RidderMound

You try both keys that are not broken into the lock and neither one seems to turn it. It seems the lock is rusted shut and keeps the key from opening this portcullis.

There was a passage that left the room with the goblin and another long passage east that you have not gone down.

Lothar begins to smash on the portcullis and the sound of metal on metal rings through the crypt. The lock is slowly breaking as it bends the corner of your shield.

As Lothar begins to break through the portcullis he begins to see what looks like shaped forming in front of him.

they form into translucent figures with twisted faces coming at him and they form they begin to shriek and scream. Lothar and those with him must make will checks against fear.

the forms take the shape of human long past wearing what you think is servants garb. As you deal with them floating around you you see a new shape begin to take form on the other side of the portcullis.

As you wrestle with the ghosts of the past you come to see on the other side of the portcullis the figure there finally take shape.

You see a huge warrior in ancient platemail with a great horned helmet. The open visor reveals a grim skeleton face with empty eye sockets. there is a greenish glow within the skeleton and as it begins to move you hear the awful sound scrapping metal as it begins to slowly walk your way.