Chapter 1: Past Present and Future

ooc: People have been using Dark Side points like candy. Are we not using the strain and destiny cost for doing that?

@Avi: There is nothing beneath them but warm warm, hard stone. There is no sign of your crystal but when you close your eyes, you can almost feel it deep beneath the stone below you somewhere.

@Ian
As soon as Ian clears the mushrooms you hear a ghastly noise and feel a rush of wind whip past your face, and the air itself screams out as if in anguish. You can't help but feel a deep sense of foreboding as you look into the tunnel that descends deeper into the mountain.

Looking at the tunnel itself, you see clear signs that it was not naturally made. You see places in the wall where primitive tools have been used to hack away at the stone and the floor of the tunnel has been cut into a crude staircase with very uneven steps. The place looks old. Very old. You feel as though you have disturbed something by your very presence.

What do you do?

@Everyone: you have all seen Ian, Taryn and Avi act in the cave. You do not have to passively observe them. You may do whatever you wish and interact with the environment however you like. You definitely all heard the ominous sound as it rushed into the tunnel leading deeper into the cavern system.

ooc: can you descibe the sound in a bit more detail?

You don't gain a sense of what there is below. In fact your ability to sense and see through the force is severely limited. You have never felt this way before. It is as if something is interfering with your force abilities. You're not sure what could do that, but it's surely nothing good. You have a very bad feeling about this. It causes you 2 points of strain.

However, you do notice something. Lining the walls of the tunnel you do see a series of crude carvings. Strange lizard-like bipedal aliens with a single eye and large, long tails tipped with a club like boned structure are doing battle with some quadrapeds. The lizard creatures seem sentient as they are wearing primitive clothing and use stone age weapons. One thing that immediately catches your eye is the fact that their weapons seem to have been depicted with crystal tips. Could they have used Kyber crystals as some kind of primitive stone aged spears? You're not sure.

There appears to be several more carvings, that line the walls as the passage continues down.

Do you descend?