There was blood in the air, it sounded shrill, like screams from below. I knew, because I did, that the Monastery staff had been sent to chase the darkness, but they had not been told what lay in that black, they were meeting it now. Folks that had never known the deeper secrets were meeting them head on, not just vampires, but ghosts and terrors, the catacombs themselves had absorbed enough madness into the walls to be sure it leaked our again, it dripped now onto the uninitiated.