What Happens to lost Hirelings? The Hireling Abandonment Table

Here’s a thing that happened a couple weeks ago:

Sexy Long Beard was the first to throw himself in and be whisked away. The rest of the group followed behind with some serious trepidation. They were dragged along on the least fun water ride of their life eventually falling into a quickly running stream. Sven and Theodora leapt from the waters, following the surprisingly lithe Sexy Long Beard. Ves and Ember jumped out after them. The hired men had far more issues.
Adonis, Dinkle, X, and Y, were swept away, unable to escape the torrent of water and washed over another waterfall and out of view, only their screams to be heard. Z was the only one to escape. He immediately wished to look for his fellows but was stopped buy the group and convinced to stay with them.

 

Because of this I had to figure out what happened to the hirelings.

So here is my solution:

Hireling Abandonment Table

For each hireling lost during a delve roll on the Hireling Abandonment Table.
Hirelings that are lost in the same room can be rolled together and share a fate.
Add 1 to the roll for each level below the surface the hireling is and subtract 1 from the roll for each hireling lost in the same room. If the result is that the hireling is lost reroll on the chart every week until he is held hostage killed or escapes.

1	Hireling escapes from dungeon with a haul of treasure. roll treasure type A.
2	Hireling escapes from dungeon.
3	Hireling is lost. place on wandering monster table one level above where lost or 1st level of dungeon if already on 1st level.
4	Hireling is lost. place on wandering monster table on same level where lost.
5	Hireling is lost. place on wandering monster table one level below where lost.
6	Hireling held one level above where lost or 1st level of dungeon if already on 1st level
7	Hireling held hostage on same level where lost.
8	Hireling held hostage by creatures one dungeon level below where lost.
9	Dead place corpse and equipment on wandering monster table for dungeon floor where last seen
10	Dead place corpse on wandering monster table for dungeon floor where last seen
11	Dead place head on wandering monster table for floor of dungeon the hireling was last seen
12	Very Dead body missing forever

It is worth noting that my dungeon has an ample supply of fungus to eat and most denizens are not immediately hostile. You may wish to make a more deadly table or to roll more often than 1/week.