Chapter 3: Thistletop

You are easily able to break down the door, though getting it open you have no idea why it was boarded up. Because, beyond is just a storeroom half-filled with crates, barrels, and large sacks of grain. A hole has been chopped into the lower side of one of the barrels, allowing pickles and brine to drain out and giving the room a stink of vinegar.

Looking through the rest of the floor you also find two stairs leading down.

The stairs lead down to a door, that you can open with one of the warchief's keys. A large table surrounded by chairs fills much of this room. A slate board to the north is covered with scribblings in chalk, but the map of Sandpoint carefully inscribed on it leaves no doubt as to the purpose of the room—this is doubtless where the recent raid was planned.

Doors leads to the east and west.

You see a short hallway that ends in another door. Opening that door reveals a room where the lower four feet of the walls are covered with crude drawings in mud, blood and paint. Most of the drawings show goblins engaged in some sort of violence against humans, horses or dogs. One picture on the north wall is at least three times the size and complexity of the other scrawlings.

This images shows Thistletop from the side, the goblin stockade perched atop it like a crown. A cave has been drawn into the center of the image, and looming inside is what appears to be an immense, muscular goblin with snakelike eyes and a dogslicer in each taloned hand. If the scale compared to the rest of the drawing is to be believed, this goblin must be at least thirty feet tall.

To the south is another door.

Half of you are looking through the battleplans and the other half looking at the paintings when suddenly the western door opens. Out strides a dark skinned woman in a white cloak. Her head is down in a book, so she hasn't noticed you yet. Next to her walks a white cat that hisses at your presence. This causes the woman to look up from her book. "Oh. You're not supposed to be here!"

She looks over her shoulder towards the western room as if she's considering somehting.