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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8976779" data-attributes="member: 59816">Utharn led the way down the steep stairs. They were sized something between the stride of a giant and the stride of a "small", and so were difficult to descend for both. When the stone giant reached the bottom he held out his hands toward a bugbear guard who stepped up to challenge him, saying, "There is no need for alarm. I am taking these to speak with my kin."The room at the bottom of the stairs was bigger than expected, piled high with crates and barrels looted by the raids. Several doors and archways lead to further rooms and cellars. A second bugbear stood on the other side of the pile of crates, and the room's thirty-foot ceiling was supported by four pillars. To the left of the landing, a set of ten-foot high double doors were left partway open, with torchlight showing through. Across from the hall was another set of double doors (closed), and a third set were open in the south-east corner. On the south wall was yet another set of double doors, but these were twenty feet tall and wide and iron-bound, and through them echoed a clanging noise that sounded like a hammer on an anvil.The second bugbear took one look at the newcomers and ignored the stone giant's plea for calm. He turned and ran toward the south-east and an alarm gong that hung from the wall there.[spoiler="Map"][ATTACH=full]280231[/ATTACH][/spoiler]</blockquote>