The Thri-Kreen wanders off into the dungeon in search of food. The Warlock also heads back to the first level of the dungeon to check out a room reported to have treasure in it.
The rest of the party advances into the next room where they encounter two ghosts and a hearth golem. They fight them and halfway through the battle, the warlock returns to aid them. After the monsters are defeated they take an extended rest, but some of the party has terrible nightmares and does not recover use of their powers.
In the next encounter, they are attacked by a Grick, two Far Realm humanoids, a Destrachan, and a Teifling Wizard (one of the many incarnations in the dungeon). They fight them and during the battle the walls turn to flesh and acid begins oozing out of the walls as the living dungeon tries to digest them. The manage to defeat the creatures and destroy the beating heart of madness in an adjacent room after they cut their way through the regenerating, fleshy walls.
They pass on into a long hallway where they find they are traveling for a long time and getting progressively weaker. The Paladin scouts ahead and sees three shadowy humanoids up ahead. He runs up to catch them and attacks the one in the rear. It turns out he was following the rest of the party and attacks Rune, the warforged fighter. They determine they are trapped in a teleportation tunnel and must find a way to escape. The warlock can teleport past the gate but the rest of the party cannot. The skull tells them to dig under the teleport trap, which they do. They rest and regain their drained energy.
In the next large room they encounter another incarnation of the wizard with a far realm creature and several more humanoid servants. The party starts to fight them, but the warlock convinces them to parlay. The wizard offers them safe passage if they give him the talking skull. He crushes the skull and allows them to move along.
In the next chamber they find the final incarnation of the wizard who says they can free him from his magical prison by destroying the field around him. They do so and he asks them to submit to him so he can drain their essence to cast a ritual allowing them to escape. The party refuses to submit and attacks him. He summons several tentacled creatures and turns into a giant monster himself. The party furiously fights against them and eventually defeats the great beast, freeing themselves from the magical prison.
They return to the sewers and claim the small black pyramid artifact that originally trapped them inside. They return the artifact to Emperor Mez'Gar and become his lieutenants.
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