The End

My examination indicates that you did account for your food for the first day past the throne room.  However, after the combat, 4 lbs on this day will not be enough food.  You must increase your food cost by 2 lbs. per person, as you are healing now or feeling the effects of a severe battle rush.

 It has been a long day and you must rest to avoid penalties.  You've chosen a small chamber, just thirty feet across, a third of which is covered by a small pond, the far edge against the wall.  Lothar declares the water safe and drinkable.  The room is dank from the water, but it is enclosed and ~ I assume ~ easy to guard, for those who take posts.  You've lost one of your fighters; I direct the new players to familiarize themselves with my guard rules.

The next 'day,' you wake and set about organizing yourselves.  Willa takes a cut of the food (the party should tell me how much), says her goodbyes and begins the return trek.  She explains she is not afraid of the caterpillar you just encountered; so long as she takes cover when it appears, she can protect herself from its spears ... and it is cowardly, anyway.  She hugs Lothar before going and heads off.

The rest of the party continues to delve for a full second day ... and, to move things along, most of a third day as well.  This will cost you 8 lbs. more per person, as you drag along mile after mile.

Late on the third day, however, you see with astonishment that the tunnel ahead of you is lit with a blue light.  This grows quickly, to where it is as bright as day; and then you see the lip of a fall, and part of a chamber beyond.  You move until you reach a ledge, from where you can take it all in.

The chamber is of incomprehensible scale.  A scale that you would compare with standing at the foot of a mountain.  You're uncertain how far beneath the surface you are ... but this must be below sea level.  There is no hill in Rogaland that would contain a chamber this size.

It must be three quarters of a mile high, and two miles across.  You are about three hundred feet above the floor.  This floor is split in two parts: the right two thirds of the chamber is a white-and-blue lake, white because it is frozen solid.  This lake extends to the far ends of the chamber, where the far edge becomes lost to the eye.

The nearer third is bare stone.  It is clearly higher than the lake.  You cannot be sure, but it seems that it overlooks the lake.  There might be a cliff above the lake, but it is obscured because the cliff would be on the edge opposite your point of view.

On the edge, however, is a great sprawling temple, low to the ground, a hundred feet wide and placed on the far side of the bare stone chamber floor. You can see how the pathway you are on descends to the temple ... and you can imagine how the prisoners must have felt at this point, as they came at last to the end of their tortuous journey.