After overnighting and overnighting in the hayloft, a gently spinning pitchfork troubles the group’s grip on reality. After a strategy session they decide to passwall through one of the hose stalls and see what lies beyond.
Beyond consists of a rat room with a half-chewed door, followed by the maggot-ridden corpse pile that the paladin sifts through to find Bela Lugosi’s cloak. Beyond that lies a triangular room, empty save for the smell of the rotting corpses next door.
A secret door is found and this leads to the discovery of Ophelia – a buxom lass – the last surviving member of a party that entered the Monastery in a place that sounds vaguely familiar to the elf…but who trusts elves?
She is smitten by the cleric and fawns all over him while acknowledging the elf as the obvious leader of...
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Climbing the stairs, the group investigates a landing that leads to a room from which strange moaning can be heard. After the wizard lobs a large fireball through the door, the ensuing conflagration wipes out the contents of the room, and the mummies lurking therein. More investigation reveals a hall of trophies (severed limbs, mummified heads, suits of armor and battle standards) and another staircase. This one leads to a wizard’s study, complete with magical music box and an armchair of mental relaxation. A door leads to a long unused bedroom and some more plunder is extracted. From here, a final set of stairs leads upward. The last few steps are soot covered and show signs of having been subjected to extreme heat.
Suitably alarmed, the group climbs the narrow stairs…Paladin in front, fo...