The female at the stalagmite is quite dead, probably as long as the other former members of Talice's group. She looks somewhat like the human in that kitchen room, wearing rather light clothes for someone delving into ancient dungeons. A wand-like item right beneath her ´will tell you why she did not wear more armor. Her vest and robe are useless since they sport a more than fist-sized hole, if the dead is removed from the stone pillar. This could proof to be difficult, as the body is suspended on the stalagmite some 6 feet above ground, the bloody tip of the stone standing at about 8 feet. All her clothes look in decent condition and Nata'al signals that the boots, her bracers, that wand and something at her belt appear to be magical. That something will reveal itself as magical scrolls.
To the west the drow have to circle around some massive stone pillars and stalagmites. Almost at the far end of that chasm you are confronted by the hulk of a giant scorpion, looming over another skeleton. The latter is clad in studded leather armor and an iron helmed. A shattered wooden pendant - apparently some holy symbol - hangs from its neck, while a smashed lantern lies near its left hand. Its backpack contains some rotten food and a number of smashed glass flasks, a warhammer lies some feet off the skeleton's right hand. Almost buried by the bones and the red robe beneath it you spot a mace's haft, the weapon covered in a wrapped sheath. Just around the next stalagmite you discover another dead human, who is again about two months past his last breath. This one wears plate mail, a shield, and a broadsword. It is not apparent what killed this poor soul though.
