Ghouls were monsters with legitimate challenge ratings, far beyond common creatures like goblins and kobolds. Their heads should count for extra bounties.
In fact, if he had not come up with that surprise move and activated the shrine while trapped in the Stinking Cloud, he might really have died here today. More importantly, his physique was exceptional enough to ignore the Stinking Cloud's effects. The smell, though, was truly awful—more disgusting than having swamp gas smeared all over his face.
Ghoul hearts and fingers could also be used as enchanting materials and were worth quite a bit. Du Pont chopped them all off and stuffed them into a bag.
This Cultist might be wanted. He would cut off the man's head and hand it over to the church later.
There was not much money in the fellow's purse—just 4 gold coins, 6 silver coins, and a large handful of Copper Coins. He was even poorer than Du Pont. However, after searching through everything, Du Pont found a deep black opaque gemstone.
Black Jade: A gemstone infused with negative energy, worth around 100 gold.
Delighted, Du Pont tucked it into his own purse, then put everything into the Bag of Holding and looked toward the tomb passage.
There was also a staff there with an extremely sinister-looking design, containing considerable arcane energy.
After bringing over the activated shrine, Du Pont picked up the grayish-purple staff embedded with a skull.
``` Staff of the Undead
Quality: Rare
Effect 1, Dark Erosion: When attacking an enemy, you deal an additional 1–6 points of Dark Erosion damage.
Effect 2, Summon Undead: Once per day, you may cast Summon Undead, randomly calling forth Skeleton Warriors with a total combined health of 1D100 from the surrounding area. They will randomly attack creatures with the