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Kurt is up.
Kurt barely manages to evade the zombie's grabing arms. Sprocket's bolt strikes true but the hit doesn't seem to phase the creature.
Both Kurt's and Joe's attacks hit, but your weapons seem to deal very little damage. One of the zombies moves to grab at Kurt. The other two continue to chew on the still screaming gaurd. The rest continue to shamble forward. Sprocket is up.
Kurt's up.
One of the zombies (J4) takes Joe's bullet in the chest, stumbles, then conties its shamble forward. The zombies shamble into the town. Three stop at H6 and begin to eat the screaming gaurd. Two others move toward the houses. The last three shamble toward Sprocket. New zombie positions: 3 zombies are squeezed into H6, the rest are at H5, I4, I5, I6, & J6
The Battle Map is up. Your positions are on the map except for Kurt, who is 20ft west of A5. There are wounded townsfolk lying on the ground at H6 and F8. Initiative Order and Positions
Kurt is up.
Sprocket leaps form the tower as the RPG impacts in a fiery blast. She hits the ground hard . As the tower goes up in flames, the winch that holds up the drawbridge-style gate gives and the gate comes slamming down, crunching several zombies. Kurt's bolt impacts the man in the shoulder. The man clutches at the wound as he half-falls into the cab of the Humvee. He stomps on the gas and the truck peels through the gate. Sprocket and Joe manage to dodge out of the way of the truck, but get a good look at the driver. You recognize him as Richard Killans, the trader and distiller. However, you have more pressing matters as zombies begin streaming through the gate, filling the air with their hungry moans.
Sprocket: Spoiler:
You hear someone shouting behind you. As you turn to look, you hear a WHOOSH and see a rocket speeding toward the guard tower you are standing in. Joe: Spoiler:
You hear a loud WHOOSH and turn to see an RPG flying toward the tower. Kurt: Spoiler: The man barely glances at you as he fires off his RPG.
Kurt: Spoiler:
You notice a man pushing a stripped down humvee toward the west gate. As you watch, the man picks up an RPG launcher and takes aim at the guard tower.
The guard returns a few moments later carrying three bolt action hunting rifles, an air compressor, and a metal case. Sprocket grabs the case from him and carries it up the ladder into tower. The guard sets up the air compressor as Sprocket opens the case and begins assembling a strange looking rifle. After it is assembled she attaches it to the air compressor and hands it to Sergent Kord. He loads several three-inch long steel spikes into the rifle and takes aim over the wall. With a metallic clank, the flachette gun launches a metal spike. The flachette shears through the zombies head and buries itself in the hard packed earth.
Kord motions to one of the guards,"Go to the armory and break out the flachette gun and the rifles." The guard acknowledges the order and runs off toward the armory. "I'll go home and get the serum ready, just in case," says Dr. Villard, "Mayor, I could use your help." The two of them walk away towards the Dr.'s home. Just then, a loud BANG echoes through the town, followed by several more. Soon the air is filled with the cacophony of rotting fists banging against the steel plate of the west gate. Sergent Kord glances in your direction. "Don't worry," he says, "They can't get through."
By the time you get to the west gate, Sergent Brandon Kord is already there. Mayor Tillman and Dr. Villard arrive just a moment later. "What is the situation Sergent?" Mayor Tillman asks. "Greg Johnson spot was sleeping out with his heard and spotted about fifty zombies out by the old well," he replies, "We got everyone inside the walls, already did a head count. We also got all of the herds inside. Thank Greg for that, he went around and rounded up all the herds before bringing them in." "Sarge!" one of the watchmen in the tower whispers loudly, "You better get up here." Kord quickly climbs the ladder and looks through the low-light binoculars. "Damn," he says before handing the glasses to Sprocket. Looking through the binoculars. You see several dozen rotting, shambling corpses moving at a slow gait toward the town.
The day continues with the usual business of the town. As night falls the town settles down. The generator kicks on to power street lights and allow the people to charge the batteries of their electrical devices. Sometime around midnight:
Spoiler:
The town is quiet and still except for the two guards in each tower. Suddenly the guards in the west tower leap into silent action. One quickly lowers the west gate to let in a group of people and a small herd of goats before sealing it again. The other guard runs into town, slowing as he approaches you.
"Shamblers on the outskirts. Keep quiet, no lights, pass it on," he says before continuing to the mayor's house.
Spoiler: You are woken by a militiaman. "Shamblers on the outskirts. Keep quiet, no lights, pass it on," he says.
For Travelers:
Spoiler:
Across the dusty plains of the American south-east you have traveled, finally ending up in the small settlement of New Allenville. After a tense moment, the farmers decided that you meant them no harm and let you into the gates.
The food was bad and the trading post was nearly bare, but at least the wooden palisade kept the wandering zombies at bay. You decide to stay the night and unroll your bedroll underneath the awning of one of the ramshackle buildings in town. For Locals:
Spoiler:
Today was an odd day. Never before has more than one traveler appeared at the town gates in the span of a month. Today, three showed up.
After the militia leader Brandon determined that they did not pose a threat, he let them into town. You spent most of the day talking to the travelers. Heading home as night fell.
Myrkar, you can not recall any information on this strange creature.
The items are:
Is everybody ok with turning the furs over to the City Watch? I'll post what the items are tomorrow and you guys can divide them up then.
The six bags, the furs and the items are the only things in the cave. What you can do with the furs:
What ever you decide to do with the furs, you've got very little time to do it in. We'll skip that RP encounter, just let me know what you guys want to do with them. When you get to the docks: Gerard is standing near the docks with his Sheild Guardian. When he sees you approaching, he says, "It's about time. I was beginning to think that you had decided to skip out on me. Come along, come along, the captain is in a hurry to be off." He leads you to a large, sturdy looking zeplin at the far end of the docks and introduces you to a large man dressed in leather armor and a gnome dressed in fine silks with a dozen wands sticking out of every pocket. "This is Captian Narth Belovure and Renauld Oroven, the ships artificer." Renauld steps forward and says, "Plesure to meet you all." Then turns and leaps aboard the ship, dissapearing beneath the deck. Captian Belovure introduces himself and welcomes you on board. Gerard hands you an envelope and says, "You are not to open this until you reach Cloud Reaver Citadel. It explains your mission and provides some guidance in how to complete it. I've paid for your passage, so you won't be expected to work. Good luck and good by." As you step onto the ship, you glance down and see the cliff face fall away from the city, plunging into the deadly mist 500 feet below. The deck hands cast off the lines and push off of the docks, out and away into the open sky. Black smoke pours out of the stack at the rear of the ship and the propellers begin to turn, pushing the ship southeast. A hand shows you to your quarters. Each of you gets a small stateroom with a bunk and a table and chair. If Renauld sees anyone studying the items from the cave he offers to identify them for you, free of charge. Other wise you've got about a month before the first scheduled stop at Cloud Reaver Citidel. You'll be able to do some trading there. Any one who wants can get in on the crew's gambling game. Make up to 10 DC 25 Bluff checks. For each success, you win 10sp. If you fail by more than 10, you lose 10sp. Everyone should also level up. I'm not keeping track of XP so I'll just have you guys level up when the story allows it. Don't worry about XP penalties for multi-classing. Renauld has a workshop and a modest library on board for anyone who wants to do some crafting or research. Sorry for the rail road. I just wanted to get the story headed back in the right direction.
The wall slides away to reveal a chamber. Inside the chamber are piles of dust and junk. DC 28 Search check:
Spoiler:
Buried in the piles of junk are:
If any one has Detect Magic active:
Spoiler: The auras from the items are:
Anyone with Detect Magic active sees the aura from Revans spell being drawn into the door. It starts to glow slightly.
Myrkar, the door is just absorbing the magical energy, not taking on any of the properties of the magic it's absorbing. You also are able to copy the runes on the door so the others can read them. Anyone who can read Draconic, the runes describe a draconic parable that makes no sense to your puny mortal minds. Dahak, make a DC 25 Will Save.
Spoiler:
Nothing happens If you fail:
Spoiler: You compianions fade from view and are replaced by two dragons. One is rather large, nearly filling the cave. The other, much smaller dragon you recognize as a very young Zeranthex. They do not seem to hear or see you. The bigger dragon seems to be instructing Zeranthex in the arcane arts. It has just finnished the parable that Myrkar scratched in the dirt. It then walks over to the door. Your vision fills with glowing lights and auras and you can now see the door and the runes etched on it. The larger dragon casts a spell and the arcane magic flows from it to the door. The door slides open, revealing a huge cave beyond, filled with piles of coins and golden treasures. The dragons fade from view and your compianions return to your sight. The glowing aruas and the door are gone. Every one seems to be staring at you.
All six bags are full of exotic furs and skins from a variety of strange creatures. For Myrkar
Spoiler: Make a Decipher Script check (you can make this one untrained if need be) to see if you can copy the runes in the dirt, or on a scrap of paper so someone else can read them.
Myrkar
Spoiler: The bags are Hevard's Handy Haversacks.
Myrkar
Spoiler: You see a moderate conjuration aura emanating from the bags. The auras are being draw to the "door". The "door" seems to be sucking the magic from the bags. Any other magic items the PCs are carrying seem to be effected in the same way. The door emits no aura, but you now see silvery writing carved into the stone.
There are no hinges, knobs, keyholes, or traps on the door.
The "door" seems to be made of solid stone. Dahak's blows hardly scratch the surface.
Laucian walks over to the wall of the cave, "Hey, there's something here. It looks like a door, but I don't see a way to get it open."
Ashur, in each of the three crates, you find two back packs bearing HHH in large letters.
The cave is dark and damp (being behind a water fall). Sitting in the middle of the room is a stack of wooden crates.
Ashur, you and Jed round the corner to see Dahak smashing the heads of a large, seven-headed, reptilian beast into a pulp. Myrkar is picking the ninja up off the ground, and Revan is going behind Dahak, pouring Alchemist Fire on the stumps.
Ashur, you and Jed round the corner to see Dahak smashing the heads of a large, seven-headed, reptilian beast into a pulp. Myrkar is picking the ninja up off the ground, and Revan is going behind Dahak, pouring Alchemist Fire on the stumps.
It takes two flaskes of alchemist's fire to cauterize all seven heads.
You flail smashes into the beasts flank as it lunges past you. The beast roars in pain.
Myrkar, it's your turn again.
Laucian, your attack hits, piercing the beast's hide, but it doesn't seem to have the affect you hopped for.
Revan, I went ahead and let you take your turn, the only cover was inside the mouth of the cave. It's a DC 20 Str check to remain standing while moving through one of the light blue waterfall squares. The waterfall provides you with improved cover(+8 to AC, +4 to Reflex Saves) from the hydra. Pending Dahak's AoO, the hydra will finish his attacks then it will be Dahak's turn.
Ok, the Init order is:
Mykar, your attack hits, but does only minor damage to the scaly beast. Laucian, it's your turn.
Revan doesn't see any traps. Suddenly the water explodes, sending dropplets raining down on you. Seven long snake like heads emerge from the spray. The heads scan the area, searching for the prey it smells, but cannot see.
The halfling says, "Oh!" and takes the end of the rope and leads you up the large set of stiars that traverses the city (with Jed and Ashur following at a distance). As you step onto the Fifth Tier, you take in the Cathedral of the Silver Flame. The huge gothic building dominates the cliffside. You pass through the North Gate and onto the bare mountian. The halfling leads you up a narrow pass and after about an hour of climbing, you emerge onto a flat piece of ground. Falling from the cliffs above into a deep lake, is a hundred foot water fall. Behind the fall is an cave. The halfling turns and says, "The dragon supposed' t' live in there. I ain't goin no further. I'm sure you can find yer way back to town." He turns and heads back down the mountian toward the city.
"By the way, the name's....," he trails off as he turns around to see an empty tavern. The halfling looks around in confusion, then begins to walk away, "Guess they didn't wanna come."
The halfling's eyes go wide as the coins drop into his hand. "I wudn' worry 'bout that, it's not very far," He says as he shoves the coins into his pockets. "This way mi'lords." The halfling heads toward the door waving for you to follow.
The halfling begins to get impatient, "c'mon fellas, if we're gonna go, then lets get a goin'."
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