[IC] Graveyard Shift: Session 2

The door swings open with a metallic creak that echoes through the chamber beyond. A shaft of reflected light streams in from the overcast sun outside, revealing a short staircase down to a chamber with what appears to be three coffins. You hear a slight buzzing sound and soon realize that Nekurr's fireflies seem to be taking advantage of the cooler temperatures inside the structure, their abdomens illuminating things more clearly. The chamber is fairly plain, with sconces for torches along the walls (not currently illuminated) and, as you suspected, three coffins. The cover of the middle coffin appears to be ajar.

Hildar's wand insistently points at the open coffin.

The light of the fireflies casts the chamber in a white glow, allowing everyone to see the details of the area fairly well. The first thing you notice is several more hoof-like prints going in both directions, to and from the open coffin to the stairwell and the doorway. You also spot some dog tracks, but even more than that, some places where it looks like something was dragged across the floor, smearing the hoof and dog prints as it did so. And sure enough, Nera spots a metal rod lying beside the open coffin; it looks like a tool someone might have used to pry the stone lid open.

Meanwhile, Nekurr bravely peers into the open coffin. The lid partially obscures things, but he does notice that the space is much darker than he would expect. Also unusual is that there is no obvious corpse in the coffin, at least not one he can see without further inspection.

Nekurr isn't able to see much in the coffin without removing the lid. However, he does notice that the lid seems to be balanced in such a way that it could be easily lifted off, using the side of the coffin as a sort of fulcrum.

Barvek, Tronus, and Nekurr easily lift the lid and set it to the side, exposing the interior. No body lies there—at least not a full one. It appears that whichever Corvis was once entombed here is now nothing more than a few bone fragments and scraps of clothing; the rest of the body is gone. Where the body should be, the bottom of the coffin has been broken open. Under it, someone seems to have dug out a crude tunnel in the earth. The opening appears big enough for a human-sized creature to fit through, and you can see the bottom about five or six feet down. From there, the tunnel seems to curve under your feet to parts unknown.