Post by David on Aug 17, 2015 17:06:26 GMT -5
Rhanée StrongArm, the Brown Witch and High-Priestess of Bahamut reform her team to destroy undead in Amberwood after healing up and sleeping. The next morning with Metrion, Little Man, and Gee tracking on the ground by scent, Zauloman scouting in the sky, and Marc tracking prints, Rhanée's group of heroes sets back out to the towns east of Dragondale. This time the party consists of Rhanée and Emrys, Zauloman, Metrion, Serena and Durwood, Kahan, Klornap, Marc with Little Man and Gee, Pudic with Cooper, Joe, as well as Malok Drake and Bianca. The heroes return to Merrikka where Zauloman spies several roving bands of ghouls marauding about the small town. The dragon gets the undead's attention and based on their speed, the creatures are mostly ghasts. Working in concert, Kahan, Klornap, and Bianca repeatedly turn the undead, thereby buying Malok time to unleash two separate ice storms and a lighting bolt on the monsters. Later, Rhanée unleashes a fiery dragon's breath as well. Things go quite a bit more smoothly and the heroes manage to slaughter all three large roving bands as well as smaller stragglers without much trouble. Rhanée's biggest concern is how much her apprentice, Serena, is flirting with Joe! Pudic's biggest concern is where Cooper is -- the lupogriff spent the whole time circling the combat in the air.
The group makes contact with the town witch who explains that there is a large group of undead trapped in the main barn while another large group has taken over her temple, the manor house of the former lord from before the Mind Flayer wars. The party enters the temple and does a room by room search, destroying a few dozen ghasts and a handful of ghouls. No one is seriously hurt and no undead survives. The party then traps the ghouls/ghasts in the barn, Joe transmutes a large quantity of flaming oil, and the heroes incinerate the undead, blasting any that breach the walls of the fiery inferno. While the town has lost its barn, the survivors are far safer given that no undead remain. The heroes do, however, learn that the undead which attacked Merrikka didn't cross the river to the north, but rather entered from the East, from the town of Orlen in Oakenshire...!
The group makes contact with the town witch who explains that there is a large group of undead trapped in the main barn while another large group has taken over her temple, the manor house of the former lord from before the Mind Flayer wars. The party enters the temple and does a room by room search, destroying a few dozen ghasts and a handful of ghouls. No one is seriously hurt and no undead survives. The party then traps the ghouls/ghasts in the barn, Joe transmutes a large quantity of flaming oil, and the heroes incinerate the undead, blasting any that breach the walls of the fiery inferno. While the town has lost its barn, the survivors are far safer given that no undead remain. The heroes do, however, learn that the undead which attacked Merrikka didn't cross the river to the north, but rather entered from the East, from the town of Orlen in Oakenshire...!