[You Have Died]
William had arrived at Orswear at 7 am, according to the in-game time. He finished with Gilbert's quest by noon, and the new scouting party left the town by 1 pm.
Juggo, Dereg, and William left the town through the south gate; the gate William came into town through.
They entered the deadly forest and followed the trail left by the previous scouting party.
The journey took about an hour and thirty minutes as they ran into low-level monsters on their way.
Getting to the supposed bandits' hideout, the group saw the trail of the previous scouts enter a crevice at the bottom corner of the mountain range. It was an old, abandoned mine on the mountainside.
"Their trail goes down a little further, but there's no light." Juggo said as he peeked into the ominous cave. Sunlight was only visible in the cave for a few steps before everywhere else being pitch black.