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The grim abbot

from HDK 69 † The Grim Abbot by PAFUND

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Taking advantage of a moonless night, you sneak out of the window of your room at the Owl Bear inn, to explore, away from prying eyes, the church and its surroundings. In the chapel of the church you find a very old copy of San Girolamo's “De sommo excelso bene”: it may be worth something, but it is certainly not the abbot's treasure. The cemetery, reachable by a small road from the back of the church, does not seem to have any oddities, it is only the night residence of a colony of cats. You notice that the well is on average deep, you drop with a rope: after about ten meters it ends, without a trace of water. Strange, you think. Inside the bell tower you notice a metal bas-relief depicting the phases of the moon. It looks fake, and in fact hides a secret niche in the wall. The niche contains an iron ring (with a strange gray iridescent stone embedded in it) inside which a worn sheet of parchment is rolled up; you pull it out and read: "has opened wide to my sight and only The Supreme knows its obscene secrets. The dead have used me and consumed me, now I hate their treasures that I had longed for in a moment of madness. Iob, Ioannis and Zacharias hold the secret in the moonlight. I ask for mercy: soon I will reach my enemies and I will be able to fight them more effectively on their own plane of existence." You wear the ring, but a feeling of nausea and terror pervades you. Better to give up - you think...

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from HDK 69 † The Grim Abbot, released October 31, 2020

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