"...huh... that's almost sad."
Meliora takes a pensive moment to look around the room.
"Well. Not getting any deader, I guess. Let's move."
Lena continues east. "What's over here?"
Jack follows along with Lena, longsword drawn and eyes darting to and fro.
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Wax replicas of various politicians, folk heroes, deities, and creatures fill this room, some laughably fake and others eerily lifelike. One in particular stands out—a depiction of a man dressed in bloodstained professor’s robes. This figure wields a bloody surgeon’s knife in one hand, but its face has been melted away into an unrecognizable waxen mess save for a single glaring eye.
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This gallery displays a variety of local celebrities and myths alongside plaques describing their legacies. The defaced statue bears a plaque inscribed as follows: “Professor Mangvhune—Temple Hill Slasher.” Canacha recalls this infamous Kintargan murderer, a man who was executed 116 years ago but whose legacy lives on as an enduring urban legend.
"That's a horrible image." She gives the room a look and casts Detect Magic.
"Mangvhune!" Jack hisses quietly as he recognizes the statue. "This psychopath's name is still whisperer in fear every time there's a murder in Redroof or on Temple Hill...even though he's been dead for over a century!"
Lena continues to cast detect magic as she moves in behind Jack.
"What do you see?" she asks him.
Jack silently points out the charred guardian, seeming a bit perplexed. Then he charges the figure with a warcry, striking unless the figure gives him good reason not to.
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Almost as usual Canacha was off in her own little world checking out the wax figures... then she heard Jacks warcry and she startled. Blushing furiously she rushed torwards his yell drawing her pistol to ready to blast the evil creature that he charged . . .
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Jack charges the charred human cutting a good chuck out of it's abdomen, but if he exccepted to see any blood he is sadly disappointed, as precious little spild out.
The creature turns towards Jack swinging wildly with it's arms missing him by a good mile uttering "UUURGHH!!. Jack hears similar sounds from the adjourning room and the steps of something moving towards the group.
Round 1
Jack, Lena, Canacha, Meliora, Micheria
Charred human, creatures closing in.
"Hey! You hit something!"
What it is, she isn't sure yet. Still, good reflexes from her party is always something to be thankful for.
Snapping back to attention, her mind distracted by something. Mic moves quickly into the room delivering a single kick at the creature.
Jack continues to hack away at the undead.
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"Zombies. They're generally slow. Use slashing weapons."
Meliora keeps to the back. Her only spells that are good for this sort of thing aren't the sort she'd want to waste on any number of zombies--since they could generally be killed by simple kiting. Eventually.
"No bombs, no bullets, and no clubs...Im terrible at zombie fights! GO JACK!"
The dhampier alchemist and gunslinger called out as she moved forward with her club. SHe didnt think she could do much with it other than maybe like distract the undead monster or something.
Lena rushes into the room, and pulls out her longsword on the way. "Careful they bite."
Mic does her best to slip up between two of the zombies, hoping to keep them off the members of the party that have slashing weapon. Once in places she concentrates on defending herself as she lashes out with another kick, this time at yellow.
"Right, slashing weapons, need to get one. For now I will try and get them to hit me while you kill them."
With no opening to get though Mic simply sets and attempts to deliver two stiff kicks to the zombie in front of her.
"Should I fall back to give us more room of do we want them bottled up like this?"
Jack moves to the front line, hacking at the center zombie rather than the one who might get some cover from the nearby wall. To Canacha he says, "There's a dagger tucked inside my right boot you might give to Mic." Canacha also likely sees a second silvery dagger in a small sheathe on Jack's right hip.
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"Awkward way to ask a girl to feel you up you know!"
She muttered to Jack as she knelt low and tried to deftly grab the dagger from his boot without interupting his footwork in zombie battling.
Deftly pulling the dagger free she half turned offering the hilt of the blade to Mic.
"Here you go Mic!"
She offered chipperly.
Lena slashes at the blue zombie. "Nobles clothing. That's interesting. I wonder who they were."
"If we're lucky, Thrune sympathizers."
Pit's no good, time to frost.
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Micheria and Meliora's combined assault on one of the zombies seems to take a good chuck out of it's negative energy. Lena deals a good hit to the zombie in front of her. And Jack does what he does best even against a still standing zombie.
All the zombies attacks the partymembers right in front of them.
The zombies' slam attacks connects to Micheria and Lena, while the one dueling with Jack is about as good as him to hit anything.
Canacha is pretty sure they are chelish nobles. The colors of the clothes are kinda like Rexus' but seems wrong to you, probably because of the charness.
Round 3
Jack, Lena, Canacha, Meliora, Micheria
Charred human zombies Green 7, Blue 4, Yellow 0, Cyan 0
Jack dodges the zombie's attack and hacks again at the middle zombie.
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"Ouch. You should have stayed dead."
Meliora continues keeping up the pewpew beams on the blue zombie, hoping to hit where Jack... well, didn't.
"Hey guys uh... dont they sort of look likes Rexus' clothes but you know burnt?"
She began putting her pistol away, then her club. She had a look on her face that said she was about to do something... well stupid.
Knowing her blows are not doing much Mic plants her feet and tries to deliver a powerful elbow to the green zombies nose.
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Micheria delivers the final hit to the zombie's nose obliterating it's head leaving only the corpse to fall to the ground. But as one goes down another steps up next to Mecheria looking all menacing. The last zombie attempts to hit Jack
Jack takes the hit sqaure in the face and it's a stinger.
Round 3
Jack, Lena, Canacha, Meliora, Micheria
Charred human zombies Yellow 0, Cyan 0
Jack, his nose bloodied, hacks in retaliation against the zombie that belted him.
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Trying to time it she slid past Lena into a little front sommersault and rolled back to her feet drawing the dagger from her belt and slipping to the side behind the zombie Jack was hacking at.
"Stop hitting his face. I like his face Jerk zombie!"
She muttered slashing at the back of the zombies neck with her dagger.
Lena rinses and repeats with the zombie in front of Mic.
If the last zombie stands Mic will again try to land a very powerful blow.
Meliora takes a step to try and target the teal zombie.