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The elephants' Spot check in general... (d20)[16] + 10 = 26
Fortunately, as you reach the other side, though they remain gazing your way, the elephants do not move any closer. For now. Their black eyes glimmer with an unnatural intelligence; you had best pray that they remain a safe distance away, and not close enough for you to check identities.
You are getting closer to the entrance, and the sense of unease can only increase. Up ahead you can see some piles of rubble and refuse that were the remains of buildings. Smoke still wafts out from inside through cracks in the rock, and the devastation is getting worse here--little stands at all that has not been scorched, or tinted with the purple haze of miasma. Worse yet, over it there is a definite presence...