25: The Iron Tooth Tribe and unquiet dead

The Bugbear leader dripped blood down the length of the hallway and despite a grevious axe wound and several arrows pushed open a door, more bugbears lay behind.
Morgrim rushed into the mass and was quickly surrounded by the goblinoids. They hacked at his mercilessly. Faint sounds of spell casting from a bugbear in the back of the room were drown out by the screams and shouts.
As Bornir rushed after his buddy, Lath and Felnar brought light up the hallway for the humans and elves. Shaft started firing, and soon several bugbears hit the dungeon floor.
The Bugbear wizard cast a web spell on the hallway and Lath excaped the entangling strands and dispelled it immediately. The rest of the bugbears were quickly killed.
A search of the bugbears found a multi-color zig-zag wand in the belt of the spell casting bugbear, the rest only had weapons and armor.

Felnar and Azrael went back and told the halfling bard Edgrin and the two children to remain hiding. The trio told Felnar and Azrael their story. Edgrin and his friend Tiran Moonwalker, an elf wizard are the only survivors of a group of adventurers calling themselves 'the Grey Eagles'. They group came in search of the missing children from Ery's Crossing. Their group had explored and eventually been captured/killed by the Iron Tooth bugbear tribe. Kimi, the protective teenage girl, and Mika, wounded teenage boy, were two of five kids from Ery's Crossing who had spent the night in a burned down old building outside of town. They were discovered and captured by a band of bugbears out hunting.
The five kids and two adventurers were in the same cell down below, and they made a daring escape. One of the kids and Tiran were captured almost immediately. Two of the other children were lost as they rushed through the dungeon, one was grabbed by a horrible monster made of smoke and chains. When asked about a group of dwarves they made no mention of the Coalbrow Dwarves or their patron Ullsa Ironmettle.
Edgrin, Kimi and Mika hid in the abandoned galley while the heroes went in search of the missing children and a way downstairs.
The first door search was an abbatoir for the dead monks. Faint whimpering could be heard deeper in the room over the dripping of water. The heroes entered and were attacked by concealed figures who hurled other skulls at them. The figures were cowled skeletons with glowing blue skulls, who burst from stone doors to attack. They were short in stature, dwarf skeletons and attacked with their skeletal fists and feet in a manner like a monk. They proved much tougher than average skeletons, but Lath was still able to turn many of them and they were eventually destroyed. Aardgal even grappled with one while Felnar grapped the child in a far corner of the room and took him to safety.
The child was given to Edgrin and Kimi's care and the heroes healed up and continued exploring.

24: To Droskar's Crag

*The dwarves who took the stones of Ogremoch came through Eiren's Falls, presumably headed for the Great Burrows - a goblin infested series of hills.
*In Eiren's Falls you heard from the Owner of the local tavern of two facts: 1) The Great Burrows has a dwarven ruin at it's southern edge called Droskar's Crag. 2) Five children from the town are missing, having spent the night outdoors. The folk of Eiren's Falls are worried due to a large pack of wolves which have been savaging animals in the region.
*Travelling to the Droskar's Crag you were attacked at night by a large pack of wolves, led by a girl who tried to trick you and then changed into a were wolf. Several wolves were killed, and they drove off most of your horses. Yum.
*Upon reaching the dwarven monastery, a stone structure which is crumbling. It was empty save for signs of being a wolf den recently. In the ruins you find stairs going into the crag.
*At the bottom of the stairs was a room, 4 bugbears and two goblin slaves. One goblin fled, the rest died. You heard the fleeing goblin scream out in pain and fear then go silent. You followed it.
*The group encountered a floating suit of armor and a wicked axe. It stopped incoming missile fire, and produced a hissing along the walls and floors nearby as it floated towards you. It was in fact a tough Gelatinous Cube, which engulf several people before it was destroyed.
*Searching further you came to a room with a fight. 7 bugbears were taunting and threatening a slim girl with a club, and a halfling with a broken lute wielded like a club. The halfling and girl were rescued and the bugbears killed, except for the leader who fled a barely managed to reach a door far down a hall.