People have asked 'how?'.
Good question!
Interestingly enough way back at the beginnings of the Briar Mapping Expedition Seeker passed on instructions to the hirelings at the Skull Mountain base camp to begin making lye soap and vinegar.
Yes, really. If anything can be said of the style of play of the party 'paranoid', 'prepared', and 'OCD' should be included.
After the battle a team of speakmen, porters, cooks, and the healer trouped down to level three and cleared away the bodies, taking them to the fire pit in the center of the Plateau. The goblin dead were burned, taking a day. While that went on the team returned to the site of the battle and (using water from the goblins' cistern heated in their kitchen) sluiced the hall, then scrubbed with lye soap, sluiced again, then rinsed with strong vinegar, then sluiced again. In each case the slope of the floors tends toward the Deep and the hirelings helped it along with mops.
Of course the party had supplied brooms and mops a few real-world months ago!This took another day, during which the party thoroughly explored level three and part of level two, eventually deducing that one wall near the Study is covered with a permanent illusion.
The party gave me fetailed notes on the cleaning process, BTW.
Reading your accounts is like watching/reading a classic story of students versus master. Their whole lives have been spent under the tutelage of masters, and perhaps only those masters of DM-ing have a chance against them. You've talked about classic king full movie tropes, I think you are kind of living in one. If the Convention tournament circuit was "competitive" Team Stump would be a force.
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