Nia will suppress her apprehension about descending into the depths with someone who looks like they were coughed up from the abyss. "A comrade is a comrade" she will mutter to herself. She will take some time to secure a rope at the mouth of the cave and drop the length of it into the cave opening. It looks like the light situation isn't too troubling so far, so she will forego lighting a torch just yet. She will gear up in her armor and tell Gegren that she's willing to go first. "But keep an eye on things down there as I go." Nia will try to make a quiet landing on the floor and immediately scan her surroundings for movement. On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM bss via Emerald Flame < emerald-flame@lists.incorporeal.org> wrote:
On Saturday, August 2, 2025 5:51 PM Mike Bloy via Emerald Flame wrote:
As we approach the site, Gegren stretches his newfound occult senses to the limit, feeling how the forest and the event site feel different from town.
The town didn't feel like this, that much Gegren knows. The feel is almost like a strong smell that seems to hang in one's nostrils, the forest senses a bit like how Gegren just /is/ now, though it seems like a fading thing in the forest.
Gegren is wary, always keeping an apparent safe location in sight to teleport to if the need arises. He gets out his dagger and warily picks up some nearby debris with his magic, sending it across the threshold of the cave and deliberately making some noise against the cave floor, while he watches from a safe distance.
The debris, some small stones from the upturned ground in the area, make a surprising pair of sounds. The first sound is a dull, light thud of stone on earth, but a few stones, perhaps scattered a bit deeper in, sound a bit more distant, but also make a more distinctive sound of striking stone. Nothing seems disturbed or aroused by the test.
On Saturday, August 2, 2025 3:17 PM murph via Emerald Flame wrote:
She will head to the mouth of the cave and peer in. If it is a vertical descent, she will start looking for a good place to secure a rope to lower people into the cave.
It is a bit of a descent, not quite vertical, but the group could probably benefit from an assist on getting down. The glow continues on inside, enough to make out what seems to be a worked chamber, under 10 to 15 feet of earth, the cave hole you're looking through actually more like a hole punched in the ceiling.
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