Session II- Manshoon Two Electric Shoogaloo

Malya, Ozil, Tiernan, Horatio and Sidus (Otherwise known as the M.O.T.H.S) decided they wanted to further explore the Manshoon Cave that Chad and Co. had previously journeyed into and out of.
Tiernan managed to get a hold of Joseph Christ’s (RIP) flock of 6 sheep. From the outpost village, we journeyed north and then north-west, before reaching their destination.
On the way, we encountered a number of Rust Monsters who were distracted by Sidus throwing his scimitar and Malya and Ozil creating an illusion of clanging noises a distance away.
We pass through the Forest Of Christ, which lacks any animals and seems very eerie, worth investigating further for sure.
The party reached Manshoon’s cave as described by the previous adventurers and got ready to go in.
Horatio was sent up to the top of the well that led into the cave, he looked down and saw Bront, a Cyclops with a broken leg who seemed friendly all the same. Horatio spoke Giant and conversed with him, brokering a deal to help him out and let us explore the cave. We gave him one of the sheep and promised more, we tied some ropes and went down the well, into the dungeon.
Inside the hexagonal chamber were 5 doors. The 2 northern doors had been explored by the previous party, where one of them had died, so we decided to tread new ground. Malya cast Detect Magic to tell whether the Iron Golem’s guarding each door were a threat. One most certainly was, of the other two, one was dead. Malya detects an illusion behind the door of the dead golem (South Door). Malya sends her rats down the stairs to find that the stairs are an illusion and it’s a 45 degree slope down. She sees through her rat’s eyes and remarks that its safe.
We use the last of our rope and make our way down. At the bottom is a decently sized room with a large pool opposite the slide down. A door is at each of the other walls. Malya notices that the pool is gleaming with Conjuration magic and stops Ozil from touching it. Crisis averted, the group goes on their way. Just kidding, Sidus throws a stone at the water, naturally. The pool effectively gets up and turns out to be a water elemental. Malya debuffs the elemental and sends all sorts of spells it’s way. Tiernan and Horatio get up close and personal, they both get huge chunks of damage thrown their way, but Horatio hacks at the water and Tiernan gets a massive Inflict Wounds in on the mass. Ozil hurls insults that really make the water salty, stopping them a couple times from killing party members. Horatio almost gets trapdoored to a punji pit but avoids it. Tiernan gets knocked out but then Sidus makes up for his mistake by being an insane healer and bringing everyone back from the brink. Malya ultimately gets the final blow, bringing the elemental down.
Following this encounter, the party sift through the bottom of the pool (full of copper pieces), Ozil finds a cool sword with an eye on the pommel, Tiernan finds a ruby worth 50gp and the rest is copper. Sidus floats down to the bottom of the trapdoor pit and finds a dead Manshoon, he takes a wand off his side as well as the mask he is wearing, as well as more copper on the floor. Tiernan uses his Goggles of Object Reading to identify the wand as a busted Wand Of Wonders, it only has 2 charges left but could be fixed to replenish its charges each dawn if the artificers in town help out.
From here, the group takes the West Door. The East door side is unexplored. We come to a large, pillared room with a living Bigsby’s Hand that seems pretty chill, but we all take it very carefully to not alarm it. Behind a statue of Manshoon at the end of the hall is a pit of copper pieces, certainly worth a lot but would be exceptionally hard to do anything with.
Both the exit to the large room and room behind the statue lead to another room, but the corridor from the room behind the statue leads to a small room with a cloning urn similar to the one that the previous party found. The urn is glowing but next to it are two kobolds using a golden thread around the urn to siphon it’s power and get high off it. Malya freaks them out and they run.
The party reaches a large library room with the corpses of 7 Manshoons littered about. It looks like another manshoon was dissecting them. On one side of the room is an entrance to a cavern and on the other side is another door. Opposite the entrance to the room is a cauldron full of poison, which Sidus takes a vial from. Malya finds a black leather bound book emanating evil vibes on one of the bookshelves. Everyone picks up a few more Manshoon Masks. A ghost Manshoon comes out of the walls and gives out to us, about how he was fighting a Manshoon 30 miles away, worth investigating. He also mentions one of the bodies is a 'trick body'.
Suddenly, many, many kobolds swarm us and we run back the way we came. Bront and his dire wolves help kill the kobolds as we escape, shouting “Those are my friends!”. We drop the remaining 5 sheep down to him as we leave and rest. Over the following days Tiernan identifies the items for the party, and Ozil and Sidus before we leave use a magic item to reveal the surrounding areas.