"How you want to play this out Or?", Okini asks while fiddling with her holy symbol.

"I could go in first.", Rebecca offers.  "Check for traps and the like.  But Orik's got me beat on detecting stonework traps I think."

"I'll lead the way with Rebecca right on my heels to make sure I don't step in a hole or some such!" he says with a big grin! "How long ago was the taken sir? Hope they don't have a big lead on us. Let's go Becky, stay close!"

Or enters the tunnel, "Anyone blind in the dark, light a torch but give me a bit of a lead so's I can see better!" He advances.

[Private to GM: Can I get a regular 'sheet' for Or in the next day or so so I know what he has and all of that.]
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"No more'n two hours, mebbe less." the man says while holding the door panel open for them.  "I come as quick as I can to get you."

"So, to be clear, it is Orik, Rebecca, Ola, myself, followed by Lloyd.", Okini states as she descends into the cellar.

"Good man, it increases their chances ta be got back in time! How many Children? Two? Anyone else got questions? What were the kids wearin' so's we can identify 'em?" Or asks, getting ahead of himself!
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"Orik, get out your torch." Lloyd says.  "I will follow with a torch as well."

Or thinks about it for a minute and decides the wizard is right. The others can see better with light.  Becky can carry it in second place so his hands will be free on his axe. His beautiful axe! T'will be drinkin' gobber blood soon! He hates 'em!
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"No. Let Rebecca carry the torch.", Ola says.  "Orikson can see plainly in the dark to at least sixty feet underground."
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"I donnae know how many.", the mill operator replies to Orikson's question.  "But, I figure they are goblins because of the prints at the tunnel."

Sure enough!  Once the companions reach the hole in the wall, they can see the visible footprints are from small humanoids having feet with blunt claws.  It is unclear how many there are, but it is more than one.
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"Stay a wee bit behind me lass with that torch, lets be movin', me may be too late if we donnae hurry!" he says to Becky. He follows the tunnel and the tracks as fast as he can safely do so. "Gobbers is tricksy, so keep ye eyes open!"
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"I'll try not to burn your tiny ass with it Orik", Becca laughs, following the dwarf into the tunnel.

The tunnel you have been crawling through opens into a room about four feet off from the floor.  Peering into the room from the hole, one can see it is a thirty foot by thirty foot room with openings to the east and west near the center of the walls. The room contains several sacks stacked along the north wall, a couple of crates of unknown content, but it looks like vegetables, and two kegs.  All on the north wall.  There are no doors in the room.

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This is all the dwarf can discern with his darkvision before actually entering the room.  If you wish to study the room further before entering, simply roll an INT roll. Those behind him cannot see into the room.

"Hey! What's the hold up?", Becca asks when the dwarf pauses and come very close to having a lit torch up his arse.  "Okay up there?"

Lloyd checks behind them, although rational thinking suggests there will be no attackers coming from that direction.  He wipes beads of sweat from his brow, agitated at his nervousness. "What's the hold up?", he asks in a cranky voice.  He is not a fan of cramped spaces at all and would rather be out of this tunnel as soon as possible.

"Come on! Get a move on!", he says loudly.

Or crawls out of the hole, jumping down to the floor, and begins to look around for signs of the goblins and kids.

He begins to search for secret doors and such, otherwise they'd be here! "There gotts ta be a secret door or somethin' as der ain't no kids or gobbers in here! Help look for it!"

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06:58, Today: Orikson rolled 3 using 1d20.  intelligence check.
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Orikson crawls over the edge of the tunnel and falls the last foot to the floor.  A shale  stone rocks beneath his footing and a spear shoots diwn at him from a crude mechanism above him. The spear strikes the right shoulder, driving Orikson to the floor.

The companions all gather in the cave-like room and search within the light of two torches. The crates do contain vegetables, freshly harvested by the looks of it. The kegs contain water. The sacks are of grain milled from the building above.

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No secret doors are found. There is a corridor of natural stone to the east and west.

[Private to Orikson:
Orikson - Hit points 7 of 9,  AC6, 24 quarrels
Leather armor, battle axe, crossbow]
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Becca winces as the spear strikes Ori. She leaps to the floor with little effort and picks up the spear.

"Better I take lead chief.", she says laconically. "Might be more of these. Which way?"
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Ola examines the ground floor of the passage and finds the prints too convoluted to discern direction they took.

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09:30, Today: Ola, rolled 20 using 1d20.  INT roll . – [roll=1672756249.51064.372705]
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Okini grabs the holy symbol of saint Cuthbert and calls upon His aid.

"Signore e Salvatore, ti chiedo di guarire quest'uomo attraverso di me, il tuo devoto discepolo. Amen."

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09:52, Today: Okini rolled 1 using 1d8.  CLW. – [roll=1672757526.54935.372706]

[Private to Orikson:
Orikson - Hit points 8 of 9,  AC6, 24 quarrels
Leather armor, battle axe, crossbow]
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"Ye can nae tell which from what so many tracks? Let's go right then Becca, ware of traps, I told ye gobbers was tricksy!"

He bandages the wound, knowing it would heal now thanks to Okini! "Thank ye lass, and to yer god, we's gotta be movin' now"
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The tunnel passage twists and turns east, then north, then east some more before turning southward into a long tunnel with no end visible. Rebecca halts the group after about thirty feet into the southward passage as her torch illuminates a pit in the floor ahead. She eaees up to the edge, suspecting a trap slide, but a trap is not triggered. The pit is ten feet deep and filled with sharpened stakes. A long dead corpse is revealed amidst the stakes in the torchlight. A victim to the pit. The width of the pit extends across the passage with only a narrow ledge Long the leftmost side.

Becca turns to Orikson standing next to her.

"What do you think?", she asks.

"Be there a lot of tracks this far down the tunnel? Or did we take the wrong way? Should we check the corpse for valuables? There donnae appear to be no way but that wee ledge. dat wonna be easy ta traverse. I'm big. Opinions? Tell me what ye think gentles."

"Should we lower someone ta check?"

"You and Ola hold a rope.", Rebecca suggests, taking her rope from her pack. She secures Orikson as an anchor, tieing the knots herself.

"Okay, now I will just climb down there with the rope. You big fellas won't let me slip. Lloyd, you hold rope too."

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12:34, Today: Rebecca rolled 27 using 1d100 ((27)).

[Private to Orikson: Make a STR roll at -2 bonus to roll]