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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 7389547" data-attributes="member: 54629">I'm not sure they *can* burn the place down. It's all stone chambers underground. The leaders' room is a dead end area off a common area (where the corpses of him and his guards still lie). I feel like the duergar, coming across their dead leader, wouldn't immediately know where the PCs have gone, but it wouldn't be hard from them to realize that they've barricaded themselves in the leader's room. From that point, I think they'd also be smart enough to know that trying to break into the room wouldn't be necessary. If anything, they could just build a counter-barricade and attempt to bury the PCs alive, as it were.Otherwise, knowing that the PCs will eventually have to come out, they might just wait and set up an ambush.Or they could just say, &quot;Screw it, this isn't worth it, let's go home.&quot;I guess maybe I'm having a little trouble getting my head around the duergar mindset. What would be a reasonable thing for them to do after discovering that someone has come in and murdered their leader and his guards and then barricaded themselves in his room?EDIT: [MENTION=6936541]StormbringerAUS[/MENTION] That could work. They could always go back to Daggerford and tell the dwarven community there that they weren't able to completely drive the duergar out and leave it in their hands as to whether or not they want to mount a war party to do so themselves. The PCs' mission was just to find out what had happened to a dwarven acquaintance of theirs. No one had any idea the duergar were there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 7389547, member: 54629"] I'm not sure they *can* burn the place down. It's all stone chambers underground. The leaders' room is a dead end area off a common area (where the corpses of him and his guards still lie). I feel like the duergar, coming across their dead leader, wouldn't immediately know where the PCs have gone, but it wouldn't be hard from them to realize that they've barricaded themselves in the leader's room. From that point, I think they'd also be smart enough to know that trying to break into the room wouldn't be necessary. If anything, they could just build a counter-barricade and attempt to bury the PCs alive, as it were. Otherwise, knowing that the PCs will eventually have to come out, they might just wait and set up an ambush. Or they could just say, "Screw it, this isn't worth it, let's go home." I guess maybe I'm having a little trouble getting my head around the duergar mindset. What would be a reasonable thing for them to do after discovering that someone has come in and murdered their leader and his guards and then barricaded themselves in his room? EDIT: [MENTION=6936541]StormbringerAUS[/MENTION] That could work. They could always go back to Daggerford and tell the dwarven community there that they weren't able to completely drive the duergar out and leave it in their hands as to whether or not they want to mount a war party to do so themselves. The PCs' mission was just to find out what had happened to a dwarven acquaintance of theirs. No one had any idea the duergar were there. [/QUOTE]

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