Episode 1: A Helping Hand

Both blades find their mark as Parallel pounces upon the creature, and the strange monster is driven into the ground.

Silence fills the cavern.

The large chamber you are currently in is empty save for natural rock formations.

Two passages lead north from here. The one heading northwest cuts into a small cave where the creatures came from, but the torchlight reveals only patches of thin bedding made of dried grasses. The other passage runs further north and Parallel can see it extends past an empty side cavern.

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Parallel only finds three nests, little more than dried grasses nestled at the base of the cavern wall.

The passage leading north slopes upward as you all proceed, picking your way across loose stone and dirt. You can feel a slight breeze as cool air shifts past you and down the way you came; perhaps the surface is near.

You pass by three small chambers. Each one shows only the primitive tools the grimlocks used or fiddled with, along with a few throws of animal hide on the floor, but otherwise these chambers are unoccupied.Map