Cellar Door to a New Fear

Once we were over the shock of young Giva turning into a half person half wolf beast and trying to kill us we re-began our search of the area with extra haste.  Who knew what was living around here This is not a place for children what with werewolves living here. Soon enough Oakey spotted what looked like a cellar door that remained in relative good shape, something worth checking out while we were here as the tracks in this vicinity had gone cold.  Oakey managed to nimbly unlock the door that only troubled us as to why it would be locked in the first place since the rest of the orphanage had been abandoned so long ago.  Upon opening the cellar door we were struck with the stench of rotting flesh.  After hearing no movement we pressed on to investigate, hoping that the children were not down there.

Jäger volunteered to go down first and investigate and was met by a scene that did not belong in or near an orphanage.  Chains complete with manacles were fixed to the walls with what looked like blood, now dried, had been sprayed indiscriminately  across the floor and walls.  On the floor was a dead body, killed a while ago and left to rot.  It was in this corpse that Jäger's fear that was soon to manifest was residing.  As he stepped into the room a giant spider and it's swarm of children burst from the corpse and attacked Jäger.  He only barely managed to escape and survive and since then whenever Jäger is in the presence of anything that could be considered a swarm, his skin visibly shudders

Once Jäger regained his composure we continued our search, this was still the only lead we had concerning the children that were missing and we were all starting to dread the worst.  But thanks to Jäger's keen eye and tenacious spirit he was able to find new tracks a little further out but it came with bad news too.  Not only did he find what looked like the children's tracks but what looked like kobold tracks with them.  It seemed as though the children had been kidnapped.  More bad news,  the tracks headed back to Droskar's Crucible.