Near the forest, the temperature grows noticably colder. The road ahead is littered with debris and the corpses of the slain humans and horses. A carriage stands in the roadway, its team of horses missing or cut free, while another overturened carriage lies sprawled and broken next to the treeline. To the South more bodies have fallen around what appears to be a statue of Ice. A snowy trail leads deeper into the forest.
Everything inside each of the Hero's screams STRANGE, OTHERWORLDLY! There can be no doubt that you are in fact where you were looking.
"Wh-what is going on?" says Mina with a shiver that combines both uncertainty and cold. "Is... was that a person?" She hesitantly approaches the ice statue, wondering if it is a sculpture, or someone actually frozen solid.
The remains of the Taldan captain tasked with escorting Lady Argentea from Zimar back to Oppara stand here as a gruesome statue, his slain body mostly encased in ice. Unfortunately, the captain's body is no longer intact, as the something that did this carved away pieces of him that now lie in blocks of slowly melting ice at his feet.
With spear in hand and shield readied, Alec sets to moving about the carnage. He moves toward the carriages, beginning with the overturned one first. He can't help but glance over his shoulder occasionally to keep an eye on the ladies though.
The Carriage shakes as Alec moves closer, it started to rock back and forth.
You can smell rancid flesh, and hear low moans.
Achilles moves away from it, lowing and shaking as if something is not right.
Cordelia stands beside Mina studying the carriage from which the odd sounds emanate.
Alec stabs his spear into the snow and draws out his falcata. Looking to the others he asks "shall we?" He moves over and readies to open the carriage door once the others are closer and ready.
Mina looks a bit scared and, with Cordelia, stands near the frozen statue (perhaps using it for cover a bit).
The carridge shatters with a mighty crash, two hulking undead seem to sense your very life energy, and move towards you, the slow hinders them greater, just as it does you. Still they lumber, carrying the pitted and shattered remains of Greatswords. You can obviously tell that they were guards that have been raised from the dead.
Since she was near the carriage, Mina finds herself in immediate peril!
"Oh my!" she says, startled, as it explodes outward.
Alec moves to intercept the first zombie, slashing at it with his father's falcata. He didn't know when the last time the weapon was used, but he was going to give it's first test in a long time.
Shifting to target both undead while avoiding Alec, Cordelia extends her hands, sending a stream of fire washing over them both.