After it went dark, several death cries were heard. Asmodian had managed to slip away behind the bank and crawl up a ladder that seemed to go nowhere. After the screaming subsided, he carefully made his way down the ladder and took his guild mates back through the portal, so their healers could critcure them.

As they came back in, they found that several of the creatures had been killed in the struggle, by what, no one was sure. Merchants were busily looting the corpses and transmuting the gear. Before it had all disappeared, Wildchile picked up a helm that tied. Its description read "You are looking at a jet black helm with wings, emblazoned on the front is a supernova about to explode."

Grundeg found a curious dagger. The dagger was very small, but seemed to be made of gold. Looking around, the guild found more of the small golden daggers. They seemed to have no attributes, but appraised for 10k in coins at the apothecary.

Each time a dagger was sold, the Apothecarian yelled, "To be bold, all you need is gold!"

This got many of the guild thinking, and each saved one of the small daggers on their belt.

Arkon came back from the north of town and stated matter of factly "the thief by the darkened doorway wants 90,000 more coins than i had. So i guess thats 100k to go into whatever it is."

After several attacks by the wierd critters, half dog, half wolf, the guild collected enough gold to buy a longship pass, stock up on apothecarian mixtures, buy some odd artifacts, and pay for entry into the darkened doorway.

Salandair was the first to enter the darkened doorway. It was very dark and his infravision bracers did not help. He put on his winged nova helm and he could see one hex away. He icq'd the rest of the guild to let them know.

Once the guild was in, they noticed skeletons laying around and could hear hissing sounds. Ocasionally, the flapping of huge wings could be heard, followed by a scream that made the hair on the back of their necks stand up.

After a few hexes, they found a small wooden sign and dead it, 

"mY PlAcE! gEt OuT! - Coressa, Deathspawn of the Dark Swamps."

At least they knew where they were, but they weren't sure what to expect. They decided to fulfull their intrepid spirits by pressing on. What or who would they meet next?