Leo moves out front, between the group and the puddle, shield up, just in case.
Jayna stays toward the back of the group watching the lit pebble as it splashes into the water. She glances around the room carefully.
The pebble reveals the pool to be about waist deep, slime coats the bottom and promises to make finding purchase difficult.
Crossing the waters and delving further forces you to cross the waters a second time. The main tunnel continues deeper, the pool occupying the left side, shortly coming to another side tunnel on your right.
"Better not to get caught off-guard if there's something down there," Daichi agrees.
"Very well," says Leo, and he advances slowly toward the side. "Some more light please?"
Damien said nothing, sticking to the shadows and following the group.
"I think a quick peek of that side passage would be good but Daichi is right though: we shouldn't get distracted," the kitsune said.
Jayna takes her turn casting light. She casts Dancing Lights down the hallway in a row. "There you go Leo."
The side passage continued onward for a short distance before itself splitting into a natural T-intersection, the two branches curving away so that, without venturing further, nothing can been seen down them.
"Thanks, Jayna," says Leo.
"I guess this could go anywhere in the hills," says Leo with a slight frown. "How about we just make sure nothing is gonna come running out from behind us if a fight breaks out? Once we've secured our flank, we move on."
"Tactically sound, as always, brother!" Damien says.
"Let us set to our work."
"A reasonable strategy. Let's get this done quickly, then continue with our mission here."
"Works for me. I don't want us to suffer from a rear attack," Derric said.
Kiko just nods. Battle tactics wasn't her forte so she trusted the judgement of the others.
The party advanced to the T-intersection, single-file due to the width of the tunnel. Down the right could be seen an opening to a small cavern, from which came the distinctive hiss of a giant spider. The left passage continued onward to another juncture of it's own, two more narrow tunnels branching off.
"Shall we continue or take out the spider?"
"I don't particularly care. If you wish to put the beast down, then do it, rather than standing here discussing it. We're not going to accomplish anything if we have to stop and discuss what we're going to do next every single time we find a crossroads."
"Leo, see if you can draw it out here. I'll wait behind the entrance and flank it from behind."
Damien moves to a shadowy position, readying himself for battle.
Leo nods to his brother and, warhammer ready, advances directly at the spider with his shield up.
Derric prepared himself in case the spider advanced.
Daichi falls in to a combat stance and prepares himself to attack as soon as the spider is in sight.
Jayna quickly reaches out and touches the end of Leo's weapon. "A little frost for our spider friend."
Kiko just hung back for now, though she did draw her sling and loaded it. There was very little she could do against creatures like the spider and she'd rather save more powerful things for when they met the rest of the undead.