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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zhure" data-source="post: 211785" data-attributes="member: 308">a room?Marching order:FRONT..^..Arana <-----CharlotteKeith<-----KithVictor<-----MaerathEllie<-----SildarinRallyn Rallyn puts forth the notion that this might be the back of some sort of underground complex. While it sounds like an interesting theory, a few things bely this. The dust on the ground is undisturbed. Even those among the group who've never done any tracking realize that anyone traveling down these halls would leave a lot of obvious footprints. In fact, as the group moves further down the hall, the dust is kicked up in a near-choking cloud; obvious tracks are behind the group, but the fore is undisturbed.Ellie notes the hallway is carved and not natural formations. In some places it looks like quarried stone has been set to fill in the natural gaps between veins of stone. No mortar is visible; each stone looks like it was expertly hewn to fit nearby stones.Maerath seems unhappy being this far underground and quietly follows the others' leads.The corridor continues northward and steadily downward for another few minutes then abruptly levels off and expands into a hexagonal room, some thirty feet across. At the far end, directly across from the group, is another corridor, with a sharply down-sloping passage, about forty-five degrees off of level. About a foot off the ground and a foot thick, is a ring of reddish stone flanking the entire room. It's ok, I assumed as much. Certain aspects of this part of the adventure could make it really tough to get Maerath hooked up with the rest of the party at a later time, depending on how things go. As such I'll have Maerath do appropriate NPC-type things and reduce the encounter threats a wee bit since you can't interact as much right now. I think it'll turn out fine. This way you'll continue to get XP! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />-Greg</blockquote>

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