OOC: This thread is for Xarces, CassyInko, Bright and Sansuki - 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 bold fighter Jules (Bright) seeking to restore his family inheritance; the amazonian catwoman Oracle Miku (CassyInko) cursed by the gods with an insaitable appetite just looking for her next meal; the Blackscale ninja-naga Eurikova (Sansuki) still searching for freedom of mind from the demonic-cult who enslaved and trained her; and the mysterious black-half-dragoness Aviana (Xarces).<br/><br/>By some means or another, Jules has obtained 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. Long presumed dead, he is believed to have earned great personal wealth dealing with the drow, trading their rare goods to the surface in return for the wood and furs rare in the underdark – before their treacherous nature caught up with him. He's suspected to have hidden his wealth in several caches, the location of each marked by a map such as this...<br/><br/>No sooner than Jules showed Miku this map, she knew by the divine revelation of  hunger in the pit of her belly that it is a true map of Goldrun Coinkeeper, and that she and her companions must follow it to where it leads...<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>