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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 8057919" data-attributes="member: 7015827">The three passed through a carved-out stone chamber a little larger than the prison they had started in, then entered a vast cavern whose walls and ceiling were lost in darkness. Darrow chose to follow the right-hand wall, to make it easier to find their way out if they needed to. They soon came upon the large pit that he and Shanni had discovered earlier, that had a strange-looking type of stone forming its lip. While examining some bones near it, the three of them were attacked by two large creatures with stone-grey flesh, who managed to painfully claw Darrow and Shanni before they were killed. The dwarf said be would be all right, with his ring. Shanni for her part refused a healing potion from Dermot, with a bright grin, mentioning she already had one. The petite rogue then took a couple of swigs from a potion bottle and hastily patched her tunic.Turning back to the bones, Darrow thought they could have been that of a dragon, but also perhaps not, as they were rather small. Dermot pointed out that they definitely were not those of whatever creatures had attacked them. Shanni wondered if they were made of rock, but Darrow indicated their grey color was how they hid themselves.Moving forward again and exiting the huge cavern to the west, they entered a small network of stone corridors and were about to cross into another chamber, but halted as Darrow hissed and pointed ahead. The three beat a quick retreat back into the corridor, where Dermot said he had spotted at least four of the stone-colored creatures; Darrow had only seen two, and the dwarf was not happy with the prospect of taking them all on at once. Dermot brought out some bear traps and asked Darrow if he could attract the monsters’ attention towards the spikes.The dwarf cheered up at the prospect and headed forward into the dark cavern as Dermot finished setting the tripwires. Shortly afterwards, Darrow came running back to where Dermot and Shanni waited, positioned strategically behind the traps. Despite this advantage, the four creatures still fought savagely and injured Dermot during the battle, before being dispatched. Darrow insisted on passing the ranger his ring of regeneration afterwards, in order to save on healing supplies for the group.The three adventurers caught their breath as they explored the chamber, which Dermot said appeared to be a den of some sort, given the bones scattered around. So far they had encountered seven total of the stone-grey creatures in the cavern, by Darrow’s count. Dermot, while handing Darrow’s ring back, theorized that those might be all that were down there, given that their den had just been cleared. The dwarf expressed his hope that the ranger was right.Moving ahead, they found another cavern chamber with signs of previous occupation, including bone piles that Dermot thought had belonged to large rats. Shanni also pointed out some old, broken furniture pieces and an unusual-looking stone pillar. She then discovered a pressure plate in the floor and Darrow stepped on it, wondering out loud what could go wrong; the dwarf frowned when nothing happened. As they moved to exit the cavern back to the east, they noticed a large door set in a northern passage, but it was secured and they thought it best to wait for Rahnee and Aerikoth before attempting to open it.</blockquote>

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