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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SigmaOne" data-source="post: 6488977" data-attributes="member: 6748799">As Jaelommiss said, it all depends on their motivations.  Did they go in there to kill a bugbear? If not, then they probably aren't done. Even if they do kill him, and decide to leave and continue on their way to Phandelver, I wouldn't aggressively push them to stay and explore in any out of character way. Hopefully the player's motivations and their discovery of the map tubes on the dead horses lead them to believe their friends may be in the caves, and must be saved, but even if they don't realize it at that time, that's okay. Conversations at that town might lead them to realize they should go back and look through the caves again. Maybe in the meantime, some other chief has been sent to the caverns to run the place. I'll tell you how my run through of the caverns went: the PCs found the dogs and quickly cast sleep on them, so they weren't a nuisance. But when they tried to make their way up the chimney, climbing being not totally trivial, the unstealthy dwarf in metal armor made it to the top first. And immediately realized that Klarg and his goblins were aware of her presence. It wasn't immediately clear to her exactly how many combatants were coming after her, but she saw one was quite big and angry (Klarg), so rather than take on all of them, she came back down the chimney; clearly followed by the two goblins. The group moved back toward the main tunnel to obtain a position of cover from which they could pick off the goblins, but the goblins held back not wanting to take on an unknown group of combatant themselves. The group then moved back outside the tunnel, again planning to ambush the monsters as they came out. But they didn't come out. Seconds went by. Shouting was heard from inside, while the party tensely waited to leap upon whatever came out. More seconds and shouting, and then splashes. They peaked in and saw Klarg had gathered the entire cavern to kill whatever was invading the hideout. Realizing they were in deep trouble they immediately ran, and as the goblins came out, they got a few shots off at them; but I figured goblins being goblins, they wouldn't chase too hard. But Klarg and his wolf did, and eventually, the PCs (having slowed Klarg with a spell) were only chased by the wolf, who they managed to kill. They had been wounded quite a bit from the goblins arrows, so they found a safe place in the forest to rest. The next day they carefully found and dispatched the new goblin guards, and made their way through the cave, though now the goblins were more alert.</blockquote>

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