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This is a side-view map of the cavern and the rubble island you are standing on. One square is 5 feet, as usual. To the right is the exit to the grotto. To the left is your island with the rope. Deep water is between.

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As the group prepares for the swim, it occurs to some of you that attempting this swim in all this gear might be quite difficult. Armor and weapons are heavy and weigh you down. Clothing and gear is bulky. It's a 30 foot distance from the shore of the rubble-island to the shore of the cavern, but you can see that about 10 feet of that could easily be waded, leaving you with only 20 feet of real swimming.

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Mechanics:

Due to gear and armor, the following is a list of your swim checks, including mods for ranks in swim:

Mekie, -9 to swim
Na'Nfr, -7 to swim
Whault, -10 to swim (-5 without backpack and beltpouch - stated as dropped previously)
Marissa, -2 to swim (big advantage of no armor or weapons here!)

The DC of the swim is 10. If you roll less then 10, you make no headway but just splash around uselessly. If you make less then 5, you start to drown. Keep in mind that means some of you need to roll 19 or higher just to make headway!

Put on your thinking caps, because this just became a logic puzzle challenge. I can think of 3 easy ways to get across the pool without abandoning your gear, 1 interesting, but crazy idea, and 1 very hard way. I'm sure you guys can come up with something...

If all else fails, I'll allow a dungeoneering check to see if you've been trained on how to get across deep pools of water with heavy gear.