Atticus, Ozric and Ozric’s brother Quintus descend into the 2nd level of Zeleska’s hypogeum.

• The group returns to the gladiatorial pit to check an area they didn’t search.
• Quintus descends down the ramp to find the clay golem standing there. It comes for him.
• Quintus quickly grabs the rope and climbs as the draug warriors pull him back up.
• The golem comes up the ramp and sees the party. It begins attempting to climb and dig itself up out of the pit. The party sees that it will eventually be successful and run to the guard shack area near the grand stair.
• Passing through the secret door into the main hallway they inspect the grand stair. The bodies of the hyena headed humanoids are gone. There are bloody drag marks going down the grand stair to the next level.
• The party cautiously proceeds down the stair. As they go down the stair the smell of rotting corpses assaults their noses.
• They come into a good sized room. The stair proceeds downward. The room has a few dozen corpses having rotted for a week. They also see the remains of the animated suits of of armor that fall into piles of rust when destroyed.
• There are three passages off of the room. They check one to the left and find there is a door. It has no handle and appears to be barricaded on the other side. The diggers come up with tools to break it down.

• As the diggers start to pry at the door, a dogman enters the room from the main passage. It moves very quietly and stays to the edge of the light. Quintus can only see the barest silhouette of the creature. Quintus calls out to it. It turns, snarling and runs at the warrior. The dogman’s eyes are white without a pupil, he moves in a stooped fashion. His muzzle is covered in dried blood and gore. He is undead.
• Quintus fights the undead dogman and the rest of the party joins in. Soon though more undead dogmen come forward. The party drive them back into the hall.
• The monsters seem to be held at bay by a trinket Atticus is carrying. Their poor friend the deceased wizard Akiro had found it in the Red Keep. He was crushed by a collapsed ceiling in the mounds several months ago. His memory lives on.
• The party are able to keep the undead back and pick them off with their bows. Soon, undead start coming from other passages and finally a small group has maneuvered around behind them.

• Ozric has cast invisibility on himself to remain hidden. This new set of undead dogmen start chasing the diggers who retreat. Ozric gets the attention of a few of the draug warriors who come to save the diggers.
• A melee battle between the dogmen undead and the draug mercenaries covering the party’s rear gets underway. Atticus, Quintus, and Faceripper (the largest of the draug warriors) continue to pick off the other undead until a more powerful one shows up and seems to be able to pass through Atticus’ circle of protection.
• Atticus calls to his god to turn the remaining undead in the group he is fighting and succeeds. Meanwhile, the fight in the main hall is not going well. Two of the draug warriors have been paralyzed and Ozric is out of spells. He has to resort to using his dagger.
• Quintus, and Faceripper join the melee and help to win the fight. Quintus is paralyzed as well. The diggers only ran as far as they had to in order to avoid the fight.
• The diggers, Sam, Atticus and Faceripper had to take turns watching for monsters and helping to get their fallen party members up the stairs. It was a tedious task. They got everyone back to the hidden guard room until the paralyses wore off.
• The party was exhausted and Ozric was out of spells. It was time to head back to camp.
• They quietly snuck through the ruins, avoiding further encounters, and arrived at camp.
• The hunters hadn’t had much luck for a few days but there was still a week of food and water left.
• The party spent several days recovering from their toil and started to consider their next move into the hypogeum.