After returning from a mission assigned by Lt. Fen, who had, in his usual commanding manner, insisted you capture a live specimen of the cavern crawlers from the Blacksteel Sanctum, you find yourself standing in Mervyn’s study.

You place the cage of writhing creatures on the table. Moments later, a man enters the room—Mervyn himself.

“Ah, excellent! These must be the Cavern Crawlers I requested. Now I can finally study them properly. Such an anomaly... it’s nearly impossible to understand them without a live sample!”