I approach Place and administer a healing potion upon him for 5 (quantity subtracted)  

Cast chill touch on drake  Attack: 20 Damage: 1

Clomping over to the remaining drake, Hordkhen attempts to kebab them with a lunging thrust.   

Att 14 Dmg 3

"For the killing blow" 

Longbow Attack: 9 Damage: 6

Between the lot of you, you end the drake's life. Combat is over. The cave reaches the general din that it was previously, with echoes of water dripping and animal sounds.

Lyria explores the area 18 perception, attempt to discern it's purpose.   What is going on here?

I co.e out of wolf form and drink a health potion, well that hurt i took alot of dmg (like 40) thank goodness for animal forms which i am out of and running low on resources so we should hurry this up 5 

Perception 21 

Stealth 17 

Cure wounds 4 

This pit area beyond the gated stairs appears to be where they raise drakes. The 3 that you killed seemed to be young, although mostly full grown. There are bones strewn about from previous meals.

Current map:

You are located at the "X"

Maybe we should head back out and follow the north wall to peep just beyond the next opening?  stealth 18

Delirious collects himself and gets ready to take up rear security once the party is ready to move out again. 

Stealth: 8

Agreeing with lyria, Hordkhen responds in a hushed tone... "Yea, I'd rather not linger... But let me check for anything useful..."  he creeps around the den scanning refuse, middens, dungheaps... PER 19

Hordkhen finds nothing in the refuse. Nothing but bones of humanoids.

Lyria suggests checking out some of the areas you've passed to get here, and quietly moves toward the drop-off that faces North.

Delirious is ready to follow.

Anyone else doing anything or are you falling in line with Lyria?

"What are these things, pets?" hordken grumbles aloud, slinging the filth from his hands. He joins delirious and lyria;  stealth: 7

Lyria creeps along that northern drop off hoping to see anything of note. Perception 4  Drop south and continue to creep along the stairway (assuming everyone is on board)

Hordkhen nods at lyria and creeps along trying to get a view over the escarpment. Stealth 4

6

As Lyria and Hordkhen look out over the edge of the dropoff to the North, they see nothing because neither of them have darkvision.

Kamag comes forward to assist, and sees the drop-off goes down 10' to a platform that juts out another 10' then goes down another 10' to what appears to be the garbage dump of the cave. Of course, darkvision offers no color, so in dark shades of grey, Kamag notes refuse such as broken pottery, rotted baskets, and mouse-chewed rope. They’ve also thrown out items that appear useful: discarded clothes, worn boots, tattered books, cracked lamps, and so forth. Here and there are glints of metal and parchment. A strong, foul smell hangs in the air.

Lyria continues to move on based on smell alone, turning south at the wall and exploring down the stairs, unless anyone objects.

"I'll wager that some of the townsfolks belongings are down there. When we're done in here I believe it's worth grabbing some of the pilfered items on the way out." Hordkhen muses aloud.

Lyria begins to wretch but maintains her composure.  I need to bathe from the smell alone.  I can't imagine anything worth digging around in what could be down there.

Lyria moves to the stairs with the spear resting atop them. The rest of the party follows. At the base of these steeply descending steps, a curtain hangs across the passage. It is made from hundreds of heavy leather strips, each about the width of a human hand. The strips are fixed to the ceiling and are long enough to drag on the floor. The curtain extends from wall to wall. The leather comes from a variety of local animals and is badly cured. The curtain is several layers thick with no gaps, so you can’t see through it at all.

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Lyria takes the spear, because she can?  Gets close to the leather curtain and tries to listen for anything beyond.