Froskan makes his way to the cabin, then circles the building, peering into windows as he goes, trying to see inside.

Reverie moves her steps toward the cabin and then watches Froskan peering through the windows. ”Do you see anything suspicious?”

There is no glass over the window openings, just thin cloth on the inside and wooden shutters on the outside, to keep the autumn air out. Through the cracks in the wood and tears in the cloth, Froskan doesn't see any movement inside. In fact, the interior looks mostly empty. (More than that will require actually going inside.)

Jack seems bored, and follows the rest of the group. He goes in the cabin at a stealthy pace.

23 stealth.

Theren follows along with Jack. 

Stealth: 15

The door is unlocked. As Jack and Theren quietly open the door, the Bandit bursts through. He goes towards the corner, where two of the floor boards were pulled up. A hole was dug in the ground, large enough for a full sack or two, but empty now. The Bandit is kneeling besides the hole, feverishly digging at the dirt, but finding nothing.

The fireplace (several rough stones put together) has a few smoking embers. A small table and chair were broken into kindling and tossed in. The stones are still warm, but not hot. (There was definitely a fire last night.)

The room is rather bare, only a foot stool and the frame of a cot. Even with what was tossed into the fireplace, the scuffs and dust on the floor would make you think that there used to be more furniture in the room.

The place reeks of stale beer, spoiled meat, and moldy bread. The floor boards are stained with the remains of past meals, but you don't find any food in the room. There is incredibly bad lingering B.O., even by bandit standards, which you are guessing is ogreish in nature. (Stale, not fresh.)

They.. Dug out? Ah! That's clever! I should've thought they'd do that! ah, too late now, I suppose. what do you recommend we do now? We have no idea where they went.

(A hole, not a tunnel. Hole in the ground under pulled up floor boards = a low-tech safe.)

(Hint: They left this morning before you guys showed up. That was the price of taking a long rest; it gave the bad guys time to escape the cabin... A thousand pound humanoid was around this cabin recently. What sort of clues might she leave behind?)

A safe..... Someone come dig at the ground here! If ye can! I've got to search the place. (roll incoming....)

15 investigation

A hole was dug in the ground, large enough for a full sack or two, but empty now.

(OOC: I didn't mean to imply that a safe is still buried there, but that sacks of loot used to be kept in that hole under the floorboards, and it is gone.)

There is nothing in the hole, besides more dirt. The Bandit is digging, because (a) he is greedy, (b) Froskan kept asking him what the leader did with previous loot, and (c) he is in denial.

Also, nothing else in the cabin, besides what you already observed.

Reverie's eyes widen in surprise as she watches the bandit bursting inside of the cabin. A sigh escapes as she realizes that no one is in the cabin and they all have run away. Cursing under her breath, she starts to look around the cabin to observe if there is anything they have left with a clue.

Investigation - 5

(Reverie isn't looking for anything in particular, but is looking around the cabin.)

Besides what was seen earlier (tents left over from the bandit gang, the cabin), she doesn't notice anything beyond the grass trampled flat in the direction of the caravan, when the gang left yesterday to attack it.

Theren decides to look around to piece together where the bandits may have gone.

Investigation: 5

(OOC: If any of you are more specific about what you are looking for, and I think it would apply, you would get Advantage.

"Looking for clues" is too general to get that advantage. What kinds of things might you be looking for?

Hint: Re-read posts 438, 434, and 425.)

Reverie tilts her head as she tries to see any footsteps that they probably made by accident. Wondering if she could also see an ogre's footstep around the cabin.

Investigation - 2

Jack looks at the caravan tracks, to see if there are 2 tracks instead of one. 2 (in case of advantage:2)

Edit:really? Katrina, come look at this. Or anyone, really.

Theren is looking for footprints in the ground particularly.

(Theren, roll again, checking for footprints.

If you get another low roll, that would be 6 bad ones between Reverie, Jack, and Theren. I’d have to think about how to deal with that much bad luck.)

Investigation: 22

There are prints from dozens of men, over many weeks, but Theren finds one set of foot prints, bare feet double the length of the others, deeper imprint, with only 3 wide toes. After circling the cabin twice more, he points out a set of those tracks that are going away from the cabin (about 135 degrees away from the direction you came), which are accompanied by a single set of metal boot prints. They look recent.

(OOC: Does the party follow these prints? Any special instructions for the DM?)

Bandit: "You said I should lead you to the cabin. Here we are. You let me go now?"