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I decided to use my wings to take the defense out of the expected order. They had a drawbridge over a pit held by warriors covered by archers behind and above them. It was also held against us, with six skeletons and holding a lightly defended area against us. The tunnel had two trap doors over spiked pits. Mallius could not see in the dark, so his owl and I served as his eyes. They opened a door barred from the inside and exposed the secret passage quite well. In the end, the ghouls turned out to be more helpful than a menace. These we dispatched, but not before they professed to be following the lady of the manor. The alarms eventually went off, and we spotted three ghouls coming from the crypt. We set up camp within sight of the cemetery and rested a bit, the owl standing guard and alarm spells placed on the old crypt. We left the wise woman around midnight, and proceeded to the woods near the cemetery in about a half hour. It did not prove decisive, but there were several points where just one person with physical strength would have been useful. The Puca was small, short, and quick if not strong. Melius is male, human and old, strong of mind if not of body, the typical wizard. That includes me, a feminine elf who is not very athletic. It turns out that we had self selected a group that was weak. It was through that tunnel that we had our success. Even the approach through an alleged tunnel from the cemetery turned out to be correct. It seemed as if a corrupt icon was responsible for the necromantic energies. The daughter of the lord turned out to be the necromancer. Well, the wise woman turned out to be correct. The information within will be repeated at the inn, but she would avoid mention of the secret tunnel.) Esta