Session 31

The Groaning City

PCs (lvl 10): Haku, Gardain, Terric, Tak

The PCs travel through the dark tunnels below Giustenal, eventually arriving to one more colossal cave. 

The cave contains several buildings, some made of bricks and mortar, but others shaped from the living earth to form curved angles, as if they where "grown" from the very ground.

A groaning sound can be heard echoing through the compound. Too soon the PCs learn the source of the moan. Cursed dwarven dead hang by trees on the main road, and as the PCs walk that road, the dead animate and try to kill them. The PCs destroy a few of the undead, and then they take refuge away from that path.

While exploring the city they must face more undead horrors, when finally they meet living creatures: malformed dray, lizard-like creatures similar to those they met in the ruins of Giustenal. They wear rags, and look much less civilized. With a cunning use of their psionic abilities, the PCs convince the dray that they are allies. These dray are apparently both in awe and terrified by the Ravager, whom the call Dregoth.

After some negotiation, the PCs persuade the dray to bring them to their home, the city of Kragmorta, to speak with their leader.