"It'll just weigh me down."

He shrugs and sticks Barcus's pack in his pack. "You can probably find me if you change your mind."

"And if you find Wulbren Bongle, could you let him now Barcus is looking for him?"

"Will do."

He heads towards the temple. 

The temple is on the other side of a bridge. There's a path that goes straight through the guarded gates, and a path that seems to snake around to a cave that they might be able to use to sneak around the wall. 

He pauses and says to the group quietly, "what's our approach here?"

"We could just waltz in and announce we're true souls."

"Don't commit to any unnecessary frontal assaults."

"... we're going for democracy again?"

"Just wanted to see if anyone had any input. --Let's take the cave path."

The cave path has some traps, but Astarion is able to disarm those.

There's some goblins deep in conversation sitting around a table. 

If they can sneak past those goblins, and stay in the shadow of the wall, they should be able to get across to the abandoned temple.

The sound is muffled by distance and stone, but it sounds loud in there.

Cayden is very sneaky!

...but sneaking in a group is always difficult.

The goblins at the table don't spot them. (They seem to be talking about some place called Moonrise Towers.)

They get very close to the bridge separating the temple from the gate and wall, when Lae'zel is spotted. "Hey!"

Cayden spins around and prepares to knock the goblin out. 

Uhhh why are these True Souls attacking them? And sneaking into their base?

This calls for... non lethal takedowns?

This would be so much easier if he still knew fireball.

This would be so much easier if he still was the best in the world at nonlethal takedowns!

...He still wins the nonlethal-takedown-off though. It's just that some of these goblins might have lasting brain damage from being knocked out, and before Cayden had a tadpole That Did Not Happen.

Everyone else is kind of impressed, still!

"You know we'll just have to get past them again with a kidnapped druid? And that they'll be awake?"

"I am not a clever man. Let's go."

They go!

At the end of the bridge is... a party? There's carousing and drinking and feasting. Someone has set up a trough of wine. Several fires and have several spits of meat roasting on them. The foppish bard from the Grove is singing on a small stage and looking deeply uncomfortable. A baby owlbear cowers in the corner from the noise.

Good. The goblins are distracted, they can get in and get out and not kill anyone. 

He tries to figure out if there's someplace that is likely to hold a druid.

At the back of the hall, there's a set of double doors. This temple seems pretty big.

Sneak sneak sneak through the party to the double doors. Sorry, Astarion's fop future-boyfriend, maybe they'll be able to rescue you on the way out.

On the other side, there's a short corridor guarded by two bored goblins.