After battling the dreaded tombstone golem, the group begins to investigate doors. The doors lead to one of two destinations. The first is a dust filled room with a trapped sarcophagus and a meager haul of coins and gems. The other is a dust filled room with an untrapped sarcophagus with an even more meager yield. There is one brief break from the monotony of ‘search for traps, pick lock, open door, etc’ – that is when Oryndel plummets 60 feet into a spike filled pit. He dies on impact and loses several important magic items to the crushing impact. The party sends down a representative to loot the body and take a tissue sample in case of later resurrection opportunity. Beyond the sarcophagi are long tunnels that go from catacomb to catacomb...
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The group sweeps into the ruins of the lower floor of the tower and descends into the depths of the pit to investigate the downed dragon heart and the mysterious hatch that appears in the wall at the bottom of the pit. The heart is investigated by a wraithformed Ti’karu and subsequently by Bud the Feaster. The plucky hobbit discovers a body busily reforming in one of the heart’s inner chambers. A few blows from a stake and hammer and the threat is neutralized. Not satisfied with neutralization the group carves a hole in the side of the heart and extracts the vampire-lord’s body and hauls him into the sunlight on the back of Ti’karu’s broom.
Once the fangy threat is fully baked, the group reassembles and investigates what lies beyond the hatch...