Episode 1: Pradesh

Nothing disturbs the remainder of your rest in the laboratory. Even the voice has gone silent. You take whatever seems useful to you and head back out on Erden's signal. Urban holds his torch steady but Ybus' glowing rat swings crazily at his belt as he walks, sending lurid shadows dancing across the tunnel walls.

When you turn south at the channel intersection the voice starts up again - softly at first, but increasingly excited as you draw near. The south tunnel splits at the end. Down the right-hand (west) branch you glimpse a bit of earthen floor. To the left (east) the tunnel is narrow: Ybus and Erden could walk right in but the rest of you would have to turn sideways. It would be a bit of a tight squeeze for Baracus (half speed for medium creatures). The voice seems to come from the right (west).

What do you do?

With Urban in the lead, the group proceeds carefully down the west tunnel. At the end is a chamber with an earthen floor strewn with animal bones. A drainpipe spills sewer water that pools on the mud floor before eventually finding its way into the gutter.

Baracus glances upwards just in the nick of time. The half-orc yells out a warning and leaps out of the way just as the thing drops from the ceiling. A putrid mass, as if a black slime had regurgitated the mound of rat flesh it had been eating and then decided to couple with it, all rheumy eyes and quivering tails and gaping maws. From these disgusting mouths issue the voice you've been hearing: muttering, gibbering and cackling, driving you crazy! The floor around the abominationt is carpeted with grasping, rat-tail-like tendrils. One of the creature's mouths chomps on Urban (crit for 31 piercing damage, and must save vs. Prone condition). Another mouth spits a gob at Rafiel's feet (Rafiel, Urban, Erden, and Baracus must save vs. Blinding Spittle).