Shieldmeet - Flamerule 32nd

Althalus will draw his bow and fire an arrow at Za, without moving from his current position.

Althalus draws his bow and fires the short distance, nailing the zombie in the throat. The moment of the well placed shot (natural 20) produces a popping sound and the head is completely separated from the body (max damage of 24 points) and lands somewhere in the debris field beyond.

(DM Note – Geoff was, of course, using the DM’s dice for those rolls).

17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Zombie A
(3) Tatyl
(2) Zombie B

Umberto and Kregnok are up, doesn’t matter what order you go it, first to post I guess.

Kregnok will move to I-5 and take a whack at zombie B

Kregnok steps over the body and hefts his heavy mace, crashing down on the zombie, taking a chunk out of it.

17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Zombie A
(3) Tatyl
(2) Zombie B

Umberto is up.

Umberto will move past Kelser and give Zombie B a ounch in the mouf.

Umberto deftly slips past Kelser, hopping up of the stone slab thus avoiding an attack of opportunity from the zombie. The monk comes down with a flying right hook that connects on the surprisingly fresh zombie. The zombie’s long, black mustache snaps back from the recoil of the punch.

Vadania remains in place and keeps a lookout for others, and it pays off. “Around the corner!” she shouts.

A clattering comes from animated skeletons that round the corner from the passage to the east. All are unarmored, and each wields a bow and has a quiver at its hip. The skeletal archers have arrows nocked, and one of those arrows swathed in flame.

Skeleton A fires the flaming arrow at Vadania but misses. Skeleton B fires a normal arrow at Tatyl on the bottom step that hits her in the shoulder, that causes her to momentarily drop to one knee. Skeleton C fires a normal arrow at Althalus who nimbly dodges it.

Tatyl regains her composure and casts a spell (disrupt undead), a ray of light emanating from her fingertips strikes Skeleton B in the chest, staggering him for a moment.

Zombie B takes a swing at Kregnok, just missing the dwarf.

Round 2

Kelser readies himself and takes another big swing at Zombie B, this time connecting with a solid blow and dropping the creature where it stood.

(17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Skeletons A, B, C
(3) Tatyl

Althalus is up. Don't forget, it will take two squares of movement (or 10') to traverse 5' of rumble.

Althalus moves to K6 and looses an arrow at Sc.

Althalus side steps toward the statue and fires an arrow at skeleton C. A well placed shot, but it sails through the rib cage of the skeleton delivering no damage. (Geez, I had to look all the up again – it has been a long time).

(17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Skeletons A, B, C
(3) Tatyl

Umberto or Kregnok are up.

Umberto moves to E4 and gives the skellie A punch in the solarplexzus

Umberto dashes through the rubble and throws a vicious left hook into the midsection of skeleton A, delivering a crushing blow (natural 20 – I need to use different dice for you guys from now on), dropping the skeleton into a pile of bones.

Round 2 (cont.)

(17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Skeletons B, C
(3) Tatyl

Kregnok is up.

Kregnok will move to J-4 and tend to Tatyl's wound.

Kregnok moves over to Tatyl and find sthat she is, for the most part, ok (she is in the orange). (DM Note - I’m not sure if you wanted to cast a cure spell, just chime in whenever and let me know if you did. For the record Tatyl is “orange” and has a max of 8 hit points.

Vadania sees her beloved enter the fray and she immediately darts after him, running atop the stone slabs to get around the others. She lands and fires a bullet from her sling at next closest to Umberto, Skeleton B. The bullet whizzes by its head, striking the wall behind it.

Skeleton B draws another arrow and fires it at Umberto, missing the nimble-footed monk. Flames flicker from the arrow that Skeleton C notches as he takes aim on Vadania. The flame arrow strikes the druid on the side and she screams with agony (she is orange).

Tatyl steadies herself and prepares to cast more spells if needed.

Round 3

Kelser roars with a battle cry and runs through the debris towards skeleton C. With his greatclub raised high, the uthgardt’s weapon comes crashing down on the skeleton, rendering it to nothing more than a pile of bones.

Round 3 (cont.)

(17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Skeletons B
(3) Tatyl

Althalus is up.

Althalus moves to F4, steadying himself on the rubble, to get a good look around the corner.

Althalus dashes forward and peers down the hallway. While it is pretty dark, the ranger sees no movement down there.

Round 3 (cont.)

(17) Kelser
(10) Althalus
(8 ) Umberto & Kregnok
(5) Vadania
(4) Skeleton C
(3) Tatyl

Umberto & Kregnok are up.

DM Note - Didn't see much of a point in updating the map. It will reflect his movement on the next one I post.

Umberto moves to the last Skellie to give it a smack!

(slightly out of turn, I suppose)
Kregnok will cure minor on Tatyl this round.

Umberto steps out of the rubble and throws a straight right into the face of the skeleton, dropping him to the ground.

Kregnok tends to the wounds of Tatyl and she feels a little better, as does Vadania who gives herself a cure minor as well.

With all the undead dealt with you are free to continue investigating this room.



Mini Map:

Kregnok will search the bodies, and attempt to identify the corpses as any of those we were asked to retrieve, besides the woman by the base of the stairs.

The other corpses still on the stone slabs are wrapped in burial shrouds that are in disarray. They look as though they have been looted.

The skeletons have nothing more than the shortbows and about a dozen arrows between the three of them. There are, however, two flaming arrows left.

Vadania helps Kregnok investigate the first body near the stairs, “She looks like she was bludgeoned to death” says the druid, “in fact…” she goes and looks at the faces of the two zombies, “I think these zombies are her parents, they are still fresh zombies and you can still see a family resemblance.”

“Whack-whack-whack!”

You are all startled by this noise and look around for its source. Kelser points to the northwestern most vault, the one that Umberto pointed out as having pitons hammered into the door to keep it shut.

“Help me please!” screams a young female voice from inside it.

"Kelser help me with these pitons, everyone else be on guard" Umberto begins to remove the pitons holding the vault closed.

It takes a Herculean effort to pull the pitons out but after a few minutes you finally do.

Very carefully the little girl pokes her head out and scans your faces, then up and down the hallways. “The bad guys? They are gone? Where is my family?”

Your heart sinks as you recognize the family resemblance to three of the corpses you found in this room, two of them had been zombiefied.

"My child, it would seem a great evil has befallen your parents, they fought bravely, but I am afraid they have passed from this life. I am so sorry child."

Aye lass. Can ye tell us about these "bad men?" What happened down here to your and your family?

“Um, ok…” says the wide-eyed girl obviously still in a state of shock. “Bad men…lots of them…monsters…I ran in here.”

Her mind drifts off as she stares blankly at nothing. “I-I want out of here. I want to go back to town.”

One of us should escort her back to town. Perhaps the rest can wait until that person returns? I am willing to make sure she is safely recieved in town.