Session Fifteen
Whilst Stunty throws a few logs onto the fires to provide a bit more light Grace & Thorn decide to investigate the waterfall further, with a rope around her waist Grace splashes out into the icy cold shallows, fortunately the water around the water fall is only waist deep. Despite the warmth emanating from the dragon necklace around her neck the icy chill of the subterranean water seeps into Grace's bones & she abandons the water before reaching the waterfall itself.
Whilst Grace strips in front of the fire Stunty & Thorn inspect the small boat on the shore, neither know much about boats but Stunty shrugs & suggests that it looks OK to him. Dragging the boat towards the water, which Stunty points out is only big enough for two, they push it into the water & watch for several minutes to see if it sinks, when it fails to sink, Stunty grins,
"Told you it looked OK didn't I"
Taking the oars Grace rows out with Thorn towards the waterfall, as they near the cascading water Thorn pokes his long spear through but it fails to hit rock,
"There's definitely an opening behind the water Grace"
Before proceeding further however Grace paddles the boat around & with some difficulty rows towards the broken jetty on the isolated beach at the far right hand end of the lake, leaving Grace alone on the beach Thorn turns the boat around & begins to row back to collect Stunty, part way however she inadvertently drops one of the oars which slowly drifts back towards Grace. The light of the fires fails to reach this far across the lake & so Grace is unable to see Thorns predicament however she can hear him splashing about just beyond sight. Slowly the drifting oar comes into view, followed a few minutes later by the hapless Thorn in the drifting boat, fortunately the waters of the lake flow towards this end of the cavern obviously flowing out of the cavern somewhere below the surface.
Nearly an hour later Thorn eventually comes into sight of the impatiently waiting Stumpy,
"Did we get lost then" questioned the dwarf
Sheepishly Thorn confesses his ineptitude with the boat, throwing their packs & some firewood on the boat they push of from the shore & row carefully towards the waiting Grace.