Road to Phandalin

Sebastian and Marco both keep their eyes open while the group approaches the entrance. They only see normal wildlife, a bird here a squirrel there, nothing unusual. 
Otrov, Margret, Nobody and Kai lack darkvision, correct? Kai will cast light on her shield. She and Zurzg will guard the rear with Gundren in front of them. As you descent the narrow tunnel, Gundren is whispering thinks like dwarven work, they found it and prayers for their safety. After maybe 50 ft, your narrow tunnel breaks through into a wider and more spacious one. The air is cool and humid, from time to time patches of wall are covered in lichen. 

The entrance tunnel leads into a large cavern supported by a natural pillar of rock and containing three stalagmites. In the western part of the cave, behind the column of rock, are two bedrolls and a heap of ordinary supplies—sacks and casks, lanterns, flasks, pickaxes, shovels, and other gear. Amid the supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead.

The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east.

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(Just Otrov, Margret and Kai lack darkvision)

Margret draws talon and moves to investigate the body she looks at Gundren in askance with a sad look

Otrov will refill her flask and lantern oil, if there is any. She’ll also take a peek to see what killed the dwarf. “Gee, I though halflings had it bad - people around here sure don’t like dwarves!”

Shell take a look around to look for tracks. Survival - 15 

Nobody lightly claps his hands, pulling Karasym back from his pocket space. "Not sure why you thought as much, Otrov, considering your kin's history as I understood it. But..." Nobody looks back to Kai with a solemn look. "Do you mind... s-seing how long... how long ago since they've... You know." At that, he would awkwardly gesture over to the body, hoping she would catch the meaning and inspect it to find out how long ago he died.

As that is hopefully happening and while carefully avoiding Otrov's searching paths, Nobody heads closer to the crevice and sits down. "I... I'll send Karasym down the left path. Someone send another familiar to the right." He asked before closing his eyes to focus on peering through snake vision and sending him up the northwestern path.

With a sad expression Gundren looks at the body, once he notice Margrets unspoken question, he nods.

Otrov, you don‘t see any signs of a struggle, whatever happened here was swift and efficiently. You see several sets of heavy boots leading to the chasm, as well as a set of soft shoes and a body that got dragged along.

Nobody, Karasym  sees a set of tunnels cut through the rock, they spread and wind in all directions, some are collapsed, other never lead anywhere to begin with. Roll me perception or stealth for your familiar before he explores deeper.

She quietly says as she investigates the body 10

"Who was he?"

Dain frowns at the sight of the body.  "Poor sod didn't even know what hit em likely." He says, giving the body a once-over with his eyes only.  He then would move to the pit with the rope dangling into it.  "Seems like they found something, that be sure."  He says, looking down.  he waits for the others to be ready before he climbs down, Sabastian going first to scout just the area at the bottom of the rope.

Sabastian stealth: 21

Sabastian perception: 16

Karasym Stealth: 14.

Karasym Perception: 2.

Sebastian is flying down into the pit, he sees Nobodys flying snake flying north west into a rough hewn tunnel. A similar tunnel leads east.

Margret, the body is already cold and rigor mortis is only partly noticeably, you would estimate that the Dwarf died between 36 and 48 hours ago. You think the two large round stab wounds on his neck are the cause of death, the skin around the wounds is dark from clotted blood under the skin. Some kind of poison was injected there.

Gundren confirms to you: „This is my brother Tharden,“ he points at the tracks of the dragged body „I would assume that this is Nundro. I don‘t see much blood here, so maybe he is still alive.“

She nods,

"Otrov, do you know anything about poisons?"

She points out the puncture wounds

"Dain perhaps you should get your familiar to look for drag marks down at the bottom."

she thinks for a second about their nemesis name

"check the walls and ceiling too for webbing" 

“Hmmm, I could take a look see,” Otrov answers. She gets down close to the body to see if she can use her knowledge or using any reagents or reactants in her kit to isolate the poison that caused the dwarf’s death. She has heard of people becoming immune to a poison by slowly ingesting it over time.  

Roll Inteligence + proficency 

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Roll Inteligence + proficency 

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"Seems like we'll all be going down the rope soon enough." Dain says.  "Just having Sabastian holding steady at the bottom, he is no good at looking for tracks and such, so best to keep him watching for anything dangerous as we make our way down."

The wounds look like from some giant insect, most likely a spider.

“Yep, looks like some sort of spider did this,” Otrov tells the rest of the group. “I agree with Margret - let’s watch out for webs and things above us.  Shall we?”  She nods to the rope. 

"What are you going to do Gundren? By the way would there be anything that Tharden would of want us to use of his. whilst we take the fight to his murderers?"

She says before she turns to head down the rope but waits for a response

Gundren shakes his had sadly: "Nothing that you don't have already..." He starts to roll Thardens blanket around him and he starts to build a stone mount around his brothers body. Kai starts to help him and a moment later Zurzg skips with a large rock to Gundren to help as well. "Zurzg will stand guard while Gundren build mountain."