Sacristy of St. Beatus Church, Westweg, outside Wunschau
This is a sacristy in the compound of the St. Beatus Priory in Westweg, a vorburg outside the Wunschau city walls. It is a two-story structure with a slanted roof. The second story was set in, and had less square area than the first. Outside the house are vegetable and flower gardens, the St. Beatus church, and a small graveyard. The building, and likely, the entire surrounding area, have been burned - it is not clear how much of the structure survives.
The main resident of the structure was the sexton, Ruprecht. He had gone missing three days prior to the start of the campaign proceedings. It was subsequently discovered that he had died, though some ungodly force animates his body.
The ground floor of the house contained a mud room, hall, parlor, veranda, vestry, kitchen, pantry, and another room which went uninvestigated. The contents of the reliquary in the vestry were removed during the party's search of the house. The pantry was infested by an army of rats, including three enormous ones. Another rat was seen inside just before the house was put to the torch. Some of the foodstuffs in the pantry were also removed.
The upstairs contained a workshop and five bedrooms. Three of these were found to contain corpses of Ruprecht's assistants - young men who dug graves and tended to the grounds.
Underneath the pantry there was a cellar, where various perishables and preserved goods were stored. Some of these were also removed by the party. A secret door on one wall led to a chamber where Ruprecht's body lay in a coffin atop a table. It was surrounded by five braziers. When the body was handled, it levitated out of the coffin, and the braziers lit, animated, and attacked the intruders. The body cackled and taunted them, cast hurtful spells, created multiple images of itself, and summoned an impenetrable darkness, all of which caused the party to retreat and set the house on fire. They also removed some goods from the cellar.
It is not clear how much of the structure survives.
RUINED STRUCTURE
22 Witmonat
22 Witmonat
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