We journeyed into the desert, based on the story from a passing airship. Our griffin steeds served us well, and we arrived at the site speedily, though not without incident.
Undead things attacked our camp, and we also fought some strange desert beasts, but we dispatched them without lasting harm.
We arrived at a large doorway set into a hillside! This must be the place spoken of. Having gained the friendship of the hippogriff guarding the anteroom, we proceeded inside.
Huge statues opened up and strange constructs attacked us -- helmed horrors! A hard-fought battle, but we were victorious.
We found a secret door and managed to get through it. A strange hallway blew a damaging gust of wind at some of us. I thought that was a bit rude. We found a couple pits descending into inpenetrable darkness and decided to explore the northerly one.