"Rhen, wait. Let me give a listen to that chest. It might just be my imagination, but I hear a buzzing."
"Adamantine hammer. Isn't that summer kind of Star metal? That should set the dead Smith's family up nicely" Ranok comments to Teedum as he gives a listen.
You hear nothing.
"Belongs to the consortium."
" Mr. Teedum, how does your Consortium care for the widows and children of the deceased? I assume it is a hefty sum? At least enough to cover the fine work the employee did for you? I mean This is Andoran isn't it?" She says with a smile her more exotic native Taldan features showing through as she then looks to Nui.
"You still good to go Master Nui? Especially after this mysterious creature to the west?" SHe says with a smile encouraging him with a smile, despite charred locust in her hair.
Shaken from his examination of the corpses, Niu looks up. "Me? Oh, I am ready.
I suppose we should let Rhen open that chest he went to all the trouble of disarming and should clear out that final building first. The Consortium did hire us to spring all of the traps after all."
Stepping outside, he looks toward the discussion and eyes the object of interest.
"An adamantine hammer? That could be very useful in a number of ways in the troubles to come.
Mr. Teedum, we report to your boss, who hired us, and the Hero of Falcon's Hollow specifically to resolve this situation. Your desire to protect the Consortium's property is admirable. We also are here to protect the Consortium's interests.
Let us borrow the hammer. We will return it to the Consortium once we have completed the mission and will let your boss know how diligently you sought to protect their interests."
Ziera earns yet another growl and snarl from Boss. He looks Niu in the eyes. "Ye aint got Mr Kreed's ear. All yuh got is a re-ward ifn you rid us of the kobolds." He hands the hammer to Niu. " You will return it to me when I say so. Now get to splittin heads."
Rhen nods once all the humans are done their talkin', opening the chests as he shoos one of the kobolds away so he can look in first.
You carefully open the chest. You see a woman's face frozen in writhing pain, eyes wide open and glassed over from death. Her mouth is open as if screaming. Her long graying hair surrounds the head and also gives it a resting place.
"BAH!" Rhen shouts backing away from the chest, "Some sorta trick? Does anyone know this unfortunate lass?" Rhen says moving back towards the chest and pulling the head out by tipping the chest over.
Boss hears Rhen's reaction. He enters the building. He grabs Betsy's head by the hair and heads out of the room yelling "Hell to pay...hell to pay. They gonna pay dear like." As he passes Kib and Eadoo he points at them and says "Slow and painful for you. Evil little specks. Where is the rest of her?!!!" He works his way into the funeral pyre his men have built out of the collapsed structure.
"There are some sick individuals here, that's for sure. Let's clear this last room and get out of this place."
Ranok checks and listens at the last door.
"Oh my that is horrendous" She says seeing the head.
"But these Kobolds are helping us, They have surrendered. And if what they say is true then a far greater evil is controlling them. I am sure we can come to another agreement one that might even help get you guys to a better cluster of trees?" She says looking to Teedum.
"First though what is west of here and are you gonna make a trip back to the town to return the dead? Or are you gonna head Westword with us?" She says walking alongside the bigger man with a stern but warm expression.
Festia groans taking out more of those dead burnt locusts and walks out heading to get the banner.
Boss continues to the funeral pyre with Betsy's head. He tells Ziera. "Best you give me some alone time right now. Are you deaf and blind, woman? I'm burning these bodies here. I am going west cause that is where my people is. You know what is west? No you don't. Give me cools down time, kobold lover. I'll knock your face right off your head."
The boys intervene, blocking Ziera's path as they know the threat was all too real. "Ma'am. give him a few. Never seen him like this before. Seen him kill a man with his bare fists before the victim could even react. And he weren't even angry."
After giving the door a once over, Ranok seems to go into a stupor temporarily. In place of Betsy's dead face he sees another young women's face contorted in it's death throws. Reason shakes his head vigorously, with a drop our two of water perhaps shaking free, and mutters to himself.
"For to keep moving before the rage takes me. Remember what she said. Where's Khonsu?"
Louder "Khonsu!"
Ranok's therapy tiger leaves his post and hounds his friend inside by the door.
Ziera nods and walks away. She heads back towards Festia."It seems he does care for his men. Means he is not a monster. However, whoever is doing this to people doesn't seem like kobolds."Zeira says as she begins to think about the undead they've seen.
Rhen listens to the exchange, allowing Lady Ziera to defender herself before he steps in.
"Ye burn all the bodies ye want, ye could jump on that ol' funeral pyre if ye want ta as well. We be heading after what is going on right now." Rhen says
Festia groans as she pulls another one out.looking up she sees more in Zeiras hair and pulls it out and pushes locks away from Zeiras' face. She then pulls out a bit of cloth and wets it with her tongue as she cleans off the sweat and dirt of her mistress.
As the pair continues to walk towards the Banner, Festia begins to refasten all the weapons and check not only her equipment but Zeiras.
Seeing Teedum about to throw the head on the pyre, Niu calls out.
"A moment, if you please, Mr. Teedum! In case they left some nasty surprise on the head, like an inhaled poison that gets released by heat.
Or perhaps a contact poison in her hair"
If given an opportunity, Niu will cast Detect Magic and Detect Poison over the head.
Ranok hears occasional random very quiet sounds but cannot make out what it could be.
"We ain't lightin it till we's done with the entire camp." Boss replies as he is respectfully grooming the hair away from Betsy's face and making the rest of it look proper. "Do what ye must."
There is no poison or magic around the head.
Putting away his great sword and making sure his flask is comfortable in his hand and his morning star clear and ready to pull, Ranok clears his throat and says, "Ahem...sounds like we have something in here! Going in.'
Ranok opens the door with Khonsu behind him.
This log cabin reeks of blood, rot, disease, and excrement. Within the cabin, two long, rough-hewn wooden tables are festooned with opened
bodies dripping gore onto the floor. Pallid-scaled kobolds crowd the tables, dining on the splayed corpses. As soon as the PCs enter, the zombies turn lifeless eyes toward the intruders and moan out ghastly, “Meeeeerrrks”.
Round 1
Ziera 59/60 Festia 09/12 Rhen 53/54 Kib 07/10
zombie, white, blue, green, black, gray, orange
Ranok, Khonsu
red, pink, yellow
The zombie slams and stabs at Ranok
White does the same
The others move to the new fresh meat.
zombie, white, blue, green, black, gray, orange
Ranok, Khonsu <=============
red, pink, yellow
You know undead are once-living creatures animated by spiritual or supernatural forces. What could have animated these?
Only sentient undead creatures have, or are, souls.This is an important sentence when considering any spells or effects which reference “souls.”
"This is more like it! No more stupid bugs. Just rotten meat sacks to break down."
Ranok puts the flask back in his bag of holding and draws forth his greatsword again.
Khonsu takes a five foot step beside Ranok and takes a full attack action, whiskers and ears back at the distaste of rotten flesh. He would much prefer bugs.
Khonsu destroys the zombie in front of him.
Red moves up and attacks Ranok.
The others hear the sound of Ranok and Khonzu's battle. Use your current position on the maps as a starting point for this round.
Round 2
Ziera 59/60 Festia 09/12 Rhen 53/54 Kib 07/10
Niu, Steve, Ziera, Festia, Eddie <============
zombie,blue, green, black, gray, orange
Rhen, Pay Day, Bill, Eadoo, Kib
red, pink, yellow
Correction, adding Ranok and Khonsu
Niu, Steve, Ziera, Festia, Eddie <============
zombie,blue, green, black, gray, orange
Rhen, Pay Day, Bill, Eadoo, Kib, Ranok, Khonsu
red, pink, yellow
"let's put them to rest Khonsu!"
Khonsu follows the same pattern as last time
Niu finishes concentrating on the auras. "In this case, the head is safe. Such an odd thing putting a head into a trapped chest. This whole camp has been exceedingly strange."
Just then, he hears Ranok call out and twirls around in surprise. "More walkers? Better than more bugs, I think."
Quickly attempting to assess the situation, he decides that Ranok has done well to bottle the horde up in the doorway. Moving to a position where he can keep an eye along the side of the building watching for zombies who might break through the walls, Niu tries to weaken the enemy by blowing some sand at the lead zombie.
A little early on that, Ranok and Khonsu. I should be able to use those rolls when you are up. We will see.
Steve and Eddie draw their light crossbows as they move into position should a zombie get loose. They load the crossbows
"Something is animating these things!" she says as she moves over to see what she can do!
"Something is animating these things!" she says as she moves over to see what she can do!
The zombie attacks Ranok
Green attacks Khonsu
The others meander about.
Niu, Steve, Ziera, Festia, Eddie
zombie,blue, green, black, gray, orange
Rhen, Pay Day, Bill, Eadoo, Kib, Ranok, Khonsu <============
red, pink, yellow
Ranok fails to connect. Khonsu destroys another zombie.
"I see a shot, boss." Bill draws his light crossbow as he moves into position. He loads a bolt. As he is taking careful aim at the melee in front of him, Ziera's words concern him. "What do you mean by that, ma'am?
"Pull back and let em funnel out we can take em one by one as they come out." Rhen says to Ranok.
Boss remains in the pyre.
Eadoo and Kib move to protect One Who Throw Fire.
Yellow moves and attacks Ranok avoiding the large cat on his way in.
pink shrieks out a meerk
Round 3
Ziera 59/60 Festia 09/12 Rhen 53/54 Kib 07/10 Ranok 62/67
Niu, Steve, Ziera, Festia, Eddie <============
zombie,blue, green, black, gray, orange
Rhen, Pay Day, Bill, Eadoo, Kib, Ranok, Khonsu
pink, yellow
Steve and Eddie climb the watch tower as too many melee fighters are in their line of sight.
"Hee Hee! Like fish in a barrel!"
Niu uses Misfortune Hex on Green this time.
Zeira Moves down with Festia in tow and slashes at the one in front of Ranok.