2. The First Delve

With bow in hand Pickles drops into marching order and skips along.

East Hall
Falling back into your marching order, you advance westwards into the room where you first encountered the kobold/shrew skirmish. As Luther casts his lantern around, you see that it is a large square chamber, 40’ x 40’. You enter from the northernmost section of the eastern wall. Rubble and debris are scattered across the floor and there is an empty fire pit towards the southeast corner. The lifeless body of a kobold lies in a pool of blood, the sole victim of the shrew’s attack.

There are three other visible exits from the room …

One passage, 10’ east of the western wall, leads north into darkness. However, you can see a door in the western wall of this passage, 30’ ahead.

A second passage, in the northernmost section of the western wall, leads west. After 20’ it is blocked by a closed portcullis, similar to the ones protecting the Chamber of the Woods. It is from this direction that you heard the orcs during the fight. However, there is no sign of them now.

The third passage also leads west, this time from the southernmost section of the western wall. After 10’, a corner section turns to the south.

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Day 3, 9:10 am
Fenwick, Elf 1: 5/5
Gabbro, Elf 1: 4/7
Jessica, Cleric 1: 5/5
Luther, Cleric 1: 5/5 (Lantern)
Pickles, Halfling 1: 4/4
Ricard, Fighter 2: 12/14

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Fenwick looks sadly down at the fallen kobold, then moves beyond the glare of the lantern light to see if she can make anything out in the darkened passage heading to the north.

East Hall
With the lantern shielded to allow her infravision to kick in, Fenwick inspects the northern passage. It extends due north for at least 60’ with three notable features:

- A door in the western wall at 30’.
- An open archway in the eastern wall at 50’.
- A side passage leading west at 60’.

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Day 3, 9:10 am
Fenwick, Elf 1: 5/5
Gabbro, Elf 1: 4/7
Jessica, Cleric 1: 5/5
Luther, Cleric 1: 5/5 (Lantern)
Pickles, Halfling 1: 4/4
Ricard, Fighter 2: 12/14

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Fenwick reports back what she sees to the group and shrugs at Gabbro.

"I don't remember, does that match up with the shape of the passage that branched off between the Forest room and the Korners?"

"Absolutely it does," Gabbro points to the point north of them ("Dead Kobold" room) as he fills in the details Fenwick has just provided. "See?"



"So the question is: do we explore further north on our way back, or do we want to look around the corner to the south first?"

"I think that we should go south. Ehr, for no particular reason."

"A quick peek to the south sounds good to me."

Gabbro nods to Ricard, then heads to the southwestern corner of the room and proceeds west to the corner, testing the ground ahead of him carefully with Fenwick's spear as usual.

Fenwick nods. "A quick look to the south it is. I think we should take this northern passage when we're ready to head back toward the Korners, I'm curious what's down that western passage."

Pickles gives a quick over the shoulder look towards where the Orcs could be, before quickly catching up with the group and falling into step. "It would be nice to find something worth selling soon, or we may find ourselves like Uncle Sweetfoot."

After the turn to the south, you immediately reach another corner section that sends you heading back in a westerly direction.

Ahead, you can see two doors in the southern wall of the corridor - one 10’ ahead of you and the other at 30’. Between these doors, at 20', there is also a side passage leading north. And your current corridor continues west beyond the far door into darkness.

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Day 3, 9:10 am
Fenwick, Elf 1: 5/5
Gabbro, Elf 1: 4/7
Jessica, Cleric 1: 5/5
Luther, Cleric 1: 5/5 (Lantern)
Pickles, Halfling 1: 4/4
Ricard, Fighter 2: 12/14

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"What happened to Uncle Sweetfoot?" asks Fenwick, taking the bait. "That's kind of an interesting name. "

Ricard waits for the answer to the Sweetfoot question before asking,

"Anyone mind if we check these doors? Hate to leave a question mark behind us."

"Agreed about the doors."

Pickles turns to Fenwick as if pulled out of a memory, "Uncle Sweetfoot? Oh Uncle Sweetfoot! Yes he was the brother of my Uncle who’s wife turned into the Ghoul, more of a family nickname than a real name." He pauses briefly and giggles a little over the memory. "Anyway Uncle Sweetfoot loved gold so much that he would regularly dine upon meals garnished with gold flake. He ended up drowning after a particularly heavy meal."

Somewhat disappointingly, the two doors in the southern wall of the corridor lead to nothing more than old storerooms, both of which have long since been ransacked. Each is only 10’ x 10’ and contains little more than broken shelves, barrels and crates.

You do turn up a couple of usable items though … a grappling hook and a small sack containing rock salt.

If you wish to take them, someone please add them to their inventories ... each will take up 1 slot.

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Day 3, 9:20 am
Fenwick, Elf 1: 5/5
Gabbro, Elf 1: 4/7
Jessica, Cleric 1: 5/5
Luther, Cleric 1: 5/5 (Lantern)
Pickles, Halfling 1: 4/4
Ricard, Fighter 2: 12/14

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Ricard packs away the hook and salt,

"Might get a good price for this salt back at market."

"Wait, so he drowned after he became a ghoul?" asks Fenwick. "Those must have been some interesting family dinners."

Examining what Ricard's found in the storeroom, she says , "The way things are going so far, we'd probably be best to keep it for the giant slugs."

Pickles raises an eyebrow in confusion at Fenwick’s question before laughing at the thought. "A Ghoul at the dinner table, you are funny Fenwick." The little Halfling says giving another chuckle, "No Sweetfoot was the brother of my Uncle, who’s wife turned into a Ghoul."