The Mothers climbed into the carved cavern that they had freed from barring magics. Four of the acidic flayed drow lurked at the rear of the chamber near the two passages out and to either side of the web-like ladder to a small aperture near the ceiling. Two clouds of suspicious looking gas appeared and one drifted over towards Gaspode. Obrana identified these as vampires. Siosiann summoned three celestial hippogryphs to block off the quth-maren. These managed to hold of the bleeding creatures. Meanwhile, Obrana called on the power of Tyr to send back the vampires. One fled to the northern exit. Fonesca then captured the other form in a Resilient Sphere. The Mothers then attacked the quth-maren with ranged spells while the celestial hippogryphs managed to do some damage. Two of the summoned creatures died while the Mothers finished off the flayed undead.
The Mothers gathered around the sphere enclosing the other vampire. Fonesca brought it down and the creature fled towards the exit. Obrana landed a blow and Kurtalla landed two, but the gaseous vampire fled up the web-like ladder into the small aperture above them. Jito loosed a fireball from his staff at the aperture and it burst into that space, but the Mothers did not know if it had any effect.
As Gaspode attempted to follow the vampire up the ladder he noticed that it was about to entangle him. He managed to jump away just in time. Gaspode then attempted to disarm the trap but he set it off and the others had to extract him. They decided to take another route, following the first vampire through the northern passage. Immediately through this opening another opening appeared to the right. This opened into a large chamber which held a drow female chained to one wall. Gaspode was suspicious, so he checked the view through his gem of true seeing; but nothing was different. Gaspode then approached the drow...