Scrying doesn't take up too much time, but it does take enough time to disrupt a regular game thread to delay things. So, this thread has been created, which will detail the much slower off time scrying the Crystal.

Amara, Twiggy and Roenthelm walk down to the basement and pass the magical barrier that prohibits lesser experienced people down here. They walk into the Pink Crystal room and the giant crystal awaits you. Like last time, Amara's little hummingbird Flika flies away from her and perches on the open door. Twiggy has his parchment out and is ready to continue on the mine map the party made before. Roenthelm is there to observe so he can prepare himself for when the time comes to start rescuing people.

Now, it's up to Amara to begin.

Amara closes her eyes and takes a few deep breathes to make herself as calm as possible. She doesn't like slavery, but she's seen things like that since she was a toddler. So while it does bother her in some manners, it doesn't overly bother her.

It's that the dracolich seemed to be able to sense her. If it could sense her, what else could it do? And how successful would she be?

Then she reached out, touching the crystal. It was time to start, and to try to map as much of the tunnels as possible. She was, however, going to avoid the dracolich itself, if she could.

Amara concentrates on the mine and the crystal shows the front entrance. It's dark outside, so she can't make out any details on what the guards look like and she makes a discovery. She can't use her darkvision while scrying through the crystal. She moves inside where there is torch light and she's looking at the guard post (Area 1 on Game Map U) 5 human guards dressed in a variety of armor and weapons gambling at a table.

Assuming that there is some level of light, since her darkvision doesn't seem to work through the scrying, Amara will turn to start exploring the tunnel leading off from section 1.

The tunnel (20 + feet wide) is well worked with the occasional torch seen sticking from a tunnel support post. Amara scries until she comes to a "T" intersection with various tools leaned up against the wall with 9 sleeping slave miners huddled together. There are no guards because the miners are chained together by their necks.

Game map U has been updated.

Amara decides to essentially take every first right hand turn, wanting to see if there might be any additional exits. And that way, it was less likely to eventually miss a tunnel.

Twiggy laid several pieces of parchment on the floor and as Amara is serving down the hall he is watching and drawing. If he runs out of room he lays another sheet down. Any items of interest Twiggy makes a quick note.

10:12, Today: Twiggy Flinch rolled 7,22 using 1d20+3,1d20+3.  Cartography (wisdom).

Twiggy's map is coming out quite nice, based off what Amara is scrying. Roenthelm just stands off to the side and observes, but nothing too exciting is to be seen just yet. Amara takes a right turn and another right turn and comes into a semi-large cavern that looks like a dig site. There are more tools, mining equipment, barrels of water and piles of dug ore.

This will be referred to as Section 9 on Game map U

Amara "walks" the scrying around the chamber before heading back out and taking the next right when they exit the chamber's entrance.

Twiggy keeps drawing and making notes on his map.

All she sees is mining equipment. She might see more if it was brighter in the area.

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Continuing scrying down the tunnel, Amara takes another right and travels down worked tunnel until she comes into a room with sleeping chained slaves. There is a well in the middle of the room that looks like it gets daily use. She continues North and comes upon a passage that collapsed, but with the poor lighting, she can't tell how long ago. She scries back to the well room and a passage heads West.

The well room and the collapsed tunnel will be referred to as 10 and 11 on game Map U.

Essentially, Amara will continue until she is tired, always picking the right-hand choice when there is a choice. She will only avoid the big cavern, where she had previously seen the dracolich.

Going West out of the Well Room, Amara scries a larger cavern that looks like it's had plenty of work done to the walls, the cultists digging for ore. There is more mining equipment and more sleeping slaves. There's also 4 Cultist Guards keeping watch in this area. Amara stays put for a bit to see if she could see why they're staying here, but nothing too exciting.

This area will be referred to as 12 on Game Map U

Going South to a + section Amara comes upon 3 Cultists and 1 slave girl. No need to go into details, but the girl is not willing and now you know why there are guards keeping watch to the North.

This area will be referred to as 13 on Game Map U

Amara loses her Concentration after this and the Crystal goes blank again.

Amara frowns for a long moment, then shakes her head. "That's enough for tonight. We'll scry some more before going," Amara declares.

Twiggy finishes his map "Good going. We can keep trying and make a complete map. Some of these areas will be good to have Nolan make a dimensional door."

"That poor girl. I just don't understand why people do that to one another. I agree. Let us get some rest."

Roen seems pretty sad now at what he saw.

Twiggy nods "Soon Roen the cultist will get their due. I will not show them mercy or anyone that helps them. Unfortunately I have seen this before and even though we freed the captives they were so broken that they had little to live for. If we truly want to help them then once we kill the cultist and dracolich we will have to help them find purpose in life again."

Amara stayed silent at Roen's words. She had seen far worse. She had done worse, in fact, when she was an adolescent, still trying to figure out the world. Most drow had...

She nodded to Twiggy, but only said "Goodnight, everyone." before leaving to go to her room.

It's been over 2 weeks since Amara last used the Pink Scrying Crystal, so she can obviously dismiss everything she saw before related to the people she saw. Myarra and Shannon followed her down into the basement and she has a look of annoyance on her face as she still can't get down here by herself yet, but the GODS let her go to the bathroom. Ashara walks right on through and makes Shannon hiss. The scrying room looks the same and still pulses as it awaits for somebody to touch it....

Amara smiles at the displacer beast. There was something comforting about her. She pets her, just where she knows the big feline likes it.

"Let's see if we can continue to make progress on the map so that when we go into the dracolich's den, we already know our way around." She gently but firmly reached out to reconnect. She wants to start close to where she left off last time, but away from where the dracolich is likely to see.