Anaerion continues his reading as Kalgor sends Gragnor into the final tunnel, moving his position to be closer to that one as he continues mapping.
Kanli is by this point well and truly asleep, though interestingly enough even his snoring, like his words, seems slightly off-kilter. As Tyrien relays her question, the half-orc (coincidentally or not) seems to talk in his sleep:
"The prey is the hunter which eats its mother. The silkworm brings its breeders beauty through its forest's death."
Ausk continues his patrol, nerves on edge as nothing continues to happen, while Tyrien has by now set up the notes and books in a tidily stacked pile for whomever will be hauling them out of the cavern.
[sblock=Ausk]Despite his misgivings, Ausk hears nothing but Anaerion's murmuring and the echoes of dripping water, and sees even less in the way of activity.[/sblock]
[sblock=Tyrien]From what Tyrien's been able to determine, whether it is wandering about the streets or somewhere below them, wherever the creature is it didn't come back through here to get there.[/sblock]
[sblock=Anaerion]The wizard and his intelligent item gather than the ritual in the Sunless Grove was meant to create a planar portal, though the notations seem to indicate it wouldn't be usable for travel out of this plane, but only into it. There is also a reference to readying binding magics to time with the aperature's opening.[/sblock]
[sblock=Kalgor & Gragnor]The final tunnel moves northeast just a bit past the first thinning of Gragnor's life line, then arcs back around to travel past the cavern and to the southwest. Again, there seems to be an incline involved in the tunnel. Gragnor finds a few dead rodents gnawed to their bones, likely snacks for the ghoul. Then his link tugs thin again as he comes across yet another fork.
Right end looks like another cave-in he reports after a quick glance down it. He heads to the left again, then, the up-sloping tunnel south/southeast now.
No roots here he notes absently as he pads along carefully, then shortly thereafter there's a pause.
Graveyard comes the mental report. Tunnel widens out some, and the top of this thing has those long boxes humans use jutting out here and there. Looks like that ghoul tore into a few. Got the ends shredded open and some piles of broken bones.
The section below the graveyard seems to have been dug out in various places to expand the ghoul's meal options. Eventually, Gragnor finds the entrance to the surface through a small crypt.
casket's empty in here. Might be this was where ghoul-y got buried back in the day. Or he just et this one up better than the others.
[sblock=ooc]The entirety of this tunnel is on an incline which finishes out approximately 900 ft above the start at the crypt on the hill's surface. horizontal directions not accounting for height: 200' northeast, curving around for another 200' until heading southwest. Southwestern trail continues 700' (around here, between vertical and horizontal distance, Gragnor hits 1000' again). Fork to the southwest ends in a cave-in after only about 100'. Fork south/southeast continues another 300' into the graveyard, eventually ending in a small crypt.[/sblock][/sblock]