The party arrived back in the village to find some knaves had seized the lord in his manor killing some of the guards in the process and poisoning others. The party scouted the nearby area by the fortified walls proved formidable though Freya recalled that Enoff had bragged about wooing the lord's wife's handmaiden some decades ago via sneaking into the manor for trysts. Kylorin took one for the team and talked to Enoff for a few hours to get the information from him while everyone else hit the sack in exhaustion. Then before dawn everyone woke up and snuck into the manor grounds and found that the invadors had set ladders against the back wall of the manor ground as well as the outer wall out of the town.
The party saw that even at this hour the invaders were still scaking the estate and had made piles of loot. outside the back door as well as in the center of the house. The group set up to ambush the next thug to step out the back door but then Lindal noticed a unsacked room on the first floor and broke in through the window and the group set up an ambush their instead dropping the first looter who stepped in the door.
Then watching through the door they saw Abdegrin walk in and tell the others. "We found what we came here for, forget this junk and just grab an armload of valuables and lets move out" Eddie cast a spell quietly to make the staff whisper, "Wait there is more here" but when Abdegrin asked others if they knew what was happening from upstairs a voice started casting a detection spell initiating a tough combat. There were two pretty tough Bloodragers, as well as Abdegrin and the spellcaster. There were many explosions as Eddie set the building on fire and the enemy caster repeatedly lightening bolted the team. The party cut through most of the squad like a hot knife through butter but the repeated lightning dazed most of the group. Lindal took the fight to the mage and drove him up the stairs before knocking him over the rails down 20 feet and into the inferno in the wine storage room that was on fire from Eddie's earlier fire blast.
Kylorin actually took a bit of a beating in this fight as while enemies could not hit her with their weapons her armor provided little protection against the mages repeated magical lightning blasts. Freya cleared the thugs who Eddie hadn't blasted and soon it was down to the one bloodrager and the group and the group emerged victorious saving the Lord and recovering about half of his treasure.
The party earned 765 xp gained 23 gp 64 sp and the following gear:
2 greataxes 6 gp
4 handaxes 4 gp
1 silver tankard 5 gp
Total value of gear looted 15 gp excluding coinage detailed above.
The party then tracked Abdegrin back to the dragon mound and stumbled on the mound being sacked by Abdegrin's men getting one more chance at acquiring the crystal staff.