The session started with the party deciding to take a short rest before engaging the two remaining troglodytes. The party then fought and defeated the two troglodytes. During this encounter, Hadar used a flaming sphere and word of radiance. Good Morning used vicious mockery. Tech disengaged to avoid getting hit. Vila raged and attacked. Hercules was not present at the start of the fight.
After the fight, Good Morning continued to insult the chained giant lizard for ten minutes. The party found two unlocked iron chests behind the lizard containing 2200 silver pieces, a potion of climbing, and a potion of water breathing. The party then took a long rest.
The party proceeded towards an iron door marked with Durgadin's smith mark, which Tech unlocked using the prison key. They went up a steep staircase to an octagonal chamber with statues of armed dwarves. They heard the faint ringing of a hammer on an anvil. After some searching, they found a secret door behind the eastern statue, leading to more stairs and another door. As Tech went up the hallway beyond this door, an alarm was triggered. Opening the next door revealed a large hall with defiled pillars and a throne, where they encountered two Duergar.
Good Morning attempted to negotiate with the Duergar. After some tense discussion, and with Tech threatening one of them, the party paid 200 gold pieces to one of the Duergar, Gennad, to be their guide. Gennad revealed information about undead in the north, cursed magic in the southwest (old kitchens), and a dragon in a large lake cavern below.
Gennad led the party north, where they encountered the translucent form of an armored dwarf ghost in a chamber with a dark pool. Combat ensued, and the ghost used a horrifying visage, frightening Hercules, Good Morning, and Samuel and aging Hercules and Good Morning by 40 years. The party fled from the ghost.
They retreated and convinced Gennad to bring a Duergar cleric, who used magic to restore the aged party members. Good Morning gave his family's rapier to the cleric as thanks.
Gennad then led the party to a defiled shrine to the dwarf gods, where they found a dead dwarf warrior and an orc corpse on the altar. As they entered, bones stirred to form two ogre skeletons, and the dead orc reanimated as an orc champion. Combat began. During the fight, one ogre skeleton critically hit and seemingly killed Vila. Good Morning cast suggestion on one of the ogre skeletons. Hercules used magic missiles. Hadar used scorching ray and faerie fire. Samuel used fireball. Tech attacked with his sickle.
After defeating the reanimated creatures, the party found 280 gold pieces, a spell scroll of web, and a scroll of spider climb. They decided to take a long rest in the cleaned-up shrine. The session concluded with the announcement that the party had reached level four.