Val eliminates one of the human zombies as they are more powerful
Raskir bites into a zombie severely damaging it and Jayla stabs one to no effect.
Alvoise and Henric still need to post. Then zombies.
Alvoise tugs at his throwing axe embedded in the zombie’s skull. He recovers it with the sound of bone splitting but decides to attack the zombie in front of him with his rapier before his uses his axe again.
As the kobold zombie clumsily lunges for him, Henric steps calmly aside, keeping his free arm folded in the small of his back like a nobleman at a ball - and, conveniently, putting himself out of reach of the second zombie. "Such pitiful things," he mutters, before stabbing at the one before him again.
Alvoise slahses into K2 but it still stands.
K2 attacks Raskir
K3 attacks Jayla
K7 and K8 attack Henric
H2 and K5 attack Valeria
You can all post again.
Val goes and hacks at another one
The other human zombie is down.
Jayla switches from rapier to a switchblade. Counts as a dagger.
Free action: activate
Attack the zombie:
The shaman grimaces as a zombie scrapes at him, but returns the attack just as savagely.
Xaikon curses at zombie coming to her, slings her bow and unhooks her dagger to stab it.
Henric's jaw tightens as the clumsy swing of the kobold zombie connects with his hip, leaving a stinging sensation rattling through the joint. "A lucky blow," he sighs, with the same detached coldness. He stabs at it again, ignoring the other undead.
Minor dmg, peh.
Val goes and hacks at the one that hit her
Xaikon seeing the zombie fall before her, she quickly moves to her left to going around Henric left to attack the remaining dead kobold by Henric.
The blow from the zombie is the kind of clumsy swing that normally wouldn't hurt at all, but it manages to hit the same spot on Henric's hip, sending a new jolt of pain down his leg. Though he stoops momentarily on that side, he remains silent as he attempts to run the undead beast through.
Impressed with Raskir’s mauling of the zombie, Alvoise steps over the destroyed body, moving behind the zombie Jayla is fighting. He attempts to stab the undead monster in the back.
Raskir attacks the one in front of Jayla.
The remaining human zombie K3 and K7 go down leaving only on kobolt zombie by Valeria.
It attacks.
and then Valeria destroy it. The fight is over.
You can go up to level 2.
After the last zombie falls to the ground, she then goes about searching their bodies for anything useful, cutting out arrow heads for new arrows, and nearby areas.
As she searches the bodies, "I think we should have these bodies, if possible to do so. Really don't want them walking again."
Jayla looks over the corpses as she comments.
"Leave them, remove the heads and it saves you the trouble."
"Valeria, may i have a word with you? I would be interested to learn the draconic tongue. It seems it will be of use in our situation."
"Man, I'm a one woman wrecking crew. Wiping a group from start to finish."
"I think we should burn the bodies to make sure they don't rise up again and to stop any possibility of spreading a disease."
Val replies to Jayla
"I would not mind teaching you, though learning to use the throat and not the tongue to get the words right is a challenge for some."
"Oh i'll be fine."
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"As I said, for some it's a challenge."
"Did you find anything on the bodies, Xaikon?"
Searching the area you do find a few discarded items, Three shortspears (small), a Bolas, a Longspear, a bag of caltrops, two sunrods, 7 gold, 30 silvers.
Since capturing the kobolds, Raskir spends an unusual amount of time listening to their reptilian language and even attempting to speak to them. Through some combination of intuition and spirit guidance, he feels like he is beginning to understand them.
Xaikon walks back to the group, holding a few items, "I found these weapons, I believe they belong to kobolds from their size. Also found these Sunrods and these coins, which I keep the coins for us to divid up later.", before placing the coins into her backpack. "Anyone wants any of the weapons, I take one of the sunrods.
"I'd prefer to hold on to those caltrops. It has been a while since i've last used those."
"I think it's better to sell this stuff and get some cash we could use for better stuff."
Alvoise inspects a bolo for a minute before returning it to Xaikon. ”I don’t know who’d buy it, but it wouldn’t hurt to try once we reach Numeria. Onwards? Valeria, you want to tell our kobold guides that we’re ready to leave?”
"Leave to where?
Back to town, tribe lair, the mine, I could list a lot of spots as our destination."
"We still don't know the cause to what is making the walking dead. Why they are located here. There is another tunnel at other end of the cave."
"Then we have a look and assess the risk."
Checking the bodies you notice that a lot of them have had their brains removed.
Finding nothing else in the room with all the bodies. You move on to the next chamber in this complex of caverns. The damp walls of this next cavern display a bewildering variety of obscure and esoteric symbols painted in bright, clashing colors and pigments.
the symbols on the walls as relating to the myriad gods and beings of the Dark Tapestry.
"I do find it odd that the brains are missing?"
"That is unusual, even undead need a brain to function."
"Incorrect," Henric points out as he cleans his sword on a handkerchief. "These are zombies, mindless reanimated bodies. They require very little of their organs. After all, a skeleton can be reanimated with no soft tissues whatsoever, can it not?" He runs a hand over the symbols on the walls, frowning as he does so. "Most unusual. These symbols relate to the various beings and deities of the Dark Tapestry - the dark places between and beyond the stars. I've never seen such a concentration of them. Whoever painted these must be some manner of madman."
"My knowledge on religions is strictly limited to hear-tell. What is this Dark Tapestry?"
"Ok, that sounds creepy."
Xaikon takes a shirt from one of the human zombie's bodies so to wrap up the items to keep them together and places the items into her backpack.
"Interesting who ever created the walking dead, that they removed the brains.", as she follows the others out of the cavern.
In the new cavern, she walks with Henric to study the strange symbols painted on the wall trying to recognise any, yet shakes her head upon giving up, and listening to Henric's explanation of the symbols.
"I agree Valeria, but who are these Dark Tapestry..."
Henric raises an eyebrow at the questions, but speaks anyway. "My studies at Lepidstadt were anatomical rather than astronomical or theological, but I know a little of the Dark Tapestry." He taps his cane against one of the symbols, inspecting the pigment that rubs off. "The stars are the realm of Desna, as you all know. But her power is not absolute, and the dark places between the stars house all manner of... entities, and mysteries. In space, there is no heat, no sound, no light, no air. There is nothing. In theory, it is incapable of sustaining life." He pauses, rubbing the tip of his cane between his fingers, again inspecting the pigment. "However, there are some beings capable of surviving it. Those creatures able to survive in the void of space - in the Dark Tapestry, as scholars call it; the space between the stars - are far too alien for even the gods to comprehend. True madness lies in store for any mortal who attempts to understand them."
As you discuss the issue you hear a slithering sound as a creature approaches.
As you view the creature you see....
Roll a will save. Dc 16.
This creature has a passive defensive ability were it scans your minds and projects illusions from your memories in order to distract you. This takes effect as soon as you look upon the creature. What you see will actually depend on the character, it will be something from his/her past that would be unsettling to them. Causing them to be shaken until the creature is far away or no longer conscious. Actually I think you can still see the creature in addition to the illusions it says "it constantly scans the minds of those around it, projecting around itself a confusing collage of images gleaned from their thoughts"
If you make the save you see the creature as what it actually looks like.
A swollen, brainlike bulb encrusted with fungal shelves squats atop several ropy legs. A wide mouth bisects the bulb's crown.
Creature
Knowledge nature to identify the creature.
Jayla looks at the place where the sound was coming from.
Jayla sees the image of a Vexgit gremlin. Sadistic tech-eating critters.
Opposed to something she fears, she knows it is something that poses risk to "people" like herself.
She isn't shaken however.
Remarkable that one of those things would appear here.
She turns her head towards the sound, only to be flooded with images of past battles with humans filling her view of the strange creature. She tries to shake her mind to rid the images that are disturbing her.
”The Dark Tapestry?” Alvoise says as he stares at the patterns trying to remember if he’s ever seen these before. He turns his head slightly to look at Henric. ”Beyond the stars? You mean the various planes? Do you have any idea how old this is, or who might have painted it?”
Alvoise peers around the chamber. ”Why paint it here? What’s special about this area? Is it an antechamber to an underground temple?”
When the creature appears, Alvoise steps back. Three assassins appear out of the darkness near the creature. One of them hisses, ”We killed your undead father. Now we’ll kill you.”
”No! Alvoise screams. Answering the call within his blood, his rage is released. A faint halo of light radiates outward from his heart as his body trembles. ”NO!" he shouts, his voice slightly deeper and more musical.
The shaman blinks once as images assault his mind, but he lets the primal, wolflike part of his brain take over and ignores the images, seeing only a strange creature. Raskir looks around at his companions' reactions and perceives the creature as the source of a threat. He screams at them, "Fight, you fools!", as he charges the creature and snaps at it.
This creature is clearly a plant but unlike any Raskir has ever seen or even heard of. No such plants grow in this region naturally.
He rushes the creature and bites it. So combat begins, I will roll init.
Order:
Alvoise
Henric
Xaikon
Raskir
Creature
Jayla
Valeria