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Hektor

"Then shouldn't we avoid getting everyone down there, and instead wait here in the stairs?" - Hektor replied - "Randall and Anker can check the first door to the left for traps and locks - if they call it safe, I go open it while you wait here. Deal?"

The stairs would make for a good defensive location. They are a spiraling staircase, and the angle off the spiral means that only one human-sized enemy can effectively attack while climbing up the stairs, while two defenders can stand side by side. However, there isn't really much room to maneuver, and there's a good chance that people (say the thieves) won't be able to effectively get behind the front line in a combat situation. Similarly, retreat for an injured person on the front line would be highly difficult.

I was imagining a straight stair down from the mouth. Ok then, maybe something like...
Randal and Anker are red dots to the left.
Rex, I am concerned if we get too far into the room we might have a hard time retreating if attacked.

Your sketch of the room is close, but not quite there. Here's a rough sketch of the room. Not drawn to scale. The spiral in the middle is the staircase. I've put R+A roughly where they would go to check "the first door on the left."

Ingulfr

I am fine with your plan but the scouts need to be prepared to fall back fast if anything goes wrong or they could be trapped down there.

Hektor and Tulius

Deal

I just realized that we should probably be moving into a proper Mouth of Doom expedition thread: viewtopic.php?p=763576#p763576

We'll come back to this thread when if everyone the survivors return to Zelkor's Ferry.