Continuing down the tunnel the roughly hewn tunnel widens into a terrace, at least 20 feet wide and long, with a ceiling rising to 8 or 10 feet. The porch has
no far wall, instead opening into a great, echoing hollow. This close to the cavernous rift, the air seems charged as if a great storm is imminent. The walls of the opening ascend and descend, moving closer together as they rise into darkness, forming a wider space as they go downward. Two humanoid forms lie unmoving near where the terrace drops off into the hollow.

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You are entering an earthnode. A concentration of earth energy. The node proper would probably be at the bottom of the shaft.


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There are tracks as if from a medium sized creature in boots in the dust by the ledge.

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The tracks seem to lead off the terrace.