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"What... what was it?" Kiylea shudders, remembering how the thing twisted out of her arrow's path. "Did anyone get a good look? It fought with a weapon - like a halfling." She moves forward and quickly checks Alton's wound. "You okay to go on? Do we follow it?"

Kiylea gasps. She'd expected another demonic beast to leap out of the darkness at them, not a... a.... person?! Her bow comes up but she can't help hesitating briefly. She's a huntress, not a warrior - never have her weapons been used against anything other than forest creatures. Hopefully her...

Kiylea lifts the new longbow from her back. She still can't believe how powerful, yet how graceful the weapon feels; it seems almost alive when there's a shaft against the string and a hand on the grip. She fishes out one of her arrows as they move on, ready for whatever comes out of the darkness.

"Now I hear something." Kiylea frowns, crouching cat-like and tiliting her head to one side. "It sounded like metal. And it's pretty close, but... I don't see anything." She glances at the walls around them. "Maybe it's in another tunnel. Should we keep going?"

"I can't hear anything." Kiylea glances around expectantly. "What did it sound like?"

"Before we go on, though..." Kiylea reaches into her belt pouch and pulls out a rough piece of steel. With it she carves two symbols into the wall - an arrow pointing back the way they came, and the letter 'C'. "For chimney," she explains. "Probably we won't get lost but it never hurts to mark...

Well, at first (based on the SRD and actual caves I've been in) I thought that without a rope the DC might be 10-15, which didn't look good for us. Thus the worry. But it's only DC 5 so now I'm having to tone back that reaction a bit *shrug* :)

"If we're really taking the rope with us, I'll go last - I can climb down easier than either of you. But I still think we should leave it. Even with its help Eddie almost slipped once or twice." Kiylea frowns worriedly. "I hope there's another way out..."

"Take the rope with us?" Kiylea looks at Bubbles in astonishment. "10 feet without a rope maybe one of us could manage without getting killed. But the whole way?" She shakes her head firmly. "That rock is too smooth and slippery - and hard - to risk it."

hafrogman, you may want to just take ten on the check. In any case I'll try to aid you with my own (untrained) +3.

"Alton, wait! How do we get back up once we're down there? None of us can jump ten feet." Kiylea peers over the edge at him as he descends. "Maybe we should go back to the village for more rope."

"No, it's not that long. Let's see how far it goes." Kiylea makes a few turns with one end of the rope around her right hand. Then, holding those loops firmly, she gently tosses the other end down into the blackness and starts paying the rope out from its coil. About two-thirds of the way down...

"Of course! I showed it to you outside, remember?" In the back, Kiylea reaches into her pack and pulls out a small coil of hemp rope. "But I don't think it's long enough to reach the whole way down," she adds, moving forward and glancing into the pit.

"Well... I don't know. We shouldn't use up the oil if we don't have to." She also glances at Alton, uncertain.

"Wow." Kiylea stares wide-eyed as she emerges from the tunnel, moving aside to let others come out. "I never knew there were places like this beneath the Lady's forests. So is that spring....?" She glances expectantly at Alton.

Kiylea watches the conversation with bemusement; not experienced enough in human interactions to recognize the dynamics involved, she instead finds all this tension rather peculiar. But things are apparently settled now to everyone's more or less satisfaction. Though how I'll shoot through TWO...

"I don't think there'll be any tracks. It's too wet and rocky," Kiylea replies. "But this is still a good place to start looking - we know that stream joins with the pool of bad water, so all we'd have to do is trace it back. And when we wanted to leave we could just follow the stream to this...

Kiylea nods. "Sure. I believe the Lady will protect us, but it's always best to have a friend along to help her out." She grins and starts rummaging through her pack once more. "I have rope, some rations, my lamp, and enough oil to last us a few hours. Anyone else?"

Kiylea returns Alton's smile with a touch of pride, but her sense of accomplishment is quickly subsumed by thoughts of what they must do next. "Getting here may've been the easy part. Who knows what's in there." She gives the opening a determined look. "But whatever it is won't stop us! Now...

Kiylea returns Jerran a quick curtsey and a wink before turning to point upstream. "This way. Keep to the streambed if your boots allow it - that'll be much easier going." And she's off along the bank, stopping occasionally at muddy patches to examine any tracks therein.