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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 4529907" data-attributes="member: 9255">SEGMENT 017“Surrounded”Mania’s attention snaps into focus as he hears something coming up from behind the group.  “More coming from behind.”“And from the front.” says one soldierA dozen or so undead stumble into the limited light given by the soldier’s torches. More can be seen coming through yet another entrance to this room.“How many are down here?!?” Captain Donnerson says out loud to himself in a failed attempt to not show his fear.  “We are surrounded!”“Then we fight.” Says Vander waving his Falchion slowly side to side trying to determine where the most powerful force is coming from.Leeya opens up the battle with her wand once more.  These creatures take the bolts of energy and remain standing.  “Aw Crap”, comments Mania as he sees the holes in the advancing creature, I knew that girl.  We….. aw crap.”  He readies himself for the group coming from behind.  Aura moves next to him as they flank the doorway hoping to use the frame for partial shielding and to bottleneck this group.The zombie-like creatures and soldiers trade blows even as the rest of the group moves up.Uncertain of how effective the magic missiles will be, Leeya puts away her wand and pulls out some spell components.  A soldier goes down by a terrible slam that nearly knocks the shield away.  Dura tries to reach him but finds the battle is keeping her from being able to do anything.   The second group of undead officially ht the group.   The third is coming into Mania’s darkvision. “Are you ready?”   Aura merely nods.A ball of fire erupts within the second mass of undead.  Leeya waves her arms about and the ball rolls over and over one zombie burning it. “Hold the line!” screams the Captain as the adventurers begin to finally dismantle a few creatures.  Dura, frustrated by it all, grabs her medallion and concentrates on it.  Reaching deep inside for the power of her belief, she opens her eyes and raises the medallion in her arm and shouts loud and clear- “Begone!” and several zombies fall back and crumble. More undead take their place.Captain Donnerson pulls back one of his downed men before the new zombies press forward.  The heroes hack and slash into the advancement while the soldiers try to contain them with their crowd control shields and tactics.  Taking a deep breath, Dura meditates once more and commands the undead to “Begone!”  and more fall back and / or topple over.Meanwhile, Mania and Aura continue to hold back the third group of undead.  They are just barely holding them outside of the room as they try to force their way through the ten-foot wide opening.  Mania’s weapons are poorly suited for the job on hand.  One of the zombies gets a vicious hit in on the paladin but she shrugs it off to hold the horde back.  She knows that if Mania and herself fail, the others will most likely also fall, as they will be completely surrounded from all sides with no exit.  Then it happens-  a zombie gets past them!Bora screams out in rage as two beams of light streak out of the darkness of a hallway and strike her.  Now with a new focus, she shifts her attacks towards that hallway.  Another series of magic missiles escape the darkness and strike at her.  Now with four smoking injuries she pushes through the horde and charges foolishly into the dark.  Donnerson screams out for her to return but stops in mid sentence as he notes that Mania and Aura are beginning to become overwhelmed.  “We need reinforcements!  In the rear!”Incarnum revolves around and stalks towards the threat and Vander finishes off another zombie before rushing over.  Leeya’s magical flaming sphere covers their retreat, as it burns more undead in its path.  The whole time Leeya is watching Bora as she charges away.  She sees a thick blanket of webbing suddenly appear and grow at the entrance of the hallway where the magical attacks came from.She commands the sphere towards the hallway burning down undead as it goes.  Bora, knowing these are not normal webs curses and allows the fire to remove the webbing.  Risking being burnt she then charges ahead and finds… nothing.   “That twice damned mage is pissing me off!” she says aloud to herself with loathing and anger.She turns and returns to the main group hoping to help them by destroying more undead.  At this point, half of the group is either down or aiding downed persons.  The others are cutting up the last of the undead.“We can’t take this much longer.  At least not my men.  We need to find the source and quickly.” Says Donnerson grimly.</blockquote>

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