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"Those are horrifying!" Mihaela exclaims. "Protect the children!" as she dashes to their aid. She runs up to Kisasi and draws her dagger.
"Beware!" she cautions, "I've read about these in books, I've never encountered them before, these can grab larger creatures and mark you!"
With a loud bellowing charge, Orin engages the red hand.
Eyeing the situation for optimal placement, Del tries to figure out how to best position herself to protect the innocent. Pulling out her longspear she puts herself in a central place to attack if any of the hands decide to move up while at the same time threatening them all from distance. "Hold on Orin, I'll get behind it!"
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Hears the sounds of snarling and growling as you approach the town center Kisasi sprints forward to find several children being threatened by severed hands crawling across a gazebo. He fires off a bolt from his crossbow as he slides to a halt beside the dog and surprisingly manages to strike one of the hands. The only thing protecting the children is a mutt that is snarling, growling, and snapping at the hands as they continue their methodical approach.
Mihaela moves to beside Kisasi interposing herself between the hands and the children while shouting off what she knows of these creatures. Delixia deftly maneuvers herself into an advantageous fighting position so that she can strike multiple hands as needed and timing one of the hands lashes out piercing the putrid flesh of one of the hands and opening a grievous wound. Orin gives lets loose a mighty bellow as he charges in but the diminutive hands prove to be to quick for him to land a blow with his mighty axe. So instead of chopping a hand he instead splinters a board of the gazebo floor.
The hands sense far superior prey and turn on you all.
Crawling Hand Red moves 5 feet crawling onto Orin and attacks.
Crawling Hand Blue moves 10 feet crawling onto Delixia and attacks.
Crawling Hand Orange moves 15 feet crawling onto Kisasi and attacks.
The dog sensing an opportunity to get the children away quickly scampers off with the children chasing after.
Combat Round 1
Mihaela
Delixia
Orin
Crawling Hand Rad, 6 damage
Crawling Hand Orange
Dog
Crawling Hand Blue
Kessa
Crawling Hand Green
Kisasi
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Orin grinned Delexia in thanks as he swings his axe with all of his might.
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Orin finds his battleaxe swings true this time and splits the Crawling Hand in half before it can reach him.
Kessa raises her sword and sends it singing through the air barely missing the Crawling Hand. In turn it scrabbles onto Kessa and attacks.
Combat Round 1
Mihaela
Delixia
Orin
Crawling Hand Red
Crawling Hand Orange
Crawling Hand Blue
Kessa
Crawling Hand Green
Kisasi
Mihaela attempts to swipe at the hand (orange) and steps back to put some distance between herself and the hand.
After his last success, Orin charges in to flank the hand with Del.
Now that the hand has gotten a little to close for her liking, she drops the spear and pulls out her morningstar. She takes a step to the side and swipes at the creature but fails to get a good angle from her new position.
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Mihaela slashes at the nearest hand with her dagger and connects, piercing through the rotting flesh. Delixia drops her spear with a clatter on the wood decking of the gazebo and draws her morningstar as she sidesteps. With a swoosh of air Delixia aims to high and misses the hand nearest her. Orin charges in and finding himself in a good position to flank a hand with Kessa he strikes driving the edge of battleaxe clean through the hand splitting it in twain.
The crawling hand scrambles after Kisasi and attacks.
The crawling hand is unable to connect with Kisasi despite its best effort.
Combat Round 2
Mihaela
Delixia
Orin
Crawling Hand Red
Crawling Hand Orange, 4 damage
Crawling Hand Blue
Kessa
Crawling Hand Green, 7 damage
Kisasi
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Mihaela' blow lands with deadly precision ending the unlife of the crawling hand.
While you have successfully secured the safety of the children there are still screams being heard. The closest and clearest of the screams comes from the nearby general store. It sounds like the scream of a child and is closely followed by the scream of a grown women. More screams are able to be heard coming from the north side of the village. The hauntingly beautiful fiddle music is able to still be heard between the screams and ringing of steel blades.
You are also able to see a group of eight armed men standing guard outside of The Silk Purse. You can clearly make out six partially rotted bodies on the ground in front of the shop and the guards dispatch a seventh shambling corpse as you look on.
A middle aged male, dressed a bit finer than your average villager leans out of a second floor window of the The Silk Purse. "You all!" he says pointing in your direction. "I will pay you fifty gold pieces each to stay here with my guards and defend my shop! What say you?"
Looking up at the man in the window Del shouts, "Good sir! The threat to your store is what you see around you. We accept the offer to protect your store by eradicating this unnatural threat, but that cannot be done by standing still here. We must seek out the source of these hells and destroy it there."
Turning back to Kisasi, Del nods. "Agreed."
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As you enter the general store you notice a young girl and her mother clutching each other in the middle of the shop floor. The corpse of an old woman is standing in a doorway near the rear of the store and a suit of full plate lays on the floor in front of a corpse of what was once a gray bearded old man.
Combat Round 1
Mihaela
Orin
Kisasi
Old Male Corpse
Delixia
Kessa
Old Female Corpse
Orin makes towards the man that had shouted at them, his hands tightening in to fists. For him to sit there safe while women and children suffer...
He pulled himself away from the coward as the others begin to move away and follows.
Mihaela moves in with Kisasi, "What's going on here?" she asks looking around for the source of the threat.
"Oh dear, this place reeks of undeath." Mihaela moves up and readies her dagger protectively.
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Orin runs into the shop upon hearing the word "Undead" with his mighty axe leading the way.
The gray bearded old male corpse shambles towards Kessa with its arms raised and a rasping moan. You can hear its booted feet shuffle across the floorboards of the shop as it moves.
Combat Round 2
Mihaela
Orin
Kisasi
Old Male Corpse - Blue
Delixia
Kessa
Old Female Corpse - Red
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Delixia moves to place herself in the fray meanwhile Kessa swing goes wide as she stares the undead horror in voids that should have contained eyes in life.
The corpse of the old women shuffles forward from the doorway into the basement. Her fetid smell wafting towards Kessa as she does so.
Combat Round 3
Mihaela
Orin
Kisasi
Old Male Corpse - Blue
Delixia
Kessa
Old Female Corpse - Red
Mihaela quickly moves to put herself between the corpses and the mother and child. "You can do it!" she cheers on her companions.