Duglan hustles down the stairs.
Harris moves to G0, drawing his sword.
Quinn follows, then casts silence. Complete silence falls around him.
Velinari draws his crossbow and moves behind a table.
Gromtheb fires twice, but misses with both shots.
It's Alaba, though her eyes blaze with red light, and her mouth is horribly distorted into a hungry maw, while her fingers are twisted claws of bone. She is still wrapped in her funeral dressings, thorougly soaked with blood.
From above, you hear Gordel call out Wha' in Gorum's name's goin' on dow' there? If tha bastard's come ba', yeh hold 'im fer me.
Alaba ignores those setting up in the room, and jogs towards the stairs, moving with an eerie smoothness. She hisses at Gromtheb and Duglan.
-Alaba
>>We are here<<
-Duglan
-Harris
-Quinn
-Velinari
-Gromtheb
-Gordel
Gromtheb confirm crit miss
Harris runs to G-2 and shouts, "Not so fast!"
The air around Alaba shimmers with near-invisible sharpness as Harris's shout rends flesh.
"Duglan! Keep her from getting upstairs! Gromtheb, see to Gordel! Make sure nothing happens to him! The rest of you, keep her distracted, but DO NOT destroy her!"
Quinn delays until Alaba's next action, where he will move simultaneously with her, shadowing her as closely as possible. If necessary (including this next turn), he will immediately use his Anklet of Translocation to teleport 10 feet closer to her to keep her in the radius of the Silence effect. This is all Quinn does.
Gromtheb runs upstairs and you hear him yell "DID YOU MURDER ALABA?!"
EDIT:
Attack 1:
Damage 1:
Attack 2:
Damage 2:
Velinari shifts his weight to the balls of his feet. With the lithe of a dancer Velinari twirls producing a blade in his free hand, and in one swift motion strikes at the ethereal creature. Continuing his dance, another twirl brings him out of the creatures reach and next to the bannister.
Spring attack ending in [D,-2]:
Atk:
Dmg:
Duglan steps to Alaba, his blade biting deep into her flesh.
Harris's words follow behind, shredding into her and opening half a dozen new wounds alongside the older ones.
Quinn teleports closer to Alaba, then keeps close by.
Velinari leaps at Alaba, and his blade finds something not at all ethereal.
Gromtheb runs upstairs.
Alaba slides under Duglan's guard and grabs at him with her claws. He staves off one of the attacks, but the other digs into his flesh, dealing 13 damage as she grabs on to him. (Duglan is now grappled, beat CMD 26 to escape).
Seeing Duglan grabbed, Harris immediately bellows "Release him!"
Duglan spots a momentary opening in which he may be able to break free.
On his turn Harris casts disguise self to make himself appear to be Gordel and moves to J-4.
Duglan attempts to take advantage of the sudden opening that Harris provides for him.
Escape Artist:
This fails. Duglan struggles to get out of the grapple by brute force.
CMB:
Sadly, this does not work as well. Duglan gets the sense that if he had pushed "1 roll" higher, he would have gotten out of that mess.
"Alaba is downstairs, back from the dead. She has come to kill you."
Gromtheb shifts to the top of the stairs and fires twice at the undead monster holding Duglan.
Attack 1:
Damage 1:
Attack 2:
Damage 2:
As Velinari continues his deadly dance, the flicker of the room seems to play tricks on your eyes. The faint shadows cast from the fireplace seem to move towards Velinari, as if being collected by his movements, slowly at first but then more rapidly the shadows seem to obscure him from view, making him all but disappear.
Stealth:
Velinari jump through the stair's banister, in a parkour esque style. Swinging himself into [C,-3]
Acrobatics:
Harris, your command does not work. Because Alaba is in the area of Silence, both she and Duglan are unaware of your attempt. And no, no AoOs.
Duglan struggles, but is unable to break free of Alaba's grasp.
Harris looks a hell of a lot like Gordel.
Velinari vanishes from sight.
Gromtheb... I have no idea how to adjudicate this one, given that there's a (basically) invisible Velinari in your shot that you don't know to aim around. So I'm going to say that there's a 30% chance that each attack will target him instead. And because she's in grapple, I'm applying my usual 20% chance you target Duglan (precise shot negates penalties from melee, but not from grapple).
First shot targets Alaba but misses.
Second shot targets Alaba and hits. You're a lucky man.
Alaba attempts to throw Duglan out of her path, but he manages to hold his ground. Then she looks up and sees Gordel at the top of the stairs, and her mouth opens in a silent shriek of rage.
Perception
Perception
CMB
Duglan musters up his strength once again to shake out of the grapple.
CMB:
Ready an action to attack from stealth Alaba is she comes within attack range (i.e. trys to move up the stair)
Harris dismisses the disguise self and moves to G-3.
Gromtheb swiftly judges justly (for a +2 on all attack rolls, bonus to saves is gone) that he aught to summon spiritual help. "Gorum! To our aid!" he prays. As he does so, a great weapon of force appears at attacks the zombie:
Attack:
Crit Fumble:
Damage:
He then moves down the stairs and stands over his sword.
Duglan and Alaba continue to struggle, neither gaining the upper hand.
Harris approaches the fray.
Velinari readies himself to strike.
Gromtheb casts a spell, then moves down the stairs.
Gordel shifts on to the top of the stairs. He looks sorrowfully down at Alaba.
Alaba, clearly enraged, picks up Duglan and bodily throws him off the staircase. (10 damage) Recovering quickly, she charges at Gromtheb, but Velinari appears out of nowhere, blocking her path and slashing at her with his knife, though it skids off her unnaturally tough skin.
CMB
Constrict
Velinari attack
Velinari uses the advantages he has of higher ground and the stairs to once more strike out at Alba
Atk:
dmg:
Seeing Alba's charge Velinari attempts to move out of the way with cat like grace, dancing around to [C,-1]
Acrobatics:
Harris steps forward to E-2 and speaks another volley of verbal razors into existence, directing them at Alaba once more.
Duglan brushes himself off and turns to face Alaba.
Attack 1:
Damage 1:
Attack 2:
Damage 2:
If attack 2 isn't applicable, don't count it :)
Alaba/Quinn
-Duglan
-Harris
-Velinari
>>We are here<<
-Gromtheb
-Gordel
Duglan, who landed on his feet, grabs his fauchard. He attacks Alaba, his mighty blow sending her reeling.
Harris launches sonic blades at Alaba, but they wink out of existence upon encountering the edge of Quinn's spell.
Velinari attacks again, but Alaba barely manages to parry, and as he springs around her, she grabs at him, though Velinari adeptly dodges just outside her reach.
Attack
Perception
In the heat of the battle, Duglan experiences a troubling thought. "Sumthins wrong."
Percp:
Sense Motive:
"Gordel! Run! Get out of here if you want to live! The tree outside Alaba's window perhaps! Don't worry, she can't hear us! Go!"
Gromtheb's bow shimmers again (Bane undead, 4/6 rounds left) and he fires two shots at the monster.
attack 1:
Damage 1:
Crit confrim: (probably doesn't confirm...)
Attack 2: (probably doesn't hit)
Damage 2:
Greatsword (2nd round)
attack:
damage:
Well, despite all of this, Duglan is going to keep on swinging, because why not?
Power attack!
Attack 1:
Damage 1:
Attack 2:
Damage 2:
Gromtheb's first arrow takes Alaba takes Alaba square in the chest, but heedless of it she deflects the second out of the air, though this allows the shimmering blade of force to score a hit on her back.
Decisions dice
The nine hells I'll run! This's mah bar, an' tha'ss mah daughter's body. We end this! Gordel lumbers forward and hops the bannister.
Acrobatics
He lands with surprising grace for a man his size, and heads behind the bar to where his weapons are mounted on the wall.
Alaba pursues, heedless of the rest of you, provoking attacks of opportunity from Velinari, Duglan, and Harris.
Velinari AoO
Duglan AoO
Duglan confirmation
Duglan damage
She drops!
We're still on initiative.
-Alaba/Quinn
>>We are here<<
-Duglan
-Harris
-Velinari
-Gromtheb
-Gordel
If no one has done so, Harris will shift towards Alaba and use a Coup de Grace to decapitate her prone body with his longsword.
"Harris, was this is all of what you may call necessary, yes? You may have just ruined a specimen of interesting nature, yes?"
Quinn dismisses the Silence and backs away from Alaba.
Duglan unceremoniously spits out some blood onto the corpse. He seems somewhat relieved to be able to speak out loud again. "Nezessery? Yeh bet yer ass it was nezessery. Tha b*~~& was tryna kill meh an tha resta us."
He then takes a step towards Gordel, finger pointed accusedly. "You. Yeh got anneh reason fer why yer daughter would come back from th'dead hopin to bring yeh to the grave along wit th'rest of us?"
Having spoken his mind, he reaches at his belt for a small vial, uncaps it, and chokes down its contents.
Lesser Vigor ==> Over the next 11 rounds, Duglan is healed from 24 to 35 HP
Gromtheb dismisses the bane on his bow (3 round remaining) and picks up his greatsword, puts away his bow, and walks over to Alaba, ready to strike her is she gets up (not a readied action, just ready to take an AOO) "We need to restrain this anathema and fast. I don't think that it is going to stay down for long."
Alaba decapitated, we'll go off initiative for now.
Gordel responds Th' hells iff'n I know! Undead e'er got reason fer annythin'?
Velinari awkwardly stares at Gordel, not responding
"Fascinating as the abomination may have been, Velinari, I don't believe this to be the time or place for study," Harris says evenly before turning to Gordel. "In any case, your daughter seems to have become a type of undead called a revenant. Such beings tirelessly pursue vengeance on those who slew them. Now, for whatever reason, she seemed to become enraged when she saw you. So either you killed her or her killer somehow impersonated you when he, she, or it killed her." He pauses, thinking. "Unless a spellcaster capable of creating and controlling undead creatures is trying to create the impression that one or both of the above scenarios is the case. Either way, we need to find out who or what is really behind this."
Well ah sure as th' planes above didn' kill mah own daughter. An ain't no spellcasters here 'cepting you all an th' Father, so unless you's did it I'm guessin' I was impersonated.
Speakin' o' the Father, someone should go an' get him, t' lay her soul t' rest all over again. Damn... It just don't end, do it?
"Seems that way. Gromtheb, you and I should go get the priest. The rest of you should stay here, protect Gordel and the inn, and keep that thing from doing anything."