[Game Thread] Pokerole: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Dragonstrike]

Lucas: "Didn't find anything particularly interesting, honestly.  Just a Relicanth.  Seemed harmless.  Well, let's keep going if you've finished up here."

Randolph's group climbs the big cliff with the largest waterfall, created by the largest stream in the room.  They follow said stream into the next room of the dungeon...

*rolls*  (Huh.  Well, that's interesting.  Fun thing about Mystery Dungeons: even I don't know exactly what might happen until it does!)

*places tiles on map*

   

...which turns out to be a large, underground lake that's apparently the source of said stream.  Immediately, two things stand out as the group looks around.

1) The stairs are on the opposite shore, in the next room over!  *places stairs tile on the map, 1 tile away from the current one*

                       
   

Randolph's group will need to cross the lake to reach the stairs.

2) An Espeon is looking out over the water from the near shore, standing protectively over a woman with orange, short, pig-tailed hair who's seemingly collapsed near the shoreline.  They look...out of place, to say the least.  It looks like Espeon is focused on the water's surface, facing away from everyone else, so it hasn't noticed the party yet.