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?

Unlocked with Irresistible Drum

Locked with And the Walls Came Tumbling Down


Success

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.

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

Unknown QualitySecond Paragraph
?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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