“God, I wish it were spiders. Worse, though — a species of fungi that have a hivemind and release their spores everywhere, which among other things creates an empathy link and can get us all into various states of transformation into our monster curse selves that we have a hard time getting out of due to all that feedback. A group of us went down there earlier this year looking for the heart of the Duchess, and we were stuck down there almost a month; it was great and not at all traumatic.” Heavy on the sarcasm there. Sarcasm is a valid coping mechanism, ok.

“Then a smaller number of people went down a couple months ago for shits and giggles and happened to carry some of those spores back into town with them, and that was also fun to re-experience for those of us who didn't go on the second expedition for that very reason, after being on the first.” Shits and giggles isn't entirely accurate, but that's how he feels about the reasoning of 'because one of the Void-Touched wanted some materials down there for their own personal magic use, safety consequences of anyone else they took with them (or the whole town, as it turned out) be damned'.