Mausoleum – door is locked from the inside. We manage to open the door by smearing the door with sap from vines growing around. Inside is a tall dais with a corpse-like figure on top, and a crown or jewel in its head. Straff steps on the dais, and 6 zombies animate. Tholir charges to attack and is struck with fear by the foul odor of their rot. Ral comes in and uses some clerical craftiness to smite 4 of the zombies. Straff notices that the jewel is actually a dagger buried to the hilt in the corpse on the dais. In spite of his fear Tholir manages to land a witch bolt on another zombie. Ral attacks another one. The attack lands but disturbs the mold, and now Straff and Ral are frightened. Finally the 2nd to last is destroyed, but one remains and refuses to die. Eventually Straff shakes off the fear, casually disengages with the undying zombie and snatches the magical dagger. After multiple witch bolts, the last zombie gets cooked from the inside.

Straff finds a small chest underneath the throne. Inside is a spell scroll of Bestow Curse, and religious ornaments made of gold, silver and platinum worth around 500 GP. We take a long rest and resume our journey.

We arrive at the site of the temple in the hills and find the door collapsed, and 2 ogres standing guard on top of the hill. Ral goes up and tries to talk with them. They are guarding the entrance for a boss. Straff uses power of suggestion to get one of the ogres to walk off. We fight the second and kill him. Turns out he was carrying a blue parasol.

We lower ourselves into the entry room. The walls are carved with pictures typical of a death cult to Kelmvor. We find a kitchen and several corridors. Off the kitchen we find a door with a skull glyph on it. In that room (though another entrance) we eventually find a guy named Stantor and rescue him. He tells us there are at least 3-4 ogres plus their boss. We take him toward the entrance. Stantor tells us he was kidnapped from Oakhurst, a town to the northeast.