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Lost River Cave (East)

Added 2014-11-28 14:04:15 +0000 UTC

And we come to the big item, and probably the last major set of caves in the megadungeon – beyond this node most of the other nodes will be primarily “constructed” regions instead of natural caves. But today I begin tackling the “Vietnamese Cavern”, now renamed “Lost River Cave”. Like the Mushroom Cavern / Fungus Cave (whatever I ended up calling that node), this one is a small-scale map, with each square representing 20 feet instead of the usual 10. This makes this cavern enormous – and we’re only seeing the first page of it here. Standing in here at night with a torch, a party would likely see very little – even some of the “details” of this map are a few hundred feet across. However, in the daylight, the marvels of this cave become apparent. The elevated section to the east between the two rivers is directly below a large hole in the forest floor above it. About 180 feet above the highest point in the cave is a hole almost a hundred feet across where the forest floor gave way into the cave, allowing sunlight, birds and even trees into the area. Over at the blog post we have a series of close-ups exploring various sections of the cave, as well as versions of the map with and without gridlines.