(036) The Remains of the Day

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danhem wrote:
Ulric sets down his lantern and holds the scepter high.

"Let me see if I can clear out a few before you get to work," he says calmly. "You should stand back."

Ulric speaks the words of the Anthracite Sufferance and unleashes a gout of flame down the corridor once the shambling dead are in range.

OOC: Apologies for the absence, things got busy; I see they did here as well. [img]images/smiley/wink.png[/img]

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coffee wrote:
Dieter hacks and/or slashes at any undead dumb enough to come through the passage.

"That was quick," he mutters. "I was afraid we'd have to root them out."

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eris wrote:
I think the way he's standing, Olaf will need to turn sideways and take a step back so he can attack from the flank as the undead come through the doorway. Dieter on one side and Olaf on the other should be able to hold the door...I hope.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The First Vault

(Josiane, Highbough, Dorgan)

Josiane brandishes her Enigma of Thuul and utters her Holy mantra. The ancient words ring sound and fair in this otherwise cold, dark place, and the dead that were scrambling hungrily to get at the trio upon the lip halt in their tracks, quavering and twitching awfully, but make not attempt to approach any closer.

Dorgan takes guard upon the lip before Josiane.

Highbough blasts his shrill whistle in the passageway behind.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The Ante Chamber
(Gustave and Guntram)

Hearing a shrill whistle, the pair of fighting men follow into the cold, dark, right passage. Ahead, they spy the glow of a lantern, and the movement of unidentifiable shadows.

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doctorx wrote:
Josiane locks her gaze upon the quailing Undead, the Enigma of Thuul extended towards them, her chant still ringing around the shadowed expanses of the chamber.

Without breaking eye-contact or chant she maneuvers to present her back (and her backpack) squarely to Highbough...

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The Second Vault
(Dieter, Olaf, Ulric, Desmond/Mondes, Wibert, Pelenwin)

Scarcely a moment after Wibert and Pelenwin rush into the vault, the dead come on!

They are a great tide of rotted, peeling flesh, scramble atop one another in a tangle of out stretched claws in their desperation to reach the living and rend them limb from limb. The stench of them is sickening enough, let alone the sight of them.

Ulric entreats the serpentine phrase of his sorcery, and lets loose a blast of copper-fire that momentarily heats the otherwise cold vault, and supersedes the white-blue light with orange.

(1d6=1 +3 = 4)

The riot of walking dead are engulfed in the flames, and their flesh and wild hair and ragged clothing do burn and cinder, but alas! They come on still with fires burning upon them!

Dieter and Olaf are waiting for them with honed blades at the ready, and as the first of the wave stagger into the vault (1d20; Dieter=18, Olaf=11) the fighting-Men cut them down mercilessly.

But as the first of them are savagely eviscerated, the next are already burgeoning into the vault!

What next?

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sulldawga wrote:
Dorgan talks to Highbough out of the side of his mouth, his eyes locked onto the horde of undead.

"Do ye have any oil? We should try to burn 'em while they're all packed together."

OOC: How many undead are we talking here? Can I get a rough count?

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eris wrote:
Olaf continues to hack at the undead as they emerge into the room from the narrow corridor. If he and Dieter can dispatch enough maybe their sheer mass will block the doorway, besides what else is there to do right now but fight on!

"Dieter and I will hold them here, but you need to think of something smart!" Olaf calls out between grunts as he hacks and slashes the monsters!

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eris wrote:
OOC: Do Dieter and Olaf get extra attacks due to their levels?