The Hidden Basement
Candlemass 29, 6107 RTR (19 February 2004) While continuing to clean out Dr. Pike's wine cellar, the Stonebarrow crew uncovers and investigates a secret stairway to an underground set of rooms.
(Amelia) (Blood From A Stone) (Olivia) (Stonebarrow) (Sylvania) (Zahnrad)
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While searching for hidden mechanisms in the wine rack, Zahnrad encounters an overly friendly centipede. Attempts to get rid of the poisonous bug result in Amelia triggering a hidden latch on top of the shelving unit that causes it to swing out, revealing a wide stairway spiraling down into darkness.

Olivia and Dr. Pike follow the Kadies down until they come to a crystal-lighted hallway several hundred feet underground. They discover what appears to be a small boat dock at the far end of the passage, along with a canal of dark, stagnant water. Investigating the doorways along the passage reveals a storage closet (complete with flat-bottomed boat), a room full of inactive steam or water pipes, a cell where something with powerful claws was kept, and a workroom for making the cylinders for the 'graphophone' device discovered in the wine cellar.

The fifth door opens onto a scene of nightmarish carnage, however, and is at that moment when Dr. Pike reports hearing a splash from the canal…

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