As the group walked across the bridge, each footfall sounding out a dull musical note as accompaniment to their travels and headed toward the undercroft, they picked up on the sound of a dull moaning. All that should have been in the undercroft were the Dark Lord's barrels of aged wine and perhaps some hard cheeses, still wrapped in rind, waiting for a dinner party celebrating the latest land conquered or enemy army destroyed. But the first person to get close enough to peer into the door would find, staggering between the party and the stairs, a collection of the undead, 2 wights and 2 skeletons, pacing in uncertain circles as they moaned eternal, pitiable moans.<br/><br/>Last any of you knew of it, any undead in the castle were servants of the Dark Lord, sworn to his eternal service by dark necromantic rituals. But with his death, who knew whether these undead were still tame? They hadn't noticed the party yet, but it was only a matter of time. Two of them were clustered near the stairs, a wight and a skeleton inexplicably standing at the base of the staircase looking up. A skeleton swayed near the doorway, but facing the wrong way to see anyone peering in, staring at the wall with mindless disinterest. A second wight stood with a long sword in hand in the middle of the room, pacing back and forth, wall to wall, swiveling its head to and fro.<br/><br/>In order to continue on its journey, the party would need to find a way past. There was only one way up to the ground floor from here and it was through the stairs with several undead in the way.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Wight x2</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/thumbnails/0/56/233/315/636252726349692861.jpeg)</td></tr><tr><td>AC: 14</td></tr><tr><td>HP: 45</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Skeleton x2</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td>(https://media-waterdeep.cursecdn.com/avatars/thumbnails/16/472/227/315/636376294573239565.jpeg)</td></tr><tr><td>AC: 13</td></tr><tr><td>HP: 13</td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br/><br/>