Chapter Three: The Last Dream of Mirza Horgul

Felor finds bits of charred bone and wood on the ground, old tracks and scuffs, and other evidence that this chamber has seen a lot of use, but none of it strikes him as particularly recent.

Mordred examines the writing, and after a moment, it starts to make sense. Blocks of text are arranged like spokes on a wheel, corresponding to the various tunnels leading out of this chamber. The one the entered from is "the elk's asshole." Going clockwise (to the east), the next tunnel is "three twisty vines," then "new goblin city," "happy hideaway," and "royal road."

None of these mean anything to you, but for your Insight roll, I'll throw you a bone: after you connect Hazard to "royal road," you remember that to the best of your knowledge, Hazard has never been a monarchy.

Felor suspects that first one might be a reference to the fact that the tunnel they came from exits to the east end of the Elkfang Hills, but none of the others fit into any particular frame of reference for him.

In that case, I vote for heading towards New Goblin City, as it is the only one that promises an urban destination of any sort, and plus we get to fight gerblins.

I may be forgetting, but did we establish that she wanted something from the goblins? Are the Badgerways just a place she's traveling through to get somewhere else, or do we not know enough? Seems like the Royal Road might be the place to go if she's passing through, and the Happy Hideaway if she's just here to lay low.

Quoth Harmon Koal:
You haven't received any specific intel regarding goblins.

We know that she was heading to Hazard for some reason.
ETA: I'm suggesting New Goblin City because of the "City" part, since Hazard is the only city near here, and none of the other routes sound urban. Maybe Hazard was founded by goblins?

Maybe a city full of goblins is a hazard? Either way, Vad would much rather head to someplace urban than someplace in the wilds.

There is evidence that small fires have been built here, meals eaten. There are arrows embedded in the south wall and an offal pit off to the northeast. However, none of it looks recent, and none of it suggests where Zora might have gone, if she indeed passed through here.

Hazard is to the south, maybe a few degrees to the southwest.

I dunno guys, I think going to a goblin city is maybe a bad idea, but it could be my deeply-ingrained D&D racism talking. Feels like we might as well start marinating ourselves now and pouring diced vegetables on our heads before we go in. But I won't argue about it much, as I'm likely getting out of character for the touched-in-the-head barbarian.