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<blockquote data-quote="Manzanita" data-source="post: 1354748" data-attributes="member: 10109">October 17th, EveningTullius leads the group through the bush. They pass a number of fairly well traveled routes and game trails. Now and then they pass moss-covered jumbled stone structures, ancient in appearence. The ground gets increasingly swampy, and Tullius informs them that the site is on the edge of a swamp.&nbsp;Finally they reach a clearing, just as the sun is setting. In the fading light, the remnants of a camp site is evident. There are the torn remains of tents, refuse trenches, fire pits, animal bones, scattered digging and kitchen tools and pieces of wood that seem recently to have been structures. There are no bodies or weapons in evidence.&nbsp; Visible a little farther in the clearing are several crumbling buildings. &nbsp;Tullius tells the group that this is where his party of Roman archeologists made camp. He is aware of two entrances to the tunnels below among the ruins. One stairway within a ruined building, which the romans cleared out when they came. This is where he says their leader Matriculus was taken by the gnolls.&nbsp; There is also what was probably an ancient well, now just a hole in the ground, beyond that building. It was this one that Sergius came to favor in his explorations, and the one from which he emerged with the spear.&nbsp;The party is hungry and cold, and it will soon be dark.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manzanita, post: 1354748, member: 10109"] [b]October 17th, Evening[/b] Tullius leads the group through the bush. They pass a number of fairly well traveled routes and game trails. Now and then they pass moss-covered jumbled stone structures, ancient in appearence. The ground gets increasingly swampy, and Tullius informs them that the site is on the edge of a swamp. Finally they reach a clearing, just as the sun is setting. In the fading light, the remnants of a camp site is evident. There are the torn remains of tents, refuse trenches, fire pits, animal bones, scattered digging and kitchen tools and pieces of wood that seem recently to have been structures. There are no bodies or weapons in evidence. Visible a little farther in the clearing are several crumbling buildings. Tullius tells the group that this is where his party of Roman archeologists made camp. He is aware of two entrances to the tunnels below among the ruins. One stairway within a ruined building, which the romans cleared out when they came. This is where he says their leader Matriculus was taken by the gnolls. There is also what was probably an ancient well, now just a hole in the ground, beyond that building. It was this one that Sergius came to favor in his explorations, and the one from which he emerged with the spear. The party is hungry and cold, and it will soon be dark. [/QUOTE]

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