Daseem nodded, he wasn't particularly bothered were they went next as long as there was something to fight!
The next candidate to fight comes into sight in the hall straight ahead. An eight legged horse with the upper half of a human body - sans head - where the neck of the horse should be.
The creature charges in a canter. Half way he throws his horned severed head at Amira, which bowls her down. He continues to charge through to run everyone down. The head, as if by ghostly hand returns to the creature.
Bupkis steps up and whips the terrifying creature, "How dare you hurt Amira!"
After being knocked down like a rag doll, Daseem growled "GORRRUM!" and he was suddenly surrounded by inky darkness! You knew roughly where he was but not precisely.
He then picked himself up and waited for the eight legged monstrosity to make another pass!
[ooc]Move action, get up from prone.
Amira looks bruised. She gets up and moves back to the secret room, where she will not be run over again.
Bupkis misses with his ONE attack. The headless - or head detached - horse-man turns to repeat the exercise.
Daseem also fails to make his blade connect.
As the eight legged monstrosity thundered past them, six feet of enchanted steel flicked out as Daseem sent a cut in its direction.
With a deep growl from within his cocoon of darkness he called once more for Gorum's aid! And then he sunk into a ready stance, hoping to strike the Sleipnir when it made it's next pass.
Menrozzar stabs out at the headless horse thing with the longspear as it runs by again.
Picking himself up after he gets Trampled again, Menrozzar roars as he enrages, then sets the longspear, braced for the thing's charge.
From the safety of the room, Amira starts to sing an encouraging tune.
This time Daseem and Menrozzar are prepared but only Merozzar draws blood. Or black ichor. Hard to tell.
Bupkis powers up and shoots a crossbow bolt at the enemy
As the group manages to not hit the mosntrosity, it stops running over and instead goes with a charge on daseem.
Bupkis blasts away again at the creature.
The headless undead hits Daseem despite the darkness surrounding him. It seems to be no issue for it. But Daseem cuts deep into the torso, before he feels the lance. Bupkis fires away and hits the running corpse hard.
With the headless undead having chosen to stop trampling them and move up into reach, Menrozzar stops using the spear to brace against a charge. Instead. he steps, up and begins ripping and tearing into the thing with teeth and claws.
Daseem grunted as the lance took him high in the chest. He dragged himself off it and sent a flurry of cuts in the general direction of the monstrosity!
Hurting, Daseem beseeched Gorum to keep him in the fight!
Daseeem and Menrozzar have a hard time damaging the headless horseman. Menrozzar takes a bite out of the walking corpses flesh, but his claws slide off. Daseem doesn't manage to hit at all.
Having Menrozzar gnaw on his flank makes him the target of the next attacks.
Menrozzar was hurting badly from the beating, but he was still up. He just had to tear into this thing and finish it off!
Menrozzar shreds the creature to pieces, tearing it apart with claws and teeth.
Menrozzar ends his rage, breathing heavily over the slain...thing...and swaying, as he is hurt quite badly. "I could use some more healing, please."
"If it keeps going that rough, we'll run out of healing very fast."
"I know. Maybe we can find some more somewhere around here. What does that belt do?"
"It is a belt of thunderous charging." Amira explains. "The shirt has strong protection magic on it and the lance some."
"I was h-hurt too. Maybe Bupkis can heal?" remarked Daseem.
Once the worst of his wounds had been dealt with, Daseem remarked, "We should get a m-mmoove on."
Bupkis heals Daseem
"We should rest soon", he advises. "Maybe best if we return to camp?"
"That is risky. This headless horse thing will rejuvenate within a few days. If we're unlucky, it will be back tomorrow already." Amira points out.
Menrozzar frowns. "Is there a way to prevent it's rejuvenation. For instance, if you burn a troll, it can't generate. Would a similar thing work on this?"
"It should be possible, but it is individual for each undead and therefore hard to tell how to do it."
Daseem blinked slowly, before muttering, "Mebbe we s-should press on? Don't want to spends d-days here!"
From the entrance hall and the large hall with the columns there are six doors to choose where to go next.
"Let's start with that first door on the right in the entrance hall. Best we make sure we aren't leaving any enemies at our backs."
Menrozzar will look over the door to see if it is locked or trapped.
The hewn stone wall of this long hall has partially collapsed to the east, giving way to a series of large tunnels caked with rime and ice that head eastward into the darkness. On the west there is a large double door. Ahead is another pair of doors, that looks unhinged.
Bupkis notes, "Seems very cold this way! Anyone have extra protection against deep freeze?"
Amira magics Daseem back to full health with a stick, before he enters.
Bupkis advances carefully, looking for traps and enemies lurking in ambush.
Bupkis moves towards the unhinged doors. There is nothing that jumps out of the dark of the tunnel. Some unnatural mourning is heard from ahead.
Bupkis is wary of the unhinged doors, so he tries to experiment by manipulating them at a distance.
The one wing of the door is stuck and doesn't move, but the other one stands open anyway. There is just nothing to see from the safe distance Bupkis checks.
Bupkis sneaks ahead and looks through the open door.
There is a huge thing made of bones with four arms, four legs and at two arms it has blades instead of hands.