The explored the maze of screams and found hints of secret passages and zombies but chose instead to descend into the depths where they encountered the start of the hobgoblin vanguard.
The hobgoblins released a deathjump spider that would pounce anyone on the end of a line knock them down and poison them. The hobgoblins used tactics to hold the party in the stairwell but Eddie kept sweeping away flankers and while lindal kept getting pinned down by the spider. Sister Linora had to throw her big heals after phalanx tactics and spider ambushes took their toll. Eventually the party drove off the spider and killed the hobgoblin defenders. The spider fled to the well but Eddie froze it down there and the party picked it off. Wanting its poison glands Lindal was about to go down the well when he heard the sound of hobgoblin reinforcements approaching.
The party earned 965 xp (193 each => 2683 cumulative) 10 gp 27 sp and the following gear:
4 sets of scale armor
4 heavy shields
4 flails
5 light shields
5 longswords
5 suits of leather armor