The Mothers explored further, finding two chambers filled with orc slaves. They decided to free them on condition that they left the area immediately. In a corridor they discovered a wall of boulders blocking further passage to the east. They doubled back at this point, going through what must have been the chambers of the bugbears. They found no one. A door led them back into the main room, which they had originally come to down the stairs. Trying the next door, they came upon two bugbear guards in a thin corridor outside five cells. Quickly overcoming the guards the Mothers set about opening the prisons. The first contained a chained up human who they questioned for a short time before realising that he was unhinged by his experiences. Lacking the ability to cure him at that time, the Mothers left him there for the moment, as Gaspode did not fancy having a bite taken out of his neck. Moving on, they found they found a human called Triolus who said that he was an engineer who had been captured on a caravan bound from Tilverton about a month earlier. Next they freed an elven woman called Siosann, who was calm and willing to fight. She had been captured about six months previously. She undertook to guard Triolus. In the next chamber a number of skeletons jumped up to attack them, but Guthranka destroyed them with the power of Tyr. In the last cell, a group of twelve orcs had been chained. Five remained alive. One spoke up and explained that they had been imprisoned because they had rebelled against the giants and that other rebels were still abroad, behind the boulder wall that they had come across previously. They shared natural caverns there with troglodytes and other underground creatures. After explaining that they had already freed a couple of groups of orc slaves, the Mothers were told about a number of other groups that were likely to still be locked up in the south western area of the complex. Moving to that area, the Mothers had to overcome two hill giants who were in a torture chamber. This battle drew two fire giants from another area and the Mothers were sorely pressed in defeating them. Following the path of the fire giants backwards, the Mothers found an armoury and smithy. There, seven dwarves were bound by long chains to the wall so that they could continue to work. Their leader Tettet Goblinslayer spoke for them and asked for the chance to fight some giants. He suggested that they leave his kinsmen in place until everything was safe. The engineer Triolus stayed with these dwarves while Tettet joined the group. This left the way clear to free four other groups of orcs who banded together and brought the orcs out from the barricaded cavern entrance. The whole group of around two hundred orcs departed hurriedly. Following the trail of the orcs to the foot of the stairs the Mothers tried the north-easterly room. There, amongst the furs, they found a loose flagstone with gold, gems and an earthenware jar secreted beneath it in a rough hole. Leaving the main room again, by the one passageway that they had not explored the Mothers came upon a fork. Going left they found a room with a padlocked door. Gaspode, picked this and checked for any traps. Not finding any they opened the door and stepped through into another forking passageway. Going left again, another padlocked door confronted them. Gaspode did his tricks and soon they saw that the room beyond was a wine cellar. Fonesca tried some of the wine, which had a stopper with a wax symbol of a death's head. She thought that it tasted good, with an earthy hint. At the other end of the fork the passageway abruptly ended. Being the suspicious types that they are, the Mothers spent some time here searching the stones for signs of a secret door. They did not find anything though. Returning to the first fork the Mothers took the right passage, which led straight down to a circular room which was filled with clear water that emerged from several apertures in the western wall. Steps led down into the water.