<div class="floatright">(https://static1.e621.net/data/sample/b0/51/b0512ef210e5921246ce3ac86cb85a67.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Goblin Sleeping Cave (aka Dark Ascent)<br/><strong>Exits</strong>:  Dark Tunnel (Down), Shaman's Quarters (North), Overpass (West), Storage (East)<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>:<strong>Party</strong><br/><hr/><br/><strong>"Follow me.  We do not have much time before the sahaguin test this place's defenses and find them wanting yet again."</strong>With callous disregard for most of the party, but a keen hand near Rurik at all times, Yil lead the group out of the caves.<br/><br/>The path back was slicked in blood and misery.  The darkness of the cave seemed somehow all the more oppressive on the way back out.  The familiar patter of rain, less a thundering chorus and more a consistent thrumming so deep within the stone were they, returned to them.  Then the scents.<br/><br/>Salt water, sea breeze.  Brine's taste rippled on their nearly-drowned tongues at the very scent.  It was all too familiar a sensation for all of them.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Travel</div><div class="spoiler_body">Exit Cliffy Lagoon<br/>-&gt;Cliffy Lagoon (Outside)<br/>-&gt;Bigtree Beach (SE)<br/>-&gt;Wide Beach (NE)<br/>-&gt;Narrow Beach (E)<br/><br/><em>The NPC makes some secret rolls...<br/></em></div></div><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location</strong>:  Redtangle Clearing<br/><strong>Exits</strong>:<strong>JUNGLE</strong>surrounds you on all sides...<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>:<strong>Party</strong><br/><hr/><br/>Out the lagoon, along the coastline, past the massive tree that shot up into the sky by some wreckage of their ship, they walked.  The whole place was wracked with wave after wave.  It was as if though the storm had a furry to it, an unbridled lashing out unlike rage.  It was too simple for that.  Just wave after wave, cloud after cloud, sheet after sheet of rain descending upon them.<br/><br/>Yet for all this, Yil waited until the last possible moment to enter the jungle.  As they entered it her gait grew cautious, her eyes more alert, her body pressed closer to Rurik's.  Guiding him.  Leaning into him.  Relying on him...<br/><br/>Perhaps training him to rely upon her.<br/><br/><strong>"This way," </strong>she said, and they plunged into the alien treeline.  Swirling trunks and bent bits of wood, wide angular roots, plants that seemed to grow upside down or else be comically larger versions of smaller ones.  The whole place was nothing like a proper forest.  And at every level up the high trees was more and more rain water being caught and dripped, animals frolicking in it ahead of the loud party that scattered them.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>After tens of minutes of this they came to a clearing--one coated in the strange red tubular roots they'd seen to the north of their crash point.  They'd bypassed that Redtangle Field only to find themselves on the edge of a Redtangle Clearing.<br/><br/>But 'edge' was generous.  As they looked around themselves they found the weedy vine stretched across tree trunks and through overgrowth.  Around rocks and under roots.<br/><br/>It twirled and writhed and its strange plant organs seemed to almost beat, beat faster as they approached, more than just swaying in the wind they were animated by something from within.<br/><br/><strong>"We need to go back,"</strong>Yil said, but looking behind them realized they were already hemmed in.  She swore in an indecipherable language under her tongue.  She looked around, bit her lip, then turned to Asherah:<br/><br/><strong>"Druid.  Offer yourself to the jungle.  It may buy us enough time to bypass this."</strong>As she said this the group could not help but notice the redtangle seemed to falls or creep or reappear closer and closer around them with each passing second.  Every blink of an eye it had advanced ever-so-slightly.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Nature</div><div class="spoiler_body">Can roll Nature to know about this.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Survival</div><div class="spoiler_body">Can roll Survival to "improve your starting position" (i.e. be out of range of the redtangle when it gets noticed).</div></div>