Jean-Pierre finds no traps on the door and it is unlocked. He opens to see a heavy black curtain hanging in front of the door. As soon as he opened the door, he hears a twang and the curtains move slightly, as if a wind blew through. Moving the curtain reveals that the heavy black curtains drape the wall of this chamber, and a thick layer of dust carpets the floor. Two sets of stone double doors stand in the east and west walls. In front of him, there is an arrow buried halfway into the floor. He realizes that if he opened the door from the curtained room the arrow would have shot at him. Closer inspection of the western door shows that it is the locked door that the party has the key for from the library room.
"Hmmm... Interesting... Well, at least we have an alternative way to the exit, now..."
He then heads through the doors to the East.
Going along the corridor they pass two alcoves. The alcove on the left has an open door that reveals the hallway they were just in. Continuing on they come to a set of stairs that go 10 ft down. At the bottom of the stairs there is a hallway that goes to the left with more stairs going down while in front of them is another set of stairs that go 10 ft up. There is a pile of body parts in the middle of it that go about 5 ft high. Past the pile is a door that the party knows heads toward the cathedral. However, before the party can continue on three disembodied hands come crawling out of the pile towards the party.
Round 1(begins)
Marsk, Hands, Burick, Grimor, Dexter, Pontia, Jean-Pierre
Round 1(begins)
Marsk moves around the corner.
The hands move out of the corridor jumping onto Marsk and Jean-Pierre. One of the hands are able to scratch Marsk but is unable to secure a grip around his neck. plus grab
Marsk, Hands, Burick, Grimor, Dexter, Pontia, Jean-Pierre
Marsk identifies these hands as crawling hands. They are undead. They can locate their target as if using locate creature and this target is counted as the hand's favored enemy.
"Lovely."
Jean-Pierre swings at one of the animated hands!
Round 1(complete)
Marsk moves around the corner.
The hands move out of the corridor jumping onto Marsk and Jean-Pierre.
Marsk hits one as it comes into reach then kills it before it can harm him. Jean-Pierre kills the one that gets close to him.
Burick delays.
Grimor is unable to lay a hand on to the remaining hand.
Dexter's aim is off, barely missing Marsk's leg while aiming for the hand.
Pontia hits the hand but it doesn't do too much damage.
Jean-Pierre swings at the hand but he misses as well.
Round 2 (begins)
The hand tries attacking Marsk again. plus
Hands, Marsk, Burick, Grimor, Dexter, Pontia, Jean-Pierre
Jean-Pierre swings at the hand.
Jean-Pierre swings at the hand but, seeing the weapon coming for his head, Marsk jerks his head away.
This time, Grimor is able to smack the hand. He smacks the hand so hard the hand goes flying off Marsk's throat, hits the wall, and falls to the floor, finally dead.
Jean-Pierre breathes a sigh of relief when the hand falls limply to the floor.
"Well, I am glad that is over! It is a relief that I did not accidentally take off your head..."
He then nods further down the passage.
"Shall we continue?"
Continuing on down the hallway, the company starts to see a room at the end. Inside the room are two undead creatures fighting with each other over discarded bones and rotten meat. They are hairless, malformed corpses with gray-green, pustule-covered skin and oversized jaws that make them seem more beast-like than humanoid, however, they seem to be keeping their distance from a moss covered monolith. The undead don't seem to have noticed the company yet.
Jean-Pierre wrinkles his nose.
"Charming."
He then charges forward, hoping to take one of the beasts unawares!
In a one-two punch, Dexter's bolt hits the undead creature in a burst of pus barely a second before Jean-Pierre closed his distance on the creature, ending its undead life. Marsk runs to catch up with Jean-Pierre.
Grimor charges through his teammates and slams the remaining undead creature.
Pontia moves forward using her spell to show that there is some magic in the monolith.
Burick moves up behind Marsk.
The creature attacks Grimor with claws and teeth.
Casting a worried glance at Grimor, Jean-Pierre moves in, and takes a swing at the remaining creature.
Jean-Pierre moves in to swing at the undead creature, and his swing connects with its head, causing it to tilt at an odd angle. The creature falls to the floor.
Now that the party has the chance to look around, they see that the room is a charnel house of blood, bones, and scraps of rotten flesh. Strange runes have been sloppily drawn on the walls using some dark brown pigment. The moss-covered stone monolith stands in the center of the room, wreathed in gossamer wisps of gray mist that seem to congeal around the crumbling stone. The mist is cold and clammy but it has no effect other than that. Everyone near it can hear sibilant whispers, seemingly from out of the air, though no words can be understood. The entire stone radiates strong conjuration magic.
Jean-Pierre wrinkles his nose.
"What utterly charming decor... I have a feeling the Church will do some significant redecorating down here..."
Marsk doesn't identify the runes.
Jean-Pierre nods to the other exit from the room.
"Shall we continue?"
Moving out of the room they follow the hallway out of the room to a door. Finding no traps and noticing that the door is not locked, they open the door.
A thirty-foot-diameter pit fills this circular room, its bottom lost in darkness. The ceiling arches twenty feet above the pit, which is encircled by a narrow, five-foot-wide walkway. A door stands in the opposite wall of the room, across the pit. Jean-Pierre finds a secret door along the walkway. It is locked and not trapped. Dexter unlocks the door.
After unlocking the door, Dexter moves back into line. Jean-Pierre then opens the door.
He finds that beyond the door is a 5 ft square vault containing nothing but a stone sarcophagus missing its lid. Inside it is a dead man that is extraordinarily well-preserved with dark hair, a high forehead, and expressive brows. He wears robes of a deep emerald, and a medallion of a seven-pointed star around his neck. When Jean-Pierre enters the vault to check out the corpse, a snake comes out from behind the sarcophagus and bites at him.
Round 1 (begins)
Pontia, Dexter, Snake, Burick, Grimor, Marsk, Jean-Pierre