And now it's guarded by two unconscious goblins!

And now he's in the main part of the temple! It's a bit of a maze. 

Nearby, there is a priestess praying. Further in the distance, there's the sound of chanting and screaming. 

A scrying eye floats past on patrol.

...he heads towards the screaming!

In a set of side rooms, there is a naked man on a rack and a goblin turning a crank.

Now there's a dead goblin and a man being helped off the rack.

Cayden has been getting some of his groove back!

"Thank you so much."

Niiiiiice. 

"Can you handle yourself in a fight? There are more people we need to rescue."

He looks unsteady as hell on his feet. "I can run."

In the background, Shadowheart is holding her hand and trying so hard not to make a noise. 

"...try to keep up and be in the center of the group."

"Shadowheart, what's wrong?"

"It's fine. Just a test."

Her goddess gave her a wound as a reminder of her faith. It had been aching something awful as long as Gale had the artifact-- as if Shar thought she needed to be reminded that she should not have done that-- and now. 

Well. It's not a surprise her Lady disapproves of removing people from racks. But it's very... strategically inconvenient.

He says to the man, "we're looking for a human druid named Master Halsin, do you have any idea where he might be?"

"Halsin? We got separated, but I think they took him deeper into the dungeons than they put me."

Into the dungeons! Cayden subtly arranges the party into a less optimal formation that means that the rescuee is nowhere near Shadowheart, Astarion, or Lae'zel. 

He loves being a buffer reasonableness.

In the dungeons:

- so many spiders. So, so many spiders of every size and shape

- a shirtless man with some frankly impressive whip scarring going on an animated rant to himself about the goblins' lack finesse.

- a caged bear that some goblin children are throwing stones at. 

Is anyone going to bother them or can they move through this dungeon unmolested?

The fact that they are 'True Souls' 'escorting' a 'prisoner' gives them a surprisingly wide latitude.

Thanks, he hates it. 

Okay, anything here that looks like a cell, anyone screaming...?

No screaming at the moment. Most of the cells are empty, except two. One contains a pair of giant spiders, the other contains the bear.

...

He approaches a goblin child. "I'm doing a prisoner transfer. Is that bear a prisoner or trapped for recreational purposes?" 

Uhhhh this is above their non existant pay grade. "There's a difference?" One of them asks.

"It's a prisoner, silly! ...I think."

The bear is Watching Them So Hard. 

If that's an actual bear he's going to feel like such an idiot. 

...are spiders sentient here? Can druids turn into spiders? Should he also be rescuing the spiders? He attempts to ask this of Gale and Wyll via significant facial expression.