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Slim | "Zombies, ghouls, and now vampires," Slim shakes his head. "This place
is becoming as over run as Darkon!"
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Stephan | "They are undead," Stephan pipes up from near Nkosi, "I know it." |
Karyna | Karyna frowns, "Then are we certain this place is still hallowed ground and the nosferatu, werewolf, or whatever it is hasn't already gotten in?" |
Nkosi | Nkosi shakes his head. "No, we cannot be certain of that at all. Regardless, we must deal with these...parasites first. I don't think the journal will tell us anything more." He sighs, then adds, "We should continue. Karyna, how is your arm?" |
Karyna | "Still a little numb, but otherwise all right I think," Karyna replied, testing her bow string to ensure the arms will hold in a fight. |
Thurgood | "Yes, let us make haste. Once we have cleansed theis place of evil, we
may hunt the vampire."
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Karyna | Karyna nods and follows, knocking an arrow and taking up a position at an angle to the doorway, giving her a clear shot at whatever's on the other side. |
DM | The doors of the chapel hang open and you see inside overturned pews and a shattered altar. The scent of carnage fills the air. Signs of a battle are everywhere, but there are no signs of any bodies. |
Thurgood | Thurgood is nearest to the doors. He waits till the others have caught up before he enters. His face is not so much registering shock as burning with rage. |
Nkosi | Nkosi, still thinking about the contents of the journal, is toward the back of the group. He keeps an eye on Anton, if for no other reason than to make sure he doesn't wander off. |
Karyna | Karyna and Softpaw flank Thurgood, letting him go through the door first, then sliding through and covering his sides. One on each. |
Thurgood | Thurgood staps through the door. He walks straight on, ready to strike at any undead that might jump out at them. |
Karyna | Karyna and softpaw flank him on either side, letting Thurgood go up the center isle while they break off and go down the outter isles, checking the pews as they go. |
Syn | Syn stays close to Stephen, Nkosi and Anton. She keeps eyeing the
book with an almost visible interest in it, much like the hunger of a
wild animal towards a fresh food.
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Thurgood | Thurgood closed his eyes, trying to concentrate, sensing the surroundings around him. Was there anything left in this place but utter chaos? Up till now his senses had failed him... He felt around in the thick mist that clouded the evil of the place. |
DM | Faint light leaks through the window slits, spilling over the pews,
Red glass making the whole scene look as though it is painted in
blood.
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Thurgood | Slim's cry rudely woke the paladin. The sight of the figures brought him back to reality. He rushed forward, bring his sword in an arc to strike. |
Karyna | Karyna whirled at the sound of Slim's cry, bringing her bow up. When she finds her target, she fires. |
Nkosi | Nkosi spins around and pulls his dagger out of his robes, ready to slice at any arms that reach for him. He'll take a defensive posture, backing up to get out of their reach. |
Stephan | Stephan readies his flail once again, ready to strike any of the undead. |
DM | The creatures scurry down the walls, dropping ontop of Anton and Syn! |
Thurgood | Thurgood reaches out and grabs the creature that jumped on Syn, trying to pull it off her before striking at it with his sword. |
Karyna | As they drop, Karyna, who had readied her bow previously, lets fly two arrows, one for each target to see if she can knock them away before they land. |
DM | Thurgood rips one clear of Syn, tossing him high into the air where a flying arrow skewers it in the belly. The other arrow goes wide of the swiftly falling target, and Anton screams in panic. |
Stephan | Stephan stands still and seems to be looking intently at the creature on Anton, his hand pressed against his dagger. |
Syn | As Thurgood "catches" the creature that attacked Syn, he might have
noticed the her image shimmered when the creature contacted it. As
the arrows flew, Syn gasps and ducks low.
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Thrugood | Seeing one of the creatures felled, Thurgood tries to skewer the other
one with his blade.
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Nkosi | Seeing Thurgood slash at the creature, Nkosi hangs back for a moment so as not to get in his way. He quickly looks around to see if there is someone or something who is orchestrating this latest attack. |
DM | As he looks around he sees the tendrils that drop from the bulbous abomination attached, unseen untill now, to the ceiling. Each of the tendrils ends in a wicked looking barb, and the others have yet to see them as they coil to strike... |
Stephan | Looking at the creatures, Stephan's eyes dilate and his
voice becomes a low bellow.
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The unliving abominations immediately fall back. They stare at Stephan
with undisguised hatred but make no move toward the party. Anton lays
in a huddled heap. His clothes are shredded, but he seems otherwise
unharmed.
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Nkosi | Nkosi, usually unemotional, gasps in horror. "Anubis protect us...!" He yells, "All of you -- look out above!" |
Stephan | Stephan continues to concentrate on the undead.
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Thurgood | Thurgood is too filled with hatred for the undead to hear Nkosi. He swings his sword at the one that attacked Anton. |
DM | As he begins the swing, he feels something sharp pierce his armor between his shoulder blades and lift him bodily into the air. |
Syn | Syn jumps at Nkosi's warning. She looks up to see what is on the ceiling, but also trying to keep Stephen and the creatures in view out of the corner of her eye. |
Thurgood | The palladin lets out a cry of surprise. As he rises from the ground, he swings his sword again in panic, this time trying to hit whatever it is that is behind him. |
DM | The tentacle is just to hard to reach. |
Karyna | Feeling something brush her back, Karyna drops into a roll and comes
up with weapon drawn.
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DM | Her first shot hits the bulbus membrane of the creatures body, bursting something like a balloon. The second goes wide. |
Karyna backs off to make sure none of the splatter gets on her, not sure what it is or does. She knocks another arrow and prepares to fire at the nearest target. | |
DM | There are only the two of the ghouls, though as she examines the ceiling she notices cocoons on the ceiling around the tentacle creature. |
Karyna | She fires at the tenticle creature |
DM | Her arrows strike the leathery hide of the creature, but dont sink very far. From the wounds drip clear slime... |
Dtephan | Stephan moves closer to the ghouls after checking to see that the rest of the party is faring well enough for now without him. He addresses the deader looking ghoul.
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DM | "Not long dead, and soon you shall meet the master. This place was home to the soul, a place of purity and truth. Tainted now, like a wedding dress turned black. Tainted too is the soul. Above the living, below the dead. The master seeks to grow in knowledge, the foe seeks the lady he has claimed. The heart that loves most beats not. The heart that beats, loves not. What more would you know? Ask and I shall answer." |
Thurgood | Thurgood rages in frustration. He throws his head back to see what is lifting him. |
DM | A tenticled, amorphous, bulbous horror has attached itself to the vaulted ceiling of this once holy place. Nearby, several human shaped cocoons hang as well. A handfull are empty, and towards one are you being hauled... |
Nksoi | Nkosi, out of spells, throws two daggers at the tentacled creature. |
DM | The first of the daggers strikes the beast, the second glances off its hide. |
Thurgood | Thurgood gasps at the abomination above him. "Holy Warden of The Dead, what is that!?" For a moment fear grips him, and he wavers, but then instinct takes over and he thrusts his sword upward, into the creature. |
Thurgood | Syn sees Thurgood raising towards the creature in the ceiling. Instinct
takes over.
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DM | The missiles detonate just as Thurgood strikes his blow, cutting a large, fluid weeping gash in the beast.. Pulped ichor sprays everywhere as Thurgood crashes to the ground. |
Thurgood | The palladin moans softly as he rolls over on his back. He slowly scrambles up, keeping his eyes on the abomination above him. |
DM | The vaulted ceiling of the chaple is too high to reach it with a blade. Shadows seem to cloak the monster, it barely lies with in the light range of your torches. |
Karyna | Karyna frowned at the beast on the ceiling. She knocked up two more
arrows and fired at the monster (both hit).
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DM | The arrows sink to their fletching in the beast, but are instantly
blown out by a rush of slimy clear fluid of one of the pustules as it
bursts.
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Thurgood | Thurgood is moving tables and pews to the center of the chapel, climbing
on top of them.
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Nkosi | Nkosi sees no hope for a moment, then turns to Slim. "You best know the layout of this place, my friend. Is there any way for us to reach the roof from the outside? Or do you know of a storage shed, where we might find ladders?" |
DM | "I dont know," Slim said wit irritation as he loaded a stone into his
sling. Why did everyone think just because he had lived nearby that he
knew the intimate details of the monastery?
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Thurgood | Thurgood jumped down from the table.
"Brood mistress? What is that?"
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Karyna | Karyna frowned, "You mean this isn't it? By Osiris, this day just keeps getting better and better." Softpaw had wandered over to his companion, and was currently growling at the ceiling. Karyna looked around to see if she could find somewhere higher up to shoot from. Somewhere she could get a better shot at the creature or a vantage from which to knock the cocoons down. |
Anton | "what else would you call that?" |
Thurgood | "A monstrosity from hell."
Swinging his club, Thurgood hurls it at the beast at the ceiling.
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It does and he is able to grasp the smoothe surface though he begins to slip almost immediately. | |
Stephan | Stephan turns to his undead "friends" once again,
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DM | No. It has grown from the ceiling." |
Nkosi | Like Thurgood, Nkosi was also surprised by Anton's description of the creature as the "brood mistress." He stares at him carefully. |
Anton's terror has given him courage, he is trying futily to fight beside the others. | |
Thurgood | Thurgood tries to wrap his arm around the tentacle, as if he is holding on to a rope. He slashes at the creature, determined to hit it as often as possible before he has to let go. |
Nkosi | Nkosi calls out to Stephan, "Do you still have that wand you took from the ghoul back in the woods?" |
Stephan | Stephan turns at Nkosi's voice. He'd completely
forgotten.
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DM | "I do not know." |
Stephan | Stephan is disappointed at the last answer, but no
matter.
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DM | The power of his faith overwhelms the evil that binds the former monks to unlife, glowing with holy radiance, the ghouls tilt their heads back in a scream that might be pain, possibly extacy, most likely a mixture of both. When the last of their screams die away their bodies fall to the ground, crumbling to a fine powder. |
Karyna | Karyna watched the others attack and frowned. It seemed as though they weren't doing any damage to it at all. Drawing upon the power of Osiris, she summoned a spiritual hammer sending it up to strike the creature. |
Thurgood | Thurgood meanwhile strikes at the creature.
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DM | Karyna's arrows impact the creature just as Thurgood swings...
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Thurgood | Renewed with determination, Thurgood continues hacking at the beast, hoping he can maintain his grip. |
DM | The creature begins to gellify in his grasp, and as he tries to grip it, his fingers sink slowly into it. |
Thurgood | Thurgood makes a last slash at the creature, then he let's loose, trying to land on his feet as he drops to the floor. |
DM | Giving a dying shudder, the creature slides off the ceiling, collapsing like a dropped piece of circus canvas over the entire party. |