Within Lighting Keep

Entering the last wooden door you all know straight away this is a kitchen. This 20 by 20 room has a large fireplace opposite the door you entered. There are no windows. The kitchen's large wooded work table and cupboards are bare, and a small iron cauldron hangs from an iron hook in the soot-stained fireplace. A stone well occupies the southwest corner of this kitchen. Next to the well is a wooden bucket attached to a fifty-foot length of rope. As with the rest of the keep this room is covered in a layer of dust, but here above the musty old air smell you can also smell the water. Presumably the well is not dry.

Torch holding Kurt will only walk in the room a bit to look about. He leaves the searching to others.

Alex will investigate the kitchen.

Grim walks over to the fireplace to check it. Seems always like a good stash spot and place for hidden compartments.

Alex, you wander around the kitchen finding nothing on the shelves or on the work table.

Rangrim, you do a thorough examination of the fireplace.There are no secret doors or cubbies, but again you are struck by the well structured stonework of this place.

"This place will make a fine refuge. It is built very solid. Some of the best work I have seen outside of us Dwarves."

Observing Kurt says "Looks like the other room was just a lucky fine. This is not. Let us head down the hall to the cross ways and go deeper."

"Yes, let's keep moving."

"Yes, let's," Alex shares the sentiment of the group and heads to the next room.

At the end of the hallway the Hall ends in a right and left turn. To your right are a set of stairs going down and next to it a wooden door. To your left is a set of stairs going up with another wooden doorway next to them.

Looking on Kurt says, "Well those upstairs might go to the outside door where the downward ones are where we are going to find what we want."

"They might go to the outside door, indeed. I'd rather we didn't leave any 'mights' behind us. Better to clear the upwards staircase before exploring the down."

"We should check it out but either way we will need to check everywhere," Alex says firmly.

On the move Kurt, "Okay. Well. Will see." as he strides up the stairs to the door and will give it a good push, he expects it to be stuck.

Grim will listen at the door door beside the upstairs.

The stairs simply go up to an open archway, no door at the top, it seems to lead to an upstairs hallway. Perception check Rangrim, to listen through a door.

Grim walks up and listens at the door at the base of the steps.

Rangrim hears only silence from beyond the cool wood.

No one goes up one goes down.