Mulmar and the Temple had fallen out recently and the feud had driven the town behind their shutters. Nothing had been heard from them for a couple of days, so the trio decided to investigate. They first broke into the house adjacent to the tower and after exploring, found in the basement a strange summoning circle, with a set of robes lying beside it. There were three cages along one wall, one containing a giant ape, one a lizard man and one a poor bedraggled goblin. They killed the ape and lizard man, but left the goblin alone.
On further exploration, they were ambushed by two shadows in the stair well of the tower. These they eventually destroyed and completed the exploration of the tower. They found the mage's laboratory, but all that remained of his spell books were a charred mess of ashes. They did, however, find a Wand of Enemy Detection.
Their next task was to explore the temple. Getting in was no problem, but the only signs of life they could find were about a dozen desiccated husks scattered about the building. Only upon use of the wand were they to begin to track the creature responsible. Eventually they tracked it to the stairs where they came upon an almost invisible amoeba like creature which they later identified as a Slithering Tracker. They destroyed it by a concerted volley of magic missiles from Corrie and Jason.
The people of the village were understandingly grateful and granted the lease of the Tower to the three, who moved in and began to clear out the belongings of the dead mage. While they were doing this, they pieced together what had happened. The priests of the Temple of Loviatar had summoned two shadows and set them on Mulmar. As his dying act, Mulmar had summoned the slithering tracker and ordered it to attack the temple, before he and his apprentice were turned into shadows themselves. These were the shadows encountered on the stairs in the tower.