Once again the party returns to the ziggurat where they recently slew the lizard king. This time in search of buried treasure. Reg has a sense that there’s something here calling to him, some artifact or object that fits with the style of the decorations and architecture, he can’t remember what it is or where he knows it from, but it seems familiar. Last time they were here they discovered a collapsed tunnel entrance in the side of a small ravine by the wall of the ziggurat, this time they clear the accumulated rubble and debris out and discover a long hallway leading into the darkness. Immediately inside the cleared rubble is the desicated corpse of an elf.

Elmer casts Light on the skull of the elf and Gary takes it as a sort of torch. They do the same to an arm and give it to Reed and the party heads down the hallway into the darkness. After about forty or fifty feet the hallway opens out into a large chamber. As Gary steps across the threshold he triggers a trap and a huge section of floor swings away into a yawning chasm. Several of the party members manage to leap to safety and several more hadn’t yet stepped onto the segment of floor that swung away so no one is harmed but everyone gets a sense of the hostility of the environment. Gary lights torches on sconces near the hallway and they reveal several more corpses scattered around the large room, as well as a quartet of sarcophogi and a few carved columns. As they explore the room further there’s a loud grinding noise, like stone on stone, from all parts of the chamber as ghouls emerge from the sarcophogi and engage the party.

Elmer casts Turn Undead, making several of the ghouls flee and the remaining ones are made quick work of as the party comes to grips with them and the ghouls that fled are equally easily disposed of, so the party settles down to search the room. Nahala finds quite a bit of gold jewelry on the ghouls, complete with precious gems and some unfashionably but nicely made clothing. Reg investigates the two sarcophogi in the center of the room and determines that they conceal a false floor. After some investigation he finds a hidden latch that makes the bottom of the coffins swing down to reveal a staircase. At nearly the same time, while lighting the torches, Gary discovers a secret door in the wall. Elmer and Reed examine the carved pillars, identifying the carvings as mythical scenes of the underworld, but unable to identify the pantheon.

After some debate the party decides to descend the staircase and finds a small chamber with a raised altar at the far end and several caskets standing up against the walls. As they enter the room, checking for traps, the caskets swing open and reveal a number of Spectral Warriors brandishing obsidian swords. The warriors sprang to attack and pinned the party in the entrance doing some damage to Gary and Nahala both, who happened to be in front. Once the party reacted to this new threat, they drove past the warriors into the room but the party was cut in half at the door to the chamber and taking substantial damage. Reed dodged into the middle of the chamber and unleashed the Fey Presence within him, frightening almost all the party members, but unfortunately not the warriors. Gary ran screaming from the room but Reg managed to maintain his composure and started kicking ass in the middle of the room. Nahala cast Flaming Hands and hit a number of the warriors, doing some solid damage. Elmer managed to land a good bit of radiant damage as well as quite a few heals but unfortunately one of the warriors managed to down Nahala and Elmer resurrected her. Unfortunately, Nahala then downed Reed with another Flaming Hands, but they were managing to wittle down the warriors even with Gary just recovering from his fright and running back into the room. Elmer burned the last of their spells slots and they managed to take down the last of the warriors as Gary arrived back in the fight. The warriors dissipated, leaving behind their obsidian swords.

Since Elmer was out of spells and the rest of the party was pretty badly wounded, they decided to head back to town and rest up a bit before exploring further.