Into the Barrier Peaks

Moving east, you pass the scorched southern tunnel, melted bodies coating the floor and walls the stench of burning plant life still strong in the air. Of note, you realize that to the south the corridors are dark, while where you currently are the lighting is faint, but good enough to provide whose with out some form of dark vision the ability to see a few feet around them. Bram once again produces a light to guide you all, but at least if it were to go out you would not be in total blindness.

You pass by several black-colored doors and come to the turn north, where you see yet more metal corridor. The metal gratings beneath your feet click and creek softly as you walk, and though the annoying buzz is gone you can still feel a faint thrumming all around you. It is as if you are inside some great dormant machine that has a faint heartbeat that cannot be heard, but rather barely felt.

To the north you see that your hallway stretches out of your field of view, but another large branch heads east up ahead.

You make your way down the main corridor, the absence of the annoying buzz from earlier making the other sounds from deep within the caverns that much more disconcerting. Those accustomed to the openness of the woods and hills can almost feel the weight of the oppressive air clinging around you like a heavy cloth, and your breath feels almost laborious.

You pass by several doors, a few black and the others yellow, but when you pass by the wise, eastern hallway branch you come to something fairly new. Though you may have seen them in other hallways, for the first time you come to doors that have no color on them, merely a greyish, metal panel. You find three of them; right where the main hall turns left (west) there are a pair of them. One is a normal door, the other appears to be much wider. There is another tot he west, on the north side of the corridor.

Movement: Normal
Time in Caverns: 2:30

Lucky
Lucky rummages through the black-door rooms as the party moves slowly along the corridor. Most of the stuff everywhere is busted, broken, molded and uninteresting, though there are a few of the slim, humanoid-like skeletons in and among the refuse. One skeleton, however, seems to be different than the rest.

In the second room, a skeleton wearing an old-style leather armor is found, and from the looks of the piercings in the armor and the bite marks on the bones, the poor fellow (or lady) was either stabbed to death and then eaten, or eaten while alive and bleeding out. What is most curious, however, is a small journal tucked in the waistband. While the writings have long since run and blended together, some of the later pages look intact!

Additionally, in the last, L-shaped room you find some ornate jewelry still on the wrist and neck of one of the skeletons. While the jewels are obvious, the styling and settings are completely foreign to anything you have ever seen.

Hraefn
The first door slides open at the pressing of the colorless panel. Inside, you see what was once a very posh and comfortable room, now nothing but a ruinous representation of its former life. There are torn easy chairs, small tables broken and overturned, broken metallic crates with glass fronts and lined with buttons and knobs, rubble and ashes from fires, bones and skulls, and some few personal items in the deep folds of lounge furniture lost during what looked to be a chaotic time in the past of these strange caverns.

The north door opens into what can only be described as a barracks mess hall. Numerous tables and benches line the place, at one time straight and ordered, now fallen into more ruin and destruction the rest of the complex has shown. Skeletal remains are everywhere, though most seem to be broken and scattered, though a few are more in-tact.

At the far side of the room you can see a large open doorway leading into what might be some form of kitchen area? Though it looks to be nothing like any kitchen you have ever seen, if this entry hall is, indeed, a mess hall, then that room would logically be where the food is prepared.

Everything which was possibly useful and not bolted down looks to have been removed from these areas. However, there are still many strange metal boxes with various knobs, colored glass fronts, trays made of weird, horn-like material stacked in some places, and strewn about and broken in others.

There is a lot of open counter space in there. Along one wall is a bench with a number of metal boxes resting on it. Each box has a dark colored glass door in the front of it and arranged beside these are a number of square metal plates (buttons?). On top of each box is a short, black cylinder.