While in the Guestrooms the party suddenly saw a rat again, and before Byron could cry out a warning it turned in to the figure of the Knight and attacked them, smashing Janus in to a wall and attempting to strike Lucius. Lucius tried to throw a pilum of fire at it but the spell fizzled, and then the figure spoke...

It did not identify itself, but the party decided it was probably de Mandeville. It stated that it would kill them unless they cooperated, and that all it required from them was passage off the island in a boat after nightfall. If they did not comply it would kill them all.

There was no time for further negotiations as the party fled, and took terrible injuries beating off the attacks of the fiend. As Lucius threw fire spells at the horror he realised it did not like light, so they ran outside in to the mists, and Lucius fired the guesthouse block burning the derelict structure to the ground.

None of them doubted that the horror had returned in to rat form and escaped underground however. It was decided that they must evacuate immediately, so gathering gregory who had been left bemused by the events of the day they set off immediately back to to the ship, fighting a retreat against more skeletons...