The Desert Journey
Lanliss carefully moves down the ramp and peeks around the corners of the intersection, looking around. The ramp opposite his current position appears to be much more crude than the prior tunnels, and has a ceiling that is quite a bit lower, at just over five feet high. It continues down at roughly the same angle as the ramp which lead to this intersection, and its floor becomes quite uneven, with larger stones appearing here and there in the hard-packed earth. It eventually turns gradually to the right and disappears from view, and just before it does so a rope appears on the right-hand wall, pinned or staked to it every couple of feet, apparently as a hand-hold, at about three feet above the ground. Cool, moist air gently wafts up from beyond the downward curve.
The left-hand passage is the source of a faint musky smell that is overlaid by a sharp smell that smacks of unhealth. The ceiling lowers here as well, in addition to the construction becoming cruder, and several low openings are visible on either side of the passage before it ends in about 25 feet.
The right-hand passage turns sharply to the right after about 20 feet, and there are smells of cooking and unwashed bodies coming from that direction, plus some faint and flickering light from around the corner. Faint murmuring which might be speech of some sort can just be heard from this direction as well.