Budwar, Phain, Preacher and Xantumal decided to check out a branch of the smuggler's tunnel they didn't have time for the day before. As they went down the tunnel they found another brick wall that had been knocked down. Going down the tunnel they came to a small cavern with two creatures they had never seen before. Phain and Budwar quickly dispatched the evil creatures.
They continued on and soon came upon a storeroom of which most of gone to dust. But here the tunnels turned into some sort of man made area. They followed the hallway and came upon a room with a shrine to Lamashtu, the evil god of Monstrous births, and the same god Nualia was now worshiping. There was water in a depression on the altar, but it detected as evil so they left it alone.
They continued to the next room where they found a Quasit. Shrieking to the group "How dare you enter the Mother's Sanctum", it slit it's wrists into a bubbling pool near it, creating another one of the monsters they just had killed earlier. Budwar and the wolf attacked the created spawn while the rest of the group attempted to kill the quasit. Unfortunately the quasit could fly and no one had a really effective weapon against it. Preacher circled around it and at the right time leaped off the pulpit where the pool was and grabbed it. Unfortunately it escaped his grasp and flew off invisibly.
The group investigated the pool and discovered if they put some of their blood in it that another spawn would appear. Everytime one was made, the pool would dim. They continued to make spawn and kill them immediately until the pool's water stopped bubbling and glowing.
They decided to push on and find the Quasit and not let it escape. They came across a statue of a beautiful woman wielding a ranseur. She carried a book with a 7 poined star with strange ancient runes on it. They discovered that the ranseur was seperate from the statue and they could remove it. They continued on determined to come back later to study the statue.
Next room had a bunch of cells in it with a wooden platform leading to another hallway. Sensing danger Budwar used his ability to detect evil right as two more of the spawn came at the party. In addition, while fighting them, the quasit returned to ambush the group. Xantumal was ready for that, and managed to grab the tiny outsider while everyone joined in to beat it to a pulp.
Feeling good about overcoming this foe, they continued on to a room filled with torture equipment that was connected to an ancient study. In the study they found some papers, written in an ancient language, that described how to sell your soul to a demon to gain power. Also there were misshapen bones of some humanoid bodies.
Continuing on they came to a room filled with pits covered by wooden lids. They heard moans from the bottom of the pits. Before they could investigate a deformed goblin attacked them. Spewing some foul liquid, Budwar was nauseated from the stench and couldn't do anything but empty his stomach. Soon however the group managed to defeat their foe. In the pits were some zombies that they dispatched of with their ranged abilities.
There was one more passage heading south. They followed the hallway past a stairway heading down that was collasped to a strange room. In it everything would float on its own, there was no gravity affecting anything. Also a strange electricity flowed around the walls. Feeling worn out from their battles with the quasit and the mutated goblin, they gathered up all the items they could find and decided to head back to Sandpoint with the bodies.
Preacher touched the corpses and magically preserved them to prevent any decay and Father Zantus stored the bodies at the cathedral and helped with their wounds.
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