The ruins on the hill.
It quickly becomes apparent that there is nothing else occupying the ruins, allowing you to work over the area quite quickly. It takes only a few minutes more to check each 'room' and give them an initial once over.
It doesn't take Hadarook long to find signs of recent visitors to the ruins. There are numerous prints in the ground - human and horse. Hadarook believes that someone, or a couple of people have been here on a number of occasions over the last few weeks, possibly longer.
The building at the back is divided into three sections. Cromwell recognises the layout from the other fort. From left to right, officers quarters and office, mess hall and kitchen, and barracks.
At the back of the large central room, on the left, there is hay and grass on the ground and the air smells faintly of dung. There is a litter of old leather tack and other rubbish tossed into the opposite corner. Some of the fallen roof beems have been moved to make a path, and some space.
Through the door to the west, there is an old campfire nestled up against the north wall under what remains of the roof. The rocks are quite blacked and charred and there is a fair bit of charcoal, suggesting a fire burnt there more than once. Around the ground seems to have been cleared as if for a couple of bedrolls. In the room to the south, there is little except fallen beams and an old rotting trapdoor set into the ground, and hastily covered by a couple of handfulls of brush.
Through the door to the right there is the barracks. There are more signs of habitation here. A space has been cleared at the back and there is a fairly obvious trail worn to it. In the center of the space, there are the cold remains of a campfire, or perhaps several. An old vial is lodged behind two stones and the air reeks slightly of something ... unpleasant. The roof also looks to have been repaired somewhat, making the area reasonably sheltered from rain, and a little dark.
