Castle Amber: A D&D Adventure

As Ardan expected, it's the dreaded hyper speed of the undead. They're still an immobile as they want, until you provoke them. In which case then, they begin to react and accelerate at an alarming rate.

It's two on one, but they seem unarmed, compared to Ardan. He decides to use his halberd to do a sweeping attack, aiming for the undead's head area.

Arden runs in and attacks the nearest Undead thing. He hits it with all of his power. His halberd slashes into the thing's chest tearing a large hole in it.

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Galse can hear the sounds of combat coming from Arden and Kalar's direction. Silas does not.
Kalar looks at Arden, wondering if he needs to risk fighting these things or if Arden can handle it.

Ardan keeps on going, sweeping his halberd in wide arcs to try and keep some distance between him and the walking dead.

If he's lucky, maybe he could even behead one!

Fighting alone, Arden fights hard against his undead adversaries.
They both attempt attacks at Arden but surprisingly Arden escapes both their attempts.
He swings down his Halberd again on the same thing as before. With all his might, Arden slashes into the thing. It's head comes clean off. It's body falls limply to the ground.
The other one remains. What shall happen?

6 dmg

Beheading them does indeed disarm them!

With one threat neutralized, Ardan goes for the other, swinging in his wide arc to try and behead the remaining zombie. Ardan tries to remain mindful of the other corpse though, just in case it's playing possum.

The remaining undead thing lunges. It sicks it's teeth into Arden's arm, tearing off a mouthful of flesh.
Arden, enraged by this swings the halberd in with all his power. But the wound on his arm must have thrown off his balance. He misses.

Arden takes 7 dmg.

Arden looks to Kalar.

47 and 3... carry the 6.. across 58 days.. search party takes about 12, trip home 5... that oughta keep us all well fed till our ride home comes. Galse looks around for someone to announce his good news to, only to find that the lively ones have wandered off and that some of the sleepy time ones have vanished, been devoured, etc. That changes all the variables, to hell with it. Galse draws his sap and goes off in search of the rest of the party, keeping an eye out for any treasonous stockpiles of food that may've been created while he was distracted.

Galse arrives just in time to see the Undead beast take a bite out of Arden's arm. Kalar looks hesitant to get involved due to his own wounds.

Kalar holds out his holy symbol and attempts to rebuke the undead.

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Being from the third world, I reserve the right to speak in the third person.

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Galse drops the food somewhere safely outside the field of combat and attempts a flying tackle of what's his faces attacker "When I get him to the floor, stab it someplace juicy!" ..yes, that was a good battlecry.

Sweet merciful! That really hurt!

Ardan decides to back off as his friends step in, but keep his halberd up, to try and keep the zombie distanced from him and his juicy flesh.

Kalar, not willing to let his valuable party member die in such a meaningless way, rebukes what he's made out to be a zombie. The zombie cowers as if in awe. Galse then runs in and tackles it. The zombie puts up little fight as it's shoved tot he ground. Then Arden freely attacks it. Though one of his attacks does nearly hit Galse, Arden manages to destroy the zombie. The room is grows quiet.

Ardan settles down, and begins to mind his gaping arm.

"Thanks for the help! Close one, eh? That zombie couple had quite the fight in them...anyone got anything I can use to deal with this arm, or shall I start making bandages from bedsheets?"

Ardan investigates the room.

Kalar turns to Arden and says, "Sit yourself down and let me have a look at that before you go rummaging through the room."

Kalar takes the linen bandages he fashioned earlier and gets to work examining and treating the wound.

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Being from the third world, I reserve the right to speak in the third person.

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Galse regathers the food and gives Ardan a tough guy nod. No idea what we're looking for, but he'll give it a once-over if everyone else is.