. Caves of Chaos

After running for their lives, the group entered the Seven Pillared Hall. It was around noon, and the place was a bustling with new activity. Temporary trading tables were set up everywhere, selling all kinds of next to useless trinkets. The group headed immediately to the Halfmoon Inn and had a short rest. Later that afternoon they decided to stock up on some much needed artillery, so the went to the Deepgem Company. Ulthand Deepgem is an old dwarf cleric of Moradin and former adventurer who runs the Company. They negotiate for a couple quivers of arrows for 2 gp each. After Mathers makes a joke about selling Panril, the topic turns to slave traders and Ulthand’s great hatred for both Duergar and slavers. He provides them with a quiver “on the house” once he hears of their heroic rescue of the three kitchen slaves from the Horned Hold. He also lets them know that the Grimmerzhul clan of Duergar have a trading post in the Seven Pillared Hall. They trade rare ores, gemstones, liquor, poison and alchemical reagents from the Underdark for goods from the surface that they can take back to their homeland to sell. He suspects the dirty Duergar have a lot to do with the slave trading especially since they seem to have set up an out post in the Horned Hold.

As the group leaves the Deepgem offices they see the freed slaves having a heated discussion with Brugg the ogre enforcer. The group hurries over to the customhouse to find that Brugg thinks they are some kind of spies and is threatening to lock them up until the Ordinator Arcanis deals with them. Rayrond cools a heated exchange between the ogre and the druid. Just as the enforcers are leading the humans away, the wizard Orontor arrives to talk with the adventurers.
He leads them into his office in the customhouse. After a long discussion about their activities in the labyrinth over the past couple of days, Orontor asks them to find out any information about his fellow Mage of Saruun; Paldemar. He also thanks them for their help with the slave trade problem that seems to be popping up and suggests they head to a place called the Chamber of Eyes which he suspects is informal headquarters of the Bloodreavers. He provides them with directions on how to find it and tells them they will be richly rewarded for coming up with information on either the slave trade or Paldemars activities.
Orontor also provides a fresh start for the slaves in terms of new clothing and a bit of spending money. They crowd around the adventures thanking them profusely and begging them to free the rest of the slaves in the Horned Hold.

Next the group heads through the dragon door, to find their way through the labyrinths of Saruun Khel. After about half a kilometer of twisting tunnels, and split passages they find their way to the narthex of the Chamber of Eyes. A large antechamber with a 25 ft ceiling, holds two fearsome-looking statues of winged demons which squat on either side of a stairway leading to a set of double doors. Inscribed upon the doors is an image of a great eye with multiple eye stalks as well as a symbol of Torog. Heaps of rubble are scattered across the floor, and to the north a balcony overlooks the room. As they are carefully searching the room, Gandor hears a couple of voices speaking in goblin “When do you think Krand is going to divvy up the loot?”. The group quietly climbs the stairs and Rayrond unlocks the door without detection. They burst through to find two very surprised goblins. During the battle one goblin get the chance to warn his allies in the next room. A Bugbear and goblin join the fray.

Unknown to the group a fourth goblin circles around back to warn a couple of Duergar Guards. After a quick fight in which the Druid reveals his new ability to summon a Guard Drake they start to look around the area. Gandor finds a set of stairs leading north. Just as he gets to the bottom of the stairs the door at the top bursts open and a Duergar Guard rush down the stairs to attack. Within seconds he is a corpse, and the group also quickly deals with the second Duergar guard who descends the stairs. The trailing goblin turns tail and runs, but a fleet footed Rayrond follows him and knocks him prone with a dagger to its Achilles tendon. The goblin crashes to the floor and Rayrond leaps over him to block his egress. He yells back to the group for help. As they arrive the door next to Rayrond slams open, and a Hobgoblin Warcaster steps out and blasts Rayrond to the floor. It doesn’t take much to kill the goblin and the Hobgoblin. At the end of the battle, they drag the bodies into a room and search the area. They find a simple brass key on one of the goblins, and a magical belt on the Bugbear’s body.

The group decides to rest, so they set up a few magical guardians and rest their minds and bodies.