Sefanit's ray misses and Professor Thorne's arrow pierces the zombie's chest, but it still stands. The guests flee in fear toward the southern end of the room. One of the servants provokes 2 AoOs and she falls dead to the ground. Even more fearfully, the servant who fell dead to the ground now twitches and stands as an undead zombie!
Round 2: Zombies!
The zombie whom Sefanit missed last round takes a 5' step and attacks her!
One of the zombies on the western side of the room dashes across the aisle and attacks the professor, slamming his shoulder and inflicting some damage!
Last two zombies who can act this Round attack Lilia! They are too stupid to flank and the paladin easily avoids their clumsy blows!
"Damn it, Professor, stay back. You're going to get yourself killed if you don't listen to me!" Devon rapidly loads quarrels and lets loose at the zombie in front of the Professor and the zombie in front of Sefanit! If he takes them down, he nods his cap at them.
Lilia again swings her falchion with all her might at the injured zombie. She remains deathly silent while trying to dispatch of the undead.
Power attack
Damage
The half-elf's first bolt pierces the zombie's skull in front of the Professor and it crumbles to the ground, while the second one whizzes across the room, perforating the skull and exploding out the zombie's eye, as it too falls. Lilia more traditionally just beheads her opponent.
The zombies' unwavering advance is starting to concern Sefanit quite a lot. She can only back up so far before there's no more room. She decides it's time to change her approach to them.
After another step back, She extends her hands toward the two advancing on her. As she cries out "polttavat sormet" a halo of arcane runes appear around her hands. At the conclusion of her utterance, they flow forward from her hands and become a fan of flames. The sheets of flame reach out to engulf both zombies.
There is only one zombie in front of Sefanit, as Devon dropped the other one. Sefanit's fire consumes the zombie and it collapses to the ground a charred husk!
He moves next to Devon and shoots an arrow at the last remaining zombie.
Round 3: Zombies
The last standing zombie attacks Lilia: ...miss
Suddenly, three of the murdered servants stand this round as a zombies!
The crowd of onlookers gathered in the southern portion of the room cry out in terror as the undead menace appears endless!
Lilia again swings her falchion with all her might at the zombie in front of her. This time she warns the remaining bystanders. ”Take cover, everyone. Let us dispatch these undead, and stay out of the line of Fire!”
Power attack
Damage
Sefanit curses herself for being so slow to put down the zombies. Those servants have have been saved if she could have gotten to them in time.
She's also troubled. Though she doesn't know all the in and outs of such things, the spontaneous rise of zombies from the dead seems very odd....
She takes aim at the zombie closest to her and sends another ray of positive energy at it.
Devon takes a 5' step back and shoots at the zombie in front of him and the zombie nearest Sefanit.
Only one zombie remains and it attacks Sefanit, but misses poorly.
Devon shoots the last zombie:
Lilia watches the others tear through the zombies. Assuming the last one was taken out, she moves to the still standing warriors. ”Impressive display of skill. Can any of you tell me what’s went on and why the zombies ended up here? My guess is that those items were cursed somehow. I was sent here to keep a close eye on all of them, in case of this eventuality.”
Devon's bolts do indeed bring down the last of the zombies, as the whole fearful and nervous crowd lets out a gasp of relief. After Lilia speaks, the crowd starts murmuring "Cursed items?! It's the auction house's fault!" The voices start to raise and turn angry and threatening, as the representatives of the auction house gather in a corner, protesting their innocence and telling the crowd of onlookers to calm down. The situation is escalating quickly.
Lilia warns the crowd to not panic. ”Looks to me that the threat is dealt with. Theundead have been smited. Hopefully things are safe now. Be calm,” she directs at hearing the murmurs.
Diplomacy