Castle Avernus Bone Chambers
At a glance
Corpse- and bone-filled chambers beneath Castle Avernus containing a sealed coin vault and a gargantuan skeletal beast. The party remains in combat here.
Known facts
- Rage’s fear-driven retreat from a chamber of hundreds of corpses led the party down to this level.
- An invisible seal protected a room full of chests containing gold coins stamped with Azalin’s face.
- Rage broke the seal with his greataxe.
- Carver determined that the coins were not magical.
- An adjoining ossuary held a gargantuan bone golem, two bone dogs, and rising humanoid skeletons.
- Carver summoned Pearl here for the first time.
- The large beast withdrew toward a northern tunnel and appeared to be guarding something beyond it, though that remains unconfirmed.
- A Boom Stick exploded in the tunnel, damaging the golem and Ignatius.
- In the resumed battle, the party destroyed the bone golem and a large bone dog.
- The chamber continued to raise fresh skeletons from its remains, suggesting an enchantment capable of replenishing the horde without end.
- Carver consumed a scroll of summon undead to distract the horde while Ignatius, Rage, and Carver escaped through an animal-dug tunnel.
- The skeletons could not cross the threshold into the safer antechamber where Ooru, Siv, and Voss waited.
- Ooru, Siv, and Voss waited in a safer antechamber outside the battle.
- The party crossed the chamber again to reach two previously unexplored prison rooms; Rage was struck by a poisoned javelin while entering the first.
Current status
Dangerous and uncleared. The bone golem is destroyed, but an apparently endless skeleton horde remains in the ossuary. Ignatius, Rage, and Carver have crossed it to explore the nearby prison chambers; Ooru, Siv, and Voss remain safe in the antechamber.