Petra's place...
From the Journal of Shorast Omvabok.
We arrived just last spring at Petra's Place. This... forlorn land in the midst of a volcano... reeks of sulfur and brimstone. The landscape is dotted with obsidian boulders and to be very honest, I don't like the feel of it. We're camped on a sheer cliff -- the river is a least fifty feet down a drop... ?i don't know why the expedition leader, Sakzul, choose the name "Petra's place..."
I felt the lines of bad luck running through the rock.
Through out the spring and summer we've suffered ambushes by stupid kobolds. We killed them all. They were after the adamantium wafers... I myself strangled a thief and smiled brightly as his head popped off.
Sakzul had the idea of tapping into the volcano. So we dug a tunnel leading up to the vent. Then we tunneled above. All hell broke loose when we dug that last rock away and revealed the angry torrent of vengeful lava.
At that point we had a dug a channel around the perimenter of the camp. That filled with lava. And more overflowed...
Then someone got trapped in a pit we dug to get access to the river. One thing led to another. Five dwarves died trying to rescue one, and I finally did it. Expedition leader died. Hoardmaster died. Everyone. Except Kobuk and I. Bah! Just my luck.