Frenzied Entourage (IC)

[Merk]

The zombies sitting at the corner table are clapping their hands and waving around to the music, but the three who entered the door throw pieces of brains at Vaugn.

[sciencepanda]

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Are there any remaining zombies outside?

[Merk]

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No. There are only six zombies left; three hostile ones just inside the entrance, and three nonhostile ones sitting in a corner table.

[The Bushranger]

"No no-paying customers!"
Charging at the zombies by the entrance, Amist brings her sword around at them with a fury!

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Attack (1d20+6)[12] +2 more if she can 'properly' charge (+ 10' movement).
Damage: (2d6+5)[14]

[sciencepanda]

Uch, and I had such a nice spot up here.

Fourteen leaps off of the roof and lands by the entrance of the tavern. He immediately fires through the open doorway at the nearest zombie.

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(1d20+10)[27]
(1d8)[4] + (5d6)[11]

[ZaradAnNasr]

i always thought zombies ATE brains... ha

AlMaealj drops the spent crossbow, and picks up his spear, then moves closeby to the flaming half-orc.

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I move to a position where i can get an attack of opportunity if a zombie moves further into the building, but not within their attack range, i also try to get close enough to Vaughn that i can heal him if needbe

[Merk]

Amist barrels into the zombie at the head of the line, nearly cleaving it in two. Meanwhile, Fourteen sends the rib cage of the zombie in the back of the line flying. They're both intact, but heavily wounded.

[Morty]

Eat this, freeloaders!
Vasili shoots two magic missiles from his outstreched hand, one for each of the zombies his companions just wounded.

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[Merk]

The missiles tear through the zombies at the front and back, who explode into dark mist and evaporate. There is only one hostile zombie left.

[Merk]

The last of the zombies makes a desperate rush at Vaugn.

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Attack: (1d20+4)[23]
Damage: (1d6+1)[7]
Fire damage taken: (4d6)[17]

Indeed a frenzied attack, the zombie smacks Vaugn upside the head something awful, but immediately explodes from a burst of blue flame upon finishing his attack. Just as the last hostile zombie is destroyed, the band's song winds down. The three zombies in the corner table clap and cheer enthusiastically.

[sciencepanda]

Fourteen keeps his crossbow aimed at the three remaining zombies, unsure as to whether he should attack or not.

[The Bushranger]

Amist turns to the Three, as well.
"If you intend to remain and watch the show...no brain eating. Understood?"

Intimidate: (1d20+1)[10]

[Rauthiss]

Vaugn beams. "That's what you get for defying the law!"

[Merk]

One of the three zombies, wearing a sun hat with a purple flower adorning it, turns to Amist. "Epong know. Is wrong, eat brains. Not do. Sisters too, not do. But little zombies understand. And more and more every day, they hungry."

[sciencepanda]

Fourteen winces in disgust at the hat. Can't she see how much it clashes, for Io's sake?

He keeps his crossbow trained on the one that had just spoken, and asks, "Explain yourself! What exactly is it that differentiates you from the other zombies? And where do you come from?"

[ZaradAnNasr]

AlMaelj turns toward Amist and saysNow Now, they seem to be kind enough not to need that kind of tone. then, to the zombie who just spoke, but yes, we do wish to know why you are different from the recently re-dispatched, as well as why you and they keep coming here every night.

[Merk]

Epong shrugs. "I dunno. I die here years ago, but made zombie. I remember... commands. But I escaped. I think... bad person still in town... mage person..."

[sciencepanda]

Fourteen recalls the man in the blue robe.

"'Mage Person?' Do elaborate."

[The Bushranger]

Amist's eyebrows also raise.

"What mage do you speak of? One wearing blue, perhaps?"

[Merk]

"It just idea," explains Epong. "Epong never see mage person, so dunno if it wears blue. But think it brain magic. Working with zombie magic."

[sciencepanda]

"And just what exactly is he trying to accomplish, sending the zombies to attack here?"

[The Bushranger]

"Doesn't have to have been intended to attack here," Amist points out. "He could have wanted, say, totally loyal servants, thinking he could control them..."

[Rauthiss]

"This is true. However, raising the dead is an infringement of one of Reginleif the Skald's promotional copyrights - "We'll raise the dead right from their coffins!" Ours is, of course, not literal, but the infringement still exists. Epong, what do you mean by 'brain magic'?"

[ZaradAnNasr]

Wow, do you know how much you could make sueing every necromancer who ever dug up a coffin? AlMealj quips, with Heavy sarcasm seriously though, lets not jump to the conclusion that a man, probably a mage, who ran out of here looking a little worried is the source of the trouble. wait no, that would be a good conclusion.

[Merk]

"Epong and sisters come to see concert; others come to eat brains," he explains. "All I remember is funny feeling in head, but I say 'No!' and it went away. That was when I became a zombie. Sisters, not my real sisters when I was human, but sisters now; they say 'No' too."

[ZaradAnNasr]

Well, the rest of you can keep trying to figure this out, im gonna go sit over there indicating the furthest table from Epong and her "sisters" and think over this moral dilemma I have found myself in AlMaelj walks off, muttering something about oaths, unatural, and good.

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great, my oaths say that i must cleanse the world of this kind of unatural affront to life, but they seem to be good people, which my oaths require me to aid. how can i break my oath to undo the undead, if keeping it means breaking the oath to aid the innocent. they didnt ask for this, its not their fault, and they are fighting to stay good... (continues on along these lines unless interupted)

[Morty]

Vasili scratches his head. That's the first time I've heard of someone who didn't become a zombie because they didn't want to. Then again, I know next to nothing about undead.

[The Bushranger]

"You're not the only one," Amist mutters, in response to Vasili. "It would seem as if there might be an element of mind control, perhaps?"

[sciencepanda]

Fourteen nods. "Yeah, I know a little necromancy, but this isn't anything I'm familiar with either."

He pauses to think, and then continues.

"Should we go search out this mage guy? I mean, if the band gets injured by any further zombies, there goes our paychecks."

[Morty]

Yeah, that makes sense. And here I thought all we were going to do was chasing off bandits.