While the Baron prepared for the next part of their journey, Timble decided to accept Blacktooth’s offer to scout out the partially collapsed tunnels under the goblin settlements. Having first a reading of the deck that showed vampires, death, darkness and shadow watching his path. Heading down, he found himself in the middle of some sort of war of attrition between two tribes of Kobolds and Troglodytes. Watching the conflict, Timble chose to join the Kobolds side in the conflict (after narrowingly avoiding death from a series of traps laid by the Kobold Trapper).
Timble eradicated most of the tribe with his hand crossbow of death, before running into a cloaked figure who informed the Mousefolk that his adventure was a test, and it was time for his final one: The Nogrod! Timble hit the figure first, thinking to end the combat early, with it blending away, and the Nogrod moving on him.
Running back the way he came, Timble fled from the Nogrod and its great blade, warning his chatty pursuer as he did so. As he crossed the cavern he saw a group of three gnomes barrel past on a steam cruiser, fighting off a great tentacled beast that had wrapped itself around them.
Scrambling up the wall and slipping away, lantern half size clanking behind him, he took a blow nearly cleaving im twain. The mouse just slipped away in time as the great axe wielding monstrosity smashed against the rubble blocking the passage. As he gathered himself again in safety, he found a strange eyepatch in his possession.
[[Items#The Eye Patch]]