The stone passage buckles ahead. Masonry collapses into a drainage gallery, opening onto a foul underground channel where stagnant water crawls beneath the castle.
Among the rubble lies a quartermasters’ dispatch, its paper stained but readable. Delivery times fill one side; a hurried warning says bodies are being diverted below the castle.
the mysterious client
That is their hidden supply path. They move food through here, and anything they do not want seen goes below with it.
Scraping rises from the darkness, followed by wet impacts against stone. The sound travels through the channel and returns from unseen bends.
the mysterious client
The quartermasters will have guards near the lower sluice. The bodies may be loose already.
Behind Lavarsky, the maintenance gap and armory recede into dust and hammering impacts. Zrg remains trapped beyond the bars, while the client stands beside Lavarsky at the broken gallery.
the mysterious client
The dispatch gives us their timing. The channel gives us their route. Decide quickly, before whatever is down there reaches this opening.
Expose the quartermasters’ connection to the castle’s undead movement