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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gray Shade" data-source="post: 3288613" data-attributes="member: 32340">The sealed entrance reveals its pastDongle remembered that he had his Darkvision lenses in place and rotated them over to the lenses that helped him search, whatever he gazed upon being clearly magnified.Clearly, there had been at least a dozen creatures working here.  Examining the footprints he could tell that they were probably the same creatures who had been working inside the keep's walls: the orcs.They seemed to have dug the foundation dirt up from around the ten-foot stone and then dug up the earth to the back of it.  Perhaps then applying a lever, or just massive raw strength, they got the stone's base to slide backward enough that its own momentum caused it to keep sliding until it blocked what had hitherto been the entrance.The orcs had left a clear trail ('clear' to my master's trained eye) that headed almost due north.  Dongle squated and examined it.  He judged that they had gone that way within the last few days."I wonder, master," I said, "with the prevelance of these orcs around the area, if they are an organized clan attempting to overtake the keep for themselves or if they are followers of the one who has invited us here."</blockquote>