It took a couple more days for the Mothers to arrive at the Dordrien Crypts. Kurtalla was sure of the location, based on Cervans instructions. They had encountered no drow, but had passed through one abandoned farmstead in the last day. The crypts themselves were built into a large stone outcropping, with a single passage leading under the hill. Two mausoleums stood clear of the rock, stone buildings on either side of the rough track leading to the passage. The Mothers decided to investigate these first.
The first one they came across had obviously been opened some time ago. The double doors swung easily on their hinges exposing a chamber which had four doors leading off it. Each of these led to a room with a large stone sarcophagus. Each of these showed signs of having been tampered with, due the scratch marks around the edges. The Mothers decided to leave them alone.
The other mausoleum had its door sealed in plaster except for a small gap along the bottom edge. The Mothers cracked this open to reveal a smaller chamber than the one before, this one with two sarcophagi and no obvious exits. As they advanced into the room, two forms began to coalesce in front of them. They resolved themselves into two vampiric humans who lunged to attack, biting Jito before he had a chance to react. Before they could fight back, the Mothers had to react to a new threat: arcs of lightning shot from the back of the crypt and into the party. A number of the Mothers were sorely injured by this energy burst, but Obrana was still able to raise her symbol of Tyr and reduce the two creatures in front of them to dust with her words of faith. The magical threat remained, as another lightning bolt flashed down, so Jito and Kurtalla stepped forward and started slashing at the air where they thought the bolts began. Gaspode was hunting in his beltpouch and managed to draw forth his gem of seeing. A creature was revealed to him, perched, limpet like on the corner wall of the crypt out of the immediate reach of his opponents.
