Against the cult: the Forest Ruin (1.5)

Albertus watches over the group while the others relax, eat, nap, and/or chat in the courtyard. Aanbo finishes his repast, much refreshed.

What will the party do now? The Dungeon Busters review some of what they've learned (feel free to add other points I've missed, or stress those that your PC feels are particularly important):
- Devek Yarl, a local boy, has been put into a magical coma after being injected with some kind of poison.
- the last place that Devek had been before falling into the coma was a ruined building in the forest. The party has been sent to see what useful information they can find about what's happened to Devek.
- the ruined building takes a day-and-a-half to reach from Hochoch, where Devek is being cared for by the temple priestess, Diana
- this ruined stone building is heavily overgrown with heavy foliage. It appears to have been a temple or residence dedicated to Pae by an ancient sect that was looking forward to "the New Morning." It is several centuries old.
- the building is without light and has many dangerous tricks and traps
- the statues on the veranda are surrounded by pressure plates that trigger scything blades the first time they are triggered. Once they are triggered, they do not reset.
- there is a trap on the side door that cannot be disarmed from the outside
- there was a trap on the front door, a piercing needle, but it was triggered some time in the past. There's the merest suggestion of something that was coating the needle. Aanbo has that needle.
- the entrance room has five exits: the front door, the side door, stairs up, a doorway with a carving of a phoenix encircled by a snake and sun, and a passage leading to a dining room laid out with a sumptuous, aromatic meal
- one of the inside traps, a falling chandelier, was covered with gold baubles that would be worth a fair amount of money. That chandelier lies at the bottom of a round pit covered by an illusory floor just inside the front entrance
- there were five devotees, apparently human, who were all murdered long, long ago. Each corpse wears a white robe stained with the blood from their slit necks and a medallion in the shape of a phoenix encircled by a snake and sun. But a beautiful golden light keeps appearing from somewhere on the third floor, beaming down through solid stone, and causes their eyes to glow like lanterns as it reanimates their dead bodies. All of those corpses are in the pit with the chandelier now.
- Joseph has one of the medallions; the rest are still on the corpses.
- The second floor mezzanine has four exits: the stairs back down to the entrance hall, the dormitory where four of the devotees were when the party arrived, a short hallway with five doors (one of which is open and from which a very regular, rhythmic scraping noise of leather on stone can be heard), and a stairway leading up (which seems to be stained with something dark).
- judging by the marks in the dust inside the building, Devek didn't make it inside.

So: what will the party do now?

It sounds like the consensus is that the group:
a) wants to go back in and explore,
b) wants to investigate quickly so the needle and any other useful evidence/information can be brought back to Diana in Hochoch,
and
c) wants to start their investigation upstairs, with the sound they were hearing.

If that's correct, answer two questions for me:
Q1: What's the marching order (most of the areas in the ruin, like the curved staircase and the upstairs hallway, have room for two PCs to walk side by side)?
Q2: With the short rest, both of the torches that you lit previously have burned down to ash. Who, if anyone, is providing light now?

As Kragga ties a torch to his new staff in the back of the group, Aanbo ignites another torch to light the way in the middle as the party lines up to re-enter this ruined building in the forest. Ogbar and Albertus lead the way, followed by Joseph and Aanbo, Xana and Theran, and Kragga. Once again the aroma of the meal in the dining room surrounds the party as they proceed through the front door, past the burned-out torch in the doorway, up the stairs to the right, onto the landing on the second floor mezzanine, and into the western passageway. They pass the first pair of doors - one to the north, one to the south, both closed - and proceed to the second pair of doors. The one to the north is closed, but the one to the south is open, and the scraping sound becomes clear: a rusted spear thrust out from the wall inside the room has skewered another one of these ancient priests right through the middle of its torso, raising it so it barely touches the ground. As it tries to walk, it makes a soft scraping noise with every other "step."

Looking closer, this moving corpse appears to have been female and is missing a sandal. Otherwise, it is very much the same as the others: glowing eyes, slit throat, white robes stained with blood so long ago that the blood has turned black. The animated corpse is suspended on the spear trap, and as it mechanically goes through the motions of walking into the room, the toe of the one foot that still has a sandal just barely brushes the stone with a slight scraping noise. It's tough to say how long it has been here, repeating the same motions over and over, but you figure it's been a long time, as there is no dust on its body or under its feet, but the dust in the room that is out of reach of the corpse is just as thick as it has been everywhere else.

The room beyond the pinned zombie is partially lit by the undead priest's glowing eyeballs, but mostly by Aanbo's torch: it is a small bedroom, with a bed, a desk, and two chairs. And the spear sticking out of a concealed hole in the wall. A thick layer of dust covers everything out of reach of the undying priest stuck on the spear.