Warmth was a welcoming comfort. Looking around the room he surmised the place was abandoned quite a while ago as evidenced by the parchment crumbling. Parchment could last for a thousand years if kept well. Though obviously this place was less than kept well from the looks of it. Made by small folks; halfling, gnome probably, given the furniture.
Guyver checked the room for anything useful and attempted to make an educated guess as to how old the room was.

Guyver rolled 22 using 1d20+5.  investigation.

Etched in metal on the drawers of the cabinets are names, mostly dwarven. Guyver recognizes one of the non-dwarven names as his own. Each cabinet is locked. The door is stone, with no visible doorknob and hinges, a hallmark of dwarven construction, though Guyver is not sure how he knows that. Etched in the door are the words [Language unknown: "Totrte aimeen u eauresnte atame pa ourhouwhe hou pemead'omti entwerestine nc ni ermi u adtr wheectard!"] There is a lever next to the door, which he recognizes as a mechanism that appears to open it. On the other side of the window, he sees a pile of bones, some metal scraps, and the glint of a keychain. The window is crisscrossed with rusted bars thicker than Guyver's thumbs, aside from an opening just large enough to pass the board through.

Guyver pulled the lever down to open the door. He placed the chair in the door opening just in case the door had springs to snap it back, then walked in to get the keychain and the metal scraps.

The door slides upward about halfway, and stops, the gears seem to be jammed. The way the lever is jerking around, it seems likely it will close again at any moment. You judge that the weight of the stone door is enough to break the chair in two, but if you place it just right, it can hold the lever in place.

Make an intelligence check to find the right position for the chair.

Guyver carefully placed the chair.

Guyver rolled 15 using 1d20+3.  int roll.

When Guyver's hand moves away from the chair, the lever holds in place. He can crawl under the door to grab those keys!

Guyver quickly crawled under the door, snatched the key chain and the metal parts and made his way out again. While the lever held he wasn't pushing his luck taking any more time than was needed.

Back out of the chamber he took out his tinker tools and attempted to craft a simple Tiny device out of the parts in hopes of creatign a light that wouldn't ignite any additional black powder he might stumble upon.

After crawling under the door, Guyver discovers a hallway he couldn't see from the window. It leads to a stairwell, leading upwards. The scrap metal turns out to be the metal parts of a crossbow and bolts, the wood long rotted away. Guyver manages to repurpose it as an impromptu light source. The keys are slightly corroded, but if handled with care, should be able to open the drawers. Each has a name etched in it, matching the names on the drawers.
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Guyver tried opening the drawer with his name on first.

The drawer opened, and inside was box, tightly sealed against moisture. In that box, was pages and pages of parchment, detailing Guyver's clearance level on a top-secret project, codenamed "Thundergod," the hours that Guyver had worked on the project, and the parts and he had requisitioned in the course of the work. He recognized the parts and tools as those required for making a rifle, and estimated based on the number of pages and the number of entries per page, he must have made 30 or so rifles over the course of his 5 year career. There was no indication of where the rifles went. Each page was signed off by Gromnir Greyshield. If this Gromnir was still alive, Guyver reasoned that the dwarf owed him a lot of money, as the decay around him suggested he had been on duty for a great deal of time!

Guyver carefully placed the watertight box in his backpack. His mind was sharp and recalled the process of building guns but it couldn't hurt to have a backup just in case given that he couldn't recall everything that happened. He wondered if he had voluntarily worked here or as a slave given the tight security ..

He opened the rest of the drawers, wondering if the others had been members of his kind as well. Then he went to look for a way out of this place.

The other drawers contain much the same thing, all records of the same project. Clearly, hundreds of rifles had been built here, all in secret. It seems a few others of Guyver's kind worked here, but it was mostly dwarves. None of the other warforged had their sheets signed buy Gromnir Greyshield, though it doesn't seem like they were seperated from each other on purpose.

Guyver collected what he could carry, and headed up the stairs he saw a moment ago. At the top, a tunnel stretched above the spot he had woken up, and he discovered that it had been collapsed, and water was flowing in from somewhere above to the level below. Better still, Guyver saw light! It looked like some careful digging would be required to get out safely, but the surface seemed to be near! He could reach the hole above if the stood carefully on the rubble.

(Do i need to roll something? And how much water? Melting snow or "there's a lake above you")

Acrobatics or athletics, DC 15. If you fail, you take 5 damage from falling, and must try again. You may "Take 10" (skip the roll and just add 10 to your modifier) if either of those skills are high enough.

A river is flowing from a huge opening above you, into a huge hole in front of you. There is a gap, through which you see light, between the flowing water and the top of the wall, almost big enough to squeeze through. You would be climbing rubble that fell next to it, then carefully clearing a path to the light (no roll needed for that part, just takes time.)
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Guyver began pulling rocks out of the way, carefully dropping them on the pile below to give him more height to work his way up. It wasn't easy the water was freezing cold and made the rocks a bit slippery.

(acrobatics gives me 14 if I take 10)

Roll it, then.

Guyver rolled 19 using 1d20+4.  acrobatics.

Guyver manages to maintain his balance as he clears the opening, carefully piling the debris he clears to create a stairway of sorts to climb. He finds himself in a ravine, carved by the river that now flows into the ground below him. He can't help but notice that, where the river still flows, erosion has lowered its bed by over 100 meters. Nearby, another tunnel slopes upwards, this one clearly not dug by dwarves. Guyver observes that the shape of the entrance and the position of the hole he climbed up through, suggest that the explosion that redirected the river started at the point where this tunnel was once separated from the river by a wall of stone. Someone flooded Guyver's workplace, intentionally!

Guyver began putting things together. It appeared he worked here voluntarily with others on weapons for unknown parties for a dwarven employer until the complex was flooded by parties unknown. He followed the tunnel upward but wasn't expecting the enemy to still be there. How long had he been down there .. how long had it been ..

Guyver presses on for several minutes. Eventually, the tunnel ends in a wall, built of stone, with a doorway, its door long rotted away, leading into a small room. From the room, stairs lead up. Above him, he hears a gutteral voice saying, [Private to group Goblin: "Enemies have breached the gate! They have reached the gate, and killed captain Karzig!"] He hears heavy doors open and close above him.

OOC: You'll be moving to the squad 2 thread. I will be posting a map shortly, and then you may post. You will be labelled ?? on the map unless you identify yourself to the others. Make sure you include an initiative roll with your post.
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(okay but i just read group 1 and 2 wll be merged so little unclear how to continue now :))

We're progressing as normal until the groups merge. You don't need to post anything until I post a new map.

posting initiative for group 2 here just to keep up the mystery for a few seconds more as it is pretty low so we'll see what the other players do when i appear :P.

Guyver rolled 8 using 1d20+2.  Initiative.
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You mentioned:"You will be labelled ?? on the map". I seem to overlook it if it is on the map in the combined assault thread. What can I see?

Guyver is still on the stairs below the level shown on the map. He will enter via the doorway at L19, with half his movement remaining. He will be able to see the stairs in front of him and the main keep doors, and will hear fighting going on both atop the stairs and outside the doors.