A Curse of Strahds [IC]

In the nearest niche to the entrance, you find a small, mummified yellow hand with sharp claws (you recognize it as a goblin hand) on a loop of rope. The niche to the right of the ramp holds a hag's severed finger. The niche to the left of the ramp holds a 6" tall wooden figurine of a mummy, its arms crossed over its chest.

The ramp itself descends at a 20 degree angle into murky water then ends at a rusty portcullis.

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"Well this is just great, who is this lord they are chanting about" necros wispers 

Hopefully, we won't find out. Ghosts, dead children, some kind of monster, nothing here has turned out good yet.

Oh, look, mummified remains of things. More evidence that nothing good will come from here.

The tunnel then, it seems? This is probably a sewer entrance of sorts.

Lae swings his mace at the goblin hand.

Do I need to make an attack roll to see if it lands?

No. You smash the hand to bits. The tunnel goes 10 feet then turns right (north) for 15 feet, then turning left (west) once more and entering into a room. There are 4 small cells and one larger cell along each wall. Rusty shackles remain in most of them and bones litter the floors. The larger one in the south wall seems to have possibly been used recently. The chanting is louder and seems to be coming from the south, though now, among the chanting, you hear a bit of a howling/wailing sound.

Lae whispers, “hmm though something would have happened if I destroyed one of these relic looking objects”. He shrugs and quietly moves on.

"Be carefull we font what to alert the cultists to what we are doing." Necros  wispers 

Anybody else catching that howling noise? Is that our monster? Are these chanters summoning it, or trying to banish it?

(You can also hear that the chanting is still going.)

“There’s only one way to find out I suppose...”

Necros draws his sword and readys eldritch  blast  in his right hand. "Guys lets be careful. We could be walking in on a summoning or a banshment, or something worse yet. So if we have to run, then run. their is no honor in death."

I... huh. Well said, Necros. I don't want to die today. Zander follows Lae forward.

Lae continues to follow the voices south.

So the 2 rooms (the jail-ish room and the room with the niches) are both seeming dead ends, the chanting seems to be coming from a room between, connected somehow to both.

“Hrmmm..” Lae drums his fingers on the top of his staff as he looks around the room with the niches for a some lever, or something of the sort.

Zennas will attempt to search for a secret door. 

Perception: 10 

What are you looking at, brother? is there something on the floor?

(Which room?)

Zander looks around too, picking up on what everyone else is doing. Looking in the room with all the niches. 15

FFS.

You're right, this floor is interesting.

Lol. Zander and Zennas neither one find anything.

"What an interesting stone design, what were we looking for again?"