Half-Hitch unbars the door and moves through with the others yelling at Janore to close it behind them and not to open it again until he says so.
Below you, a half dozen dripping forms gaze up at you: five drowned sailors and their captain. The captain looks to have been a tall Ulfen dressed in the remains of Chelish finery- several centuries outdated and badly decomposed. His burning red eyes take you in as he chokes up on a heavy axe.
Then in a voice from the darkest sea trenches, the captain commands in accented Taldan, "Haf ot dem, T'ralls!" The sailors gaze up at you through dead eyes and smile with algae stained teeth, an act that released a torrent of thick dark blood from their slashed throats.
the Groom points a finger down the murderhole at anything he can see.
The drowned men move to comply- two try to negotiate the broken stairs and one attempts to shinny a support beam, but their bloated fingers don't offer much grip and they struggle to climb up to the balcony.
Oh, gods, they're ugly. Jim will stand ready to shove off any of the waterlogged wights who might get a purchase on the balcony.
Dingus decides to concentrate on the big cheese sending him a wake up Vapor viper.
MM
Round 3:
Dibbets stumps past his mates to deliver another fortifying dose of Gozreh's indifference to Jimmer.
Round 4
Kaul plucks a javelin from his quiver and launches it at the nearest deader;
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A pair of serpentine force bolts strike the tall dead Ulfen man and Kaul chucks a javelin into the face of the climbing deadite causing him to lose his grip and fall back to the floor. Dibbets takes care of bolstering fortitude as Jim readies for the attack. Other than the captain, the dead men bear no weapons, but you reckon a blow from one those water laden limbs would hurt quite a bit nonetheless.
The captain swears, "Gottenverdammer Zauberer!" and moves to the center of the room muttering as thick fog rises from the floor filling the entire room and obscuring everything beyond your armspan. Suddenly two dead sailors lurch over the edge of the balcony and into view bringing a stench like muck marinated death. Half-Hitch screams and tosses his dagger past his attacker.
the Groom makes for the balcony but finds it filling up quickly. He takes a step back (to A-13)and points an accusatory finger at the deader before him(C-13) before a sickly yellow light springs forth.
Round 4:
The descent of mists leaves Dibbets uneasy... but not for long. Calling on Gozreh's aid, he takes an almighty breath in and a step back before exhaling with force. An eruption of wind spews forth from his mouth flooding past Kaul and Dingus and leaving a slight smell of rotted meat and stale beer in it's wake.
Round 3:
Jim advances into the thick of the fight , going around Kaul, and takes a swipe at the deader at D-12. With the fog cleared by dint of Dibbets' deed, the Taldan has little trouble seeing well enough to connect with his curved knife.
Dibbets blows... and the fog clears a touch. The stench certainly doesn't lessen although it now has some competition. Jim enters the fragrant zone and hacks a chunk off the waterlogged dead man.
Round 5
Kaul chuckles to himself, taking delight in Half Inch's screams through the fog.
Cleft lip sneering the brute thug unsheathes Bess and brings her to bear on the same deader that Jimmer stuck;
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1-20 misses
Ranged touch
Squirming Maggots of Undead doom (Disrupt undead)
Dingus vomits forth a ball of tiny squirming and hungry snakes, and throws them at the undead captain.
With Jim in place, the Groom steps up and takes advantage of the distraction, swinging the recently repaired mace.
Dingus retreats around the corner with a toss of a handful of maggoty pale snakes that gnaw on the drowned sailor. the Groom steps forward to gang up on the deadite, but his swing skitters off the slimy leather armor that still protects it.
Kaul gleefully steps up to join the melee, but his powerful swing narrowly misses the dead man and thunks into the wooden floorboards instead. Trapped in the corner, Half-Hitch protects himself by wildly waving his dagger, but fails to deflect a heavy arm that smashes into him covering him with muck and rotted flesh causing the halfling to immediately lose his lunch.
The sailor at Jim’s feet grabs for his legs while another clambers up and clobbers him with a heavy arm covered in liquefied flesh, worms, and assorted scum eaters. Dibbets looks up in alarm as yet another dead sailor looms into view after having obviously made it up the damaged stairs.
Round 5:
Dibbets curses under his breath at getting pegged up in the corner by the masses of liquefaction. Calling upon the grace of Gozreh to gird his form, he hunkers down.
Round 5:
Jim easily keeps his lunch in place. "Have to do better than that, mate...I've seen Dibbets after a bender, and trust me--you're not in the same league."
As the sodden sailor at his feet grabs for him, Jim lands a solid chop with his kukri; he isn't able to get a decent shot at the one next to him, though.
Jim hacks a hand off the grabby sailor slowing him down considerably. Dibbets releases some more wind.
Dingus Vipers G14 then steps back to E20.
Vapor viper
the Groom continues to swing the lump of steel. He finally seems to have gotten the balance of it.
Round 6
As things get a might tight, the thug continues to chuckle to himself at the thought of Half Inch being deadified, and he stabs viciously at the deader nearest Dibbs;
"Hur...hur-hur-hur..."
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Pressed on both sides by Jim and the Groom, the dead sailor leaves the Groom wide open and is quickly brained by Besmara's avenger. Dingus blasts the newcomer gaining his attention. The dead man lurches forward and smacks the sorcerer with heavy blow that splatters foul muck across his robes.
Kaul's new friend manages to duck Bess's bite and riposte with a soggy slam. And the one handed deader bites Jim's pant leg, once again attempting to pull him off the balcony.
Down below, the fog clears revealing a last deadite struggling with climbing the fallen stairs as most of his fingers have been nibbled off by sea creatures. The Captain however, has disappeared.
Pressed on both sides by Jim and the Groom, the dead sailor leaves the Groom wide open and is quickly brained by Besmara's avenger. Dingus blasts the newcomer gaining his attention. The dead man lurches forward and smacks the sorcerer with heavy blow that splatters foul muck across his robes.
Kaul's new friend manages to duck Bess's bite and riposte with a soggy slam. And the one handed deader bites Jim's pant leg, once again attempting to pull him off the balcony.
Down below, the fog clears revealing a last deadite struggling with climbing the fallen stairs as most of his fingers have been nibbled off by sea creatures. The Captain however, has disappeared.
HP 14/23
Fortitude Save
Round 6:
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Round 6:
Fort Save:
Slugged in the kisser by a fetid and filthy arm Dibbets is left with a foul taste in his mouth. Spitting the weeks old crap back out of his gob he takes a break, hoping that Bess might have something to say...
Round 7?
Despite being covered in dead man’s muck, Kaul holds onto his breakfast and launches another vicious attack at his soggy foe;
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the Groom steps up (5' to C-13) and tries to free Jim from his watery embrace.
Round 6, 4/7 Level 1 spells, HP 23/23
Dingus blasts F14 with a vapor viper, then turns around to make sure nothing...(Like the Captain) is sneaking up behind him.
Vapor Viper
Perception
"Find a good place to hide, and warn me of any danger that I might miss Richard".
Perception.
"Hisss...hiss.hissssss"
Reptilian
"I don't like those things". "They are ugly and smell bad".
Round 6:
"Argh! Let go of, me, you--" His voice trails off as Jim strains against the moldering mariner's embrace, but to no avail.
Round 7:
Dibbets hunkers down "Step up Kauly, an give me a spot tae back off to" trying his best to avoid the wet and slimy ministrations of his opponent.
Dingus gives the newcomer a welcoming blast, but it remains standing and lurches at the halfling before it. Dibbs manages to dodge the sodden swings while Jim tries to wrench his leg from the rotting maw of his assailant. the Grooom steps up and smacks it with his found mace, but it fights on trying to drag Jim over the edge as Kaul hacks its mate into chum.
The last dead man finally clambers up the ruined stairs and heads for the melee which is far from over as the captain reappears from the southern barracks with reinforcements!
Half-Hitch strategically takes this moment to go reassure Janore.
Round 8
Grinning like a loon Kaul sidesteps past Dibbs and sets about introducing Bess to the sogger threatening his wee mate:
"Hur-hur-hur-hur...Hur-hur... Get behind me Dibbs... Chop-chop like...hur-hur-hur!"
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Round 8:
Dibbs takes the proferred step back into the hole left by Kaul, and pulls the healy-poky device from his belt-loop in readiness. He then gives himself a slap across the face to remove some of his fatigue.
Dingus tosses some maggot snakes at F14.
Ranged Touch, into Melee
Round 7:
Jim again strains to pull the slimy sailor off of his leg.
Dingus flings more pale snakes that are less than aerodynamic missing the target. Dibbs takes shelter behind Kaul as he hacks down another deader. Jim manages to kick off his reeking barnacle as the dead move in.
"Back to the depths with ya." the Groom clobbers the dangler one more time.
the Groom dispatches Jim's hanger-on with a sharp blow to the head and it falls below. The last two drowned men topside charge into the fray, but fail to land a telling blow on Kaul and Jim. Surprisingly, the reinforcements seem to be waiting for something. What they are waiting for is soon revealed as the captain moves beneath the balcony which suddenly shudders as he attacks a support with his heavy boarding axe.
A warning hiss from Richard warns Dingus just in time as he narrowly avoids a punch from one of the fallen monks that appears out of nowhere on the balcony behind him.
Round 8:
Seeing that the deader at E-14 is worse off than the other, Jim chops across at it to try to clear a retreat for Dingus, but misses. "Fall back to the room, 'fore the balcony comes down!"
Round 9
"Hur... I'll buy ye some time Jimmer! OH GREAT AN WORTHY TUM! AIDE YER SERVANT AGAINST THESE SALTY SOGGERS!!!"
With that Kaul chops at the same deader as Jimmer :
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