The horses sniff the air and whinny at
Moon Moon as he approaches, but no worse than before, and they seem to be ignored. Moon Moon and
Karok can now see each other, though.
Meanwhile,
Saashala sprints up to the fire and calls for help, taking all the men completely by surprise.
B5 stumbles over his own feet making room for her to approach.
B4,
B3, and
B6 simply stare slack-jawed.
"P...put out that fire! Before it's seen!"
B2 manages to respond, right on cue:
"Yeah, honey, I don't like doin' it next to a fire, either!" He leers at her, and nudges B1 with his elbow.
B1 gives Saashala a hard look and replies to B2,
"By the grace of [something], I think it's Christmas!" You don't quite catch the name of the deity he invoked. He pulls a dagger from his belt deliberately as he watches Saashala.
B2 is still talking, and could probably go on forever, except how much more can you fit in a round?
"Because, you know, your one side gets hot and your other side gets cold, and it's not exactly like you can just roll over..."
Then Saashala notices that maybe B5 wasn't as careless as he seemed, because as soon as the other two stand up, she'll be sort of surrounded.
Just then, there's a
CRASH! from the top of the mound.
On the second step
Drutha takes toward the front of the mound, she steps right through snow and dirt and rotten wood, collapsing the entire covering over an old stone stairway that descends into the mound. She reaches for anything to grab onto and keep from falling through, but between the snow and disintegrating surface, can't find a handhold and takes 3 damage when she crashes onto the stone edges below.
Sliding a bit on the fragment of the board that used to be under her, Drutha ends up at the foot of the stairway. The air is cool and musty, perhaps actually a bit warmer than the air above, and the darkness beyond is impenetrable. She'll need a light source to see anything except the way back up the stairs behind her. (FYI the stairs count as difficult terrain so it would take 20' of movement to get back out.)
B1 whips his head around to stare at the mound above, then shifts back to squint at Saashala, perhaps giving some credit to the rest of her words. She notices B5 also looking up toward the sound. None of the rest acknowledge it.
They don't give any additional indication of whether they've seen
Nert.
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