Tunnels

Keeping alert for any further "fishing" from above you look around. The cavern is about 50 foot across with access from the tunnel to the tile cave to the SW and another passage continuing to the north. There are a couple of large pockets int he cave to the east and west with lower ceilings and ruble strewn floors.

The northern opening leads to a long passage leading deeper into the earth.

Leaving the NE passage for later exploration your move to the opening that leads east from the cavern with the tile. This tunnel winds and heads a but upwards. The air becomes less stagnant with increases in moisture and the smell of dank vegetation. Knowing there is a river bordered by swamps south and west of the base you assume you are somewhere under there. The passage reaches another cavern appearing to dead end. There are signs of small animal life in this cavern as well as smaller cracks and crevasse, most covered by a multitude of cobwebs that span most of the cavern walls as well as draping from the ceiling down to the floor. Slight wafts of air indicate there may be a way to the surface but it is not visible from your current vantage at the cavern entrance, one of the few areas free of the ever-present webbing.

The cavern is illuminated only by your torchlight and the thick cobwebs cover every surface making it hard to tell but gauging by the air flow and darker looking patches there are multiple holes throughout the cave through at this point you can not tell how deep they may be. The size varies and is blurred by the webs but the dark spots close by range from head size to big enough to walk in.

The torch easily burns the thin web threads but they are so thick using just the torch will take some time to clear the entire cave.