Gnolls to the left of me, Dwarves to the right.

Returning to the passage down, three wraith emerge out of a nearby well.  As the party battles the dark undead, an Entropic Shadow Unchosen (ESU) comes up from the party and engages in combat.  The rascally adventurers overcome their adversaries and head out.

In a high-domed cavern, with an inexplicable breeze, more wraiths and three ESUs, not sure if they've been detected by a patrol or not, the group quickly dispatches the vile creatures and make it to the passage down.

Descending into the lower caverns, the air gets much colder, requiring warmer clothing.  The group creeps along to a main hall with a large ramp, loading gear, surrounded by a dozen headless statues.  The party dwells for but a moment, before moving on into a side corridor at Rubbish's suggestion.  In the side corridor there are two of the chaos-technology infused dwarf zombies (CTD), one shadow entropic unchosen, and a yellow robed cultist.

The party prepares for combat, and sends Kushii in invisibly, to get the drop on the cultist.  Luce and Billy are to take out the CTDs and ESUs.  Lars is general support and chief eater of cheese.  As the plan unfolds, Kushii avoids the CTDs and their supernatural senses and gets the drop on the Cultist.  Her attack, however, misses wildly (read epic '1' failure).  Turning visible, is the signal that everyone else engages in combat.  The battle is slow, Luce takes a lot of punishment holding the line with the ESU and a CTD.  The party grinds down the opposition eventually, and Kushii finds out that the Cultist had some kind of protective field around him.

After the brutal encounter, the party retreats and regroups, for another foray into the deeper caverns.

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Session Characters:  Kushii, Lars, Luce, Billy
Session XP: 5400 XP
Session Loot:  3 masterwork warhammers, 3 masterwork chain mail, 3 masterwork steel heavy shield, 3 zero pistols (4 charges each), 2 bang grenades, +1 mithral agile breastplate, +1 darkwood heavy wooden shield, +1 keen shock adamantine rapier, masterwork cold iron morningstar, handy haversack, alchemist's lab, cleric's kit, 200 GP.