Round Six
(this is preceded by round five, followed by round seven)
Kazzak slices into the
zombie Duke's shoulder with a wet thump.
Duke takes 10 slashing damage!
Dean attacks
Antonius, wet, putrid hands slamming into the shining shield, casting wild shadows across the fields.
Duke attacks
Kazzak, but the dwarf barely feels the blows under his armor.
Dina attacks
Sora.
Sora takes 2 bludgeoning damage and collapses, dying!
Don follows after
Amnestria, who has moved just slightly too far for it to reach her. It Dashes again to catch up to her but cannot attack this round.
Dvan slams the side of the stall. Cracks appear in the wood, but it was made to withstand kicks from livestock and it doesn't break yet.
Sora tries to avoid going into the light.
Sora has one failed death save.
Not realizing that the retainers have already fled to another room,
Amnestria calls out
"Now! Shoot him in the back!"...which alerts
Berthold at the bottom of the stairs where she is.
"How are you still standing?" Antonius grumbles, but then righteous fury rises up in him once more.
"By the Ruby Lady's judgment," the death cleric shouts loud enough to be heard by everyone,
"your sentence has already been passed." With that, he smashes his warhammer down on
Duke once more.
Duke takes 4 bludgeoning damage!
Hearing the shout,
Morton pushes forward through the tall stalks of neglected crops. Soon he sees the lit faces of
Kazzak and
Antonius fighting two silhouetted
zombies outside the back door of a farmhouse. Drawing upon his infernal connection with the demon lord of madness,
Morton feels more than hears
::Kill them all. Ask no questions:: as the power flows into him; at first he cannot tell whether he is thinking this or if it is from outside. But then he focuses on the dwarf and the madness abates enough for him to unleash the hellish energy on
Duke. From
Kazzak and
Antonius' point of view, a beam of vile darkness suddenly spews out of the waving stalks of grain and punches into the
zombie!
Duke takes 2 force damage!
Dell drops his
dagger on the floor, whispering
"Cut yourself loose I will try and lead them away." Then he leaps to his feet, slams out of the tall stall, runs around the zombie trying to bust through the side of the enclosure (
Dvan), spares a glance south at the form of
zombie Dina, silhouetted by the bright light by the farmhouse, and yells
"Hey, dead heads! Can't catch me!" as he trots into the darkness outside of the back door. There is a bit of moonlight here, enough to keep him from tripping on the uneven ground.
Dell makes sure to
Dash toward the trees, to stay out of the reach of any slowly pursuing undead. He ends his turn 50' away from
Dvan.
Not knowing that her mistress is in danger,
Grallaria the owl continues to swoop and batter
Duke with her wings to
Help Kazzak with his attacks.
Having heard
Dell's shout,
Berthold responds for everyone to hear:
"Rally in the house, let us barricade ourselves!" This is the first sign any of them have that he is alive in the house.
Berthold tries to run but rather staggers up the stairs out of the thick fog. Slightly faint from injury and blood loss, the knight pauses for a second at the top of the stairs, to let his dizziness pass. But he sees
Don disappearing through the door to the northern bedroom. He follows and slashes into the rotting thing.
Don takes 7 slashing damage!
There is cheering from behind the barricaded door to the southern bedroom; not because the
servants have seen
Berthold's valiant action, but just from relief at hearing that their master is still alive.
Bound hand and foot, the
bandit women roll and scramble for the dagger to start cutting the ropes.
Ene writhes her body and gets her fingers on the dagger first; she rolls over and saws through the ropes binding
Fern's wrists.
Fern takes the dagger and saws through
Ene's bonds, freeing her wrists. Their ankles are still bound, but they feel better at getting their arms in front of their bodies again.
19 - Kazzak (12/12)
18 - The dead Dave (Dead), Dean (-6), Dina (-62), Don (-26), Duke (-42), Dvan
16 - Sora (0/12) Dying one failure
7 - Amnestria (9/9)
7 - Antonius (3/10)
7 - Morton (1/15, 5 temp HP)
6 - Dell (6/9)
4 - Grallaria (1/1)
3 - Berthold (1/11)
0 - Reynald (4/4), Guilbert (4/4), Olyena (4/4)
0 - Bandits Ene and Fern
... Hells Caster ... roll initiative for Morton
