Giving himself the once over, I dont think I’m injured

Morgan laughs. "I'm fine. They scratched me up a bit, but nothing serious. These little things were nothing compared to those bugbears we fought."

OOC: Second Wind is maybe my favorite thing about playing a Fighter in 5E. :D

"I wouldn't think a plant has treasure, but let's look around a bit, see what we may in this space. Does this look like a good place to button down, a base of sorts as we explore the area?"
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A search of the area is not hard to do, so wo little to get through save vegetation. Twig Blights having treasure? Nah, not very likely at all. The people who used to live here, though? Well, that's another question entirely. On the far side of the tree that had grown into the middle of the building you'd just fought in, you see that the trees roots had pushed up the few pieces of flagstone that remained from the original floor. Curious of what might be hiding beneath, Maric lifts one for a peek and discovers a wooden chest.

The chest has no lock and the lid is partially open, revealing a large collection of coins.

700 cp, 160 sp, 90 gp

"Well, isn't that nifty!"

700 cp
160 SP
90 gp

Maric, content with his lot, will take the short coin: 22 gold everyone else gets 23gp
Silver is 40 silver for everyone.
Maric, with some foresight, keeps a handful of copper for the poor in town.

"If anyone wants the coppers, have at it. Be careful of your encumbrance though."

Betty tried to play off the comment, "Yeah? You should see me naked. Too bad you won't. Idiot."

Internally, though, her mind raced. Cute? He thinks I'm cute?? She stopped herself short of blushing. He thinks I'm cute!!

She could feel her heart flutter ... just for a moment.

Yeah. We'll see how cute he thinks I am when I murder him in his sleep.

She concealed her smile well as she wandered over to where he was counting the money. "Well, I suppose that's something for our troubles. Let's get a move on. If your friend is here, he should've heard that commotion, I suppose."

"When we get back to town, we might want to trade some coin for gems. Keep our weight limits for our weapons. Just a thought."
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I agree, carrying around gold is not only heavy but asking for trouble. Even with gems we risk losing it if we get robbed. Maybe we can find somewhere to safely store our spoils

"No one's robbing us while I have anything to say about it. Well, I suppose if they put magical encachantlements on us? I've heard magic can do things like that. But if they just try brute force, let me at them."

She thinks for a moment. "I suppose I could buy a nice necklace or something to store the wealth on me."

OOC: Are we taking a short rest, or pressing on? I'm good to go on.

"That's a good idea. Maybe I can visit my mother and present something that she will like."

After distribution of spoils, Maric suggests, "Let's push a bit further, see if we can find Reidoth."


"I hope you're right, Madam Thornhall," Maric said. "I am getting a bit worried. Let's see if we can find evidence that he's been here."

(I just realized the map squares are 10x10 instead of 5x5, so scale has changed.)

Moving on to the next building along the path, the group finds a building with a weathered signboard by the door of a large building, showing the faded image of a workhorse holding a flagon of ale. The building is sagging and dilapidated, but more intact than the ruins across the road.

As Morgan ducks her head inside to have a look around, a whiff of spent campfire ash hits her nose, and glancing down at shapes against the walls and floors, she sees a number of charred corpses. Almost as if her eyes landing on them were a trigger, the corpses shook and shuddered, as they began to climb to their feet.

Morgan reflexively reeled back at the sight of the zombies, startling Maric and Beatrice to the presence of...something.

Talin, however, seemed to have almost an extra sense telling him that something waited inside.

Talin has a chance to act before the zombies





12:40, Today: Psynister rolled 5,4,10,19,13 using d20+3,d20+2,d20+2,d20,d20-2.  Party Initiative: Beat, Mari, Morg, Tali, Monsters.

OOC: Because of course you couldn't roll a one for me! lol -Ken]

Maric goes feral, turns into a Brown Bear: bonus action

Rushes into the building and attacks the nearest bogey

Rolled attack: 19 & 20 neither were crits I don't think, but both hit.

Damage given was 5 + 11 = 16 pts of damage.

Talin casts eldritch blast at the most viable zombie target

OOC -22:22, Today: Talin rolled 6 using 1d20+5.  Blast . 

Talin, eager not to shot his companions in the back of the head, takes careful aim through the doorway. With everyone jumpy from the surprise of the zombies' presence, aiming was near impossible and he took a chunk out of the doorway instead. miss

The zombies stood and closed in around Morgan. They did not move very fast, allowing only two of them to get close enough to be within reach.

Zombie 1 sees a congested doorway, and stumbles out through a door on the north side.
Zombie 2 reaches Morgan and slams a hand into the fem warrior's shoulder. There were no fingers left on the charred hand. (2 dmg to Morgan)
Zombie 3 finds its way within reach as well, and grasps in Morgan's direction, but ineffectually. (miss)
Zombie 4 moves toward Morgan as well, but fails to raise its arms soon enough to strike.






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Morgan and Talin can post actions, then I'll do another recap, and then we'll be in position for people to post all actions together.

Morgan is inside the door, and other entrances are only on other sides of the building, so fighting through a doorway is going to be a challenge for the other melee people.
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Drawing his mace, he decides to forgo magic for a while and joins his friends in the melee

OOC  08:51, Today: Talin rolled 8 using 1d8.   08:51, Today: Talin rolled 7 using 1d20. Mace ]

Morgan launches into action, slashing wildly with her blade, then using her shield to make some room for the others to get into the hovel.

Action: attack zombie directly north of me (not sure which number that one is), hit for 11 slashing, Sweeping Attack deals 2 damage to zombie in the corner.
Action Surge: attack zombie directly north of me for 7 more damage, Sweeping Attack deals 3 more damage to zombie in the corner.
Bonus Action: Shield Bash to shove zombie directly north of me back 5', Str(Ath) or Dex(Acro) DC 25 to resist.
Move Action: move into space vacated by zombie (assuming my shield bash works.

19:12, Today: Morgan Ironwolf rolled 25 using 1d20+6.  shield bash to shove.

19:12, Today: Morgan Ironwolf rolled 3 using 1d8.  Sweeping Attack damage on adjacent zombie.

19:12, Today: Morgan Ironwolf rolled 21,7 using 1d20+6,1d8+6.  Action surge attack/damage.

19:11, Today: Morgan Ironwolf rolled 2 using 1d8.  Sweeping Attack damage on adjacent zombie.

19:11, Today: Morgan Ironwolf rolled 21,11 using 1d20+6,1d8+6.  Attack Zombie.

Beatrice takes full advantage of her small size* to duck into the doorway with Morgan, and slashes out at the walker to her right.

[OOC: *Racial Ability: Halfling Nimbleness.
Today: Beatrice Thornhall rolled 17,11 using 1d20+5, 1d8+3 - Attack, Damage]

Morgan slashes the zombie in front of her, cleaving into its charred and rotten flesh. The blade cuts deep, slices through and then into the body of its neighbor. A cloud of ash bursts out around the zombies' bodies as the blade cuts in. Morgan reflexively closes her eyes and coughs just a bit, but seems otherwise unhindered by the ash. (11 damage to Z2, 3 damage to Z3) The warrior then shoved her target back and moved into its space, opening a gap for the others to move in.

22:52, Today: Psynister, for the NPC Zombie, rolled 17 using 1d20+1.  Athletics.
22:51, Today: Psynister, on behalf of Morgan Ironwolf, rolled 22 using 1d20+4.  Con Save.
22:48, Today: Psynister, on behalf of Morgan Ironwolf, rolled 13 using 1d20+4.  Con Save.

Beatrice moves in and stabs the zombie on the right, sinking the blade in a good six inches or more as the zombie flesh has less resistance than most of her targets. (Z4 takes 11 damage) Ashes burst forth from this zombie's flesh as well, creating a cloud around the monster. Beatrice chokes on the ashes as one of the zombies charred organs falls down and lands directly in her face. Morgan turns at the sound of Betty's cough and reflexively takes a breath of her own, causing her to take a deep breath of the ashes as well. (Betty & Morgan, you both have Disadvantage on all Attacks, Saves, and Skills for the next Minute. At the end of your turn, you can make a Con Save DC 10 to end the effect.)

22:57, Today: Psynister, on behalf of Beatrice Thornhall, rolled 6 using 1d20+4.  Con Save.
22:57, Today: Psynister, on behalf of Morgan Ironwolf, rolled 8 using 1d20+4.  Con Save.

Bearic couldn't see what had caused the coughing, but he rushed into the doorway and attacked the zombies. A huge bear claw tears into Z4, ripping chunks of the torso away, then bites down on its face to finish it off. (16 damage to Z4...)

The zombie crumbled in the bear's jaws, and Maric let the body fall - only the body didn't fall, it stood and growled. (You see now that the ash effect seems to happen the first time the zombie takes damage, but only the first time, and bursts out in a 5 ft cloud. Also, killing them doesn't necessarily kill them.)

23:04, Today: Psynister, for the NPC Zombie, rolled 17 using 1d20+3.  Con Save.

Talin decides he wants to swing a weapon for once, and closes in. There's no room to get through the door, but the zombie's arms are ever-reaching for flesh to grab onto, so he takes a swing at the exposed arm. The mace connects, but only with mostly-destroyed flesh and simply knocks a piece off, leaving a small pile of char where it bounces off the ground below. (miss)

Zombie 1 rushes around the building, but luckily for our heroes, zombies don't move all that quickly.

Zombie 2 recovers from being shoved and slams an arm into Morgan's shield. (miss)
23:13, Today: Psynister rolled 11,4 using d20+3,d6+1.  Slam attack.

Zombie 3 tries for the fighter as well, neither zombie apparently capable of realizing that Morgan is not her shield. (miss)
23:13, Today: Psynister rolled 11,4 using d20+3,d6+1.  Slam attack.

Zombie 4 retaliates against the beast, landing a clothesline swing against Bearic's hide. (4 damage to Bearic)
23:14, Today: Psynister rolled 18,4 using d20+3,d6+1.  Slam attack.

Round 2 - Fight!

"Oh what..." <cough> "In the bloody..." <cough, gag> "HELL!" Betty manages, horking a gob of ash, saliva and snot out of her mouth in a most unladylike manner. She quickly blinks the remaining dust from her eyes and lashes out at the nearest standing empty.

Once she has a moment to think (and breathe) clearly, she quickly wipes the ash from her eyes with the back of her hand.

[OOC: Going last in the round, Betty'll strike at whomever's left after the rest of the party strikes, but will prioritize wounded ones over non-wounded ones.
Today: Beatrice Thornhall rolled 16,13,11 using 1d20+5,1d20+5,1d8+3 ((Attack, Attack, Damage)).
Today: Beatrice Thornhall rolled 16,15 using 1d20+4,1d20+4 ((CON Save)).

Bearic (nice!) goes with the Bite/Claw/claw

His attack rolls are 10 bite & 8 Claw x 2

I'm thinking that misses, but perhaps I'm wrong.

15 pts dmg for the claw

6 pts for the bite.