Victors!

We went back through the portal. Our folks that could speak Aklo were able to tell us that the runes on our heads, that had read "Challenger" before, now read "Victor"! Griska and Graklak thought this meant the others should all be honorary Orcs, quickly adopting them. After taking a bit of time to heal up we headed back to Otari to rest til the next day. The next morning, we spent some time selling our loot and arranging to have some magic brought in from Absalom. Griska spoke with Rin, to catch her up on what we had been encountering below the Gauntlight. She was happy to be filled in on the details. At the end of visit, an aide from the mayor visited to get a healing draught for the Mayor's daughter. Apparently, they were not even gone a day before they returned. Rin did not know why. She heard they had sent for help to Absalom. Griska told everyone else about this once they were together again.
The next morning we returned to the Poltergeist room and took the debris cluttered stairs down. We were somewhat surprised to find they led to a tavern at the bottom with all sorts of exotic creatures and Undead. Luckily, several of the group could speak Undercommon & so could understand most of what was being said. We entered the tavern & did our best to blend in... Graklak bought a round of drinks for the group. Soon a band of 4 creatures came out & began to perform. We sat and enjoyed the music, some as best we could without knowing the language. After the performance, the band called out to our group to see if we wanted to challenge them. Only Sprite was willing to participate, but did so with aplomb, causing everyone to rise to their feet and dance to his song! The band was impressed, even offering him a place in their band. He declined & made his way back to the group. About this time, Graklak tried to find out how long the group of Morlocks had been here. He managed to completely piss them off in record time! Soon, the Morlocks were telling Graklak that he should leave, in very strong language. He managed to convince them to let him finish his drink before leaving. Zebott then went over to the bartender to see what he could learn. He learned that the patrons here had come seeking to be fleshwarped. He also learned that the the patrons all come and go through the set of double doors in the western wall. We chose to leave through those doors to continue exploring. We found a room with a grate that had fallen from above. We recognized the grate as the one that had almost taken Zebott with it from above some time ago. Leaving that room for later we turned back to see what was behind the doors we left behind. Opening another set of double doors we found a large monstrosity inside that immediately moved to attack, lashing at us with long meaty tentacles! When we closed with it, it then started biting as well as flailing it's tentacles around. It was very tough. We eventually managed to defeat it though. After the fight we took some time to heal up. Mel recognized this creature as an Irnakurse.
We continued through the room into another corridor. We soon found a set of double doors to the east. Opening them we saw we were now at the floor level of the arena where we had seen the Shanrigol Behemoth. It did not react to us, so we quietly closed the doors to leave this creature for another time... Continuing down the hall we found another set of double doors. Opening these we found a torture chamber. There were also 2 demonic looking creatures with goat legs in the room who were only too happy to attack! They called out to each other in Infernal about how quickly we would fall to their blades! Sprite recognized these as Barbazu. As we fought them, 2 very odd looking fly aberrations attacked the party from behind. We made quick work of most of them, though one of the Fly creatures did cast Dimension Door to get away.