. Caves of Chaos

The party once more awakens stiff and sore from sleeping on the cold stone floor. It takes them a bit longer to get moving this morning. They quietly break camp, and then head back into the long corridor to explore the door and area the Demonic Gnoll had come from. This side corridor is hewn from black rock and connects three different areas. Ahead, the passage opens into a chamber while along the eastern wall, one open door and one set of closed double doors can be seen. The doors are made of black wood, and each has an iron knocker carved in the shape of a Minotaur’s snarling face. The flagstones on the floor each have the symbol of a bull’s horned skull worked into them in blood red stone. The first room beyond the open door seems to be a make shift bedroom. A flimsy table of some dark wood has been dragged in here. A bottle of ink and quill rest on the table along with several pieces of parchment. A bed and chest make up the rest of this rooms contents. Inside the chest, which they open with a key found on the body of the demonic Gnoll, they find a pair of black leather gloves, a gold necklace inlaid with diamonds and rubies, a jade bracelet with carvings of birds on it, and a small leather bag with 62 gp.
They make their way to the next room, and open the set double doors. Two tall candleholders stand on either side of the shrine’s entrance, each with a black candle set in it. Near the back wall stands a tall altar. The altar is made of humanoid bones stacked to form a four-legged table. The bones are joined with black wire. A small black leather bound book rests open on the altar.

With a sudden burst of brimstone and a sound like a whip-crack, a huge hulking creature covered in fur appears before the shrine. It roars, scraping its huge incisors together, flexes its deadly looking claws, then fixes its blood-red eyes upon the group. The Barlgura slams both fists into Gendar, then roars again. The party is surprised at how far this creature can reach, and they have a hard time getting close. With a flurry of ranged attacks they are able to defeat even this formidable beast. Once that grisly task is complete, they examine the book on the gruesome table. The book is titled The Book of Wrath Unveiled. It appears to be a treatise on the cult of Baphomet. Baphomet is a demon lord who rules the 600th layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. He is the Prince of Beasts and the Demon Lord of Minotaurs. Baphomet hates Yeenoghu, and the two are bitter enemies. The two have been warring against each other for as long as they themselves could remember, and both have forgotten the origin of their feud.
Finding nothing further of note, the party presses on.