Heading deeper into the tangled forest of the hills north of Crowhame, the party encountered an enraged bear who attacked without warning. Aoife the ranger was disturbed by its behavior, although she didn’t believe it was mad. Further on, the party found another dead bear, even larger, that had been torn in half. Its bones seemed pitted and burned like those of the sheep.
As they approached a large ruin, they stumbled across the bodies of Aoife’s comrade Marchwardens, right as a huge wyvern attacked. They slew the beast and discovered both Tarunas and some lost gear, including a legendary suit of elven-made chain and a Thaarn greatbow.  She also said that she identified the tracks of at least two other wyverns, and they were fresh.
The group entered some kind of temple or dungeon beneath the upper ruins; Drake turned a group of skeletons, and when they were slain Fath discovered a torn journal page on one of the bodies. They also found a secret door with a disturbing statue–a smaller copy of the one presiding over a deep well in the main nave, except its head was a single gaping mouth. A chained door behind the statue had a scroll leaning against it, with an elaborate warning about breaking the seal. Continuing to explore on the level they were on, they encountered some hideous creatures who stank of the grave. Drake sent one flying with the sign of the Hammer, and they slew three more; but one lunged ahead and struck the paladin into total paralysis. As they edged forward after the creature that had run, they saw a massively fat man, bloated and leering, step into the edge of their circle of light…flanked by perhaps a half-dozen more.