Dear Sir,
You wont know me, being as I am a recent arrivee in Sanctuary. I am a Gondsman, and born to a family of inventors.
I write to you now to field a proposal.
Although I cannot provide you with my true academic credentials, I can assure you that I have been thouroughly educated in the fields of engineering and science, and I have some large plans that may well be of use to your organization.
I am not satisfied you see, to linger in darkness below the earth for the rest of my life, and I would imagine that many others are not either.
Now, rather than wandering pellmell around the fiend infested underdark, it is my plan to bend my education and intellect to the task, and engineer a way to the surface. As it currently stands, the outline of my plan is this:
- 1. Collect data on the exact location of Sanctuary relative to the surface, as well as any intervening obstacles that may lie between us and it.
2. With this data in hand, assess the path of least resistance to the surface.
3. Begin engineering the means to our escape in trust of that plan.
The large rolled document that accompanied this letter is the first of my plans for step 1. It entails the construction of a massive, copper earhorn, through which we may hopefully determine what lies between us and the surface. Gond forbid we would mine a passage straight into the floor of an undersea ocean, or a colony of Drow that could perhaps lay above us.
Construction of the "Subterraneophone" will take perhaps 6 months under the conditions that I currently work in, including the time necessary to gather materials.
Sir, I write to you now to beg your sponsorship of this project. I will push forward on my own as needed, devoted as I am to once again seeing the sun, but the backing of your organization would greatly assist the legitimacy of the project, as well as perhaps the funding.
I am available to you night or day to discuss any particulars.
Sincerely yours, Cog Ippensher. Gondsman
attached is the plans to the Subterraneophone
