- Once the sounds of the battle have stopped echoing, the group holds still and listens and Rusty is pretty sure he hears even more zombie noises up ahead
- They come to a spot where there is a crack in the floor of the tunnel where it looks like it fell into a sink hole, it's just big enough that Rusty can fit down it
-There are definitely noises coming up from down the hole
- Osiris looks down the hole and she can see down to a ground, but it's hard to judge how far down it is and she doesn't see any creatures
- The hole down is wet and a little slimy
- Rusty pulls out his 50' of rope, ties it off and drops it down the hole where some of it lands with a wet thwack
- The quick plan is that Rusty will climb down the hole, get the attention of as many zombie as he can and then scamper back up with Raiàn waiting nearby to cast Fireball down the hole
- Rusty goes to climb down and almost immediately his metal feet lose grip on the wet earth and he slides down and makes a very loud clang when he hits the bottom
- The rope comes down after him and there is silence in the new tunnel system they have found
- Tiff quickly ties off her length of rope (Yay, Bag of Holding) and drops it down after
- They all listen to the silence for a few minutes and decide to climb down after him instead of waiting
- Osiris and Tiff climb down okay and then Raiàn falls but manages to tumble into a standing position followed by Lyrielle who descends with her mad parkour skills
- There are four branches of paths not far from where they are standing
- The tunnels smells dank and reek of death and decay
- Osiris gets a feeling like maybe the smell is strongest coming from the second tunnel from the right, so they head that direction
- As they are making their way down the tunnel, they realize it's not just a tunnel, but is also catacombs, but it's not the ones under the Temple of Mishakal
- Theophania knows that Mistverge used to be a lot smaller, and that the current Temple has been in its current location for hundreds of years, so this catacombs wouldn't be associated with Mishakal, but she's not sure what it would be associated with
- Osiris examines the bones with her expert eyes and determines they are mostly human with maybe a few elves
- Theophania looks more closely at the bones too and thinks that the bones are all hundreds of years old, perhaps around 500 years old
- Rusty takes point and threads the party's way through the maze, but eventually they find themselves at hub of sorts that's a big open area that forms an almost temple with a stone altar where many pathways converge
- The altar has tendrils that range from 1/2" in diameter and get bigger and thicker up to 3" or 4" and snake over the ground and climb up onto the altar and they are pulsing slightly
- The long side of the altar has a carving of a dragon's head in profile with a crescent behind it, which Osiris recognizes as the symbol for Takhisis who is the Goddess of Night, Hatred, with the domain of death and she is associated with the evil dragons - O takes a step back
- Tiff steps closer as soon as she notices the pulsing and notices that the tendrils are either moving magic to or from the altar and the altar has a ward of some kind on it
- She then casts Detect Magic as a ritual and learns the tendrils are glowing with evocation magic while the altar glows with abjuration and conjuration magic
- Rusty asks if he can hit it with his sword
- Osiris takes some time to cast Leomund's Tiny Hut (as a ritual) so everyone except Rusty can be protected while he takes some experimental swings
- Rusty also says the tendrils kind of remind him of the tentacles he saw in his drug trip a few days ago, which is why he wants to try to chop them into little bits
- Rusty chops the first tendril and it breaks and pop and wiggles around like a snake body that has just had its head removed
- Nothing bad seems to happen, so he moves onto the next tendril, which then also curls up and flops around
- As he goes to cut the third one, when a creature jumps out of the shadows onto Rusty's back and claws him for 9 slashing dmg and Rusty is Paralyzed then it bites him for 22 slashing dmg and 8 necrotic dmg
- The humanoid creature looks like it is made of shadow with oversized eyes, long claws and big jagged teeth
- 1,800 XP ea for 32,090 XP total ea.
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