Returning to the wall of tentacles, the Mothers decided that they had to coax whatever lay within to show itself. They set about creating a pool of burning oil taken from their lamp supplies which roused whatever the creature was into attacking. Ten huge tentacles lashed out from the wall trying to grasp and crush the Mothers and their camp followers.
The party reacted swiftly and with various forms of attack. The clerics cast dispelling magics on the wall, hoping to weaken its dweomer. Jito and Kurtalla fired missiles at it from a safe distance, Jitos sling bullets crashing in to it with great effect. The sword wielders, meanwhile, parried and slashed at the writhing limbs. Once the second dispelling had taken effect the wall was clearly weakened and they all stepped in and finished it off. As it died it faded into nothing, revealing an opening in to some chambers to the south.
While most of the group remained outside, the Mothers entered along with the giant kind and the elf countess. Inside, dark draperies concealed the walls and ceilings; strange candles lit the place with a disconcerting purplish glow revealing a slowly smoking brazier; low couches and tables along with a large wardrobe. Inside the Mothers found and took a set of vestments for someone roughly human sized. Parting the hangings, an inner room was discovered which contained a bed as well as the candles, braziers and other accessories also found next door. Countess Nevarra confirmed that the décor was akin to that of the drow. Finding nothing else to hold their attention here, despite extensive searches, the Mothers returned to the corridor and the concealed openings that Gaspode had discovered with his gem.
They took the left-most opening and entered into a confusing long chamber that ended in a raised area with an altar and a black metal triangle with a cylinder suspended from the ceiling. On the wall behind was an inlay depicting a huge inverted triangle with a Y enclosed within. The path to the altar area was obscured by globules of mauve and violet light which floated randomly around. Pillars to the right separated off another area presumably accessed through the other passage. The walls held scenes of giants offering sacrifices and bowing to a black cairn. The whole group, but especially Levi were very disconcerted about the feeling of wrongness in the place and they withdrew. Levi said that it reminded him strongly of the altar which took his sanity for a time beneath the Hill Giants halls. They decided that the temple could do little harm if there was no one there to worship in it and they left to explore other areas.