After Alptraum and Lilith stay missing overnight, Tulani decides to go hunting despite still being grounded, since they're out of fresh food and water. Arkold at first wants to just sit around and let Tulani do it alone, but Ravenia gives him a look and he agrees to go along, taking Tulani's crossbow.

After trudging through woods where most of the animal life sticks to the treetops, the hunters come across a small clearing with a Sylvanian Lindworm – a two-armed serpent – basking on a stone. Tulani takes the crossbow back and manages to kill the animal with one shot, sending it off into the grass.

As Arkold goes to collect it, he feels the ground begin to give and stops. Some poking with a stick reveals a chamber of some kind just a few inches below the ground, and Tulani notices that the exposed stones line up in a square formation, suggesting long-fallen walls. In order to retrieve her kill, she ties some line to a crossbow bolt and fires it into the carcass, pulling it to her outside of the unstable area.

Unfortunately, Tulani was standing on a buried stairwell, and the weight of the Lindworm is enough to cause it to collapse under her. This reveals a two-level basement composed of a storeroom over a root-cellar, and some of the goods are still usable.

They also discover an odd collection of goods… including soap, shrunken heads and dismembered hands!