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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1542045" data-attributes="member: 5675">After it had become clear that nothing was going to investigate the tremendous pounding from the cave entrance, Halbrinn flew a little deeper into the cavern, marvelling at the size of it, and staring around over the mushroom fields at the burning, ruined city beyond.He could see huge buildings which were still intact, and other obvious sources of magic around him. His gaze fell, however, on a tall castle in the distance, lit only by the fires around it. Then he saw them. Stood in the mushroom field, obvious from some distance but for the darkness around them, stood several ogres, totally still, around the tall form of a giant. As he closed, Halbrinn noticed a large number of goblins in the mushrooms around them. Then his breath was taken away by the realisation that the giant was dead. It did not breathe, or move a muscle other than its neck, which turned this way and that, scanning the mushroom fields for signs of movement. Arrayed around it, the undead forms of goblins and ogres awaited a foe they could attack.As he flew back to the others, Halbrinn finally noticed that a handful of the goblins were still alive, squabbling amongst themselves; a pocket of nervous energy amongst the still, watchful dead.Muttering to himself, Halbrinn made a decision. A huge ball of fire blossomed on top of the giant, damaging the ogres, and flinging the shattered bodies of goblins in every direction. The giant looked up, and the whole group moved forwards, blindly following Halbrinn.---Upon hearing the news that an undead giant was about to attack them, the others formulated their plan immediately. Jason hefted his hammer, content to let the zombies come to him. The others attacked, charging the zombies, and being smashed by heavy blows as they ran towards them. "No!" shouted Jason as he watched his comrades run towards the foe. "Let them come to us!"It was to no avail, as Miles and Aeron found themselves in hot water. The undead ogres were tremendously strong, whilst the giant's strength was truly titanic. Aided in their attacks by the goblins, which hung onto the heroes legs, slowing them down, or smacked the zombies shouting "left, he's on your left!", the ogres' attacks were far more accurate than was expected. Aeron took tremendous damage, and Miles only fared a little better owing to his tremendous speed.Halbrinn's spells blasted zombies and wounded the ogres, and Jason began to move up slowly, impeded by his heavy armour.Miles layed about him, killing goblins with every stroke, whilst Aeron's heavily enchanted mace damaged, but failed to disrupt the undead. It came down to blows. When Jason entered the fray, things became easier, but the heroes were hard pressed to finally fell the giant, after the fire-blasted ogres had all been dispatched. Yvgeny swooped and dived, making the most of his new magical cloak. He flapped down, grabbing up one of the living goblins, and stunning it before knocking it unconscious and dropping it on the floor. A second, undead, goblin was snatched up, and he then wielded it, screaming and flailing, as a weapon. Clutching the undead goblin by the leg, he flew in and smashed it against the head of the undead giant. The goblin smashed to rotten bloody pieces, showering those below with putrid flesh. The giant didn't reach much.Finally, Jason finished it; smashing its armour with one blow from his hammer, before caving in its chest and head with the following attacks. The thing lay dead, and the attentions of the Clearwater Crusaders turned to the unconscious goblin…</blockquote>

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