The ghost, the portal

Through some ingenious brainstorming, Beldor Dunklebock uses some of his druid spells on his cousin Gungorth Dunklebock to get him down the watery shaft safely. After about an hour of waiting, the water drains out of the shaft. The group then uses their climbing skills to scale down the pit to the bottom.<br>
When they arrive at the bottom they find piles and piles of bones. After searching around the group eventually climbs over the bones and finds 3 decaying bodies in the corner. They then are met face to face with a ghost. The battle rages for a few rounds, but then Brother Zariff uses speak with dead and they begin to parlay. The eventually find out that the ghost is one of the bodies they found. They hear the ghosts tale about how he was with his adventuring party when over a short period of time, the mage that traveled with them started finding different magical items that started to change him. This mage started drastically changing. After the last item he found he wasn't even human anymore, but that of some crazed giant. He slayed three of the adventurers and strong armed the rest of his group further into the dungeon in search of some orb. It turns out through multiple questioning with the ghost that the mage is in fact Mike griffons brother Ellious. Back from the dead somehow and badder than ever.<br>
Roscoe Underbumblebrew finds a chest with a helm inside which contains symbols of water on it. A helm of water breathing perhaps?

They leave this chamber after finding a portal. the portal leads to some demi plane where they find some more bodies, these much fresher. The portal to get ou of this next chamber proves to be quite costly. A pint of blood and a magical item must be sacrificed to get through. Roscoe Underbumblebrew decides to back track through the portal to see what happens. when he arrives back to the group he is a year older. The chamber beyond reveals a long hallway with large bloody footprints that are still wet.