Aside from the woman on that stalagmite, the remains of several humanoids litter the caves' floor beneath the light squares. A skeleton, half buried by a more recently killed human (at least two month old though) wears a rotten leather armor, but anyone who dares can retrieve a yet black but "clean" short sword. Two silvered dagger loom out of the shafts of his boots as well. Near those two, another skeleton lies flat on its face, clad in rusty chain mail. It has a longsword belted to it and a still good-looking handaxe lies nearby. Just out of reach of its right hand lies a broken lantern. Beneath the fifth square lies a robed skeleton, its skull badly damaged from the fall and its hands still clutching a broken staff. The robe doesn't look as if age or climate has done any damage to it and a small brass ring lies near a broken off index finger on the ground. You find its backpack beneath the skeleton and the robe, containing a steel vial, three broken candles, two quills, a bottle of red ink, and what looks like a spellbook. If you give the robe a decent enough look, you can recover components for various spells too.
So much for the surroundings near the bridge.
