Terrdi, day 47 of Autumn, 556

Nothing worked right today.

We never made it out of Pitch cave 1, except for quick luring and chaining runs into PC2.

When we arrived at the Pitch caves and tried to set up PC1 as usual, CJ got trapped trying to run webbers into PC2.

Then Yor tried and he got trapped.

Then J'jh tried and finally lured many out of the cave.

It wasn't even that there were so many Noids compared to an average trip either, just the runners had bad luck in choosing the wrong ways to run, and the later runners bumped into clumps of Noids that had been chasing the previous runner.

Then we had trouble getting the Kudzu walls planted, since the cave had a fairly large number of Olive and Malachite Noids running about - because they were all lured out of both pits by all the PC2 runers already.

As we finally started to clear PC1, we then were chased out by several newly arrived Crimson Noids. We ended up having to send additional runners to bring those to PC2 as well.

We finally managed to clear PC1 and began working to clear all the webbers collected in PC2, but more Noids kept arriving in PC1 too, keeping us busy fighting at our flanks too.

The lateness of the hour versus our progress was evident to everyone.

The one highlight of the trip for me was my recovery of an impressive 103 coin mandible from a Crimson Noid.

There really wasn't much else to be proud of.

Finally, we decided enough was enough, and we went home through an Ethereal Portal.

As we left, yet more Noids were chasing our heels.

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