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Krizta musters her resolve and fights her fear in order to attack Zombie 1. Despite her fear she is able to smash out with her flail and crush bones in the undead's arm.
Landolf then must face his own fear. Landolf's thoughts go back to the gift of the amulet of Morr from the old priest Ubersreik.
Landolf feels the power of Morr as it protects his spirit and he overcomes the fear projected by the zombies. Landolf slashes out with his rapier, attacking Zombie 2.
Landolf, still filled with the power of Morr, slashes at his zombie foe with his rapier and opens a huge cut in the creatures arm. Instead of blood, a thick glowing green goo oozes from the cut.
Now Ruprecht must face the fear generated by the filthy undead. Like his Black Talon fellows, he feels power flowing from his Morr amulet.
Spending Fortune to pass the test.
Despite overcoming his fear, Ruprecht still feels the tendrils of Chaos trying to infiltrate his soul (yet again).
Ruprecht's vision fills with an unnatural landscape full of gigantic buildings with angles that are somehow wrong. His mind whirls and a voice seems to be calling Ruprecht to come explore the scene. He feels like he could simply step into the vision and disappear. Then the vision fades as quickly as it appears but leaves a mark.
In desperation, Ruprecht slashes out with his sword at Zombie 3.
The vision seems to have upset Ruprecht's balance and skill and he is unable to connect with the slowly advancing zombie.
The whispering voices of Chaos fail to penetrate Landolf's will.
Shambling forward, arms outstretched the Zombies attack.
Zombie 1 attacks Ruprecht and Ruprecht tries to defend himself.
The slowly moving Zombie is unable to get its claws on Ruprecht. However, even its failed attack has an impact because it distracts Ruprecht allowing Zombie 2 a better chance of success with its attack.
Whether its due to the other zombie's attack or due to the disturbing visions, but Ruprecht is caught flat-footed when the second Zombie attacks. Pain explodes in his chest as the zombie's nails find a weak spot in his armor and rends his flesh with its filthy talon like fingers.
Meanwhile Zombie 3 tries attacking Valghaz.
SL2
SL 2 + SB (5) + Strike Mighty Blow (1) + Weapon (5) - SL? - TB 4 = 9 before its defense. Please feel free to roll my defense if it comes up
With the close quarter fighting that was breaking out, Valghaz quickly found that a two handed pick wasn’t the best weapon. There was little room to swing it without hitting a comrade. This was made all the worse by the zombies getting close enough to bite. His reach was an advantage to be sure, but when they were too close the advantage vanished. Luckily he had been trained in this kind of situation since he was old enough to swing a pick. Thus, even with the poor conditions, he managed to make the best of a bad situation.
[dice=Offense v zombie 3 adv 1 and 20 from already engaged 100]1d100 SL2
SL 2 + SB (5) + Strike Mighty Blow (1) + Weapon (5) - SL? - TB 4 = 9 before its defense. Please feel free to roll my defense if it comes up
With the close quarter fighting that was breaking out, Valghaz quickly found that a two handed pick wasn’t the best weapon. There was little room to swing it without hitting a comrade. This was made all the worse by the zombies getting close enough to bite. His reach was an advantage to be sure, but when they were too close the advantage vanished. Luckily he had been trained in this kind of situation since he was old enough to swing a pick. Thus, even with the poor conditions, he managed to make the best of a bad situation.
Valghaz's mighty blow caved in the center of the Zombie's chest, exploding its heart into pieces but the already dead creature kept its feet and continues to claw at Valghaz.
Adelaida's Warhammer is not handled with her normal skill but she is still able to put it to good use against the slow Zombie. She follow's Valghaz's lead with a solid blow to the chest of the creature, smashing ribs, flattening lungs, blasting liver and overall making a giant mess of the inside of the Zombie. The force animinating the Zombie seems unable to overcome this amount of damage and Zombie 3 collapses to the ground.
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End of Round 1 Status
Krizta is attacking Zombie 1. She has inflicted 7 Wounds and has +1 Advantage.
Landolf is attacking Zombie 2. He has inflicted 13 Wounds and has +1 Advantage.
Ruprecht is attacking Zombie 3. He has not inflicted any wounds. He has no Advantage.
Valghaz is attacking Zombie 3. He has inflicted 14 Wounds. He has +2 Advantage.
Adelaida is attacking Zombie 3. She has inflicted 7 Wounds. She has +1 Advantage.
Zombie 1 is attacking Ruprecht. It did not inflict any damage. It has no Advantage.
Zombie 2 is attacking Ruprecht. It inflicted 7 Wounds of damage. It has +1 Advantage.
Zombie 3 was attacking Valghaz. It has taken 21 wounds and has collapsed.
Round 2 Begins
Zombie 3's eyes open, filled with a hellish green light and it clambers back to its feet.
Zombie 2's large gash in its arm has gotten smaller.
Zombie 1's broken bones seem to be mending.
and
Zombie 4 comes shambling into sight and moves forward to attack.
Krizta, Landolf and Ruprecht are up first.
Krizta attacks Zombie 1 again.
<--hit
Landolf looked on in alarm as the undead creature's wounds began to close. "Press them back!" he shouted as he continued to attack the creature fighting him.
Krizta attacks Zombie 1 again.
dice=Attack with Flail (50)]1d100 <--hit
Broken bones in the arm and now a leg crushed by the swinging flail are too much for whatever force animates the zombie and it collapses...dead yet again.
Landolf looked on in alarm as the undead creature's wounds began to close. "Press them back!" he shouted as he continued to attack the creature fighting him.
dice=Melee (Fencing) 50 +10 Advantage]1d100
** spoiler omitted **
The zombie looks at the rapier that's jabbed into it's chest and mutters something that sounds like brains. Severely damaged the zombie somehow stays on its feet.
Ruprecht again attacks Zombie 3 which he had thought destroyed until it clambered back to its feet and shuffled forward to attack.
Ruprecht uses his sword to chop at the suprisingly resilient zombie which again collapses...dead again (again)...
Zombies 1 and 3 lay quiescent on the stone floor of the library. Zombie 2 is still attacking Ruprecht. Zombie 4, hungry for flesh, moves forward and joins the attack on Ruprecht.
Ruprecht seems to be figuring out how to deal with these zombies and forces one of the zombies backwards with the flat of his sword, spoiling its attack.
Zombie 4, tries to get it's claws on the delicious looking Ruprecht.
BURNING PAIN explodes in Ruprecht's arm as the zombie's sharp blackened nails rip through skin and muscle. Ruprecht has found himself in serious trouble.
Zombie 4 now has +1 Advantage.
Getting into the swing of things, Valghaz turned his ponderous weapon onto the zombie that was chewing on Ruprecht. Seeing that his comrade was, unintentionally, holding the zombie still, the dwarf slammed his pick into the unwitting foe.
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The holy warrior comes to Landolf's rescue.
I'm not sure your weapon will do much damage to this foul ..thing, with all due respect. You need something more impactful, like this....
SL+7, Crit
SL +3
Dmg SL7+ Wp 6+ STR 3=16, and add the critical Broken jaw
Adelaida's warhammer crushes the zombie's rotten face, sending his jaw flying across the dark room in a sickening sound
Somehow, you manage to be even more disgusting like that.. Fall, and stay down, creature of Chaos!
End of Round 2 Summary
Zombies 1, 2 and 3 still lay motionless on the ground, various pieces of their corpses scattered around. Zombie 4’s wounds seem to be closing.
Zombie 4 has taken 13 Wounds and has no Advantage and is in combat with Ruprecht and Valghaz.
Adelaida is not engaged with a foe and has +2 Advantage
Krizta is not engaged with a foe and has +2 Advantage
Landolf is not engaged with a foe and has +2 Advantage
Ruprecht is engaged with Zombie 4, is badly wounded and has no Advantage
Valghaz is not engaged with a foe and has +3 Advantage
You all can hear something moving closer to you from around one of the giant bookshelves.
Landolf, Krizta and Ruprecht are up.
Krizta watches for just a moment to make sure the zombie she killed is not coming back.
Hoping to protect Ruprecht from a grizly fate, he rushed to his friend's aid.
"Be ready. More are coming!" he shouted.
Krizta watches for just a moment to make sure the zombie she killed is not coming back.
Hoping to protect Ruprecht from a grizly fate, he rushed to his friend's aid.
[dice=Melee (Fencing) 50 +20 Advantage]1d100"Be ready. More are coming!" he shouted.
How do you kill what’s already dead? Landolf’s approach of stabbing it over and over seems to work as a thrust from his rapier sends the undead creature falling to the ground where it lays unmoving.
His body stinging in various places from the Zombie's sharp claws, Ruprecht holds the nearest Zombie at bay for a moment as he scrabbles at his belt and pulls forth the Healing Draught he'd recently purchased.
Flipping it's lid away into the darkness, he tilted his head so he could see the Zombie as the unctuous liquid passed his lips. He marveled as it caused a quite uncomfortable warmth to run through his limbs, several of his darkest wounds loosing their bite.
Invigourated by the potion's effects , Ruprecht swung his sword hard at the Zombie!
When the last zombie goes down, Krizta allows herself to feel the fear that has been building up inside her, and her nerve peters out thinking that more are coming.
She feels like running away, but instead she tries not to cry, carefully putting away her flail, getting her back against a wall, and then she takes her sling out, figuring she might be able to still help by attacking from a distance without losing it completely.
Immediately after the last zombie is downed another one of the undead comes slowly around the corner of a bookshelf and into view (Zombie 5).
Start of Round 3
Landolf and Ruprecht have already rolled attacks and Krizta failed her Cool check but can stay away from the Zombie and use her sling. If the Zombie is still alive after that, it will attack and then Valghaz and Adelaida can attack to end the round.
Landolf finds these slow moving zombies little challenge and he gashes the right arm of the new foe.
Ruprecht drinks a healing draught and immediately feels a bit better.
Ruprecht by now has a good idea of how vulnerable these creatures are and is able to time his attack to take advantage of Landolf attacking it from the other side
The unfortunate zombie has no chance to defend itself as it's right arm was already rendered useless by Landolf. So, Ruprecht picking his spot, removes the arm completely with a swing of his sword. That damage is enough to disrupt the foul magick that had animated the corpse and it collapses unmoving.
Before your eyes, the zombies crumple into dust which is blown away by a sudden breeze leaving behind only sets of ruined clothing and 6-inch-long iron keys — resembling a 6-pointed star at the crosssection — on a leather thong
Krizta breathes in and out a few times, trying to get back to normal after her fright, and then approaches the remains of the zombies curiously. At first reluctant to get close, she eventually works up the courage to move up and examine one of the keys.
Unless she notices something wrong with them, she eventually works her nerve up and reaches down and picks one up.
Krizta breathes in and out a few times, trying to get back to normal after her fright, and then approaches the remains of the zombies curiously. At first reluctant to get close, she eventually works up the courage to move up and examine one of the keys.
Unless she notices something wrong with them, she eventually works her nerve up and reaches down and picks one up.
Working up her courage, Krizta jabs a key with her finger prepared to jump back if necessary. Nothing untoward happens though and Krizta reaches down and picks up one of the keys. The star-shape is definitely unusual but remembering something Valghaz said before the zombies attacked, Krizta realizes that they keys might fit the holes around the hexagram.
Besides the shelves full of hundreds of books, there are doors leading out of the library on the southeast and the southwest side of the large half-circle shaped room. Those doors are in addition to the door that you just came through from the hexagram room.
"We should make sure no more of those creatures are about before we make use of the keys, I think," suggested Landolf. "We don't want anything sneaking up on us."
”Aye. Let’s move as a group. Once we’ve cleared the area, let’s get these doors opened.”
Krizta nods at the warning, but picks up all the keys so they can use them when it is time.
Then she starts browsing the shelves, seeing what kind of books are around.
Adelaida looks at the book with shy respect.
It is not so far ago that books and written words were a strange and forbidden realm to her. It took a miracle from Sigmar ( very small miracle for Sigmar, the biggest one for Adelaida) to allow her to enter that realm.
She starts perusing the tomes, her warhammer close at hand.
She might have a litterate mind now, but she remains a soldier in her soul.
The books are written in a variety of mundane, secret, and arcane languages. They cover many subjects, from alchemical treatises to ‘novels' of a somewhat insalubrious literary nature.
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[dice=Evaluate (33)]1d100
As a reminder, the library is shaped like a half a donut. In the middle of the room, there's the door you came in through (from the donut hole, so to speak). The other two doors are on the opposite ends of the room (the east and west side of the donut).
After they take a look at the books, Krizta goes to check the east door, listening first to see if she can hear anything beyond it.
If she cannot, she opens it, looking beyond.
If she can, she reports back to the group first so that they can face whatever is beyond together.
After they take a look at the books, Krizta goes to check the east door, listening first to see if she can hear anything beyond it.
If she cannot, she opens it, looking beyond.
If she can, she reports back to the group first so that they can face whatever is beyond together.
As Krizta approaches the door, one of the keys that she picked up from the zombies glows for a moment and then the door in front of her slides open soundlessly.
The room contains a large desk, a plans chest, and a drawing board. Various ancient portraits hang on the walls.
The desk is locked.
The plans chest has several antique maps showing various parts of the Empire, the Reikland, and the western marches of Talabecland in particular. All the maps have a number of intersecting lines carefully drawn on them. One intersection in the Barren Hills has been roughly ringed.
The drawing board itself is empty.
The portraits depict various members of what seems to be a family line. The family resemblance between the portrait subjects is clear: all have aquiline noses, high foreheads, and thick, bushy eyebrows.
Propped in one corner of the room is an ornately carved staff.
In addition to the door you came through there is another closed door on the other side of the room.
Krizta tries the keys in the lock of the desk, and she picks up the staff, intending to bring it with them. She takes a close look at it first to see what is carved into it though.
She also looks behind each of the portraits, knowing that people hide things behind pictures sometimes.
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”Witch Hunters are gonna have a field day with this.” Valghaz remarked. Let’s see if any of these keys opens the desk. If not, will force it open.”[/b] He didn’t want to cause unnecessary damage, but at the same time they should be thorough...
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Adelaida studies the maps intensely. She recognize parts of the Empire where she trained with her old regiment. Then she notices something odd, and her slender fingers follows the traces drawn on the maps
I'm quite sure these lines on the maps follows the course of Moorslieb. Do you know who these people on the paintings are, perchance, Landolf? Maybe some local nobles?
[dice=Intelligence Test (Map)(33-10=23)]1d100
Krizta tries the keys in the lock of the desk, and she picks up the staff, intending to bring it with them. She takes a close look at it first to see what is carved into it though.
She also looks behind each of the portraits, knowing that people hide things behind pictures sometimes.
The keys are much too large to fit into the desk.
Unfortunately there’s nothing hidden behind the portraits.
The ornate staff is carved with words that hurt the eyes to read along with an exquisite carving of a skeletal figure who seems to be surrounded by wailing souls. As you look very carefully, you realize that the carved figure is looking directly at you and seems to have something to tell you…
[dice=Int]1d100
”Witch Hunters are gonna have a field day with this.” Valghaz remarked. Let’s see if any of these keys opens the desk. If not, will force it open.”[/b] He didn’t want to cause unnecessary damage, but at the same time they should be thorough...
[dice=Str to force open desk]1d100
Valghaz rips the drawer from the desk which unfortunately causes several bottles of blue and red ink to spill leaving his hands multicolored. In addition to the ink there are several quills inside the desk. Of more interest you also find a battered notebook with yellowing pages covered in complex calculations with notes written in a spidery hand. It’d likely take someone skilled in Magick to decipher the entirety of the notes but you can see that Morrslieb is referred to many times on the pages.