Beastland wanderings

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa points it out to the others and heads towards it.

[Anastasia]

It's not dangerous down here and without needing to breathe, swimming is simple. You reach the gap - it's a gap straight down, water filled. As you get close, you can feel a current coming up from it, as if pushing water out from below.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa looks to the others and points down into it, leading the way in.

[Anastasia]

Are you under freedom of movement or similar?

[Iron Dragoon]

No. I can teleport us to the bottom of the chasm, if need be.

[Anastasia]

As you get closer, suddenly the current gets stronger, pulling you ahead.

Str checks, all.

[Iron Dragoon]

Str/Brains Over Everything:

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20+17 : 9 + 17, total 26[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

> roll 1d20+7 Jarem
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 18 > [d20=11]
> roll 1d20+9 Emily
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 22 > [d20=13]
> roll 1d20+15 Bastian
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 20 > [d20=5]
> roll 1d20+5 Dolmaya
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 17 > [d20=12]
> roll 1d20+8 Jessica
<Penuche> Kotono invokes Penuche's magic: < 27 > [d20=19]

Somehow you manage to out think it - you pivot back just so, enough to momentarily give you a chance to jet back, which you do. Jessica's with you while the others are swept down and away, down into the chasm, pulled by a current that changes by the moment.

[Iron Dragoon]

Alyssa tries to swim to the others, to gather them together and try to anchor them into pulling themselves down the sides of the chasm.

[Anastasia]

You choose to swim ahead, carried by the current. You reach them quickly - for after about 50ft it empties out into an open cavern. A fall into a lake, shores to either side. Your friends are swimming out as you reach them, to the shores and safe.

The water simply stops at those shores, unnaturally coming to a stop, flowing no further.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Well, interesting. Very nice, actually. This would make for a fantastic get-away lair. A little climate control and some luxury and it'd be perfect."

[Anastasia]

Jessica appears next to you once you're out of the water.

"Different," Jarem agrees, taking off his helmet to shake his head dry. "Refreshing."

"So what is this place? A lair?" Emily wonders aloud.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Likely. All bears can swim fairly well, and they hibernate in caves. Seems a perfectly eccentric match for a celestial bear guardian. Let's start looking around."

[Anastasia]

Past the shore is a pair of passages that lead further in. In one you see it - a vein of gold runs through the stone, thick as your waist and long, going about 30ft before it tapers off. The other's not so gold-blessed. Both go to turns - one to the left and one to the right and downwards.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Greed to mislead? What do you think?"

Alyssa wanders, looking for any tracks or sign of passage.