After the abduction of Amur Gibbetsmaster and its aftermath, the party returned to the cove to claim the ships, which the Count had awarded them. The Count sent along a crew for each ship and a few marines to help and to make sure that all the deadly drugs were destroyed (and to make sure he got his eight percent of the treasure). When the party started taking goods out of the caves they were attacked by a Phantasm in each cave. Later they were attacked by huge spiders, which captured several of the crew and Cormac and Winther.^[23] The spiders retreated into tunnels hidden beyond false walls at the ends of the smugglers' caves and the party followed, leaving the majority of the marines and crew to continue loading the ships.

These tunnels led to a huge maze of crooked tunnels, infested by spiders and other strange creatures. The party rescued some of the captured marines and sailors, along with two halflings and a massive, grey, otherworldly being (Evan), but the others had been taken to a huge circular room of worship. This room was dominated by ever changing views of other places on the walls, an altar where the spiders where sacrificing their captives, and a gigantic demonic spider whose limbs spanned the room. Most of the prisoners were freed in the ensuing battle, but the walls of the room kept fading in and out, and one of the marines stumbled into one of the scenes on the wall and vanished. Ominously, the altar was marked with an eight-pointed star.

Magic.  During this adventure the party picked up 10 vials containing healing potions, three one-inch diameter bronze balls invested with Fireball, Imploding Fireball, and Invisibility, five quart jars of very powerful acid, three books on alchemy, a book on magic experimental techniques procedures (which also contained a parchment with an incomplete spell), a spell book, and three glass balls filled with an opaque mixture.