Set up questions. Questions demand answers. Adventures lead to answers.

An adventure location in one of my old campaigns. A dwarf is looking for some adventurers to rescue or recover the remains of his brother in law. The two of them were prospecting in an old mine when they were attacked by a pack of goblins. The dwarfs ran but the brother in law tripped and didn’t make it.

The party investigates, finds the goblins are slaves with orc overseers pushing the goblins to dig out and shore up a caved in part of the diggings.

Oh and there’s a human wizard who shows up when the fight gets going and runs if the party gets the better of his orc body guards. If he gets some distance between himself and the party, he casts fire ball.

Why did this 5th level wizard have a pack of goblins digging out a cave in?

What’s in that caved in area?

Was the dwarf really just prospecting or did he know something was in there that was valuable?

Where did the dwarf go? How come he’s not where he said he would be when we came back to town?