Jarad, while JJ is out, let’s you and I get to know Enusat a bit better here.

Enusat stands at the crossroads, tucks a bit of Hul Gil joy weed into one cheek, and chews it with a sour expression, “Well, Marduk, the most direct route is clear. On the other hand, the last time I trod that path, I experienced nought but suffering. The dung-slurping beast destroyed a squad of seasoned warriors just recently, so it is also clear that I cannot hope to destroy it on my own. And so… I leave the decision to you.”

The warrior turns his back, takes out a coin, and flings it behind him in the general direction of the various corridors. He hears it strike stone against the leftmost corridor’s entrance, and looks as the coin bounces and rolls off the edge of a cliff into the abyss. Enusat walks over to the brink and looks down into the darkness, rubbing his chin, then spits the exhausted weed into the gap, “Not sure how to interpret that sign, Bel Belim.”

Shrugging, Enusat heads down the first corridor on the left, the closest to the edge.

“A maze, eh? What do you call what I’ve been walking through for hours, eh? A labyrinth? This is a clever sign-maker, designating a distinction without a difference.”

Alert to the dangers of the Garden of the Camel, Enusat enters the maze, looking and listening for signs of the spiders.

[Perception (Seeing) roll 8= 1 + 4 + 2 +1 (Perception)]

As he walks, the warrior tries to remember the turns he made the last time he navigated this maze, and attempts to calculate the most direct route to the core of the Shrine.

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 12= 4 + 2 + 3 +3 (Cunning)]

Day 2:

Digging through his pack, Enusat comes across a large ball of twine (“I think I stole this from a tailor’s shop while drunk. Hmm. Handy.”) and fastens it to a spiral-shaped outcropping of stone. By playing out the twine, Enusat moves much slower but manages to avoid doubling back or getting lost in the maze. By the end of the day, he has moved to a new part of the maze and made some progress.

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 16= 6 + 4 + 3 + 3 Cunning. Added 4 to 2 for total of 6 toward Threshold]

Day 3:

Satisfied by the tactic of the day before, Enusat continues using the twine as a means of threading his way through the maze. He spends another slow-paced yet ultimately rewarding day, but his once immense ball of twine has dwindled.

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 17= 4 + 4 + 6 + 3 Cunning. Added 4 to 6 for total of 10 toward Threshold]

Day 4:

In the mid-morning, Enusat feels a sharp tug on the length of twine and something begins yanking it from the other end. Realizing that a creature is using the twine to hunt him through the corridors of the maze, Enusat tosses the ball down a random passage and flees, quickly losing his way. Within a matter of minutes, he hears sounds of pursuit and realizes that his adversary is hot on his trail…

I will break exposition here, since the combat may affect how I describe the next three days

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 13= 5 + 1 + 4 + 3 Cunning. Added 1 to 10 for total of 11 toward Threshold, but encountered an enemy]

Day 5:

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 11= 1 + 5 + 2 + 3 Cunning. Added 5 to 11 for total of 16 toward Threshold]

Day 6:

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 13= 3 + 1 + 6 + 3 Cunning. Added 1 to 16 for total of 17 toward Threshold, but encountered an enemy]

Day 7.5:

[Cunning (Navigation) roll 12= 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 Cunning. Added 3 to 17 for total of 20 toward Threshold, and gained 3 Stunt Points for Exploration- spend 2 on Speedy Search to complete Maze in half the day and 1 on Advantageous Position, so that if there is a guardian on the way to the next Shrine, I am in an advantageous position to observe it without being seen]

Crouching above and behind one of the two entrances into the arena, among the stands, Enusat quickly and quietly opens his worn leather backpack and begins sorting through the contents. What was once a full pack, brimming with supplies, has been exhausted over the last week. The warrior removes a few tools and tucks them into his tunic, and then stuffs the backpack with a torn cloak, an empty clay jug, and some metal cups and utensils. He tests the heft of the bag and looks out over the arena, estimating the distance between the spiders and the exit on the far wall, and trying to imagine how quickly he can cover the intervening ground.

After securing his great sword and crossbow, Enusats draws his morningstar with his left hand and readies the stuffed backpack in his right. Leaning far back, he swings the backpack over his head twice and lets it fly, “If Marduk smiles on me, this’ll make enough of a clatter that it’ll cause those blasted ticks to scurry off after it and pay me no mind.”

[Communication (Deception) roll 11= 2 + 5 + 2 + 2 Communication. Generates 5 Stunt points, which I spend on Enrage]

The bag arcs over the spiders’ heads and smashes against the far wall with a loud crash. Several of the metallic items spill over onto the stairs and make a clatter as they tumble from step to step. The sound, so much like the heavy boots and clattering weapons of the Meskian heavy infantry, causes the spiders to erupt in clicking hisses, and many of them surge toward the source of the disturbance in a mass.

Enusat sprints toward the exit, trying to tumble past the confused arachnids.

[Dexterity (Acrobatics) roll 17= 5 + 6 + 4 + 2 Dexterity]

The warrior rolls under the wriggling legs of one of the spiders, leaps over a smaller one, and vaults onto a fallen pillar, running along its length until he reaches the far end of the arena. Suddenly, what he took to be a piece of collapsed masonry rears back, splaying its albino limbs as it prepares to pounce, its hairy mandibles dripping with a viscous green bile.

Please feel free to modify or expand on any of the above. I took some liberties by interpreting my own die rolls, but I left the details vague