Sevenspawn explodes a zombie with his hammer while the rest of the group clean up the remaining ones, which collapse to the ground. There's a moment of silence as you look around the area.
End of Combat
Not wanting the adhesive to solidify in his mouth, Donnell quickly opens the door to the north and spits!
"We should remain alert. The plague does not normally animate its victims after death, or the city would have been overrun by the shambling dead by now. A necromancer of some sort has plied their trade here, so there may be magical traps as well as shamblers."
Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand: "Yeah, I just didn't want to see it go to waste . Let's see if we can find out what's going on."
Sevenspawn looks at the mess of a zombie before him as he puts his hammer away and produces his wand. He activates it with some low arcane words, pointing it at Thod first before turning it on himself.
"We should remain alert. The plague does not normally animate its victims after death, or the city would have been overrun by the shambling dead by now. A necromancer of some sort has plied their trade here, so there may be magical traps as well as shamblers."
Nodding, Sevenspawn squats over a couple of bodies to see if he can determine the cause of death before animation, be it from the plague or other means.
Thod stands at the ready, keeping his eyes and ears open for any sign of danger and watching over his comrades as they search for clues. He gives a slight nod to Sevenspawn in thanks for the healing.
Raven Six reloads her crossbow, checks her vials and flasks, then joins Donnell in his survey.
Donnell and Ravenspawn inspect the north room. There are no traps, and the room is a simple sitting area with nothing of note. You begin moving around, checking other doors on the main floor. However, you hear the sound of low moaning from the south door as you move.
Donnell's sharp ears pick up a pitter-patter of something moving quickly.
The moaning grows louder, and it becomes clear that zombies are coming from the east as well. The south door shudders.
Sevenspawn takes a while to look over the bodies. Curiously, they appear to have died from blood veil. Which is incongruous with the fact the area looks like there was a slaughter here. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the time for a proper examination.
[b]"Unless someone has a way of blocking this door, I suggest we either open it and try to deal with these ones first, or we just back away and let them come to us."[b]
"Another bomb, gentlemen?" Raven Six suggests as she readies her crossbow.
Sevenspawn also palms a vial of Holy Water, motioning that they should wait here where they know the ground already.
"Another bomb, gentlemen?"
He nods at Raven Six, readying himself.
Raven Six readies an explosive and nods.
Thod advances, holding his halberd at the ready.
The south doors finally fly open, and to the east you see three more zombies coming in. Seven zombies in total are approaching - but you're ready for thatm.
Seeing the group of zombies pushing through the door to the south, Donnell lets fly with a vial of Holy Water at the first one directly south of him.
"Thod, you are in the way. Please move to the side," Raven Six calls.
Provided the doughty Dwarf complies, Raven Six fires an explosive arrow at the zombie directly south of her and reloads.
By chance positioned in a way that can affect all the arriving undead, Sevenspawn activates Channel Energy once more.
He steps back into the corner, getting the hell out of Donnell's way.
As soon as the door flies open a vial of holy water goes sailing, followed by an exploding crossbow bolt, and a blast of holy light. The zombies moan as they are completely annihilated to the south! The remaining zombies to the east don't look so hot either.
You hear moaning from upstairs.
You distinctly hear a female voice say "Oh f*ck me." from upstairs, more of an expression of frustration than a request.
Raven Six
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Zombies:
Black (-5)
Purple (-10)
Plain (-10)
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Sevenspawn
Donnell
Thod
"Let us try to end this matter expediently, gentlemen," Raven Six says as she marches down the room to get a good view of the eastern door. "These shambling corpses offend me."
As soon as she has a good view, Raven Six clicks another vial into place in the bolt, takes aim on the zombie directly ahead of her and fires!
Unfortunately, the bolt misses miserably, and Raven Six clicks her tongue with annoyance. "That's a waste of a perfectly good bomb," she complains. "Over to you, gentlemen."
Raven Six slips, and her crossbow bolt flies into the ceiling. There's an enormous explosion and a chandelier crashes down inches from the party! The zombies move in during the confusion. One crosses pased Thod to get at Raven Six, and he cuts it down with his halberd. However, he takes a nasty bite as he does so!
Raven Six
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Zombies:
Black (-5)
Plain (-10)
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Sevenspawn
Donnell
Thod (-7)
"OW! Dangit!"
Thod grunts in annoyance, and moves to block the door and get a better angle at the restless dead.
"More zombies and likely a necromancer upstairs."
Noting that Thod and Raven Six have blocked the door to the east, Donnell shrugs, quaffs a dishwater-grey potion, grimaces, and heads for the stairs: "I'll scout ahead."
Thod swipes the head off of one zombie with his halberd, and Sevenspawn moves up to cave in the skull of the last zombie with his warhammer.
End of Combat
Donnell quaffs his potion and flattens himself against the wall, ready to creep up the stairs.
Zombies are unintelligent undead and if left to their own devices do... nothing. The fact they were pantomiming having a lovely party is really weird.
Donnell slinks up the stairs to peer into the room above.
Finely framed works of art cover the walls of this gallery, looking down upon the hall below. Great windows look out ot the west and south, and an alcove to the east is set with chairs for musicians. In mockery of this room's beauty, several costumes corpses are positioned about the hall, some posed like ghastly statues while others are rigged to look like contemplative critics.
Three zombies dressed in flashy metallic costumes wander aimlessly through the room, pantomiming appreciation and criticism of the Korvosan cityscapes and Carowyn portraits on the walls. Periodically a zombie stumbles over one of the dozen dead bodies on the floor here.
Mingling amongst them is a blonde adult elven woman, dressed in jester's gear. She giggles delightedly as she wanders over to a zombie, speaking in a cloyingly cutesy, sing-song voice. "Now now Mister Buttercups, there's some vewwy bad people downstairs, and we need you to eat ALL of their brains! Every last drop! That's how you get dessert... prrr.." She licks the side of the zombie's face. It seems to recognize her commands and turns to move towards the stairs.
However, as she turns with it, her eyes lock with Donnell.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" She lets out the ear-piercing shriek usually reserved for ill-tempered children. With that, she turns to bolt into one of the rooms. She rushes to a room and opens a door. "KILL HIM! KILL HIM!"
The zombies look confused.
Downstairs, all of you hear the ear-piercing shriek that indicates Donnell has prooobably been spotted.
Raven Six gulps down an extract of False life.
"Shall we go meet our hostess, gentlemen?" she asks.
Thod doesn't wait around, and immediately pushes through everyone to race up the stairs.
"DONNELL!"
”No gentleman here today,” Sevenspawn growls, already deep into his desire to take more of his frustrations from this day out on the undead. He heads up after Thod after being shouldered aside.
The group move over to the base of the stairs. The zombies mill about looking for a target they can't see while the elven woman vanishes into one of the upstairs rooms, slamming the door behind her.
Sevenspawn
Raven Six
Thod
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Jolistina
Zombies
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Donnell
Thod charges up the steps, halberd forward, attempting to skewer the zombie directly across from the landing.
"Ah," Raven Six sighs as she watches Thod charge the zombies, and reloads her crossbow. "Into the fray."
Raven Six follows at a more sedate pace, and tries to get a good view of the next floor.
Thod leaps into action, charging up the stairs and slashing one of the zombies. Raven Six gets a good look of the floor. There are three doors to the north and the gruesome display of several corpses and zombies decked out like they are in the middle of a really good snobby party.
Donnell avoids touching the zombies and moves to the door the elf entered.
Sevenspawn and Raven Six charge up the stairs while Thod gives a zombie a mighty slash!
At the back of the party, Sevenspawn controls his snarling long enough to cast a simple Bless spell to assist his colleagues. He slips past them to get more central to their positions.
***
Raven Six feels some force attempt to influence her mindstate, but her subroutines effortlessly and efficiently prevent the intrusion. She draws a bead on the zombie so conveniently on a straight vector opposite her, and fires her crossbow at it.
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Sevenspawn blesses mostly everyone while Raven Six fires off a crossbow. It thunks pleasingly into the zombie and does absolutely nothing of note.
Donnell will open the door and continue to pursue the elven woman. If she is in the room beyond the door:
Donnell charges northwards and swings open the door to spot two zombies! They don't notice him and so he holds his shot. He doesn't see the woman in the room, although he's certain she ran into here. Meanwhile, Sevenspawn blesses this mess.
The zombies go as the zombies in the room start moving out. They bump into Donnell, grunt, turn around, and start going the long way around the stairs. The one zombie engaged with Thod swings out wildly, but just scrabbles at his armour uselessly.
Donnell decides not to take any chances that the elf might be hiding in the room, and tosses a small glass vial of glowing violet liquid into the centre of the room .
**WHUMPF**
A bright flash of blue light washes through the room, spilling slightly into the corridor.
As the light dissipates, Donnell steps into the room, crossbow ready.
Sevenspawn's ability to Channel Energy having worked well thus far, he focuses on his holy symbol again, able to affect all the zombies in the room.
"I am in a quandary," Raven Six proclaims out loudas she takes a dainty step back from the zombies. () "I do not appear to have appropriate melee weaponry to deal with these creatures. I cannot hurl my bombs about willy-nilly. I might affect one of you."