The Mountains

Catos shot springs out of the crossbow and whistles across the Mountain with purpose. In almost as soon as you all heard Cato shout you see a glistening bolt glowing off the remaining sunlight before finding its mark straight into the heart of the entangled archer. The shot was fatal nearly instantaneously, and the archers head droops and his limbs go limp.

The fight, being well planned before hand, tested the budding groups abilities to work as a team to take down an evil group of bandits. Somewhere along this journey, you've learned something from all of this, which is bound to help you for later encounters down the road.

Elijah quickly nods. "You are correct" He takes one last look at the dead bodies around him before dismissing it and starts walking away from the carnage and leaving the group to themselves.

Elijah points you toward where they make camp at deeper into the canyon. Its not much more than a further walk into the canyon like area than you were before. He doesnt expect there to be any danger now that the group is dead and any likely stragglers will find this area unmanned and know not to press things. He even invites you back to his place back in town should you ever find the need to visit.

Some time elapses as you guys gather your things and meet up near the mountain range. Some quick scrounging of the area and the bodies nets you 5 gp worth of coinage. Along with that, you are able to find a cache that contains a cask that contains some ale left in it and a bottle of fine wine.

Nighttime is approaching, and the embers of your torches are the only things that light up the area as you find yourself in the middle of the mountain range on a cool briskly night

The night goes on without a hitch. During your night watches the sky looks clear and the stars shine brightly onto the cold ground of Arathus. Thoughts of the previously battle may still be stirring in your mind. For some, it may have been their first time ending the life of another. For others, it may just be another that grows as long as it is hard to remember. For the first time though, things seem to be running cohesively with this small cohort of 5 adventurers trying to find Isaac's retreat.

Morning comes before you know it, and you're off to locate this retreat in the caverns. The trek through the mountains via the cutout is a lot quicker than going around the mountains and by midday you've reached the caverns. The cutout leads you to a huge cliffside where a path is carved out serpentine style down the side of the cliff. The ground feels solid enough that a trek forward wouldnt seem dangerous, but it is slightly narrow so you may find it somewhat uncomfortable that a fall of well over 400 feet awaits you if you carelessly stumble off the side.

A step forward and a look below is a breathtaking sight. Below is a bay of water, with waves crashing onto the sides of the rocks. To your left the bay turns into the Arathian Ocean. Out way far in the distance from your height you can see the masts of some merchant ships bobbing across the choppy waters. To your right is an embankment made of sand and loose rock that fell off the cliffs. The serpentine pathway splits to go both to this embankment, as well as one path that leads across to the other side of the bay and another path made by miners presumably to explore some of the various caves and caverns that eat into the cliff side like cavities.

As you approach the caverns Deruvid you notice some crudely made mine carts. In them contain rubble it appears. The mines caverns looked like they were blasted with some sort of explosive powder from the residue left on the carts and rocks.

If you could Deruvid, please give me a perception roll