Zeff calls out that there’s some figures around the cabins, moving through the darkness.
Durn shuffles through his pack and pulls out some alchemists fire and asks Gemma to watch his back. She nods and loads her crossbow.
Durn sneaks around a building and tosses some fire at the central zombie in the pack of four. With the zombie still a light, Durn then pulls out his cross bow and an arrow is lodged in a straggler.
When the flames erupted, the rest of the party situated itself, and Zeff is able to toss a javelin off at the lead zombie, but it misses.
The zombies then move toward Zeff but are unable to make contact. The trailing zombie breaks away and punches Durn.
And a sithe-wielding elf also charges at Durn. And a magical elf shoots a ray of purple light at him but misses.
Gemma then uses a telekinetic slap and pokes a zombie lightly, and then moves out of door and into the green.
Dessa follows her out the door and channels energy at the zombies, and the one that was aflame falls to the ground.
Durn withdraws and runs toward the main building and screams about the elves 🧝♀️ being here.
Zeff, in a rage, and slices the zombie in front of him in half and it falls to the ground.
The elves chase after Durn but don’t attack. Gemma fires her crossbow at a zombie but misses, and moves around the well, positioning herself behind the zombies. Dessa moves around fires at a zombie and also misses.
Durn double moves to flank one of the zombies. And Zeff uses his great axe 🪓 and crunches another zombie.
The last standing zombie attacks Zeff, and the necromancer moves into the garden to line up the party and casts another purple beam at Zeff, and Zeff shrugs off the affect.
Gemma moves forward and uses her telekinetic powers to punch the last standing zombie, and while looking at the zombie she realizes that the zombies are her family. She’s distraught but shakes it off, reminding herself that she no longer has to dig up her uncle to find the family medallion.
Dessa heals Zeff and Durn. Durn feels refreshed and steps up behind the last zombie and lops of the zombie arm of Gemma’s undead aunt. And Zeff knocks her down.
The necromancer in the garden pulls darkness down upon the garden, and we loose sight of the elves.
Gemma moves up to the edge of the darkness, and preps an acid flask and then hears a grunt and a thud from the darkness. She thinks that the elves are raising more bodies. Dessa calls out some words of wisdom and blesses the party.
Zeff moves up but looks exhausted. Gemma casts shield upon herself and Dessa moves up and calms Zeff telling him that we might need his strength soon.
The darkness dissipates and a horde of hobgoblins come into view behind the shadows.
Durn calls out about the elves being dispatched, and Dessa and Zeff notice that these hobgoblins are not the same scraggly hobgoblins that raises Zeff’s farm.
Dessa steps out in front of the party and tries to speak with the sorcerer (who happens to have long braided hair, that showcases his successful past as a raiding warrior).
Ahedak steps forward and beats his chest and says he doesn’t use pretty words, and asks if we are from the human village. Dessa steps forward and says she is. Ahedak says that’s he’s going to help with the elves, and that she is going to go to the lake to see the island in the middle of the lake to see the island where the elves live. Ahedak claims the bodies of the elves, and starts scalping them and as he pulls the hair away he yells “happy Yule!”
Gemma starts to move back, hoping to search the zombie bodies before the hobgoblins want the zombie bodies as well. She searches the now dead again bodies of her family. And out of a rotted fold, she pulls the signet stamp!
Dessa asks if these zombies meant anything to Gemma. Gemma tells the group, with her shoulder slumped, that the zombies were her family. Dessa suggests we not linger, but as we talk, the frack us from the hobgoblins dies down and we notice that Ahedak and his cohort have left.
While Gemma sniffles over the bodies of her family, Dessa and Zeff check out the bodies of the elves to find that they’ve been picked clean.
Dessa tells everyone to seek shelter back in the building, and we bed down for the night.
Recommended reading:
All of Christopher Moore!
– Stupidest Angel- Blood sucking fiends The Passage (vampire apocalypse!)
Recommended viewing: Weapon of Choice