[@Garth] & [@Lunar]

[i]The corridor is made of stone, only wide enough to go single file comfortably, and the ceilings are 6' tall, making both of the tall adventurers stoop. It goes only about 10 feet before turning left.  Then runs 30 feet and turns left again.  Here, there are stairs leading up.

From somewhere behind June, she hears a slight scuff sound... as if something is creeping after them in the dark...[/i]

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"I'm afraid there is not much more than that to tell," Constable Leofwine said, furrowing his brow in thought, trying to remember if there were any other details that might shed any light on the hound.  "Avery's Isle has been settled now for over 20 years and this is the first we've had trouble of this kind.  So much knowledge from the ancients has been lost, I fear."  He shook his head, pausing for a long moment.  

"When we first arrived, the chapel itself was in disrepair.  Father Beacom took it upon himself to oversee its repairs and rededication into the service of Justicia.  As we began constructing other buildings and gathering wood from the forest," he pointed westward, "sometimes an artifact was discovered that we assumed to be of the ancients.  ...  a few coins, sometimes the remnants of  weapon... Ambitious folk even made their way into the swamp beyond looking for more treasures, but that is tricky terrain and some of those folks never returned."