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I feel like it's supposed to be the underwater tunnel mentioned in the area description, but maybe there was some miscommunication between the cartographer and the writer:

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The pool itself is 30 feet deep and has a 15-foot-diameter passage at its base that leads 140 feet north into the river basin. It is via this passageway that the pool’s denizen comes and goes.

The tunnel in question is about 15' wide and heads north.

Wish I had read this post before running that portion of the adventure path last night. I'll bet you are right about it being the underwater tunnel and there was a miscommunication with the map portion.

I just had it be part of the area above the water and the party crossed the water and continued on to explore the rest of the tunnel. Since it didn't mention where it was supposed to go, I had it dead end further down the tunnel, as if that part of the cave system hadn't been expanded.

Course the party wasn't very happy about it as they thought they were going to have to deal with the dino to cross back the other way, but it had gone out it's tunnel hunting after the party traveled away from the pool.

Well, having lived in the area most of my life, and understood the mentality of the St. Pete Times, which somewhat matches the mentality of the city, the article actually paints a fairly nice picture of DnD, a much nicer picture than the previous one that was written, oh about 30 years ago.

By the way, and I know the guys who were talked about in the article that was published 30 years ago, one of them was called a blonde teen with a pixie look. That statement will probably piss him off if he reads this, but I think Brennan being called scrawny is a whole lot nicer than what my friend was called!

I view it as a good article with a much more positive spin than anything I've ever seen in the past. I have to agree that we need to take people from A to B to finally get them to C. That's just the nature of things. Plus, you've got to remember that the media wants hype, no matter what they're talking about.

It sells newspapers, or tv news shows, etc. Most every news caster that I've ever watched looks to me like they want to be the next guy reporting the Hindenburg. What they doesn’t seem to get is the guy that reported the Hindenburg was freaking out, not sensationalizing, but it just seems like when they go to broadcasting school, the first class in that tract is Sensationalism 101!

Skunk

Patiently waiting for the next clue. Still can't figure it out! You guys are evil! :-)

"Burn it" is our biggest running gag at the moment.

The story...

One of my players is playing a grouchy dwarf. The party was assigned the job of scouting an enemy keep in a near by, slightly hostile kingdom. The enemy of the keep would really be an enemy of both kingdoms, but the government of the kingdom where the keep was located didn't know about the keep.

Anyway, it was under the control of an army of Orcs and so the player party was very careful about approaching the keep. Seeing that the army had left days before, they decided to search the keep proper. Come to find out, a tribe of Kobalds had taken over the keep, since their enslavers had gone.

Toward the end of an agrivating play session of chasing Kobalds and not catching them, while they constantly plagued the characters with minor attacks, the player playing the dwarf decided to burn down the keep.

What the players didn't realize was the keep rested on a cave system that contained numerous wights. Burning the keep down released the wights and will eventually cause the dwarf to be plagued by the ghosts of those who were killed by the wights.

But because of the player wanting to burn down the keep and due to other game sessions where he threatened to burn up things, "Burn it!" has become a running gag.

Skunk