Scene 2 - The Averndale Adventurers' Guild

"He is a human, blonde hair, brown eyes, about yay tall. Should be in overalls and had his own lantern. Good man… good miner. He was scheduled only for Shaft 7, there are a few forks however they should not link to any other tunnels. It is a stable shaft, just don’t go breaking the posts."

With the gloom ahead your remaining guide, the Foreman and the soldiers watched with slight trepidation, as the adventurers moved down the slope into Shaft 7. The main tunnel has several shallow branching tunnels that are easily checked and cleared. The descent was too difficult to retain a sense of measurement and the sounds of the rest of the active miners above had become a murmuring before falling away entirely, leaving the party in a claustrophobic silence.

As the main shaft reaches a markedly sharper slope, the party first sees a lunchbox set on a short and level cut in the wall, where a miner's lunchbox sits, knocked over and emptied of its contents. You all hear a sound.

[roll Perception DC 15]

The sound is like something metal tapping, or scratching, faintly against a stone. It was only a moment of silence that you heard it at all, and then it stops.

Sixty feet ahead of you there is a sharp incline with a ten-foot ladder there for use and seemed like the obvious path. However, with Jasper’s superior light source as aid, the mage and some others perhaps, notice a gap in the rock above them as they walked. It is just out of reach and is hard to see unless you stop in one spot to look.

Jasper and Leon return with the light and the ladder and set it up easily enough, but before you decide who is going first the group all here the sound again, and clank or hollow metal echoing out from the crawlspace.