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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3388336" data-attributes="member: 11146">The party heads out through the northern passageway with everyone save for Yssal carefully watching the ceiling overhead for scuttling stalactites.  Finding no tracks at all to indicate which way the piercers might have gone, the companions follow Phud and Arden deeper into the network of caves.  The dripping of water resumes and grows louder with each footstep til at last the group enters a much larger cavern than the two caves and network of narrow warrens they've seen to date.  The ceiling in the new cavern opens up to a 20 foot height, the floor is smoother, and five clusters of fat stalagmites litter the floor, obscuring vision to the 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 both Rowan and Wyleck.  Yssal starts to sniffing at the mushrooms with great curiosity.  Movement on the north and east side catches Arden's, Wyleck's, and Rowan's attention.  Yssal, not to be disturbed from his mushroom-snuffling, appears not to notice, and Phud is busy trying to peer past the stalagmite formation that guards the southern end of the cavern.  Rhys busily stares at the ceiling, hoping to find a piercer before one finds him.  Arden, Wyleck, and Rowan spy several pairs of vacant white eyes clouded with film on the far eastern and northern side of the cavern in an alcove.  The eyes take turns blinking, then one of the creatures haltingly slithers forward, a crude polearm in its grasp.  The thing resembles a squat humanoid with a slug-like tail that it uses as locomotion.  Slimy looking, with gray skin the same color as the mushrooms growing in the cavern, the thing silently snakes closer to Rowan, and the three note a set of humanoid arms holding a longspear.InitiativeArden 17Slugs 15Rowan 10Wyleck 10[sblock=Status]Right now, Rhys, Yssal, and Phud are unaware of the slugs.  This is the surprise round.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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