Shattered Star - Beyond the Doomsday Door - Will isn't grateful about death

Note: being in a rock band has it's advantages. I recorded the episode and summarised it at my leisure. Hence, these will be more coherent and consistent from now on.

Our heroes were just inside of Windsong Abbey planning what to do next. They heard the sound of giant boots stomping around outside and cries of an intruder alert being shouted. Will realised they were coming towards them. They braced themselves for the onslaught.

"HEY! YOU COME OUT SO WE CAN SMASH YOU!" yelled one of the hill giants.
Wil retorted, "Come in so we can smash you!"

The giants and ettins, however, did not fall for the ruse. The party heard sounds of piping followed by arguments.

Morrigan activated her Shard's major image power to attempt to lure them in, but failed. As a result, the party finally realised they needed to step out and face TWO HILL GIANTS!

Morrigan led off with Dominate on one of the hill giants and ordered him to attack the other.  Jazeem immediately jumped into combat with the other. Suddenly, the door behind them exploded open and they were attacked by 2 ettins.

Jazeem, Will, and the dominated hill giant carved a swath of destruction.

Suddenly, Jazeem fell over laughing hysterically. Will quickly realised that hideous laughter had been cast to subdue Jazeem. Morrigan cast See Invisibility and observed a redcap had joined. However, upon realising it was seen, it fled.

Shortly into the battle, a multi-tentacled being appeared and cast acid fog. Morrigan managed to dispel the fog after a couple of attempted dispels.

Tryptic managed to keep Jazeem in combat with his healing ability.

Will and Akeela used scent to give chase. While Jazeem, Morrigan, and Tryptic Mirror dealt with the giants and ettins, Will and Akeela followed the trail and ran into a large pack of redcaps who gleefully killed Will. When the three remaining adventurers arrived, they vengefully killed the vile fae.

As they decided what to do next, Morrigan hears a voice in her mind, "I assume you are the ones that caused all of the commotion last night, may I assume you intend no harm to Windsong Abby?"

Morrigan responded that this was true. The voice invited them to the lighthouse and told her to bring Wil's body. They were greeted by a cleric of Olladra who introduced himself as Casamir Azmeren. Realising his name is familiar, Jazeem realised that he was related to Koriah Azmeren. Casamir confirms he is her father.

Casamir revealed the following information...

About a century ago, there was a full compliment of clerics here. Ardathanatus was a cleric of  the Keeper and asserted he was not necessarily evil. However, something happened to him and he murdered one of the other clerics and left the Abbey. A few weeks ago, he returned with giants, redcaps, skulks, and other horrible beings. He killed all of the other clerics either in the Abbey or the "chambers below". They attempted to fight back, but Ardathanatus' forces were too strong. Casamir took refuge in the lighthouse and cast a sending spell to his daughter asking for help. However, she was overwhelmed when she arrived. Casamir explains that Koriah had been turned to stone by one of Ardathanatus' 'generals'.

Finally, Ardathanatus' forces took the Koriah statue to the cliffside tower and then into the chambers below. Casamir confirmed that Ardathanatus was carrying something that looked like the shard but didn't know if that was indeed what he had.

Interesting things happened to Will in the afterlife before Casamir raises him. (I think Will made a mockery of the experience, personally).

Casamir further explained that below the Abbey is "The Doomsday Door". Before the Abbey was built, this was a temple to the Cults of Dragon's Below. In particular, it was for a lord named Yamasoth. Casamar thinks that Ardathanatus wants to open the door and free Yamasoth and that he'd kidnapped the Masked Abbess - the cleric in charge of the Abbey as she had the key.

The party vowed to help.

Before they decided to rest, Morrigan ordered the dominated hill giant to go home.