The first thing we should do is kill all the bards

With the help of the gallons of healing potions donated by the monks of Pelor and purchased from your prosperous merchant benefactor the bugbear gang leader Relgore and the bandits of the upper level caves have been slain and stripped of their precious belongings.

The party has recovered 3 keys which apparently grant access to the bandit treasure trove, which still has not been located. Hadron's missing signet ring has not yet been found. Few clues as to what awaits the party in the lower levels of the caves have been uncovered, other than a brief glimpse of an ogre clearing away the corpses from the night before. What could be down there? Why have these bandits taken an interest in the missing prince? Where did the bandits come from? What the heck is the deal with that magical sponge? Too bad the kobold bard, a wealth of information, was killed before he could be questioned.