Dance of the Spooky Mantis
As you wander through the Haunted Conservatory, one of the gravestones catches your eye. You kneel in front of it and brush away the creeping vines and dust, revealing it to be... well, you aren't quite sure what it is, to be honest.
Instead of a name or an epitaph, the stone features several intricate engravings, which must once have been quite detailed, but for the passage of time. As best as you can tell, one of the Spookyraven children must have had a pet giant praying mantis at some point, and decided, when it died, to honor the creature with pictures of it tearing the heads off of servants. The employee turnover rate in Spookyraven Manor must have been astonishing.
Figuring that martial-art techniques can be acquired from even the unlikeliest of sources, you make a rubbing of the tombstone with a sheet of paper and a crayon that you keep on hand for just such an occasion.
 | You acquire an item: Teachings of the Fist |
Occurs at The Haunted Conservatory.
References
- The kanji on the scroll means "root", "man", and "big". If you reverse the order, it means "big penis" since "man-root"/男根 is "penis".
- The title of this adventure is a play on the 1979 kung fu comedy Dance of the Drunk Mantis.
