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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 4970399" data-attributes="member: 5675">Back at the safehouse, the group were disappointed to learn that Torrent and Rivereye weren’t back yet. Burron, however, was fulsome in his thanks for the destruction of the nest of enemies within the city. “The armies of the Ragesians are practically upon us,” said the panicked resistance agent. “Already the council is debating what to do when they arrive in full. Many of them are afraid, it is said that the Raesians have said they will slay the families of any councillor who does not welcome them into the city, and few are prepared to speak against them. Councillor Erdan Menash is one of the few with the courage to speak out against opening the city gates to the Ragesians. If there is a likely target for infiltrators, it will be him.”Hurt from the conflict in the warehouse, the group rested for several hours, but were awakened from their slumbers by a stony rumbling sound which reverberated through the crypts. A cloud of dust billowed through a closed-off corridor, and screams of panic could be heard from people who fled away from it.Pausing only to snatch up essential equipment, the group moved to investigate. .oOo.A wall had collapsed, leading into an airless dust-covered ancient crypt, where mouldering bones were shuddering into movement with the release of centuries-old curses. The scents of death and decay were heavy in the air, as six or seven dwarven skeletons surrounded by black energies moved to assault them. Tarn’s sword sprang to life with a pure radiance. Tyr took the first slash, and his skin turned grey and dry around the wound. His counter-attack smashed the brittle skeleton. Others moved forward to take its place. Hissing, one of the skeletal creatures swept up a rune covered hammer and glided through the rubble and drove the hammer into Wingwrath’s side. It soon emerged that the adventurers faced several different skeletal figures, some of which were very brittle and smashed at the slightest touch. The hammer-wielding undead was a wight; able to leach away health, whilst the other three left lingering necrotic wounds at even the slightest touch of their black-bladed axes. The wight was soon flanked by Tyr and Tarn, who was unable to lay a blow with the radiant blade which the undead cowered away from. The minions were soon shattered by blasts of cold from Wingwrath, and he and Grusalock were fortunate to escape serious injury when the axe-wielding enemies swung at him. Tyr, however, was not so lucky. His skin was practically parchment-pale from being struck by the wight as it then glided away; as it did so a dancing raven struck from Tarn’s Holy Symbol to lash at the undead with razor-sharp wings. He followed this up by healing the half-orc and charging the wight – his radiant blade cleaving through its spine and dropping it to the ground. The remaining three proved to be made of sterner stuff. After much hacking and cleaving, Tyr’s blade chopped through the dried sinews of one of them, and it shuddered. Then it quivered, shook, and exploded in a massive burst of bone shards. These flew in every direction, striking the comrades, blasting into walls and smashing the coffins into shreds. This barrage tore into Tyr, who was already gravely hurt, and then the now reduced skeleton spun and slashed at the half-orc, dropping him to the floor. At the same moment, Grusalock slumped to the floor, overcome by the draining power of the undead. His spells remained, however, and as one of them faded, another skeleton began to quiver. The bone shards from its explosion smashed through Tarn and Wingwraths’ armour, and they both fell to their wounds and collapsed before the undead dwarves, which staggered towards them…</blockquote>

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