Readying your weapons and courage, you take-off towards the caravan, attempting to get to their defense before before many more refugee's can be slain. Mouse and Jamrion watch the grasslands for danger while Brer and Bricet set the pace, their years of soldiering allowing the party to make haste without wearing themselves out before the coming battle. The occasional zombie lumbers out from the thickening smoke but are easily handled by the ranger and rogues sharp eyes and aim.
The caravan is in disarray, and they are certainly losing the battle. Zombies are everywhere, some with the characteristic burned out eyes and mouths as is expected, others are far more fresh and retain those features. Hastrine stands atop a wagon, launching bolt after bolt from her crossbow, alongside several other scouts. A flask of alchemists fire is tossed out from their center with his trademark cough, Billiam is still alive.
Dara is leaning against another wagon, her right side covered in blood as she tends to a wounded guard. Ghorin and his goat are all that separates her from several zombies, his staff and the goats horns doing a fair job of handling the corpses.
More refugees are scattered about, fending off the attacking zombies and their own rising dead. Mouse points to a freshly fallen refugee and everyone watches as a series of small fangs rise up from the ground, quickly piercing the corpse before withdrawing back into the soil. The body twitches and begins to rise as its eyes, teeth and tongue vaporize into a small cloud of red smoke that drifts towards the massive fang behind you.
We are now in a Skill Challenge. There are two possible goals:
- Gather the remaining refugee's and escape.
- Fight the overwhelming number of zombies until the bitter end, hoping to survive.
You will need a certain number of successful skill checks before you reach a certain number of failures to succeed in the challenge. Rapidly posting skill checks without consulting the party in Discord will be a recipe for quick defeat.
How you approach either of the two goals is up to you and I will be expecting and allowing creative uses of Skills, Abilities, Spells, etc.
However, attempting to achieve both goals or switching goals mid challenge, will likely result in failure. Pick a goal and focus on it.
Those of you that cast spells will need to read the 'Spell Slots Expended' cell backwards. The character exporter does it weird. Instead of showing how many slots you've used, which makes sense, it shows how many slots you have left, which doesn't make sense...but there you go.
This message was last edited by the GM at 16:53, Tue 16 Mar 2021.