Overview
The cult's heart: a reliquary of strange relics at the foot of the stairs, an old prison, a flooded passage to a rusted portcullis and the winch that raises it, and the ritual chamber where the cult's shades chant around the altar and Lorghoth the Decayer sleeps in a mound of refuse.
Resting: no The chanting never stops long enough for anyone to sleep.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level): Stairs down
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs up |  Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level) |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
a chest of cult robes
alcoves of strange relics, a relic in the niches that isn't bone
the altar
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- The Shades, Ritual Chamber (#2): when not death house refused and not death house sacrificed
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | a chest of cult robes | Robe ×2, Dagger, Candle ×6 | open it |
| 4 | a skeleton in a black robe | 25 gp | open it |
| 7 | a relic in the niches that isn't bone (hidden) | Pipes of Haunting | Search: Investigation DC 14 |
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 2 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | alcoves of strange relics | Arcana 14 | Sense which relic still holds power | finds Pipes of Haunting |
| 6 | wall reliefs | Religion 14 | Read the rite in the reliefs | lore: The rite on the walls |
Fights
- Lorghoth the Decayer wakes., in Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level): Shambling Mound.
- Lorghoth the Decayer wakes, slowly. You saw it coming., in Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level): Shambling Mound.
- The shades will not let you leave so easily., in Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level): Shadow.
Quests and lore
- Death House: Two children begged us to save their baby brother from a monster in the basement of their house. The house had other plans.