Previously, on Catacomb of Ashes...

Our heroes found themselves ferried from one unknown shore to another, to the sound of oars slapping the waves and cries of bird and beast from the nearby jungle their sole accompaniment. One which remained unseen, for they were captives bound and blindolded, slung in shallow canoes by captors which they had little seen and less knowledge of.

However, captors who had not proven mute. With some goading, they managed to discover that their captors despised certain Great Old Ones... and that they seemed bent on making sacrifices of the lot of them. Stripped of armor and weapon alike, they were forced ashore in a strange place, and despite their best efforts to manipulate their captors, they found themselves placed on sacrificial posts under the command of the warrior Ouyig and the priestess Esthra, who would preside over their doom.

A fate they do not go to alone, for they have heard the voices of others... and the capture of a strange beast that even now joins them in this moment of impending death at the very edge of the sea...