Over his shoulder, Valex calls, "Keep moving back!"
Melo Rawrs out again as the undead continues to attack him. "Get to me now! I can hear the others screaming we can't lose anyone else! Whoever didn't fall go help them!" He then sets his eye on the pray in front of him studying them ready to unleash his attack.
With a furious Attacks he mauls at the undead.
Lion!Melo's attacks completely decimate the zombies next to him, shredding them in to ribbons of flesh.
Lenneth rises in to the air and soars across the trench, now able to see how large it is, however with no light source she is unable to see anything...
>>> New map, now with a compass rose!! <<<
Lachen tries to descend quickly and sees Lenneth flying over his head... eastward.
Should I tell her she goes in the wrong direction? Women and their navigation skills... Let her assume her own mistakes.
The screams are clearly *clearly* coming from the East...
Lilith moves away from the zombies menacing Valex to give him some space, rounding the corner and summoning her own lights to guide her.
The zombies menacing Valex pursue him as he moves back, swinging his sword to keep it at bay, and neither end up connecting.
Melo rawrs as the undead fall before him. "We have to move! get to the others!" Melo then charges forward not caring for the muddy ground he moves through it anyway.
Valex slashes and stabs as he back up, and one of the zombies facing him collapses as he backs up the corridor.
Under her control, Lilith's lights spread out to try and provide illumination for everyone in the party despite their being far apart.
Melo moves eastwards towards the screams, and as Lilith's lights assist his animal vision he can see groaners to both east and south, the groaner to the south seems busy with something, but the emaciated ones to the east turn and look at the lion with hunger in their eyes.
So who were those guys eh, girl? They didn't seem to sure about this place either. One thing is for sure, it's going to take a lot for us to clear and protect this place if it is overrun.
He moves closer into the bird's feathers, sharing her bodyheat.
We'll give it one more hour, see if we see anything and after that head back. They must be nearly here now anyway. he muses.
Lachen will wait until the lion has moved, take a run and jump over the muddy ground, if Lenneth's magic is still active.
He says to the wounded lion
I go south, toward the screams. Hold your ground on the east front, I'll be back soon.
The two zombies near Melo move towards him, but with their standard slow pace their methodical steps leave little time for them to attack before the druid is ready for them.
Lachen jumps Lenneth's quagmire with ease despite his armor, moving like a man well-trained to such tasks. Though he is mere feet from a zombie, the zombie seems busy with something on the floor and pays him no notice.
Lachen wastes no time and rushes to attack the nearest zombie, delivering a powerful blow with his handaxe
Melo nods in Lachens direction, not taking his eyes off the advancing undead. As the close in on him he unleashes a barrage of devastating attacks.
Lachen's brutal attack thunks satisfyingly in to the zombie's back, and it slumps over and stops moving, evidently no longer animated. Lachen notes that it has slumped over someone lying on the floor, and there is a flash of white eyes further back in the darkness, Lachen swears he hear whimpering...
Lenneth's torch illuminates the trench floor as she swoops low, revealing an uneven earthern floor literally scattered with bones.
Melo's jaws clamp down on a filthy and rancid tasting torso, even as his claw lashes out to rake the rest of the horrid thing. It goes limp in his jaws.
The second zombie uses the opportunity and moves forward, swinging its fists in a flurry and landing a lucky hit on the druid
Valex raises his arm and a blast of white energy powers down his arm and splashes across the zombie in front of him, wreathing it and dropping it to the floor. He proceeds to move past Lilith with an almost apologetic shrug
Pit or not we have to stick together!
As the hours tick by, there is still no movement in the village. Either the denizens there are extremely careful or the place is long since abandoned. In which case why were those four survivors so interested?
He grunts both in discomfort in his hammock and in consternation at the whole thing. He looks up to see the moon hanging fat in the sky and guesses that the others must only be hours away now. In fact, they are so close that if they chose to press on, they would likely be here by dawn.
You know what, girl, I don't think there's anything else to see from up here. And they should really know that this place is being watched. What do you think about heading back instead of freezing our tails off up here? Sound good? Ok, girl let's go.
Flynn heads north, using the bright twinkling stars as his guide. Flying at night was always a strange, nervous experience. The ground below was bathed in a pale, silvery light from the moon which always gave it an otherwordly appearance. He knew that Skyfall wasn't a night hunter either and she was always more twitchy in the darkness, straining her own vision for both predators and prey.
But then he sees something he didn't expect, the bright glow of light - both magical and the flame of a torch. He banks Skyfall toward it and encourages her to open her wings, loosening his lance in its harness just in case.
As he sweeps over he sees a series of wide chasms in the field below, like terrible gashes. Figures move quickly back and forth along the edges but most worryingly is the fact he can make out the staccato movements of zombies down below, and is that Valex down there....? Yes!
Flynn cradles Sender, his lance, and sweeps back around, searching the surface for faces he recognises.
Lachen pushes away the undead he just destroyed, to see who-or what- was hiding under.
His axe is ready to strike... either on the thing on the floor or the source of the whimpering.
Flynn can see a small, huddled group of the tribe (perhaps 10 or so?) on the edge of the rift in the earth, and various lights in the trench itself reveal his companions fighting the undead.
Lilith's spell causes a bright flash that distracts the zombie slightly, the energy itself barely causing it to react as it makes contact.
Lachen shoves the corpse out of the way, revealing the body the groaner was feasting on. The remnants of her face are vaguely identifiable, and as the warrior looks up in to the darkness he sees the face of Sacha's boy, mutely weeping as he looks at Lachen imploringly.
As Lenneth rounds the corner, her lights spiralling away in front of her to illuminate the wider area, she immediately sees Ashleigh and Tabitha fighting for their lives. Ashleigh seems to have a broken leg and Tabitha is doing her best to fend off the groaners. Lenneth can see Mallis across the way, trying to subdue a groaner himself.
Close your eyes, boy. Or look if you want. I don't care.
Look at her face, Lachen...It's the elf... Lilith..Look how she's still mocking you, taunting you. Will you let her do?
Lachen waits a few seconds, then chops the head of the dead girl of her neck, with a powerful, angry single blow, a viscious snarl on his face.
He shouts
To the boy
Follow me.
With a grim face, Lachen turns away to seek another zombie to destroy.
Melo reduces the zombie next to him in to gobbets of flesh and ichor, revealing an empty corridor behind it.
Sacha's boy continues to stare at Lachen even as the warrior decapitates the woman. Frozen in place he only moves when Lachen grabs his collar and drags him along, once his feet are moving he just follows the large man.
Ashleigh, Tabitha and Mallis are still desperately struggling. It looks to Lenneth like Mallis is being attacked from the darkness behind him where she can't quite see, but he's focusing his efforts on trying to save the girls, they look moments away from being overcome...
Lachen waits for the elf to play her magic lights, so he can see his future opponents
Valex will move to s8 if possible, attacking a zombie if he sees one. IF he sees nothing, he will proceed towards U-5.
Melo continues forward in the trench looking for any survivors. "Keep pushing forward we have to get to them!"
Seeing the melee below, Flynn can only make out shadowy movement in some parts but where Lillith’s spell blazes and Lenneth’s torch burns away, he sees his friends engaged in a desperate fight for their lives.
He swoops around and spots Mallis under attack, trying to fend off two zombies that look to fall on the two girls, Ashley and Tabitha. He guides Skyfall in that direction.
No one else dies! Not if I can help it.
Skyfall screeches, the sound slicing through the night sky like a blade, and he send her into a perilous, diving spiral, screaming his own war cry as they plummet toward the ground.
SENDER...! he roars, his lance tucked tight to his body, announcing his presence to his friends and enemies alike.
The lance explodes through the top of the zombie’s head like a lightning bolt, reducing the shambling thing to little more than a pulp of decayed flesh and brittle bone and he hauls back on Skyfall’s reigns, pulling her up before she enters the sticky mass of webbing.
Lilith's lights flash down the corridor, revealing a single zombie at the very end, who seems to be trying to move southwards but is unable to.
Pushing the boy toward the elf
Stay there, boy.
Melo spots the zombie, roars out "Save all you can." and then charge at it.
One zombie trapped in the web lunges towards the girls as they scream in terror, then falling like a stone from the sky comes Flynn on Skyfall, his lance only just on target but as hit impacts it causes the zombie to completely explode, sending shreds of flesh pounding in to the ground and all over the magical webbing.
The remaining trapped zombie thrashes and gets one foot out of the webbing, leaning over Ashleigh and Tabitha as they try to squirm away from it.
Melo's assault rips the zombie at the end of the corridor apart.
Ashleigh, Tabitha! GET BACK! Flynn roars, Skyfall flapping madly in a crescendo of bloodlust fever.
He urges his mount in to finish the remaining Groaner.
Tear this bastard to pieces Skyfall!
success
Flynn
AC=17
Fort=8 Ref=6 Will=2
HP=43/43
Skyfall
AC=23
Fort=3 Ref=9 Will=4
HP=28/28
Flynn's lance is enough to pin the zombie in place and destroy it, Skyfall's attacks reduce it to its component parts.
"I need help! There's more this way, hold them back!" He growls out with his deep voice. Stepping forward and unleashing on the undead.
Again unleashing a savage barrage of attacks.
Lachen walks towards Melo... and sees four zombies
Sane people would run away.
Lachen grins.
Just what I needed.
In Lachen's mind, the zombies take the appearance of his companions
Look at them... How they are taunting and mocking you again... The slip comes back suddenly from his hidehole and got an hero's welcome when no one cares for you.. the elf uses her cursed magic on you.. the songbird still owns the magical sword, leaving you with this simple handaxe to defend yourself... Shouldn't they die?
The handaxe strikes, quickly and powerfully on the two nearest zombies