Part 2: Payment Comes Due

A ten-foot-wide brick-walled sewer tunnel runs east to west here. There’s no walkway along the tunnel, and the nasty polluted water just a foot below reeks of filth. A slick-looking wooden plank serves as a bridge across the tunnel to an alcove on the opposite wall in which a stone door has been fitted.

Alert for nature, Aurelia notices a magical trap on the door: a hidden rune imprinted on the latch designed to release a powerful sonic discharge if tampered with.

The rune detonates, a powerful sonic discharge blasting into Ramank! The loud noise also leaves no doubt as to your presence here in the Graverobbers' lair!

Ramanks yelps as much in pain as surprise as the trap goes off.

"IT FEELS LIKE MY SKULL IS VIBRATING!" Ramank yells in what he thinks is a whisper.

Bekassine shares Fox's senses as her familiar scouts ahead. Past a short entry hall, Fox comes to a chamber that looks like a museum, complete with cabinets and cases containing dozens, perhaps even hundreds of items. The theme here seems to be the mundane, including countless odd shoes, a child’s hobbyhorse, a pipe, a dog collar, the pages of a burnt book—an almost countless catalog of the drab. Green curtains cover three objects about the size of cupboards. Chairs and round tables furnish the seating area at the center of the room. Another door exits on the far side of the room.

Four hellspawn nephilim in black leather armor stand here, gripping picks and warily watching the entrance. Fortunately, they don't notice Fox spying on them from around the corner of the wall.