"Oh, don't worry. I'll be in touch, even after we head back to the hereafter," the Ruxvan ancestor replied. "I won't give away all the secrets quite yet, though." Larissa I grinned secretively. "Like I said, be careful. We may have been a little overzealous on the security." With that, the knights receded back into their coffins, leaving Larissa to her explorations.<br/><br/>Emerging from the crypt, Larissa could see a large hallway stretching out to her left and right. Across the hall was a plain stone door. To her left was an open doorway which appeared to lead to the stairs to the northern tower. To her right, there appeared to be a large hole that had been dug into the wall, from which a rank odour issued. Past the midden the hallway turned to the left. Somewhere by that corner, according to Larissa's ancestor, was a hidden door to the treasury.<br/><br/>Larissa began by crossing to the door opposite her, if only to put off passing by the reeking hole in the wall. Inside, she found a largely empty room. Its only furnishing was a large stone slab, strewn with bones and stained with blood in varying degrees of freshness.<br/><br/>"A makeshift altar?" Kasala suggested. "Perhaps the Orcs felt it wiser to create a more modest shrine to Gruumsh, rather than persist in their desecration of the chapel."<br/><br/>Sweeping the bones from the altar, Larissa turned and ventured down the hall to where the treasury door supposedly lay. Knowing what to look for, she was able to find the hidden door with only moderate difficulty, although it appeared to be locked. Nodding to Elaine, the two warrior women backed up and slammed their shoulders against the door, succeeding only in bruising their shoulders. Backing up, trying again, this time they managed to force the door open, in a shower of dust.<br/><br/>Inside, Larissa found another small shrine to St Gaede. Sitting on the altar was a silver chalice filled with what appeared to be meade. Double doors led into the treasury proper, where four treasure chests sat against the walls.<br/><br/>Larissa asked Kasala if she had any hand in the making of the traps. "No my lady," the elf replied. "They are, to my recollection, mostly poisoned needles hidden in the locks."<br/><br/>Appraising the chest, Larissa reached back her fist and tried to smash the lock in a way that wouldn't trigger the trap. While she succeeded in breaking the lock, she also felt a sharp pain between her knuckles, followed by a woozy sensation as the poison coursed through her system.<br/><br/>Still, richess spilled forth from the chest.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">The chest contains 533 gp, and 58 pp.<br/></div></div>