Into the Depths of Gorachenya

Hesior informs us that we haven't been paying him for his services for this WHOLE TIME, which is insane because he's been traveling with us for MONTHS. Anyways, I buy Hesior a lantern for the journey into the caves below Terezkha, and sort out with Gash his explorer's pack. We make our way back to the slanted marketplace after realising just how badly we communicate about party finances. About 20 minutes later, the watch has burned podluzhniks, smoking up the caves in the process.
 
We make our way to the intersection between the natural ravine and the carved tunnels from earlier. We follow the carved path to where we heard the child and the ravine (to the left). We hit a natural area, take a right, and are at the chasm from before. Riven flies and ties the rope across, and the three of us make our way across the rope safely. I use the Gem of Maretha, which allows me to read the cursed item, with great difficulty, migraine and all (2 hours, -2 to intel checks). It states:
 
"Working with these have been a pain in the ass, I told them, I get every other child, they get every other child. I'm getting sick of this, they are eating more than half, - N"
 
There are two caves that diverge from this larger room, and Riven determines the claw marks from before go to the left. However, I'm dead-set that it's to the right, despite the pounding migraine. We make (I shuffle) down the left passage, going down further and further at an almost 45º angle, we have to take great care to avoid slipping and dying. Once we level out, we suspect that we must be deep below Gorachenya, up to a mile. We follow the magic trail from the wide cone area that the slope opened into, and given my condition Gash kindly offers to carry me on his back. Gash & I are able to figure out the fiendy magic. We go about 100ft, till there's a slope to the right and a sheer 50ft cliff to the left. The magic is clearly coming from the slope. After 500ft of continuing down, we hear a roar. I wince at the noise as it reverberates off the cavernous walls. Riven pinpoints the direction as having come from our right. Hesior sends an echo with Riven's cantrip for light on his sword down to the bottom of the cliff. We send the echo ahead as far as possible, finding clear clawmarks of a podluznik on the opposite end of the cavern (the left), and it's clear that is recent. It becomes clear that the fiendish magic and the podluznik path are in opposite directions. The three of us decide this while Hesior retreives his echo.
 
We head back down the slope, going for thousands of feet without running into anything of note. At some point, the fiendish magic almost pervades the very rock walls around us. Stones from a cave-in block our path forward, and once we scale it we can hear muted growls and rumbles similar to the roars of before. In a fit of panic, I launch a fireball, lighting up the cavern with many figures and setting a Podluznik on fire. One of the podluzniks has two pincers on it's carapace, setting it apart from the others, we shall call him Steve. After a great battle, where Hesior went down and Gash almost followed, my deadly poke kills the last, and to my amazement (and horror) the podluznik turns into a zombie under my command. So that's a thing that's possible.
 
Riven picks up the trail, and I pick up the magic, now following the same trail. After a little while, we get a sense that we're close to the lair. Not long after, we hear yelling in Abyssal, which thanks to the Maretha Light, I understand.
 
"I don't CARE that you've been hungry because you've been banished for several millenia, we a deal. Every other child, you get one I get one. I got you out on a favor, if you don't like, I can just as easily get you back. He wants you back, he's only letting you out there for me."
 
We inch closer. The voice in question becomes visible, illuminated by evil looking magicky things. He has a portal open emitting a lot of purple light, with a reddish glow about him. Detect Magic discovers that the portal leads to devillish plane, and Dispel Magic destroys it. Riven walks out and begins a conversation with Nicky. With greasy black hair and a beer belly. Basically, he's after more Gorachenyan singing because of the souls Bea sent him, and set up shop down there. Then a Gorach boy died and rounded his choir of screaming souls and he needs more. We manage to work out a deal wherein for 30 days he'll stop kidnapping the children of Gorachenya and we have those days to get a unich. I send to syvanta "Hey, do you have any former unichs lying round?"
 
"What"
 
"You know, castrated singers of the court?"
 
"I know what they are, why do you need them?"
 
"We made a deal with- you know uh, we'll explain. Toodles!"
 
"..."
 
We rest for the rest of the day.
 
3rd of Jestani
We stop over in Tereszkha. The guard whom I had mentioned BBQ'ed podluznik to is very concerned that I have eaten. We meet with the Guard "Captain", and he is dissatisfied with my vague answer, but allows us to depart. We teleport to Zolot-Uzik with the Portal House's, and meet with Syvanta. He is quite angry about the request, but softens when he learns that we have solved (for now) the problem of the missing children. A prison guard leads us to the cell with a unich, Yurivich's former right hand advisor.
 
Riven explains to me the easiest way is to write a contract. It reads:
 
"I, the undersigned, hereby acknowledge the following:
 
I am to be turned over from the custody of the Gorachenyan people to the Aeillan annoyance known as Nikophoros where I shall remain in his custody at his leisure.
 
______, 3rd of Jestaní"
 
Gash then hands the contract to him, telling him to sign. He is unconvinced. Riven then explains that he will be allowed to leave this place if he signs. He does, with a flick of his wrist. After a moment, he steps forward and before he can get far, a portal similar to what sucked the podluzniks away.
 
We waltz ourselves back to the Iron Palace and Syvanta, informing him that we took care of the unich. I provide a translation of the contract for Gorachenyan records. May it be added to the Annals of the Dwarven Truth.