The adventure

Very soon they found themselves under attack from 3 Rapax bowmen, who were accompanied by patrol 'men'. The patrols had a spell-book with them, and yet another magic shield, which the friends looted. They wandered along, guided by the lava flows, to a roughly-hewn tunnel, where they were ambushed by 6 fire ants, which dropped from a crack in the ceiling. They were no match for the friends, and one ran away, having to be hunted down. The tunnel led to a twisting ramp up to another tunnel, the opening of which was carved into the shape of a gaping, toothed mouth. Salva's scanner warned them that there were quite a few Rapax beyond the entrance. They peered around the corner and were hit by the spells of four Rapax samurais. They also saw some veteran soldiers and some bowmen. They retreated back, standing just to the side of the entrance to avoid arrows and spells, and to recover. The soldiers closed on them, with Quentin rendering two foaming wrecks (temporarily) with a violent mental blow. The first wave of four died quickly, and the second wave, which accommodated the recovering soldiers, were more formidable, but Shu Ting killed two with her first blows, placing them carefully for instant kills. With the back broken of the charge, the other died, leaving a few advancing bowmen, whose unarmoured bodies were more like sword practice than a threat. Salva did have to use his healing stone again, and then they sent RFS to entice the samurai towards them. He died from their spells, but the samurai got the message that their companions hadn't done the job, and they attacked the friends. Quentin killed two with his paralysing mace, and restarted RFS while the others killed the last two samurai.
They looted what undamaged weapons and armour they could, and continued along the carpeted passage, which led to three prison cells, separated from the main cave by lava pits, the noise of which prevented any talking to the three Rapax individuals in the cells. A sequence of rope bridges led out of the prison, across the rift. They could see ahead on the bridges two female Rapax, dressed in robes and veils. These two initiates to some sort of religion died without a fight, merely demonstrating that they knew some sort of magic, but not getting the chance to complete it.
The rope bridges led to a long carpeted corridor. The first junction had short corridors in either direction leading to closed doors. They took a left, and leapt inside, Salva's scanner showing one body beyond.
The unfortunate initiate was chopped apart, and the friends had time to look around her chamber. There was a fine four-poster bed, drawers and some stone shelves. The drawers contained underwear for Rapax women in holy orders, which gave them more information about the religion than they could have gleaned from the appearance of the initiates.
"Shame about her." Quentin said, looking down at the mangled body, "I like a fit young woman in her underwear. It reminds me of Xena, warrior princess."
"Who was that?" asked Vi
"A character from a story." Margreet started to explain.
"She looked a lot like you." Quentin added.
The next chamber was similar, except that they had to kill 3 initiates. One of them was wearing a fine set of plate metal gauntlets, intricately decorated and enchanted. Karen took these Mantis gloves and swapped them for her plain steel gauntlets. They also found a large key on one of the stone shelves.
"Where are all the men?" asked Shu Ting
"As if you want to know about men." Karen slipped in her reply, laughing.
"Perhaps they're not allowed here." suggested Margreet
"They've probably better things to do than join religions." was Quentin's offering.
Shu Ting and Karen jostled each other.
The next room opened onto 3 priestesses, whose chamber also contained a wand called a flamequencher wand, and the final room some more soon to be corpses. Even Margreet got a kill by bashing one with her staff.
At the end of the corridor they found three levers, which they pulled. Back at the prison, the prisoners were free to leave, but were cowering in their cells still. They wouldn't talk, but mumbled fearfully of Al-Sedexus and El Dorado. They seemed quite mad.