Chapter 4: Red Cat Cave

You take the light source and walk back inside and tosses the dried meat into the room. You see two of the creatures in the room. One of them jumps at the meat and starts sniffing it. The other takes a few steps towards Igbork and hisses at him. Though it don't engage the rogue.

Igbork sees the room is a dead end, though he can see the remains of a wine cask in the southern end of the room. The hallway to the north of you have a small bend so you can't make out what is deeper inside that way.

The creature behind takes a bite of the meat. Seeing his companion eating, the one closest to you take a bite as well. Once it swallows it picks up another piece of meat and runs past you into the northern room. The other creature following it closely behind.

The barrel seems to have hit the ground hard and cracked, its content now long gone. Except what must be Blindheim droppings, there's no other signs of life here. From what you can gather, the Blindheims have been here for at least a few weeks.

As you move north you are hit with a pungent fishy odor, and moments later you find yourself in a large irregular cavern. Scraps of sticks and brush are piled in alcoves to the north and south. The two blindheims you found earlier stands guards and growls at you right past the entrance to the room. You see two more of the creatures in the northern nest and two more in the southern. These blindheims seems to be in pain, and one of them has a quite visible gash on its neck. Another hallway opens to the northeast across the room, and seems to lead deeper into the cave.

The blindheim hisses as you start casting the spell, and is about to pounce at you, but stops when he sees his companions wounds start to knit together. He moves closer to Artesia, sniffs a little and scuttles back further than it was, allowing you access to his companions. You see none of them have any immediate life threatening injuries, though they are in physical distress with bruising all over their bodies.

Between all of you, you are all able to bring the blindheims back to health. They nuzzle you in gratitude and blinking their eyes to produce quick flashes of joyous light. With the guarding blindheims moving out of the way you can see through the tunnel that leads deeper into the cave.

It leads into another large room, and you also see a t-intersection leading off from that tunnel and to the southeast before the big chamber. The blindheims seems to want to stop you from entering deeper, though not agressively. Reading their body language, you think they are trying to warn you of danger.

Grom, you see the tunnel to the south east lead downwards towards an underground lake, and it sounds like that's where the sloshing noices is coming from.

The other hallway lead into a large cave with three linked stalacties making moist columns. In the far end of the cave an opening leads to the south. A rivulet of water goes along the wall.

You also see another blindheim. This one looks bigger than the rest. He's behind one of the columns, playing with some strange creature. A squat little animal shaped like a water droplet, with a bulbous rear end and an eel-like face that juts from a narrow skull. Its rear legs are more muscular than those in front, which it primarily uses for balance, giving it the gait and appearance of a toad.