Part 8

In the Forest of Wyrms, go east to find a hill giant with three dire wolves. Search the nearby adventurer's body for stalker's gauntlets, a composite long bow +1, and arrows (20 piercing, 5 dispelling).

Return to your starting point and go slightly south to find Coogan, who will warn you about spiders and caves.

South of Coogan, encounter four wyverns, followed by five more further south.

Go west to find several small spiders that retreat into a nearby cave (BD0114).

Inside the cave, follow the path up and around to a larger chamber. Before entering it, look for a place to gather spider silk.

From an eastern passage, several spiders will emerge. The east chamber contains nothing of interest.

In a northeast chamber, find more spiders and another location to gather spider silk.

At the entrance to the northern chamber, which contains more spiders including a seven-legged spider (yielding a spider leg), find another spot to collect spider silk, with an additional piece inside.

Follow the passage west, then south into a chamber filled with spiders, and collect three spider eggs.

Upon collecting the eggs, a mixed swarm of beetles will appear in the main chamber. Exit the cave.

On the east side of the cave entrance, find a path north with several phase spiders where the path forks. The northern path leads to another cave guarded by several bugbears. Enter this cave (BD7210).

Inside the cave (BD7210), approach a sleeping green dragon carefully. If you get too close, it awakens and attacks, summoning two greater wyverns. Near the dragon, find a body with a sable cloak and its hoard containing 3,000gp and gems (3 emerald, 2 diamond, sapphire, king's tear). A tunnel is located in the southeast corner.

Take the tunnel to cave BD7220, a bugbear lair containing a shaman. Further east is a chest with a potion of healing, a sunstone gem.

Take the passage to the south, then east through another group of bugbears and a shaman. A passage south leads to another group of bugbears.

Follow the path east to another path downwards, where you will encounter a cleric of Cyric who wishes to flee. Allow them to leave.

Continue to cave BD7230, the ruins of a temple of Bhaal. A pit is directly ahead. To the east are three prisoners in cells. The prisoner in the center cell will inform you that a key held by the priestess of Cyric unlocks the cells. Do *NOT* use the lever on the wall.

Go around the pit to another cell containing a blind priestess of Bhaal. She can provide information about the kidnapping of children of Bhaal and the temple's fall to the Cyric priestess.

In a first side chamber, find four cultists of Cyric. Invisible stalkers are in a second south side chamber.

The hall to the west leads to several side chambers. The first on the north contains four more cultists. The second contains a cultist who has gone mad, holding scrolls of cure serious wounds, armor, and blindness. In a bookcase, find three more scrolls: free action, cure serious wounds, and neutralize poison.

The hall turns north. To the east is a side room with a chest. To the west are some cultist guards.

The chamber to the north contains a half-dragon named Ziathar, whom you must defeat to obtain the jail and ritual room keys.

Release the priestess and the Crusade prisoners, then open the door in the south wall.

Inside, two cultists are present. One is killed by a Neothelid, causing the other to flee. This Neothelid is the guardian of the inner sanctum, possessing a breath weapon, spellcasting abilities, and a powerful physical attack. It drops a king's tear gem and Laeral's Tear necklace.

The passage to the south leads to a door into the chamber with Akanna, the priestess. She will summon two aerial servants and attack. Check the chest in the corner. Akanna drops a wardstone.

Further down the passage is another chamber with a shelf and two tables containing various potions: potions of freedom, genius, strength; potions of antidote, fire giant strength, perception; and potions of fiery burning, insight, health.

Further west is another chamber with a door in the north wall. Through this door is an illithid with several human guards. After defeating them, return to the previous chamber and the wall with six masks.

Press the third, first, and fourth masks in sequence to open a secret door. Inside, you will find a Shadow Aspect. The chest contains a book and a short sword (+3 fractal blade).

With these tasks completed, return to the camp.