<div class="floatright">(http://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/020818-47-Bronze-Age-Near-East-History.jpg)</div><strong>Where:</strong>Malag Adaar village, afternoon and evening<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Enlil, Evelyn, Sabri<br/><br/>Evelyn isn't quite a tracker, but a few helpful hints from the villagers point her in the direction of a rather obvious black crack in the hills several miles to the east. There's an understandable lack of game and even birds the closer to the crack one goes. It doesn't look like a natural formation, either. In fact it's a long abandoned copper mine. There is no tarce of the prior rescue party of twenty men to be seen. From afar, Evelyn took a stealthy look. (Perception roll for Evelyn. https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=115354 wtf, a natural 20) She manages to spy well concealed embrasures above the entrance, and a few small shapes dragging a larger one into the dark maw of the former mine.<br/><br/>Enlil isn't much wiser after trying to understand Maltum's feelings for his little adventuring group. The man is practical and polite enough. He's unsure what the deal between you three is but practical enough to not inquire.<br/><br/>The house he assigns you is on the edge of the village. All the usual furnishings are here. It must be one of the houses the missing villagers used. There's a single big bed with straw and hide and a fireplace.<br/><br/>In Enlil's expert opinion, if any major attack comes, the village is screwed. Houses are too far apart to form any kind of barrier, and the terrain is a gentle hillside. The only marginally defensible position is the communal building,  which has thick walls and windows for arrow fire in all four directions. However, holing up in there would only invite an attacker to set fire to its roof, burning everyone inside to cinders, or at least forcing them outside.<br/><br/>A watch was kept before most of the men unwisely decided to try and eradicate the goblins. Right now, only Maltum and the two other men patrol around at night in frequent intervals, and the women barricade themselves in their houses during the night.<br/><br/>Raids are most frequent during moonless nights. As it happens, the following two nights will be moonless.<br/><br/>The rest of the day passes quickly, and as evening approaches the women set up tables and benches in front of the communal house for a shared dinner. The atmosphere is upbeat, the girls chattering noisily, more than a few of them considering how to trap Enlil's attentions. Only a few of the older ones look at the setting sun, and the encroaching darkness of the night with uncertainty and a dose of fear. The tables hold everything Maltum had promised, and more. A dinner for those sentenced to death?<br/><br/>(OOC: mingle with the locals for a post. Gimme the plans for the night.)