>>5699115>>5699116>>5699179You start checking under the bed and around the desk. You can't find much, just digging out a pair of old boots.
Everything changes when you move the bed and a misplaced floorboard catches your eye. Pulling it out of place, you find a small book and a bag.
In the bag are twenty-three silver coins.
>Total Coins: 42 -> 65The book is a diary, marked with the name of Gurro, the guy who died in the forest.
Going through the pages, you begin to understand what kind of person he was.
He hated everyone, or at least he distrusted everyone he met. He spends page after page insulting the Goblin Boss for being corrupt, and for being bad at being corrupt. He talks about how he take of the villagers' food and some of their things when they looked at him wrong, going so far as to exile some families, forcing them to wander the roads when he heard them talking about him behind his back. It also seems that he had a bad relationship with the rider who was killed in the attack on the courier post, although he does not delve into it, only referring to him as a toad-faced and dirty son of a pig.
Fast forward to the last days of him, you find out that he was not only an idiot, but he was also a traitor.
He apparently had an encounter with Flur, a rebel who had found a cave in the forest.
The two seem to have made some sort of deal, with the rebel showing him a dwarven pendient that would serve as a key to enter a dwarf fortress, and Gurro using the goblins as cannon fodder to rid the cave of giant spiders, the two had the idea that the they could discover a treasure, fake an attack on the fortress and run with the money while the soldiers of the kingdom kill everything that move.
You have no idea if Flur planned to keep his word to leave alive or not, but clearly Gurro wasn't going to. His plan was to call in reinforcements the day before the attack so he wouldn't have to share anything, and then escape west across the sea.
Inside the diary there is a sketch of the piece of metal you found, although somewhat different, referred to as the "key", and a map of the area, where the same points are marked as the one on the desk. Below he describes how they found the piece of metal and a map in the cave. Gurro quickly burned the old map by "accident", before ghinnn could see it. Gurro suspects that Flur found something down there, and he regrets not being able to steal that and the pendient in time.
The diary ends with Gurro talking about an old fortress in the forest where the missing part of the key could be.
You take the diary with you.
>Do you want to talk about this to Derth?>>Yes, but it recommends following the mission as it was planned.>>Yes, and recommends changing the objective.>>No.>>Other>What do you want to do now?>>Talk to the prisoner.>>Gather the goblins and starts the mission.>>Other. 