Lamentation of Lolth - Chapter VII

[kirinke]

Teleri looks at the water puddle with misgivings. But then she looked at anything underground with misgivings. "Stay away from the water," she said, not liking the looks of it. "That stuff looks like it could hide lots of unpleasant things."

 

[Velmont]

Sielwoodan kneel down next to the water. He inspect it, trying to see what the stream bring here from the upstream, maybe finding a clue of what lie in the northen room.

 

[Majin]

Approaching the inspect the water closer, the ranger discerns that most likely the tunnels to the north and south have been created over the years by erosion from the rivers.

 

[Velmont]

"It's been com time that water flow here. Those tunnels have been dig by it." Says Sielwoodan as he stands up, cleaning his hand from the water and the dirt it carries.

 

[kirinke]

Teleri looks at the tunnels dubiously. "Does anyone have any rope?"


ooc:
Would Teleri know anything about underground rivers or even rivers in general? Would StormArmour be willing to interject a few helpful hints?

 

[Majin]

OoC: What is it you're wondering if Teleri knows?

 

[kirinke]

ooc
About how fast a river can get underground or how fast a river needs to be in order to gouge out that tunnel. I know that underground rivers can be pretty deadly, even more so than above ground rivers. You have to deal with bad air in places, not to mention that the tunnels can be full of water to the roof of the tunnel at one point, then shallow at another point. There is also the fact that it's very easy to get lost in the tunnels as well as any tunnel bored by water can be quite unstable in places... Those are just some of the mundane problems I can think of off the top of my head. I can't imagine the not-so-mundane problems (Wicked DM you, not even gonna give you some ideas. You might use them. Heheh). So I'm wondering would Teleri or StormArmour know about those things.

 

[Velmont]

OOC: Wild guess, you'll have to roll a Know(Dungeoneering) check... I've got some

 

[Velmont]

Sielwoodan walks up to the tunnels on the northen wall. He looks back at the others "Let's check that. Dunstand?"

 

[Majin]

OoC: From what Teleri would know that's common knowledge about such things would not alert her to anything being out of the ordinary. If Stormarmor knows something, she's not telling.

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Scouting the northern tunnels for some time reveals that they must go on for miles, some shrinking to tight squeezes and smaller, eventually making it impossible to continue further. It seems quite evident that at least the northern section of tunnels is uninhabited by anything of any interest.