Manzanita
First Post
Marching forward, and rounding a bend in the tunnel, the party comes to a weird sight. Razh describes it as follows. A 20 foot wide chasm blocks further passage. Beyond the chasm, the corridor widens into an oval room, the walls of which are pierced by numerous one-foot-wide openings. Giant ants are moving all about on ther other side of the chasm, on the floors, walls, even the ceiling. Some are darting in and out of the holes. They are carrying food, larvae and other nondescript organic material. At any given time, there are at least a dozen giant ants in view, all occupied with their own business and ignoring the party.
Two worker ants are working industriously at the wall right across the chasm, apparently carving a new tunnel. One holds a shart stone in its mouth, the other is using what appears to be an iron spike.
The walls on either side of the chasm are slick, porous rock. A continual film of water runs down their surfaces, feeding a slimy algae which lives on the rock.
There is a slim bridge across the center of the chasm, of astounding construction: it is made entirely of dried giant ant bodies, linked together by locked mandibles, clawed legs and some dried mortar-like substance.
Razh cannot see the whole room from where he stands, some 20 feet from the chasm, but he can't see any exits from his current position.
Two worker ants are working industriously at the wall right across the chasm, apparently carving a new tunnel. One holds a shart stone in its mouth, the other is using what appears to be an iron spike.
The walls on either side of the chasm are slick, porous rock. A continual film of water runs down their surfaces, feeding a slimy algae which lives on the rock.
There is a slim bridge across the center of the chasm, of astounding construction: it is made entirely of dried giant ant bodies, linked together by locked mandibles, clawed legs and some dried mortar-like substance.
Razh cannot see the whole room from where he stands, some 20 feet from the chasm, but he can't see any exits from his current position.