Andagard looks over the bodies. "There is too much trauma here. Let's find soeplace to hole up. Maybe the Manor. It could give us some additional rooms to fall back to in case things go south."
Knight Night looks over the cracked vials on the bodies of what he suspected were the priests to the temple.
”Holy Water. This would have been helpful if they didn’t burst from the heat.”
”See the fingers and fingernails? The poor souls must have desperately tried to claw their way out.” He points out with his sword.
Knight Night’s eyes can’t widen, but the bear sure does look like it realized a grizzly possibility.
”Door was jammed shut with pitons, the accelerant and flames, bursted holy water, and destroyed hands clawing from desperation… Pharasma, the temple’s destruction couldn’t have been an undead attack, they must have been locked in here and then set ablaze while alive!”
Ernie doesn't have much to add about the scene, except mumbling "more poor souls, putting their faith in an absent god."
"I concur that the manor is probably a place as any to make our stand tonight. At least we know the walls are solid there. Let's gather up everything we've found and come up with a plan for setting up defenses."
Upon hearing what Lacera screams, Knight Night doesn't like the possibility she suggests. "If the undead did do it, that means there are intelligent ones amongst them." He traces the symbol of Pharasma in a silent prayer across his chest.
"Agreed, the manor is probably best, and we best use what sunlight left while it is on our side."
Andagard helps gather all of the materials at the manor. "We should use barricades at the entraces so if they do break through only one to two get in at a time."
"Hmmm...I remember that we found some oil. We could make some fires that would give us visibility when they start swarming the walls, or we could jury rig some kind of trap with it."
”I find the stratagem to destroy the stairs and holdout on the second floor in the manor a favorable one.”
"Let's prepare then." Andagard helps drag some of the materials upstairs. "We may not survive the night, but let's destroy as many of them as we can if it comes to that."
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You make your way back to the manor, dragging along as many supplies as you can. You think that it is about 5PM... sunset will be at 8.
You can tell that the hole in the NE wall will not be repairable in time, but you should be able to fortify the upper story as long as you can fortify the stairway.
Each of the windows can be closed, and can be fortified. You will need to build up a fortification for each of the stairs in three steps, much like a destroyed door or window. (Find something to act as a new barricade, then install it, then fortify it).
Gregoth heads to one of the beds and pushes the straw and blankets off. He flips it over, then knocks the legs off one by one until he has just a large board. He drags it over to the stairwell, then heads back for another. Once he has several, he starts piling them on top of each other and lashes them together with the blankets.
While Gregoth works on one of the starwells Andagard grabs soe of the scraps and begins boarding up as many of the windows as he is able to get to. He looks to their newfound survivor. "Did you see any of them climbing or were they just coming up the holes from underground?"
Knight Night looks to the western room, where five windows reside. "This would possibly be the hardest room to fortify. Perhaps barricading this door might prove beneficial?" The bear then looks over the northeastern room, observing the broken wall.
"Sealing that off may be difficult, but if the window is sealed shut, more might see that as the easier entry point, thus a better focal point for defending as they get funneled." The bear gets to work crafting sharp protrusions to build along the opening, using planks he can cut into sharp points and whatever scrap metal available. "I think that if they try to force their way in fast, we can make them take some serious damage from it."
Ernie coats the staircase in the west room with the sticky burning tar, then covers as much of the floor around the base of that staircase with the rest of the tar. After this, he blocks the staircase with the furniture found downstairs and then douses the makeshift barricade with oil. And for the final piece, he carefully places one of the alchemist's fire flasks so that if the barricade is messed with it will get crushed by the shifting furniture.
He giggles maniacally as he pours oil all over one of the sofas found downstairs.
Once he's finished barricading the stairs and turning it into a fire trap, he starts barricading the windows in the central room with wood planks. Ernie makes sure to leave so small gaps that are just large enough to fire a bow or drop a flask of oil through.
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Andagard turns to ask Lacera a question, and realizes she isn't there!
Andagard: 1 hour in, Fortified window
Ernie: 2 hours in, barricaded west stairs (fortify stairs, trap stairs, fortify window pending)
Gregoth: 2 hours in, barricade and fortify stairs.
Knight Night: 1 hour in trap (2 squares) in front of hole in wall.
Zeldana: 1 hour, Fortify window
Knight Night starts barricading the western door.
Andagard moves to the opposite side of the stairwell and begins setting boards and pitons up against the window to keep it shut tight. He wipes the sweat from his brow. "There are so many vantage points."
Gregoth gets to work on the other staircase, pulling down one of the bookcases nearby and using it as a baseboard for the furniture pieces Ernie has already found.
Ernie smiles when he sees Gregoth come in to help him reinforce the stairs.
"Its going to be hard for them to get up that stairwell and they're going to have a nasty surprise if they try."
"I hate the idea of burning books, but we could make a trap by piling them up somewhere and coating them in oil."
Andagard heads to another couple of windows and begins securing those as well. "Maybe we can use soe of the broken leftover wood to make spikes to line the entry points to slow them down if they break through."
"Don't worry too much about barricading those stairs," he suggests. "That's the staircase with the burning tar and the fire trap."
“The house is wood,” Gregoth grunts as he nails down pieces of bookcase. “And smoke will rise straight into here - could kill us faster than the dead if we set that off without sealing it.”
The silly old bear begins boarding up the southern window in the western room.
The bear decides to make more snares and traps for the north east room, creating another choke point.
Gregoth gets to work on the last unsealed window, pulling another bookshelf away from the wall and turning it into a makeshift barricade.
With the windows and stairs secured Andagard looks to begin breaking up some of the boards at the top of the stairs, between the stairs and one set of the windows to make it difficult to move through in case the undead manage to make it this far.
"Gregoth, I recognize that you are understandably worried about dying of fire and smoke, but that is why we have these big barrels of water here," Ernie says, slapping the side of one of the barrels.
Ernie helps Zeldana finish up barricading the window.
If he has time, he'll make some makeshift fire bombs by stuffing strips of bedsheets inside the bottles of anise alcohol.
"Look, down there. In the streets." Knight Night calls to his allies in a hushed tone. "They are coming." He slightly draws his sword while hiding behind someone tall, seeing if the blade is glowing.
Andgard leans on his staff as he peers out the window. "So, soon...Let's be quiet and speak in hushed tones. Maybe they will pass through."