Feb 22, 2022 8:24 pm
With everyone having taken care of business in Phandalin you meet up with the others and start your journey to Wave Echo Cave. Taking the better part of four hours, the trip through the rather tough terrain is relatively easy, given the fine directions provided by Gundren.
Arriving at the location marked on the map, you struggle to find any sign of an entrance, but after some investigation you get a solid clue. Emanating from the side of a hill you hear what sounds to be waves crashing onto shore and then nothing. After a few minutes of silence the sound repeats and you're able to trace the origin to tunnel, well hidden behind some thickets and other vegetation.
The entrance tunnel leads into a large cavern supported by a natural pillar of rock and containing three stalagmites. In the western part of the cave, behind the column of rock, are three bedrolls and a heap of ordinary supplies — sacks of flour, bags of salt, casks of salted meat, lanterns, flasks of lamp oil, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead for some time.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east.
And yep, should've cropped the map before posting.
Arriving at the location marked on the map, you struggle to find any sign of an entrance, but after some investigation you get a solid clue. Emanating from the side of a hill you hear what sounds to be waves crashing onto shore and then nothing. After a few minutes of silence the sound repeats and you're able to trace the origin to tunnel, well hidden behind some thickets and other vegetation.
The entrance tunnel leads into a large cavern supported by a natural pillar of rock and containing three stalagmites. In the western part of the cave, behind the column of rock, are three bedrolls and a heap of ordinary supplies — sacks of flour, bags of salt, casks of salted meat, lanterns, flasks of lamp oil, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead for some time.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east.
OOC:
Moved things along. Feel free to assume that you've picked up any last minute supplies, etc, before we headed out.And yep, should've cropped the map before posting.
