After resting up, securing more equipment, and making arrangements for Muireach's body, you head back to the lotus den. This time, it is devoid of any miscreants, but you can't be sure how long they will stay away. Abandoned buildings tend to attract the destitute in the poverty stricken city-state of Khromarium.
You make your way down the hole, carefully pulling the crate back over the opening above you. The ladder descends 40 feet a cave lumpy with limestone deposits. Your journeys through the caves so far had revealed tubular limestone tunnels ranging from 8 to 21 feet in diameter. Thin layers of moisture collect on the walls and ceilings, sometimes dripping down to puddle on the floor. Occasional stalactites and stalagmites protrude; too, flowstone forms lumpy irregularities about the walls.
Your previous explorations revealed a northernmost tunnel which led to unexplored branches.
To the west was the room with the collapsed floor (6) where Muireach fell and Iodás fought the giant python. Which was delicious after Amnesta lightly fried and spiced it and made tacos. Beyond that cave, you still hear the occasional cry that seems to say "Help?".
On the way northwards, the tunnel branches again. To the right was left unexplored, but to the left it leads to the cave with spatters of dried blood caking the walls around this cave's northeastern exit (10). Bloody handprints, footprints (some large), and streaks paint the surrounding floor, disappearing into the darkness east and then north.
