"Aye. A few travellers have passed through recently. A couple of merchants are already setting up too."

Colten seems a little impatient as he looks at the guard.

“Thank you for the information! Is everything in order? Are we allowed to continue to the dungeon?”

"Yes let's head in" Dutrrir agrees

Vogan's eyes actually widen a bit at the news. Sensing, however, feelings of impatience from some of his fellows, Vogan kept from asking more and chose to nod in gratitude. "Indeed. The sooner we can be about it, the sooner we can get out of each others hair. Wouldn't you agree?" Vogan said, and then flashed a toothy grin at the guard to set the man more at ease.

Corwin, by now woken up, presents his info without ado.

[[Ben_Evolent, thanks for picking up my lazy sleeping in thread.]]

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[[Ben_Evolent, thanks for picking up my lazy sleeping in thread.]]

[[You're welcome.  You set that up so nicely, I really didn't want to lose the opportunity for that character beat for Corwin and for Dreet!]]

You approach a once-majestic facade. Once-bright-white marble pillars line the building, which is doubtlessly only a sliver of the dungeon's size. A single entrance leads to a dark room inside, whose contents you cannot make out without darkvision.

For those with it:

Excited to finally be at the dungeon Colten has a large smile on his face.

“It seems that we have arrived. I am able to enchant one item anyone is holding to make it produce light for an hour if anyone wants me to. There is no other way to go other than forward.” 

Colten will cast light on any item someone asks him to. Colten will move forward keeping his eyes open for traps or monsters.

Corwin casts light on a rock and puts it into his hooded lantern.

Puthak would like some light on his halberd. 

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You approach a once-majestic facade. Once-bright-white marble pillars line the building, which is doubtlessly only a sliver of the dungeon's size. A single entrance...

[[OOC: Is that the facade of some new building or structure?  IIRC, we had only seen a wooden guardhouse:

After rounding one of the many hills, you come into view of a wood-wrought guard's stop. The rickety building, even from a distance, appears hastily constructed.

]] 

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A single entrance leads to a dark room inside, whose contents you cannot make out without darkvision. 

Dreet has darkvision, but he'd certainly prefer to have at least some light while exploring this dungeon.  For now, Dreet will equip his sword and shield.  (If anyone wants to cast Light on him, they could cast it on his shield, which should generally be facing any opponents.)  He's not sure how dangerous the dungeon is, but the dragonborn feels better when he has a weapon in his hand.  Dreet suggests, "Our squad should decide what marching order to use for today."

Does the light reveal any more details of this first room? 

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Puthak would like some light on his halberd. 

[[OOC: Wrong campaign?  IIRC, Dutrirr does not have a halberd.]]

 "Oof! A little warning there next time would've been nice!" Vogan said half jokingly while trying to shield his eyes. He goes back to reaffixing his own lantern to his belt, as he'd just been about to light it. Vogan than looks to Colten and says, "I think we're fairly covered on the lighting, BUT if our dragonborn friend still wishes for it then by all means. Hm. Wait, what does that say?" He makes his way over to the writing if its still visible in the light, and after some squinting at it, hms and haws before finally taking off his pack and cluttering gear. Then he tries to do a handstand and look at the writings from a different angle.

(OOC: Who is Puthak?)

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You approach a once-majestic facade. Once-bright-white marble pillars line the building, which is doubtlessly only a sliver of the dungeon's size. A single entrance...

[[OOC: Is that the facade of some new building or structure?  IIRC, we had only seen a wooden guardhouse:

After rounding one of the many hills, you come into view of a wood-wrought guard's stop. The rickety building, even from a distance, appears hastily constructed.

]] 

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A single entrance leads to a dark room inside, whose contents you cannot make out without darkvision. 

Does the light reveal any more details of this first room? 

 (OOC: This is an old structure a while past the guard stop. On my map, it's about 1/4 of a mile away from the stop.)

Going into the room, you see... a room. It's not particularly large, but on one wall is a scratched-out map of the area. Three exits (four, counting the one you came in from) are arranged at 90-degree angles from each other in the room.

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 "Oof! A little warning there next time would've been nice!" Vogan said half jokingly while trying to shield his eyes. He goes back to reaffixing his own lantern to his belt, as he'd just been about to light it. Vogan than looks to Colten and says, "I think we're fairly covered on the lighting, BUT if our dragonborn friend still wishes for it then by all means. Hm. Wait, what does that say?" He makes his way over to the writing if its still visible in the light, and after some squinting at it, hms and haws before finally taking off his pack and cluttering gear. Then he tries to do a handstand and look at the writings from a different angle.

(OOC: Who is Puthak?)

 Looking at the unintelligible writing upside-down, it is... still unintelligible, though you are able to recognise significantly more kinda-familiar-looking symbols from your reversed angles.

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Puthak would like some light on his halberd. 

[[OOC: Wrong campaign?  IIRC, Dutrirr does not have a halberd.]]

 Whoops, shouldn't have made a quick post clearly. Staff, I mean on Dutrirrs staff:p

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You approach a once-majestic facade. Once-bright-white marble pillars line the building, which is doubtlessly only a sliver of the dungeon's size. A single entrance leads to a dark room inside, whose contents you cannot make out without darkvision.

(OOC: @Paysien - I'm having a hard time picturing what the PCs are seeing here.  It sounds like you're talking about a marble building above ground.  Is the "dungeon" itself above ground?  If so, I guess we would be able to see more of the exterior structure than this first pillar-lined facade and entrance.

Or are we immediately underground once we enter?  In that case, is the initial facade below ground level with an excavated path down to the entrance?  Or is the first room built into a hill or mountain so that the first room is effectively already underground with only the "front" wall visible from the outside?  Or is the initial building entirely aboveground, and the other three exits from the first room simply head down into an underground dungeon?

From the description, it sounds like the first room is a blank rectangle with one exit in each wall.  Are the walls also marble or brick?  Is the floor solid or dirt?   Do the exits immediately open into other rooms?  Or are they tunnels?  If they're tunnels, do the run straight beyond the reach of our Light?  Or do they end or turn a corner before then?  Are the tunnels level, ascending, or descending?)

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Vogan....makes his way over to the writing if its still visible in the light, and after some squinting at it, hms and haws before finally taking off his pack and cluttering gear. Then he tries to do a handstand and look at the writings from a different angle. 

(OOC: Did I miss a post?  Or was something changed?  I didn't see any mention of writing in the initial description of the room.  But apparently, there is some writing:)

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Looking at the unintelligible writing upside-down, it is... still unintelligible, though you are able to recognise significantly more kinda-familiar-looking symbols from your reversed angles.

(OOC: @Paysien - This writing is inside the first room?  Is it on the wall or walls?  The floor?  Ceiling?  Is the writing just painted on the stone or made of tiles of a different color? Or is it a sort of bas-relief, raised lettering? Or is the inscription carved into the stone, like runes?  How big are the individual graphemes?  How large is the entire inscription both in amount of writing and in total surface area covered?)

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Vogan....makes his way over to the writing if its still visible in the light, and after some squinting at it, hms and haws before finally taking off his pack and cluttering gear. Then he tries to do a handstand and look at the writings from a different angle. 

(OOC: Did I miss a post?  Or was something changed?  I didn't see any mention of writing in the initial description of the room.  But apparently, there is some writing:)

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Looking at the unintelligible writing upside-down, it is... still unintelligible, though you are able to recognise significantly more kinda-familiar-looking symbols from your reversed angles.

(OOC: @Paysien - This writing is inside the first room?  Is it on the wall or walls?  The floor?  Ceiling?  Is the writing just painted on the stone or made of tiles of a different color? Or is it a sort of bas-relief, raised lettering? Or is the inscription carved into the stone, like runes?  How big are the individual graphemes?  How large is the entire inscription both in amount of writing and in total surface area covered?)

(OOC: I assumed that Mehmen was looking at a different group's thread where someone asked me if there were any marks on the structure's facade that looked like writing. There is a bit of writing on the map that no one's looked at, but it is intelligible, so that's the only thing I thought they could be referring to)

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You approach a once-majestic facade. Once-bright-white marble pillars line the building, which is doubtlessly only a sliver of the dungeon's size. A single entrance leads to a dark room inside, whose contents you cannot make out without darkvision.

(OOC: @Paysien - I'm having a hard time picturing what the PCs are seeing here.  It sounds like you're talking about a marble building above ground.  Is the "dungeon" itself above ground?  If so, I guess we would be able to see more of the exterior structure than this first pillar-lined facade and entrance.

 

 To clarify here, a small portion of the dungeon is unearthed and above-ground, this building/facade/structure/whatever is the tiny bit that pokes above the surface. The best approximation would be something like the very top of a church's steeple or the Eiffel Tower's antenna peeking out whilst the rest of the building is buried when you compare it to the size and relative positioning of the rest of the structure.

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You approach a once-majestic facade. Once-bright-white marble pillars line the building, which is doubtlessly only a sliver of the dungeon's size. A single entrance leads to a dark room inside, whose contents you cannot make out without darkvision.

For those with it:

At this angle, a single hallway is visible, along with the corners of presumably the room's other walls.

 (@Paysien: This is what I was referring to, and I even added a caveat about 'if able to still see the writing once lit up. But somehow in mistranslated it as there being some kind of writing involved somewhere. Unfortunately but clearly, I was half-asleep when I first read that post. I even managed to mix up Dreet with Dutrirr. lol Sorry for the confusion! )

Feeling light headed, Vogan righted himself, and after a bit of swaying gathered up his things once more and regarded thye group. "Can't make heads or tails of the writings, but no surprise there, eh? Hahah! Still! If someone has an, uh, something to jot them down to compare later.. But beyond that bit of business, shall we pick our next course at random, or might any of you fancy one of the adjoining halls more than the others?"

"I have no preference whatsover" Dutrirr says "I could send Onyx to scout one of them if you want, or we can just go and stick together for now. When we have a rest I'll make sure to map out where we went to create a map of this dungeon."