Our heroes secured the Cult’s prisoners in a basement side room before once again confronting the albino tiefling. She seemed to recognize them, asking what assistance they might need. After some questioning she became annoyed, and told them if there’s nothing else she’d like to resume her work.
Our heroes left her alone, and began their assault on the cultists on the ground floor. They approached Kadrock through a not-so-hidden door leading to his office, and attacked. Kadrock was chased into the great hall, Thoob was easily dispatched, and the cultist guarding Crannoc’s chamber moved to enter the fray. Other cultists assembled in the courtyard to face our heroes.
Largo, with a fine flourish, slew Kadrock, forcing him out the great hall’s doors and into the courtyard where cultist onlookers witnessed Kadroth’s corpse encase in ice. Kadrock plead for assistance from Levistus before he died. His pleas went unanswered.
By this time the rest of the cultists were ready to surrender, when Crannoc burst from his chamber and pushed a cultist off the great hall’s balcony. He then joined our heroes and the other assembled cultists in the courtyard.
A previously hidden cultist operated the winch to open the Caer’s gates – more than half the surrendered cultists used the opportunity to flee the Caer. The remaining cultists were questioned while an increasingly agitated Crannoc urged our heroes to execute them.
Our Heroes learned that the albino tiefling working in the cistern was named Avarice, and favoured by Levistus. That the cult was instructed to offer her shelter for her studies. They did not know why she was in the Caer.
The cultists also attempted to clarify that they were not recruiting anyone – they simply found others like them who’d been saved by Levistus in exchange for their souls. They had formed a family, albiet an evil one who takes what isn’t theirs by force.
Yrso executed the cultists, damning them to an afterlife in Levistus’ service in Stygia. Crannoc and his staff could not be more pleased with the outcome.
Our heroes returned to the cistern to visit the mysterious tiefling but she had fled, hastily gathering her belongings but leaving behind some crumpled notes that indicated she was searching for a holy text of Auril known as the Codicile of White.
Crannoc shoved a bag of gold into our heros’s hands and instructed them to emerge triumphantly (behind Crannoc of course) from the Caer to inform the townsfolk they were liberated. Crannoc offered our heroes the opportunity to ‘live like kings’ within the Caer’s walls – they agreed, for a night, but could barely suffer Crannoc’s exhausting personality.
Now our heroes make their return to Easthaven, who knows what awaits them next?