The pieces of the drunkard's story didn't quite fit with what you already knew about the Gung family or about Rat Ridge, but nevertheless intrigued your taste for adventure. Korin swiped a bag of unidentified items from the drunkard, who later passed out.
So, after some hours on horseback, you all stand at an entrance, roughly 40 ft above ground on the west side, of a passage that seems to go inwards into Rat Ridge, a rock you previously knew as being unexcavated.
Your horses have been secured outside, on the south side of Rat Ridge, by Ox and Jacob, near another possible passage filled with rock rubble. Something behind the rubble frightened Ox, Jacob and the horses.
Just inside the west wall entrance are two opposing metal plaques, showing embossed demonic faces, some of which details can be pressed in different combinations, so far resulting in either emission of a foul-smelling gas, a spurting flame - - or, unluckily, if some are pressed long enough: an explosion, which Korin and Ox discovered.
Another button combination deactivated a trap in among the overhead wood beams.
It is early evening. In the flash of the gas explosion you briefly saw the passage continue on- and downwards. But for now, all you see is this:
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