Let's keep the same order... I'll squeeze by.. Tacking back, Masumi tries the next tunnel to the right.
Masumi as you squeeze by and eventually track to the right tunnel, you see a dual side-by-side corridors that head to the left.
Masumi checks out the farthest passage on his hands and knees but quickly runs into another dead. He journeys back to the others to report the status.
Their is sound of heavy footsteps echoing throughout the maze.
South.
As the group proceeds on the their hands and knees tied a the waist, the sound of multiple swords striking one another increases. The floor itself almost feels as if it is vibrating with the sound of battle. Masumi lesd the group to 20 feet when he comes to an intersection. You can continue straight or turn to the right.
Right.
You are at a 4-way intersection after your turn right.
Right/North.
Wait here...
Masumi turns right and come up on the backside of Kichiro scaring him to death.
South and west, with the others.
The sound of battle seems to be dimming. as you head south you coem to a decision to make as the tunnel branches back to the north or west.
North.
Let's fill in the gaps, shall we...
You quickly come to another wall but there is an opening to your left, or west, then you are faced with decision as there is an intersection. You can continue West or turn to the North.
North
As you continue North you notice two more parallel Western passages.
West.
Which West? The top or bottom path?
From current position, bottom.
Reasonable assumption. Yes!
Continuing your twists and turns you come to area where there a are three Westward tunnels (North, Middle, South for reference) which way are your heading. The sound of multiple swordsman's weapons can be heard form all three tunnels.
First come, first served... South please.
Your journey south leads to a dead end.
Next (middle).
Another dead end.
Last one (North).
At long last you are in normal darkness again!
Unnerving, indeed.
Under what light there is, Masumi stands and checks for traps, not letting the light grant false security.
Masumi you know there are no traps in the area that you can see.
There is a reddish glow before you illuminating a huge room.
At least eighty feet long, and half that wide, this vast chamber is shaped like some vast egg, with three five-foot wide walkways crossing the length of it, each walkway being five feet apart from the one beside it. Above the walkways, the ceiling curves down to the walls, which themselves curve away into the floor below the walkways. A dim reddish
glow radiates up from the floor so that the whole room is cast in a dim scarlet light, with the shadows of the walkway moving atop the rounded ceiling. On the far side of the room, the walkways lead to a vast arch, beyond which is another chamber
What is the game plan?
The sounds have faded away.
Masumi skirts along the southern wall..
Akio follows in Masumi's footsteps, trusting in the other's abilities.
You do not see any traps but you do observe the three walkways crossing the vast cavern, the reddish glow is coming from the pit below. Across the bridges you see another ledge and stone passage way.
You don't see any traps on the entry ways of any of the theee foot bridges but you do notice a ledge leading to a cavern opening about 15 feet below and midway down the bridge. The reddish glow does illuminate pit that edges act like a funnel to center where it falls to the unknown.
I'd hide up there... Anyone see anything?
Akio shakes his head. "Let's go ahead and cross - I'd like to get out of here...if we can."
Closer examination reveals that in the middle of the floor, twenty feet below the walkway, there is a twenty-foot wide pit and that the glow comes up from there. The smooth walls and the equally smooth floor slide quickly away towards the pit, so that anyone who falls from the walkway, or tries to descend towards the pit, will be in jeopardy. Failure indicates they slide and tumble into the pit.
The walkways are not quite as slick as the floor, but they are slightly
rounded so that anyone who attempts to move at more than half-speed across them must make a DC 20 Acrobatics check to avoid slipping and falling (missing the check by more than 10 results in a tumble into the pit.
The walls to the chamber are glassy smooth and are dificult at best to climb and to find appropriate toe and finger holds.
Akio, tie this end of rope around your waist, I'll do the same with the other end. We'll go first.
Akio does as Masumi says and moves slowly along the walkway toward the opening on the other end of the chamber.
If we fight, we fight in tandem, if one falls off the other can even fall to the opposite side.
Masumi leads, crouching and moving slowly.