Kiril swings for goblin 'A's skull with his maul. "Beast person!?"
More or less trying to ignore the pounding of Flint's drum, Kayne draws his own rapier and engages a different zombie than the others.
Grinley attempts to light up a zombie, by throwing his flame at it.
Brunar attacks the Zombie that hit him , "OI! YOU HIT ME?! TIME FOR PERMANENT DEATH MEAT BAG! Brunar swings his mighty axe at Zombie C with fury!
The heroes have entered a chamber where goblin zombies are milling about
round 1 wrap up
Flint manages to beat the drum with one hand while expertly wielding a blade in the other.
Kiril smashes a goblins head, but the thing stays on its feet somehow
Kayne darts into the fray, leaving his ass behind in the care of Sandy.
With a quick thrust the man stabs through a goblin zombie with little effect.
Grinely is startled by the attack and flings the flame in his hand at the zombie which burns it badly
Finally Brunar enters the room swinging for the hills and the zombie that Kayne just stabbed and Grinley just burned
The stab, the burn, and the slice are horrible, but the zombie does not fall!
As they find their ground the party takes the advantage, gaining initiative against the zombies
Round 2, party has initiative
Flint - takes 4 damage
Grinley - takes 2 damage
Zombie A – takes 16 damage
Zombie B – takes 3 damage
Zombie C – takes 25 damage, drops to 1 HP
Taking advantage of the group's control of the battle, Kayne backs up from the zombie he'd attacked and unleashes an eldritch blast.
Pummeled yet again by another attack, the stabbed, slashed, and burnt Zombie staggers for a moment
The blast topples the zombie where it falls still as a corpse on the ground.
Pleased with his first attack against the undead menace, Grinley tries throwing another small ball of fire.
Flint manages to beat the drum with one hand while expertly wielding a blade in the other.
"You have tusks!" Flint shouts back to Kiril, thinking his logic to be self-evident.
Seeing Brunar unable to drop an already damaged zombie, Flint rolls away from his goblin and over to the dwarf. "Not like that, like this!" he says, coercing the dwarf toward the goblin he had been fighting, and assisting him.
Kiril starts to look for more targets--then realizes the zombie didn't go down. "Hells!" he curses, and hammers down on the zombie's skull again. "Stay dead!"
Brunar smiles and nods, "Aye! Thanks for thee advice Half ... FLINT!" , and then swings at the zombie directly in front of him determine to end its after life.
Brunar's mighty swing connects again and black ooze splatters but will that be enough to knock this "weeble wobble" down?
Round 2…
Grinley produces another flame and hurls it at one of the remaining zombies. There is a noticeable
*whoosh*
as some bit of garment still clinging to the goblin’s belt goes up in flames scorching the undead
Kiril swings his weapon overhead for a power smash , and lands a perfect blow that carries through the goblin’s head crushing the zombie into the ground for good
Brunar lines up a swing at the third zombie, after it has been badly burned by Grinley, leaving a huge gash. The blow sends the zombie into a spin, and when it stops its fist are flying
Spinning almost like a top the zombie comes close to Brunar
The small goblin zombie fist hit like hammers
Now the last zombie staggers even closer to Brunar
Round 3...
Brunar is captivated by the spinning zombie, and is slow to realize the thing is not done by a long shot. The creature spins around one more time and brings its fist upward aiming for the dwarf's head
Even though the zombie seemed to get the drop on Brunar this moment, the dwarf was ready to pull his head back before the small fists could hit him again
Flint - takes 4 damage
Grinley - takes 2 damage
Zombie A – takes 16 damage
Zombie B – takes 3 damage (19)
Zombie C – takes 25 damage, drops to 1 HP
Round 2
Zombie C – takes a blast and is destroyed
Zombie A - gets under Kiril's maul and is pasted to the floor
Zombie b - takes 3 damage (16)
Zombie B - takes 10 damage (6)
Brunar - takes 4 damage
Kayne maintains his distance from the zombie and fires another bolt of energy from his gauntlet.
Flint continues to harass the final zombie, trying to give Brunar an opening. "Did that dwarf just throw fire?!" he says, pointing an amazed finger at Grinley between kicks and ducks against the zombie.
Kiril stares at the flattened zombie a moment to make sure it doesn't get up--then turns and golf-swings at the remaining goblin zombie.
Round 3…
Kayne fires another blast, which momentarily halts the spinning zombie
and then with a small step toward it, Kiril swings upward with his maul sending the creature sailing across the room.
The blasted and pummeled zombie spins through the air, and miraculously lands on its feet, upright. The creature shrugs and starts moving back toward the party
Flint - takes 4 damage
Grinley - takes 2 damage
Zombie A – takes 16 damage
Zombie B – takes 3 damage (19)
Zombie C – takes 25 damage, drops to 1 HP
Round 2
Zombie C – takes a blast and is destroyed
Zombie A - gets under Kiril's maul and is pasted to the floor
Zombie B - takes 3 damage (16)
Zombie B - takes 10 damage (6)
Brunar - takes 4 damage
Round 3
Zombie B - Takes 12 damage (-6)saves and is at 1 hp
Zombie B - takes 10 damage (-9) saves and is at 1 hp
Brunar, "Aye, these zombies are tough for already being dead! DIE AGAIN! Brunar swings again hoping to take its second life away from it.
Grinley patiently waits for the melee types to cut the zombie down. A bead of sweat forms on the meek dwarf's brow when he sees it refuses to die. Almost somewhat feebly, he tries to toss a small flaming sphere at it.
Round 3, wrap up, maybe
Brunar swings at the zombie goblin one more time, with feeling
The axe cuts into the rubbery zombie hide
But the small undead menace will not go down
Round 4…
Seizing the initiative the zombie lurches at Brunar
The small fists of the zombie bash harmlessly against Brunar’s armor
Grinely is baffled by the seemingly unstoppable nature of this strange undead creature, but then again he knows the power of a good fire to reduce anything to ash, eventually. Summoning forth another small ball of flame, Grinely heaves it at the zombie. The fire singes the zombies chest releasing a foul odor
When the smoke clears the Zombie is still standing, for a moment, and then shrugs, and mumbles
It’s a fair cop
And collapses into a pile of burnt, broken and blasted limbs
"Vitheras f!+@ing tear them apart for eternity, three--THREE goblins. We need a Godsdamned pit to throw them in instead, this is f#@$ing ridiculous. At least the skeletons just fall apart..." Kiril's angry shouting degrades into frustrated mumbling as he steps over the zombie corpses and searches the room.
Grinley notices that the halfling Flint took a great wound and could use some help mending it.
"Flint, I can help heal that."
Flint gives a firm nod at the fallen zombie. "Good. There, see? That's how you do it proper. Just stick by me, Brunar and- oh, thanks- and you'll learn how to do proper battle with threats like this!"
Flint says all this to Brunar in a way that implies the halfling had done the killing blow himself. He only barely acknowledges Grinley with a vague thanks mid-sentence while speaking with Brunar.
As a member of the Clergy, Brunar is making an attempt to be more ... diplomatic. He smiles at Flint but red in the face, "Aye! I thank ye for the instruction on how to kill goblin zombies Flint but they seem to be tougher than I have read 'bout or is that for all zombies you have fought?"
Flint's interest in Brunar already diminished, he looks at Grinley while answering Battlemender offhandedly. "A few... Hey, was that fire? Neat. That'll probably come in handy!"
He then calls out to the group of women. "It's safe now. Come on and get out that map again!"
Grinley nods. "I have not seen or encountered undead before. They look horribly wretched. Such a perversion of the natural life cycle. Burning them to ashes seemed a fitting way to deal with those unholy creatures."
While the rest of the group begins to move on, the unnerved little dwarf, places his hands on one of the stone walls and breaths deeply a couple times. "Cold", he mutters to himself.
Gwendolyn moves into the room and brings the map to Flint.
Well, from what I was told, I think there is a secret door in the south wall here that leads to a maze. The maze goes around this room and ends at a small room to the north. Hmmm, that’s strange. Seems like there was a passageway I was told went to the east, but then nothing else was said. I don’t think that it was explored by the previous group.
Kristyd moves up next to Gwen, and points her finger into the map.
Looks to me like, if this room is a sign, then all the goblins that were killed by the last group and left behind are probably now zombies. Sort of what you hear is one of the curses associated with this place. If we go looking in this maze we might just find more of these things wandering around in there. And I doubt there is any treasure or any clues to the missing princess in here either. I say we go back to the main passageway and look for places that were not already explored.
"Women, always right. Let's go." Kiril heads back towards the main passageway.
"Aye, I agree! Never like them mazes!" Brunar follow directly behind Kiril.
"Yeah, I guess." Flint says without much interest.
Then he thinks about it a moment and narrows his eyes at the walls around him. "I guess..." he says, less certainly.
"It would probably be a waste of time... Nothin' would be hidden in that maze that would be at all interesting... And we've got better things to do I guess....... .... ....."
Just who is he trying to convince?
"A maze seems like the perfect place to hide something valuable. Difficult to navigate and would easily make explorers give up, leave after they made their way through it once without thoroughly investigating." Kayne slides his rapier away and folds his arms. "Again, I'll let you meaty warriors lead the way in the end, but it would be a shame if we missed anything."
Gwendolyn, Kristyd, and Sandly move back to the main North-south running twenty foot wide passageway, while the rest of the heroes follow mumbling various suggestions about where to go and what to do.
Using her staff as a focus, Sandy calls forth a simple light spell, illuminating the metal band on the top of the staff and holds it high above Gwendolyn’s shoulder
Alright, where do we go from here, Sandy says as she places one finger on Gwendolyn’s map to indicate where the party is now
"Somewhere we haven't checked yet, what bout there?"
It’s as good a place as any other Sandy says as Gwendolyn rolls up her map.
Kiril heads to the north, down the wide passageway and right up to an enormous set of doors. With a simple shove, he pushes one of the doors open and continues onward, stopping by a smaller set of doors on his right.
As the three female dwarfs come up behind Kiril, Kristyd looks to the north.
Look she says pointing Another pair of these hug doors, do you think this passageway just keeps going on and on into the mountain?
"We'll find out, won't we?" Kiril goes into the room, his iron maul in one hand.
Grinley stays close to the group at all times, and ensures there is always an ample amount of meat shields between him and any potential foes.
Brunar moves up and follows Kiril with some space. He does not want to get too comfy with Kiril and wants to give him enough area to use his weapons effectively, "Aye, we shall!"
Kayne follows as always, keeping an eye on the areas they pass through and a hand on Alighieri's lead. We shall indeed find out more about this dungeon and its secrets. Everything it has to find will be mine.
Flint follows along, dogging at Kiril's heels for the most part. As they travel to the location the half-orc had picked out (leaving the curiosity of the maze behind), Flint keeps dropping pace to share a story with Grinley. He rambles, his volume rising with excitement at the good parts, and falling again when he passes by a door or split in the hallway to try and keep generally quiet.
"So we find this secret door with all of these weird, metal loops, right? And there is this... Chest? I think there was a chest. An elaborate thing trapped with dire things indeed, probably, and once the knife-ears that used to travel with us, before disappearing into the fogs like some of the others mind, this is the one Kiril thinks was a woman but wasn't I believe, checks it out we find this weird, puzzely treasure. The box itself! It didn't appear to be locked but was some kind of device meant to trick and hide. He and Kayne fiddled with the thing and MORE treasure fell out of it... Along with a bunch of centipedes! We were covered! Everyone else panicked while I took my time swatting the creatures off of their clothes while they clubbed themselves. Kayne was throwing strange vapors everywhere and I half thought he was going to douse the gnome in the face with it! He didn't. The gnome is gone now too. I'm not sure when he vanished.... Poor little guy..."
Is that the end of the story? Maybe! Or maybe drawing steel and following immediately behind the half-orc into the new room just meant this is a pause.
Kiril shoves the door, which swings open easily with a slight sound of stone sliding on stone, and then looks into the chamber beyond
It is empty
Sandy has her back to Kiril and is staring toward the huge doors to the north which are just at the limit of her ability to see at all
I can't be sure from here Sandy says It's too dark to see down there, but it sort of looks like those doors at the north aren't made of stone like the rest of these doors.
"Well this ones empty," Kiril declares aloud, turning and heading towards where Sandy's pointing. "Yeah? Wood? Let's go see."
Brunar shrugs and turns to follow Kiril but this time he stands next to Sandy with his axe and shield at the ready. But remains quiet to not draw any attention because of excessive noise.
Kiril turns away from the empty chamber and passes Sandy on his way to the north. Meanwhile, Flint is just finishing a story about a strange treasure and giant centipedes.
When Kiril comes right to the doors he waits for the light to be brought up a bit closer
The doors are huge beyond reason. Each door stands nearly fifteen feet in height, and is easily eight or nine feet wide. They appear to be made out of solid wood, or perhaps wood pieces fastened together with considerable craftsmanship. The surfaces of the two doors are plain, and they are banded with brass strips each a foot wide and spaced just two feet apart for the full length of each door. There are two large rigs, made of iron, one on the center of each door. It is nearly impossible to see through the small gap between the doors in the middle, but with the light shining close you can see that a bar is placed across the doors on the other side. It is not a large bar, and it might be easily dislodged with a thin blade such as a rapier, or a slim but long dagger.
Kiril relays that information. "--so if anyone wants to try knocking the bar off with a thin blade."