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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3556076" data-attributes="member: 11146">Maelicent closely examines the smooth-sided tunnel.  Whatever made it must have been much larger than he.  Picking up a stray bit of plated shell, the Gudwulf turns the clue over and over in his hand but is unable to identify the bit of thick shell-like armor.  Dark in hue, the shell obviously came free from the creature that made the tunnel as it brushed against the tunnel wall.  Casting a careful eye on the dirt floor, the goblin finds no discernable footprints, but does find drag marks that resemble a snake in that the marks slither.  Unlike a snake, however, these tracks do not sidewind; they unerringly forge straight, then turn left at the end of the short smooth tunnel.  The drag marks are pocked with thick goop, a variant slime of sorts.Hoping to pick up the drag marks where they exit the smooth tunnel on the other end, Maelicent skirts around to the east and, heading north, has a quick look east.  In the largest cavern yet, the goblin spots the ripple of water softly illuminated on the ceiling and walls of the cavern's southeastern corner. A quick look reveals a muddy pool of water with a current coming up from somewhere that causes the water to eddy.  The dripping of water from ceiling into the pool from a long white calcified stalactite hovering over the pool supplies the answer to the source of the dripping sound previously heard echoing throughout these caves.  Wary of cave teeth, Maelicent stops and crouches, bow at the ready.  The ceiling in the new warren opens up to a 20 foot height, the floor is smoother, and five clusters of fat stalagmites litter the floor, obscuring vision to the east and south. The rock in here has the look of being worked, though is still in its natural state. Someone has taken tools and dug and scraped in a rough improvised manner until the worst of the drop offs, holes, and ledges are made even. Though damp, the air in the big cavern reeks like a barnyard on a hot day. The floor of the cavernous space is spongy with spoor and offal, out of which sprout a patchworked carpet of mushrooms. There are normal specimens a few inches in height and giant varities as tall as Mal.From the northeast comes the scritch of metal on dirt.</blockquote>

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