Our heroes received pivotal information from the ghostly Otari. He revealed that Belcora now existed as a ghost, and her reach had been expanding recently. He also spoke of a mysterious barrier blocking their path further down. Otari believed that combining the psychic resonance of the Roseguard’s signature items, including his own thieves’ tools, could dispel the barrier.
Eager to explore the current floor before seeking the remaining items in the town of Otari, the group ventured forward. They came across a broken wall leading to a hall filled with stone sarcophagi. As Asterion approached too closely, undead warriors emerged from three sarcophagi, but the group managed to vanquish them despite Asterion feeling drained.
Investigating the hall, they discovered an invisible barrier with stairs descending on the other side, potentially the one Otari had mentioned. As they examined additional sarcophagi, they found their faces turning transparent, most contained corpses but one of the sarcophagi hid a secret passage. Following it, they encountered and defeated three Scalathrax, familiar foes from the graveyard.
Their journey led them to a kitchen with a skeletal occupant. Opening another door, they found a grand dining room where four lights animated skeletons. Recognizing the corpselights from previous encounters, they initially blocked the skeletons from entering kitchen door, but eventually entered the dining room to battle the skeletons. With their previous experience, they managed to destroy some of the wisps before they could reanimate new bodies. A couple of them still managed to find new bodies but were quickly destroyed.
Further exploration revealed rooms with a mysteriously filling bathtub, storage, a wine cellar, and a disposal room haunted by a poltergeist. After defeating the poltergeist, they discovered a staircase leading back to the library, where they decided to rest and recover.