Make the Inner Guardian's room an exploration room. If you die there your equipment, if not looted, will return directly to you. Even if there is someone to loot if they prefer to leave most of your items then you will get them back without having to enter the cabal. This also makes it a bit easier for the defenders as they do not have to suffer the risks of giving your things back when someone less scrupulous might use the opportunity to kill them.

Could also make it so that ghosts not of that cabal cannot enter much like newbies cannot enter cabals.