The Danger Gang Explore The Burned Out Church of St. Orinea
After a night's rest, the Danger Gang gets a knock on the door of their Vatican room. Expecting the worst, it turns out to be their old friend Mario the Italian. Hey great. He and Can reminisce about old times when they didn't kill each other, and Mario invites the gang over for breakfast at his mama's house. She serves up big bowls of pasta and everyone feels much better. They rest a few more hours, Karl buys them a few groceries, and then they head back to the Church of St. Orinea.
This time, they're ready for the shadows. With appropriate spells in mind, they dispatch the dozen of them. Eazy peezy. They continue exploring. They find a frieze of a man killing a bull, and a broken basin that may or may not have once been full of blood. They also find a scale model of the entire city of Rome. It's actually really neat. Padre Pantalone notices that the Church of St. George has gone missing. They figure that's worth checking out as well. At some point.
They proceed to the bottom of the ramp. There's a headless corpse, and they hear a couple of big dudes shuffling about. There's a pair of levers and a big iron grate. They try to get the attention of the pair of lumoxes on the other side of the bars, but they're not taking the bait. So Karl hides in shadows while the other fellas hide up on the ramp. He pulls the lever and out pops a stinky, ugly, cave-fish-pale version of a Minotaur, hereby referred to as a Cave-o-taur. The Cave-o-taur starts bashing people with its big old club and biting people with its nasty teeth. Karl and Lleryn are able to take it down, eventually, with a little help from a Fumble spell from Can.