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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsillanabor" data-source="post: 2876474" data-attributes="member: 40432">Zombie Apocalypse Day 5“You’re insane!”Several of the townspeople looked over at the young noble’s outburst. “Shut up!” Draconis hissed, “we’re trying not to start a panic here…”Ducal Prince Ehren interrupted the orc, showing the same lack of wisdom that had seen him caught in the middle of this mess, “We’re safe here and you want us to move-that makes no sense. In case you haven’t noticed, there are zombies all over the place!”“We don’t know how widespread this is,” Shinta says, “they might not have penetrated the inner city.”“Exactly my point,” Ehren replied, we need to stay safe and wait for my father’s soldiers to rescue us.”“I rather doubt that they can get to us,” Mard said, “and we need more shelter than this rooftop before winter really hits.”“My father will risk it for me!” the prince said, “he’ll save me!”“Perhaps,” Cliona said softly, “but he didn’t know where you were, did he? My guess is that you were-what’s the word…slumming. I bet he thinks you were somewhere else-at an uncle’s villa, perhaps? Your desire for a bit of illicit…entertainment has grouped you with us-dregs of society, every one. Do you really think that your father will be making a lot of effort to rescue dock workers and migrants?”The prince’s face fell as he realized the truth of what Cliona said. He listened as the heroes explained their plans-everyone would carefully cross the street via a ladder bridge to the building to the north. The group would ultimately try to head towards the old section of the city where there are more stone buildings and where there might be a chance of no zombies. At the very least they should be able to hole up in an easily fortified building for the winter. The prince helped convince the people to leave the relative safety of the rooftop.The collapsible ladder is set up between the two buildings and Bokin and Draconis cross first, readying a guide rope for those not as dexterous as themselves. One by one the civilians carefully cross as a number of zombies gather below them, apparently directed by an intelligent zombie. Most of the group gets across, but one of the civilians falls. Shinta jumps after her while Mard throws her a rope. Shinta grabs the civilian while the rest of the party tries to shoot down zombies. Mard tries to pull them up but fails. Bokin flies across to help. Shinta desperately fights off zombies but the intelligent zombie grapples her. Draconis starts back across the ladder to helpBokin and Mard pull up Shinta and the civilian as everyone continues to fire at zombies, but slips and falls onto the ladder (whew!). Regular zombies grapple the two on the ground as the intelligent zombie begins to climb the rope. He reaches the top and attacks Mard, who is holding the rope. The zombies drag down the civilian and the intelligent zombie bites into Mard. Shinta is now being overwhelmed. Bokin and Draconis as well as fire from everyone else kill the advanced zombie, but it is too late. Shinta perishes.The morose party stays atop their new building that night. Tears are shed for Shinta, and my poor wife takes over Bokin (he's cute in her opinion).Day 6The next morning Mard is feeling ill. The other heroes worry that the zombie infection has gotten him.Three warehouses are connected, so the party goes to the northern most end to find themselves at an intersection too wide for the ladder to cross. After heated debate involving the possible use of ropes to cross the intersection, it is decided to risk a ground crossing. Chopping through the roof, everyone is lowered into the building, which turns out to be full of textiles.Bokin, Eoghan, Draconis, and Cliona get Hide From Undead cast upon them to enable them to go ahead of the party and open the door. Eoghan picks the lock and the door is opened successfully. Cliona runs back to the other warehouse and tells all the civilians to run into their new warehouse while it is safe.  Toward the end of the crowd of the civilians rushing in, a line of Zombies appears.  Bokin blasts them with his acid breath and they all disintegrate to the ground. The warehouse doors are closed quickly and we find barrels of Salt Fish.  Everyone rejoices at the idea of eating something other than iron rations that night. There are three other warehouses attached to the one they had chosen.  Draconis hacks through the wall and found armor in the next. Upset that he didn’t find anything useful to us, Draconis slashes through the other wall.  Inside of it is lots of wine, but Draconis, not satisfied with the lack of magical items (the rest are thinking that he’s an idiot by this point), chops through the other wall to find a warehouse full of ship supplies.  That night everyone enjoyed wine.  Mard, who was thrown in a barrel of it to hopefully eradicate the zombie infection, enjoyed it most of all.</blockquote>

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