Acrobatics: 17

Vilana just shrugs as everyone is pushing past her, while she is putting on the crampons she purchased ahead of the trip. "I've got more of these, enough for everyone in fact."

(Do you all have on the crampons now?)

Everyone manages to keep their footing as you make your way down the stairs.

The chute and its icy stairs end at the ceiling. A sturdy ladder then descends into the approximate center of a rectangular chamber. The exit to the corridor is an icy, 15-foot-wide passageway sloping downward.

The chamber is empty except for a dozen baskets woven from leather strips and walrus ribs, stacked in the north corner. These contain frozen fish and a few skin-wrapped bundles of rotting shark meat that the Ice Hunters consider a delicacy.

Moving down the only passage from this chamber you soon come to a t-intersection. The passage you are in intersects with another that runs to your right and left. This second passage is large as well, a good 15 feet across.

Kyrian accepts the crampons "Much appreciated."

"Right or left you think?" Naivara asks, watching her breath fog up.

 Honor also pauses to put on some crampons. She takes a look at the intersecting passage, looking for evidence of one passage being more frequently used than the other. Survival: 18

Tessa also will apply the crampons to her footwear. She replies to Naivara, "I believe we should follow the larger passages as that would be the one that the dragon would utilize to enter its lair."

Stealth: 25

Perception: 13

Attatching the crampons to his boots, Kierro says: "I think the dragon uses underwater tunnels to get in and out. I doubt an adult white would leave the entrance stairway intact if it went up that shaft."

Perception: 21

He listens down both tunnels for the sound of activity on either end.

"I'm with Kierro on this one, the dragon wouldn't be using underwater tunnels, if a more convenient and direct route existed up to the top."

Latrius attaches his crampons as well.  He'll keep an ear out for any signs of life in the tunnels.

Perception: 24

You would hear the sounds of movement to the Right, and that direction also appears to be the more widely traveled.

The passages to the left and right are the same size though, 15 feet across and high.

"Perhaps we move right then?" Naivara says, "see what we're up against?"

"Looks like it." Kierro says. "I'd lead, but I'd say being sneaky and finding out what we're up against before we stumble into their arms. Leto, you have a raven familiar I believe, maybe it can scout ahead for us?"

"Wait! Why is it travelled? I don't see any way a dragon could fit through here, and even in another form, the big cave would suffice just as well. Why would the ice-men have a back entrance to the dragons lair in their living room? I have the suspicion, my newfound friends, that we have been set up."

Kyrian examines the path, trying to guess what might have worn it down (Survival 19, Investigation 12)

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"Wait! Why is it travelled? I don't see any way a dragon could fit through here, and even in another form, the big cave would suffice just as well. Why would the ice-men have a back entrance to the dragons lair in their living room? I have the suspicion, my newfound friends, that we have been set up."

Kyrian examines the path, trying to guess what might have worn it down (Survival 14, Investigation 12)

 You can't tell what has worn it down.  It does appear that claws were used on the tunnel, but it is hard to tell if they are from a dragon or something else.

"From my understanding, there's a whole eco-system of kobolds, ice-toads, trolls, and the Great White. It could be we are in one of the upper levels, with some of those other denizens between us and our real prey. Leto, before letting your ravens loose, I wouldn't mind going ahead invisibly to see what I can see. As far as I know, most of the named habitants of this cave system don't have the ability to see through invisibility that easily, and well, if I happen to come across the dragon, I should be able to back up enough to reach you all before being turned into an icicle."

(Waiting on a decision on which way to go.  2 mentioned Right.  Don't depend on Leto's raven, as Leto has not posted in a bit.)

Tessa nods at the logic of Vilana's statement. Tessa remarks, "Right it is then. Let the pull of yon treasure guide us."

"Right seems good, and invisibility would definitely help. Do be careful, Vilana." he says, casting guidance on her.

Latrius reappears long enough to nod his agreement, then vanishes again.