Milor's Labyrinth

The area behind the archway seems a natural cave made of the same pearly white stone. A rusted drainage grate, however, hangs towards the entrance, diminishing the natural scene. It is lower than both the ground outside and the rest of the cave floor. One of the walls has been marked over in chalk, paint, ink, and even a bit of blood. It is a long list of names, stretching and curving through the cave. The cave continues directly forward, although a dark side tunnel branches off in another direction.

As the group plunges forward, the tunnel grows cramped and progress grows slow. Patches of packed earth appear over the stone, but before long it appears that patches of stone are sometimes exposed beneath the gray soil. The walls are different here. They reflect the lantern and the torch, themselves glowing with firelight.

After what must be the fifth or sixth sharp bend, the tunnel abruptly leads into a cavern. Shallow pools of translucent water have collected wherever the cavern's uneven ground drops bellow your feet level. Lines of flathead mushrooms sprout from besides the pools and cluster against the walls, each tall enough to reach a dwarf's kneecaps. Stone formations in the shape of thin hourglasses droop from the ceiling and meld into the dirt. The largest such formation is encircled by a staircase composed of white-green fungal matter. It rises into a bridge made from strands of the same material, loosely hanging from bulbs attached to the cavern's upper reaches. The bridge ends as it connects to a high tunnel. A mass of dangling moss partially conceals the tunnel entrance. More moss flourishes elsewhere in the cavern, clinging to wherever it can hold. You can spot a third tunnel, smaller than even the one you just emerged from, near the other end of the cavern. A sweet, wet smell pervades through the area.

Renate skillfully knots the rope about herself, but cancels Strax from lifting he (dangit! that was a 4 too!) as to examine the mushrooms. After a moment, she is sure that these particular mushrooms never showed up in her studies. If they had, she would recall them.

Malica notes that Sarnor is itching from what probably are airborne spores, although the only difference in his skin are red marks from the scratching. She also detects magic from one of the pools of water. This pool of water has a current leading away from a stone formation at the center of the pool. A magic flow seems to descend down the formation, but both the water and the stone appear mundane (the group has now seen all sides of this formation).