Immersive Ink

Dopey takes a look around for any remaining camouflage-cloaks discarded by Thick-Neck's band.

"We had better keep an eye out for Birnam Wood," says the Hobbet, surveying the surrounding shrubbery with suspicion.

Setting his spear on the ground and taking off his helmet, Wetzel wipes the sweat off his face and then limbers up his hunting bow. He takes a look over & down the cliff face if he can, trying to discern, if possible, whether the bodies they disposed of are still present, and whether there is any sign of movement on the hidden stair.

If such details are not visible from this position, he scrutinizes the surrounding foliage, and the battle site if he can see it from the company's present position, looking for any signs that the area has been disturbed since their departure. Nodding in response to Dopey's comment, he's very wary of the trees and shrubs.

Leudigar takes his time surveying the area, looking for any possible traps or ambushes. If he finds none, he offers to head up the trail to confirm the hidden staircase is still secured.

"You lot stay here, keep sharp. I'll make sure the hidden staircase is clear. If it is, I suggest we use that to get down to the valley and enter the goblin fortress that way. Chances are better they do not know we are aware of it and won't be expecting us that direction."

A surveillance of the area is undertaken, and soon enough Dopey the Hobbet locates the tatters of a discarded cloak, and this leads to the discovery of the prior battle site. There is no sign of any bodies on the valley floor below, though Wetzel distinctly recalls the awful angles they lay tangled in two weeks earlier.

It hardly takes Leudigar's tracking skills for the company to realise the battle site has been swept and picked clean by somebody else since your last visit here. The signs are long cold, however, and if anyone had returned here more recently, they have made an accomplished effort of concealing their passage...

The ref dices for the company's search: 1 # d6 → ?