At the bottom of the stairwell with the door Maleth has satisfied himself that there are no traps. He opens the door and reveals a small room (15f x 15ft). On the opposite side of the room another staircase continues deeper. Maleth shines his light into the room and sees reliefs on the walls depicting a conflict with the dwarven horror creatures. The reliefs are old. Maleth searches the room finding no traps.
The next stairway has some holes in the side of the stairway.
Upon hearing that there may be a trap to inspect Taco rushes to descend the stairs to check it out. He hears a click as he walks down the stairs and a section of the stairs converts to a slide, but with quick reflexes he is able to avoid falling down the slide. He uses his sword to descend in a controlled manner he reaches the holes and checks them out.
Ember secures a rope at the top of the stairwell and descends. Taco completes his descent to meet with Ember. Maleth tosses his torch to Taco and Taco catches the torch. Richard descends to amber Taco continues to descend. The stairwell continues and begins to wind. The party continues down the stairs led by Taco and ember. The stairs transitioned to A room with a black marble floor. The floor is polished, but dusty. Taco stabs the floor, clearly being distrusting of polished marble. Across the room the door looks like the floor and has a brass ring. Amber crosses the room and opens the door. The newly revealed room has more of the black marble and also has pillars engraved with some sort of language unknown to everyone in the party. Richard, Brahi, and Maleth finally make their way to the bottom of the winding stairwell. Ember continues into the room with the black marble pillars. Mail if notices the sound of water and looks around not finding the source of the sound. The party all enters the room with the black pillars.
Movement is seen from across the room in the dim light. Seven creatures are moving toward the party. Brahi charges and hits one of the creatures using his mighty hammer. The lifeless body of the creature is sent crashing into another of the creatures. The creatures all attack the party doing minimal damage. Maleth tries to attack with his spear but misses. Jarvis bites one of the creatures. Richard reflects on the blessing of Graxis and casts blessed weapon on his hammer and then bashes one of the creatures. Ember stabs one of the creatures. Taco attacks a creature with his bastard sword. Richard advances to a creature and hits it with his hammer. Ember attacks a creature but misses. Taco kills a creature and then moves into flanking with the giant snake that has emerged from the pool of water toward the back of the room. Brahi charges the snake and hits it. Maleth spears the snake. Maleth draws his short bow and makes a critical hit. Ember hits the snake severing the head from the rest of it’s body. Ember Recovers 4 doses of venom. Maleth dumps out the wasp venom he had previously collected and asks Ember to share some of the snake venom. Ember decides to share the snake Venom.
The party prepares to craw through a narrow tunnel. There is discussion about what items may need to be left behind to fit through such a small passage. Brahi disassembles his cross bow to prepare to go through the passage. Then Taco, Jarvis, and Ember begin to go through the tunnels without the rest of the party.
The party discovers a room with coins in the walls. Taco finds toddler’s chair covered in old leather. Richard waits in the room with the beheaded snake confused that Taco and Ember went through the tunnels without him.
Creatures enter the room with Richard, Brahi, and Maleth. Richard draws upon the power of his god and attempts to turn the creatures. The creatures are unaffected. Brahi charges and hits a creature. The leader of the creatures attacks Brahi. Brahi is hit by the leader of the attacking creatures and then again by another of the creatures. Richard strikes two of the creatures. Taco craws out of the tunnel and shoots the boss creature with his gun. The two remaining creatures, either scared of the loud noise or of seeing their boss slain, attempt to flee but are struck down by Brahi and Richard.