We headed north from the Endercap room an met up with a Guard Drake and 2 more hobgoblins.  When 1 hobgoblin was dead and the drake and the other hobgoblin was bloodied, 6 more goblins came in. We took a lot of damage from the drake and hobgoblins (Rylene had to use 2 Surges during the encounter, and one out of encounter to heal up). Goolag and Rylene were both severely wounded and we almost thought they wouldn’t pull through. Luckily, the reinforcements were easily vanquished, and we were able to continue on.

Once we cleared the room of dangers, we headed down the spiral staircase into an area with some sarcophagi. There was a wall inscription that read, “Here lie the Rivenroars until the Day of the Black Sun. If you seek their monument, look at the lands around you.”

Goolag opened up the sarcophagi and we found some equipment, gold, silver, and Residuum. Our total haul from the battle and the room was 2 longswords, the Residuum (worth about 100gp), 108sp, 31gp, and Magical Bloodthread Cloth Armor. Lihi took the armor since he was the only one that currently had Cloth armor.

There was also a pit in the room that we determined was a garbage pit, as well as 2 Alters. The alters were to Bane (the evil god of war and conquest). Lihi and I noticed that they weren’t always so – they’re originally altars to Vecna (evil god of undead and necromancy) that the hobgoblins have “rededicated.” It is well known that hobgoblins, goblins, evil barbaric humans, and other of their sort worship Bane.

From the sarcophagi room, we took the door to the south. The hallway curved around a little and we went saw another room with some Dire Rats in it and some statues of Displacer Beasts providing light. We went in fighting assuming that the statues in the room may be a trap, but they ended up just being fancy lanterns. After the first round of fighting, some gnomes popped out of the woodwork (literally, they were invisible) and joined the fight with the rats. We made short work of all 5 enemies though even with the gnomes going invisible. In this room, we found another captive tied to an alter of the Raven Queen. Mirtala was in bad shape and we had to talk her into moving. Goolag only had 1 healing surge left and Ryleen had none, so we headed for the exit for an extended rest. We made it out safely, and are now fully recovered.