Party finally made it to the temple of eternal flame. Outside they found evidence of carnage.
Upon entering the temple the party found some mauled villagers who were cleaning the temple and then faced 6 skeletons which actually pressed the party pretty hard. Later there was a room literally full of traps designed to represent the challenges Kassen and his allies faced when they tried to oust the bandits holed up in the shrine. Then in the former shrine of the flame the party encountered a shadow where a man had been burnt alive to desecrate the holy chamber. The party was victorious though the three battle taxed the group sorely. If it was not for the magical weapons Arcas conjured the group would have been lost.
The party only managed 3-4 rooms in the temple. The temple had been befouled and that the missing travelers were villagers sent to "clean up and prepare some 'safe' challenges" but something sinister had raised the dead and killed the villagers and there are supposedly even worse things further in beneath the shrine. The party met one mad villager who raved about the talking dead and claimed that one villager was taken as a sacrifice.