You are back in Kresk and listening to Kersh of Sradanya, a legends of a ventrhus podcast.

Last time, the expedition chased after a missing Irina Kalyana,

after discovering she had left the safety

of the hollowed grounds of the church in Vallaki. This chase brought them to the Abbey of St. Markovia

in the gloomy town of Kresk. They soon discovered that the Abbey was populated by strange

amalgamated creatures and patchwork flesh horrors, products and experiments of

their leader, a corrupted angel known only as the abbot. After a brief encounter with the abbot,

they finally found Irene and brought her to a shrine where she received a blessing from the

spirit of my brother Sergei.

I was not pleased, to say the least.

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With that out of the way, let us proceed with Chapter 9,

among the monsters.

Thunder has subsided. There's a slight drizzle of rain, but it's not much. It's just, it's almost like a mist. And even that is beginning to subside. There's a faint wind that's rushing by you. And the sun is shrouded,

but it's not getting colder and it seems to be slowly ebbing away to that dark overcast,

Horovia midday that you're used to.

And I pull myself out.

I'll help you out.

Oh, I've got the lantern.

That's right.

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