Amavin – Knows parsis the hidden's spy-like ways.
Kal – Recognizes Ibbalan's coins with dead sanguine path
Gaudenzia – Recognizes the unholy nature of this pit and its connection to the Lord of Unending Thirst, an undead deity of the Southlands (actually vardesain).
Rowan – The construct of the puzzlebox is beyond the capabilities of any known smithy or jeweler and it's very very old.
Tolstoy – Feels the power of the ley-line traveling thorugh Kukkutarma.

Strong Start

Battle of dehydrated zombies and specters. Introducing a new character.

Scenes

Intro of new character & fighting Sangine zombies and old specters
Continuing exploration of the Pit of Unending Thirst
Find Sister Ethelia in the chamber of Mot
Exit the dungeon

Secrets and Clues

The puzzle box is said to be an artifact of Thoth-Hermes – God of Knowledge and Learning,Patron of Scholars and Thieves, Master of the Arcane Realms, and Creator of the Emerald Tablets (Southlands 249)
The Temple of Thoth-Hermes was used by scholars and sages of the Khandirians.
Kukkutarma was ravaged by the blood magic of the Khandirians who used it to defend themselves against the dragon empire.
Beneath the Ziggurat of Thoth-Hermes is a Red Portal missing a key. The puzzlebox is the key.
The puzzlebox is in two parts. One part is held by the goblin. The other part lies in the Pit of Unending Thirst.
The Sanguine Path seeks the puzzlebox to unbind this demon so it can serve them. They also seek forbidden texts held in the pit of Unending Thirst.
The Sanguine Path was hired by agents of Ibbalan the Illustrious who seeks necromatic power.
Thoth Hermes is the God of Knowledge and Learning, The Wise, Creator of Language, Lord of Merchants, Patron of Scholars and Thieves, Master of the Arcane Realms, Patron of the Magocracy of Allain. Green and white feather quill with green ink.
The Lord of Unending Thirst was worshipped by Khandirians who sought the lord's connection to blood and hunger as a source of magical power. A purple worm with tentacle tongues of skulls.
The Khandirians bound a devil of Mot named Kaitele into the puzzle box hoping to use it and other devils as weapons against the dragons but never got the chance.
Mot – God of Eternal Death, Lord of the Undead, the Death of Fire, Black Emperor of the Silent Land of Mirey, Prince of Necromancers, and High Potentate of Dragonslayers (Southlands 260)

Fantastic Locations

Preparation chamber – Evisceration materials
Doors of hunger – visage of Vardesain
Throneroom of the Priest of Hunger
L2: Urns of the Unsated, the drying room, cells of the damned, idealistic murals
L3: Altar of sacrifice, black pit, small treasury, libraries.

Notable NPCs

Priestess Beleth Bronzestar — Voice of Sett and executioner of the Pit
Estroled Veil — mechanist of Thoth Hermes and Khandiria
Sister Ethelia – Goblin sage of Hune seeking puzzle cube.
Katel of Mot – Chained devil bound by the puzzle cube.
Vyncent Blackspell – dwarven cult fanatic of the Sanguine Path.

Monsters LEB 4

Chain devil (pg 97)
Bearded devils of Mot – Heralds of Katel (95)

Skeletal guardians of the temple
Gray thirsters
Leimure converts of former culists
Gray oozes forming from liquified remains
Specters of former priests of Vardesain
Wounded explorers of Black Venom
Guardian animated armors with bird heads
Blood shadows of the Sanguine Path

Treasure

145 CP, 132 SP, 250 GP
6 × 10 GP emerald gemstones
50 GP divine bronze torque
Abyssal ring that casts Imprisonment once
Potion of Giant Strength (Hill)
Stone of Good Luck (Luckstone)
Necromatic books: life drain (pg MWB 457), Living Shadows (Wizard version of spirit guardians),

Notes

Who was the noble dragon of Ibbilan who took the vineyard of Kals?
Oravos Wolfglove – Timarli Seeker of Ibbilan
19 on the piton
Six leimures attacking the characters who were attacking Sister Ethelia
A mummy reaches up and attacks Tolstoy who has one half of hte puzzle box
Six skeletons have not yet arisen from the sarcophagi