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Well, yes. No one said you have to release the Duchess, that’s up to you, but rescuing your friend should be easy, follow me.

The ghost glides out of this room and back into the east west passageway. He drifts to the east, headed toward a turn to the south. Just before he reaches the corner he stops, turns back at the three of you, and places his finger to his lips as if to say, “quiet,” and then he points to a door just across the hallway to the east around the corner.

Refusing to go on with this mission, Klodd stomps away back to the west.

Winslow is startled by the man’s sudden gruff and demanding words. He looks sadly at Wylla, and shrugs, saying quietly to her Perhaps some other time, I knew I should have remained hidden

The ghost slides across the floor, and comes to stop near Wolfgang. He tips his head to the side, as a dog would look at a sound it doesn’t understand, and then he shrugs

Your accent is unmistakable, a Baravkovian, just like the Duchess. The ghost then glows brighter, and his face takes on a angry sneer I don’t like most Baravkovians, in fact I’ve only ever met one I do like, and she is dead.

His glow subsides, and he shrugs again, saying In the center of this small, what was once a humble kobold hovel, the old Von Uvoullovich brothers sealed away their sister, who was cursed as a vampire. They always hoped that one day they would find a way to free her from her curse, but before they could, a rather tenacious vampire hunter who had been looking for her for a very long time got word that she was here, and the brothers fled, leaving her, and her personal body guards behind, sealed behind two columns of devilish enchantments. For a century or more I spent my days in pleasant conversation with the Duchess, she is really a rather remarkable young woman actually, and she has come to be in a very different frame of mind after all these years.

Then these two clowns arrived, only recently, with a few orcs from the south, and took over the hovel, trading in captives with the bandits. These wizards, Sergei and Jorge, share a room just to the east of here. Your friend, Valarie, yes I have seen her, along with the man Clifton Caldwell, the one who claims to own this castle now, they are being held to the south of here in rooms that have been converted into cells for special prisoners of the wizards, people they know they cannot ransom, lest they be discovered. Follow the passageway to the east to find the wizards, then to the south, and then on the right, going south you will come to a heavy door. This door once lead to the hovel hall, but now there are two cells, on the south wall, and on the north wall the Columns of Ballacine, two enchanted columns that bar the doors to the crypt of the Duchess Von Uvoullovich. There is no reason for you to disturb her endless entombment. You can rescue your friend and take your leave of this place, if that is what you want. However, within her tomb there is treasure, a great deal of it. Oh, she’s harmless I’m sure, especially if I intercede on your behalf, but the room also holds her body guards. These were once men of Baravkovia, and now they are wights. Twisted and insane, they will kill any living thing that enters the tomb. If you have the strength to free the Duchess, after you have rescued your friend, I would be in your debt. I have grown very fond of the Duchess over these many years and I believe she deserves a chance to prove that she is not a monster anymore and is willing to try to live among the rest of the living of this world peacefully. She desperately desires to know what became of her family.

Where my body lies, there is a key. This key leads to a room that is guarded by a special mirror. This mirror was given to my ancestors long ago for safe keeping. The mirror is magical, but very dangerous. If you free the Duchess for me, I will lead you to the key, and give you the mirror, but let me warn you, the mirror is not dangerous unless it is uncovered, and only a very strong person can face the mirror and not be overcome by its power.

The ghost seems deeply interested in Wylla's work, and crowd in close to her to look over her shoulder.

Sadly, no. I'm afraid there isn't any metal supplies here. We had just begun expanding the kitchen toward what would have been some wonderful little shops when the Von Uvoullovich family arrived and decided they didn't want our hover occupied by us anymore. They killed, or drove away all of my friends and family. Say, that's a wonderful design.

Oh, well, how clumsy of me. Why, I’ve spent so much time in this form, talking to the Duchess and all, that I forgotten that living things cannot see me unless I make it possible, the voice says

Slowly, right beside Wylla, an image, not actually a physical being, comes in to view. It is an image of a handsome Kobold male, with a strange sort of “buish” hue all over his appearance.

It’s only that this small one here, the image bows to Wylla, said something that got my attention, and then I heard you mention that you were daunted by the challenges of what used to be our little hovel. I assure you, it is not large, The current dangers associated with it can be traced to the modifications made by the Von Uvoullovich family, and more recently the presence of the wizards, who have being going by the names of Sergei and Jorge, though I highly doubt that those are their real names. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Winslow Lenin Hammerfell, of the Hammerfell hovel, which was once this wonderful little warren, before the Von Uvoullovich family arrived

The image of the handsome kobold bows to Isaiah, Koldd, and Wolfgang, and then turns to Wylla once again, saying Do you really create jewelry of your own designs? In precious metals? I would love to see a sample of your work.

Oh, come on, don't be melodramatic. This place is not nearly as large, or complicated as you believe, though I do concur that it has significant hazards for the uninitiated.