We finish 9 days in Verbobonc, getting items enchanted and scribing scrolls. No trouble crops up but we buy and sell quite a few things.

It takes 7 days to make it back to the Temple and our camp. The minions were out hunting when we first arrived. Our minions relate their adventures - clearing a nearby cave of goblins, etc. And Pire tells us of converting a whole village of halflings to St Cuthbert. The minions have improved the camp a bit - wooden walkways now connect the tents.

We decide to head down. On the way down Diren tries to check out the warded door down from level 2. But he can't see anything through the doors and just finds out that the cloak of etherealness was cursed and doesn't work. Looking through the wall at the north end of level 3 also results in not seeing anything.

At the top of the stairs to level 4, Diren drinks a potion of darkvision and starts to sneak down. It's a long staircase - at the bottom he and a troll spot each other at about the same time. He hurls a dagger - wounding it. It bellows and charges him. Another trolls goes running off to summon help. The party floods down the stairs to engage.

Diren holds the one off for a bit until the party can arrive and take it down. Then we move into the room, fighting. Pire's flame strike does mass of damage to a lot of them. Theldin's acid axe cleaves through them. Elmo teaches us about how to hurt trolls. We are awesome.

We move forward after smiting the trolls. We check out a side room - it's got a fancy painted mural and troll bedding and chests. The chests are looted. We check the next room - no monsters, then search around and find a secret door.

Through it and another secret door into the conference room of evil. Lots of goodies are taken - two valuable crystal chandeliers are left behind for now.

Onward, to an ornate bedroom - two scantilly clad women. Retcon: Pire does NOT cast Holy Smite. "When I'm murdering women, I want to murder a big group of them." Instead it's a detect evil. The women are neutral - but the small icon of Iuz is evil, and a book. Pire tries to Shatter the icon, but it doesn't work. We interrogate the women - they aren't evil, but aren't good. We manacle to the women to the bed to prevent them from making trouble, but leave them with some food.

We head back - to a giant sized bedroom. We find an iron box under the bed with some valuables.