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They enter the small natural cave and the tunnel quickly widens to well over 10 feet across, and after a hundred feet or so of a gentle curve to the right, enters a cavern 40 feet across and 25 feet high at its tallest bit. While this does appear to be a natural cave, it is not a limestone cave that has been around for centuries and centuries. It appears to be one carved out by a river or lake underground. There are some animal tracks in this cavern, but nothing is found, even after a search. The cavern has two exits, a low natural smaller tunnel to the right and a much larger one forward and across from the entrance. They take the small one.
The tunnel quickly bends sharply and after 50 feet or so arrives sat a smaller, rounder cavern. It slopes down a bit and the rock is slippery and jagged. The floor is flat and bare, the walls are black and smooth and rise about 40 feet. This cave is not natural, unlike the rest of the place. Any step in here echoes and echoes. Inlaid on the floor in a white alabaster is the rune for “Ask.”
Alzar asks a question, how to enter the garden, just on a whim, but there is no answer. Ah well, worth a try. A search finds nothing and they return and take the large path out. They arrive at a decent sized cavern, with two smaller tunnels to the left and right and a major one going forward-right-ish. As they walk in, sand and rocks from the cavern fly out and start pelting Alzar and his fighters. Alzar looks around, sees nothing, and tries a gamble. He tries to reach out and control whatever is moving things around. It failed, but he could tell there was something there. The rocks and sand stop moving, and the presence moves off, scared a bit by Alzar’s power and command over their kind (it was a few poltergeists).
XP – 100 for Alzar
They go left after a quick search. The tunnel slopes down, does a 180 and ends at a small slightly wider and much taller room. There is a clearly visible patch of something slimy and ochre colored here, and Alzar orders everyone back for a second. He pulls out the Oil Flask, tosses it on the moving slowly creature, and it dies.
XP – 200 for Alzar
They search and find nothing, head back to the cavern and go right. It actually 270’s into a curl and enters in another small, barely larger than the tunnel end room. In there is a dead corpse, looks to be of a fighter. They search and find:
22 gold
150 gold gem
Jeweled Gold Amulet - worth 230 gold
Boots, sword and dagger, helmet, armor – all taken for magic pile later
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