Immersive Ink

Our Heroes explore their immediate surroundings, but the results are somewhat inconclusive. All of the cracks and tunnels are twisted and winding, so it's impossible to tell where they lead, without actually committing. Dame Simonetta thinks that probably all of the eastern cracks lead to the same area. Dougal looks for a way to block up the tunnels, but all he finds is solid stone.

Dame Simonetta sees a dozen rat eyes glaring back at her. The "eastern rats" have become aware of the party's presence! Their behavior seems squirmy and rat-like, but they neither flee nor attack. They're just sort of scurrying around back there in the cracks, trying to make sense of the situation with their little rodent brains.

Willie hears the sound of many rats to the southwest, but they don't seem to have noticed or reacted to him. Yet.

Kiplyn, Noh, and Tet are standing by, ready for battle if necessary.

I'll allow Dougal to use his Thief skills here, let's call it a Find/Remove Traps check, to see if he can collapse or block the tunnel. Unfortunately 1d6 = 1, fail.

Rat reaction check = 2d6 = 7.

Not seeing the image is it just me?

For what it's worth, Noh ventures that, in his Druidic opinion, these rats are not of the enchanted, giant, or zombie variety. Just normal rats. Probably they have seen adventurers before, which is why they're not freaking out.

Image should be fixed, sorry about that. Like most IT problems, it was solved by fixing the permissions!

Maybe due to some past event, Dame Simonetta is simply a bit paranoid against rats.

I meant "A" (because it seems to avoid the rat tunnels)