
Reed translates what the bug is saying then answers the firefly “No, actually me and my friends just wandered here really...”
As Reed continues to translate he says “What is your name, I am Reed.”
The firefly asks in return “name?”
Reed replies, “A name- something you call yourself or what you are called...”
The rest of the party looks questioningly at Reed.
The firefly doesn’t respond.
Reed says “What do you call yourself, or what can I call you? Who are you?”
“Well... I am me” replies the firefly.
Reed says, “Yeah but what is your name?... What can I call you?”
The firefly says “I am me... I always call me, ‘me’.”
Reed shakes is head in confusion and gives up on arguing with the firefly.
“I guess we will call you ‘Mee’” says Reed
And the firefly responds and says, “Ok.”
Reed then translates the entire conversation to the party...
They then let Mee out of the cage he was in and Mee shouts as only Reed can hear, “I’m free!”, and flies above the room and lands on Reed’s shoulder.
They then realize that they are not in just an animal torture chamber. They see a metal door on the side of the wall and some skeletons chained to the other wall, except one. They see a rotting human corpse chained to the wall directly in front of them.
The party moves around in the room. Then Jack picks up a rock and throws it at the rotting corpse. The rock hits the dead human and it looks up and starts to moan, softly at first and then louder into a horrific scream. At the same time they hear banging and crashing behind the metal door.
They quickly turn around and find another hallway behind them right next to the one they came in. Everybody runs down the alternate hallway fleeing what ever they may have alerted.
