And Harlynn stabilizes at death's door
Taedric reaches into Trumps' saddlebags and snarls at the archer, as his wolf creeps toward the building, "I agree. This ends now.", and hurls the flask he's produced into the window the archer used.
Narnel turns to Seneca and the others.
Can any of you carry Harlynn, we need to make our way to the others. I will cover us.
Narnel stealthily moves to the corner of the building and fires around the corner at the enemy on Bryn.
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Narnels arrow finds its mark and drops the creature that threatened Bryndyn.
Harlynns wounds cease to flow, and for the moment he appears stable. Seneca makes sure that this is so.
Taedric moves down the alley toward the archer. The gnome finds a workable hole and throws alchemical fire into it. The weapon breaks and the archer is caught in the spray. His screams are a string of blasphemes and vulgarities best not repeated here.
Bryndyn turns to repay the help he received by relieving Abbas of his attacker. His ferocious attack does not kill but nearly so. A great spray of decomposition splashes the ground.
The dead man tries again to harm Abbas but is unable to do so.
Aidan hits the undead in the side with his staff, distracting it.
Bryn get Harlynn!
With that, the druid tends to Pluchak.
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Abbas uses the opening Bryndyn created for him and attacks again. His blow hits but the creature seems to shrug it off.
Meanwhile those ghoul insect abominations continue towards the party. The lead creature encounters the mud that Aidan made not so long ago. At Narnels word, 'Neeki and Jess both try to shoot a shambler. 'Neeki seems more skilled and while hers is the only hit, the creature keeps moving towards them. Jess says, This is so stupid!. Sadie stands open mouthed and empty handed, in sheer terror.
The shamblers continue to come closer, but compared to their fast brethren, these things are very slow.
Aidan tends Pluchak and makes him ready to move, and Tkurzhan waits for the signal to go, Elinor still on his back.
The archer disappears from the window and the cursing continues.
Combat order: Archer, Narnel, Harlynn, Taedric, Seneca, Bryndyn, running dead, Abbas, Elinor, ghoul things, children, Aidan, Tkurzhan, shamblers and Pluchak. Narnel, Harlynn, Taedric, Seneca, Bryndyn are up.
"I can get Harlynn. Let's get out of here." Seneca stoops and lifts Harlynn onto his soldiers, carrying his fellow Asmodean across his back.
Narnel creates a diversion while he stealthily moves around the corner to the street side of the Inn where most of his companions are located and fires around the corner at the second Shambler fromm the far right to cover the movement of Seneca and the others.
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Narnels arrow hit proves these shamblers have little of the toughness of the runners. It twists awkwardly and then collapses to the ground. 'Neeki cheers and Jess glowers.
Taedric races to the open street and gets ready to use his lance to deadly advantage against any that cross Aidans mud line. He keeps a wary eye to the window where the archer was.
Seneca hefts Harlynn onto his shoulders and Bryndyn brings his wicked weapon down on the last runner. It is a putrid mess and dead before it hits the ground.
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Abbas looks at the dead thing, and then joins Taedric in making a makeshift line against the ghouls that race toward them. We will stop them. he says simply. It is easy to admire that sort of attitude from someone who is as beat up as Abbas.
One ghoul is stuck and then another, but the third is smarter and heads for the alleys.
Both 'Neeki and Jess fire at the approaching dead, but neither have any luck.
Aidan readies to defend himself, while the cat growls deeply and bides his time.
"We should keep moving. The longer we stay bogged down, the more of them that will find us."
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Aidan prepares himself for the next wave of ghouls and Tkurzhan holds Elinor on his back wary of harming the shield maiden further. Even to his keen ears her breathes are nearly silent.
The shamblers move in closer, one by Narnel, and one by 'Neeki, though they do not yet attack, their jaws snap with unholy hunger.
The archer can stand the fast spreading flames no longer and bursts from the window.grasping for non-existant handholds to brace his fall he flails and lands hard on his stomach.
[ooc]Combat order: Archer, Narnel, Harlynn, Taedric, Seneca, Bryndyn, Abbas, Elinor, ghoul things, children, Aidan, Tkurzhan, shamblers and Pluchak. Narnel and Taedric, your move.
Taedric points at the archer, and says, "Let's end this.", activating his challenge, as he spins Trumps to try to run him down.
for {challenge, doubled for the charge}
Narnel moves closer to the position of most of his companions in the street while trying to provide additional cover for the others exiting the Inn.
Seneca, to us!
Seneca shouts "Sadie, Neekie! C'mon, we have to go. Keep away from it and keep moving toward the rest of my companions." Seneca activates his copy cat ability to create a duplicate image of himself and moves toward the road with Harlynn.
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Abbas takes sure steps towards the archer, as the man still lies prone and bleeding. He has caused much heartache tonight and Abbas means to see that he causes no more. The archer is so fixated on the lance wound that he does not see Abbas until the warrior is right beside him. In out goes the first knife, and the same with the second, though that second knife causes a spray of blood that splashes back on Abbas. With hollowed eyes he just groans, [b]I love her.[/ooc] and then he fades to black and joins Elinor, Pluchak and Harlynn in the world between death and life.
The muck still holds the ghoul things fast while the other scrambles through the alleys. Suddenly it appears on a nearby rooftop and starts its unholy call again. [b]SSSSCCCRRREEEEEEEE, SSSCCCRRREEEEEEE[/ooc]
The kids are not trained for combat at all, and on Senecas word they start to move. Jess gives no thought to the others and races ahead of Seneca into the street. 'Neeki thinks of Sadie, and takes her crossbow and tries to cudgel the shambler with it. She does not hit and when she turns to go for Sadie the abomination uses the opening and hits her hard.
Aidan is forced to delay furher until the group moves closer.
Taedric drives his lance down into the throat of the archer for good measure, then Trumps starts moving back toward the group.
Narnel fires at the Shambler approaching the children to cover their escape.
Keep moving towards us!
"Follow me children. We need to stay away from them. Weave to stay free if you can." Seneca keeps moving and tries to keep the children moving with him.
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Narnels arrow expertly dispatches another of the slow fiends. One left. Taedrics lance is deadly and accurate. The archer stops movement in an instant. Seneca moves away from the hambler that pursues him carefully. It stands between him and 'Neeki in the inn.
Jess objects to Senecas words and becomes bolder as it becomes less dangerous. Children? There are more of us walking than there of you. It looks like we rescued you.
Give that boy a slap!
Get your asses over here before I quit saving your lives for like the hundredth time!
"You're a bloody fool son. It was just a matter of time before they found you. We need to get out. Now stop your yapping and start moving. Stay out of their reach and move around them. Try to get into the middle of us."
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Bryndyn holds his place, and Abbas joins him once more to stand against the dead now advancing. But then they do not advance, with the odds well against them they turn and scurry up the buildings like large insects and mingle their voices with the one already there in an unholy call whose meaning you might only guess.
'Neeki, now hurt and towing Sadie comes up behind the remaining shambler and using her crossbow as a crude club hits the creature in the head and sends it collapsing to the ground.
'Neeki catches up with the rest of the group and says, Jess, shutup! You are such an ass. Jess glowers at her and Narnel and Seneca. Sadie still seems in a daze.
"Nicely done Neeki. Might need to sign you up. Let's hustle back to that other house, get the adults and then get out of here. Let's grab whatever that archer had on him, maybe we can get some more clues to this mess."
Indeed, let's check the archer and get the rest back to the others, now!
Narnel moves with Seneca towards the others with his bow drawn, looking for threats in all directions.