second attempt
The day was dark, overcast. And yet, there was something else that pervaded the area. A dark overtone. It sapped your morale, any humor was quickly lost, it was as if evil roamed the land, denying pleasure in anything.
You have traveled to Solace, and find it oddly soothing. The fog upon your mind seems to lift slightly when you enter the village proper. Up ahead, you see the Inn of the Last Home. Beyond that, a Knight of Solamnia taking a road that leads to the Tomb for the Heros.
With the last bit of sunshine fitfully streaming through the dark clouds overhead indicating sunset, you make your way to the Inn, hoping to get some of Otiks famous spicy potatoes.
As you walk, the feeling of darkness, of wrongness seeps into your bones, making you wary. You glance about at fellow travelers and villagers, and each eyes you in turn, the cool distant look of strangers.
A scream! Where? There! Your eyes lock upon a grisly sight. A knight of Solamnia, one who was walking earlier, has tackled a woman and is... Oh Gods of Good, he is eating her! The knight looks up, bits of gristle hanging from his mouth. His eyes lock upon you; his eyes. His eyes make you tremble in fear, for no mortal has that look. The look of the soulless.
The knight, no the thing, swallows its ghastly meal and bellows loudly. Moments later, around town, more sounds echo throughout. Glass breaking, men shouting, women screaming, children crying...chaos. All is chaos.
The Inn! to the Inn! you break the things gaze and glance up, only to see more of those things streaming up the stairs.
No, not there. Where? you glance around. The thing is gone. Where? You spin around, looking at everything. There! A building! Without thinking, you sprint to it, hoping to reach the door, to get out of sight.
You rush up to the door, only to find others have had the same idea. Throwing the door open wide, you all rush inside, and slam the door shut behind you. Just in time, for a loud bang erupts from the door. Banging, thumping, a moan. Two more bangs and thumps, and then the moan recedes from hearing.
You look back, and see darkness. The building is dark...
In the darkness, the exposed parts of Ajah's skin faintly glowed, belying the power barely contained within.
Once the moans receded and it was apparent that they weren't coming back, a stream of fire erupted from Ajah's outstretched finger and arced towards the lamp on the table. As the light level increased, and he could see with more than his darkvision, Ajah took stock of the people standing around him. His eyes quickly summed everyone up, noting what they're wearing and their probable professions and skills, and then moved onto the next person. For himself, he was wearing simple red-tinged leather breeches and sturdy shoes. His shirt was standard off-white, but his vest was red with arcane runes embroidered in orange and yellow thread. His sturdy cloak is leather on the inside while the outside is the same color with the same patterns as his vest.
"Ok, first we need to secure this building, or at least this room. We need to make sure that there aren't any of those things in here and that they can't get in while we're deciding what to do next." He pauses to let that sink in then adds "Then we can decide what to do next."
Once that's done he will try and get everyone together to discuss and come to the conclusion, IC, that this isn't a single instance, that this is a long-term survival scenario.
Once that is decided in person, he'll try to get a list of abilities and skills of everybody, he'll give his, and he'll try to make a pool of all their resources (both character inventory and from inside the crates).
He'll offer to make traps, and ask for people to help fortify the access points, and ask for some other people to scout to see what they're up against and if there's a better place to hole up, and another group to gather, inventory and distribute their resources.
"I'll start barging the doors we entered in as they seem to be a big hole. Its easier to bottleneck things coming through one door instead of double doors."
He barres the door with his spear by putting the spear through the handles of the double door. He then looks for a more sturdy material to hammer into the walls around the doors and make an "X" on the doors to completely seal them from use.
That won't last forever but for right now, until I find something to fully bar the door, it should do.
You see a huge shape before you.. Easily 7' tall, with muscles bulging from everywhere not covered by his chain shirt. From his helmet stretches a pair of long, black horns and from the eye slits you see a pair of beady red eyes staring at you.. He holds a two handed, white knuckled grip on a massive axe.. "Was it better outside?" Some of you might ask yourself..
Keep that light down flaming man.. We don't need to draw unwanted attention.. I am Skizzor, a bounty hunter.. Who are you all and what are you good at? If we're to mount a defense against those things we have to coordinated and know what each others strengths are.. I'm decent with this axe and i'm pretty good at tracking" He pauses.. "Lets start setting up some obstacles in front of the entries.. What's all these boxes?"
If so he'll climb up there and take a peak..
Depending on what he see's/if he see's might be another action..
He'll help open all the boxes and gather what supplies he can... He'll assist in any traps being made..
He'll take a look at the wagons and see if there's any chance of fortifying them for use in a escape..
Gerard looks around after there is light.
Umm... I am Gerard. I am a Squire of the Crown. I knew that knight... What the hell happend to him? Seems there are lots of them. The Red Wizard is right. we first must sweep the building. Glad to have you here Skizzor. Yes get to the roof. Get us a tactical layout and estimate of what the numbers look like. Lucky was it? Those doors slide apart. Keep your spear as you may need it. Secure them with some rope, also find something to wedge in them at there ends to keep from sliding open. How many others do we have in here?
If there are regulare non adventure types Gerard will ask them to assist him with opening up crates to see what resuources we have at our disposal.
I am in training to join the circle of knights. My defense is my greates asset. I force my opponets to trie and make a mistake. I also have soldire/malitia experience fighting as a unit, and tactics. Alright lets get ot work.
you see on the far end a single iron rung ladder set within the wall, allowing a person to climb to the rafters. There are no windows, nor any doors to give access to the roof.
"Well met all.. There doesn't seem to be access to the roof atm.. Il get up there and see if i can punch a hole threw the roof to allow access.." He'll set his pack aside and climb to the rafters with just his warhammer.. Once in position he'll bash a hole in the roof to allow him to crawl out on it and observe the buildigns surroundings..
If you require more its no problem, he bashes it till theres a hole for escape..
Yelling down.. "It might be wise to use ths wagons as door blockers till we figure out what to do.."
As we start poping boxes Gerard will user the lids to start boarding up windows as well.
Grith patrols the perimeter wall, polearm at the ready in case something should come popping in.
Gerard will take 20 to find nails, using the hammer from the office and continue with the boarding up windows.
After success or failure Skizzor will come back down and with help move the wagons to in front on the doors on each end.. Should create a nice baracade..
After this he'll just open random boxes to discover there contents.. Not looking for anything in particular..
"I am a fire mage. Fire runs through my blood. Beyond that I know spells to mend simple objects, disrupt the undead, and shield several of us from harm for a time. I suggest that anyone who can use a hammer and nails without making enough noise to raise the... alert the undead do so to help with our defenses. The rest of us should see what of use there is in these boxes."
While up on the roof he'll scout for adjacent buildings an try to see how many zombies there are..
Climbing out onto the pitched roof, you gaze upon a scene of carnage and slaughter. People run around in all different directions, fleeing from family members that seek to do them harm.
A shuffling noise is made below you, and you lean slightly over the edge of the roof, and spy upon a couple of those things as they shuffle about. A loud scream emerges from the building next to you, and moments later the two creatures leap forward, bursting into the building through a window. Several heartbeats pass and then another scream that is suddenly cut off.
Being careful not to fall, you ascend to the peak of the roof. Swinging a leg over the peak, you straddle the roof, but keep low. Looking about, you see the building to your east, and then another one next to that one. Both of these have the same large frame as the building your in.
To your right, you see another large frame building, but next to that appears to be a two story house, complete with windows and an rear balcony. One of the windows shows a red tint to it, along with stained curtains of the same color.
Looking back over to the street, you watch helplessly as men, women, and children are viscously attacked, dragged from their feet, and consumed while they writhe in agony.
You begin to hear the thudding noise of someone banging within the building, but you can barely hear it, and with all the people screaming, you doubt that anyone can hear the noise out there.
Looking up into the large vallenwood trees that grow overhead, you see the branches swarming with these creatures as the move about, chasing down people to consume.
Overlooking the brutality occuring he tries to get a grasp of if the buildings could be gotten to via jumping or possible a made lean over or something..
How big are the box tops? How big are the windows. Six nails a top will get me five tops to use. If I have too, will go to four nails a top to get eight to cover.
Suddenly a groan echos from behind a crate.
"Oh godssssss. Mmy headdddd. What was in the ale?"
A man stands up in the darkness, and slaps his side before light srpings up from his armor. He looks around at all the other people there.
"Who are youuuu?"
At the end of this he quickly begins to heave into the crate behind him.
Gerard will take the 4'x4' tops and start to nail up the windows.
Climbing back down from the roof.. "Well its pure hell outside.. those things are all over the place.. Even up in the tree's aparently.. There are adjacent buildings, one being a house, about 20' from the top of our building.. It might be possile to build a lean over that will cover the distance and allow us to get over there if needed.. The house in particular might be nice.. It looks fancy, no telling what goods we could find inside.."
Merini Looks around at the people around him and the creatures outside What in the abyss is going on here? Those people don't looks so well. At seeing the others at work he starts looking for stuff to craft some traps out of
Suddenly a groan echos from behind a crate.
"Oh godssssss. Mmy headdddd. What was in the ale?"
A man stands up in the darkness, and slaps his side before light srpings up from his armor. He looks around at all the other people there.
"Who are youuuu?"
At the end of this he quickly begins to heave into the crate behind him.
Grith raises his polearm while crying "Kill it! It's a--" then he stops and looks closer. "Oh nevermind, it's a drunk." He then continues his perimeter patrol.
"Well met lost souls.. I'm Skizzor, ranger and bounty hunter.. If yall two would help open crates and board up windows that would be great.." He looks around for something that might be made into a lean too..
Well met I am Merini looks like we got a rather large problem out there starts grabbing anything he can to help secure the warehouse
Xarian holds his head as he looks at the others.
"Problem? Don't worry the Knights of Solamnia, or we Clerics of Paladine will solve it."
Xarian gets his greatsword and holy symbol ready and begins looking around to help the others while they wait for the 'resuce' Xarian thinks is coming.
looks at Xarian Until I see a Legion of Knights or Clerics I will count on them, but all I see are us to save us
Inventory of items:
alchemy items target: 35%
camping gear target 60%
tools target 60%
paper goods target 50%
clothing target 70%
Special items found:
Dwarven Ale x20 gallons
Whiskey x 20 gallons
Pitch x5 gallons
Lantern oil x10 gallons
Iron rations x1 month
tanglefoot bags x10
alchemist fire x10
need to refine the process. State the exact item you are looking for. example: i am looking to find a flask of acid. The target to find is 35%.
since i rolled a 10%, i found the acid flask.
now, lets say that i had rolled a 38%, which falls outside of the 35%. I would then roll the d4 and the d8
i got a 4, which is even, so i move down the list. i rolled an 8, so i count off 8 spots. according to the list, instead of acid, i have found an alchemical solvent.
hope this makes more sense.
looks around for some tent stakes
picks up a blanket and looks at it thoughtful before heading towards the special items