Chapter 2.1a: Golden Grain Inn (Orlane at night)

@CancerMan - it won't help at this time, as Chase has already spent his Hit Die. But, once he completes a Long Rest, he will regain his Hit Die, and then you can use the Healer's Kit so he can use it. Either that or Theran can use a spell if he takes a Long Rest and regains his spell slots.

This is a good discussion. Since it involves a bunch of details that have been revealed over months of real time, I thought I'd help with a summary of the state of the Golden Grain Inn.

It's the middle of the night still, so it's unlikely that anyone would casually appear and try to enter the Inn to discover the slaughter for hours yet, though as Aanbo pointed out, someone more nefarious could appear before then. You figure about four hours remain before daybreak, though Chase is the one who would be most sure. Aside from the party, there are three living people still in the Inn that the party knows of: Lhari, Hamiff, and the friendly guest staying in the room on the other side of the second-floor dining room. There are six corpses: the mutilated body of the torture victim (Wine Cellar), Reptile (brought up to the second floor), Derek (second floor), Bertram (ground floor), Traver (second floor), and Melano (second floor).

It sounds like this trio wants to move Chase to a different, more defensible location in this building to rest and recover. Myrtha mentioned Bertram's room (which is where Aanbo and Chase first entered through the back door: the ground-floor room with the bed, the desk, the chest, and the gaudy rugs). In talking to each other and comparing mental layouts of what each group has explored, you three have also realized that the rugs in Bertram's room cover the trap door that leads down the ladder into the secret basement...which is the room with the heavy, barred door that leads to the tunnels. So you could move to Bertram's room and hole up there (although the back door is broken), or you could pass through Bertram's room, still searching it in passing, and continue to the secret basement room and hole up there.

Bertram's room, the secret basement, and the regular basement all have three exits (not counting the door to the storage cellar as an exit, as it doesn't go anywhere).
The door to the tunnel can be barred, and the exterior door to Bertram's room is broken.
There are several rooms with two exits in the Inn: each of the bedrooms on the second floor the open off of the southern wall also have a secret door leading into the secret passage. The room the party is in now - the barracks - has two exits, as does the dining room next door.
The Lounge and the Kitchen on the ground floor also each have two exits. The Wine Cellar has two exits, but the exterior door is broken.

Sounds like a plan. We take the prisoners down and keep them in the room with the dead body. We pillage the kitchen while someone barricades the Inn. We check Bertram’s room and we recover Reptile’s body. After we’ve rested and Chase is up, we leave the two prisoners in the secret room, and head off to see Ramne, the Mayor or Adam, and explain what they’ll find at the Inn. Then we get out of Orlane, regroup, bury Reptile, and train.

Not the whole inn, I was thinking just the hidden room. The uninitiated would miss it and may assume we left. Only cultists who know about the tunnels would even look for us there. If we barricade the entire inn, it sends a clear message that we're still here.

It may be a bit cramped, but it seems safest.

Agreed. Barricading ourselves in the small secret room.

What do each of you want to do during the long rest that will restore Chase's hit die? You've talked at various times about scavenging food, searching Bertram's room, cleaning up bodies, and barricading one or more doors...