Garm uses another thunderwave to knock another trapdoor off his cell and has a weird shadowy spear thrown down at him in response.
Hallie and Zumwarin spend lots of time deliberating about the best option to infiltrate an encampment and come to the conclusion that fighting is the best solution, after lighting the palisade on fire to gauge the number of people inside the cliff.
After taking down a wood elf, they retreat into the forest but realise they are being chased by a more unusual elf.
They turn and kill the elf, which proceeds to diffuse into the air in the form of the weird darkness stuff.
After killing her, Zumwarin and Hallie return and begin to successfully clear out the encampment thanks to a silence spell from Hallie blocking the entrance to the section within the cliff.