The party returns to the ziggurat they discovered on their last trip, and spends some time on high ground across a small tributary river from the temple and huts observing, they count about ten to twelve lizardfolk in the village and an indeterminate number in the temple itself. They wait for nightfall then Reed and Reg sneak across the river to reconnoiter. They find no obvious patrols on the outside of the temple, at least at night, and call the rest of the party over. They circle around to the back of the ziggurat and slowly climb up to the top level and, while invisible, Reed peeks in a window, identifying two guards by the door and a lizardking talking to a subordinate in formal robes.

They circle around the top level and burst through the door, engaging and subduing the guards. Reed uses Fey Presence to charm the lizardking and the subordinate near him who appears to be a cleric of some kind. The lizard king charges into the melee by the doors and Gary rushes to meet him, raging. The guards fall relatively quickly, while Reed tries to convince the cleric that the lizard king is a demon of some kind. The cleric turns in obvious confusion and says “…I know?”

Gary clashes with the lizard king, roaring with rage and goes completely berserk, hammering him with blows before Elmer finishes him off with a Guiding Bolt. At the same time Reed kills the cleric. Deprived of enemies and in the depths of beserker rage, Gary stabs Reg and kills him before snapping out of his battle trance.

Elmer revives Reg and they emerge from the temple as the sun rises, greeted by puzzled but joyous villagers. Gary explains that they’ve killed the lizard king and they’re no longer his thralls and there’s much rejoicing. The party searches for an entrance to the burial chambers hidden below the temple and finds a collapsed tunnel. They suspect there may be another hidden entrance but are unable to find it and resolve to come back and look again another time.