Enter The Dark Keep

AK510-20 Gold Autumn Week 4
[Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Guiding]

Draiday (Night Fall)

Arkthus Poten is a man in love with himself. He sees the Woodhaven Heroes as jumped up peasants. He sees that they can be used and will try to get all he can from them. However is not particularly perceptive and he does respect the church.
He doesn't want the portal opened.
He believes that everything in the keep now belongs to him as the Lord of Darkkeep. He insists to being referred to as Lord Darkkeep.

They drain the basement and even though there is four feet of water left.
They fight a zombie crocodile.
They search some rooms.
They fight two lizardfolk zombies
They find an interrogation room and manage to take a 60lb steel light amplifier off the wall.
Charmer fits the device to a door and they float it before them as they explore.
They flee more zombie crocodiles
They are cornered in the interrogation chamber and are almost slain by the zombie crocodiles.
Appleby is crushed by a crocodile's tail but Charmer reaches him with a wand of healing and with a communnal prayer to the Chosen Appleby is not taken by Bas, despite his crippling wounds. Namer finally wins his underwater struggle against the crocodile and emerges bloody from the dark water.
They thank the Gods forbtheir narrow escape.
They search a storage room and Appleby finds suspiciously crooked drawer. After several attempts they manage to pull the drawer asunder.
Appleby finds a map of the dungeon. It shows a passageway beside the main stairs. They investigate and find a concealed doorway. It has been sealed, coated with painted plaster and coated with wax to prevent leaks.
Charmer uses his carpentery skills to open the top of the door above the receding water level, so that no water leaks into the passage behind the door.
They fight a nest of starving dire rats behind the door but some of them contract filth fever in the process.
They prepare to open the door at the end of the narrow passage.