The scouts return and report to Matron Ki'Willis that the battle is finished. The Black Tentacles destroyed the skeletons. The tentacles waved for about thirty seconds after finishing the skeletons, and then abruptly vanished.
The scouts report that at the top of the staircase, there appears to be a group of drow.
As Matron Ki'Willis and her party cautiously proceed closer to the surface raiders, they enter into a large cavern dominated by a huge statue of a hybrid between an insectoid creature and a humanoid. Matron Ki'Willis recognizes the statue as being one of the lost gods, a god of the surface world that is no longer worshipped and has been forgotten by the realms above.
None of the graves in this cavern have been disturbed.
As they pass through the cavern, one of the drow flashes the hand signal for treachery and points at a shadow near the base of the Insect creature.
When you approach closer, you realize that a drow elf is hiding, kneeling on the floor, almost in worship, before the insectoid giant.
At the top of the Stairs, the raiders continue to cough and suffer the results of Yellow Mold Poisoning.
Randal Morn, Lord of Daggerdale, says one word in common, "Vengence" and dies.
All of the human prisoners appear to be dead from a combination of the cold and the mold.
Quertus and the remaining drow survive, although some are severely weakened. Quertus himself thinks he would be dead if his magical belt was any less potent.
Velasta and Torellan have not returned from their excursion.