H.M.Gimlord
Explorer
The group cautiously explores the beach and the surrounding area.
Granite and quartz cliffs loom some sixty feet into the salt-sprayed air like a colossal, forbidding castle rampart. Though steep and jagged, their surface is irregular enough that climbing them could be accomplished with some effort… and risk. The wall is complete from one end of the beach to the other where they terminate in sharp outcroppings of rock that thrust out into the beach like gigantic jetties. [sblock=Perception or Nature DC17]You notice that the cliff has been climbed before by several people. Hand and footholds are clearly marked by unnatural deformations in the rock at regular intervals of about 2.5 feet each.[/sblock]The sea is extremely rough. Water avalanches out of the mouth of the cave with deafening force, such that the waves close to the beach are actually propagating away from the beach which slopes steeply up toward the cliffs, evidently the result of silt deposited by the river’s waters.
The arched mouth of the cave in the cliff wall forms an opening thirty-five feet across and twenty feet high. The sides of the cliff reach out into the sea in thirty-foot-long arms that are swallowed up on the far side by the cliff wall. The arm n the near side forms a natural wave break against the torrent that flows from the cave’s mouth. This is likely what allowed silt and pulverized granite to collect in eddies along the beach. The cave’s walls have been worn smooth by years of erosion, and from the inside they cannot be scaled.
Looking inside the cave, the party sees that the fast-flowing water powers down through a straight, sluice- like channel, thirty feet high, for about 200 feet where an enormous, subterranean waterfall pours through the ceiling of the cave, illuminated by flickering light. Granite, sand-covered, walkways have been carved out of the rock at a height of 10 feet above the surface of the river, on either side of the cave and run the full length back to small caves that bore into the rock to either side of the waterfall.
The flickering light comes from two side passages about 150 back from the cave entrance, where sizable openings in the side of the cliff have been made at a height of 20 feet above the walkway (30 feet above the river). A rope bridge spans river from one passage to the other (30 feet above the river). Two boats are tethered percariously to rocks, and at the end of the path on the right-hand side of the river, a large, bridled beast stamps about nervously.[sblock=Perception, Dungeoneering, or Nature DC 17]It’s too loud to hear anything, but you swear that you see shadows of living creatures playing against the walls of the side passage on the right. The side passages are not naturally formed. They were made by hand hundreds of years ago.[sblock=DC20]The shadows are reptilian in shape.[/sblock][/sblock][sblock=Climbing the cliffs *edited*]The cliffs can be climbed with 6 DC 14 athletics checks (one per turn for every 10 feet you climb). Failure means that you did not succeed in climbing that section of 10 feet. Failure by 5 or more means that you fall to the beach taking 1d10 fall damage for every 10 feet fallen (based on the number of prior successes).[/sblock][sblock=Tenchuu (Insight DC 17)]Your insight reveals that the scout definitely passed this way, and that he did not climb the wall. The location of the door is obvious enough. The tracks lead right up to the wall and right through it, but you don’t see any mechanism to open a door.[/sblock][sblock=Riardon (Arcana DC 17)]The secret door is illusionary. If you step into the wall following the line of the creature’s tracks, you will step right into a small cave passage beyond.[/sblock]
The campsite is barren, but the fire is still going. Worthless odds and ends litter the campsite [sblock=Nature DC 17]The creature stationed here was a kobold. A second bedroll indicates that a second kobold had been stationed here as well, but it left some time ago (perhaps yesterday) and either the tide or the wind has washed away its tracks.[/sblock][sblock=Map]I know this map is zoomed way far out, but I figure you're way far away from the features you are observing, so it about evens out
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Granite and quartz cliffs loom some sixty feet into the salt-sprayed air like a colossal, forbidding castle rampart. Though steep and jagged, their surface is irregular enough that climbing them could be accomplished with some effort… and risk. The wall is complete from one end of the beach to the other where they terminate in sharp outcroppings of rock that thrust out into the beach like gigantic jetties. [sblock=Perception or Nature DC17]You notice that the cliff has been climbed before by several people. Hand and footholds are clearly marked by unnatural deformations in the rock at regular intervals of about 2.5 feet each.[/sblock]The sea is extremely rough. Water avalanches out of the mouth of the cave with deafening force, such that the waves close to the beach are actually propagating away from the beach which slopes steeply up toward the cliffs, evidently the result of silt deposited by the river’s waters.
The arched mouth of the cave in the cliff wall forms an opening thirty-five feet across and twenty feet high. The sides of the cliff reach out into the sea in thirty-foot-long arms that are swallowed up on the far side by the cliff wall. The arm n the near side forms a natural wave break against the torrent that flows from the cave’s mouth. This is likely what allowed silt and pulverized granite to collect in eddies along the beach. The cave’s walls have been worn smooth by years of erosion, and from the inside they cannot be scaled.
Looking inside the cave, the party sees that the fast-flowing water powers down through a straight, sluice- like channel, thirty feet high, for about 200 feet where an enormous, subterranean waterfall pours through the ceiling of the cave, illuminated by flickering light. Granite, sand-covered, walkways have been carved out of the rock at a height of 10 feet above the surface of the river, on either side of the cave and run the full length back to small caves that bore into the rock to either side of the waterfall.
The flickering light comes from two side passages about 150 back from the cave entrance, where sizable openings in the side of the cliff have been made at a height of 20 feet above the walkway (30 feet above the river). A rope bridge spans river from one passage to the other (30 feet above the river). Two boats are tethered percariously to rocks, and at the end of the path on the right-hand side of the river, a large, bridled beast stamps about nervously.[sblock=Perception, Dungeoneering, or Nature DC 17]It’s too loud to hear anything, but you swear that you see shadows of living creatures playing against the walls of the side passage on the right. The side passages are not naturally formed. They were made by hand hundreds of years ago.[sblock=DC20]The shadows are reptilian in shape.[/sblock][/sblock][sblock=Climbing the cliffs *edited*]The cliffs can be climbed with 6 DC 14 athletics checks (one per turn for every 10 feet you climb). Failure means that you did not succeed in climbing that section of 10 feet. Failure by 5 or more means that you fall to the beach taking 1d10 fall damage for every 10 feet fallen (based on the number of prior successes).[/sblock][sblock=Tenchuu (Insight DC 17)]Your insight reveals that the scout definitely passed this way, and that he did not climb the wall. The location of the door is obvious enough. The tracks lead right up to the wall and right through it, but you don’t see any mechanism to open a door.[/sblock][sblock=Riardon (Arcana DC 17)]The secret door is illusionary. If you step into the wall following the line of the creature’s tracks, you will step right into a small cave passage beyond.[/sblock]
The campsite is barren, but the fire is still going. Worthless odds and ends litter the campsite [sblock=Nature DC 17]The creature stationed here was a kobold. A second bedroll indicates that a second kobold had been stationed here as well, but it left some time ago (perhaps yesterday) and either the tide or the wind has washed away its tracks.[/sblock][sblock=Map]I know this map is zoomed way far out, but I figure you're way far away from the features you are observing, so it about evens out
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