Mines of the Outlands 1

We'd been told that a dozen miners, mostly dwarves from the Blue Lands, worked in the distant mines; but when we arrived, we found no one.
Everything was in its place—the beds recently used, the kitchen full of spoiled food—but only a few days had passed since the preparations. Everything was in its place, or almost, only the people we expected were missing.
There was no choice but to enter the mines and find out what had happened.