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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arabesu" data-source="post: 350132" data-attributes="member: 534">Session 1 (cont):Luckily, Eric had enough foresight to bring torches.  With torch in hand, Gilder reluctantly descended the loosely spiraling staircase.  At the bottom was a short corridor ending in a door.  After inspecting it briefly, he proceeded to solve the lock.  THUNK.  A seven inch needle whizzed by Gilder landing squarely in Eric’s shoulder.  Within seconds, Eric was weakened but was still able to stand.  The poison had long ago lost most of its potency. He’d be recover fully in a day or two.Eric: “Beeee, more caaaareful next tiiiiime.”Gilder:  “Yeah, yeah, whatever goat-boy…hey wait! Do you hear that? There is something shuffling on the other side.”They readied.  Gilder threw open the wooden door, and Eric charged in with Knom close behind.  A single horribly decaying zombie was stumbling about in the room before them.  Eric cleaved it in two with one blow.  Knom grunted in satisfaction.  The room they’d entered had three doors with two stone doors opposite one another on walls perpendicular to the wooden door. The right stone door was open.  A long length of cable lay coiled about near the door.  They could hear more zombies in the room beyond. They waited and cut down each of the two zombies as they emerged from the second chamber.  Gilder pointed out that the coil of cable must have been the line they’d cut above and opening the entrance sarcophagus had open one of the two stone doors.  They assessed their condition.  After Knom cast some healing spells, they were nearly unharmed and felt confident to proceed.  Gilder found the symmetric cable near the ceiling and cut it, opening the other stone door.  They looked down another banking staircase.  In the room beyond out of sight they could hear more scraping of stone on stone and then a loud crash like a massive rock falling to the floor and breaking into rubble.  They hurried down the stairway, wanting to catch whatever waited below before it could ready for them. Emerging into the room they found a Large skeleton (note the capital L) stepping out of a sarcophagus nearly identical to the one above.  It was armed with a longsword wired into its right hand.  A ring on that same hand glowed very slightly.  It had a jet black shield on its left arm.  Eric charged not realizing that the creature could attack him before he could.  The skeleton swung wildly as Eric closed, and impaled him on the blade.  Eric slid off the weapon unconscious and immediately began to leak massive quantities of vital fluids onto the crypt floor.Knom held up his hammer and called upon the power of Moradin to push back the undead.  It turned and cowered in the far corner.  Gilder walked up to it carefully and began hacking away small fragments with his short sword, but it was very slow work.  Knom was still desperately tending to Eric when Gilder pointed out that he thought the skeleton was about to rise again.  Thinking quickly, Knom slid his hammer over to Gilder.  Raising it with both hands, the halfling brought it down onto the skeleton, blasting it into an explosion of bone splinters only after his second attempt.  Knom eventually revived Eric barely to consciousness with magic but Eric was still quite shaken.  Gilder looked over Varg’s remains.  A master artisan had constructed the sword and the shield was made from a strange wood that he wasn’t very familiar with.  The ring that Sneed had sent them here to retrieve was there as well. Gathering the gear and shouldering Eric, they proceeded back up to the surface.  Knom and Gilder managed to replace the top of the entrance sarcophagus after some effort.  Gilder was in the lead and had just stepped out of the crypt when the heavy metal door was slammed shut separating him from his friends still inside.  Two thugs had pushed it closed behind Gilder, and Sneed, with a sneer on his face was waiting for them.  Before he could react, Sneed began casting a spell.Magical energy shot forth from Sneed’s hand.  Gilder could not avoid the magic missile spell. But the result was not as Sneed had expected.  Sneed assumed that they would be worn out and tired, giving him relatively good odds that he could slay them quickly.  But Gilder was still nearly unharmed, except for Sneed's spell.  Gilder drew his weapon and closed with Sneed making it difficult for Sneed to cast further spells.Meanwhile, Knom was desperately heaving against the door trying to shove it open.  It wasn’t working.  He felt Eric beside him.  Together they strained, pushing it open far enough for Knom to step through.  However, the exertion was too much for Eric and he lapsed back into unconsciousness.  Yet, the situation had changed.  Sneed realizing that his plan had failed, fled, but not before Gilder was able wound him.  Together, Gilder and Knom were able to slay one of the thugs, subdue the other, and still have time to restore Eric to consciousness.  Nevertheless, with Eric still heavily wounded, and Knom flush out of spells, they would have to wait another day to hunt down Sneed and have their revenge.</blockquote>

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