Sorrin is ready to move forward, after suggested precautions.
Chell you drop the the sling balls and they each thunk the dead bodies. You don't see the first one move at all, but the second one seems to flinch when you hit it but it is dark in the cellar and it could ahve been body moving due to the impact.
Ptahh, can you brace a rope? I'll climb down. On second thought...
Sorrin produces his any-tool which he leaves in the shape of a grapnel at the end of a length of rope.
Just don't let it slip.
Sorrin descends easy enough. The light from above casts a dim shadow, you see the two bodies nearby. There are crates and barrels stacked high which obstruct your vision of mos of the room. In fact, you realize the cellar is larger than it looked from above.
RD 1
Baddie
minor Baddies
Astri
Ptahh
Sorrin
Chell
Bri
the set-up here is this:
Ptahh was getting ready to descend the ladder when Chell stopped him to toss a couple sling bullets. She does so, then Sorrin stepped up and descended to the cellar floor, he is followed closely by Ptahh who is still on the ladder. The others are still up.
Surprise Rd:
Baddie
Minor baddie
Ptahh
Sorrin
Chell looks at the one that flinched suspiciously. "I know Sorrin did well against the other creatures but I would still rather take this cautiously. I think the one on the left moved and given the amount of evil I sensed from this hole I'd guess everything down there is dangerous. Astrianna, can you shoot one in the leg?" She asks the last part loudly enough that it should carry to the bodies on the ground.
Surprise Rd:
The two corpse on the floor grab at Sorrin's ankle and legs.
#1 zombie
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#2 zombi
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Two shuffle closer form around the crates.
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Then another creature moves (yellow haloed), quicker to the end of the crates. He doesn't have the shuffle of the zombies and it has a tangle of discolored entrails clings to its lurching skeleton's torso and winds upward to loll from its jaw like a clawed tongue. Ptahh and Sorrin you know it's undead but your not exactly sure what it is.
*Ptahh you are 5 feet high and on the ladder.
Chell looks at the one that flinched suspiciously. "I know Sorrin did well against the other creatures but I would still rather take this cautiously. I think the one on the left moved and given the amount of evil I sensed from this hole I'd guess everything down there is dangerous. Astrianna, can you shoot one in the leg?" She asks the last part loudly enough that it should carry to the bodies on the ground.
Sorrin and Ptahh descend as Chell mentions shooting one in the leg.
Round 1
Astrianna's eyebrows raise as the dead come spring to life as they sense flesh. "I was expecting that, but not with so much gusto."
She casually pulls out her bow while replying to Chell. "Sure, I can shoot one in the leg. How about the one trying to gnaw on Sorrin?" The half-elf says completely deadpan, knocking an arrow and sending it down into the basement at the undead nearest Sorrin.
Surprise RD:
Actions remaining: Ptahh and Sorrin
RD 1:
Baddie
minor Baddies
Astri - fires long bow
Ptahh
Sorrin
Chell
Bri
Surprise RD: sorrin
He slices down at one of the zombies trying to make a meal of hi calf.
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*-4 AC to prone defender.
He hits and the creature is destroyed.
Bri just waits up top for now while they wait and see if the men have the zombies down there under control.
Stupid undead.
Ptahh hurls his long sword at the other zombie before preparing to leap off the ladder to battle the grotesque undead creature.
Ptahh splits the zombie with his sword.
RD 1 Baddie
The creature steps up (5 ft) and attacks Ptaah, and unleashes a furious attack on the half-orc's lower body.
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plus grab
;
plus grab
paralysis
Dc 21 fort save to negate.
the second slam attack hits, and the tongue touch attack hits home.
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RD 1 zombies
L:20 (prone) attacks Sorrin
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The second zombie near the crates attack Sorrin,
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Astri shots her long bow, the arrow hits but the zombie is still alive.
RD 1: update
Baddie: one slam hit Ptahh 15 HP, tongue hit for possible paralysis (1 min) DC 21 Fort.
minor Baddies - att Sorrin and missed.
Astri - fires long bow
Ptahh
Sorrin
Chell
Bri
Nice move, big guy! Sorrin is impressed by the throwing of the longsword.
The scout attacks the more troublesome of the undead.
As soon as the first undead reared up Chell was ready to channel some positive energy. But seeing the first two fall quickly she rethinks that. Something else was down there though. Something tougher. But she couldn't quite make it out. So best to play it safe. She blasted the one attacking Sorrin with Lightning.
DMPC Ptahh's RD 1
The half-orc feels the sticky cold tongue slap his chin, it's suddenly feels as if his bones have rusted like cheap steel, but the he fights through the reaction.
*save made.
He hops off the ladder, draws his falchion and hacks at the undead that hit him.
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*crit range: 15-20
He hits for 22 HP of damage.
Sorrin appreciates that situation he and Ptahh are in with the latest undead with the tongue, so he focuses his attack on that creature. He hits once.
A bolt of lightning hits the undead that is flanking sorrin (M:20)
it sizzles the creature, but he is still up.
RD 2: Baddie
The lead undead continues to attack Ptahh,
;
plus grab
The attack missed.
;
plus grab
He hits and grabs. He has grabbed Ptaah.
paralysis
Dc 21 fort save to negate.
His tongue hits again and the half orc needs another Fort DC 21 save.
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rD 2: Zombies
Zombie baddies go sorrin,
;
;
both attacks miss.
Waiting on an invitation?! Sorrin nearly vomits at the monstrosity turned inside out.
Round 2
Astrianna grins as Ptahh throws his sword and decapitates a zombie. By Shelyn, these stories write themselves.
She squarely plants her feet on the edge of the cellar trapdoor and unleashes a barrage of arrows on the zombies surrounding Sorrin.
If a creature with this special attack hits with the indicated attack (usually a claw or bite attack), it deals normal damage and attempts to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. Unless otherwise noted, grab can only be used against targets of a size equal to or smaller than the creature with this ability. If the creature can use grab on creatures of other sizes, it is noted in the creature's Special Attacks line. The creature has the option to conduct the grapple normally, or simply use the part of its body it used in the grab to hold the opponent. If it chooses to do the latter, it takes a –20 penalty on its CMB check to make and maintain the grapple, but does not gain the grappled condition itself. A successful hold does not deal any extra damage unless the creature also has the constrict special attack. If the creature does not constrict, each successful grapple check it makes during successive rounds automatically deals the damage indicated for the attack that established the hold. Otherwise, it deals constriction damage as well (the amount is given in the creature’s descriptive text).
Creatures with the grab special attack receive a +4 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to start and maintain a grapple.
Bri is still just holding her action for now. She can't really cast anything that is either safe enough or that would affect undead.
Ptahh roars at the undead creature and swings his falchion with all his might.
Com'on big guy, don't let him rattle you... Step back, this way.
Mind, not muscle...
Chell really wished they had been a little more cautious about this. She couldn't get down there with them crowding the ladder and couldn't quiet see what was attacking Ptahh. Maybe...
Chell climbs part way down the ladder and grabs her holy symbol, catching all the undead in a burst of positive energy.
Ptahh's makes his save but his two attacks miss.
Astri nearly drops her bow but he hangs on and hits L:20 but the creature is still up.
Chell climbs down a few steps then unleashes her holy energy. the energy destroys both zombies.
Chell you now see the leader (using your earlier check):
Those who slay many over the course of their lifetimes, be they serial killers, mass-murderers, warmongering soldiers, or battle-driven berserkers, become marked and tainted by the sheer weight of their murderous deeds. When such killers are brought to justice and publicly executed for their heinous crimes before they have a chance to atone, the remains sometimes return to unlife to continue their dark work as a mohrg.
Undead things caring less for life than they did before their own deaths, mohrgs exist solely to wreak havoc on the living. Sometimes mistaken for skeletons or zombies, they are far more dangerous than those mindless abominations, retaining some semblance of their own memories—and the delight they once took in hearing the screams of the dying.
When possible, mohrgs gather in small groups, seeking out lone targets much as they did in life. If faced with capable foes, a mohrg attempts to incapacitate them one by one, starting with divinely empowered characters first, both to protect itself from holy wrath, and to make the task of paralyzing and devouring the others that much easier.
Some mohrgs retain enough of their former memories that they return to the favored locations of their pasts, “haunting” old hideouts and sometimes even resuming the depredations of murderers long dead, falling back on means of death and mayhem that were more comfortable in their breathing days. Such mohrgs are even more insane than most undead beings, and can sometimes be found wandering the streets of a city or town in cowls and cloaks, carrying on their old life's work of slaughter and murder as best they can.
Of course, since those slain by a mohrg rise soon thereafter as undead themselves, the murders of a mohrg do not go unnoticed for long, even when they take extra care to prey only upon society's dregs. A sudden uprising of undead in the streets is the inevitable result of a mohrg's attentions. Since these zombies remain under the mohrg's control, and since the mohrg itself possesses a hateful and cruel intelligence, it often holds its undead army in reserve, even commanding it to lie motionless until several weeks or months have passed and the local graveyard is filled with the sleeping dead. Then, when the time is right, the mohrg calls upon its army to rise and aid it in finishing the slaughter.
RD 2: update
Baddie: hit ptahh for 19 hp.
minor Baddies - miss sorrin
Astri - hits once for 4 hp
Ptahh - missed the baddie twice
Sorrin - missed twice
Chell - climbed down part way and channeled destorying the two zombies and causing 18 HP on the baddie.
Bri - held
RD 3: Baddie
the undead continues his assault on Ptahh. If he grabs he is not grappling just holding.
; = 8
; = 8
Two attacks hit for 16 HP
Dc 21 fort save to negate.
Good day, Chaplain! Disgusting beast, really...
Sorrin feeling inept, tries again.
I'm certain we'll bore it to final death... Conserve!
sorrin hits twice but the beast is still up and fighting.
"More than you know," she says from the ladder. "It's a Morhg. Aim for the squirming bits. Silver isn't any better than steel."