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They head back and take the second secret door out, and immediately take several stairs down. This is roughhewn rock and some natural and some artificial passages. They arrive at a large natural cavern with a green slime that falls down on a leading skeleton and attacks (and deals no damage). The whole thing is lit up after some oil. The skeleton does die from the fire, unfortunately.
5 skeletons left
A search finds nothing. They continue and arrive at another natural cavern with nothing of interest here, even after a search. They continue, and the caverns and caves are obviously descending into another cavern.
This is also a natural cavern with stacked casks and boxes and bolts of cloth. Around a corner from the other end of the cavern, snarling can be heard. They check and see five gnolls chained up and working on expanding the cavern with picks. Alzar orders them to stop, but they cannot speak Typic, but look violently at him. He would normally just fee them and let them go, but they are being unruly, so he skips them. The bolts of cloth are silk, and worth about 100 gold each. Alzar has them added to a bag of holding. A search finds brandy, weapons, unworked leather, and more. There is nothing of significant value though.
They leave and move to the other passage out and it is severely sloping, and Alzar pulls out the Rope of Climbing to secure everyone. The skeletons are fine – they weigh little. They arrive safely at another natural cavern with more cloth and casks here. A search finds two more bolts of silk at 100 gold each. The 10 casks of brandy in each room are taken and worth 50 gold each.
The passage continues and enters a cave which opens directly out into the river. Pulled up onto the sloping cave is a small boat, maybe large enough for 6 or 8 people. It has oars, a mast and a furled sail. They continue to search, and find nothing.
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