Alexa steps aside so someone else can break the door down.
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Arloric holds up the chime.
"Why don't we just use this?"
Oui
"...where'd you get that?"
One of Arloric's eyebrows rises.
"The cache from the Blackwings Aravashniel gave us. We used it to get in here, remember?"
"Ah. Right."
"That could work as well." Sario says
Uriel shrugs and nods in the direction of the door.
The ringing of the chime sounds clear and pure, and you even feel like the foulness of the fortress disappears a little because of it.
That sensation lasts very little.
The southern portion of the now open room holds a wide alabaster basin filled with bloody entrails. The outside of the basin is carved with images of warriors around a raised sun, holding longswords aloft. A flight of stairs ascends to the west.
There are 6 zombies stand around the basin, staring mournfully into it with their bellies open and gaping-they turn to attack your characters immediately.
Iniative
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Arloric grimaces at the gruesome sight. Even a man as used to seeing predators tear up prey as he was disgusted by this wanton callousness.
The zombies shamble forward, slowly, getting outside the room and into the hallway, they are in melee distance from all of you.
Alexa attempts to leap over one zombie's head to flank it with Kelly...
...and comes down behind it with a slash of her gladius!
Alexa seems to move as if hasted compared to the slow zombie, gets behind it and slash at its neck, sending the head flying.
Aberus draws his scimitar and moves in to strike at a zombie.
A slash appears in the zombie's flesh, but no blood pours out. It's damaged but not down.
Sario moves in to the room as well, moving beside Aberus if possible to assist him.
Sario finishes the zombie Aberus had damaged.
"Thank you for the assist, Sario."
Arloric moves to follow the others, finding an opening to attack one of the zombies!
Uriel moves up and hacks at another zombie with his golden blade.
Arloric misses, and Uriel don't. Another Zombie is destroyed.
Kelly steps in to flank, and slashes with both blades together
Moving in to flank with Kelly, Darya swings her blade at the zombie.
the elf will concentrate and lpb a splash of acid at one of the undamaged zombies, hoping to weaken it for her more martial companions
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"you're welcome, this will be a team effort to the bitter end I feel." Sario says to her ally
Kelly, Daria and Telerin damage another Zombie, but none of them hit hard, and the Zombie is still up.
Aberus maneuvers around to attack one of the remaining zombies, but swings poorly and doesn't even manage to come close.
Sario moves with Aberus to assist him,
"Are these crusaders?" Sario asks to her allies.
The three remaining zombies attack Darya, Kelly, and Telerin.
Darya easily deflects the blow with her shield, but has to check her swing in the cramped space, only delivering marginal damage with the tip of her blade.
Kelly keeps on stabbin
Alexa moves to flank another zombie and cut it down.
Arloric joins in the stabbing!
Aberus picks a zombie that's still standing and swings.
Uriel moves to try and flank one of the zombies, then attacks again.
Sario continues to move with Aberus, working effectively to take zombies down.
Darya and Kelly manage to finally hack the zombie facing them and Telerin to pieces.
Alexa and Uriel almost destroy the other two zombies, but they manage to stay up.
The remaining two zombies attack Alexa and Uriel.
Aberus and Sario quickly finish the last 2 remaining zombies.
You look down at the corpses and realize just a couple days ago they were crusaders, just like you, now desecrated and turned into weapons for the enemy they died fighting. Truly a horrible ending for them.
Alexa gets clobbered just before the zombies get cut down.
Once her ears stop ringing, she looks around the room.
Alexa goes into the room and the gore and the smell that fills it hits her senses.
The southern portion of this room holds a wide alabaster basin filled with bloody entrails (Guess who's entrails?). The outside of the basin is carved with images of warriors around a raised sun, holding longswords aloft. A flight of stairs ascends to the west.
This is obviously a Scrying Chamber, now turn into the service of the Abyss.