A book and many things to do

[Anastasia]

You don't see anything with your greater magical senses.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa keeps going.

[Anastasia]

It's a plain dead end. Are you going to go back and explore in another direction or what?

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa does indeed turn to explore the rest.

[Anastasia]

It's simply a cavern, Nothing unusual about it, just an unusually empty space in Ash. No signs of anything awry here at least to a casual check over.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Nothing. Have the elementals come across anything?'

[Anastasia]

'Nothing yet,' Jarem says, 'We may not have found anything worthwhile.'

You hear a faint, faint noise coming back the way you came.

[Iron Dragoon]

'Hold on. Heard something. Everyone, take positions as best you can.'

Alyssa takes to the air, hovering a few inches from the ceiling to get out of line of sight and creeps back that way, doing her best to be stealthy.

[Anastasia]

Sure, Stealth check then.

[Iron Dragoon]

Stealth:

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+65 : 16 + 65, total 81[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

You advance ahead - and you see nothing but another simple snake, slithering ahead.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa leaves it for now, 'Just an Ash Snake. Let's reset and check the other area of note.'

[Anastasia]

Do you have true seeing or anything like that?

[Iron Dragoon]

I have continuous true seeing.

[Anastasia]

As you focus on the snake, you see it slowly shows something above it. The image of a humanoid of some kind, ghostly and transparent. A humanoid with red hair. The creature before you is a shapechanger of some kind.