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You decide to drop a stone down to test the hole's depth. It may be shallow enough to climb down, or perhaps it could be an bottomless well that leads all the way into the depths of the underworld... no way to know for sure.
Patches drops the rock. It falls down into the dark pit and for several seconds there is no sound. You count the time it takes to land, until eventually you hear a clatter deep below.
<span class="mu-r">"Wow! That is deep."</span>
<span class="mu-b">"You're right. I figure we could reach it with enough rope, especially if we tie the end off to one of the support beams in the mines; it should hold. But the depth is deeper then any part of the mines dug here... by humans."</span>
"What does that mean, Jonathon? Is it a way into the underworld?"
<span class="mu-b">"I don't think so, but wherever it leads its much deeper then where we are now. It's at least one, maybe two levels of the dungeon below. The legends of the mountain say the locals dug too deep and unearthed something that made them abandon the mines; that could be what they run into. But it can't be this hole in particular."</span>
<span class="mu-r">"Hmm? Why wouldn't this be the hole?"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"It's too straight. Nobody is going to dig straight down; it's impossible to get the excess material out of the pit easily, not to mention the miners. No, I think something made this hole coming up. Let's keep track of this and move on..."</span>
With the pit being way too deep to climb down, the adventurers move on- the pit could become a useful <span class="mu-i">shortcut</span> at the very least...
