Nasaar follows Gruntor, narrowing his eyes at the light ahead. "Best be careful." He cautions. "Likely just an exit, but no way to be sure until we get closer."

As Gruntor moves forward towards the light, he comes to a stop as it appears there is a cave-in ahead. The light passes through a small opening near the top of the cave in.

Nasaar steps up to join gruntor, trying to see if there is a path forward through the cave in.

Perception: 23

The opening at the top of the cave in, is a little bit too narrow for the average humanoid to pass through, though it looks like it could be cleared out with a few hours work.

You also note some skeletons are scattered close and around the cave in. Some are humanoid, but there is also a few chitin fragments from fishers.

"Back the way we came then?" Nasaar asks the others with a shrug. He is not the type to feel like doing a couple hours of digging just so they can check what is beyond that cave in.

The firbolg will poke at the remains and send owl to the other side if the cave in, if possible, or up through the roof.

The owl brings you some fresh oak leaves. Tunnel beyond the cave in seems to lead somewhere where trees grow.

"Hmmm... if fishers here before, not here now. Try other tunnel?"

((That's my read on it at least, but if I can make a Survival check to see if the firbolg can pick up anything more? 18))

You can tell from the air flow, that tunnel leads to outside, thus making an uncharted backdoor into the mountain fortress that bypasses its fortifications.

You can also tell the cave-in does not look natural, but triggered by someone.

Finally, you find an emblem among the bones. It's similar to the human templar emblems the party found before, but the symbol on it is slightly different.

"Hmmm... they will want to know about this entrance. If we think there are other tunnels with fishers, we should take them out, then return to report."

((You'd said they were skeletal remains, does this look to be an older cave in, or something more recent and the bones have been stripped by scavengers? Or that the skeletons were remains of fisher feeding, and they got crushed by the cave in?))

"Sounds like a plan to me." Nasaar says with a nod. "Take out any more of those critters on our way out of here, but head back and report in. Works for me."

"Can also send a messenger to the command tent, tell them to come down here, while we finish up checking for fishers?"

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((You'd said they were skeletal remains, does this look to be an older cave in, or something more recent and the bones have been stripped by scavengers? Or that the skeletons were remains of fisher feeding, and they got crushed by the cave in?))

With your survival score:

 The cave-in looks fairly recent. Based on the what you can see it happened in the past couple of months.

"They should know, but don't think anyone's going to be coming through today."

The firbolg will head back up with Owl, reuniting with Boar, and proceed to check out any passages or tunnels that we didn't go down on the way in.

As the group returns to the larger room, Serit stirs from the shadows, "Things have been quiet here. What did you all find?"

(Taking an assumption about nothing happening where the group left the boar. Also, thanks for understanding my small time away.)

As the group returns to the larger room, Serit stirs from the shadows, "Things have been quiet here. What did you all find?"

(Taking an assumption about nothing happening where the group left the boar. Also, thanks for understanding my small time away.)

As the group returns to the larger room, Serit stirs from the shadows, "Things have been quiet here. What did you all find?"

(Taking an assumption about nothing happening where the group left the boar. Also, thanks for understanding my small time away.)

"Collapsed tunnel. Opens to the outside. Maybe humans use it to sneak in later. Time to kill other fishers, then report back."

"Let's go then." Nasaar agrees, ready to start back up and out.

On the way back, as you explore the remainder tunnels, you find one with a couple dozen translucent soft eggs. The proximity to the fisher cave leads to the obvious conclusion that these must be the fisher eggs.