Augment your own aura to increase the light from your robe and explore below
From Create Your Own Story
The majority of the ruins is below ground, and you know there's miles of it below. You widen your circle of light and find a stable stairwell in one of the towers that go down.
Descending further, the bricks stop looking like they're about to fall apart and the walls start to come together, stronger. You notice detailing like torch and banner holders have even remained on the walls. Down here, safe from natural elements, the ruins seem fairly intact.
"Who's there?" the sudden voice startles you. Drawing your wand, you go around the corner to find a half-orc mercenary clutching his shoulder and ribs. His mace and shield are broken, the head of the mace snapped away from the shaft and the shield shattered into large, edged pieces around him. From his pale skin, you guess he doesn't have much blood left.
"A wizard?" he coughs. "Shit, you can't be in here. Our boss sent us in here to find a family heirloom, but it's a death trap. Whoever was here before it became a ruin didn't want people getting to the center of it."
"What's the center?" you ask.
He flips over a broken piece of his shield to reveal a scrap of parchment on it with the drawing of some kind of summoning circle. "There was a temple below this fortress that was into some kind of magic. From what we gathered from the letters written by the former residents, that magic pulled the whole thing below ground. The temple itself must be a hundred meters below ground by now."
Damn, you know that wouldn't be easy to get through. This fighter probably just set off all the physical traps. Wards and curses and ancient incantations must have left even more magical barriers for you to cross. Maybe going alone wasn't the best idea.
