They continue and arrive at a prison room and kill the bugbear and ogre jailer with ease. The ogre killed a zombie. They investigate the jails and release: 2 qwith, the Countess Tillahi of Celene and Sir Juffer, 3 human merchants They are taken above and left with the others, with the Countess and Sir Juffer given weapons to help protect the rest for now. On their way back down they are attacked by a group of gnools who are killed in seconds.
1000 xp to each of the four for their rescue
They arrive back and move to a storage chamber and then garbage room. They come across an Otyugh in the garbage room.
The otyugh is attacked by undead and hacks a few animal skeletons dead with its tentacles before dying. A search finds:
Scroll of Wizard Spells – Friends, Magic Missile, Knock, Mirror Image, Web, Slow, Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer
Gold Platter – 300 gp
Platinum Bracelet – 1000 gp
Four Opals – 1000 gp each
They move on and arrive at another complex with 20 or so bugbears total living in it. They surrender after seeing Alzar and his army approach. They have heard rumors of someone invading the temple and they want nothing to do with him and his group. Alzar agrees to leave them and their small five room complex alone if they pack up and leave the temple permanently, and they do.
They return and take a different bend and arrive at a cistern. It is very deep and slime covered, so Alzar has animal skeletons explore it and unlike he expected, there are no slime creatures down there, but they do find a slime covered object:
+2 shield
They raid some armories and add the weapons and armor to the magic pile. They find:
3 large sacks of fine garments – 500 gp each sack