[Rainbowfox Ari]

Lee from the Ghosts finds that these are not normal maggots and worms. Small pinpricks of pain emerge as well as the silver key, clutched tightly in the hand. Blood trickles from more than three dozen little bites and nibbles - but there are no more maggots on the skin. As Lee picks up the key, the Person-That-Once-Was stirs from eternal sleep, and the skeletal hand clasps Lee's.

The skeleton opens their long-dead jaw, and the bones rattle as it sits up in the tub. Maggots and worms fall from in-between the bones, and lights come to life in the skull, twin blue flames. The jaws snap together, and a soft voice drifts through the air - a smooth male tenor whispered in the stillness as though on the edge of tears.

"Resssssst... I mussssssssst... Ressssssssst... Please... please let me ressssst..."

Old bones creak and crack as the hand lets go of Lee, but the skeleton hasn't sunk back down, and is still watching the entire team with those eerie blue eyes.

"There is more danger here than you know. Than anyone knows. Your precious one is hunted - as I once was. The fanged one knows naught of this. You must... you must let us rest... let us rest... put us to rest... Or my fate will befall all within... Ressssssssst.... Ressssssssst..."

With that, the skeleton goes still, and slumps in the tub again - the maggots and worms slither down the freed drain, into a long-since rotted away septic system, and into the ground where they belong. Once the tub is empty, it reveals two objects in the tub. A long silver dagger, and a tarnished silver chain, with what was once a rose-gold rose in the center of it. The dagger has a snake wrapped around the handle - also done in silver. The chain is very old, but remains unbroken - as does the pendant.

YOU MAY retrieve the items AND:
- Attempt to get the keyring from the snake, who is now eying that dagger
- Attempt to speak to the skeleton about what happened or what he means
- Take the axe handle and try to free the door