[IC] Graveyard Shift: Session 2

Try as you might, the stone coffin lid proves too heavy to budge. Before too long, though, the sound of sniffing and scuffling in the coffin fades. There's a brief pause, and suddenly you hear the dog-beast rooting around in the other coffin to the right of the one with the tunnel in it.

Barvek, Tronus, and Nekar get the coffin lid moved out of the way, but it's heavier than you anticipated. As you set it down, it nearly gets away from you and lands right on Tronus's foot!With the lid removed, Nera and Hildar can see several unusual things inside the coffin: First, the dog-beast's nose is clearly visible rooting around through a hole in the bottom; there is apparently a second tunnel leading into this coffin and connected to the first. Second, the remains of whichever Corvis lies in this coffin are not in a normal configuration. Several of the bones have been sharpened and arranged into a strange symbol:It's certainly not normal for burials as far as you know...

Tronus manages to stifle a cry of pain... but boy does his foot hurt. Meanwhile, Nekurr doesn't notice much about the weird bone configuration, except that the points on the bones are definitely not natural.

Based on the fact that the dog-beast was previously smelling around in the other coffin, Hildar supposes that there is likely another one of these symbols in that coffin. But only opening it (or some sort of magical scrying) can tell for sure.

Meanwhile, the dog-beast turns around so that you can see its hindquarters as it descends back down the tunnel. This time, you notice it moving toward the doorway into the crypt, as if following a tunnel that leads under the structure and into the graveyard outside.

You all exit the crypt so that Hildar can get a bead on his summoned creature. The mage concentrates, feeling the dog-beast through his magical connection to it...