'Stupid undead, I wonder how they joined the dopple gang.' "Go away!" Frustrated at the undead trying to kill him, Seamus drops the shortsword, stepping back and quickly draws and fires two arrows at the zombie
The first shot catches the white zombie in the chest and even though the arrow does not go all the way in, it does quite some damage.
Vincent slashes with the charged dagger after closing the distance.
Vincent manages to open a gnash in its chest, badly damaging the white zombie.
The zombies begin to slash at Claude.
One of them catches Claude in his ribs, the other is turned away by the green shield.
The other zombie continues to slash at Claude.
The zombie next to tries to stab him, which Vincent barely manages to dodge, then closes in with Seamus.
Dakash tries to cut at the Red zombie - the zombie just sidesteps out of the way.
Vincent slashes again at the zombie, hoping to finish it off. He shifts behind it to flank first.
Vincent manages to slice off the head of the zombie, and its two halves tumble to the floor.
Seaumus looks from his bow to the shortsword laying on the ground. Shrugging his shoulders he quickly draws two arrows and fires at the zombie caddy corner to him. His hands shaking bad enough the arrows fly the wrong direction almost hitting Howard.
Howard finds 2 arrows streaking his direction instead of the zombies. Thankfully Seamus's aim is so bad they fly over his head.
Dakash seems to have gotten worse over the night. He seems even weaker and more feverish and the black spots have spread to all over his body.
Vincent looks at Dakash. "You don't look so good. Come."
He shows him to Winter. "We will go take a look at your fort, but someone here should be able to do something about this."
Winter checks a rather sick Dakash out. "Hmm looks like you've contracted a bad case of ghoul fever and filth fever."
"Did you get bitten by a ghoul or went through the sewage lately?"
"I'll see what I can do. Donations to help the Brairstone Asylum refugees would be most appreciated."
She then channels grey healing energy into Dakash, trying to drive out the disease.
"He shouldn't do any strenuous activities over the next few days and get more rest."Winter tells Vincent. "I've managed to purge the diseases, he just needs some time to recover."
The party tithes 150 gp to the Brairstone Asylum refugee fund, as Dakash thanks Winter for her help.
Claude bites and claws at the zombie, with two claws clanking in effectually on the armor. He does manage to batter it further, leaving it barely up.
The zombies continue to cut at Claude, one of them stepping up.
One of the zombies manage to stab Claude in his chest.
Claude manages to finally rip the zombie he was attacking into two.
Stabbing Claude with a syringe actually makes Claude feel better as some of his wounds heal.
Vincent moves forward to slash the remaining zombie. (Study swift action)
"I can't tell which works better the sword or the bow." Confused Seamus looks from his bow to his sword, shrugging his shoulders he finally picks up the sword and thrusts it at the zombie before he steps back.
Vincent's blow glances off its studded leather armor, while Seamus manages to stab it, but does nothing.
Dakash attempts to slash up the blue zombie, but doesn't manage to slash through its hide.
One of the remaining zombies tries to slash at Vincent, wielding his longsword two handed and slicing him in the ribs. It then stepping back out of the flank between Dakash and Claude.
The last one neatly slices a large gnash in Claude's throat, as Claude collapses bleeding on the floor.
Seeing Claude fall, Dakash begins to channel eldritch blue energy into his dagger. He then lashes it out at the green zombie.
Dakash strikes the zombie twice, and it looks surprisingly, frightened of him.
Vincent moves out of the way of Seamus and slashes the remaining zombie. (Studied strike)
'We need to help Claude.' Seeing Vincent move, Seamus moves around Howard near Claude, and lays his hands on him. "Nice little lizard, don't bite uncle Seamus."
Vincent manages to cut the blue zombie in its knee.
Claude tries to bite at it from the ground, managing to get two claw strikes in despite his compromised position.
The blue zombie, surprised Claude is still living, continues to hack at him, and cuts him in the chest. Claude passes out.
The green zombie hightails it out of there.
Vincent growls in exasperation and slashes again at the zombie.
"Shoot the damn thing!"
Vincent nearly manages to lop its head off... But no, it's still stuck on by a stubborn silver of flesh.
Dakash finishes the job by neatly slicing its head off.
Claude doesn't wake up, but he seems to be breathing more easily after Howard administers the potion.
The remaining zombie continues fleeing out of sight.
Each of the zombies is in magistrate guard armor , and has a masterwork longbow and masterwork longsword. The room does not have anything of importance.
Overlooking the fort’s courtyard, this spacious room is fitted with bunk beds, small chests, and stools. A rancid smell lingers in the room. Searching the room yields nothing of value.
There is an open door leading to the courtyard, which the party had seen the constable go through. The party follows.
The fort’s courtyard is muddy, with patches of grass and weeds sprouting from the soil along the walls. A brick well stands at the center of the courtyard and a grate for grilling food stands against a wall to the south. On some crates piled by the side is a heap of half eaten dog bodies. A nauseating winged creature combines the features of a carrion bird, an ant, a bat, and a decomposing human in a most hideous manner flies in the air and the party identifies it as a byakhee, but this one seems more muscular then the one they encountered earlier. There is no sign of the constable,but there are footprints leading to a closed door northwest.
The Byakhee swoops down and bites Claude.
It does not manage to bite through Claude's hide.
Claude manages to nip its ankle and rakes one claw across its wing. It dodges the final claw.
"That is one ugly dead bird." Seamus fires at the flying abomination.
Seamus nearly hits Claude in the back with his arrows instead of the Byakhee!
Vincent helps Howard heal everyone and check the room. Afterwards, he chews on some mysterious herb, he pulls out a potion, swigs it around in his mouth and spits it back into the bottle. He then pulls a special decanter from his sash and gulps it down, causing his muscles to expand and ripple.
He burps and then looks around, "Alright, let's go. We have 50 minutes."
Vincent studies the creature, steps back 5ft to the right and up, and stabs the thing.
The thing in Vincent's pack assists him in defending, it's tentacles sneaking out and moving over and through his clothing.
Vincent manages to stab the creature quite badly.
Dakash tries to clobber the creature with his quarterstaff.
The creature easily dodges.
The byakhee continues to attack Claude.
One claw catches Claude on his shoulder. The rest bounce off Claude's thick hide.
Vincent moves around to flank now that he is out of melee range, then stabs again.
Vincent badly wounds the creature by stabbing it in the back.
Claude rakes at the beast, and does bring it down.
The party goes to the room where they saw the zombie dissappear into. Vincent checks the door and finds that its not trapped, nor locked.
He opens the door.
This L-shaped room is mostly empty, but holds a few neatly stacked piles of military-style camping gear sitting against the walls. A case of arrows sits near each of the arrow loops. An extinguished hooded lantern sits on the floor near the arrow loop in the western wall.
There are 4 of those zombie guards in the room. One of them is the one Dakash slashed at.
Two of the zombies shoot their longbow at Vincent, while two of them move up to strike at him
The arrows bounce off his toughened skin.
The other two zombies move up to strike at him. One of them manages to cut him in the shoulder.
Vincent growls, pulling out the sickle and charging it. "More of those damn things!"
Stepping back 5ft, he activates his extended reach and splashes some liquid on himself from a vial.
The thing attempts to boost his defenses again.