Did he cast inside the temple or outside? Inside the magic effective aura is 5 (though there is no magic aura) outside it is 2.
Outside!
Inside the temple was already light
You collect the remaining ivories, does anyone stay behind to further chat with AmenBaal? Or is the entire group headed back home, or on to further exploration?
I would vote for further exploration. But will ask the others for their opinion before any action is taken. If someone is still inside the temple Frederic will wait until we are complete again. He will also have an eye and an ear on the coven folk remaining inside the temple (in case someone stays).
I assume the doors are still open.
If I understand, there are other cave mouths down here. I (Tomas) am inclined to have us look into those.
There are roughly 100 other entrances to the chasm you are in, at varying heights. The one you came in is marked by the rope dangling from it.
Do any of the other entrances show obvious signs of use?
None any more significantly than the others.
"Well, that leaves a lot of room for exploration," Vulpus says. "It'll take months to explore them all when we decide to do that. We'll have to find a way to mark off the ones we've gone down so we don't overlap our explorations"
"I guess for most of this we will have to send back grogs with tools to explore. For now, lets pick one." So saying, it picks one that is off to the left of the doors, about a third of the way back towards where we came in, and just a bit above floor level (if such a thing exists.)
There is one at around waist height, once you get inside it climbs upward and to the left before expanding out into what seems like a five chambered cavern, with 7 other entrances. A luminescent fungus grows on the walls, and the floor is damp.
"Someone mark this entrance," Vulpus says when they enter the new cavern. "We want to be certain we know the right one to go through to get out of here. I don't want to end my days wandering through endless tunnels."
Nicolae, who had been keeping to himself for a while, mutter to himself "What a same, all of this because of a stupid prank."
He then transform in a lymer, a dog reputed to have a very accute sense of smell, and then bark at Vulpus, while running around him:
"Where is your sense of adventure, Vulpus ? Who knows there might be ancient stone tablets down a cave somewhere."
Although he tries to act his usual self, a hint of sadness can be perceived. Nicolae will take a long sniff, trying to discern what lies ahead.
"I'll have you know I do have a sense of adventure," Vulpus replies. "I'm here, aren't I? It just happens that I also have a sense of self-preservation."
You get the scent of at least 20 people, excluding your own party. Between them aside from the way you came in they regularly use 5 of the entrances.
Frederic uses “Rock of viscid clay” to soften a part of the stone floor. Then he draws an arrow showing the direction of the “Temple Cave” in the stone. Using his flexible spontaneous magic he shortens the duration to diameter.
Die = 3 coyotecode.net/roll/lookup.php?rollid=91561
Casting Total 17
CT+ Die =20 vs Spell Level = 10
Tayma asks "Hey can you write a name. Like thunder guy? If we just have a bunch of arrows it won't work. Also do you have a spell to keep us from wandering into anyone else's home? "
“That’s an Excellent Idea! Are you able to write? Feel free to give this arrow a name. Or just make three times an X or so.”
Tayma will press her finger into the stone and when she finds it claylike write "Thunder Person" in Latin
Now that you have marked the entrance, where do you go from here?