Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #12 - Zombie Pirates!

(G12 - KT)

After all that unpleasantness, Raz pulled a corpse out of the water. It bore a tattoo of a dragon and a lotus. Intriguing, but we couldn't stay down here all day so Shifty and Raz began to open all the doors that where in this chamber.

Myself and Nobby stood and had a whispered chat while they did this, by the doorway we had come in. We were discussing the career options open to druids and clerics when more zombies came at us in the darkness from the opposite direction.

Nobby suddenly remembered she could 'turn undead' and sent them back. Raz and Shifty joined us and we went back the way we had come to another door which lead to yet another chamber. More zombies, more fighting and more turning. Mr Badgerington was getting a bit tired of undead at this point. I think he prefers his victims to be fresh.

Something other than a zombie loomed out of the darkness at some point, but Nobby swiftly turned it and it slunk off again.

The next section below I did not write. I was too ill, so I told Taeghen what happened and he wrote it down for me. His use of grammar is not what I would call perfect, but I present it here un-edited as it tells the tale perfectly well!

(Story continued by Olaf)

... after Nobby turned the two undead and the undead cleric in the big room to the east with the two columns you noticed that the double door to the south was still swinging slightly. Raz had chopped the 7th undead to pieces and Shifti looked through the hallway connecting the two big rooms via the small room in the north.

All of you sneaked up to the door in the south of the corridor. Raz pushed it open and was quickly attacked by two ravenous zombie pirates. One of them letched on to his neck, biting and splattering blood everywhere. Nobby realised that the undead cleric had bolstered these undead, tried anyway to turn them but finally gave in to the fact that her turning attempts were all repelled by the new found resolve of the foul beasts. You stepped in to attack the other zombie in the doorway, but quickly found that this zombie also letched on to your neck and was sucking you dry.

However while you managed on the second attempt to break free from the foul undead on your neck, Raz was struggling. You could see his eyes going all in rage, but still the undead would not be parted from him.

Litres of blood were flowing from his wound.

Shifti had thrown two alchemistic fires on the undead cleric, which looked a bit burnt but quickly put out the flames. You could see him healing himself.

After you broke from the undead you cut it with your scimitar, then stepped away seconds later to summon a flaming sphere and burn it to the ground. Raz finally also managed to break free when the last blow with his handaxe was splitting the undead. He looked hurt though. Nobby patched him up quickly, then stepped forward to let a cone of fire from her hands burn the cleric. You all started to attack the undead cleric.

Shifti realised that his normal dagger was useless against this foe, you yourself were just bringing you in position to direct the flaming sphere on to the cleric when Raz sprinted through the room and fell the final foe with one mighty blow. "You don't need silver weapons" he said ..."brute force will do the job as well".

DAY 13

You rested for the night with some simple cooked crab meat for dinner. However you realised that you were ill prepared for staying down here for the night. Only two of you had brought waterskins, nobody had rations and most did not even have a bedroll or blanket. Shifti was skulking out the further way to the west, but when you woke up the next morning you realised that Nobby and Shifti was suffering from the damp and cold. They looked pale and were shivering slightly. You made a note to yourself to better prepare yourself for the next time....