Play the Irresistible Drum

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From: Beside the Octagonal Tomb


It demands to be played. Why would you refuse? Indeed, how could you refuse?

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Ba-dum! Ta-tum! Irresistible Drum!

You pick up the drumsticks and do as they demand. It is a more effective alarm than a klaxon would have been.

[...]

Brick walls lay themselves flat. Lock barriers break open and spill water [...] And somewhere [...] is the groan of a tomb being opened.

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The second paragraph varies depending on an unknown quality, likely related to your choices at Burrow-Infra-Mump.

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?First there is a scattering of fore-shock beats – quick, erratic – but then it is a steady rhythm of escalating speed, a fusillade that plays as the ground rocks and the buildings stumble.
?​Once you might have been able to play a beat of your own choosing. But now all that will come from your drum is the beat of the Drummer, familiar as your own heartbeat, unmistakably Hellborn.

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