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My players are now trapped with the zombie pirates. According to my calculations they only had about 860 experience after doing everything up to that point, so they are still 1st level. They beat one zombie fairly easily, but then I foolishly had 3 attack them, and they nearly got eaten because of the very effective grapple attack mode that the zombies have (even though they don't get to use their bite grab on these characters because they are M size).

It looks like the characters are in for a very unpleasant remainder of the exploration of the caves since they are almost all out of hit points and barely alive. Did I calculate the experience wrong or something because it seems like the characters should be second level to have a reasonable chance trapped in the caves with the zombies? In any case I suspect they will eventually make it by locking themselves in a room for days and healing up (and by me keeping the number of zombies encountered at a time smaller in the future).