Chapter 6: Calamity Caves

When Koram puts on the pendant, he suddenly gets a vision. He's somewhere else, though it is recognizable as the northern geography. He is among the Burning Mammoths, though they are bigger than the Burning Mammoths he knows. He realize he is a child, in front of him is an older warrior. You see he's holding something in his hand. It is the pendant you are wearing. He hands it to you. "I am proud of you grandson," the warrior says and hands you the pendant. The moment you take it, you wake up back in calamity cave. You can feel a strange sense of pride.

You move over to the mold, and utilizing a similar tactic, you light the torch and tosses it inside the tunnel to see what happens. As the torch hit the moldy ground, you see the mold expand and grow and in matter of seconds the whole torch is enveloped by mold.

Having seen the effect heat has on the mold you realize it's brown mold. A quite volatile mold, but not that difficult to get rid of once identified. You figure you could have it done with a couple of hours worth of work.

You are able to scrub the area clean of mold, making it safe for the following to pass through. You see the tunnel leads to the south as well as to the south east. To the south east the tunnel is sloping downwards, and Artesia is able to tell that the path is unstable scree that could cause an avalanche if you step wrong.

To the east you can see several cliffs from your vantage point. To the north of the slope you see a long, thin ledge 70 feet above. The three other cliffs to the east varies from 20 feet above you to 60 feet above you.

For a moment both Koram and Tomas think they see a humanoid shape hiding on the northern ledge, but it dissappears so quick that if you both hadn't seen it, you'd believe it was just a trick of the light.