Jane-the-raccoon makes quite a lot of racket scrambling to the top of this mud-and-wattle structure, on the southwest end of the bluff, and when she reaches the top she peers in...
A foul stench immediately assaults your sensitive nostrils. The cavern here is 30 feet or so high, and the underground stream flows through the center of it. The remnants of butchered game animals hang from crude wooden stakes along the cavern walls, and you spot a pair of orc corpses treated in the same fashion.
The artificial dam that you're standing on has enough room for you to squeeze through as a raccoon, but any of your larger companions would have to go around (if you indeed wished to go this way).
// What are the rest of you doing? Jane was quite close to you, in plain sight (in the dim light), but now she's going into a cavern further to the west. .//
Jane will stick to the shadows and searchPerception10 for anything that looks pretty. She will also look move deeper into the cavern.
The stench of the several decaying corpses in this room continues to assault Jane-the-raccoon's senses. And another smell, this one...different...hangs in the air. She can't quite put her finger paw on it, but it smells like some sort of natural secreted scent, like an animal's pheromones.
The stream in this cavern flows through the north wall, where the opening is quite spacious (large enough for a human to easily crawl through), and it flows into a deep pool at the southeast corner of the room before flowing further southeast, into darkness.
Jane is able to easily and quietly cross the stream where it pools in the southeast corner.
There is a passage that ramps further down to the southwest, into darkness.
Would Jane like to follow the stream to the southeast, or the passage to the southwest?
The southwestern passage opens into a long, low cavern that has three narrow, twisting passages leading off into darkness—northwest, southwest, and southeast. Numerous rock columns rise to meet the stone overhead. The air here is thick with that stench from earlier (the animalesque pheromones), and the floor is littered with refuse from some very messy meals and gnawed bones of dubious origin.
Something scrapes and hisses in the dark, and you hear the soft padding of scaly feet on rock.
As sneaky as possible, Stealth 13 Jane walks up to the strange structure and stands up on her hind legs to peer over the top.
I got alot a doods
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Oh boy here we go Athletics 15
I got alot a doods
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Jane will Search the area for her Boozy Jon Perception 10
I got alot a doods
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just looking
I got alot a doods
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Aregarak hearing Jane scrambling around in the dark asks "What is that bilge rat up to now?"
Tabaxi with a penchant for shenans. He will....shenan again...
Jane hears Aregarak and rolls her raccoon eyes and goes through the hole only she can fit through. She will try to do this sneaky like Stealth 16
I got alot a doods
Jane is able to infiltrate the cavern...
// What are the rest of you doing? Jane was quite close to you, in plain sight (in the dim light), but now she's going into a cavern further to the west. .//
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As Bel is discussing his new ring with Lana, he notices Jane wiggling into a hole. “Should we check out what she is doing?”
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Lana nods at Bel "Yes we should before she gets herself killed"
There's no way through the mud-and-wattle door/dam (you're not sure what it is from this side) unless you were to try and bust through it.
There are likely other ways around though, seeing as this construct is an artificial one (not natural) and is not made to be openable.
North or South?
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"Seems whatever crudely made that was probably trying to keep people out of their lair.....doesn't look like Dwarven treasure....."
Tabaxi with a penchant for shenans. He will....shenan again...
Jane will stick to the shadows and search Perception 12 for anything that looks pretty. She will also look move deeper into the cavern.
I got alot a doods
“The stench is horrid. I think we should move on.”
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fingerpaw on it, but it smells like some sort of natural secreted scent, like an animal's pheromones.DM - Storm King's Thunder PbP | Yet Another Storm King's Thunder PbP
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Jane would like to follow the passage
I got alot a doods
The southwestern passage opens into a long, low cavern that has three narrow, twisting passages leading off into darkness—northwest, southwest, and southeast. Numerous rock columns rise to meet the stone overhead. The air here is thick with that stench from earlier (the animalesque pheromones), and the floor is littered with refuse from some very messy meals and gnawed bones of dubious origin.
Something scrapes and hisses in the dark, and you hear the soft padding of scaly feet on rock.
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