Day Four. Midday. Tuesday, November 15th, 576 CY
Cold, foggy, cloudy
In the desecrated church, Urdur and Telkis are assaulted by the bloodcurdling howls of the ravening wolf-thing trying to eat them alive! The door creaks beneath the onslaught of its unnatural form!
Telkis hurls a chair through a stained glass window! SKRAASHH!!! The beautiful depiction of Pelor's Last Judgment of Oerth shatters into jewel-like shards as the two gnomes scramble through it, tumbling down onto the ground outside, near a lane and other buildings! The tapestry falls back into place and beyond it they hear the wooden door rent asunder as the bestial howling suddenly grows louder!
Meanwhile, in the haunted woods beyond the borders of Vicar's Head...
...Having no stomach for this fight, Bo, Brevos and Mouser flee through the accursed forest, stalked by tireless, dead men from beyond the grave!
Branches scratch and tear at their faces and hands as the heroes range further east and then turn southward again; their grisly hunters roaring and shrieking in relentless pursuit. With dread, they see more shapes appear from out of the fog ahead, attracted by the dead men's harrowing call!
Meanwhile, in the dungeons of Vicar's Head, Rudolf backs up and hurls two daggers at a ghastly charnel house atrocity! (Z1) Both clang off the cell bars and skitter away. The living carcass reaches through the bars to strangle Rudolf to death but the hobbit is still an arm's length away!
To his left, among the growling, snarling undead host, Rudolf hears voices! Was that Ingrid Esthof?!
Beyond Rudolf's sight, Hothhil keeps withdrawing up the dungeon stairs and hacks three fingers off a loathsome cadaver reaching for his throat! The elvish warrior gets his shield up in the nick of time, beating back more grasping dead hands!
Pyotr joins the fray at Hothhil's side but his short blade misses, hacking stone chips from the dungeon wall! The half-orc mariner narrowly evades a savage blow that would have hammered him back into unconsciousness!
Ingrid counsels retreat and looks back in time to see Mondegreen beaten to the ground (2hp damage) by a heinous decaying terror descending the spiral stairs! (Z12) More carrion men lurch behind it! (at '?')
The heroes are surrounded!
Actions?!
Maps:
1= Hothhil Ingrid, Mondegreen, Pyotr, Rudolf in the dungeons. 2 = Bo, Brevos and Mouser in the woods. 3 = Telkis and Urdur near the desecrated church. ? = A pack of deathless pursuers.
Non-required reading (rolls and rulings):
PC Status:
- Brevos, Half-Elf Ranger 3: Move: 12", AC: 9, HP: 13/31
Grey Mouser, Half-Elf Magic-User/Thief 2/3: Move: 12", AC: 6, HP: 8/15, Spells: 2/2 1st lvl
Hothhil Thornbush, Elven Fighter 3: Move: 9", AC: 1, HP: 8/20
Ingrid Esthof, Human Cleric 4: Move: 12", AC: 9(7), HP: 17/22, Spells: 4/5 1st lvl and 4/4 2nd lvl
Long Bo, Human Druid 4: Move: 12", AC: 9, HP: 19/30, Spells: 5/6 1st lvl, 2/3 2nd lvl and 2/2 3rd lvl
Mondegreen Cindereye, Human Magic-User 2: Move: 12", AC: 9, HP: 1/8, Spells: 2/2 1st lvl
Pyotr Whitetip, Half-Orc Fighter 3: Move: 12", AC: 8, HP: 5/30
Rudolf Rassendyll, Halfling Thief 3: Move: 12", AC: 6, HP: 1/12
Telkis Brassfang, Gnome Fighter 3: Move: 9", AC: 0, HP: 12/32
Urdur Shimmerstone, Gnome Illusionist 3: Move: 12", AC: 6, HP: 5/9, Spells: 2/2 1st lvl and 1/1 2nd lvl
- None currently.