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Alzar needs some more allies. He pulls out the Ferret figurine and orders Balo to scout the cave. It slips in very easily. It’s a one room cave, very shallow, and nothing in there. They head in to check it and out, and even the Star verifies there is nothing here.
(First lair in the book done. Check. This is the sort of thing you can expect. Remember that now XP is divided among all five of them. If Alzar were soloing here, 800 XP would be more than half of the XP he needs to hit level 2. Alzar does not get an XP bonus, his DEX is just 13).
There is a small game trail on the far side of the cave that was used by the fleeing panther. They decide to head down it as well. As they wind along it for about an hour it moves in and around the hills, and then comes to an outlook, and down below it is a large stream or mountain brook, around 100 feet across at its widest, meandering through a gentle valley.
Alzar holds up and waits. Soon enough, he spies two major groups of animals. There is a large group of giant otters in the southern part of the valley at it’s widest, and around a half mile upstream are a family of four bears that are moving closely towards the otters.
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