Chapter One: Bones and Ashes

Wolgur sighs and snaps his fingers. A secret door opens several feet behind you and six ghouls emerge from it, cutting of your escape, while several more come from behind Wolgur, leaving you outnumbers thirteen to four.

"This is a disappointing outcome. You do realize how easily we could kill you right now?" he asks, but does not seem inclined to order an attack at this very moment.

Wolgur smiles, showing a large number of sharp teeth and an unnaturally long tongue, "We have no intention of killing you," he says with a laugh, "Nor do we have any intention of staying around now that your companions intolerance is known to us."

He lets that sink in before continuing, "We merely ask for two days to pack our things and go," he says, then looks at Winona, "I want you to remember our mercy here. We could have killed you here. You have invaded our territory and threatened us, so we would be within our rights as far as I am concerned. Tell me... which of us is really the monster here?"

With that, he waves his hand and the ghouls disperse, disappearing into the secret tunnel and around the corner. He gives you one more look before he too disappears from sight.

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With death at the ghouls' hands being avoided for now, you make your way back along the south wall to see where the two ghouls that escaped went. Jathus goes ahead slightly to see what he can spot around the corner.

A large flat-topped boulder protrudes from the floor in the southwest corner of this roughly circular room, its sides smeared with symbols drawn in blood, and its top supporting a large bundle wrapped in a filthy shroud. Three exits lead from the chamber, but unlike those to the northeast and south, the one to the northwest has been barricaded mostly shut with timbers and slabs of driftwood.

In the center of the room you can see the two ghouls that escaped whispering to one in similar clothing, but with a wand in his hand and bones sewn into the fabric. This is likely Glorkus.

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Winona and Jathus get into position and prepare to launch the first strike.Catacombs Map

The muttering suddenly quiets as one of the ghouls shushes the others. There is silence around the corner aside from the soft sounds of shuffling feet.

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