Enacting the surprise guns-blazing fight with the aarakocra in the chandelier room, the fight dragged out, the party had to expend a lot of resources and left the fight quite wounded. With Arepo nowhere to be found, the party ventured on and found a trio of robed mages out on the stone platform enacting some form of ritual, though they were quickly dispatched, and what ever they were enacting was interrupted.
No captured aarakocra seemed in any way inclined to help or relinquish information, though the party did learn that Morgan and Gondrick were the "new management" of the bandits and could be found way up top on the 5th floor of the summoned mansion.
The party is now heading to investigate an entrance on the 3rd floor that reeks of moisture.