You wait around a bit, planning to follow the goblins. The hard cider in the jug is fermented and ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS but you can tell it'll get you drunk if you finish the whole thing on an empty stomach. So you dig into one of the sausages - it's a bit like jerky in a casing, seasoned but not too spicy. It, too, is QUITE DELICIOUS. Your hunger pangs subside.
You play some ocarina. Oh hey, that's a nice tune.
You rub out your torch on the ground and stow it, circling around into the brush so you can follow the goblins. You catch up, and they haven't noticed your pursuit. They're working at moving the cart, and complaining, and bickering. They're obviously in a hurry.
A couple hours later they come to a place where a stream has been dammed, and a dilapidated watermill covered in moss. The mill-wheel's paddles are rotted out and the waterfall from the dam passes right through it. The water then plunges into a cave opening in the ground.
In a clearing behind the mill there's a thicket of woven branches between the trees, making an effective screen enclosing a quite large area. The woven wall goes up to about 15' off the ground. The trio of goblins pull their cart out of the tree line and up to the woven wall 50' away, where they give some signal - you can't see or hear very well from this distance. Goblins inside move a section of wall to let them in, then move it back in place.
There are other goblins in the area. One big goblin is stretching hides on wooden frames by the mill. He has a bow. A gang of six medium goblins are dragging a chopped-down tree toward the thicket entrance. They have axes and one carries a long two-goblin saw.
(For future reference, a "big goblin" is about your height. A "medium goblin" like Bork and Grep is waist-high. A "small goblin" like Vert is knee-high)
The sky is dimming. Big flakes of snow drift down. You're very cold.
Equipment
Clothes: Fur Cloak, Belt with Dagger Sheath
Armor: None
In Hand: Dagger
Satchel [10/10] Big Heavy Book [Locked] (10 ENC)
Bottle
Floppy Boot
Rocks x3
Black's Magical Reference (5 ENC)
Sharp Stick
Torch
Lame Torch
Sausages x2 (1 ENC)
Bread Loaf
Jug (2 pints hard cider)
Small Items (No Weight)
Compass
Pocketknife
Engraved Lighter
Pack of Cards
Ceramic Ocarina
Handful of Bugs
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