Grin. "It will not be." 

Friends!

Well, that's kind of premature. He's definitely not going to say that, though. "Good to hear. --Ro can we kill someone else, let's go kill someone else, who's on that we can kill."

"Broooo. Weren't we going to get more golden carrots?"

Sigh. "Yeah, okay, that's true. Drizzt, you're keeping watch tomorrow, right? And tonight it's just Poafa."

He nods. 

"Cool. I'm gonna go get carrots now, talk tomorrow?"

"Talk tomorrow."

He has friends, and no one died! ...he died. But he came back, so that's what matters. 

The sun is setting, and while he would prefer to be nocturnal, he should match when other people's waking hours, so he should find somewhere to sleep.

Are there any caves nearby? 

There are some caves around spawn, yeah. Most of them are mined out of valuable resources, but they exist!

As soon as he goes underground, a zombie approaches and starts punching him.

The Underdark does not usually have a pronounced undead problem, and hopefully this isn't caused by a lich.

"Apply sword to zombie" if a thing he can do, though. 

There is definitely an undead problem in these caves. Or possibly a monster problem more generally? There are zombies, skeletons with bows, large aggressive spiders, strange furry green creatures, and very tall black creatures with glowing purple eyes.

Oh, he does not love the spiders. Some giant spiders are natural, sure, but many more are summoned by servants of the Spider Queen.

Is this an amount of monsters he can plausibly kill, or is this an amount that would require back up?

It's an amount he can plausibly kill--there aren't a lot, and they aren't very strong--but there sort of ... keep being more? Even with that, it's definitely not enough to kill him, and he doesn't really need backup, but it's... not really a safe place to sleep, either.

He'll have to warn people-- though they likely already know, seeing how close this is to where the buildings.

He makes a tactical retreat to the surface. He can sleeps in a tree or something. That's fine. 

Once the sun is down, there are monsters on the surface, too, although they can't reach the tops of trees.

... they must be coming from somewhere. Maybe the caves.

At least he can climb up a tree and be safe.

When he wakes up, it's day, and the brick-and-quartz building has been replaced with obsidian. No one's at spawn, though Subz and Bacon periodically say things in chat.

There are two signs out front of the new obsidian building:

We may wish for peace,
but that ship has already sailed

Hmm, whether this means Poafa is in on it or Poafa is bad at spotting a whole building being replaced is unclear.

Time to start mining the obsidian. Slowly.

People start showing up in the late afternoon: Subz (occasionally), Roshambo, Mapicc, and two new people named PlanetLord and Spoke who Drizzt hadn't met yet.

When Roshambo shows up, he gathers Drizzt and Mapicc immediately. "It's gotta be the ship next, right? Yesterday they said justice will be served and then they petrified the courthouse, this time they mention a ship, I think there's only one ship at spawn. I want to interview a couple more people, but Poafa's--Poafa's a little sussy wussy, he was up all night looking at the courthouse, dude, there's no way he missed it, right? He's got to be Medusa."

"Was he asked to watch the courthouse?"

"I mean, I'm pretty sure. We can ask--I want to ask a few other people too, while we're around. Spoke said Planet did it but I'm not sure--I mean, maybe he's just being Spoke, but maybe he's trying to deflect suspicions, or maybe Planet actually did do something. And I was thinking we could also ask Rekrap and Subz, we don't know for sure but I don't think they did it so they might have useful information. Spoke is--probably not worth interrogating, to be honest, whether or not he knows anything he won't give us anything helpful."

"Subz seems trustworthy though."

"He's been helpful, for sure. I don't know if I fully trust anyone other than you--he would have had the obsidian for it, from breaking the prison."

"Obsidian farms are easy, though, and mining it manually is--time-consuming but not hard. I mean, we got a lot of obsidian for the prison, doesn't make us guilty. I'm telling you, obsidian isn't actually that hard to get."

"I guess. But he's not definitely innocent, even if he's not a main suspect."