The rush into the darkness with a lamp in hand found the path fairly straight, but with several short side passages along the way. It seemed whoever dug here dug one main shaft, and side shafts from it to look for something. The side shafts all end up in dead ends soon enough, straight in their build. Past them, Marric arrived to find a make-shift door built up between two large pillars. Beyond it, the sound of stone and steel meeting could be heard. Several goblins in rags, and even a young human boy it seems, are chained up and digging the side wall of the chamber.<br/><br/>At the back, Marric could see a pit of some sort, with several ropes descending down into it, four goblins pulling ropes to haul something up it seemed.<br/><br/>There had to be at least nine goblins in rags in that area, most of them looking malnourished, gaunt even for a goblin. The hurry they kept moving with did not make counting them easy, there might have been ten, eleven, maybe twelve, but at least nine were constantly<em>within sight.</em><br/><br/>The area was lit there at the back, but the passage down to the door was not. Besides the door, there was a side tunnel that seemed to slope downwards. Somewhere there a foul smell rose up, too. The smell of rot.