I hesitate for a bit before requesting 300 feet.
"It should be a good bit more than we need, but I figure this is not nearly going to be the last lashed together thing we get up to."
"And don't worry Den, I'm sure we can persuade someone to bring us a few beers out there. Don't back out on me now, you're more used to this kind of thing than the rest of us."
Edited: daishain on 4th Oct, 2017 - 10:57pm
"Back out on you… who said I was going to back out on you. Didn't I say this is what I was looking forward to?" I smile at him, and then continue, "You have to get used to the way military people joke around and how we deal with stress. I have a sneaking suspicion we're going to be working together for a while."
I make an excuse and leave the others. I go to the kitchen and explain that I'm in need of some beer or ale and something to snack on. I'll explain the need for it and try to arrange transport to get it out there when they start working. Once that is completed then I will rejoin them.
Setting up a delivery of alcohol to the work site is not hard. A couple of barrels of ale and a dark beer will be taken down there and set up for drink along with some fruit, cheese and bread.
There are twenty guard patrolling the cave in and half are archers so if anything appears out of the tunnels it will be met with extreme prejudice if hostile.
Five of the guards are down in the pit searching and ensuring that it is safe. The trade off on on by two marked areas One area you see a guard step out into open space and float down to the bottom The other the guards step into a ring and float up to the top. Lywenta is there monitoring these "Elevators" to ensure that it is working properly.
I get out there, survey the area, and immediately feel foolish.
"I'm sorry guys, I've never heard of anything like that kind of spell. None of this mess is going to be necessary. Shall we investigate the tunnel mouths while we are here?"
When Lywenta sees you arrive with the material she looks at you. "That might be useful in getting up to the caves without having to try to modify these spells for such a short rise into the tunnels. Be warned that in about three days that the NE tunnel will start to fill with water. I am looking into diverting some of the water away from this hole but that will be very taxing to my powers as water is very resistant to magic. The other tunnels you should have a week or two before the water gets up to them at current rate. The Lord understands and his wife and I am working on some solutions to the water issues."