Sahil fires a crossbow bolt at the Knight that glances off the man's steel clad shoulder, his second bolt is aimed at the Knight's knee, it punches through the weak point in the armour and the knights leg collapses from underneath him and he crashes to the floor!
Raeva hurls a globule of acid that splashes over the prone knight, but the zombie next to him manages to avoid the acid.
Leaping onto the prone knight, Rakish clamps his jaws down on the man's exposed neck, blood spurts from the wound as the lizardman rips into the corded muscle. Then leaping back Rakish brings his Battle-Axe crashing down on the man splitting his steel breastplate!
Golden flames decend on the zombie as Cassyt chants, the zombie is hit full in the face and chest, it's flesh blackening and smoking!
The Knight lets out a growl, managing to roll over and stand up in his heavy armour, he kicks the scimitar wielding man full in the side, "Wake up, and get back to fighting! " he yells as the man stirs...
Two more Kobolds burst from a curtained off room to join the fray! They swing their slings and launch bullets at Rakish and Beryl, but both seem to have poor aim and the bullets only hit the walls of the room...
Scimitar stands groggily, picking up his sword he lashes out at Beryl, but Beryl catches the blade on his shield!
The Zombie makes a clumsy lunge at Rakish, who dodges to the side!
Crackling pink energy flies from Sera's hands and arcs towards the Knight slamming int his chest and knocking him back a step!
Garth ducks around the wall and fires an arrow that flashes over Rakish's shoulder and slams into the zombies chest!
Beryl smashes his warmace into the knight cracked breastplate, making the plate cave in more! Blood oozes from the gap and the knight struggles to draw breath!
Beryl N
Garth N
Sahil Y
Seraphyna Y
Raeva Y
Rakish N
Red Robed Wizard
Damage: 11
Invisible...
dead... super dead...
Knight
Damage: 47
Zombie:
Dmg: 9
When more kobolds burst into the room, Sera yelps How many of you are in there? I think I saw this act in a circus once... Should we focus fire, or have us people without the slashy bits focus on the slingers?
Responding to Sera, Rakish says, You will kill the tiny dragons and walking dead. I will peel off this metalized skin and consume the soft flesh beneath.
And taking action to his words, Rakish swings his battle axe at the Knight.
I can be one with that idea, Rakish. then pausing a moment, not sure where that comment came from. Shrugging, she fires a blast at one of the distant Kobolds.
Raeva moves up and targets the blue and green kobolds with Sleep.
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Nodding at Rakish's comment, Beryl shifts his attention to the roguish opponent with a grin, Bet ye didn't expect to wake up to this ugly mug, eh?
Garth moves and fires another arrow at the zombie.
for
Sahil fires at the knight, if he is still standing, otherwise at an enemy, where gets the best shot
Sahil fires another two bolts at the knight, but both ricochet off the man's steel armour!
Raeva steps forward, chanting an incantation and pointing at the kobolds, suddenly they swoon groggily and slump to the floor unconcious!
Rakish swings his battle-axe at the knight but steps on a loose stone as he swings! His aim is thrown off and his axe cuts through only air!
The Knight hefts his massive sword and swings at Beryl, the sword clangs against Beryl's shield with a loud ringing. Then the knight reverses his swing bringing the sword down at Rakish! The blade carves a deep gash in the lizardman's chest! Bright red blood spurts out of the wound as Rakish collapses to the floor!
The scimitar weilding man swipes his curved blade at Beryl, but Beryl deflects the blow with his shield!
Pink cracking energy blasts over the prone form of Rakish and slams into the knights armoured chest! The pink energy seems to pass straight through the man's plate armour and glows out through the seems as the man screams in pain before falling backwards with a crash!
Garths arrow flies true thunking into the undead monsters head! It shudders for a moment as if about to collapse but then keeps its feet.
Beryl turns his attention to his roguish opponent and with a quip, smashes his mace into the man's face! There's a crunch of the man's skull cracking and he falls dead to the floor, his face a bloody misshapen mess!
Beryl Y
Garth N
Sahil Y
Seraphyna Y
Raeva Y
Rakish N
Knight
Dead!
Scimitar:
Dead
Zombie:
Dmg: 26
Stay down! Beryl spits at the unconscious rogue then turns to Cassyt before moving toward the remaining zombie, Lass, can you heal Rakish?
Moving his way to the zombie, the stout warrior skips over the knight's unconscious form and swings his silvered warmace!
Garth fires another arrow at the zombie.
for
Seeing Rakish down Sahil moves in and tries to stabilize Rakish (will delay until everyone else his gone, to avoid a possible OA)
When Rakish goes down, a darkness falls over the normally cheerful half-elf. Her normally pink hued magics darken to a blood red, and all semblance of mirth is gone as she crackles with energy. She then starts chanting in an unusual dialect, her voice dropping by two octaves.
Mid chant, a beam of energy strikes out, carving a hole in the zombie and illuminating it in a sickening light.
Raeva gets up next to the sleeping kobold and uses his Fire Bolt.
Fire Bolt: advantage, auto crit
Sahil rushes to the fallen lizardman's side, grabbing some cloth he jams it into the massive open wound, applying pressure to staunch the copious blood flow!
Raeva hurries to the side of one of the sleeping kobolds, mercilessly unleashing a flaming bolt into its prone form! The Kobolds body burns where it lays, charred and blackened after a few seconds!
Lies on the floor, unconcious but stabile
"I'll try!" Cassyt calls back to Beryl as she rushes to Rakish's side as well. She fumbles over a prayer holding her hands over his wound, and sighs in relief as blue light spreads from her hands knitting together his wounds but only barely...
The Zombie steps past the prone form of Rakish towards Beryl and Cassyt, swinging its arms at the acolyte! Cassyt cries out "Ahh! Help!" as the zombie hits her in the side of the head! Blood streams from a wound on Cassyt's temple and she seems woozy like one more hit could end her life...
Her face set with thin lips and fierce eyes Sera chants in a suddenly deep voice, blood red energy streams from her fingers, flashing between Sahil and Cassyt and slamming into the Zombie's chest. The energy burns a massive hole in the undead monsters body but it doesn't fall!!
Garth fires an arrow that flies straight into the zombies head, right between its eyes it's head jerks back but the zombie just rights it's head ignores the arrow...
Beryl steps around the Zombie cracking his mace against the back of its head! The skull caves in and decaying brains spill out but the zombie doesn't seem to care...
Beryl Y
Garth N
Sahil Y
Seraphyna Y
Raeva Y
Rakish N
Beryl growls, Fall, ye beastie!
Rakish gets up and takes a swing at the zombie.
Noticing that he was able to save Rakish, Sahil enters the fray and hopes his two cross-bow bolts hit.
With Rakish's wounds taken care of Sahil quickly Slots two new bolts into place in his crossbows, it only takes one however to finally fell the Zombie, he fires it straight into the Zombie's rotting head and it flops over backwards onto the dirty ground!
"You did it!" Cassyt exclaims!
The dead wizard lies by his desk, a haversack lies open next to him with a book and some papers spilling out...
Beryl Y
Garth N
Sahil Y
Seraphyna Y
Raeva Y
Rakish N
Rakish first puts his black dragon scale shield and battle axe away and then retrieves his hand axes. After sheathing them, he gets out a rope and starts to tie up the Kobolds, one at a time. As he ties them up, he says to Cassyt, They will tell you what their plans are and how they accomplished their deeds. Then you will repair the tomb and prevent it from happening again.
He lets the others deal with the dead wizard.
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As Sahil ends the zombie threat, Sera seems not to notice, the powers of her pact raging within her. Blood red arcs of power leap from her, blackening the stone walls where they strike. As the power threatens to overwhelm the young girl, a wave of dread washes over those nearby.
Rakish, ye doin' okay? Beryl asks before hearing Seraphyna. He looks at her in terror, and backs off a bit with a shudder. W-hat are ye doin', lass?
"Are you okay, Sera? Sahil asks, then turning to the wizard's book and papers to find out, what might have happened here.
My injuries are healing. I will survive.
Reava looks up from ransacking the dead wizard's things. "I'll make sure they talk."
Cassyt nods at Rakish, holding a cloth to her bleeding head while she watches him tie up the kobolds. "Yes, everything should be alri... Woh! Sera! Sera! It's ok there all dead! Stop!" She yells, ducking for cover as the blood red energy arcs from Seraphyna.
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Sahil and Raeva move over to the wizards corpse and inspect the backpack. The wizards pack contains his (Rorrath's) journal which holds rather shocking information about the Thayan wizards's plans to assist the Cult of the Dragon in freeing Tiamat from her imprisonment and his reluctance in joining the cause of the exile Rath Modar.
Additionally, there are a set of documents from Rath Modar that charge Rorreth with creating a host of undead in the catacombs beneath Valhingen Cemetery and to use them to dig their way south and east beneath Phlan in an attempt to locate the Pool of Radiance. There are extensive maps and calculations done that estimate the general direction, depth and distance that he must dig to end up beneath Valjevo Keep (Where the pool is believed to be located...)
Nearby the desk on the floor are some detailed maps of the crypts. All the notes and labels on them seem to be written in draconic.
Also on the desk is a wooden boxed writing set that is obviously of high quality. The box itself is covered with gold filigree.
The knight has a belt pouch that has 45 gold pieces, and the scimitar wielder has a pouch with 25 gp, the kobolds have about 5 gold pieces between them along with a bunch of worthless knick knacks and a dead mouse.
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Beyond the curtain to the north is perhaps the wizards room, a lockbox sits at the end of a straw pallet, filled with various coins totalling to 100 gp
The wave of dread seems to have had some impact on the half-elf; her breath coming in ragged gasps, while the blood colored energy slowly pulsates back to a pinker hue in time with her breathing. I.. I.. is all she can get out before her eyes roll into the back of her head and she collapses.
A few minutes later her eyes flutter open and she looks around. What happened? Did we win? she asks, trying to force some enthusiasm into her voice. Rising, she looks around, So where do we go from here?
Beryl takes a deep breath, Easy there, Ironjoy, she's our side...
Ye're downright terrifying there, lass, but yah, we's done here, Beryl looks off after Sahil and Raeva, Ye lads find anything o' note? Ye thinks this might be what's been bringin' the dead back ta walkin'?
Raeva slowly comes out from hiding behind the curtain. He looks around the room to make sure its safe. His eyes coming back to Seraphyna as he does so.
"Yes... Yes, we have. It looks like the Red Wizards and the Cult of the Dragon have joined forces. This does not bode well for anyone."
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We will rest here for a while. I will make for you the art of the swamps.
After a short rest the party treks back through the catacombs and emerges out into the open air of the Valhingen graveyard, blinkinin the bright sunlight.
After healing Cassyt and thanking you for keeping her safe, Doomguide Glandon listens to your report looking grave as you speak of a necromancer active in the catacombs.
"You have done us a great service taking care of this necromancer, I'm sure that with a little help we'll be able to clear out the rest of the undead, now that more aren't being created. "
He hands over a money pouch of 100 gold pieces and also presents the group with a pair of goggles in a soft leather pouch.
"These goggles allow a person to see in the blackest darkness, i hope you may find a use for them. Now I must go and speak wi the Lord Regent and the Lord Sage about all that you have found here!"
Beryl looks at each of his new companions and says, Well, laddies and lasses, it's been a pleasure to be sure. If any of ye care to join me at the Madame Freona's fer a drink, ye are most welcome!