Chapter 2: The Skinsaw Murders

As you approach the manor, the path continues straight to a set of double-doors and branches off to the left toward another set of doors. There are numerous windows in the building, but all of them are obscured by thick curtains.

Urthask knocks on the door and waits, but there's no response other than an eerie silence.

The door creaks open ominously. The sound of the house straining and creaking gives this long, high-ceilinged room an additional sense of age and decay. The place smells damp, the unpleasant tinge of mold lacing the air, as surely as it stains the wooden floor, walls, and furniture in pallid patches. Moldering trophies hang on the wall to the northeast: a boar, a bear, a firepelt cougar, and a stag, yet they pale in comparison to the monster on display in the center of the room. Here crouches a twelve-foot-long creature with the body of a lion, a scorpion's tail fitted with dozens of razor barbs, huge bat-like wings, and a deformed humanoid face.

There are two doors in the room, a hallway leading further in that you can't see well past the statue, and stairs leading up to the second floor.

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Hetris and Viktor recognize the creature as a manticore.

Viktor, as he looks around, catches the scent of burning hair and flesh for a moment and then it's gone.

Urthask and Arktos briefly hear what sounds like sobbing from somewhere upstairs,

You move up the stairs and come to a hallway with many different doors. You can no longer hear the sound of sobbing.

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