Season 2 Episode 2 -- my enemies' enemy... after killing more Black Poodle Dogs in the magic shop where the team found Poodle's coffin, team heads to Burning Keep to get some answers about what's going on in the area. <tangent> david lends his mind bending skills to Havoc to track down servants of Poodle.. havoc's investigation indicates she's infiltrating the tow n with thralls. 1st target is the temple of the keeper... with some scooby doo snooping about they find a hidden Dark Altar under the temple of the keeper where the head priest admits he's serving Poodle along with an administrator at the mayor's estate and a bureaucrat at the ag combine. the temple of the keeper in blood crescent is also controlled by poodle as well as soe of th Droaam military. at the ag combine david and havoc track down the bureaucrat that's been aiding poodle.. the ag is funding dog breeding of the Black Poodles to distribute off islan d to the rest of the animal-enthusiasts of khorvaire. last stop at the maoyr's office.. the admin gal is out of office skick for the day... tracking her back home to the nicer part of town her home is an old mansio carved into the blae... with no access to exter nal light past the front gate, it's a good undead lair.. aftter catching the place on fire and luring the al out to face the two of them, its apparent she's become vampire spawn and knows the big plot.. poodle is going to run for mayor. She honestly may be better than the current mayor, so they're letting it play out, but keeping tabs on the thralls she's creating. last thread havoc has to clear up is the thralls in blood cresent-- dropping david off with the rest of the team, he gives everyone a leg up to the Burining Keep before heading southward to further investigate. </tengent> sulphurous swamps surround the burning keep where varias is missing. left in charge is her coven of daughters, Agnes, Morgan, Helga at the top of the strucure is Varias' palace where the sisters enlist the team to investigate friendfell as a "neutral" party and report back... using vast quatntities of tea, the team dives through a hole between worlds, in the coven's cauldron. in the spirit world, team checks out the kashakant structure where amusement rides are being built. In the spirit world the team can see a titan lies buried beneath the sword .. the moss is being extracted and moved to the burning keep for processing into large cauldrons of tea where the elf tribe has been commissinoed to travel fending off the region from growing demon interests. sensing big trouble, the team heads on to Friedn Fell to compare the sites. One thing forgotten to be mentioned.. there's a tunnel in the Dark Altar beneath temple of the keeper that leads ... east. but hasn't been investigated.