Nothing comes through the mists, and after a while the horses seem to lose their skittishness completely. The party continues on, tracking the horses.
Late in the morning the tracks turn north, near a rocky hill. Following northwards, Dunathar stumbles across a depression in the ground, roughly twenty feet across, filled with mist. The east end of the pit is nestled against the stone of the hill, in a little ravine. Across the pit is more rock.
Seeing Dunathar stopped, Filbert drops to the ground off of Braveheart and approaches. He finds that the tracks go to the edge of the rocky pit and disappear abruptly. Filbert also finds other tracks, humanoid tracks, leading to and from the edge of this pit, almost all of them heading towards the west.
Examining the pit further, Dunathar and Filbert notice faint scratch marks on the rocks closest to where the tracks disappear, as if something heavy had scraped against the tops of the stones. Dunathar sees that although everything here would look natural to an untrained eye, his dwarven eyes see the stones have been worked somewhat around the pit. They also begin to hear sounds below them, coming from the depression, a kind of a rustling, slithering sound. Peering down into the pit, it is almost as if the pit is moving… Seeing through a gap in the swirling mist, the two see a mass of writhing snakes.
At the same time, Dunathar begins to hear what sounds like even, regular breathing coming from above! Someone’s up there, he thinks. Looking around, he sees the rocky hill around the pit would be a little tricky to climb, but not impossible [Climb DC 15?]. There also seems to be a narrow, passable ledge going around the right side of the pit [Climb DC 10?]
