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[Jurph]

Thanks for the feedback! It hadn't actually occurred to me when I set up the maps that the PCs would choose to sustain a fight in the tunnels, and I made some allowances for that later on by giving pretty much every NPC a "knock everyone over and run" encounter power. I am worried about my party's mage casting flaming sphere in those tunnels... although I'm looking forward to about the third round she has it burning, when the torches start to gutter and dim. And the fourth round, when I will begin describing the effects of low-oxygen environments. Our DM for the Outer Banks trip will be listening in via webcam, and he has a DMG, so if the game already has rules for that sort of thing he'll be able to make an on-the-spot ruling. Otherwise it's "you start to see a sparkling, twinkling light in front of your eyes and the tunnel appears to be closing in." Everyone grants combat advantage, everyone suffers -2 to attack rolls, everyone passes out. Wheeeee! (Make an Endurance check to stay conscious).

Bottom line, I have a bunch of ways to strongly discourage the PCs from trying to sustain combat down there, but I definitely have room to expand those caves before we play on Tuesday, too. I'll see if I can squeeze in some map-drawing time Sunday night. I managed to edit the tunnel system and paste the new map into the adventure document.

I'm glad you found my descriptions amusing, too!