Now that the gnome had made a magical source of light, Mara will put her torch out and stow it away. She will follow after Mairshall for now, looking to the rest of them with a hopeless shrug.

(The torches lit since looking for Simmeat have been half-used. The ones lit before that are completely used up now.)

Constitution: 7

 Between the scuffles, long walk, and barely restful short rest, Rumble was pretty much done for the day. Short of the gnome pulling a dagger on the group, the earth genasi has reached the point of muddling along for the most part towards the front of the group. A position he was struggling to maintain up to this point. At the sight of Darkwing alive and... well, alive, Rumble makes a beeline to the aarakocra's side, balatantly ignoring the other deep gnome along the way. 

Killian puts out his torch, and in amazement looks to the pouch the gnome has... need to find a way to see if he will be willing to part with some components being able to cast light down here will be a huge  help.

Seeing Dark on the ground and the other gnome standing by, he askes them, "What happened here?"

Mara will go to Dark and begin to cast over him slowly, soon enough cast cure wounds.

He will get back. 6 hp

"This was... This was my causing." Mairshall comments. "We thought it was an angry spirit, so I attempted to hold it in place. He fell, as he was not held in the air by magic."

Mara and Rumble rush over to where Darkwing is laying beside the tree. "Hey, hey! Careful now..." The other deep gnome says. Mara uses her celestial-granted powers to heal some of Darkwing's wounds, letting him regain consciousness.

"Watch out! Watch out!  OTHERS IN THE FORe...."  Dark says as he regains consciousness.  Seeing the somewhat familiar faces of his new friends, he is able to relax for a moment until he sees the the Gnomes .... "They attacked me with some spell.  Are we all friends now?  Where is this place? The Light? The stone? ..... I need a few minutes to regain myself.   Sorry everyone for .... I don't know..."  Dark thinks to himself .... <That was a close one.... Stay with the group .... Stay with the group until things get better.>

"Mairshall How long have you both been here", gesturing towards the other gnome. as Mara and Rumble move past him to help Dark. "Is there anywhere safe we can rest, possibly some food and water, we all have been through a lot so far and are pretty spent."

Constitution save: 16

Used to long treks from his soldiering days, Darnell is looking fine. He extinguishes his torch once within the gnome's light spell.

Orianna continues to follow behind with the great club on her shoulders. Once she sees Dark on the ground and the others tending to him. She will step up with the great club in tow. She scoffs as the deep gnome explains explains it's self and she shit down next to a tree keeping watch.

"Enough chatter." Mairshall says once Darkwing is up on his feet. "We should leave before any more spirits this way come." He then points towards the clearing. "We shall climb the stairs out."

"Mairshall!" the other deep gnome exclaims. "We can't bring strangers with us. We barely have enough supplies for ourselves."

"And leave them to become part of the forest?" Mairshall replies. "Let us go now while we are not disturbed."

Con Save:  19

 Leojym drags himself on a little more slowly, his eyes weary and magic spent.

"Stairs? Wait, there's a way out of here? I'll come with you." Simmeat said once he heard the gnomes talking. 

Mara raised a brow at the mentions of stairs, her eyes showing how tired she was becoming. "We will not stay long if that is your worry. For now we just need a safe place rest so that we can recover. If that is to much then can you at least tell us a safe place to set up a small camp that is at least defendable?" She says to the gnomes, not wanting to get into a fight with them.

Wordlessly, Rumbles shifts into position in offer to aid Darkwing in going forward. Aside from an weary but apologetic look thrown to Simmeat -- whom he had been keeping an eye out on ever since discovery -- the earth genasi kept his focus split between Darkwing and whatever path the gnomes ultimately point out to the group. 

Dark still a bit disoriented from his fall says, "Stairs?  I never saw any stairs when I was flying around.  What do they look like?"  He gets up to follow the Gnome but is concerned with the sudden urgency.

Darnell is eager to get out. He'll follow if they start going.

The two deep gnomes wander over to the centre of the clearing, the same black pillar starts come into view as they travel. As the light begins to flicker on the sides of the rounded blackened stone, the ancient markings seemingly depicting some form of ancient iconography. 

"The stairs out." Mairshall states to the others. "This is how we leave this area."

"I'll open it." The other deep gnome states, stepping away from the light. She then begins to move around the pillar, becoming obscured of view.

Darnell glances around, worried that more shadows might be near.

Perception: 11

Weary as he is, seeing Dark move largely on his own accord seem to prompt Rumble to keep an eye out as well. And yet, every now and then, he just... couldn't resist looking back to the pillar. Eventually, he goes so far as to try and closely examine the piece, muttering in a more gravely tone something primordial as he drew near it.