Cinder quickly orients on Merelda and lands easily on her shoulder, curling up against her neck, his watchful antennae flickering carefully for signs of more enemies.
Gathering on the platform you can see an archway on the west wall. It opens into an unlit chamber.
The other option is to cross over another beam to the southeast platform where there is an archway, that those with darkvision and those able to perceive in the dim light, notice that it turns into a passage that continues east.
Innis borrows the dark power in the infernal wand to restore her wounded companions.
She looks between Meredla and the dark chasm offering the pit a shrug before following the elf into the west chamber.
Amigail thanks Innis for the still rather unsettling infernal healing; then she seems to have a silent internal debate before also thanking Merelda's giant wasp friend for helping her out during the fight.
Then she follows Merelda and Innis into the western chamber.
The hall you enter is narrow and long. A few dusty cobwebs hang from the walls and ceiling in this otherwise empty chamber. In the middle of the south wall your light is able to show you an entry heading further south. Whether it opens into another hall or a room you cannot tell.
"Such as loathsome place." Innis comments.
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You file into the room moving towards the entrance in the south. You hear no sounds coming from the southern entrance and see no light. You push aside the occasional harmless cobweb noting that it seems that nothing has come down this way in quite some time.
With Merelda flanked on either side by Cassandra and Amigail you almost reach the south entrance when from out of the western wall five figures, the gray pallor of their skin drawn tightly back, seem to leap straight out of the stone wall in unison.
Three of them move quickly flanking the party while the remaining two strike at you with a fist but neither is able to connect.
Lililinda screams and cowers as she is surrounded by ghostly apparitions!
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Merelda hisses a warning, trying to figure out what these things were...
"Defensive positions! Watch our flanks! Protect our casters!!"
She then strikes at the enemy closest to Cassie (Blue) in hopes to give her room to swing her deadly weapon...
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Amigail's falcata's swinging toward the nearest gray creeper before she's even aware that she's acting.
Hack first, think later, she decides. Or better yet...eliminate a whole step! Hack first, think never. I can do that!
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While that method sounds good in theory , Amigail's rushed hack is wild and inaccurate.
With the skin drawn back on their face like a leathery mask and the grayish pallor of skin remind you both of the zombies you fought that before encountering the huecuva. You remember them as juju zombies.
Cassandra lashed out at two of the creatures when they attacked by sheer reflex. She couldn't tell for sure but she thought she got one of them. She stepped away from the nearest of the hecueva and prepared to lash out at it once it began to move.
Cassandra watches as one of the juju zombie monks tries to get behind Innis and then cuts it down with one swift strike of her glaive as she tears her weapon through the undead creature's chest.
Merelda encouraged by Cassandra's quick strike stabs with her rapier trying to defend Cassandra while her attention is turned. Her rapier pierces the zombie and as she pulls the rapier back out she tears away at the muscle keeping its head upright. The injured creature however continues to stand.
Amigail swings and is easily evaded by the quick reflexes of the zombie. You hear her talking to herself under her breath no doubt trying to focus.
Lililinda does her best to look even smaller than she is as she findss herself surrounded.
The zombies move to attack and as the one in front of Innis attempts to strike her Cassandra comes down with her glaive slicing a deep gash in the creature's abdomen region you watch as the liquefied black ooze of it once living organs drains down its leg and the creature falls.
Watching two of their numbers fall does nothing to phase the zombies as they launch into a flurry of kicks, elbows and fists. An knee crashes into Kirzon's chest while a open palmed chop knocks the little gnome in the temple.
Innis backs up from the initial flurry of combat while summoning a mirror image to keep herself safe. She also uses her blessing's guiding hand to assist Amigail who is perhaps better at fighting men than monsters.
Even before Boros can wrap its serpentine body around the zombie the powerful jaws of the snake snuffs out the life essence out of the zombie.
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"Move back!" Ami suggests to Lililinda as she takes the fight to one of the remaining zombies.
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Still shaking off the blow from the zombie Lililinda looks like an easy target for another attack. Fearing for the gnome's health Amigail pivots reactively as she calls out to the gnome seamstress to fall back.
Even before she finishes the last word the falcata hacks with devastating accuracy as the blade cleaved off half of the zombie's head. Both the body and the severed cranuium fall to the stone floor with a Thud.
"Move back!" Ami suggests to Lililinda as she takes the fight to one of the remaining zombies.
Merelda growls as her enemy stands against her onslaught still.
Lililinda looks up to find that the zombies seem to have all fallen over. She dashes around to hide behind the other ladies, peeking around Merelda to fire her new ray once again.
As Lililinda and Merelda successfully strike the remaining zombie injuring it Cassandra rushes forward looking to finish it off but the glaive strikes and completely misses the mark.
The zombie retaliates striking at but the elf ducks under the flurry of uncoordinated attacks.
The zombie falls to the ground as Boros's mouth clamps down on the creature leg.
Innis regards the fallen warrior husks around her with contempt "A little lacking in manners I'd say." She takes a moment to look them over for anything of use before signaling the group to move ahead.
Kirzon you look around but you do not see any evidence of secret doors.
Innis shakes her head as Kirzon does little but tangle himself in cobwebs. The team moves further into the tunnel system.
The passage quickly opens into another chamber. A large slab of black basalt sits against the middle of the south wall of this large tomb chamber. The dusty, cobweb-covered remains of a man wearing tattered funerary linens lay unmoving on the slab. A stone chest sits on the floor directly in front of the slab.
As a precaution Innis will cast a protective spell on her fellow Sister as they proceed into the room.
"What trouble finds us here I wonder" She muses as both of her selves head towards the stone chest.
Merelda steps into the tomb, and looks for traps/dangers/secret passages, then pokes the corpse with the tip of her Rapier if she thinks she can get that far safely.
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"Zombies literally coming out of the walls, this is getting quite tiresome." Lililinda mutters to herself. "And that one is definitely about to jump up and zap us all, I just know it!" She points her umbrella like a sword at the corpse on the slab. She waits at the door while the others explore the room.
Cassandra shuddered, "Yeah, I'll be glad when we get done with this place. These zombies everywhere are giving me the creeps."
Amigail moves close to the reclining mummy and readies a hack should it try to arise from its slumber.
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Intent on searching the rest of the tomb you move closer into the room with purpose of investigating the body lying on the slab. No sooner has Lililinda and Cassandra finished their sentences when the body on the slab jumps up quickly opening it's hands and arms in a threatening yet still position.
Amigail steps up and takes a swing at the risen undead.
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Amigail steps up and swings hard with her falcata the heavy blade cleaving off two fingers from the undead creature's outstretched hand.
Merelda smirks at the obvious enemy when it rises suddenly. No surprises here!
"Kill it!"
Merelda will try and begin to move to flank the creature, if she can, with Amigail.