A shallow creek runs through the middle of the cavern the oozes came from. Inside, you find the remains of three halfling sized individuals. Most likely, these are the remains of the first expedition, as trio of out-of-town halfling explorers that offered to help the town. It looks like one of the other expeditions picked their corpses clean, although it looks like they missed an agate gem that you find in a small secret pouch.<br/><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/d6/Screen_Shot_2015-03-04_at_4.40.40_PM.png)<br/><br/>When you move on, you are able to make your way back to the last spot you travelled to with little trouble. Instead of moving into the mouldy cavern you turn to the left... and find that you are not alone.<br/><br/>The ceiling of this vast chamber rises nearly thirty feet overhead. A five-foot-ledge runs along the western wall, sloping down to the cave floor ten feet below. Four ramshackle huts make of what appear to be strips of metal, hides, and some sort of fibrous plant matter sit in the cave, while to the south yawns a dark pit. On the far side of the chamber, a smooth wall of dark metal bisects the cavern, its expanse pitted and scorched but quite solid looking. A strange, circular opening pierces the wall five feet off the ground, allowing access to some sort of hallway on the other side.<br/><br/>Out of the darkness steps as strange grey skinned woman with a bald head who wears nearly nothing. Two similar male figures appear on your flanks.<br/><br/>"Hail! You are not the first to reach our home. We have no desire to fight, and ask that two of your members will come with me to meet our leader and reach an accord. Will you acquiesce?"<br/><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b6/Screen_Shot_2015-03-04_at_4.53.05_PM.png)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OCC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Everyone gains 170 EXP. </div></div>