Quanah takes to the air so that she doesn't accidentally become ghoul food.
"I will send you back to the darkness from whence you came." Jerrik moved closer to the creature, holding his blade aloft as he whispered for the strength and guidance to dispatch such an evil spirit.
Stepping up to flank the monster with Jerrik, Aleksara swing for the thing's head.
Thorryn and Nasze both double move, unable to get to the undead they both keep an eye on the stairs for anybody who might come down.
Moving to the entrance of the building Tenzi sees Jerrik and Alex engaged with the immaterial evil. Bringing up his crossbow he snaps off a shot.
But due to the melee it fails to hit the undead, impacting the wall beyond.
Quanah flies up over the ruined wall and fires down a beam of positive energy from the north.
The beam of positive energy from Quanah causes the creature to howl in pain, but it is Jerrik's attack draws the creature's attention. It reaches out with it's icy grip, reaching right into the man's chest to graze his heart.
A crashing sound comes from the other building, as if something was trying to batter down some large piece of metal.
Jerrik shrugged off the effects of the negative energy as he quickly focused his inner thoughts back to his training.
He raised the blade again in both hands, swinging for the middle of the black mass.
Dancing with her blade, Alek swings again...
Having encounter such creatures before Tenzi knows he can harm it.
Yeah hurt it. The real trick is avoiding 'it' hurting you.
Not seeing a chance to flank yet he moves forward drawing his rapier and attacks.
Thorryn moves in to attack the Shadowy figure.
Nasze, senses something unnatural about the shadowy figure decides to wearly keep away from it. Nasze take a Total Defense stance.
The wraith howls in pain from Jerrik and Tenzi. It guardedly retreats and sinks into the packed earthen floor.
There is a repeat of the loud crashing sound from moments before followed by a loud metalic clang that reverberates all through the fort.
Quanah casts mage armor, in case whatever they heard shows up to throw things.
"Oh gods...what now? Quanah! Keep an eagle eye out for our misty undead enemy...we will check the noise out. Scream your bloody head off if you see anything! It could pop up behind any of us."
Sword leading the way, Aleksara moves toward the noise carefully.
When Alek gets around the corner she's spots the metal grate lying in the ground and hears a screechy groan.
A large creature with a beaked face and winged claws shuffles forward. Flesh and feathers are missing from several places on its body and a broken spear protrudes from it's chest.
Tentatively prodding the ground where the wraith vanished Tenzi shrugs then follows Alek outside.Changing the rapier for his crossbow. Stopping immediately upon seeing the creature.
"Well, this can't be good."
The Gnome winks at the monster.
"Undead... griffon? Owlbear? Whatever, just finish it!" shouts Quanah as she switches to blasting the shambling monster.
Jerrik grumbled under his breath as the wraith retreated.
"We're not done, you and I" he shouted, his frustration getting the better of him.
Hearing the commotion elsewhere, he turned and followed Aleksara to see what other monstrosities were awaiting them.
Thorryn walks around the corner to see what was making all that noise, whistling to Nasze to join him at his side.
"Ugh, I'm really beginning to hate zombies"
The zombie lumbers out of the cave and straight for Aleksara!
Striking at the lumbering mess, Aleksara then steps back out of range to lead the monster into a flanking trap!
"Come get me you beaked freak!"
Quanah blasts at the undead monstrosity, knowing that it's going to take a lot of punishment, but doing what she can to contribute to ending it. In the meantime she keeps an eye out for the wraith, in case it should make a return.
Just now realizing the monster is a zombie.
"Right, another undead, so much for the hex."
The Gnome shrugs and moves next to Alek. Drawing his dagger along the way. Once there he ducks down and attempts to hide by the rubble.
Jerrik held his position at seeing Aleksara take a few steps back. If she was trying to draw the beast out, he wanted to be in a position to surround it and strike at its flank. He was also leery of the wraith returning when they were otherwise engaged. He raised his sword, both hands wrapped around the handle, and prepared to strike at either creature.
Thorryn and Nasze hold the line with Aleksara in hopes of luring the undead beast out into a more antanvages position for us.
The zombie swipes at Aleksara after she hacks into it, but she is too quick for the rotting corpse. It lumbers forward into Jerrik and Thorryn's waiting weaponry, undeterred by Quanah's energy blast.
Thorryn takes a swing at the undead beast.
As the beast lumbered forward, Jerrik's blade sliced through the air.
"Kill it now!"
Crit?
Seeing Jerrik on the opposite side of the large creature Tenzi pops around the corner of the ruined wall and slashes at the monster.
"I'm working on it."
Quanah keeps laying into the undead owlbear from above.
The owlbear zombie falls to pieces from the combined assault.
A voice cries out from behind Jerrik. A weathered old man wearing nothing more than a tattered loincloth points at the paladin. "The same garbage! The killer got him and made him dead! Then made him dance like a fool! You cannot kill The Eternal! My boy couldn't, you can't!" The creepy old man holds up a scrap of red cloth and chants in a language that sounds like dead trees rasping against each other.
"Screw this...who in the Hells' is this guy?"
Aleksara is unable to discern the nature of the spell the crazy codger is in the midst of casting.
Pleased but surprised by the Zombie-beast's sudden demise Tenzi crouches by the wall, switching back to the crossbow. While studying the old man, he tries to recall anything about a Paladin and the Eternal in addition to evaluating the man's veracity. Also the Gnome glances about for any other threats.
"This place is certainly full of surprises. I like it."
From up above, Quanah simply casts a spell. If you think a bunch of people are killers it might not be great to test their patience and threaten them.
Quanah's magic slams into the raving, elderly man as he attempts to cast a spell of his own. He grunts hard and the red cloth flitters to the ground, losing his place in the incantation.
"Who are you? Why are you here? What do you know of this place? I will tolerate no lies or hostile actions. Cease your spellcasting sir. I will not warn you again" Jerrik said as he slowly approached the old man. His attention may have been on the old man, but his constantly searched the surroundings, waiting for the wraith to return.
Not wanting to kill the old man, Thorryn walk up to him and attempts to knock him out by hitting him oh so gently.
The crazy man swears furiously and backs up slightly to cast another spell.
"Weak! You can't beat The Eternal that way! Go for the kill boy!"
Aleksara rushes forward...
"Don't mind if I DO!"
Seeing the others move to engage the crazy human. Tenzi wanders into the building where the Zombie Owlbear came from to have a look around.
Quanah's spellcasting chant rises to a crescendo as she focuses her energy again to launch another powerful salvo.