Out of the land of the White Ghost
Having made peace with the White Ghost and her army of jungle animals, the rest of our passage through the jungle is relatively uneventful. We at last come out into the savannah, where we get to see even more lovely animals for Ailyll to turn into. Before long we encounter a pair of lionesses who lead us to meet the Sabu. Harald wins him over with a tribute of elephant tusks and he allows us safe passage through his domain. The Sabu beleives that we are seeking another human who has been taken captive by the rival cats opposing Snowflake(see JC and Harald, together again. From his description it seems as though the man may be Asian. We ignore this side-quest and continue towards the City of Silence with a cheetah guide lent to us by the Sabu. Upon leaving his kingdom, however, we are set upon by a rival Sabu, whom we narrowly defeat.
After a day or two the savannah turns to desert, and we thank our various gods that we have clerics who can cast Create Water and who are not susceptible to melting in the heat. Our Daku friends leave us with directions to the City of Silence and return to Axum. We travel onward, arriving at the edge of a giant cliff. Before we can look over it two Giant Dragonflies attack us, and prove quite tough. We finish them off and then look down into the City of Silence at last. It is large, and in poor repair. The streets are filled with rubble and Necrophidiuses, and the many buildings are home to a teeming population of Cynocephali. Mamoun heads down to scout, but is immediately paralyzed by a Necrophidius. The rest of us jump down to save him, protected by a Feather Fall spell. Luckily we cast it just before entering the enormus bubble of magical silence that covers the city. We save Mamoun, but are forced to flee soon after as Cynocephali begin launching a barrage of stones and stink fruit at us. We rest back on top of the cliffs.
After healing up some we try to go back and fight another Necrophidius as well as an undead that resembles it exactly. Once again those damn dog-heads swarm us soon after we down the snaky fellows, and we are forced to flee. We make a brief flyover to determine where the statue we have been sent to destroy is before returning to the saftey of the cliff tops.
