And they absolutely don't know that around the corner is a group of Goblin Warriors (one of whom speaks Common). If the Goblins see how beat up they are, they'll attack; otherwise they fall back to block the path into their territory, hoping the PCs will just leave. But any future relations with the goblins will be tainted by watching them hack up fire beetles for their light glands...

The world feels dynamic already. (3/3)

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I quickly decided the traditional Goblins had shown up and found their holy rooms sealed off, and went back to tell the tribe something was up. The next time the dice called for a wandering monster it was the end of the session and the PCs had just escaped being consumed by fire beetles by getting through a concealed door and spiking it shut. They don't know where they are, and they certainly don't know this corridor loops back to the goblin entrance

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On wandering monsters: last session the PCs wisely spiked doors closed around them while they explored what is, unbeknownst to them, the rooms where the Goblins drop off their honored dead to be symbolically carried into the underworld by fire beetles (who bury the bodies in mud to feed their eggs). When the wandering monsters turned up Goblins but there was no logical way for the goblins to get in (they never use the entrance the PCs used...) 1/x

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