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Briefing

A week ago, some Keepers paid a visit to me and told me a story about an old castle in the forbidden forest that was once run by the Hammers as catacombs. The Trickster put a spell on all the dead in the castle, changing them to undead, who then rose up from their caskets and attacked the Hammerites. The Hammers that were not killed were chased away, knowing that they could never return to the castle because there was just too much evil in it.

The Keepers warned me not to visit and explore the castle because they still sense much evil in the place, as if a prime evil still lives in it even though the Trickster is dead and gone.

I was really thinking that I should obey their words until they said just a little too much. They told me that the castle was once the home of King Albert. When he died, the Hammerites bought the castle and honoured King Albert by putting his body in a casket, with his crown locked up near him. I searched the Hammerites' oldest library and could find no reports of the crown ever leaving the castle. I also found reports of a scroll left in the castle by the Trickster, some Hammers mysteriously found a day before he attacked. If I could find them both, it could make me rich enough to retire!

But, if the castle is as evilly haunted as the Keepers say, it may really be my final resting point. Before I go, I will tell the Keepers that I have decided to explore the castle because there may be something they would like me to do for them while I am there....