With the sun now completely set, the light from overhead has gone. The only light in the cave emits from Litwick, and a fainter glow seems to be coming off the statue Vulpix picked up. With a majority vote, the players in the cave progress forward down the sloping path.
As they reach the other side from where they were standing previously, they begin to hear the quiet sound of water dripping from the ceiling onto the rocky floor below. The low light makes it hard to see far, but the cave suddenly widens into a larger open area.
The banging or humming from earlier, now completely dead, leaves them with little in sense of direction. Feeling along the walls, they find that the "room" they are in really just splits the path they were following into three more paths.
On their right, the paths slopes upward. A way back out perhaps? Would this lead them out of the forest, or back into it?
On their left, the path continues downward at a gradual slope the dripping sound is loudest in this direction. An underwater lake?
Straight ahead of them the path looks the same as the path they just took to get here, or at least very similar. Rock formations adorn the walls.
On no path can any of the party members make out the ending, or wherever they might lead.
The group decide to head back from where they came, ignoring the three paths in front of them.
As they head back, the familiar formations adorn the walls and ceiling, but the path seems to go on longer than they remembered.
When they reach the end, they don't recognize the room they had dug into previously. Instead, they're faced with three paths, same as before.
To their right, the path slopes downward. The sound of dripping water can be heard from that direction once again.
To their left, the path reaches upward.
Ahead of them, the familiar stalactites and stalagmites cover the cave walls in a similar fashion to where they had just come from.
Deciding to head to their right, the group pursue the sounds of water coming from that direction. As they head that way, the path slopes further downward.
The path ends and opens into a small room. To their left, a small lake is formed. It doesn't seem very deep, but it stretches beyond the field of their vision.
Ahead of them the dry path continues, seeming to curve further right.
The three Pokemon investigate the right path. There doesn't seem to be anything immediately noticeable around the walls of it, and the inside is too dark to see very far into.
Salandit emits a sweet scent. A splashing can be heard in the distance, implying the lake might be much larger than originally thought.
The Pokemon look further down the path with Litwick's light. It seems to branch right and to head even deeper. Water can be seen dripping from the ceiling, and the sound of it echoes in front of them.
They get the feeling that taking this path may not let them return.
Behind them, a splashing sound comes from the far side of the lake. The same sound from before? But... Closer this time?
Vulpix continues to freeze the water's surface, creating a path along the lake. As she continue forward she hits a wall. The lake doesn't seem to go further in this direction.
To her right the lake continues, but it seems to extend further past where the dry path departs.
To her right, the lake continues as well, far past where they had entered from. That seems to be the direction the sound from earlier came from.
Cutiefly flies over to where Vulpix has hit her dead-end, and lights the area. They can't make out anything new, however.
A vicious splash occurs to their left. If it gets any closer, it would be right on top of them...
Taking a moment to catch their breath, the Pokemon heal their wounds. The cavern had gone quiet, a nice change after everything that had just happened. The lake is silent, maybe they could try crossing it again? Or the path, to their right. It seems to go further, but would that lead them out of the cave?
In the darkness of the path behind them, where they had first entered the lake, they hear a familiar sound. The humming, from the clearing! It isn't the loud banging they had heard upon first falling into the cave, however. It's faint, distant.