Luxanna will search for a place to set her torch on the wall before drawing her shield and sword and detecting evil in a direction of the door.
Luxanna, your detect evil spell shows multiple faint evil auras in a single file line directly on the other side of the door. Within the range of the spell you can sense a total of 7, but the last two are only partial, like a wall blocks part of the emenation.
BAN-CRACK!
With a final thundering blow the wooden door cracks down the center. The side with the hinge swings inward, giving you a view of a hallway of walking corpses. They wear only a few soiled rags, with flesh rotting off their bones. One from further back in the row pushes forward, pushing through the doorway and into the room . A second moves into the doorway. As they stumble forward you notice that they move with an unnatural quickness, arms outstretched.
Silenly, Kimbwe steps forward between his companions, then draws his katana in a smooth arc that slashes across the zombie.
At the end of his slash, Kimbwe falls back to a guard position, both hands now on the hilt of his katana.
I forgot to address the torch. I was editing my post to do so...but the forum ate it...sad panda.
You will have to trust me. I rolled perception for Luxxana to search for a crevasse for the torch and got a 13.
Prior to the door cracking open Luxxana managed for find a crack in the masonry of the wall, about halfway between the door and the fountain. (Placed on map).
Please remember if you don't have special senses and are outside of the 20' light radius any attacks you make will have a penalty (within 40' is a 20% miss chance, outside of 40' is blindness, so 50% miss chance plus some nasty effects on your AC.) If you have low light vision these ranges are doubled.
Hakak slowly moves forward to see what the ruckus is all about. As he walks, his great axe drags along the ground. It causes a loud grating noise to follow along him, echoing through the room.
With no where to move and swing her blade, Dyarendi tosses a splash of acid on the zombie.
But her heart is not into the attack.
Karran holds his glowing blade aloft to better light the scene of battle. He readies himself should the walking corpses break through the line.
Snikket growls in frustration seeing his avenue of attack blocked. He drops back to give himself some space and draws his Longbow. He takes a second to aim and looses an arrow into the first walking corpse.
Luxanna takes wild swing at the nearby zombie then swiftly follows through with slam of her shield.
"Gah! I hate zombies!" The others are crowded around the door, keeping the creatures at bay. This suits Zebrynna just fine. Taking mental stock of her inventory, she realizes that she doesn't have anything that would be much use here. Looking around the room, she spots the fountain again. That water is definitely magical, and not in a good way. An idea forms in her mind, and she retrieves an empty vial, filling it with water.
Zebrynna - As you pull water from the fountain and into the empty vial you notice the magical aura goes with it, but does not seem as strong as the fountain itself. You would surmise that there is something about the fountain that strengthens and sustains the enchantment on the water. The potency of the enchantment will slowly fade now having been removed from the fountain.
As you draw the water from the fountain the magic aura of the fountain itself seems to intensify. You don't know what that means, but something has changed.
Under the concerted efforts of both Flair and Luxxanna the zombie at the lead of the pack falls to their ministrations. Appearing to be unaffected by the felling of a comrade, one of the zombies further back in the line pushes through the crowd to take his place.
Kimbwe slashes at the zombie in front of him, and then steps back. "Kimbwe shall share the glory of combat with his companions!" he declares.
Readies to slash at the next zombie to move forward. If the Zombie that combusted is still aflame will take a 5 step down afterwards.
"I said hold the line, fool! Are you trying to get one of us killed?" Karran hisses at his fellow catfolk in their racial tongue. He steps forward to fill the gap left by Kimbwe.
He lashes out at the zombie with both sawtooth sabers.
EDIT - Large Edit Coming, if you read this before disregard...I really screwed up. *sigh*
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Zebrynna, with all the distraction around you it is very hard to concentrate. You know you have read something about enchantments that change on interaction, but you can't quite recall it or what it might mean in this situation. If people would stop making so much noise you could probably remember...it is right there on the tip of your brain.
Kimbwe slashes the front zombie across the chest, dealing some decent damage before retreating. Karran moves up into the place that he vacated, massacering the zombie in front of him. It falls to the ground (Zombie in position B)
Flair attempts to cast a spell, getting a pound atop her shoulder for her troubles, she manages to get her spell off despite the distraction though, wreathing her hands in flame before pressing them against the zombie's chest.
The zombie smoulders, groaning in undead pain, but does not ignite. It then crumples to the ground resuming the appearane of fully dead and not just mostly dead, the fire being too much for it. (Zombie in position A)
Two more zombies move into the vacated spots, and yet there still seems to be no end to them down the hall.
The zombie in the doorway (position A) strikes at Flair.
While the other one barrels into Luxxana, apparently trying to force her back and break through the battleline around the door.
Confirmed!
x2=18
Slashing out viciously with her scimitar though she is able to stop his advance before he can bring the force of his weight against her. He crumbles to the floor in front of her.
No additional zombies move into that square this round, leaving just the one standing in the doorway.
This round it is just Flair that takes any damage, please note the 7...
Snikket chitters unhappily as his arrow misses it's target. He whistles to Scruz, who chuffs at his companion in reply. Snikket nocks another arrow and draws his bowstring again, shaking his hairless head in frustration. He looses an arrow at the zombie in the doorway.
Frustrated that she still can't find a spot to move to attack the zombies, although in the back of her mind she is glad that she isn't putting herself in harms way, the tiefling flings a bolt of acid at the zombie in the doorway.
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Hakak grabs his unholy symbol and whispers a blessing to those spirits around. He releases his grip on the wooden symbol and it falls back to rest against his chest, briefly clattering against his breastpalte. One of the spirits that only he can see moves to inhabit his body. Hakak does not resist the spirit's influence over him as the spell begins to take effect. Once done, he continues walking forward.
"Hakak no coward, fool. Hakak would rather you die in here. Hakak worth lots of dirt."
Kimbwe smoothly sheathes his katana. "It seems that many of Kimbwe's companions wish to join the melee! Then let Kimbwe fight from afar!"
He gets his bow out and nocks an arrow.
That Hakak fellow is smarter than he looks...
Considering the vial in her hand, Zebrynna realizes that forcing the enchanted water down a zombie's throat may be harder than she thought at first.
* * * * * * *
Jail cell. Rough, unworked stone. Iron bars, space to reach an arm through. Space to reach for freedom. A ring of keys, hanging on the wall. A world away. Reaching, stretching, desperation. It's no use.
Then - a sudden jangling. Hope! Reaching again, more jangling. Floating keys, freedom impossibly traversing the void.
Falling keys, clattering on the floor.
* * * * * * *
Approaching the others, Zebrynna remembers the keys and the plan, once broken, reform anew in her mind. I don't know if I can pull that off, but it's worth a shot.
Luxanna steps up and resumes with the slash and bash.
Immunity to any effect that requires a Fortitude save (unless the effect also works on objects or is harmless).
***
Luxxana manages to finish off the zombie in the doorway before it gets any additional chances to press the attack.
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With an opening at the front of the pack the lead zombie moves forward and again tries to bullrush Luxxanna out of the doorway.
He gets a rather nasty slice across the chest for his efforts, and unfortunately cannot make Luxxanna budge an inch.
There is some milling in the line behind him, but without a path forward the zombies just moan and gnash their teeth angrily.
For once, Kimbwe says nothing, letting his bow sing for him, instead.
Seeing zombies fall causes Snikket's indecipherable chittering to grow louder and more incessant. As the feral noises become more frenzied Scruz begins to shift impatiently, chuffing and clawing the ground with his feet. Snikket continues to fire at the zombie leading the pressing horde.
It seems like it's worth a shot, until she remembers that the undead are immune to petrification. Too bad. A zombie statue would have made for an effective barrier. Seeing that she's no good where she's at, she retreats from the knot of fighters pressed near the door and begins examining the other entryways.
Luxxanna grabs her holy symbol and holds it aloft.
Sarenrae may these fouls creatures bathe in your eternal light
Hakak moves around behind the rest the of the door guards and into a position both closer to the action and where he too can become a door guard.