They chitter at Alora and dive back under the water. As they do, you can see they aren't seals, but some sort of ferret. They don't appear to understand her. A rat (normal-sized, runs up to the edge of the pool of water. One of the ferrets swims over, quick as a wink, seizes it in its jaws, and eats it down. It goes back to swimming in the water.
Okay, back out into the corridor. You travel 20' and are in a corridor running east-west. To the east, you can see stairs leading down 30', to the west, a corridor running straight.
Okay. The stairs lead down to a natural cavern. This small cave is partly filled with a bubbling gray pool of liquid. The cave smells foul. The pool is surrounded by coarse red sand. The sandy ledge surrounding the pool on the south and west sides, is only wide enough for one person to stand on without touching the liquid.
“Drink it and find out,” says Edwin with a sneer. “(These silly children, always asking me mundane, pointless questions. Don’t they know I have better things to do than coddle them?)”
Edwin’s brow and face twitch in a sort of involuntary spasm. “Funny!?” he blusters, then mumbles incoherently under his breath, something like, “(...never would have seen this in Thay... one day... one day....”
"if no one knows what the liquid is I suppose we had better carry on exploring. Back upstairs everyone!" Alora heads back upstairs and then takes the corridor heading west.
(Had a friend of a friend bring over her 11 week old baby for my friend to watch today. I was so tired afterwards, I fell asleep like a brick. :P)
Okay, you head back up the stairs, past the north-south corridor and at 50' past that, to another north-south corridor. To the north is the corriodor leading back to the portcullis, so you head south. After 20' you see another east running hallway. Or you can continue south.
She hears nothing. The door is not locked and she finds no traps. Inside this 20' by 20' room ares shelves on the south and west walls. The shelves are filled with wooden crates. The room appears to be otherwise empty.
Okay, Alora and the party continue to head south. 10' on, they encounter stairs going down 20'. 20' after that, the corridor turns east. After 90', the corridor ends at a door to the east.
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Assuming Boo cannot converse with the ferrets, Alora will leave the room and continue along the corridor.
Okay, back out into the corridor. You travel 20' and are in a corridor running east-west. To the east, you can see stairs leading down 30', to the west, a corridor running straight.
Okay, you head back up the stairs, past the north-south corridor and at 50' past that, to another north-south corridor. To the north is the corriodor leading back to the portcullis, so you head south. After 20' you see another east running hallway. Or you can continue south.