The cave is dark, and dark is good given your need for evasion.  You dart forth into the cave hoping not to alert any inhabitants present inside.  You know you have a good headstart on your pursuers so you take the time to quietly move in and survey your surroundings.  Just inside the cave is a half eaten corpse (one of the villagers that was taken from the village a few weeks ago in fact).  The stench is overpowering but you persist down the next passageway and into a large chamber with a multitude of standing rocks.  Another passage off the left wall goes deeper in, but you choose instead to find a hiding place behind one of the standing rocks here.


 
For quite a while you wait, thinking the skeletal warriors that chased you are not going to be coming.  Just as you are about to stand up and leave you see them coming down the corridor.  They fan out and are now scoping out all the possible hiding spots in this room so it won't be long before they find yours.  You look back at the passageway on the left and notice that although they are not up, there are bars in the floor that can be raised to block the passage.  You can only hope that the lever on the wall controls this mechanism.  In a flash you jump up and run towards this passage.  You throw up the lever and step back.  The bars raise in time to stop the other four from getting in, but the lead one who tried to fool you earlier managed to get in before the bars raised and now brandishes his sword at you. 

 

In self defense you draw your own sword and prepare to thwart his advance.  He is fast and it takes all your concentration just to block his attacks from hitting you.  Given you are in a close range battle in a part of the cave that may or may not have other inhabitants, you don't really see much use in running.  You figure you are going to have to continue this fight with your sword but another item catches your eye.  Off to the side is a good size rock that would fit easily in the palm of your hand.  Given the opportunity you could try and bash the skeleton in the face with it.

You bash Skeleton With Rock

You grab the rock you noticed earlier almost immediately, then go back to blocking your opponents attacks.  The enemy is attacking fast and furious and it takes all your concentration to block.  Even so, you only manage to block most of its attacks and take a few slashes.  Nothing major, but you are losing blood.  Eventually you see your opening and you ram the rock into the creature's skull with the full force of your adrenaline infused arm.  You hear a satisfying crack as the front of the skull crumbles and the creature stumbles back.  Realizing how brittle this thing must be, you grab its wrist before it can regain composure and bring the rock down again, taking off its sword arm at the elbow.  Another crack at the spine for good measure and you are confident the creature is dead.  The other four look on angrily and scream but the bars prevent them from doing anything about it, so you decide to move on deeper into the cave in hopes of finding another way out of here.

 
The cave only gets darker and darker as you go in deeper and you find it odd that there are no other inhabitants in this region... until you see a pair of large white eyes staring back at you from the darkness in the next cavern.  It doesn't appear willing to leave the chamber in pursuit of you, but you cannot return the way you came as the skeletons are still banging on the bars you left behind.  Studying the creatures behavior a little more, you begin to suspect it is a grue.

 

 
You've heard stories of grues from nearly every adventurer you've ever met.  These things are the leading cause of death amongst those in the adventuring profession.  Even higher than dragons, vampires, and Lindsay Lohan.  In fact, while grues are believed to be organic and corporeal, no adventurer has ever actually killed one before.  You struggle to remember what the adventurers told you when dealing with a grue.  It has a certain weakness, but for the life of you you simply cannot remember what that is...  You're going to have to guess.

A Grue's Weakness Is Garlic, you apply It To Myself

Of course!  Garlic!  You still have some garlic powder in your pack that you use to flavor your pork rines.  You douse yourself with it and make a mental note to bathe later so the other monsters don't notice your scent.  You confidently walk into the dark chamber ahead, certain that the grue will flee your garlic stench.  As you confidently strut through the creatures chamber you think to yourself,

 
"Why can't all my challenges be this...."

 
You don't get enough time to finish that thought. 

 
You were eaten by a grue.

 
THE END