Simone sat on a hard wooden bench near the entrance of Cave City, Kentucky, anxiously watching the multiple dark cavern inlets in the distance.
It had only taken her about two minutes to navigate here from the drop point, so the rest of the party should have been back long ago. They would come. She knew it. It was only a matter of when.
Cave City, Kentucky was a bizarre, tiny trading-post town situated just at the upper edge of the Upper Northdank. It served as a buffer zone, separating the relatively safe overworld from the lethal Drow empires below, and it carried all manner of underground curiosities. It functioned exactly like a tacky highway tourist trap.
It had been an hour. Maybe she could just go check out the trading post alone and secure the giant roosters they needed for transport. After another moment of anxious deliberation, she walked into the center of the subterranean town.
