OOC: This thread is for Jermayan, Sylvira, Anime Chaos and Pacattack - feel free to say you're enjoying reading it or if you would like to join, but roleplay is not open to anyone else at this time.<br/><br/>As a group, you've achieved many successful adventures together, the sticky ooze-druid Phylia (Jermayan); the bold kitsune fighter Aurora (Sylvira); the drow-naga Volenzara (Anime Chaos); and the shrewd half-elf summoner Bob (uh, maybe pick a more elvish name – Pacattack) and his Eidolon, Eid.<br/><br/>By some means or another, your group has come into possession of a tattered old 'treasure map' showing the route through the Cairngorm Peaks to the Miser's Pit, a disused mining shaft sunk so deep it was rumoured to penetrate the underdark itself, and a path leading from the mineshaft through the underdark to a large black X.<br/><br/>The mine was shuttered not long after the pit was dug, amidst rumours of hauntings and mysterious deaths and disappearances, and the holding sold to a miserly dwarf named Goldrun Coinkeeper. Volenzara vaguely recalls a dwarf trader growing rich on dealings with the drow, trading rare goods to the surface in return for the wood and furs rare in the underdark – although he's long presumed dead, likely fallen foul of the dangerous conditions of the underdark or infighting between diverse drow factions. Goldrun's suspected to have hidden his wealth in several caches, the location of each marked by a map such as this...<br/><br/>Besides, this map seems to lead down into the underdark somewhere near the great drow city of Phaervorul, where Volenzara might receive news of home, and perhaps not too far from where Phylia spawned. In any case, it seems well worth pursuing...<br/><br/>After procuring any particular equipment you could still afford, your group is heading up into the Cairngorms, following an old mining track up to the Miser's pit. The path ahead of you passes through a short, tight valley. A scree slope extends to your left, and a sheer cliff some twenty-five feet high to your right.<br/><br/>Make a perception check...<br/><br/>DC20<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Swiftly hidden amongst the scree to your left, several figures huddle in ambush, concealed by dull grey cloaks. From your right, you can faintly hear the echo of footsteps, as some number of creatures hurry to climb the backside of the low cliff to your right...</div></div></div>