The hunt for Kraw continues

The Tiger turned out to be an Undead Juvenile Sabretooth! It quickly bit Gabriel, using him as a chew toy. It then tried to flee with him in it's maw! We managed to catch it and get the bad kitty to drop him before it got away, but it was a near thing! We moved away from the fight area. As we did so, Tetsu noticed a larger Sabretooth in the distance. We moved further away, seeing it go sniff at the one we had just defeated, then move off towards the mountains. We continued traveling for the rest of the day without event. The following 2 days passed without event as well. The following day we came to the outskirts of Drevja. The outskirts, while seemingly empty, were intact. However, the center of town seemed to simply be a huge hole in the ground. We could hear some sort of constant tinkling sound coming from all around. We approached the hole to peer down into it. Below, we saw about 100 Zombie type humanoids methodically swinging picks at the walls some 20 feet or so down. They seemed to be digging generally NE towards the ocean. There was a cart in the center that they would occasionally put things into. The cart was on a path that led into a cave in the side of the pit. All told, the pit was the very large (several football fields in size). We backed off to talk about it, finally deciding to look around for an alternate entrance into the cave system. We spent 2 days searching, but did not find anything that might lead into the cave system.
The next morning we spent about an hour searching the remaining buildings, again finding nothing more of interest. Zarzuketgalom decided to shoot a crossbow bolt down near a small group of Zombies to see how they reacted. Only one took any notice of the bolt, picking it up to look at it, before dropping it and turning back to it's mining work. With this in mind he and Tetsu tied off some ropes and began climbing down from above the hole. The rest of the group followed. We had barely entered the cave before being attacked by 4 Zombie Bugbears. We finished the fight quickly, just in time to see a large bull headed humanoid rushing toward us! Devon recognized this as a Vampire Minotaur. It quickly had the front row back on their heels, but the group managed to take it out. We moved in to where the Minotaur had come from, finding nothing but the creatures coffin there. We rested, then destroyed the coffin before moving on. Exploring several passages we found most led to cave-ins or looped back on themselves. Only one passage led to a well appointed room. Here there was a bed, a desk with papers & a chest. Alyva found a journal written in Necril. We collected it to take back to Nyksund for translation. Vinia attempted to open the locked chest. She set off a cold trap that blasted everyone in the room. The rest of the group faded back while she again attempted to open it, assuming the trap was now expended. However, she again set off the trap. We took some time to heal everyone up, then talked about the best way to handle this. We decided it would be best to haul the chest out of here and work at disabling it elsewhere. Tetsu and Devon started to lift it, when Tetsu noticed a clicking noise from underneath. He called out to stop & they quickly set it back down. Now Vinia decided to try disabling the trap in place. This time, she was successful, disabling the cold trap and unlocking it. Inside the chest we found some fancy clothes, a sack of coins and a small box of gemstones.
We gathered the items and headed out of the cave, as there did not appear to be any other ways to go inside. We discussed our options, going back to Nyksund or continuing on to Bodo. We decided to continue on to look for Kraw or any clues as to their whereabouts. Once we rested a bit Gabriel realized he actually could understand Necril! He told us the book was written by Kraw. He mostly complained about the population not being converted fast enough in Nordarno. He spoke about looking for something he referred to as an "anchor". He stated he had to go to Bodo to report to his superior.