Thistletop lower levels.

After a good night's sleep, we awake feeling rested and more powerful. We start to inspect the lower level (where we fought Nulia). In one one of the small rooms we see paintings of goblin violence and bad stuff.  One drawing depicts a huge scary monster.

Next we come to a large altar room where a recent human sacrifice was completed. We assume this means that the ritual we were trying to prevent was completed. We continue, through additional rooms, finding torture implements and chambers. Scenes of women giving birth to monsters in what we know to be common in churches to Lamashtu. Kill a couple of goblins. Find some goblin babies in cages (we leave them).

In one distant room with stalactites, we encounter a squidy figure with many eyes. Called a tentamore, it's main deal is constriction. We kill it and continue on to see the rest of the floor, finding not much more than bedrooms of Nulia, Lyrie, and Tsuto.  Some evidence of Birdcrunchers, and one room where someone clearly packed and left in a hurry.

Huge stack of gold coins in a big L-shaped room. Checking for traps and percept for magic. Seems illusory.  Is likely only a carving. Behnin believes there is some sort of beacon-ness to the treasure. Skrimshaw puts coins into slots on either side of the pillar, and it goes down to reveal a hidden door. 

Inside is a door to a new room full of chanting guy/illusion on a throne talking in Thasselonian, which continually repeats the same message. There are two statues in his image in the room. This is not anything to do with Lamashtu, but is a Thasselonian relic. We check other rooms.

One room with three work tables (E9). Covered in exquisitely made surgical tools, which the healer takes. One table has bones of more than one skeleton - seems to be a two-headed man with a smaller body coming out if its back. Find a silver and gold seven pointed star, which Arandor takes.

Moving on...room has a door with a seven-pointed star keyhole. Arandor uses the recently discovered key to open the door.  Inside is a wide room with a flaming bathtub in the middle. Seems to not be super hot, but lights the room with a humid heat and the smell of burning human hair. Appears to be ever burning. Big star carving in one wall. 

Suddenly, a gargantuan thing blinks into existence. A snarling, canine beast with hands instead of claws. Seems to be shimmery and coming in and out of existence. Attacks AND KILLS Bartland. But not really.