Ghouls, Ghouls, and more GHOULS!!!!

Siegrane successfully consecrates the bones, and he a Caldae decide to explore the nearby room and long hallway before rejoining the rest of the party. They enter a room with a collapsed wall and a 5 ft wide tunnel. Caldae decides she wants to enter the tunnel. The tunnel appears purposefully dug out, and was not dug during original construction of the fortress. Caldae has a bad feeling and decides to turn around and go back and return to the tunnel later when they have rejoined the party. Before Siegrane and Caldae make it back to the party, the party downstairs hears growling and hissing sounds, as a creature approaches them from the Great Hall. It moves past them without seeming to see them. The party tries to back away from the entrance to the Great Hall, but Howdore is too noisy and attracts the creatures attention. The creature has glowing eyes, and Pip takes a shot at it with his bow. The creature is hit. Upon closer inspection we discover it is a GHOUL. We smell rotting flesh. We deduce that the ghouls are what left the gnaw marks on the bones that Siegrane consecrated.
 
Back upstairs, Siegrane and Caldae are trying to make their way back downstairs. They approach a long, dark, narrow hallway, Siegrane leading the way. There is another crawl space, and another hallway branching off of it. The hall empties into a large cavern and more hallways and doors. They approach another set of intricately carved wooden doors. Opening the doors, they find themselves in the other side of the Great Hall with 40 foot ceilings and huge pillars. They see the fallen Ghoul with the arrows sticking out. Siegrane realizes Pip mustlve put those arrows in it. Siegrane is quite knowledgable about Ghoul's. The group gathers in the center of the Great Hall. The floor is coated with a thick layer of dust that shows many fresh footprints. About 20 feet up in the room is a small balcony that appears to lead to the second floor. There are doors on all 4 walls of the Great Hall, we have not yet gone through either the right or left doors.
 
All of a sudden music begins to echo throughout the hall. The doors on the sides of the room burst open and ghouls come flooding into the room. Howdore is the first to attack. He swings his axe and slices through 2 Ghouls throwing them across the room, the silver coating causing their blades to sizzle. Siegrane attacks next, followed by Osha, who begins raging and recklessly attacks one of the ghouls. Her sword pierces through the ghoul and destroys it! Pip goes next, blindly shooting an arrow past Siegrane, hitting a ghoul that was creeping up on Siegrane. Caldae proceeds to chuck some fire at another ghoul, hitting it in the chest and starting it on fire, causing it to reel back as it burns. The ghouls attack next , one throws itself at Siegrane, while one behind Siegrane drags itself across the ground trying to bite him. The ghoul finds a weakness in Siegrane's armor dealing 9 damage to him. Two ghouls run out of a side door attacking Osha and Howdore, they miss Howdore, but one of them claws Osha who forunately is able to only take 2 damage.
 
Alleraia casts Healing Spirit and turns on her light Cantrip. Oddly, the organ music stops when the light is turned on. Howdore decimates the injured ghoul at his feet. Siegrane continues his vendetta on the ghoul who laughed at him. Unfortunately, in his hurry to try and kill it, he swings and misses, falling to the ground in embarrassment. Osha again recklessly attacks a ghoul, she slices out with her longsword stabbing the ghoul directly in the chest, causing it to sizzle and nearly killing it. Caldae uses her wild shape ability and turns into a dinosaur. Caldae pounces on top of the ghoul that had been mocking Siegrane, then she bites and claws at the ghoul who she has pinned prone beneath her on the floor. It is annhilated. The rest of the ghouls now attack, one lashing out at Pip, who defends himself with Siegrane's protection, Pip slashes the ghoul causing it to stumble back, the silver coating doing it's magic. Unfortunately, Pip has been hit by the ghoul who has paralyzed him. Alleraia uses her staff to cast lesser restoration on Pip, freeing him from the paralying effects of the ghoul. She also moves the healing spirit towards Siegrane, so he can access it easier. Howdore attacks the ghoul behind him, splitting it's head open and killing it. Siegrane uses the Healing Spirit, and regains 3 health. He then approaches the injured Pip and casts cure wounds on Pip.
 
Osha brandishes her sword and finishes off another ghoul. Pip, who is now in full health, takes out his revenge on the ghoul who paralyzed him, slicing it's neck and chest killing it. Next up is Caldae in dinosaur form, who rushes towards the far side of the room using her keen senses to try and find ghouls that are in the other room. They are still too far for her to attack yet, but they decide to come to her, bursting through the door and attacking Howdore and Osha who are near the door. Osha feels claws slash along her stomach, thankfully she is immune to the paralying effects, but poor Howdore isn't so lucky and takes a pretty nasty hit that paralyzes him. Droop freaks out and jumps down attacking the ghoul with his stick. More ghouls begin charging through the door. Pip tries to shoot past Howdore to hit a ghoul and accidentally hits Howdore causing 8 damage. Caldae pounces on the ghoul behind Howdore slashing it with her claws, causing it to fall to its knees. It is badly wounded. The other ghouls growl at Caldae as Caldae raptor roars back at them. A ghoul lashes out at her catching her on the foot, as she feels the numbing sensation begin, luckily she is able to shake it off as she takes 5 damage. A third ghoul charges through the door eyeing up Caldae dinosaur form as a snack. It bites a big chunk out of her neck causing 10 damage. Alleraia tries to use Thorn Whip on one of the ghouls, but only causes 1 point of damage, she then heals Howdore for 4 points. Howdore attacks with his axe, barely missing Caldae, cleaving a ghoul in the neck and it falls dead. He swings his axe at the ghoul who took a chunk out of Caldae, damaging it greatly. Siegrane is having a bad day. He swings his hammer behind him and accidentally hits Osha in the head for 11 damage. Osha uses the Healing Spirit and heals for 6 points. Osha attacks the ghoul in front of Alleraia, dealing 10 damage. Pip follows with a volley of arrows striking a blow to the ghouls forehead killing it. Caldae takes out her rage on the ghoul who took a chunk out of her leg. Clawing and biting at it , tearing its throat out and shredding it with her claws. We've defeated all of the ghouls!
 
The party decides to take a short rest in the now ghoul-free Great Hall. The Hall smells of decaying putrid flesh. Caldae sneaks up on Pip in dinosaur form scaring the crap out of him. The party decides to explore the door on the right side of the great hall. In the adjacent room is a locked door. Osha attempts to pick the lock but is unsuccesful. Pip however is able to pick the lock, which his questionable skills earned from his checkered past. A whooshing sound is heard as a booby trap is triggered! A giant rock on a rope guarding the door. Across the room are old bones and a broken desk. Alleraia and Osha investigate the desk, finding the the skeleton is draped in old rotted silk cloth. Osha collects some of the broken furniture wood for a fire later. We decide to explore a dark narrow tunnel off the other side of the room. Off the passage is a dirt tunnel, that turns out to be the tunnel Siegrane and Caldae found earlier. We return back to the cavern, that is thick with the stench of decay. Walking deeper into the cavern, we find a dead end filled with rubble and spot a little lizard. The further we go into the cave, we start hearing scary noises. Siegrane uses his sense undead ability, and gets a very strong sense that there are many evil creatures .