After the release of another arc of electricity, Kelaria sprints forward much more quickly than one would expect from someone so heavily armored and rejoins with the others in the relative safety of the stale, grey-and-white halls on the other side. To the left is a room full of metal machines with colored lights, screens, and gauges blinking away with periodic clicks and churns and a large, round steel table with what seems to be a recreation of the desert outside in floating blue lights. Continuing past the room and down a twisting hallway, the party soon passes another room--this one partly lit red by the sun outside pouring through the western wall which seems to overlook the desert outside--although there was no sign of this structure visible when the party had traversed the expanse. Lying in the room is the bisected corpse of some strange, four-armed humanoid with a large, sloped head--unmoved from when it had been slain but starting to stink up the place worse that it had in its unlife.
After passing through two more large doors, each one opened briefly and pulled up and into the ceiling by a touch of a panel beside the doorway before closing again moments later. With some experimenting the party discovers that holding their hand on the panel keeps the door raised to allow more to pass through more casually than hurrying to beat the automatic shutting. Finally, the party arrives in the section of the cave where they had left two days before. A large metal desk with blinking lights and strange glowing panels sits atop a raised area on the east side of this room near a circular table. Two couches covered with black material sit to the south a pair of black metal pillars. Splatters of dried blood stain the floor and walls near a pair of doors to the north, while here and there patches of rust-red mold and fungus cling to the southern wall. The room itself is brightly lit by glowing panels on the ceiling.
Behind the door to the east, closed but unlocked, should be the bodies of three vegepygmies slain two days before.
After Kelaria and Cain take up positions in the doorway and Zorden moves to a position which will provide both cover and a good view of the coming hallway, Morin unlocks the southern doorn with a tap of his brown access card to the panel followed by a press of his hand to command it to open. As quickly as every other powered door in these metal caves the door rises into the ceiling with a quiet hiss and reveals another empty hallway. The wide hall curves slightly and at the opposite are two doorways--a part of the pincer attack the party stumbled into two days before. The panels beside each of the doors are unlit, signifying that they are unlocked.
The party moves carefully forward into the next hallway, locking the door to their left as a precaution. So far, without an Unseen Servant deliberately drumming about, even Kelaria's heavy steps haven't seemed to stir anything up in this Vegepygmy territory. (Cain Scroll of Mage Armor 4 > 3, Morin Scroll of Heroism 2 > 1)
After a moment of preparation(Cain Shield 1>0, Arcane Pool 4>3) Cain presses the wall panel to send the door into the ceiling and reveal the room beyond. The stench of mold and decay fills this open, dark chamber, no doubt created by the thick blanket of fungal matter coating the floor. Several chairs sit before work tables containing unusual tools and equipment, while a row of doors line the curved southern wall. Unlike the rest of these underground structures, there is no light source in this room besides what spills in through the now-open door. Quickly the stench of the room wafts out into the hall and envelopes Cain, Kelaria, and Morin(DC 12 Fort Save or sickened for 1 minute.) Startled by the sudden movement and light, a single vegepygmy carrying an upturned steel helmet and the large man-tall yellow flower of its pet weedwhip turn to meet the party.