Squeaking and chittering can be heard in addition to the scuttling as you approach the cave opening.
Waves of heat wash through the cave, thickening the air and making breathing a little difficult. This small, bowl-shaped cavern’s floor is littered with green fuzzy goblin corpses. Rats skitter through the sea of bodies within the sunken floor, pausing occasionally to nibble at a choice morsel. A host of their brethren lie nearby on their backs, some of them still twitching with a few remnants of life. The walls are covered with the gray-green fungus. Slime is thick on the cavern floor amid the bloated corpses. One body even oozes slime out of its bodily orifices: nose, ears, mouth. Another seems to have split, spilling out a quantity of greenish slime that sparkles in the light of the torch and glowing sword.
You can see a tunnel’s opening visible in one of the walls of this chamber and, in the distance, the sound of rushing water can be heard.